This video is amazing holy sh*t

Love the content

Found and watched the Mcginnis guide first but loved your in depth explanations so much i had to instant sub and check out this video as bebop was another character i was interested in. I know it must be a lot of work to make these vids but love the content, looking forward to anymore

Turret build is so much fun on McGinnis. You actually missed what I think is the most key component of the turret build, which is echo shard. Echo shard lets you instantly place 2 turrets instead of just 1. Also, each time you use echo shard, it adds +1 to your turret supply, so the turret economy is a lot easier to manage. Once you get this item the build feels incredibly strong. Another tip is that when you are doing turret build make sure to build heroic strike or aura or whatever it is. The passive ability is that your minions fire 40% faster, it may actually surprise you but your turrets are considered minions, and automatically get a 40% AS boost. Then the active adds 25% to you and all nearby allies, which also includes your turrets. So when you use the active, and have your healing spell on the ground, the turrets are firing like 5x a second, and they absolutely melt anyone who comes into their range. Final tip is when you are doing a turret build, your ultimate becomes an absolute terror since it scales incredibly well with spirit power. 3 seconds or so and you will melt almost anyone from full, and with its range you can catch people by surprise. my favorite thing to do when a team is pushing up the lane, in the mid - late game, is put out 2-3 turrets close to me, then launch a long range ultimate. many times the assassins will dive onto you and overextend into all of the turrets.

Very nice vid ty

Nice Guide. I'm terribly bad in shooting games and my aim is awful. But I keep winning with Mcginnis by split pusing and taking objectives. Even though I always feed on lane

Great vid. Keep up the good work pls <3

this is just perfect! thank you!!

Gerhold Land

Learning so much from these videos. Please keep them coming!

Rosalinda Manors

Bomba

Damn! The game is so changed since then!

Walker Cape

Great tutorial, love the examples! Maybe I should actually give this char another try..

I think a nerf to the hitscan gun is coming. Seems a bit strong

im trying the zoom in and out trick but i cant get it to work, everytime i let go of right click and try holding again it just zooms in again. am i missing something?

We need more guides please, Seven next

So as McGinnis im always assigned on a lane alone, and i have to confront enemies like Pocket, Yamato or Abrams which are very good at 1v1, and they wreck me to pieces, what am i doing wrong

I appreciate the guide! I've played quite a bit over the past 9ish days I've had access to the game and most of my hours are on McGinnis I'd say. I like what you said about the fog of war and the turrets. That's something that took me a bit to figure out in lane phase and it really does help keep up the lane pressure. Lane pressure is king in this game and the rev on her gun can make it hard in my opinion, which is where I disagree with you. Despite having a decently sized starting mag which allows you to sort of cycle and spray your bullets as you mentioned, her bullet velocity feels horrendous. A lot of laners will have faster bullet velocity than you which makes denying you pretty easy. The 500 weapon item for velocity is also worthless as the impact isn't really felt on this champ, I think due to the spray mechanic on her gun. In lane, you need to single hit orbs. Your first shot will always be straight in front of you so if you're fast you can just snipe orbs as opposed to spraying. Honestly, I think a good McGinnis laner would do a bit of both. There are times where spraying to last hit and secure an orb is good, but there are also times when single shotting is better. I think it's mostly feel, but single shotting to deny feels stronger. I have tried prioritizing my gun damage and, while your DPS is certainly absurdly high, I actually feel quite useless. Your DPS comes from a fully revved up gun. Yes, you can buy Heroic Aura and similar items to boost your fire rate, but at the end of the day you're relying on a long enough engagement to rev up and mow people down. The higher in MMR I've gotten the less reliable these engagements are. It takes some bearing down on you by Abrams in team fights and solo assassinations in a side lane, where you should succeed mind you, to come to terms with the identity of McGinnis. As McGinnis, you need to win every single 1v1 when an enemy engages on you and your turrets. The identity of the champ is to side lane and punish enemies in this fashion and occupy space in team fights for your team. You're a sort of side lane support. The best games I've had are by-and-far the games where I prioritized my turrets via items and spacing. When it comes to itemization, you need to be very careful when spending large sums of souls. Spending 3k will determine your power for the next inevitable fight. Maybe you get lucky and can farm another 3k or more, but in MOBAs there will always be inevitable fights and you need to itemize for them. In Deadlock you have 4 slots each for the specific item types, so when theory crafting itemization it's important to lock in those item choices first. For Weapon items, I believe the 4 items you should prioritize are Basic Mag, Slowing Bullets, Soul Shredder Bullets, and Heroic Aura. Fleet Foot is great but it's optional IMO. If you need the movement, get it. Titanic Mag is an upgrade for later, so do not get it ASAP. Soul Shredder bullets are a great buy ASAP and after that Heroic Aura should be self explanatory. With the slow upgrade in your turrets and Slowing Bullets, an opponent will be slowed down to 56% of their move speed. You can always buy 500s like Monster Rounds and sell them later. Your 4 Vitality items are a bit more flexible, but they include Enduring Spirit (which you can sell later), Extra Stamina and Spirit Lifesteal. Following those and upon selling Enduring Spirit you have 2 more slots and a combination of Healbane, Inhibitor and Leech should comprise those two slots. At some point you should upgrade Extra Stamina to Superior Stamina of course. Spirit is where your identity lies. While her spirit scaling isn't phenomenal, the fact that her turrets are DPS and apply effects make that okay. We should build to enhance her turrets, not necessarily strengthen them, and by doing so the turrets will flourish. I think you covered this part pretty well. The 4 mandatory items are Extra Charge, Mystic Reach, Mystic Vulnerability and Suppressor. Mystic Slow is a crucial upgrade to prioritize (from Suppressor). The 30% slow it provides further reduces the enemies movement speed down to 39% when combined with the turret upgrade slow and Slowing Bullets. This makes enemies that jump on you or fight in your zone of control miserable and this is what you want as McGinnis. You want your enemies to be miserable when trying to deal with you, frankly. Yes, 100% gun builds are cool and the DPS feels great, but honestly you don't even get to use it much when the rest of your kit is worthless. For Flex Slots, you want 2 more Spirit items at least, which could include Quicksilver Reload and Improved Cooldown. QR is very good on your turrets as mentioned. Improved Cooldown really helps you establish and move your zones of control as the game moves on and teams move around the map. Flex items are inherently more situational, so I think the remaining items from Weapon and Vitality plus whatever you feel works in the current game state is fine. IMO these 12 items are absolutely crucial for the champion to truly work. Again, my best games were easily turret games as opposed to gun games. That's not to say I haven't won with ridiculous Objective Damage by prioritizing my gun - I have - but the champ is stronger all around, team fights and all, when prioritizing your turrets and zoning tools.

