DeadlockDeadlock Lady Geist Guide and 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.

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.

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.

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	100 Damage	10.5s CD
0.5s Arming Duration	30 Self Damage

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.
20m Range	2s Duration	42s CD
30m Max Tether Range	35 Damage per Second

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 does decrease 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	6.25s CD
16s Debuff Duration	32 Health to Damage	6s Slow Duration
15% Damage Amp per Stack	20% Move Slow per Stack

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

Tips for Malice

• In a situation where you want to decrease your health to set up for a Soul Exchange, this is the fastest method to do so.

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.
7m Range	0.2s Cast Time	170s
30% Enemy Min Health	30% Min Health Received

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

• If you’re having trouble getting in close enough range to land Soul Exchange, master the art of the Dash Jump and consider buying items like Warp Stone.