I havent seen a single blatant cheater in 800h, but im also only ranked slightly above average. But i watch a lot of deadlock youtube stuff and from that it seems that even in high ranks its rare. Im sure there are closet cheaters and autoparry users, but i honestly havent had any experiences that made me think the enemy was cheating.

I think mean and griefing teammates are a much bigger concern than cheaters, but even in that regard i would say 9/10 games are without issue.

Super rare.

The couple times I've seen it, the whole lobby quickly turns against the player doing it.

It seems that even your own team turning hostile to you when you cheat in deadlock is a pretty good deterrent.

And once your team stops helping you, and you fall behind on farm, it doesnt matter how good your aimbot is, you die a lot.

Cheating in Deadlock is probably usually more map vision or wallhack type stuff. That's much more beneficial than automatic aim, and much harder to spot.

i remember seeing an exploit that allowed for resizing your character. If you scaled it down to negative numbers the character would flip upside down and be basically untargetable. But that was quite a long time ago and they patched it out.

I played about 1000 hours and saw one obvious cheater.

Havent seen a cheater ever