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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

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

2) Turret Core

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

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

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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