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McGinnis Spirit build: Elendilli - GIGA ULT BUILD + INFINITE TURRETS (V5)

Win rate49.6%
Matches139
Hero win rate47.8%
Core cost53,600

In-game build ID: 258863 v184In Deadlock, open this hero's builds, search for this ID and import it.

Early game

Early Mid
  1. Intensifying Magazine

    1,600 souls · Buy if you think that you can get away with gun in the lane. Your goal when you buy this is you will shoot the enemy a lot with your gun + t

  2. Extra Charge

    800 souls · In lane use them to shove wave. YOu can now spawn turrets to push the wave unlike before because we have so many charges from the T2 upgrade

  3. Extra Stamina

    800 souls · Game changer of an item in lane. Extra stamina alone can let you play like a 3 stamina Hero. Builds into Arcane Surge.

  4. Arcane Surge

    1,600 souls · Arcane Surge before using Ult and Heal (if maxed, otherwise don't bother) and late game for turrets, especially effective during base defens

  5. Mystic Slow

    1,600 souls · Slows down enemies hit by wall and turrets even more allowing your ally or your ultimate to deal more consistent damage. Builds into Lightni

  6. Mystic Expansion

    800 souls · Imbued on ultimate by default to make the AoE gigantic. Remember to buy Compress CDR on ult if it's on cooldown before this.

  7. Enchanter's Emblem

    1,600 souls · S tier item this patch because spirit damage is META. This provides offensive and defensive bonuses the best of both worlds + CDR.

  8. Enduring Speed

    1,600 souls · Our best item for mobility during ultimate. A must buy item if doing ult build. Remember, you can climb stuff then mantle boost during ult w

Situational

Situational Lane
  1. Extra Regen

    800 souls

  2. Monster Rounds

    800 souls · PUSH WAVE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE.

Late game

Mid Late
  1. Compress Cooldown

    1,600 souls · Buy this to lower ULT CD. Make sure you buy it BEFORE you ult because it won't lower CDR if ULT is on cooldown anymore (it used to).

  2. Mystic Vulnerability

    1,600 souls · Buy early to apply your third debuff when spirit damage is applied via mainly ultimate, but turrets and wall can too. Your teammates also be

  3. Escalating Exposure

    6,400 souls · Escalating is better than Boundless after exactly 4.23s of gaining stacks (6 stacks) without any time lag inbetween. Boundless for this test

  4. Stamina Mastery

    3,200 souls · Allows you to air dash move across the map & scale buildings or maneuver your ult against close range enemies with more air dashes, jumps et

  5. Greater Expansion

    3,200 souls · Buy when you want ULT SPLASH AOE BIGGER (THEY CANT JUMP) + turrets to have very high ability range to attack from very far distances. Also a

  6. Duration Extender

    1,600 souls · Extremely efficient duration for its cost on Ult. Allows you to have significant Ult uptime. Remember to pair it with Unstoppable and/or Ind

  7. Superior Duration

    3,200 souls · Buy this generally to make items like Unstoppable last longer so that you have more ult uptime.

  8. Unstoppable

    6,400 souls · Buy when enemies keep stunning you out of your ult. ALWAYS use unstoppable before ulting. Sometimes use METAL SKIN before ulting too. Pairs

  9. Refresher

    6,400 souls · Buy when you have placed all your turrets/heal and YOU are about to end the game. Place another batch of turrets and another ultimate. Good

  10. Boundless Spirit

    6,400 souls · This is the 2nd best power increase you can buy in the game while Escalating Exposure is the 1st for 6400 items. Remember that you will get

  11. Superior Cooldown

    3,200 souls · 1) Hits the last breakpoint for spirit power investment (with all listed items AND rapid recharge), 2) Buy when doing midboss or defending.

Situational

Lightning Scroll / Heroic Aura / Utility (Not required, opti
  1. Lightning Scroll

    6,400 souls · Buy ONLY if enemies have channeled spells like Dynamo Ult, Haze ult, Mo&K Ult, Seven Ult (before he ults) etc.. This item becomes less worth

  2. Heroic Aura

    3,200 souls · Fire rate for turrets. Indespensible for wall max 1st or turrets during MIDBOSS or BASE DEFENSE. Remember to spread turrets the AoE for Hero

  3. Healbane

    1,600 souls · Buy this when nobody on your team has Healbane and you desperately need anti-heal. Turrets and ult even wall can apply this.

