McGinnis build guide
by fargarekoVersion 1Updated Jul 5, 2026Guide #711708
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TOP 1 EU MCGINNIS
1Lane
Author's category · 7 items · Yes we are supposed to rush Tesla. You can still apply a lot of lane pressure with 0 gun items thanks to turrets
Tesla Bullets
Optimal for early wallbreaking anti-tank power. Later becomes a DEBUFF machine against enemies with BRS & Healbane (Urn fighter). Faster jungle too.
Extended Magazine
More ammo to shoot more from laning phase to mid-game. Sell when you need to buy a bigger item and have no flex slot.
Titanic Magazine
Built from Extended Magazine
Lets you shoot endlessly without needing to reload.
Bullet Resist Shredder
Spirit damage required to proc bullet shredder. Pair with Tesla or an active item (that deals any spirit damage) if you don't have Tesla. Walkers or enemy everything become much easier to kill w this.
Monster Rounds
Buy to farm jungle/neutrals WAY faster than any other item. Works against Guardians/Walkers/Patron/Shrine/Weakened Patron. 25% vs NPC is multiplicative.
Healbane
MUST BUY CORE ITEM. anti heal for urn fights its pretty op once people start dying and u just superheal out of nowhere multiple times. turrets/tesla applies it.
Extra Stamina
Buy during laning phase against Haze or Warden (they remove our stamina). We can sell this later. Helps us hit 4800 vit very important item
2Situational Laneoptional
Author's category · 2 items
Grit
builds into spirit shielding later very good 800 in lane for instant stats and safety
Close Quarters
More damage to Heroes in lane instead of Monster Rounds to shove wave. with wall trapping players w/ melee resist and more dmg is good or just trading in general
3Mid/Late
Author's category · 9 items · Your job is to absorb damage while dealing damage. Fleetfoot is skippable (if slots are limited).
Extra Health
Can buy in lane too.
Spirit Shielding
Built from Grit
Heroes like Seven, Pocket, GTalon, Viscous, Holliday, Kelvin (unless gun), Yamato,Mirage, Geist, Lash, Mina, Sinc, Shiv etc...
Quicksilver Reload
4Heal Duration / More Turrets (sometimes)optional
Author's category · 2 items
Duration Extender
You can stay longer on your heal if it is maxed early and just commit. Hits 4800 earlier than QsR too.
Rapid Recharge
Many turrets. Setup in advance.
5Luxuryoptional
Author's category · 9 items · Berserker + Blood Tribute is HIGH GUN DAMAGE, but hard to use. Leech is good for sustain tank.
Berserker
Blood Tribute
Extremely good item to prevent getting stunned or CCd by long duration stuns like Abrams charge. Item is also used to move around faster.
Leech
Turrets + Merc Mag give a lot of lifesteal/spiritsteal. It feels pretty decent while becoming super tanky.
6Auto-Unstop / Unstopoptional
Author's category · 2 items
Indomitable
Buy as a safety net. Lash ult / Haze sleeps / Abrams charge+ult / Mo Ult etc. It activates before stun. Works well w/ Counterspell (you can save this or fall back on counterspell if one gets used).`
Unstoppable
Buy to survive against CC
7Situationaloptional
Author's category · 18 items · BUY "BATTLE VEST" INSTEAD OF "SPIRIT SHIELDING" if enemy has a lot of gun damage.
Intensifying Magazine
Buy with Active Reload for maximum effectiveness, replacing Titanic Mag entirely.
Active Reload
If you buy Active Reload, pair it with Intensifying Mag completely skipping Extended/Titanic Mag. Titanic Mag is mainly for newer players to not get overwhelmed by constantly having to reload w/ AR.
8More Anti-Healoptional
Author's category · 2 items
Toxic Bullets
Often needed due to lack of anti heal on team. Pairs well with Healbane for -55% enemy heal reduction for cheap.
Inhibitor
Extremely good item for healing reduction and reducing enemy spirit + gun damage. Requires buildup but works like Toxic Bullets after buildup and can reset duration forever.
