What type of hero is Lady Geist?

Lady Geist is a mystic. Ability-focused heroes whose damage and control scale with spirit power. Complexity: moderate.

What are Lady Geist's abilities?

Essence Bomb, Life Drain and Malice, plus the ultimate Soul Exchange. Each one has three upgrades that cost 1, 2 and 5 ability points.

How much health does Lady Geist have?

Lady Geist starts with 880 health and gains 51 more with every boon (each level from 2 onward).

Is Lady Geist good for beginners?

Lady Geist is rated moderate. If you're new, Graves, Haze and Infernus are easier places to start.

What should I buy first on Lady Geist?

Most Lady Geist players open with Mystic Regeneration, Mystic Burst and Extra Spirit. See the full Lady Geist build for mid and late game items.

Mystic hero · Moderate

Sacrifices health then drains it back

LifestealSelf DamageFatale

Expending health to achieve devastating effects is the source of Lady Geist's power. When running low, she can drain the life out of her rivals.

Lady Geist starts with 880 health and a gun that deals 44 damage per second. Their abilities are Essence Bomb, Life Drain and Malice, with Soul Exchange as the ultimate.

Lady Geist build Compare Lady Geist

Health: 880
Regen: 1/s
Move speed: 6.3m/s
Sprint: +2.4m/s
Stamina: 3
Gun DPS: 44

Win rate 51.0% Pick rate 23.8% 790k matches in the last 30 days Counters and synergy

The kit

Lady Geist abilities

Ability 1

Essence Bomb

Cooldown: 14s

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.

Damage: 90 ×1.22 Spirit
Health Cost: 30%
Arming Duration: 0.65s

I
-5s Cooldown
1 AP
II
+2m Radius and +50 Damage.
2 AP
III
Bombs leave a toxic mess on the ground, dealing 30% of the original damage per second, for 6s.
5 AP

Ability 2

Life Drain

Cooldown: 34s
Range: 18m
Duration: 2.5s

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.
Alt Cast to give health to friendly Heroes.

Damage Per Second: 24 ×0.32 Spirit
Damage to Heal: 100%
Max Tether Range: 28m

I
+13 Damage Per Second
1 AP
II
+2.5s Duration
2 AP
III
Enables and Grants +2 Charges. Increases spirit scaling.
5 AP

Ability 3

Malice

Cooldown: 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.

Damage: 23 ×0.56 Spirit
Health Cost: 9%
Damage Amplification: +7%
Movement Slow: 12%
Blood Shards: 3
Max Stacks: 5
Debuff Duration: 9s
Slow Duration: 4s

I
-3s Cooldown
1 AP
II
+25.2 Damage and +4 Blood Shards
2 AP
III
+8% Damage Amp
5 AP

Ultimate

Soul Exchange

Cooldown: 220s
Range: 5.5m
Duration: 0.25s

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.

Enemy Min Health: 30%
Min Health Received: 30%

I
-50s Cooldown
1 AP
II
Silence enemies within 25m for 3s
2 AP
III
On cast, +60 Spirit Power, +40% Fire Rate and +50% Spirit Resistance for s.
5 AP

What players buy

Lady Geist build

Full build

The items Lady Geist players pick most often in the early game, and how often they buy each one.

I

Mystic Regeneration 800
Picked in 77% of games
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Mystic Burst 800
Picked in 75% of games
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Extra Spirit 800
Picked in 49% of games
I

Mystic Expansion 800
Picked in 49% of games

From recent matches

Teammates and counters

All matchups

Lady Geist wins 51.0% of 790k matches in the last 30 days. Here's who Lady Geist does best with, the heroes Lady Geist struggles against most, and the ones Lady Geist beats most often.

Best with

Haze 56.5% won together, 1.6 pts above expected

Drifter 52.6% won together, 1.4 pts above expected

Rat King 59.3% won together, 1.3 pts above expected

Counters Lady Geist

Paige Lady Geist wins 44.3%

Graves Lady Geist wins 44.4%

Rat King Lady Geist wins 45.3%

Lady Geist counters

Mirage Lady Geist wins 56.4%

Pocket Lady Geist wins 55.9%

Sinclair Lady Geist wins 55.8%

From recent matches

Items Lady Geist players buy

Full build

How often Lady Geist players buy each item and how often they win with it, over 790k matches in the last 30 days. Expensive items bought late often show high win rates because the game was already going well.

Item	Bought in	Win rate	Usually bought at
Radiant Regeneration	91.1%	51.4%	14 min
Mystic Regeneration	89.2%	51.1%	5 min
Mystic Burst	82.3%	51.7%	5 min
Extra Spirit	72.9%	52.1%	7 min
Mystic Expansion	69.8%	52.7%	8 min
Spirit Lifesteal	66.7%	52.8%	14 min
Tankbuster	65.6%	53.0%	19 min
Improved Spirit	65.2%	53.1%	16 min
Mystic Vulnerability	57.4%	53.9%	20 min
Compress Cooldown	54.6%	53.4%	18 min

Highest win rates (bought in 5% of matches or more)

Spirit Burn 58.7% won · bought in 32.5%
Mystic Reverb 57.0% won · bought in 29.0%
Escalating Exposure 56.7% won · bought in 44.6%
Infuser 56.2% won · bought in 9.8%
Boundless Spirit 56.0% won · bought in 36.7%
Transcendent Cooldown 55.0% won · bought in 31.6%

Gun

Johann's Gift

DPS: 44; While firing
Sustained DPS: 27; Including reloads
Bullet damage: 20.7
Fire rate: 2.12/s
Magazine: 9; Empties in 4.25s
Reload: 2.59s

Damage over distance

Full damage to 17m Drops to 10% by 48m

Headshots deal ×1.65 damage. Bullets travel at 828 m/s and drop over long distances.

Initiate to Eternus

Lady Geist win rate by rank

How often Lady Geist wins at each rank (by the average rank of the match) over the last 30 days. The middle line is 50%.

Initiate 51.9% · 15k
Seeker 49.9% · 27k
Acolyte 49.7% · 23k
Sentinel 49.2% · 17k
Mystic 48.7% · 14k
Ritualist 48.2% · 12k
Emissary 48.6% · 10k
Oracle 47.7% · 9,782
Phantom 47.3% · 8,000
Ascendant 48.5% · 3,262
Eternus 51.2% · 1,188

Every boon

Growth per level

Collecting souls levels you up. Each level from 2 onward is a boon, and every boon permanently adds:

Health: +51
Bullet damage: +1
Melee damage: +1.58
Spirit power: +1.1

Quick answers

Lady Geist questions

What type of hero is Lady Geist?: Lady Geist is a mystic. Ability-focused heroes whose damage and control scale with spirit power. Complexity: moderate.
What are Lady Geist's abilities?: Essence Bomb, Life Drain and Malice, plus the ultimate Soul Exchange. Each one has three upgrades that cost 1, 2 and 5 ability points.
How much health does Lady Geist have?: Lady Geist starts with 880 health and gains 51 more with every boon (each level from 2 onward).
Is Lady Geist good for beginners?: Lady Geist is rated moderate. If you're new, Graves, Haze and Infernus are easier places to start.
What should I buy first on Lady Geist?: Most Lady Geist players open with Mystic Regeneration, Mystic Burst and Extra Spirit. See the full Lady Geist build for mid and late game items.

Case history

Lady Geist lore

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...