About Edgelock

What is this?

Edgelock is a free counter-pick item recommender for Valve's Deadlock. Pick your hero, select the enemy team, and get a phased item build tailored to that specific matchup.

How does it work?

The recommendation engine starts from a rule-based core and layers live match data on top of it:

1. Each enemy hero is profiled by their primary damage type (gun, spirit, or mixed) and threat tags (burst damage, healing, CC, stealth, etc.)
2. The engine aggregates threats across the enemy team to determine what you need to counter. Lane opponents count double — you face them first and most often.
3. Items are scored on how well they address those threats, weighted by your hero's preferred item slots and by souls spent
4. That score is then adjusted by live data: how the matchup actually goes, how each item performs on your hero, when players typically buy it, and how the community has voted on it
5. Top items are selected per game phase (laning, mid, late) with slot diversity, and repeated counters are down-weighted so the build covers more ground

When the live data API is unreachable the engine falls back to rules-only scoring, and the build page says so rather than pretending the numbers are there.

Data Sources

Hero and item data is fetched from the Deadlock API and refreshed every 6 hours. Hero threat profiles and item counter tags are manually curated based on game knowledge.

Disclaimer

Edgelock is a community-made tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Valve Corporation. Deadlock is a trademark of Valve Corporation. Recommendations are suggestions based on general game theory and may not reflect optimal play in every situation.