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Deadlock<\/a>’s Baba, the second hero of the City Never Sleeps<\/a> vote, went live on 6 October 2026, and the same Valve post moves the end of Ranked Season 1 to Thursday 5 November 2026 at 2pm PDT, with the next season starting immediately after. Season 1 was originally due to end on 7 October. This article covers what Valve says Baba does, what the community has pulled from the game files, how the hero vote works, and what the extension means for your rank.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" TL;DR<\/p>\n Valve, which develops and publishes Deadlock, ran the announcement under the title “Mind the Birds” on Steam. It introduces Baba as New York’s pigeon lady leaving her perch in Central Park to join the fight, and states she and her pigeons are available now. The game itself is still in early development and invite-only.<\/p>\n The same post carries two other items: the next hero arrives on Friday at 2pm PDT, and the end date for the first Ranked season moved to 5 November. Baba is one of six heroes in the City Never Sleeps vote.<\/p>\n There are two layers of information on Baba, and they should not be mixed. Valve’s own post describes her in flavour text with no numbers, and there is no separate patch-note entry giving her stats. The numbers come from community sites reading the game files.<\/p>\n The table lists ability names and values as shown by deadlock.wiki (community wiki, from the game files), read on 7 October 2026. These are not Valve-published numbers and Baba is newly released, so expect them to move.<\/p>\n We checked all four abilities and her base health on deadlock.wiki on 7 October 2026. We make no claim about Baba’s tier or win rate.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"table","headers":[{"header_text":"Ability"},{"header_text":"Key values (community)"},{"header_text":"What it does"}],"rows":[{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Threadsap"},{"cell_text":"26 s cooldown, 35 m, 50 damage, 10 Spirit stolen per hit"},{"cell_text":"Thread that steals enemy Spirit"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Granny Long Legs"},{"cell_text":"30 s cooldown, 10 s, +5 m\/s, 30% Debuff and Melee Resist"},{"cell_text":"Bench legs: speed, kick, ground pound"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Baba's Brew"},{"cell_text":"25 s cooldown; 100 barrier, 3 s Silence or 12 burn DPS"},{"cell_text":"Cycles barrier, Silence, burn"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Feed The Birds (ultimate)"},{"cell_text":"150 s cooldown, 18 m, up to 450 damage, up to 2.75 s hex"},{"cell_text":"Bread stacks, then a pigeon hex"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Base health"},{"cell_text":"780"},{"cell_text":"Base stat"}]}],"size":"small"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":7647,"caption":"Neonsect illustration","alt":"Baba commanding a swarm of ghostly green pigeons in a rainy New York street fight in Deadlock"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"Deadlock Hero Vote: How It Works and Who Is Next","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" Baba won the second slot of a vote that runs through the six City Never Sleeps candidates: Deadman Danny, Nurse Harrow, Solomon, Baba, Violet and Rat King. Valve’s post says it was a close contest, with no totals given.<\/p>\n Votes are cast from the new pregame lobby screen. The winning team’s votes count double, and the first win of the day doubles votes too. Valve releases two heroes a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays at 2pm PT, and has not described any other way to vote.<\/p>\n Rat King won the first slot and released on 2 October 2026; Baba won the second and released on 6 October. That leaves four candidates: Deadman Danny, Nurse Harrow, Solomon and Violet.<\/p>\n Valve’s post says the next hero is introduced on Friday at 2pm PDT, which is 9 October 2026. Vote counts for this round and the order of the remaining heroes are not published by Valve.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":7648,"caption":"Neonsect illustration","alt":"Baba leaving her Central Park perch as hooded hero-vote candidates watch in Deadlock"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"Ranked Season 1 Now Ends 5 November: What Happens at the End","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" Season 1 now ends on Thursday 5 November 2026 at 2pm PDT instead of 7 October, and the next season starts immediately after. To queue at all you still need the entry conditions from the 30 July Matchmaking Update<\/a>: at least 60 wins in Standard Mode and at least three heroes with 15 Standard Mode wins each, with active sanctions such as low priority or a comms ban blocking the queue. These requirements have not been re-checked for the October update. If a sanction is your problem, see our guide to the Deadlock low priority queue<\/a>.<\/p>\n Per Valve’s 30 July post, your highest rank is saved to your rank history and you get a hideout item for it.