How to unlock all four Flex Slots in Deadlock

While playing Deadlock you may have noticed the existence of Flex Slots, something the game doesn’t exactly tell you about. With no real explanation of what it is, we’re here to help you out and explain how to unlock them.

With Valve finally acknowledging Deadlock, the game is building some serious hype as the hero shooter MOBA steadily climbs through the Steam rankings while in closed Alpha.

However, to the lucky players with access to the game, you’ve likely come to realize it’s a very complicated game with a lot of mechanics and details that aren’t fully explained to you. Be it the mid-boss rejuvenator or Flex Slots.

To that end, we’ll explain what exactly Flex Slots are and how you can unlock them in a game.

What are Flex Slots in Deadlock?

Flex Slots are extra item slots that you can use to put in any class of items you want.

There are four slots you can unlock in a game, and you can put either a Weapon, Vitality, or Spirit item in it to add even more buffs for those categories.

This means if you need extra damage, or some more sustain, you can easily buy more items which will buff your stats and give you an edge against opponents.

The only restriction you have with Flex slots is with active items. Since you can only have four active items at once, if your active slots are already filled, you cannot get more of that particular category.

How to unlock all four Flex Slots in Deadlock

Each of the four Flex Slots has unique conditions to unlock it. So here are all of them:

• Slot 1: Unlocked after your team destroys an enemy Walker
• Slot 2: Unlocked after your team destroys all enemy Walkers
• Slot 3: Unlocked after your team destroys a set of enemy Base Guardians
• Slot 4: Unlocked after your team destroys an enemy Shrine

It should be noted that if only one person manages to do one of the objectives, it will unlock for the entire team. So, this is an incentive to help out your teammates so you can get Flex Slots faster.

If you want to min-max unlocking them, you’ll want to destroy an enemy Walker first. So, if a teammate’s lane has just destroyed a Tower, it’s best to rotate and help them out to take down the Walker as fast as possible.

Once the Walker is down, you can keep pushing into the lane to destroy the Base Guardians at the end of the lane to get another Flex Slot.

As you can probably tell, those first two are mid-game objectives, destroying all Walkers, and a Shrine the other two Flex Slots are best saved for the late game.