how would you buff deadlock for pro play

let me hear the ideas

The sonic sensor just needs a complete rework. It's absolute shit and does nothing. Right now, for Deadlock to be viable, you need to say that the three other abilities are good enough to counteract the uselessness of the Sonic Sensor.

I'd suggest making it not noise, but simply time in range. If the person within range of the sensor for [insert time here], then it activate. You can shift past it, but a slight messup in shifting makes it pop. (so if it takes one second to shift out of range, 1.25 second delay). IDK if this is even enough though.

make the wall have less gravity when throwing so you can do lineups with it

t0nz

honestly, i don't think deadlock should be buffed for proplay. the reason why i think this is the following:

obviously riot has different "styles of agents" for example

-dive duelists (neon, jett, raze)
-flashing duelists (phoenix, yoru)
-flash initiator (kayo, breach)
-recon initiator (sova, fade)

etc etc.

it's clear to me that the devs are obviously interested in each playstyle having at least 2 agents to choose from, and before deadlock was added, sage was the only reactive sentinel, made to stop pushes on the fly. this is very good for ranked play especially low elo but obviously not great for proplay since teams will just bait out utility.

so deadlock came into be an alternative to sage, and i'd say she's pretty good in the lower ranks, even if people don't pick her too often.

my point is, there will be some agents in the pool that will not really be viable for proplay and that's not necessarily a bad thing! look at reyna and iso, they are both the same type of duelist and they're nonexistent at the pro level. same goes for sage and deadlock, and i don't think there's anything wrong with that. so i don't think she needs a buff, she's pretty balanced in ranked play atm

if you could pop the net or even the wall like a cypher cage, she would be so much better imo.