<\/p>\n The same post describes a new season as starting with an 8-game calibration and a soft reset, and calibration can end no higher than Oracle VI.<\/p>\n Those rules were written for Season 1, and Valve’s 6 October post only says the next season starts immediately after, without restating them. Carrying them over to the next season is our reading, not a Valve statement. Queue behaviour around the season change is covered in our look at Deadlock ranked queue times<\/a>, and ban rules for new heroes in hero bans and swaps<\/a>.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":7649,"caption":"Neonsect illustration","alt":"A green-glowing clock tower over the Deadlock city as Ranked Season 1 nears its end"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"The 5 October Update in Short","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" The 5 October minor update changed Rat King’s ultimate, Rule, Ratannia, with cooldown rising from 130 to 160 s and damage reduction falling from 20% to 15%, while Scrap Grenade damage went from 65 to 70 and Rat Swarm cooldown from 28 to 24 s. Sinclair’s base HP regen dropped from 2 to 1 and his gun’s base bullet damage from 17.76 to 16.5. The full list is in Valve’s Minor Update 10-05-2026 post<\/a>.<\/p>\n Warning<\/p>\n Baba’s numbers in this article are community-read values from 7 October, not Valve statistics, and a newly released hero is a likely target for balance changes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" This table separates what the studio has confirmed and what is not confirmed yet. Each claim below is tied to the post and the game version it describes.<\/p>\n\n
Layer one: what Valve says<\/h3>\n
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Layer two: community values from the game files<\/h3>\n
How voting works<\/h3>\n
What has been decided<\/h3>\n
What comes next and what is not published<\/h3>\n
What you keep when the season ends<\/h3>\n
What the 30 July update said about new seasons<\/h3>\n
What Valve has not restated<\/h3>\n
Sources and Confidence<\/h2>\n
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\n \nClaim<\/th>\n Where it comes from<\/th>\n Status<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n Baba released 6 Oct 2026; Ranked Season 1 end moved to 5 Nov, 2pm PDT<\/td>\n Steam Community (official announcements)<\/a><\/td>\n Official<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Valve’s Baba description has no numbers; next hero Friday 2pm PDT<\/td>\n Steam Community (official announcements)<\/a><\/td>\n Official<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Season-end rank history, hideout item, 8-game calibration, Oracle VI cap; entry: 60 Standard wins, 15 wins per hero, 3 heroes, no active sanctions<\/td>\n Valve \u2014 Matchmaking Update, 30 July 2026<\/a><\/td>\n Official<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Baba ability names, cooldowns and values as listed by the community<\/td>\n deadlock.wiki \u2014 Baba, read 7 October 2026<\/a><\/td>\n In-game data (press\/wiki) – not checked by us<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Vote rules: six candidates, pregame lobby, doubled votes, Tuesday and Friday releases<\/td>\n Valve \u2014 City Never Sleeps update page<\/a><\/td>\n Official<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 5 October update: Rat King and Sinclair numbers<\/td>\n Valve \u2014 Minor Update 10-05-2026<\/a><\/td>\n Official<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"faq","items":[{"question":"Is Baba available in Deadlock now?","answer":"Yes. Valve's 6 October 2026 post says Baba and her pigeons are available now. "},{"question":"Does Valve publish Baba's ability numbers?","answer":"Valve's announcement describes her abilities without numbers, and there is no patch-note entry with her stats. The values in our table are community-read from the game files. "},{"question":"When does Ranked Season 1 end?","answer":"Thursday 5 November 2026 at 2pm PDT, with the next season starting immediately after; it was originally due to end on 7 October. "},{"question":"Who is the next hero and when?","answer":"Valve says the next hero is introduced Friday 9 October 2026 at 2pm PDT. The remaining candidates are Deadman Danny, Nurse Harrow, Solomon and Violet, and the order is not published. "},{"question":"Do the 8-game calibration and Oracle VI cap apply next season?","answer":"Valve's 30 July post describes an 8-game calibration, a soft reset and an Oracle VI ceiling for a new season, but it was written for Season 1 and has not been restated for the next one. "}]}],"bottom":[{"acf_fc_layout":"more_articles","heading":"","posts":[],"count":10},{"acf_fc_layout":"chat","heading":""}],"meta_description":"Baba is live in Deadlock as of 6 October 2026, with community ability values and a new Ranked Season 1 end date."},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7643,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640\/revisions\/7643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7640"},{"taxonomy":"blog_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_tag?post=7640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}