Key Skills and Techniques for Effective Farming

Successful farming involves a mix of knowledge and skills in the game, including understanding basic mechanics, timing, and character development. Essential factors include knowing the positional roles of your heroes, selecting the correct route, and collecting a sequence of items to maximize your net worth (total character assets). The Blix team has identified the key aspects you should focus on to enhance your hero’s farming potential fully.

Deadlock: Carry heroes

• Carry – are heroes who become stronger as the game progresses but start weak. They rely on items and need continuous farming to reach their full potential. 
• Supports – assist the team by using their abilities to provide help and are generally less focused on farming. 
• Initiators – who create space for carries to farm and help maintain the game’s pace. These heroes typically do not require expensive items and can set the tempo by protecting the carry.

Laning and Post-Laning Phase

Deadlock: Zipline movement

During the laning stage, players compete for control of lanes and resources. Once this phase is over, assessing the balance of power is vital: who will remain in the lanes and move to the jungle. Ideally, the carry should be assigned to a lane while farming the jungle, allowing them to maximize resource gain.

Movement plays a crucial role in farming. Speeding up travel between points can reduce the time spent moving and thus enhance your farming efficiency. For instance, if you utilize movement boosts effectively, ziplines can provide a significant advantage by saving valuable seconds. Over time, these saved seconds can lead to substantial resource gains.

Utilizing Movement to Enhance Farming Efficiency

Movement is essential for maximizing farming efficiency by allowing quick travel between map points and camps. Here are several techniques to shorten distances:

• Boosting through ziplines: You can move faster across the map by letting go of the controls while using ziplines.
• Exploiting buggy spots on the map: Certain locations, like the church on the fourth line, can temporarily accelerate your character. By taking advantage of these spots, you can achieve rapid movement. However, be aware that the developers may patch these exploits in the future.

It’s advisable to use techniques such as the “wall jump” and other jumping methods to escape from enemies quickly. For instance, you can perform a jump when nearing an edge rather than following the standard route. This tactic allows you to dodge attacks and swiftly get away. It’s beneficial when you need to escape or safely navigate to another area of the map.

Map Control and Vision

Deadlock: art

Players must understand how the mini-map and visual control function in the game. Several factors influence a player’s visibility on the mini-map:

• If a hero is within 65 meters of an enemy, they will appear on the mini-map, regardless of line of sight.
• Some items, such as candles, will only reveal your location on the mini-map if you start attacking them or if they attack you.

Understanding how to manage your visibility is crucial. It lets you conceal your movements, launch surprise attacks on enemies, or safely farm in secure areas.

Choosing Heroes and Items for Farming

Deadlock hero: Haze

Every hero has its strengths and weaknesses. For effective farming, heroes with strong mass attack abilities, like Sevan and Infernus, are precious. Seven excels at clearing forests and lines, while Infernus can annihilate entire groups of enemies early in the game.

Some items are particularly well-suited for farming:

• Monster Rounds increase damage dealt to enemies while reducing the damage taken from them, which is particularly useful for farming in forest areas. 
• Ricochet lets your attacks bounce off enemies, significantly speeding up the farming process, although it is beneficial mainly for certain characters. 
• Sprint Boots enhance movement speed, allowing you to traverse the map more quickly to reach your target locations. 
• Tesla Bullets are a specialized item that boosts damage to enemies and accelerates farming efficiency.

Farming Optimization Strategies

Deadlock: Jungle

 There are several strategies to help expedite farming:

•  Lane Farming: It is essential to start by taking out the healers among the enemy team. This minimizes the healing they can provide to other creatures, allowing your creeps to reach their next target more quickly.
• Farming the Jungle: Use heroes with area-of-effect (AOE) abilities to damage multiple creeps at once. For example, if you’re playing as Lady Geist, switch your focus to the remaining creeps when the main one is about to be defeated.

Advantage of Broken Objects and Figurines

The map contains crates and statuettes that can significantly enhance farming efficiency. Their proximity to the camps aids in boosting the resources acquired and strengthening your character. Familiarizing yourself with the routes with the highest concentration of these objects can help you gather more resources in less time.

Deadlock: art

Conclusion

There is no secret technique for successful farming in the game; success is built on a solid strategy and experience. Every action, from selecting a route to optimizing your movements on ziplines, contributes to resource accumulation. It is crucial to understand your character’s abilities and apply this knowledge in practice. Consistent training and a grasp of the basic principles can transform farming into a mechanical process, enabling you to achieve a high skill level over time. By mastering various mechanics and techniques, you can optimize your farming efforts and attain success in the game. For more content related to Deadlock, we recommend visiting the Reddit thread.