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 blood shards filled with Malice, 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 Jeanne 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.
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.
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90
Damage
30%
Health Cost
0.65sArming Duration
Bombs leave a toxic mess on the ground, dealing 26% of the original damage per second, for 6s.
0s
Toxic Mess 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.
The self damage is Spirit, can be mitigated, and is not lethal. Self damage is calculated at 30% of the damage that the player would deal.
Touching an enemy unit while in flight starts the explosion delay timer early.
Life Drain
Life Drain
18m
2.5s
0
34s
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.
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24
Damage Per Second
100%Damage to Heal
28mMax Tether Range
1
13 Damage Per Second
2
2.5s Duration
5
Enables and Grants +2 Charges. Increases spirit scaling.
Life Drain's -40% move speed reduction only applies while the target is being damaged.
When Alternate casting, Spirit self-damage is dealt equal to the base DPS of Life Drain. This damage is not lethal and can be mitigated by Spirit Resist items.
The health given to a teammate is equal to the ability's base DPS, independent from the self-damage, and is affected by Healing Effectiveness modifiers.
The Alternate Cast can be used on a friendly hero that has full health, but Geist will not take self-damage unless health is being "transferred".
Life Drain's tether stays attached to a target even when out of line of sight or beyond its 28m Max Range.
Because Life Drain stays attached while out of line of sight, the position of tethered victims can be tracked if they move for cover.
Notes
Life Drain's -40% move speed reduction only applies while the target is being damaged.
When Alternate casting, Spirit self-damage is dealt equal to the base DPS of Life Drain. This damage is not lethal and can be mitigated by Spirit Resist items.
The health given to a teammate is equal to the ability's base DPS, independent from the self-damage, and is affected by Healing Effectiveness modifiers.
The Alternate Cast can be used on a friendly hero that has full health, but Geist will not take self-damage unless health is being "transferred".
Life Drain's tether stays attached to a target even when out of line of sight or beyond its 28m Max Range.
Tips
Because Life Drain stays attached while out of line of sight, the position of tethered victims can be tracked if they move for cover.
Malice
Malice
0
6s
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.
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
0sBuff Duration
0sSilence Duration
0mSilence Radius
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.
Soul Exchange has a 0.1s cast time before swapping and 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.
Unlocking T3 upgrade will change the damage value of Lady Geist's other abilities, as if the bonus Spirit Power on cast is always active. This is a bug, the actual damage is unchanged.
Soul Exchange's mechanics work as follows:
Once Soul Exchange is successfully cast, the target loses 0.3 of their current HP%. This new HP% (Enemy HP% * 0.7) is then compared with Geist's current HP%.
If (Enemy HP% * 0.7) > (Geist HP%), the health percentages between Geist and the target enemy are directly swapped.
If (Enemy HP% * 0.7) < (Geist HP%), then 30% of the enemy's current remaining health is removed. Then, Geist receives health equal to the enemy's max health lost.
I.e.: Lady Geist and her target are both at 80% HP, and she casts Soul Exchange. The target loses 30% of their current health bar (80% --> 56% HP, 24% max HP lost). Lady Geist receives 24% of her max HP (80%+24%), leaving her at 100% health.
If the enemy would lose enough health to go below 30% of their max HP, it is instead set to 30%.
If the enemy was already at less than 30% of their max HP, they don't lose any HP, but Geist receives the health that the enemy would have normally lost.
In Street Brawl, every hero draws items from a shared pool, but some items are weighted to appear more often for a given hero and others less often. For each tier below, that tier's items are grouped by how likely they are to be offered to Lady Geist: High, Average, or Low chance.
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…
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.
When targeting abilities on Lady Geist, the reticle focuses on Oathkeeper instead of Geist's center of mass. This also applies to status effect indicators, such as Stalker's Mark or Djinn's Mark.
