If you love easy kills, you'll love this Warden Trapper build in Deadlock.
An immobile enemy is an easy-to-kill one, or at least that is the sentiment behind our Warden Trapper build in Deadlock. Here’s everything you need to know about the build, including ability upgrade order and Curiosity Shop items you’ll want to focus on.
Best Warden build for crowd control and close-range DPS
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If you can manage to hit your opponent with Binding Word, this Warden Trapper build can be one of the best and most effective in Deadlock. However, you’ll need a good balance of patience and aggression to really master this build.
Early game
Binding Word is your win condition in early fights. Otherwise, play a bit conservative.
| Item Type | Item |
| Spirit | Mystic Reach |
| Weapon | Basic Magazine |
| Vitality | Sprint Boots |
| Vitality | Extra Stamina |
| Weapon | High-Velocity Mag |
| Spirit | Mystic Burst |
Mid game
Make flanks and stun unsuspecting opponents. Use Improved Reach on Binding Word.
| Item Type | Item |
| Vitality | Bullet Armor |
| Vitality | Bullet Lifesteal |
| Spirit | Improved Burst |
| Spirit | Improved Reach |
| Weapon | Slowing Bullets |
Late game
The focus here is tankiness and lethality against trapped enemies.
| Item Type | Item |
| Weapon | Titanic Magazine |
| Weapon | Point Blank |
| Vitality | Improved Bullet Armor |
| Vitality | Enduring Speed |
| Vitality | Superior Stamina |
Uber late game
Scale as you need to in this phase as your ultimate starts to become deadly.
| Item Type | Item |
| Weapon | Frenzy |
| Vitality | Inhibitor |
| Spirit | Diviner’s Kevlar |
| Vitality | Leech |
| Weapon | Lucky Shot |
| Spirit | Torment Pulse |
Warden abilities and upgrades
The Warden Trapper build in Deadlock revolves around getting enemies stunned by Binding Word and focusing them down afterward. So, this and Willpower are what you should build into first.
- Alchemical Flask: Throw a flask that damages, slows, and reduces the weapon damage and stamina of enemies it hits.
- Willpower: Gain a spirit shield and bonus movement speed.
- Binding Word: Curse an enemy hero. If they don’t move away from their initial position within the escape time, they will be damaged and immobilized.
- Last Stand: After charging for 2.2 seconds, release pulses that damage enemies and heal you based on the damage done.
Strengths and weaknesses of this Warden build in Deadlock
As fun as this build is to play, it isn’t perfect and you will run into some counter play. Here are the main strengths and weaknesses that we have encountered with this build.
| Strengths | Weaknesses |
| Great crowd control | Weak at range |
| Strong late-game ultimate | High-mobility enemies can avoid your trap |
| Lethal at close range | Hard to hit with gun unless you’re close |
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