  4. Rapid Recharge

    3,200 souls · We have 2 charges on T2 turrets now so this isn't exactly required all the time now. It will take a long time to place x5 turrets while it c

  5. Alchemical Fire

    3,200 souls · OUR WAVE/LANE/TROOPER CLEAR IS SOOOO BAD that this item is OKAY for big waves but it works for ur team. And we can use it before ulting for

  6. Indomitable

    6,400 souls · This will basically make you immortal during your ult vs stuns (if no unstop). It is hard to justify buying both this and Unstop. If Lash ul

  7. Metal Skin

    3,200 souls · Buy this against Heroes like Vyper or Haze ult. With Transcendent Cooldown, Metal Skin is 14 cd which is very low. Superior Duration increas

  8. Healing Nova

    3,200 souls · If you have Healing Tempo you can give your allies AND TURRETS the TEMPO buff without using Healing Specter.

  9. Healing Booster

    1,600 souls · Good. From 2% heal to 2.4% heal.

  10. Healing Tempo

    6,400 souls · Buy this to ultra buff turret fire rate especially in areas like Midboss or other areas where you have setup turrets. Healing Nova can also

  11. Transcendent Cooldown

    6,400 souls · Superior Cooldown does the job just fine. The only time you consider TransCD is when you need item cooldowns.

Situational

Situational
  1. Close Quarters

    800 souls · Buy first in lane sometimes over Monster Rounds for more direct HERO damage so less damage to troopers and guardian overall, but more Hero p

  2. Fleetfoot

    1,600 souls · 1) Hit 4800, 2) Move around the map really fast + no speed loss for box/statue maxxing. 3) Remember to activate Fleetfoot before using ULT (

  3. Active Reload

    1,600 souls · Reload with lifesteal. Buy this sometimes along with Intensifying Mag to play gun in lane to have more lane presence (and objective damage).

  4. Cultist Sacrifice

    3,200 souls · Buy this for wave clear and not for the Ablity Range. Very good item I buy it cuz I often heavy melee + shoot the waves often and still take

  5. Trophy Collector

    1,600 souls · If you think you can get away with it. this item becomes worse in higher level games unfortunately.

  6. Reactive Barrier

    1,600 souls · This was an item you could buy late game if you had 1600 and an open slot for the next fight, but now it also has an upgrade that is REALLY

  7. Spirit Lifesteal

    1,600 souls · If you think that you need spirit lifesteal during ult to leech more because you are tanking hits from enemies, buy this.

  8. Debuff Reducer

    1,600 souls · You are buying this for unstoppable anyway, but if you buy it earlier, know that you can do things like once lash slams you with ult, you ca

  9. Spirit Resilience

    3,200 souls · We usually don't need this item unless the enemy team has 5 or more spirit Heroes.

  10. Veil Walker

    3,200 souls · its a secret

  11. Counterspell

    3,200 souls · Sometimes you need counterspell for Lash ult (he can hold his ult sometimes to bypass Counterspell) or just in general against other forms o

  12. Warp Stone

    3,200 souls · Warp stone is very good for scaling buildings or getting out of bad situations. Can go further depending on ability range items as well.

  13. Cheat Death

    6,400 souls · Buy when you need to cast all your spells before dying. Cheat death duration can also be increased with duration items to ensure you cast AL

  14. Juggernaut

    6,400 souls · Good if you have too much money and no slots.

  15. Golden Goose Egg

    800 souls · Buy after shoving the wave (dont always buy 1st think ok). Basically USE/HATCH AFter min 10:01 for MAXIMUM value (buffs upgrade at 10:00). G

  16. Suppressor

    1,600 souls · Sometimes you want less firerate via turret but I wouldn't recommend this for ult-maxxing most of the time b/c slots are already limited. If

  17. Slowing Hex

    1,600 souls · Buy against enemies like Wraith or Dynamo or Stamina abusers like Celeste to prevent them from escaping which essentially forces them to mak

  18. Decay

    3,200 souls · Sometimes the game is about to end whether you win / lose or a critical fight and you just so happen to have 3200 + need anti heal. Decay so

  19. Spirit Burn

    6,400 souls · Buy when you need severe anti-heal and they have no sign of debuff remover. You can't reliaby target whoever you want with spirit burn unles

  20. Vortex Web

    6,400 souls · Vortex enemies, press unstoppable if you grabbed a few, ult them.

  21. Scourge

    6,400 souls · Pretty strong item these past few patches. Use on ally or yourself. Inside heal ur basically taking zero from spirit

  22. Cursed Relic

    6,400 souls · Hatecrime someone.

Ability order

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

Author's notes

Full Guide: youtube.com/watch?v=YGkB3pHe088 (made half a year ago so some parts outdated but info is still relevant). (There is a Heroic Aura version of this build use search). Twitch.tv/Elendilli rare streams If you have questions, ask me @Elendilli in the Official Deadlock Discord in the #McGinnis channel. This build focuses on maxing ultimate which deals infinity damage (Midboss/Enemy base is our best place to use it). Turrets are secondary to ult but turrets still scale really well into mid/late game

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