McGinnis

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McGinnis is a Hero in Deadlock. The head of Fairfax Industries Military R&D department, McGinnis has a high opinion of her work which includes her machine gun, automatic numerous Mini Turrets, Spectral Walls, that she can create to protect teammates, hold down positions and trap enemies, Medicinal Specter, which dispenses health to nearby allies, and finally, a devastating spectral Heavy Barrage that can reach even faraway enemies.

McGinnis
Inventor
Support
Disruption
Weapon Stats
Damage Per Second: 72.4
Bullet Damage: 6.08+0.171
Ammo: 66
Bullets per sec: 11.9
Reload Time: 3.29s
Bullet Velocity: 650m/s
Light Melee: 50+1.58
Heavy Melee: 116+3.67
Vitality Stats
Health: 780+52
Health Regen: 2
Spirit Resist: 0%+0.35
Move Speed: 6.7m/s
Sprint Speed: 1.6m/s
Dash Speed: 14.7m/s
Stamina: 2
Stamina Cooldown: 4.5s
Spirit Stats
Spirit Power: 0+1.1
Information
Pronouns:She/Her
Voice Actor:Bennett Abara
Release Date:April 24, 2024
Internal names:Forge; Engineer
Time to reshape the battlefield.

A talented engineer who started her career from a young age, Margaret "Maggie" McGinnis isn't fond of theoretical work, thus spending most of her time working in a mechanics shop, often meddling with the supernatural. While the ethics of brainstorming the occult war machine are grey at best, McGinnis isn't that fussed so long as she gets her paycheck.

Weapon

Services Rendered
Rapid Fire
Medium Range
  72 Damage Per Second
Falloff Range
20m ➞ 58m
 
Increases fire rate as the guns spins up

Notes

  • Services Rendered takes 2 seconds to spin up, increasing McGinnis' fire rate and bullet spread, and slowly winds down at 25% per second (4 seconds total at max spin) as indicated by the grey indicator around the crosshair.
  • The DPS and Bullets per second stats listed in game use the max spin up values.
  • Services Rendered's base fire rate starts at 5 bullets per second (Cycle time: 0.2) and spins up to 12.5 bullets per second (Cycle time: 0.08), averaging around 11 Bullets per second per clip at the beginning of a match.

Abilities

Mini Turret

 Mini Turret


  20m






  1
  3s



  18s



Deploy a turret that shoots enemies, dealing   spirit damage over time. The turret expires after a limited lifetime.
Turrets deal reduced damage to troopers and objectives.

 x0.42


  24

Turret DPS

 x9

  100

Turret Health



  30m

Attack Range

  35s  Lifetime 

+10 Turret DPS and +10m Attack Range
2 Charges
+25% Turret Fire Rate and +12s Turret Lifetime
 Summons affected by Monster Rounds and Heroic Aura
  • Turrets have % damage resist that decays over s, and 35% melee resist that does not decay.
  • Turrets deal 50% damage to Troopers and Denizens and 30% damage to Objectives.
  • Turret targeting works as follows:
    • It will initially target the nearest enemy hero in line of sight when it is placed. If no hero is in sight, it will target the nearest enemy unit.
    • It will only switch targets once its initial target dies or leaves sight, or when McGinnis starts shooting a hero in sight, in which case all turrets will attempt to aim at the hero being shot.
    • Shooting a unit or hitting an enemy hero with melee attacks, abilities or items will not change the turret's target.
  • Turrets are not affected by weapon damage falloff/ramp up, thus normal falloff and the damage bonuses from   Close Quarters,   Point Blank and their upgrades do not apply.
  • Turrets yield  40 souls +  4 per minute when killed. Part of the bounty can be denied as a Soul Orb.
  • Turrets receive additional damage from   Monster Rounds and   Cultist Sacrifice.

Medicinal Specter

 Medicinal Specter


  15m





  6.5s



  0


  50s



Deploy a spirit that provides   healing to nearby allies.

 x0.3


  25/sec

Health Regen



  6m

Heal Radius


  0%

Fire Rate Bonus

0%  Stamina Recovery

  0%  Max Health Regen

+1.5s Duration
-20s Cooldown and provides +100% Stamina Recovery
+2% Max HP Regen
+3m Heal Radius
+40% Spirit Resist
 Healing amplified by Healing Booster and affected by healing reduction Healing triggers Healing Tempo's unique effect
  • Healing does not stack when multiple Specters cover the same area.
  • All of Specter's buffs (including augments from items like   Healing Tempo) will linger for 1 second after stepping outside of its AoE. The linger effect will extinguish alongside Specter if the latter's duration ends before 1 second.

