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Compare Kelvin (Brawler) and Abrams (Brawler) in Deadlock — stats, weapon, abilities, and playstyle side by side.
Kelvin is a Brawler hero with 880 base health and 70.857 weapon DPS. Abrams is a Brawler hero with 800 base health and 51.429weapon DPS. In a direct comparison, Kelvin has the larger health pool, while Kelvin brings more raw weapon damage per second.
Raw stats only tell part of the story — abilities, item builds, and player skill decide most matchups. Compare the ability lists below, then check each hero's full guide for builds and counters.
Based on real ranked matches from deadlock-api.com, Kelvin currently has the higher win rate this week — 54% for Kelvin vs 51.2% for Abrams. Kelvin also sits in tier S in the live meta.
Live data from 954,946+ ranked matches · Source: deadlock-api.com · updated weekly
| Stat | Kelvin | Abrams |
|---|---|---|
| Max Health | 880 | 800 |
| Move Speed | 6.7 | 6.4 |
| Stamina | 3 | 3 |
| Health Regen | 1 | 1.5 |
| Light Melee | 50 | 50 |
| Heavy Melee | 116 | 116 |
| Stat | Kelvin | Abrams |
|---|---|---|
| DPS | 70.9 | 51.4 |
| Sustained DPS | 41.6 | 30.5 |
| Bullet Damage | 18.6 | 3.6 |
| Fire Rate (RPS) | 3.81 | 1.59 |
| Clip Size | 14 | 9 |
| Reload (s) | 2.6 | 0.4 |
| Bullet Speed | 160 | 609.6 |
| Can Crit | Yes | Yes |
Kelvin is a supportive frost hero who slows and damages the enemy team while healing, protecting, and speeding up his own. He lays Ice Path under his feet so he and his allies move faster across the map, then uses Frost Grenade and Arctic Beam to chip away and slow whoever he catches. Frozen Shelter is his panic button and his playmaker: an ice dome that rapidly regenerates allies inside while slowing enemies trapped with them. He wants to sit in the middle of the fight, healing and slowing, not solo diving. Play him patient and team-first, and he turns ordinary skirmishes into one-sided fights.
Strong vs: He shines against heroes who rely on sustained damage and mobility, because his slow stacks and Frozen Shelter blunt both. Arctic Beam's fire-rate and move-speed reduction hurts auto-attack carries who need to stand and shoot. Ice Path's slow resistance alongside the team speed-up helps him escape and chase heroes built around slows. Against clustered teams, Frost Grenade plus the dome turn their grouping into a weakness.
Weak vs: He struggles against heroes who burst him down before he can heal or dome, because his value ends if he dies first. Long-range poke and heroes who punish him for standing still during Arctic Beam hurt him, since he moves slower while channeling. Silences and hard crowd control that stop him from casting Frozen Shelter strip away his team's best save. Hard-engage heroes who dive past his slow and lock him up can delete him before the dome ever goes down.
Abrams is a close-range juggernaut who wins by walking into the enemy team and refusing to die. Siphon Life drains the enemies around him and heals him for a portion of the damage, so standing in the middle of a fight literally keeps him topped up. Shoulder Charge is his initiate — slam a target into a wall to stun them and pull them out of position. Infernal Resilience turns every hit he takes into stored regeneration, so the enemy's chip damage feeds him instead of killing him. Play him as the tip of the spear: start the fight, isolate one hero, and let his team clean up.
Strong vs: Abrams feasts on fragile backline heroes he can reach and pin down. Shoulder Charge pulls enemies in and a wall hit stuns them, which is exactly how he isolates a squishy carry from the rest of their team. Once he's on top of a target, Siphon Life keeps draining them while Case Closed finishes at point-blank. Enemies with no answer for being dragged into melee, like ranged damage dealers caught in bad positions, are his best prey.
Weak vs: Anything that keeps Abrams at arm's length or shuts down his engage gives him a hard time. His weapon falls off hard past 17m, so ranged heroes can whittle him down while he closes the distance. Shoulder Charge can be dispelled, and both it and Seismic Impact are disabled by Slowing Hex, so slows and dispels blunt his initiation. His engage cooldowns are long — 33s for Shoulder Charge and 215s for Seismic Impact — so baiting the charge and stepping away leaves him exposed. Infernal Resilience only stores healing over time; it doesn't stop a coordinated burst from killing him outright.
Kelvin has the larger base health pool at 880, compared to 800 for Abrams.
Kelvin has the higher weapon DPS at 70.857, versus 51.429 for Abrams.
Neither hero is strictly better — they fit different roles. Kelvin is a Brawler and Abrams is a Brawler, so the right pick depends on your team composition, the enemy draft, and which playstyle you are comfortable with. Check the win rates on our tier list for the current patch.