What type of hero is Sinclair?

Sinclair is a mystic. Ability-focused heroes whose damage and control scale with spirit power. Complexity: hard to master.

What are Sinclair's abilities?

Vexing Bolt, Spectral Assistant and Rabbit Hex, plus the ultimate Audience Participation. Each one has three upgrades that cost 1, 2 and 5 ability points.

How much health does Sinclair have?

Sinclair starts with 730 health and gains 38 more with every boon (each level from 2 onward).

Is Sinclair good for beginners?

Sinclair is rated hard to master. If you're new, Graves, Haze and Infernus are easier places to start.

What should I buy first on Sinclair?

Most Sinclair players open with Extra Charge, Extra Spirit and High-Velocity Rounds. See the full Sinclair build for mid and late game items.

Mystic hero · Hard to master

Misdirect and hex enemies

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With the help of their unwilling assistant, <i>The Magnificent Sinclair</i> can confuse enemies with curving hexes and rapid bolts.

Sinclair starts with 730 health and a gun that deals 52 damage per second. Their abilities are Vexing Bolt, Spectral Assistant and Rabbit Hex, with Audience Participation as the ultimate.

Sinclair build Compare Sinclair

Health: 730
Regen: 1/s
Move speed: 7.2m/s
Sprint: +1.6m/s
Stamina: 3
Gun DPS: 52

Win rate 45.8% Pick rate 12.7% 421k matches in the last 30 days Counters and synergy

The kit

Sinclair abilities

Ability 1

Vexing Bolt

Cooldown: 24s
Range: 500m

Fire a bolt of magic that deals Damage, increasing as it travels. If you have an Assistant, they also cast Vexing Bolt at reduced damage.

Press Ability1 to redirect the bolt towards your crosshairs.

Minimum Damage: 60 ×0.93
Max Damage: 120 ×1.86
Assistant Damage: 50%
Time for Max Damage: 2s

I
Bolts apply -25% Fire Rate for 5s.
1 AP
II
-13s Cooldown
2 AP
III
+126 Max Damage. +50% Assistant Damage.
5 AP

Ability 2

Spectral Assistant

Cooldown: 40s
Range: 15m
Duration: 6s

Summon an Assistant at the targeted location. The Assistant attacks whenever you fire your weapon, dealing Damage.

While the Assistant is out, you can press Ability2 to swap positions with your Assistant.

Casting Spectral Assistant also reloads your weapon.

Damage: 15 ×0.36
Max Swaps: 2

I
-10s Cooldown
1 AP
II
+7s Duration & 5m Range
2 AP
III
+60% Fire Rate and +12.6 Assistant Damage
5 AP

Ability 3

Rabbit Hex

Cooldown: 26s
Range: 24m

Hex a target area and transform all enemies into a Rabbit for a limited duration.

Rabbits are small and move faster, but take increased Damage and are unable to perform most actions.
Hex does not interrupt abilities.

Hex Duration: 2s
Damage Amp: 15% ×0.06
Move Speed bonus: +36%
Radius: 6m

I
-10s Cooldown
1 AP
II
+1s Hex Duration
2 AP
III
+7% Damage Amp and +2m Radius
5 AP

Ultimate

Audience Participation

Cooldown: 85s
Range: 20m

Copy the Ultimate of an enemy hero for a limited time. Reactivating the ability will use the Copied Ultimate instead.

Copies will inherit this ability's upgrade points.
Audience Participation will also copy the cooldown.

Copy Duration: 9s
Copied Cooldown: 60%

I
Upgrade the Copy.
1 AP
II
Upgrade the Copy AGAIN!
2 AP
III
Upgrade the Copy ONCE AGAIN!
5 AP

What players buy

Sinclair build

Full build

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

I

Extra Charge 800
Picked in 68% of games
I

Extra Spirit 800
Picked in 62% of games
I

High-Velocity Rounds 800
Picked in 50% of games
II

Opening Rounds 1,600
Picked in 49% of games

From recent matches

Teammates and counters

All matchups

Sinclair wins 45.8% of 421k matches in the last 30 days. Here's who Sinclair does best with, the heroes Sinclair struggles against most, and the ones Sinclair beats most often.

