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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

A build attempting to keep turrets viable.

Item Build

1

Lane - You'll have to play a little gun heavy at the start to keep lane from collapsing. Get Mystic Slow as soon as you have your ult, it turns you into a horror story.

2

Mid Game - Farm and keep waves pushed while ult is on cooldown.

2) Turret Core

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Heroic Aura

Good for tank and support utility, otherwise delayable

Deadlock Item

IV

Imbue

Active

Echo Shard

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

Deadlock Item

III

Rapid Recharge

Delay for Row 3 items as needed

3

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

3) Anti-Bullet

Deadlock Item

II

Suppressor

Okay as an early counter/jungling item, but consider replacing with disarm, juggernaut, or curse later.

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.

3) Anti-Spirit

Deadlock Item

IV

Witchmail

Cooldown!

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

III

Stamina Mastery

Das shmoves.

Deadlock Item

IV

Lightning Scroll

Natural mystic slow upgrade

Deadlock Item

IV

Transcendent Cooldown

Buy this once you have two or more items that can benefit, usually Heroic Aura + something else like Echo Shard or Torment Pulse.

Deadlock Item

IV

Boundless Spirit

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

Deadlock Item

IV

Healing Tempo

Good for specter, cheese with tesla + mystic regen

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

Active

Cultist Sacrifice

Get this if you lose lane somehow, use it for comeback farming

Deadlock Item

III

Hollow Point

Powerful PvE tool, good for initiating fights/ambushes, too

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Debuff Remover

They bought Knockdown for you :O

Deadlock Item

III

Superior Duration

Better ult, better turrets, unnerf specter

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Colossus

Tank + Slow = Extreme situation control

Final Thoughts / Update Notes

January 2: Chat. They killed specter. Well, okay, "killed" might be a little harsh, but it was after playing a bunch of games post-nerf that I realized how much of a crutch it had been for me and my turrets. Meanwhile, ult is powerful again, and all the speed nerfs plus Heavy Barrage increased slow... yeah so this is a Turret + Ult build now, instead of Turret + Specter. This build is likely gonna see some major revisions over the next few days as the dust settles, so strap in.

Ability Point Order

Mini Turret

Medicinal Specter

Spectral Wall

Heavy Barrage

1

1

1

2

5

1

2

5

2

2

5

5