Can someone reach to me that can send me a game invite?

I love turrets! Used to play Heimerdinger in LoL back in the day

Do you have to lead the hook at all? Or just hit 3 when your crosshair is over an enemy?

20:50 that's me! 🤣

In a turret build, do i want intesifying magazine, or is soul shredder bullets better?

you can actually use your ult in close range if you just look straight up - it lands on yourself

heere all the engeniers mains :)

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what an asshole

great guide!

Great video dude

I can't believe I didn't think about the quicksilver on McGinnis. Very good guide!

Neat guide, will definitely try to apply some of the tips whenever I start playing my first few matches. There is one thing of note about the ult though. You mention on how you can aim higher to better arc the rockets to hit enemies behind cover, however if you aim directly up the rocket will land on top of you allowing it to hit enemies who are in your face. It's awkward, but could be helpful in a pinch.

when showing off the heal's last upgrade you forgot to actually buy it so you healed the same amount edit: okay just tested it and it would've healed roughly twice as much health (I bought the same items you did). so not exactly true that it's "not much of a change"

Very nice guide and you’re good at showing examples! How are you making the enemy dummy so an ult without switching to their POV?

Been playing a lot of her recently and late game she is an absolute terror LOL. I think I found the character I'm going to main. Awesome guide as well. Taught me some things I didn't know.

Hey sac, really enjoying the guides! Something that would be handy at least for me would be example builds. I understand that a lot of deadlock is seeing what your opponents have going on and itemizing accordingly, but seeing either example builds or one's you've had success with in game could be a nice touch. Appreciate the videos as always mate

This is perfect, more tutorials just like this please. Love it.

Great Deadlock videos! Atleast I am loving how you break down skill and how to use them on diffrent situations. Keep up the good work!

she really got hurt with the active reload nerf

Love these guides. I didn't really understand what was so great about McGinnis, because the turrets seemed so secondary with their short lifespan and tickle-damage at the start. And yes, the in-depth combo demonstrations really help, especially on Bebop.

4:41 How can you get up to 5 turrets? Was this recorded several weeks ago?

Love the guides! A tip for future guides though. When going through skills it would be nice if you moved your facecam so it doesn't block the ability text you are talking about.

Did you make a guide mate? I bet if you made a guide and separated the items by turret or gun build in the same guide, instead of by early/mid/late like everyone else.... You would become #1 build and household name. Just saying

they say shes the weakest char

Whats the best way you change the settings for ALLY hooking?

love it sacriel, bebop is also my favorite character. would love to see more guides

I needed this because I was just blindly following in game guides and I didn't really "get" this character, I could see the potential but I couldn't work out how to bring it out, you can't ask for a better teacher than Sacriel so I'd love to see a detailed breakdown like this for every character o7

Third. I was really looking forward to this breakdown. Thank you Sac.