Deadlock

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## Additional Pages

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— Official description

**Deadlock** is an Agent in *VALORANT* and the fifth Sentinel to be released.

* Biography
* Timeline of events

At one point during the VALORANT Protocol's investigations into a Los Angeles-based Kingdom Corporation project called "Landfall", the organization was able to pick up on chatter about a cargo pickup happening in Norway. Viewing this to be something of interest, the Protocol sent Sova to follow the team and track down its destination. Leading him to a specialized facility known as The Vault in the far northern archipelago of Svalbard, Sova arrived to find no activity there, no signs of life, except for a faint beacon activated from within. Entering The Vault, the Russian eventually made his way to a containment room to discover the aftermath of an attack, with all the pickup team dead except for one remaining survivor - a blonde-haired woman with one of her arms completely obliterated.

The woman, named Iselin, had been one of three elite hunters from the security force Ståljeger who had been assigned to escort a Project Landfall scientist to The Vault and oversee the extraction and transport of a very special item; a radivore that had mimicked the form of a bear. Her team had also arrived at The Vault to find it empty and with hardly any power left, and on entering Containment they had discovered the radivore had broken out of its enclosure, right before it then attacked them, killing her fellow Ståljeger comrades and the Landfall scientist in quick succession. With one nearby chamber still operational, Iselin was able to lure the radivore into it. As she attempted to confine it within though whilst the chamber powered up, the bear forced its head between the closing doors, biting down onto her left arm and holding it in its jaws. From that bite, substances from the radivore's body entered Iselin's own system, causing her to become disoriented and hear an echoing voice, before the sound of a gunshot broke her out of her state of delirium. The scientist, in his final living moment while dying on the ground, had fired a shot at the radivore before collapsing. With the chamber now fully powered up, Iselin activated it to produce a surge of energy that filled the chamber and burst through the gap between the doors, obliterating both the radivore and the arm trapped in its jaws. The ordeal now over, Iselin slowly made her way over the the body of the fallen scientist, picked up a dropped beacon nearby, and activated it moments before finally collapsing.

After being rescued by Sova, Iselin was taken back to VALORANT HQ, where she received a new prosthetic replacement for her missing arm, and has since joined the organization as its twenty-third agent, "Deadlock". Though grateful for the Protocol's investment, her recent experience has caused her to be bitter towards Gekko's critters, who themselves are also radivores previously held by Kingdom. To her, they and the rest of Landfall's creations aren't friendly companions but creatures with dangerous potential. Now the second agent associated in some way with Landfall to be recruited into VALORANT, interest in Kingdom's project and what its end goals are is higher than ever for the Protocol, and Deadlock will be there to help them uncover its secrets.

#### ISELIN: Early Life

* Iselin works as an operative for Ståljeger's Ursa team.
* Iselin is assigned to escort a Kingdom scientist to The Vault in Svalbard for extraction and transport of a radivore bear being held there to Los Angeles.
	+ The team instead discovers the radivore has broken out of its enclosure, killing everyone it is able to catch besides Iselin.
	+ She is able to lure the radivore into a chamber and activate it, but not before the radivore is able to bite down on her left arm, causing the chamber's energy surge to obliterate both the radivore and Iselin's arm along with it.
	+ The only remaining survivor, Iselin is able to activate a beacon before collapsing. She is eventually discovered by Sova.

#### DEADLOCK: VALORANT agent

* Recruited as its twenty-third agent.
* Deadlock receives a new prosthetic arm with a built-in nanowire accelerator.
	+ Sage offers to restore Deadlock's arm instead but Deadlock declines.
* Deadlock contacts Brimstone to update him on her progress while she adjusts to her prosthetic arm.

#### Project Landfall

* Deadlock works on response project to deal with the radivores being developed by Project Landfall.
* Deadlock fabricates four crates intended to hold Gekko's crew of radivores and stop them from being able to roam free.
	+ Brimstone rejects her proposal to have Gekko's radivores detained, but Deadlock won't take no for an answer and insists that he reconsiders.
* Deadlock provides Cypher with Kingdom data that allows him to access the video surveillance systems of a Kingdom facility in Los Angeles.
* Deadlock works on a custom-made Phantom with Chamber.
* Deadlock is assigned as a member of the Los Angeles strike team.
	+ Upon reaching the portal room, she is tasked with shutting down the portal, but its controls are locked down and her attempt to cover it with a GravNet fails.
	+ Wingman then has a plan to jump into the portal, also requiring Deadlock's nanowire accelerator. While she still remains distrustful of Wingman at first due to her own traumatic experience with radivores, Gekko's pleas and Wingman's gentle approach finally make her relent. After Wingman enters the portal and causes it to become unstable, Deadlock and the rest of the agents leave the facility.
	+ The portal is successfully shut down, resulting in a massive sinkhole appearing in the facility car park. A Legion strike team then arrives there on a mission for α-radianite, who Deadlock and the rest of the Protocol team are able to repel.
* Deadlock meets Sage, who once again offers to restore Deadlock's arm, but Deadlock refuses to have her injury undone, in memory of her fallen Ståljeger comrades.

