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Hybrid · Balanced between Weapon, Spirit and Vitality.

McGinnis Hybrid build: Elendilli - Infinite Gun Damage Solo Carry (V13)

Win rate50.6%
Matches83
Hero win rate47.8%
Core cost43,200

In-game build ID: 257951 v278In Deadlock, open this hero's builds, search for this ID and import it.

Early game

#Citadel_HeroBuilds_Lane
  1. Monster Rounds

    800 souls · Buy to clear trooper waves instantly. You can shoot the enemy after you kill all troopers. This is good vs characters that are strong laners

  2. Intensifying Magazine

    1,600 souls · Best damage item for McGinnis. The charge up (2.5s) doesn't matter to us since our gun is already charging up! You can save up 1600 at the s

  3. Extended Magazine

    800 souls · More ammo to shoot and later turns into Escalating Resilience for Bullet Resist too

  4. Rapid Rounds

    800 souls · WE have a lot of ammo so we get firerate to use that ammo thus dealing damage faster

  5. Quicksilver Reload

    1,600 souls · best reload item in the game. instantly reload

  6. Swift Striker

    1,600 souls · We have a lot of ammo so we get firerate to use that ammo thus dealing damage faster + sprint speed to move around + better damage to object

  7. Fleetfoot

    1,600 souls · Shoot without movespeed penalty (this is op). With enduring speed, slows basically don't faze us and god tier mobility

  8. Sprint Boots

    800 souls · can buy in lane if the lane is uninteractable so you can do some efficient box runs

  9. Enduring Speed

    1,600 souls · Move godspeed with Fleetfoot. You can chase down players and rotate to lanes / jungle camps faster thus you play faster + slow resist

Situational

Situational Lane
  1. Extra Regen

    800 souls · Too much harass from enemy (you are always less than 50% health). If you are lower than 15% health, just get Healing Rite.

  2. Extra Stamina

    800 souls · Buy during laning phase against Haze or Warden (they remove our stamina). We can sell this later. Helps us hit 4800 vit very important item

Late game

Mid/Late
  1. Bullet Lifesteal

    1,600 souls · lifesteal earlier if you plan to upgrade it into fury trance or vamp.

  2. Vampiric Burst

    6,400 souls · The most crucial 6000 item of the build. Provides massive lifesteal to turn the tables on the enemy and gigaburst them with your gun or give

  3. Split Shot

    1,600 souls · Buy after Vamp. Ensure you never miss while lifestealing from each enemy Hero. Also used to kill the flying assholes that keep jumping aroun

  4. Bullet Resist Shredder

    1,600 souls · brs proc with turrets and merc mag. You can buy this before Merc Mag if there is an important objective and u dont have enough money

  5. Mercurial Magnum

    6,400 souls · Infinte AMMO. This item scales with boons/levels. The higher your boons, the more damage you get from it. You don't need other spirit items

  6. Weakening Headshot

    1,600 souls · works on everything now. can buy earlier if shred is needed

  7. Spirit Resilience

    3,200 souls · Doubles up on resist due to how strong resist shred is in this game.

  8. Escalating Resilience

    3,200 souls · Resist + damage in one item. Efficient but also SKIPPABLE when you dont need much bullet resist

  9. Crippling Headshot

    6,400 souls · Increases damage taken from our gun, turrets, merc mag and inflicts much needed Anti-Heal. Shred also works for teammates. Incredibly slot e

Punish Escape Chars

  1. Slowing Hex

    1,600 souls · (THIS IS AN ACTIVE ITEM) Buy this to force DISPEL magics AND if they don't have DISPEL, they will easily die after wall + turrets. Cheap + S

  2. Slowing Bullets

    1,600 souls · (THIS IS A PASSIVE ITEM THAT BUILDS UP WHEN YOU USE GUN) Chase down enemies with THIS ITEM alongside your Fleetfoot and Enduring Speed item

Situational

Luxury
  1. Heroic Aura

    3,200 souls · Buy with Fleetfoot to become racecar god. Mainly for resist on your teammates and turrets while active works on turrets too.

