Grey Talon looks like a real powerhouse of damage and strategy in Deadlock. He can use pinpoint accuracy from afar to take advantage of long-range attacks. This is easily done when he can fly up into the air and get line-of-sight on enemies with ease. Here’s a quick look at his abilities and how they can be effectively utilized in the course of play.
Overview of Abilities
Charged Shot
Primary Function: A high-powered, piercing shot for massive damage.
First Upgrade: Provides an additional charge, increasing versatility in utilization.
Second Upgrade: Plus +70 damage to enhance its lethal element.
Final Upgrade: Increases damage scaling and decreases charge delay by 3 seconds. It will be considerably faster and stronger when it counts.
Usage Tip: Employ a Charged Shot to break through enemy defenses in Deadlock or kill high-priority targets. The decreased charge delay from the final upgrade allows for quicker follow-through in heated combat.
Rain of Arrows
Primary Function: Allows Grey Talon to fly while attaining Weapon Damage and multishot capabilities.
First Upgrade: Reduces cooldown by 15 seconds so it can be used more frequently.
Second Upgrade: Adds +7 Weapon Damage and applies a 40% movement slow, hindering enemies’ possibility to retreat. Final Upgrade: Adds +50% Bullet Lifesteal and +50% Spirit Lifesteal, turning this into an even bigger survivability tool in fights.
Usage Tip: Rain of Arrows is great for both offense and defense. Use it for repositioning and raining down damage from above, with the final upgrade to keep Grey Talon healthy in prolonged engagements.
Immobilizing Trap
Primary Function: Drops a trap to immobilize enemies in a specified area.
First Upgrade: The cooldown is reduced by 20 seconds, thus expendable more often.
Second Upgrade: Increases duration of immobilization time by 1 second, with more control time.
Final Upgrade: Immobilized enemies take +30% more bullet damage for 10 seconds; follow-up damage increased.
Usage Tip: Use an Immobilizing Trap strategically to immobilize key targets or disrupt enemy formations. Couple this with a Charged Shot to inflict the most damage on the immobilized targets.
Guided Owl
Primary Function: A spirit owl is launched, exploding on impact and stunning enemies.
First Upgrade: +100 Damage for more significant impact.
Second Upgrade: Shaves cooldown by 50 seconds to enable using it more often.
Final Upgrade: Executions against enemies below 22% health are instantaneous, which makes this a very effective finishing tool.
Usage Tip: Guided Owl is good at crowd control and finishing off enemies with low health. Employ the skill when disrupting enemy teams and securing kills- especially at critical parts where enemies are clumped up and weakened.
Grey Talon does the best job when it comes to high damage and getting into hard-to-reach positions. His abilities allow for everything from inflicting major damage to complete immobilization and sniping enemies. Mastering Grey Talon’s toolset will make him a potent force in whatever team composition he finds himself in.
Ultimate Item Guide
Use the following items to enhance Grey Talon’s weapon damage and abilities to unleash massive devastation onto your enemies. These items will also give you the bonus of extreme movement speed.
Early game you grab your first skill and third skill by adding one point to them. After that continue to max your first skill. While doing this purchase the early items listed above in the picture. Mystic Shot and Headshot Booster will give your primary weapon more damage. Picking up Extra Stamina gives you more mobility. Extra Spirit and Mystic Burst will add spirit damage, making your skills more powerful. Lastly, Extra Charge will give you one more shot of your primary skill.
Mid-Game Items
Once you’re done upgrading your first skill upgrade your ultimate to two points and maximize your trap at that point. While doing this purchase Long Range for more weapon damage, and Spirit Lifesteal to sustain you in fights. Purchase Improved Burst, Rapid Recharge, Improved Spirit, Surge of Power, and Improved Cooldown in that order. These will all help your spirit abilities with cooldown and damage. Surge of Power will help build towards your massive speed in the endgame.
Late-Game Items
Once you have built up the souls in Deadlock start purchasing Sharpshooter and Lucky Shot. Lucky Shot is one of your best items. It will allow you to proc bonus damage at random to destroy your enemy. Both of these items will add to your weapon damage significantly. Boundless Spirit is a must to give you superior speed. You will be one of the fastest Heroes on the battlefield at this point. Pro Tip: Once you have your speed up with Boundless Spirit you can now use ctrl on your keyboard to slide after one second of running at any point now.
Upgrade your armor next for Grey Talon by grabbing Improved Spirit Armor and Improved Bullet Armor. You may not need both though and can sacrifice one or the other depending on the type of team you are up against. Use Superior Stamina to bounce around the battlefield with the grace of the wind. Pick up your final spirit items next; Mystic Slow and Superior Cooldown. Put Superior Cooldown on your ultimate so you can unleash a nuclear bomb on groups of opponents and stun them often.
The extra items on the list are situational and should be used to break enemy ultimates that start to annoy your team. Pick up Crippling Headshot primarily if you have the souls and room for it. It will reduce enemy bullets and spirit resistance. Tesla Bullets is used for lane clearing mainly but it is only needed if you want to fit it and add a little more weapon damage.
Conclusion
To maximize Grey Talon, one would focus on early-game skill upgrades and items boosting weapon damage and mobility. In the mid-game, enhance your ultimate and trap abilities as well as items that improve weapon damage, sustain, and spirit abilities, building towards greater speed. For the late game, invest in items that significantly increase weapon damage and speed, while upgrading your armor based on the enemy team. Employ situational items to answer particular threats or shatter lane clearing. It will allow Grey Talon to deal maximum damage and stay agile on the battlefield.
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