### Personality

— Deadlock (Match Start on attack)

Deadlock has a no-nonsense personality. She takes the protocol's stance very seriously. Due to the fact that radivores have taken the lives of her fallen comrades, she seems to have a huge resentment towards them, going to extreme measures to even detain them, such as Gekko's creatures. Despite the flashbacks of radivores, she still reluctantly trusted Gekko's Wingman to complete the mission in Los Angeles by letting him use her nanowire accelerator.

### Appearance

Deadlock has white hair, wears a green shirt and has a white jacket over it. Her left hand, which was bitten away from a radivore, is her nanowire accelerator. She has Sonic Sensor placed on her left thigh, and GravNet grenades on her right thigh.

## Abilities

### Basic

C – GravNet

EQUIP a GravNet grenade. FIRE to throw. ALT FIRE to lob. The GravNet detonates upon landing, forcing any characters caught within to crouch and move slowly.

**Uses:** 1
**Cost:** 200
**Windup:**  0.4 s
**Debuff:**  Forced crouch, 70% slow

Q – Sonic Sensor

EQUIP a Sonic Sensor. FIRE to deploy. The sensor monitors an area for enemies making sound. It concusses that area if footsteps, weapons fire, or significant noise are detected. This ability can be picked up to be REDEPLOYED.

**Uses:** 2
**Cost:** 200
**Health:**  20 HP
**Debuff:**  3.5 s Concuss

### Signature

E – Barrier Mesh

EQUIP a Barrier Mesh disc. FIRE to throw forward. Upon landing, the disc generates barriers from the origin point that block character movement.

**Uses:** 1
**Cost:**Free
**Windup:**  3 s for fortification
**Duration:**  30 s
**Health:**  320/680 HP, 570/1,200 HP when fortified (Outer orbs/Central orb)

### Ultimate

X – Annihilation

EQUIP a Nanowire Accelerator. FIRE to unleash a pulse of nanowires that captures the first enemy contacted. The cocooned enemy is pulled along a nanowire path and will die if they reach the end, unless they are freed. The nanowire cocoon is destructible.

**Cost:**♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 7 points
**Windup:**  1.1 s
**Duration:**  10 s
**Health:**  600 HP
**Debuff:**  7 s Cocoon

## Agent Cosmetics

The following are cosmetics related to Deadlock from Agent Gear and from other sources (e.g. Battle Pass).

### Gear

*More information: Gear*

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

### Other cosmetics

Player Cards

Weapon Skins

## Update History

**v8.0**
* Sonic Sensor
	+ Now recallable in round
	+ Pickup distance increased 12m >>> 27m
	+ Decreased time to concuss once triggered 1.0s >>> 0.5s
	+ Decreased time for enemies to destroy Sonic Sensor once triggered 0.65s >>> 0.5s
	+ Deadlock and her allies can now hear Sonic Sensor’s audio lightly when they are in its area of effect
* Barrier Mesh
	+ Increased the max length Barrier Mesh walls 6m >>> 10m

**v7.10**

* GravNet
	+ Increased slow at AoE edge removed
	+ Anyone caught by GravNet will now be affected by increased gravity and a reduction in mobility
	+ Max duration increased 6 seconds >>> Indefinite
	+ Removal time increased 0.85s >>> 1.5s
	+ Radius increased 6m >>> 8m

**v7.08**

* Annihilation
	+ Can no longer open Bind’s automatic doors from outside the teleporter rooms.
	+ Can no longer open Breeze’s Mid Chute trapdoor from below.

**v7.05**

* Sonic Sensor
	+ Fixed a bug where Deadlock’s Sonic Sensor would trigger when Gekko’s Wingman walks near it.

**v7.02**

* Sonic Sensor
	+ Fixed Sonic Sensor not triggering when  Wingman started defusing the Spike in its detection area under some circumstances.
* Barrier Mesh
	+ Fixed issues where damage-over-time area abilities were not damaging Barrier Mesh.
* Annihilation
	+ Fixed issue where players trapped by Annihilation were not properly killed when hit by the Spike explosion.

**v7.0**

 Added

## Trivia

### Relations

* Deadlock does not get on well with Gekko as the owner of a crew of radivores, as a result of her own traumatic experience fighting a radivore at The Vault that killed her colleagues and ended up with her losing her left arm after doing what was necessary to kill it. Deadlock's dislike for Gekko and his creatures is so large that she built four custom cages to capture and detain Mosh, Wingman, Dizzy, and Thrash. She is also known to threaten Wingman with her Barrier Mesh disc.

## Gallery

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 UNMADE cinematic
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 7.06 Sage voicemail
3. ↑ 7.0 Deadlock voicemail
4. ↑ 7.01 Deadlock voicemail
5. ↑ 7.03 Deadlock voicemail
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Sunset reveal trailer teasers
7. ↑ Sunset Reveal Trailer
8. ↑ 7.04 KAY/O email