McGinnis

Places a small automated turret that fires Spirit Damage at nearby enemies for a limited lifetime. Turrets deal reduced damage to troopers and objectives.

Purpose: Free area denial and chip damage she does not have to aim. In lane they secure the wave and punish anyone who walks into her half; in fights they add damage she keeps producing while reloading.

Damage

24 DPS per turret with 100 turret health (deadlock.one). T1 adds +10 turret DPS and +10m attack range; T3 adds +25% turret fire rate and +12s lifetime. A June 2026 patch reduced turret damage. Against troopers a turret does 65% damage, and its health grows by 10 per boon (Game data, 30 October 2026).

Defensive

Turrets act as a tripwire and a damage sponge; they must be shot, which reveals the shooter.

How to play against it

• Shoot them. At 100 HP a turret dies to a fraction of a magazine or any AoE ability, and killing them costs her the charge for the full cooldown.
• Approach from outside turret attack range and force her to re-place them under pressure rather than pre-placed.
• Turrets are static: break line of sight behind a pillar and they stop contributing entirely.

Interactions

• Spectral Wall T3 automatically deploys 2 Mini Turrets near the wall for 8s, which is the real turret spike.
• Turret damage is spirit, so Spirit Power items scale them; her standard build (Mystic Expansion Mystic Expansion 800 souls Tier 1TechPassive +20% Ability Range +20% Radius , Boundless Spirit) is built around that.
• 100 HP means any AoE or a couple of rifle bullets clears them.

Summons a spirit at a location that heals McGinnis and nearby allies for a duration.

Purpose: The reason she can hold a lane or a choke indefinitely. It turns a defensive stand into a war of attrition she wins, and later becomes a full team sustain and spirit-resist station.

Damage

No damage. Heals +25/sec (deadlock.one).

Mobility

None, though T2 grants +100% stamina recovery inside it.

Defensive

Primary defensive tool; at T3 it also gives +2% max HP regen, +3m radius and +40% Spirit Resist to everyone inside.

How to play against it

• Apply anti-heal (Healbane / Toxic Bullets Toxic Bullets 3,200 souls Tier 3WeaponPassive -40% Incoming Healing ) before committing; the specter is a heal-over-time, so reducing the rate breaks the attrition math rather than the burst.
• The specter is placed at a fixed point — force the fight to move, or displace her out of it (a Bebop hook or a Paradox swap drags her off her own healing).
• Attacking from a flank that makes her step out of the radius to return fire wins the trade for free.

Interactions

• T3's +40% Spirit Resist inside the zone makes it a hard counter to spirit-burst ultimates dropped on her team.
• T2's stamina recovery lets a team dash-reset out of a bad engage from inside the zone.
• Anti-heal items applied to the allies standing in it blunt the whole thing.

Projects a barrier of spirit panels that slows enemies who pass through it, and can be detonated early to split the terrain and damage anything nearby.

Purpose: A zone-control tool: it cuts a fight in half, denies a chase, blocks a dive route, or traps someone on the wrong side of it.

Damage

60 damage on eruption (deadlock.one).

Crowd control

Slow on anyone passing through, increased by +24% at T3. Not a Hard CC, but it functions as a full movement denial for heroes without a blink.

Defensive

Blocks line of sight and physical pathing; it is how she survives having zero movement abilities.

How to play against it

• Melee it. Spectral Wall panels break to melee attacks, and a heavy melee opens a hole faster than walking around.
• Blink, teleport or displacement ignores it outright — Pocket's Flying Cloak, Mirage's Traveler and Paradoxical Swap all bypass a wall.
• Pre-commit before she can place it; the wall is reactive, so the punish is engaging on the cooldown, not through the wall.
• Note where she is standing relative to the wall and approach from the side she is NOT on.

Interactions

• Can be destroyed with melee attacks — this is the primary counterplay and many players forget it.
• T3 spawns 2 Mini Turrets near the wall for 8s, stacking her two zone tools into one button.
• It blocks the vertical approach lane Lash needs.

McGinnis unloads a continuous stream of rockets that home toward a designated location for a duration. She can keep moving during the cast, though her movement is slowed.

Purpose: Area denial as a win condition. It makes a chokepoint, an objective, or a downed team's escape route simply unstandable for several seconds, and forces a retreat even when it does not kill.

Damage

21 damage per rocket (deadlock.one). T3 adds +15 damage per rocket with increased spirit scaling.

Crowd control

T1 applies a 24% movement and dash slow for 1s to targets hit, which compounds with the barrage itself.

Mobility

She keeps moving and can use stamina during the channel, but is slowed.

How to play against it

• Leave the marked area immediately — the rockets home but the zone does not follow you, so lateral distance beats it every time.
• Do not try to fight through it toward her; that is exactly the trade the ability is priced for.
• She is slowed during the channel and cannot reposition quickly — this is a window to dive her personally.
• Break the Spectral Wall first if she has combined the two; barrage only kills when the exit is blocked.

Interactions

• Combos directly with Spectral Wall: wall the escape route, barrage the trapped side.
• T1's dash slow makes it much harder to dash out of the zone, which is the main escape.
• Because she stays mobile, she can barrage from behind cover.