  2. Armor Piercer

    6,400 souls · Buy against %DAMAGE REDUCTION (IT PIERCES RAT KING ULT), BULLET EVASION, PLATED ARMOR or HIGH BULLET RES. **This item will help you lifestea

  3. Capacitor

    6,400 souls · CORRUPT THIS ITS BIG DPS.

  4. Ricochet

    6,400 souls · Buy if you can combo w/ team (Lash/Dynamo ult). Firerate is also a huge plus

  5. Spellslinger

    6,400 souls · The best item DPS wise in the game (Hard to use, but if you learn how its the best DPS item in the game). Items work for +1 stack too. "Comb

  6. Silencer

    6,400 souls · Buy when you have Ricochet and need more crowd control in silence and a passive -25% spirit damage debuff. Very useful utility buy if you ha

  7. Plated Armor

    6,400 souls · Tank up even more ontop of the bullet resist that we have. Even if enemies buy armor piercing rounds it doesn't completely negate the useful

  8. Inhibitor

    6,400 souls · Extremely good item for healing reduction and reducing enemy spirit + gun damage. Requires buildup but works like Toxic Bullets after buildu

  9. Debuff Reducer

    1,600 souls · Reduces debuffs on us. Helpful against stuns/cc and lets us cast wall earlier (like if lash ults you, before he slams you can wall). Pocket

  10. Unstoppable

    6,400 souls · Buy to survive against CC (like midboss pit against Dynamo you can safely contest with heal+unstop to punch/parry).

  11. Indomitable

    6,400 souls · Buy as a safety net. Lash ult / Haze sleeps / Abrams charge+ult / Mo Ult etc. It activates before stun. Works well w/ Counterspell (you can

Situational

Situational
  1. Close Quarters

    800 souls · buy vs calico/billy. More damage to Heroes in lane instead of Monster Rounds to shove wave. with wall trapping players w/ melee resist and m

  2. Rebuttal

    800 souls · buy vs calico/billy. The 30% bonus damage applies to ALL of our damage to EVERYTHING for 6 SECONDS including GUN so even mid-game if you par

  3. Extra Charge

    800 souls · apply a lot more turret pressure in lane. high tempo

  4. Battle Vest

    1,600 souls · if enemy has bullet damage in order of priority: Haze, Vyper, Wraith (in lane mostly gun), Warden, Drifter, Billy, Ivy and uncommon spirit h

  5. Spirit Shielding

    1,600 souls · Heroes like Seven, Pocket, GTalon, Viscous, Holliday, Kelvin (unless gun), Yamato,Mirage, Geist, Lash, Mina, Sinc, Shiv etc...

  6. Healbane

    1,600 souls · cheap anti-heal in desperate situations for early-mid game

  7. Stamina Mastery

    3,200 souls · I highly recommend you try to AIR DASH with this item instead of using ground dash. You get WAY more distance, especially if you chain two a

  8. Counterspell

    3,200 souls · Buy against Lash ult, Wraith ult etc... It works the same way Hazes' 2 maxed does but for spells. Lookup the full list on google.

  9. Fury Trance

    3,200 souls · You can buy this alongside Vampiric Burst just to have that extra firerate and spirit resist if you don't mind having another active button

  10. Dispel Magic

    3,200 souls · Sometimes necessary to buy against SILENCE, multiple DISARMS or more importantly SPIRIT BURNS which prevent us from healing. We can handle o

  11. Healing Tempo

    6,400 souls · Rare buy. You can buy this if you have reliable teammates and you want them to benefit from Heal. Pair with Expansion and Duration items (16

  12. Recharging Rush

    1,600 souls · You can buy this instead of Extended Mag but it cost 800 more. Gives you a turret spawn after dealing 200 gun dmg for consistent turret pres

  13. Weighted Shots

    3,200 souls

  14. Burst Fire

    3,200 souls · Cheap option when you cannot get SPELLSLINGER and just want the massive firerate.

  15. Hunter's Aura

    3,200 souls · Play sidelanes to get the most out of this item. Provides bullet resist shred up to 20% (if only 1 enemy Hero) or 10% (2+ enemy Hero). Paire

  16. Berserker

    3,200 souls · pair with blood tribute and u will reap the most benefits

  17. Blood Tribute

    3,200 souls · Extremely good item to prevent getting stunned or CCd by long duration stuns like Abrams charge. Item is also used to move around faster.

