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DeadlockDeadlock Lady Geist Guide and Overview

In this Deadlock Lady Geist guide, you’ll learn the fundamentals of her abilities, unique play styles, and fundamental tips.

Lady Geist's hero tags are: Lifesteal, Self Damage, Fatale

Voice Actor: Abigail Marlowe

Deadlock Lady Geist Overview

Lady Geist is essentially Deadlock’s vampire or Warlock character, with a theme that includes using her own Health to cast her abilities and being able to drain the life of her opponents.

Her signature Soul Exchange ultimate makes her a massive 1v1 threat as she can swap Health level with her target, turning an otherwise sticky situation into her favor.

Lore

Once, Lady Jeanne Geist was the toast of the town. But as time passed and her beauty faded she found herself further and further from her glory days in High Society until finally she was nothing more than a frail woman in a nursing home, telling stories of a glorious past. And that's when Oathkeeper revealed himself. A powerful spirit from another plane, Oathkeeper offered her a path to reclaim her past glories... he could restore her youth; all she had to do was drain the essence of the living to sustain herself.

Geist was torn. Obviously murder was ghoulish business, and undoubtedly Oathkeeper was not an entity that could be trusted... but still, the thought of having a second chance of reliving her youth was too good to pass up. And so she concocted a plan: after making a pact with Oathkeeper she would bind and ward him, limiting his influence and pull over her. Oathkeeper would still get fed; but on her terms, not his.

However, as years have turned to decades; the strength of the Ward has weakened, and Oathkeeper hungers more than he ever has in the past...

Strengths and Weaknesses Summary

Great duelist
Great sustain with Life Drain and Soul Exchange.
Can poke down enemies with Essence Bomb and Malice

Slow rate of fire
Ultimate is hard to use in team fights
Abilities cost HP

Deadlock Lady Geist Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths

One of the best duelists, making her a great split pusher.
Can make major reversal plays in clutch moments.
Low cooldowns on spammable poke abilities. Active Reload

Weaknesses

Slow rate of fire on primary weapon, so you need to make your shots count.
Can struggle in big teamfights as her ult is easier to play around.
Since your skillshot abilities cost health, mobile matchups can be difficult.

Deadlock Lady Geist Abilities

Underlined = Scales with Spirit

Essence Bomb (1)
Sacrifice some of your health to launch a bomb that deals damage after a brief arm time. Self damage type is Spirit and can be mitigated.
7m Radius	90 Damage	14s Cooldown
0.6s Arming Duration	30 Self Damage

Essence Bomb (1)

Essence Bomb

Sacrifice some of your health to launch a bomb that deals damage after a brief arm time. Self damage type is Spirit and can be mitigated.

7m Radius

90 Damage

14s Cooldown

0.6s Arming Duration

30 Self Damage

Essence Bomb Upgrades
1 AP	2 AP	5 AP
-5s Cooldown	+55 Damage, +2m Radius	Bombs leave a toxic mess on the ground, dealing 30% of the original damage per second, for 6s.

Maxing Essence Bomb emphasizes Lady Geist's AoE capabilities, giving her bombs a larger radius, more damage, and even a DoT toxic pool.

Tips for Essence Bomb

Essence Bomb can stick to walls and ceilings and will explode around it to anything in its visualized circle before you cast.
You can often hit enemies behind cover if the circle wraps around it.

Life Drain (2)
Causes a tether that drains enemy health over time and heals you. Target must be in line of sight and within max range to drain. You can shoot and use other abilities during the drain, but your movement speed is reduced by half. Press [2] to cancel.
18m Range	2.5s Duration	34s Cooldown
28m Max Tether Range	32 Damage per Second	100% Damage to Heal

Life Drain (2)

Life Drain

Causes a tether that drains enemy health over time and heals you. Target must be in line of sight and within max range to drain. You can shoot and use other abilities during the drain, but your movement speed is reduced by half. Press [2] to cancel.

18m Range

2.5s Duration

34s Cooldown

28m Max Tether Range

32 Damage per Second

100% Damage to Heal

Life Drain Upgrades
1 AP	2 AP	5 AP
+18 Damage Per Second	+2.5s Duration	Ability becomes charged and grants +2 Charge

Maxing Life Drain gives Lady Geist more durability and is a solid choice into close range and melee matchups. Its upgrades include more DPS, longer duration, and even a SIlence.

Tips for Life Drain

Life Drain decreases your walking speed, but you can make up for it with the usual universal movement options like Dashes, Dash Jumps, and Slides. Make sure you’re well-practiced with those techniques to keep your tethers connected.

Malice (3)
Sacrifice some of your health to launch blood shards that apply a stack of Malice. Each stack slows the victim and increases the damage they take from you. The slow effect decreases over time.
3 Blood Shards	5 Max Stacks	6s Cooldown
9s Debuff Duration	23 Health to Damage	4s Slow Duration
7% Damage Amp per Stack	15% Move Slow per Stack

Malice Upgrades
1 AP	2 AP	5 AP
-3s Cooldown	+28 Damage and +4 Blood Shards	+8% Damage Amp

Maxing Malice lets you spam it more often, increases its potency, and increases the number of shards in its fan projectile.

Tips for Malice

If you are sure you can land an your ultimate (Soul Exchange), you can use Malice to decrease your own HP.

Soul Exchange (4)
Swaps health levels with an enemy target. There is a minimum health percentage that enemies can be brought down to and a minimum amount of health received based on victims current health.
5.5m Range	0.1s Cast Time	190s Cooldown
30% Enemy Min Health	30% Min Health Received

Soul Exchange (4)

soul exchange

Swaps health levels with an enemy target. There is a minimum health percentage that enemies can be brought down to and a minimum amount of health received based on victims current health.

5.5m Range

0.1s Cast Time

190s Cooldown

30% Enemy Min Health

30% Min Health Received

Soul Exchange Upgrades
1 AP	2 AP	5 AP
-60s Cooldown	Silences enemies within 25m for 3s	On Cast: +60 Spirit Power, +40% Fire Rate and +50% Spirit Resistance for 8s

Maxing Soul Exchange lets you cast it more often, makes the swap more potent in terms of Enemy Minimum Health, and even grants you buffs to Fire Rate and Spirit Resist on the final level up.

Tips for Soul Exchange

Tier 2 Soul Exchange silences nearby enemies, making it a great disruption tool in team fights.
Dash Jump is Lady Geist's best tool to get close to enemies and land Soul Exchange.

Lady Geist Build Guide

Check out best starter build for Lady Geist

Hero Overview

Weapon Stats

DPS	44
Bullet Damage	20.7
Ammo	9
Bullets per Second	2.12
Light Melee	50
Heavy Melee	116

Vitality Stats

Max Health	800
Health Regen	1
Bullet Resist	0%
Spirit Resist	0%
Move Speed	6.3 m/s
Sprint Speed	3 m/s
Stamina	3

How to Counter Lady Geist

Lady Geist's signature ultimate has short range, go into the Sandbox to get a feel for how close she needs to be to you.
Once she builds items that help her close a gap and ult more reliably, be careful engaging her 1v1.
She makes a good split pusher because of her dueling capability, but she's slower than other split pushers when it comes to actually killing objectives due to the nature of her left-click gun.