9Junkyard (not used, recycle for another patch)optional
Author's category · 13 items
Swift Striker
Buy this or Burst Fire. Cost effective fire rate for 800/1600 is a steal. It also beats Burst Fire for objectives since it requires Hero damage to proc as opposed to Swift Striker needing nothing.
Burst Fire
You can skip Burst Fire for Blood Tribute if you know how to use Blood Tribute.
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Mini TurretMini Turret | Mini Turret: Ability unlocked, step 1 | Mini Turret: 1 AP upgrade, step 2 | Mini Turret: 2 AP upgrade, step 5 | Mini Turret: 5 AP upgrade, step 13 |
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Infinite / Quick reload for more ammo. This builds into Mercurial Magnum later and it becomes a significant part of our DPS so enjoy the insta-reload.
Mercurial Magnum
Built from Quicksilver Reload
Infinte AMMO. This item scales with boons/levels. The higher your boons, the more damage you get from it. You don't need other spirit items this item does ULTRA dmg even without spirit items
Colossus
Built from Extra Health
When you need resists ASAP. This version of Deadlock is incredibly unforgiving to Gun McG so we buy this and if they go on us, they have to waste a lot of resources (use it when heal is on cd or both)
Fleetfoot
Shoot without movespeed penalty (this is op). With enduring speed, slows basically don't faze us.
Heroic Aura
Buy with Fleetfoot to become racecar god. Mainly for resist on your teammates and turrets while active works on turrets too.
Crippling Headshot
Increases damage taken from our gun, turrets, merc mag, toxic bullets and inflicts much needed Anti-Heal. Shred also works for teammates. Incredibly slot efficient item.
Spellslinger
The best item DPS wise in the game (Hard to use, but if you learn how its the best DPS item in the game). Items work for +1 stack too. "Combat" is when u take dmg or when atking. Neutrals work too
Vampiric Burst
The most crucial 6000 item of the build. Provides massive lifesteal to turn the tables on the enemy and gigaburst them with your gun or gives you extra ammo when trying manfight
Capacitor
Built from Tesla Bullets
Not bought often since you need to aim and hit a target, but if you want them to not escape like Lash, Wraith, Mina or something this is an option.
Frenzy
Debuffs wear off way faster. More of a tanky item and we move really fast too. Pairs amazingly with COlossus
Ricochet
Buy if you can combo w/ team (Lash/Dynamo ult). Firerate is also a huge plus. Pair with Silencer always.
Silencer
Buy when you have Ricochet and need more crowd control in silence and a passive -25% spirit damage debuff. Very useful utility buy if you have Ricochet. YOU SHOULD BUY THIS IF YOU HAVE RICOCHET ALWAYS
Echo Shard
Niche pickup but you can wall twice and trap them or double wall for midboss on two sides etc. turret dmg adds up late game. pairs well with Leech too.
Slowing Bullets
VERY GOOD WITH MOVEPSEED ITEMS TO CHASE DOWN ENEMIES
Weakening Headshot
works on everything now
Hunter's Aura
CHOOSE HOLLOW POINT OR THIS. Play sidelanes to get the most out of this item. Provides bullet resist shred up to 20% (if only 1 enemy Hero) or 10% (2+ enemy Hero). Paired with BRS and Suppressor.
Rebuttal
The 30% bonus damage applies to ALL of our damage to EVERYTHING for 6 SECONDS including GUN so even mid-game if you parry you gain 30% AMP ON YOUR GUN TO DELETE ANYONE BLOOD TRIUBTE PARRY ABRAMS DEAD
Enduring Speed
Buy this item if you feel like a slug. Combine it with Heroic Aura to move incredibly fast but remember to plan your next few items carefully as it takes 1 slots each.