Best with

Mo & Krill 47.7% won together, 1.7 pts above expected

McGinnis 45.5% won together, 1.6 pts above expected

Abrams 47.9% won together, 0.9 pts above expected

Counters Sinclair

Graves Sinclair wins 39.3%

Rat King Sinclair wins 40.5%

Victor Sinclair wins 41.2%

Sinclair counters

Mirage Sinclair wins 51.3%

Pocket Sinclair wins 51.1%

Shiv Sinclair wins 50.9%

From recent matches

Items Sinclair players buy

Full build

How often Sinclair players buy each item and how often they win with it, over 421k 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
Extra Charge	80.9%	45.6%	5 min
Improved Spirit	80.8%	45.8%	10 min
Mystic Expansion	80.2%	46.0%	14 min
Greater Expansion	79.8%	47.2%	23 min
Rapid Recharge	76.1%	46.0%	13 min
Extra Spirit	74.3%	45.7%	6 min
Superior Duration	69.4%	47.9%	25 min
Boundless Spirit	63.5%	49.2%	26 min
Superior Cooldown	57.9%	48.1%	26 min
Opening Rounds	56.1%	45.6%	5 min

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

Mystic Reverb 56.8% won · bought in 14.5%
Diviner's Kevlar 55.7% won · bought in 20.6%
Spirit Burn 55.2% won · bought in 22.7%
Magic Carpet 54.6% won · bought in 13.7%
Lightning Scroll 53.9% won · bought in 7.2%
Indomitable 53.7% won · bought in 6.9%

Gun

The Prestige

DPS: 52; While firing
Sustained DPS: 35; Including reloads
Bullet damage: 16.5
Fire rate: 3.17/s
Magazine: 16; Empties in 5.04s
Reload: 2.5s

Damage over distance

Full damage to 20m Drops to 30% by 60m

Headshots deal ×1.65 damage. Bullets travel at 300 m/s.

Initiate to Eternus

Sinclair win rate by rank

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

Initiate 47.6% · 4,097
Seeker 47.5% · 8,882
Acolyte 45.8% · 7,890
Sentinel 45.7% · 6,497
Mystic 46.1% · 6,838
Ritualist 47.8% · 6,648
Emissary 46.8% · 6,844
Oracle 47.9% · 7,770
Phantom 48.5% · 7,399
Ascendant 50.3% · 3,150
Eternus 51.3% · 1,519

Every boon

Growth per level

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

Health: +38
Bullet damage: +0.55
Melee damage: +1.58
Spirit power: +1.3

Quick answers

Sinclair questions

What type of hero is Sinclair?: Sinclair is a mystic. Ability-focused heroes whose damage and control scale with spirit power. Complexity: hard to master.
What are Sinclair's abilities?: Vexing Bolt, Spectral Assistant and Rabbit Hex, plus the ultimate Audience Participation. Each one has three upgrades that cost 1, 2 and 5 ability points.
How much health does Sinclair have?: Sinclair starts with 730 health and gains 38 more with every boon (each level from 2 onward).
Is Sinclair good for beginners?: Sinclair is rated hard to master. If you're new, Graves, Haze and Infernus are easier places to start.
What should I buy first on Sinclair?: Most Sinclair players open with Extra Charge, Extra Spirit and High-Velocity Rounds. See the full Sinclair build for mid and late game items.

Case history

Sinclair lore

Henry's parents told him he was too young and impulsive to mess with real magic, and so they gave him a deck of cards to play with. He took to sleight of hand naturally and soon was dazzling his classmates with fantastic feats of illusions that were done without mystic artifacts or incantation.

When he was in high school he met Savannah, and their mutual love of stage magic sparked a whirlwind romance. Soon they fell in love and created an act together. Obviously they were meant to be; and so at prom, Henry proposed to Savannah and they married soon after graduation.

Unsurprisingly both sets of parents were not thrilled at this prospect, but Henry and Savannah knew they were soulmates. And so they cemented their love for one another by having a blood mystic bind their souls for eternity.

When an on-stage accident claimed both their lives, no one was sure who to blame. Henry claims Savannah was out of position. Savannah says Henry didn't wait for his cue. But one thing's for sure, since their souls are tied to each other neither one of them have been able to move on. Now a bickering pair of ghosts, Henry and Savannah need to work together if they want to have any chance of undoing their eternal union.