  18. Lucky Shot

    6,400 souls · Buy only when you have high amounts of weapon damage 200+ (Remember to count Berserker stacks manually). This item will give you insane extr

  19. Mystic Expansion

    800 souls · turret range is so far you can use it from the bridge to enemies guardians (turrets have fall off so they wont deal full dmg).

  20. Compress Cooldown

    1,600 souls · Constantly fight with Heal CDR

  21. Duration Extender

    1,600 souls · You can stay longer on your heal if it is maxed early and just commit. Hits 4800 earlier than QsR too.

  22. Rapid Recharge

    3,200 souls · Many turrets. Setup in advance.

Junkyard (niche / not used often / Recycle for another patch

  1. Titanic Magazine

    1,600 souls · Lets you shoot endlessly without needing to reload.

  2. Active Reload

    1,600 souls · If you buy Active Reload, pair it with Intensifying Mag completely skipping Extended/Titanic Mag. Titanic Mag is mainly for newer players to

  3. Toxic Bullets

    3,200 souls · Often needed due to lack of anti heal on team. Pairs well with Healbane for -55% enemy heal reduction for cheap.

  4. Tesla Bullets

    3,200 souls · Optimal for early wallbreaking anti-tank power. Later becomes a DEBUFF machine against enemies with BRS & Healbane (Urn fighter). Faster jun

  5. Frenzy

    6,400 souls · Debuffs wear off way faster. More of a tanky item and we move really fast too.

  6. Glass Cannon

    6,400 souls · not very good too expensive relies on stacks more than the base stats it gives. maybe corrupted is worth

  7. Colossus

    6,400 souls · When you need resists ASAP. This version of Deadlock is spirit bursty so we build tanky and if they go on us, they have to waste a lot of re

  8. Golden Goose Egg

    800 souls · Basically USE/HATCH after minute 10:01 for MAXIMUM value (buffs upgrade at 10:01). Hold until you need to buy an important item then pop egg

  9. Suppressor

    1,600 souls · Efficient item to hinder enemy fire rate

  10. Mystic Slow

    1,600 souls · procs from tesla. works on turrets too. not terrible, but not slot efficient

  11. Cursed Relic

    6,400 souls · Buy against near unkillable targets that always use mobility to get out (Pocket, Wraith etc).

  12. Leech

    6,400 souls · Turrets + Merc Mag give a lot of lifesteal/spiritsteal. It feels pretty decent while becoming super tanky.

  13. Spellbreaker

    6,400 souls · Buy when you need 1) Spirit Resist & 2) Debuff Resist and spirit resist & 3) Have a lot of money to spend. Debuff Resist is for annoying thi

  14. Siphon Bullets

    6,400 souls

  15. Juggernaut

    6,400 souls · Buy when u have no slots and need firerate reduction against m1s. would recommend Plated Armor first though. Combos well w/ Suppressor

Ability order

  1. 1Mini Turret+1
  2. 2Mini Turret+2
  3. 3Spectral Wall+1
  4. 4Medicinal Specter+1
  5. 5Heavy Barrage+1
  6. 6Mini Turret+3
  7. 7Medicinal Specter+2
  8. 8Spectral Wall+2
  9. 9Spectral Wall+3
  10. 10Spectral Wall+4
  11. 11Mini Turret+4
  12. 12Medicinal Specter+3
  13. 13Medicinal Specter+4
  14. 14Heavy Barrage+2
  15. 15Heavy Barrage+3
  16. 16Heavy Barrage+4

Author's notes

Twitch.tv/Elendilli | Youtube This build has a similar feeling to the 'Solo Carry' build 2+ years ago. If you have questions, ask me @Elendilli in the Official Deadlock Discord in the #McGinnis channel. Took inspiration from one of the builds Zerggy was running & after testing it for 2 months, it's ready. Modified it to be more efficient + streamlined (L to R) and also annotated EVERYTHING for players who want more specific information. This is a high tempo/aim heavy build so good luck.

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