In the darkest corners of Deadlock, this lady goes by the name Geist and is a fusion of ghostly elegance with raw energy. With spectral powers and cunning strategy, she’s a leading lady on the battlefield, shifting the balance of any encounter with an otherworldly aura. To be able to realize Lady Geist’s potential fully, one would need to use a build that amplifies not just one’s strengths but covers her weaknesses.

Strategy to Fight with Lady Geist

With Lady Geist, the true potential of her abilities in Deadlock is fully realized when you apply a strategy to it that takes full advantage of each ability’s strengths and synergizes them into powerful combinations. The following is one step-by-step approach to using these abilities together.

Engage Malice

Start with Malice, which applies stacks of Malice on your target. This is a blood shard that launches forward, slowing enemies and giving you great amplification to deal damage against them. This will soften up opponents and create the playground needed for using your other abilities. Spend points on upgrading Malice because it will make this ability even more brutal:

• Level 2: Adds +40 health to the damage, making each stack more impactful.
• Level 3: Launches 6 blood shards, increasing the number of stacks you can apply and enhancing the slow effect.

Apply Life Drain

Once applied to a target with Malice, feel free to use Life Drain. You’ll create a tether that will siphon health off them and onto you, healing yourself in the process. This also benefits from the Malice stacks by amplifying the damage they take. Upgrade Life Drain to receive the following benefits:

• Level 1: Empower for greater damage per second to siphon more health.
• Level 2: Increase the length of the drain; it will increase the time you can keep healing and dealing damage inside.
• Level 3: Silences the enemy while draining his health.

Use Soul Exchange

Soul Exchange swaps your health with that of an enemy in dire situations. It is probably the most powerful ability in Lady Geist’s arsenal. When applied with Malice and Life Drain, the tide of a battle would surely change. Soul Exchange will gain upgraded effects:

• Level 1: Reduced cooldown allows for more frequent use of it.
• Level 2: The minimum health percentage set on enemies lowers, which makes executing the swap much easier.
• Level 3: Increased firing rate, and spirit resistance for 8 seconds after casting; which will enable your offense and defense during and after the health exchange.

Use Essence Bomb

If Lady Geist gets weakened from enemy Malice, Life Drain, and perhaps Soul Exchange, use Essence Bomb to blow them away. This instantly does damage, this bomb-if upgraded leaves a foul smear in the ground that poisons and further hurts enemies that remain caught within its area. Upgrade to:

• Level 1: Increase bomb radius
• Level 2: Increase bomb damage.
• Level 3: Attach a damage-over-time effect to further pressure the enemy after the initial explosion.

Lady Geist Ability Breakdown for Maximum Impact

Begin with Malice, a basic attack that applies stacks and debuff. Then with Life Drain, you will further weaken the target and heal yourself in the process. Follow up with the Soul Exchange that will give you health swapping with additional bonuses. Use Essence Bomb for high burst damage, leaving toxic damage afterward.

Tier 1 and 2 Items Early Purchase

If you want Lady Geist to have stronger shots, try to get the Headshot Booster first then the Mystic Burst. Headshot Booster will give bonus headshot damage and your abilities will do more damage with Mystic Burst.  After that, get a few vitality items to become more durable against any damage coming your way. And then finish the rest of the weapon items. If you don’t feel as confident landing hits on people then go for vitality items first.

• Tier 1 Weapon Item – Headshot Booster:   +5 percent fire rate. +40 bullet shield health. Deals bonus weapon damage with headshots.
• Tier 1 Spirit Item – Mystic Burst:   +40 spirit shield health, +6 percent weapon damage. Abilities deal bonus spirit damage if they deal more than 80 damage in a single hit.
• Tier 2 Weapon Item – Beserker:  +4 ammo, +8 percent bullet resist. Weapon damage increases as you take sustained damage.
• Tier 2 Weapon Item – Fleetfoot: +75 health, +25 percent slide distance. Removes movement speed penalty while shooting.
• Tier 2 Vitality Item – Combat Barrier:  +300 bullet shield health. While you have a bullet shield, gain weapon damage.
• Tier 2 Vitality Item – Healbane: +75 bonus health. Spirit damage applies healing reduction, and if the enemy dies you receive a large heal.
• Tier 2 Vitality Item – Enduring Speed: +1.4m/s move speed, +2m/s sprint speed, +75 bonus health, +1.5 health regeneration. Reduces the effect of enemy movement slow.
• Tier 2 Spirit Item – Slowing Hex: +1m/s sprint speed, +5 spirit power. Deals spirit damage and slows targets movement and dashes. Also silences their movement-based items and abilities.  Does not affect target stamina usage.
• Tier 2 Spirit Item – Bullet Resist Shredder: +100 bonus health, +5 percent bullet resist. Reduces bullet resistance on enemies when you do spirit damage.

All of these items will help you continue to do massive damage with your weapon and give your abilities some damage also.  You will also sustain yourself with some healing.

Tier 3 and 4 Items Late Game Purchase

You can get Flex Slots last or earlier in the late game depending on how many items you have already and if your team has unlocked the slots from destroying the enemies’ defenses.  Follow these in order from tier 3 to 4.  If you get into the Flex slots go for the Tier 4 Lucky Shot Weapon Item first to do bonus damage and slow on hit.  This will allow you to dominate while shooting your opponents.

• Tier 3 Vitality Item – Fortitude: 275 Bonus health, after not taking damage for 12 seconds, gain 4 percent max health regeneration.
• Tier 3 Spirit Item – Mystic Slow: 100 Bonus health, 3 health regeneration, 6 spirit power.  When the target takes spirit damage they have their movement speed and fire rate reduced.
• Tier 4 Weapon Item – Crippling Headshot: 20 percent weapon damage, 10 percent bullet lifesteal, 10 percent spirit lifesteal. Headshots reduce targets bullet and spirit resists.
• Tier 4 Flex Slot Weapon Item – Lucky Shot: +30 percent ammo. Your bullets have a chance to be empowered, causing them to do bonus damage and slow on hit.
• Tier 3 Flex Slot Weapon Item – Point Blank: +15 percent bullet resist, +1 stamina. When in close range to your target, gain weapon damage and your bullets apply a weapon slow.
• Tier 3 Flex Slot Vitality Item – Improved Spirit Armor: +45 percent spirit resist, +8 spirit power.
• Tier 3 Flex Slot Vitality Item – Improved Bullet Armor: +45 percent bullet resist, +10 percent weapon damage.

These items will allow you to devastate enemies with headshot damage and slow them so they cannot get away from your follow-up abilities.  You will also receive more resistance from damage to sustain you in the fight.

Additional Tips

Position Lady Geist’s line of sight for Life Drain. She will cause enemy players’ movement to slow down.  You can also time a Soul Exchange for health recovery or capitalizing on weakened opponents. Placing an Essence Bomb in an area is perfect for crowd control. The toxins can push enemies into disadvantageous positions. In doing so, one can capitalize on the full potential of Lady Geist in efficiently bringing down enemies and controlling the battlefield.

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