Battle Vest
if enemy has bullet damage in order of priority: Haze, Vyper, Wraith (in lane mostly gun), Warden, Drifter, Billy, Ivy and uncommon spirit hero doing gun
Metal Skin
When gun Heroes like Vyper, Haze, Venator, Warden etc... are a problem
Fortitude
Built from Extra Health
Counterspell
Buy against Lash ult, Wraith ult etc... It works the same way Hazes' 2 maxed does but for spells. Lookup the full list on google.
Dispel Magic
Sometimes necessary to buy against SILENCE, multiple DISARMS or more importantly SPIRIT BURNS which prevent us from healing. We can handle one anti-heal but two or more or spirit burn is bad for us.
Stamina Mastery
Built from Extra Stamina
I highly recommend you try to AIR DASH with this item instead of using ground dash. You get WAY more distance, especially if you chain two air dashes in a row. Doing it off a zipline, you go FLYING.
Spirit Resilience
Dispel Magic instead of this sometimes. Buy against heavy CONSISTENT spirit damage. Given it is a spirit meta, this item will have way more use this patch than others.
Extra Charge
apply a lot more turret pressure
Mystic Expansion
turret range is so far you can use it from the bridge to enemies guardians (turrets have fall off so they wont deal full dmg).
Suppressor
Efficient item to hinder enemy fire rate
Mystic Slow
procs from tesla. works on turrets too. not terrible, but not slot efficient
Escalating Resilience
Built from Extended Magazine
You can skip Titanic Mag and buy this a little later if you predict that you need some bullet resist while also investing into a gun item.
Glass Cannon
Will +1.5x our DPS late game (~550) with 0 stacks, 26 headshots, 100 body, 30 boons. LUCKY SHOT does a bit less DPS (470 to 520 RNG) unless u value HEALTH over DPS. Need ~200% wpn for Lucky to outdps
Armor Piercer
Buy against BULLET EVASION (main use), PLATED ARMOR or HIGH BULLET RES. ***This item will help you lifesteal way more with Vampiric vs high bullet resist***
Lucky Shot
Buy only when you have high amounts of weapon damage 200+ (Remember to count Berserker stacks manually). This item will give you insane extra bonus damage additively. Glass is better than Lucky 4 DPS
Fury Trance
You can buy this alongside Vampiric Burst just to have that extra firerate and spirit resist if you don't mind having another active button to press. Amazing firerate w/ Blood Tribute too.
Juggernaut
Built from Enduring Speed
Buy when u have no slots and need firerate reduction though METAL SKIN is better for gun immunity and cheaper.
Plated Armor
Tank up even more ontop of the bullet resist that we have. Even if enemies buy armor piercing rounds it doesn't completely negate the usefulness of this item at all.
Spellbreaker
Buy when you need 1) Spirit Resist & 2) Debuff Resist and spirit resist & 3) Have a lot of money to spend. Debuff Resist is for annoying things like Curse..
Golden Goose Egg
Basically USE/HATCH after minute 10:01 for MAXIMUM value (buffs upgrade at 10:01). Hold until you need to buy an important item then pop egg. It's not always 10 mins thats just the minimum.
Slowing Hex
Disable their escapes and gun them down. Doesn't last very long so combo with an ally to kill them before Hex wears off!
Cursed Relic
Buy against near unkillable targets that always use mobility to get out (Pocket, Wraith etc).
Medicinal SpecterMedicinal Specter | Medicinal Specter: Ability unlocked, step 3 | Medicinal Specter: 1 AP upgrade, step 7 | Medicinal Specter: 2 AP upgrade, step 9 | Medicinal Specter: 5 AP upgrade, step 10 |
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Spectral WallSpectral Wall | Spectral Wall: Ability unlocked, step 4 | Spectral Wall: 1 AP upgrade, step 8 | Spectral Wall: 2 AP upgrade, step 11 | Spectral Wall: 5 AP upgrade, step 12 |
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Heavy BarrageHeavy Barrage | Heavy Barrage: Ability unlocked, step 6 | Heavy Barrage: 1 AP upgrade, step 14 | Heavy Barrage: 2 AP upgrade, step 15 | Heavy Barrage: 5 AP upgrade, step 16 |
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