Spectral Wall

 Spectral Wall


  50m





  6s



  0


  50s



Cast a wall that applies slow on enemies it passes through. Erupt the wall to divide the terrain in half and damage nearby enemies.
After casting, press Fire or Ability 3 to erupt the wall early.

Can be Destroyed with Melee Attacks

 x0.731


  60

Damage


  -20%

Move Speed


  Stun
0s
Stun Duration

  5m  Minimum Range

  5m  Impact Range

  2.5s  Slow Duration 

  0s  Debuff Duration

Amplifies McGinnis's damage by +20% on hit enemies for 7s
-20s Cooldown and +2s Duration
Deploy 2 Mini Turrets near the wall for 8s
+30% Slow
 Summons affected by Monster Rounds and Heroic Aura Debuff duration reduced by Debuff Resist Effect can be dispelled Casting does not break stealth from Veil Walker or Shadow Weave CC effect suppressed by Unstoppable
  • Spectral wall has a set time of 1.8 seconds to reach it's max range, with its base speed being 27.8m/s. Thus, the speed of the wall increases proportionally to an increase of its range with items like   Mystic Expansion or   Arcane Surge.
  • Individual segments of the wall can be destroyed by 2 heavy Melees.
  • The T3 turrets are deployed on the side of the wall facing McGinnis.

Heavy Barrage

 Heavy Barrage


  36m





  8s



  0


  200s



Unleashes a volley of rockets that home in on a targeted location.

McGinnis is slowed and is still able to use stamina.

 x0.2


  21

Damage Per Rocket


6

Rockets per second



  4.5m

Explosion Radius

  8.5m  Min Range

  8s  Duration 

  0s  Slow Duration

Applies 30% movement and dash slow for 1s
-45s Cooldown and +6s Duration
+2m Radius and +15 Damage per Rocket with increased spirit scaling
 Debuff duration reduced by Debuff Resist CC effect suppressed by Unstoppable
  • Deals 50% damage to objectives.
  • The slow applied to McGinnis can be reduced by Movement Slow Resist items such as   Enduring Speed and can also be cleansed for the duration of   Unstoppable.
  • Her base speed (6.8m/s) is reduced by 38.2% to 4.2m/s, at 10m/s her speed will be reduced by 43% to 5.7m/s.

Backstory

See McGinnis/Lore for more story content.

Maggie McGinnis always had a knack for building things. At 4 she was using Lincoln Logs to recreate architectural marvels. At 10 she built and rewired a custom light fixture for her parent's anniversary. At 15 she designed a machine that refined the souls of the dead...that last one got a little more attention than the Lincoln Logs.

Now the head of Fairfax Industries Military R&D department, McGinnis spends her time in the machine shop, not in a lab. She's not interested in theory, to her science is magic you can touch.

Update history

View the full update history: McGinnis/Update history

Update Changes

August 12, 2026

  • Bullet damage base and growth values reduced by 5%.
  • Spirit Resist per boon reduced from +0.625% to +0.35%.
  •   Mini Turret no longer shoot heroes on ziplines.
  •   Mini Turret no longer have 80% decaying resist for the first 6s.
  •   Mini Turret health increased from 90 + 7.8/boon to 100 + 9/boon.
  •   Medicinal Specter T1 changed from "Provides +40% Spirit Resist" to "+1.5s Duration".
  •   Medicinal Specter T3 no longer increases duration by +1.5s.
  •   Medicinal Specter T3 now also increases spirit resistance by +40%.

June 30, 2026

  •   Heavy Barrage cooldown increased from 175s to 200s. (Global ult change)
  •   Heavy Barrage T1 reduced from -55s Cooldown to -45s. (Global ult change)

June 11, 2026

Trivia

  • McGinnis' design is similar to popular depictions of the American World War II cultural icon Rosie the Riveter - notably the red headband, blue shirt, jeans overalls, red socks and bulky physique.
  • In The Binding of Oathkeeper artwork, McGinnis has a mermaid tattoo on her left shoulder.
  • McGinnis' Heavy Barrage sound effects were changed to sound less like a real air raid siren.
  • "Tinkering in the Hideout" is displayed as one's status in the in-game Friends List when playing as McGinnis in the Hideout.

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