About Deadlock Recommender

What is Deadlock Recommender?

Deadlock Recommender is a Hero recommendation tool I built to help players discover Heroes that match how they like to play in Deadlock.

Recommendations are based on playstyle traits, roles, and gameplay patterns.

You can explore recommendations by browsing Heroes you enjoy, selecting gameplay tags, or comparing shared traits across the roster.

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Deadlock Roles

The Deadlock roster covers 5 distinct roles:

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Example Playstyle Tags

Heroes in Deadlock are described using tags like these — each one represents a distinct playstyle tendency used to find similar heroes:

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Who Built This

I'm a solo developer and long-time player of competitive games. I built this tool to answer a question I kept running into across multiple games: "which hero plays like the one I already enjoy?"

The tag profiles are built from direct play experience across each roster, not patch notes or scraped data. Tagging is done manually and updated as rosters change.

If a recommendation seems off or a tag description looks wrong, the contact page is the fastest way to flag it.

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Part of the WhichMain Network

Deadlock Recommender is one corner of WhichMain, a network of recommenders I run across Deadlock, League of Legends, Valorant, Dota 2, and more. It is still one developer, just no longer one game: every roster in the network is mapped in the same playstyle trait language.

Because the games share that language, you can start from a main you already love in another game and translate it into Deadlock. One account and one Premium work on every site in the network.

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