Advanced movement in Deadlock, explained: How to dash-slide, dash-jump, and more

In Valve’s third-person MOBA, Deadlock, players take control of various characters in the game, from front line masters to supports and damage dealing specialists. There are also many different advanced types of movement to explore as you zip and zoom across the map.

Movement is extremely important for your mastery of the game, whether you’re chasing after a fleeing enemy or pulling off your own daring escape from certain doom. There are a ton of ways to travel around the map with many different abilities spread across the game’s diverse cast, but there are also some universal movement sets you can master to juke out opponents.

Here are some of the best advanced movement skills that you should learn in Deadlock.

How to execute advanced movement in Deadlock

How stamina works in Deadlock

To master advanced movement in Deadlock, you need to manage your stamina. You can see how much stamina you’re using by watching the bars next to your crosshair. Moves like dashing and jumping use stamina, but sliding does not. As a result, you’ll need to take care that you’re planning your moves alongside your stamina, especially when it comes to complicated maneuvers.

How to sprint in Deadlock

If you want some extra movement while you’re moving around the battlefield, you’ll want the ability to sprint. There is, however, only one way to unlock the ability to sprint in the game: Sprint Boots. These boots give you the ability to sprint forwards while you aren’t in combat, which gives you extra movement speed.

You simply need to move forwards in a direction until your character lowers their weapon and starts to sprint. You should also see your movement speed increase from eight m/s to 10 m/s, which is great for characters that need to reposition a lot, such as Shiv.

All movement speed items in Deadlock

There are various items that can help you with better movement, from giving you more speed and farther slide distance. You can also find these items in the Weapon, Vitality, and Spirit item trees, so depending on your build, you can be a lot faster than your enemies on the battlefield.

Here are some of the movement speed items in Deadlock:

• Weapon
  • Fleetfoot
    • +25 percent slide distance.
    • +4 bonus movement speed on activation.
    • Removes movement speed penalty while shooting.
  • Burst Fire
    • +50 percent slide distance.
    • +2 bonus movement speed.
  • Frenzy
    • When below 40 percent health, gain four movement speed.
• Vitality
  • Sprint Boots
    • +2 m/s Sprint Speed
    • Upgrades into Enduring Speed, which adds 1.4 movement speed, +2 m/s sprint speed.
  • Superior Stamina
    • +40 percent Air Jump and Dash distance.
    • Increases number of Air Dashes and Air Jumps before landing from one to two.
  • Unstoppable
    • +1 movement speed.
• Spirit
  • Boundless Spirit
    • +4 movement speed.
  • Echo Shard
    • +1 movement speed.

All advanced movement in Deadlock, explained

Dash-slide

In the beginning of the tutorial, you learn that you can use your crouch button as you run forward to slide down any sloped terrain for some bonus speed. There is, however, a way to slide on flat ground that includes combining a character’s dash ability.

The slide ability is capped by how fast your character is moving, which is usually only available on a sloped surface or with enough movement speed items. When dashing, however, players are immediately thrown past the speed threshold for sliding. Try to press your crouch/slide button right after a dash ability, and you should be able to slide right after, giving you a ton of speed while also allowing you to use your weapon and other damaging abilities.

Dash-jump

To complete a dash-jump, press your dash button and wait until you’re around the middle of the animation before pressing the jump button. If your timing is perfect, you should be sent forward with a quick jump that sends you flying in the direction of the dash.

If you jump too early, you’ll pull off a jump-dash instead, which is also a decent movement ability, but lacks the distances that a dash-jump provides. If you press the jump button too late, you’ll only dash, and it’ll say that you “failed the dash-jump timing.” Thanks for the reminder, Valve.

Dash cancel

To complete a dash cancel, you must click your dash button to start up the animation. At any time, you can press the crouch/slide button to instantly cancel the dash animation, which is a great way to outmaneuver an opponent in a one-on-one duel. By cancelling your dash, you can reposition yourself ever so slightly to dodge incoming attacks, while also giving yourself more time to fight back since the slide allows you to fire your weapon and use abilities.

Slide jumping

At the end of a slide, it’s relatively hard to maintain your momentum so that you can continue your forward movement. If you jump right at the end of the slide animation, however, there is a chance that you can press your crouch button again to slide one more time. You will need a good amount of momentum to pull it off, making this one of the harder moves to do in the game. It is much easier to pull this off when sliding down a slope, since it gives you more speed than a regular dash-slide.