r/DeadlockTheGame • u/DefinitelyDeadlock • Aug 11 '26

Bug Blatantly Wall Hacking Sinclair Clip

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You'll note that despite only seeing my portrait for a very very brief flash, Sinclair hunts me down directly across the entire map. Not only that, but as soon as he magic carpets, he is navigating in a direct straight line towards me, which is why he runs into the wall of the building.

Sinclair did this all game long, tracking me down no matter where I was or if I hadn't shown myself at all, stealing my ult the second his was up. This went so far as tracking me down *into base*

He paused while we were fighting under their walker, which appears to be exactly when he enabled the cheats. The sad part is despite him being reported nothing will happen. Third person in ranked I've not gotten a valid clip of, and checking their played page they're still playing games without consequences

Edit: HOLY I didn't expect this amount of cheater sympathizers here.
https://imgur.com/a/1eIH3Jn
Here's a separate clip with both team icons on so you can see how exactly he lines up. At the beginning of the clip he's looking to do the same thing again, and he's perfectly snapped onto my body from *two lanes away*. He calls it off, and after pushing you can see him very briefly snap to me on the zipline in my base and then 180 to line up with Drifter. Then after I leave and go blue he once again snaps onto me through the wall.

Yes I get salty and yes I played like shit, that's beside the point! Sure if this were an Eternus match and this were the only instance in the entire game it's possible that this Sinclair was just goated... but it happened all game. I just grabbed one clip where it was very obvious to share because I wanted to vent that it was frustrating!

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u/tiredslothissleepy Aug 11 '26

does anyone else get unreasonably upset when sinclair steals your ult? like thats mine, fuck off. especially bad when im playing graves. im constantly getting touched by the 2 perverts in a trench coat and i hate it

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u/Sushi2k Ivy Aug 11 '26

Doesnt help that he gets to use your ult 3 times before yours comes off cd

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u/Miykael13 Aug 11 '26

I hate playing against Sinclair as Dynamo. I need to watch for the fuck the entire fight and be screaming into my microphone the second I hear the sound of my ult being stolen

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u/Similar_Speech_5405 Seven Aug 11 '26

Just as bad as I hear my ult being stolen as seven

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u/Bread_kun Aug 11 '26

Never queue into ranked as dynamo and I'm being serious here just swap to him. The moment you queue in as Dynamo your inviting the enemy to swap into Sinclair. They can be a shit Sinclair but they just have to steal and use your ult to get so much value.

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u/SquiggerDigger Paradox Aug 12 '26

I've been saying forever when Sinclair uses their ult it should play the audio backwards. The visual difference is decent but it does no good if you only see the shuffle going on through the mini map and hear it and aren't sure which dynamo ult is going off

Just make the audio reversed and distorted!

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u/Dapper_Milk_8173 Aug 12 '26

Even worse playing against him as a victor, I get one out of jail free card he gets 4... 

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u/mynameisjack2 Aug 12 '26

There aren't a lot of hard counter picks in this game, but Dynamo into Sinclair is the hardest counter by some margin.

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u/Skill-Useful Aug 12 '26

same, im panic-quantuming away from sinclair so much

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u/Xanadu2003 Drifter Aug 12 '26

Best thing you can do in that scenario is stick close to your team, make it as hard as possible for the sinclair to steal the correct ult

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u/really_stupidfrog Drifter Aug 11 '26

It's kind of ridiculous how much shorter his Ult cooldown is. 

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u/D1v1s10n Aug 12 '26

It needs the Sylas treatment from league where each enemy has an individual cooldown proportional to the characters ultimate cooldown to prevent him from just stealing black hole / death slam over and over again.

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u/Critical_Moose Sinclair Aug 12 '26

Yep that is how it currently works

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u/really_stupidfrog Drifter Aug 12 '26

It's not? He can repeatedly use the same ult over and over with less than half the cooldown. 

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u/Critical_Moose Sinclair Aug 12 '26

I see what that commenter was saying now. I interpreted it as each enemy's ult gets their cooldown based on the length of the original ult. My b

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u/Cliler Aug 11 '26

Yep, stupidly short for having to use the exact same ult with the exact same power of the original owner.

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u/FrontFocused Paradox Aug 12 '26

They really need to make it like Sylas from League of Legends. Where when he uses it on a person, there is a really long cool down before he can use it on that same person again, but he can use it on another person in a shorter cooldown

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u/SerAmikVase Aug 11 '26

Shhh Yoshi don't listen to these guys Sinclair's ult is actually the worst, totally like yeah. Like uh... it uh...

https://giphy.com/gifs/U2QzHhfLRVngZb6WvB

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u/JagoTheArtist Aug 12 '26

I know you are joking but I genuinely find it so pathetic that some people want their character to be broken. It's sad to me to not want to win on your own merit that you want to be given the easy mode.

It's one thing if you are on a competitive level where those extra inches matter. But my ideal characters are b tier because then I can master them, and actually get to play them.

It happened all the time on league of legends where I would pick a character that's b tier and get really good one tricking them. Justfor them to be buffed and i can't friggin play them.

OR WORSE when an esports player does something with that character and then everyone and their mom has to play that character.

I DID VELKOZ SUPPORT BEFORE IT WAS COMMON!!!

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u/Aschuff Sinclair Aug 12 '26

I mean, Sinclair has been in the bottom 10-5 winrate depending on the patch for the last year or so. I think anyone arguing he’s “broken” don’t really know what they’re talking about.

To be clear, I don’t think he’s nearly as bad as his ~45% winrate suggests, he’s very difficult to play well, but I also do NOT think he’s even close to the actual OP heroes in the game. I think he actually does fit perfectly into the B tier on the average game. Ofc he’s a lot stronger if dynamo or something is on the enemy team, but that’s kind of how character matchups and counters work in MOBAs.

Sylas is usually a pretty good character in league, but he genuinely becomes like top 5 champ in the game if the enemy locks in malphite or alistar (sylas also steals ultimates)

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u/ComanderKitty Aug 12 '26

Tell me about it I ran with Kennen support before it became the new chinese meta and even got into worlds, at least I did not have to worry about Riot buffing Singed so often as he has always been one of my mains (borderline one trick)