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Lifesteal

Self Damage

Fatale

Weapon Stats
Damage Per Second:	43.8
Bullet Damage:	20.7+1
Ammo:	9
Bullets per sec:	2.12
Reload Time:	2.59s
Bullet Velocity:	828m/s
Light Melee:	50+1.58
Heavy Melee:	116+3.67

Information

Voice Actor:	Abigail Marlowe^[1]
Release Date:	April 24, 2024
Internal names:	Geist; Ghost; Spectre

“

The lives of the weak are meant to sustain the lives of the strong.

Lady Geist is a Hero in Deadlock. A socialite with a necromantic pact, Lady Geist consumes her own health for her abilities while draining the life away from opponents. Sacrificing her life force to launch Essence Bombs and Malice "Blood Shards", Lady Geist can regain lost health with Life Drain, sapping enemy heroes and units of their health. Her Soul Exchange swaps health values with an enemy hero, turning the odds against them for a killing blow.

The Toast of the Town, Lady Geist was famed by all and invited to every ball and gala in the city... until her beauty faded in her old age and left her with only memories and stories of her glory. In desperation, she formed a pact with a powerful spirit and bound it by powerful wards until she was safe and young again. All she needs to do now is feed on the life force of her fellows to maintain her beauty... and hope desperately that the Oathkeeper will stay bound.

Weapon

Johann's Gift

Medium Range

Heavy Hitter

44 Damage Per Second

Falloff Range

17m ➞ 48m

Abilities

Essence Bomb

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.

x1.22

90

Damage

30%

Health Cost

0.65s Arming Duration

1

-5s Cooldown

2

+2m Radius and +50 Damage.

5

Bombs leave a toxic mess on the ground, dealing 26% of the original damage per second, for 6s.

Life Drain

Create 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 move speed is reduced.
Alternate cast to give health to friendly Heroes.

x0.323

24

Damage Per Second

100% Damage to Heal

28m Max Tether Range

1

13 Damage Per Second

2

2.5s Duration

5

Enables and Grants +2 Charges. Increases spirit scaling.

Debuff duration reduced by Debuff Resist

Healing amplified by Healing Booster and affected by healing reduction

Effect can be dispelled

Healing triggers Healing Tempo's unique effect

Malice

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.

x0.558

23

Damage

9%

Health Cost

3 Blood Shards

5 Max Stacks

Effect Per Stack:

7%

Damage Amplification

Effect Per Stack:

15%

Movement Slow

9s Debuff Duration

4s Slow Duration

1

-3s Cooldown

2

+25.2 Damage and +4 Blood Shards

5

+8% Damage Amp

Debuff duration reduced by Debuff Resist

Effect can be dispelled

CC effect suppressed by Unstoppable

Soul Exchange

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.

30%

Enemy Min Health

30%

Min Health Received

1

-50s Cooldown

2

Silence enemies within 25m for 3s

5

On cast, +60 Spirit Power, +40% Fire Rate and +50% Spirit Resistance for 8s.

Debuff duration reduced by Debuff Resist

Healing amplified by Healing Booster and affected by healing reduction

Triggers Reactive Barrier

Healing triggers Healing Tempo's unique effect

Disable prevented by Indomitable

CC effect suppressed by Unstoppable

Soul Exchange deals Pure Damage, and thus does not proc Spirit Damage-based items such as Mystic Reverb, and is not affected by anti-healing or Damage Resistance.
Soul Exchange can be stopped by some items and abilities, such as a well timed Counterspell.
Has a hidden 70% slow that gets applied to the target upon cast and lasts for 0.25s.

Backstory

See Lady Geist/Lore for more story content.

“

Once, Lady Jeanne Geist was the toast of the town. But as time passed and her beauty faded she found herself further and further from her glory days in High Society until finally she was nothing more than a frail woman in a nursing home, telling stories of a glorious past. And that’s when Oathkeeper revealed himself. A powerful spirit from another plane, Oathkeeper offered her a path to reclaim her past glories… he could restore her youth; all she had to do was drain the essence of the living to sustain herself.

Geist was torn. Obviously murder was ghoulish business, and undoubtedly Oathkeeper was not an entity that could be trusted… but still, the thought of having a second chance of reliving her youth was too good to pass up. And so she concocted a plan: after making a pact with Oathkeeper she would bind and ward him, limiting his influence and pull over her. Oathkeeper would still get fed; but on her terms, not his.

However, as years have turned to decades; the strength of the Ward has weakened, and Oathkeeper hungers more than he ever has in the past…

Update history

View the full update history: Lady Geist/Update history

Update

Changes

July 28, 2026

Life Drain changed from 75% Damage to Heal to 100%.
Life Drain DPS reduced to provide the same effective heal as before but with less DPS.
Malice Damage amplification reduced from 8% to 7%.
Malice T3 increased from +7% Damage Amp to +8%.

June 30, 2026

Soul Exchange cooldown increased from 190s to 220s. (Global ult change)
Soul Exchange T1 reduced from -60s Cooldown to -50s. (Global ult change)

April 30, 2026

Life Drain heal reduced from 80% to 75%.

Street Brawl:

Essence Bomb range reduced by 15%.

Gallery

Lady Geist portrait
Lady Geist icon
Lady Geist in-game render
Lady Geist select background
Lady Geist reference sheet
Lady Geist name typography
Lady Geist weapon - Johann's Gift
Previous Lady Geist portrait
Previous Lady Geist model
Lady Geist 2024 Winter skin
Lady Geist concept art
"Ghost test" and "Ghost v2" work-in-progress models
The Binding of Oathkeeper cover art
Lady Geist visual novel art
Lady Geist visual novel art - Gala dress
Lady Geist visual novel art - Aged Geist
Lady Geist visual novel art - McGinnis' ward
Temporary Lady Geist portrait
Temporary Lady Geist icon (2024-09-12 update)
Spectre (Neon Prime)
Gloat portrait for Lady Geist.
Critical health portrait for Lady Geist.

Trivia

Geist is a German word that can be translated as "spirit/mind".
Lady Geist is French, but she uses her late German husband's last name.
Lady Geist is referred to as "Oma" (German: grandma) by her grandson Johann Jr.
Alongside Mina, Lady Geist is one of the few heroes to holds her gun in the left hand, as Oathkeeper is in her right arm in-game. However, in a concept art and in The Binding of Oathkeeper artwork, Oathkeeper is in her left arm.
Lady Geist was named Spectre in Neon Prime, and later renamed to Ghost.
Before Lady Geist's model was updated, there were two work-in-progress models in the files labeled Ghost_test and Ghost_v2.
Lady Geist's idle animation has a similar angle and pose as the drawing My Wife and My Mother-in-Law by W. E. Hill, which displays an optical illusion of a young woman and an old woman at the same time.
Lady Geist's hairstyle in The Binding of Oathkeeper resembles that of Madeline Ashton, a character played by Meryl Streep in the 1992 movie Death Becomes Her, who similarly uses magic to stay young. The visual novel's cover also references the movie's opening scene, in which Madeline sits in front of a mirror wearing a teal dress and gloves.
"Being Fabulous in the Hideout" is displayed as one's status in the in-game Friends List when playing as Lady Geist in the Hideout.
Lady Geist was referenced in the videogame Skullgirls Mobile as a variant of the character Black Dahlia.