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Compare Lady Geist (Mystic) and Grey Talon (Marksman) in Deadlock — stats, weapon, abilities, and playstyle side by side.
Lady Geist is a Mystic hero with 880 base health and 43.809 weapon DPS. Grey Talon is a Marksman hero with 780 base health and 39.184weapon DPS. In a direct comparison, Lady Geist has the larger health pool, while Lady Geist brings more raw weapon damage per second.
Raw stats only tell part of the story — abilities, item builds, and player skill decide most matchups. Compare the ability lists below, then check each hero's full guide for builds and counters.
Based on real ranked matches from deadlock-api.com, Lady Geist currently has the higher win rate this week — 50.9% for Lady Geist vs 47% for Grey Talon. Lady Geist also sits in tier A in the live meta.
Live data from 820,360+ ranked matches · Source: deadlock-api.com · updated weekly
| Stat | Lady Geist | Grey Talon |
|---|---|---|
| Max Health | 880 | 780 |
| Move Speed | 6.3 | 6.3 |
| Stamina | 3 | 4 |
| Health Regen | 1 | 1.5 |
| Light Melee | 50 | 50 |
| Heavy Melee | 116 | 116 |
| Stat | Lady Geist | Grey Talon |
|---|---|---|
| DPS | 43.8 | 39.2 |
| Sustained DPS | 27.2 | 31.8 |
| Bullet Damage | 20.7 | 23.51 |
| Fire Rate (RPS) | 2.12 | 1.67 |
| Clip Size | 9 | 17 |
| Reload (s) | 2.6 | 2.4 |
| Bullet Speed | 828 | 495.3 |
| Can Crit | Yes | Yes |
Lady Geist is a self-damage spirit bruiser who spends her own health to cast Essence Bomb and Malice, then refills it by draining enemies with Life Drain. She wants to hold medium range, chip opponents with her heavy-hitting Johann's Gift, and treat her health bar as fuel rather than a shield. Her whole kit is a loop: pay health, deal damage, drain it back, and hold Soul Exchange for the moment a kill is on the line. She lives in drawn-out skirmishes where sustain matters more than burst, and she wilts when caught without a target to drain. Play her patiently, keep a drainable enemy or unit nearby, and never overcommit when your health is the thing you're spending.
Strong vs: Lady Geist is comfortable into low-health backliners she can out-sustain, since Life Drain turns their damage into her healing while Malice stacks wear them down. She does well in extended, grindy fights where sustaining off a durable target matters more than burst. Soul Exchange is a nightmare for an enemy caught at high health, because it can slam them down and top her up in a single button. She also punishes anything that wants a long duel, since the longer you trade, the more Malice stacks and drain healing she accumulates. Give her a target to feed on and she simply does not run out of health.
Weak vs: Her low base health pool means concentrated burst can kill her before she ever gets a drain off, so heroes who can delete her in a short window are a real threat. Anti-heal and healing reduction items blunt Life Drain's payoff, and dispel or debuff-resist tools strip her Malice stacks. Silence and hard crowd control stop her from reaching Soul Exchange, and a well-timed Counterspell can catch the swap. Long-range poke that keeps her from closing to drain range is also a problem, since her kit wants a target within reach. Without a drainable target nearby, she has no way to refill and folds fast.
Grey Talon is a long-range precision hunter who controls space with a chargeable piercing arrow, a trap, and a controllable spirit owl. He plays best at distance, using his bow's long falloff from 18m to 54m to whittle enemies down, then committing with Charged Shot and Guided Owl to finish them off. Rain of Arrows lifts him high into the air as a mobile firing platform with multishot, letting him threaten from unusual angles. Spirit Snare turns chokepoints and escape routes into traps that interrupt, silence, disarm, and prevent item usage. He is fragile and hates being caught out in the open without an escape, so positioning and cooldown awareness are everything. Play him patient: poke from range, trap the path, then execute.
Strong vs: Grey Talon thrives against heroes who rely on channeled ultimates he can interrupt from a distance, such as Seven's Storm Cloud and McGinnis's Heavy Barrage. Spirit Snare silences, disarms, and prevents item usage, so it shuts down heroes who depend on item actives or channeled abilities to survive. His long range and piercing arrow punish clumped enemies and anyone forced to walk predictable paths. Rain of Arrows lets him attack from the air, where many heroes struggle to reach him. He naturally picks apart slow, immobile targets that cannot close the gap quickly.
Weak vs: He is fragile, with low health and no mobility outside Rain of Arrows, so fast gap-closers who reach him can delete him before he disengages. Crowd-control suppression like Unstoppable or a dispel like Dispel Magic shrugs off his Snare, and its effect is also reduced by Debuff Resist. While holding a Charged Shot his walk speed drops to 1.5 m/s, making him a sitting duck if forced to hold it under pressure. Touching the ground instantly ends Rain of Arrows, so mistimed landings leave him exposed. Slowing Hex disables Rain of Arrows outright.
Lady Geist has the larger base health pool at 880, compared to 780 for Grey Talon.
Lady Geist has the higher weapon DPS at 43.809, versus 39.184 for Grey Talon.
Neither hero is strictly better — they fit different roles. Lady Geist is a Mystic and Grey Talon is a Marksman, so the right pick depends on your team composition, the enemy draft, and which playstyle you are comfortable with. Check the win rates on our tier list for the current patch.