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McGinnis
Controls the battle with combat turrets

Precise placement is everything for McGinnis, whether she's creating a killzone or splitting the enemy team. She can help keep her team running making them hard to dislodge when entrenched.

McGinnis
Controls the battle with combat turrets

Precise placement is everything for McGinnis, whether she's creating a killzone or splitting the enemy team. She can help keep her team running making them hard to dislodge when entrenched.

Description

Spirit McGinnis with focus on backline turrets and supressing fire heavy barrage.

Item Build

1

Lane - Mystic Slow should be purchased just before you unlock Heavy Barrage and its AP1 upgrade. That gives you a $1600 budget for items beforehand.

1) Lane

Survive until ult, combine with mystic slow and wall for ez kills

Deadlock Item

I

Monster Rounds

A large amount of the very early lane is Wave management and fast camp clearing.

Deadlock Item

I

Extra Spirit

For better Specter mostly, but good in all skills in a spirit build.

Deadlock Item

II

Mystic Slow

Pair with AP1 upgrade on Heavy Barrage. Good wall-off plus this = easy/free kill in lane

Deadlock Item

II

Improved Spirit

Boundless Spirit is an important purchase later on, and this is a good stepping stone to it.

Deadlock Item

I

Extra Charge

Turrets are weak and rely on force multipliers, like simply having more of them.

Deadlock Item

I

Imbue [E]

Mystic Expansion

Only strictly necessary if the enemy has a lot of long range / flying types

Deadlock Item

II

Recharging Rush

BUDGET. ECHO SHARD. LET'S FREAKIN GO.

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Heroic Aura

4800 orange boost, + much better turrets and stronger lane pushing w/ troopers

2

Mid Game - Farm and keep waves pushed while ult is on cooldown. Place turrets in your rear and suppress the enemy with ult -- let gunners worry about objective.

2) Turret Wants

Delay for (3) when necessary

Deadlock Item

II

Imbue [E]

Compress Cooldown

Get for turret or specter.

Deadlock Item

III

Superior Cooldown

Fairly delayable unless you're doing a lot of ulting or Item use

Deadlock Item

II

Spirit Lifesteal

Eat ur greems

Deadlock Item

II

Imbue [E]

Duration Extender

In case you wanna max Specter earlier

Deadlock Item

III

Superior Duration

Better ult, better turrets, unnerf specter

2) Turret Core

Deadlock Item

III

Rapid Recharge

It's all about the turret spam, baby, go turrets, love the turrets, go Knicks

Deadlock Item

III

Greater Expansion

BEEG ULT, BEEG SPECTER, SNIPER TURRET

Deadlock Item

IV

Imbue [E]

Active

Echo Shard

MOAR TURRET. MOAR EVERYTHING. DROWN THE CITY IN SENTRIES. BWAHAHAHA

3

Situational Counters: Pick as neededed, otherwise go to 4.

3) Anti-Bullet

Deadlock Item

III

Escalating Resilience

Shoot them while they shoot you and win

Deadlock Item

IV

Plated Armor

The omega Anti-Haze item. And Infernus. And Mirage. and Mina.

Deadlock Item

IV

Juggernaut

Upgrade from Suppressor if you have it, also good vs Kelvin and good for ulting

3) Anti-Spirit

Deadlock Item

III

Spirit Resilience

Get early if they're running heavy spirit damage

Deadlock Item

IV

Witchmail

This is your cooldown item if you're building Tanky instead of damage

Deadlock Item

IV

Spellbreaker

Anti-burst with a touch of cc resist

3) Anti-Melee

Deadlock Item

III

Point Blank

Great get for frontlining and jungling

Deadlock Item

III

Torment Pulse

Stacks well with other tank items and to use against melee-heavy frontliners like Billy

4

Late Game - Grab these when not shopping from 3.

4) Finishers

Sell lower tier items if you're out of space

Deadlock Item

IV

Transcendent Cooldown

Once you have at least two items with cooldown, this is great.

Deadlock Item

IV

Lightning Scroll

Natural mystic slow upgrade

Deadlock Item

IV

Boundless Spirit

The big "I wanna do obnoxious damage" and "hoLY that specter is HUGE" investment

Deadlock Item

IV

Healing Tempo

Combine with specter and heroic aura for omega turret damage

EGO

For questions or feedback, find me on the Deadlock discord or twitch.tv/zippydasquirrel

Current Experiments

Items I'm playing with this current patch to see how viable they are

Deadlock Item

III

Berserker

Stack with greens, be a tank!

Deadlock Item

III

Tesla Bullets

why u hate turret? anyway get this instead u monster

Final Thoughts / Update Notes

18 Feb: Fixed a mistake in the "buying order" of Mystic Reach. If you buy L>R you should now have it online just before the turret range skill upgrade. Also swapped out Extra Regen for Monster Rounds -- I feel like I'm losing lanes by not pushing troopers hard enough. \\\\\ 15 Feb: Extended Mag was a mistake. More emphasis on building to Boudnless Spirit. \\\\\ 11 Feb: Typo corrections, minor Phase 1 item reorder. \\\\\ 7 Feb: Made adjustments to ensure slot space efficiency, added additional annotations based on feedback. Graves is fun.

Ability Point Order

Mini Turret

Medicinal Specter

Spectral Wall

Heavy Barrage

1

1

1

1

2

5

2

5

2

2

5

5

1

1

1

1

2

5

2

2

5

5

2

5

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