Mina

Strengths and weaknesses

Abilities

1

Rake

16s cooldown

Slash with your umbrella (10m) for 60 spirit damage plus 6% of the target's missing health. Executes non-heroes below 60 health and heals you for each target killed. Its passive lets you hold zoom to float briefly (up to 4s).

Tier 1 1 point	+60 damage
Tier 2 2 points	+30 healing per kill and -8s cooldown
Tier 3 5 points	+7% missing health damage and better healing scaling

2

Sanguine Retreat

32s cooldown

Burst into bats, becoming untargetable, and fly to a location (9m). You can recast it within 4s.

Tier 1 1 point	On cast: +25% fire rate for 8s and 8 extra bullets
Tier 2 2 points	-10s cooldown
Tier 3 5 points	+1 recast and +4m range

3

Love Bites

Passive: your bullets deal 4 bonus spirit damage, and your ability damage builds up to a vicious bite that deals 45 bonus spirit damage. Each target can only be bitten once every 10s.

Tier 1 1 point	Bites slow by 24% for 3s
Tier 2 2 points	+3 spirit damage per bullet and +45 bite damage
Tier 3 5 points	-5s per-target cooldown; bites give +25% fire rate for 5s

ULT

Nox Nostra

150s cooldown

Release a seeking bat swarm (40m) that deals spirit damage and silences for 1.25s. Its passive permanently adds 2 bats for every Love Bites proc on a hero (up to 75).

Tier 1 1 point	+1.9 damage per bat
Tier 2 2 points	-45s cooldown
Tier 3 5 points	Bats deal +0.5% of current health as damage

Ability order

Spend points in this order. Each ability's tiers cost 1, 2 and 5 points.

1. Unlock Love Bites
2. Unlock Rake
3. Unlock Sanguine Retreat
4. Love Bites T1
5. Rake T1
6. Unlock Nox Nostra
7. Rake T2
8. Love Bites T2
9. Nox Nostra T1–T2
10. Sanguine Retreat T1
11. Love Bites T3
12. Rake T3
13. Nox Nostra T3
14. Sanguine Retreat T2–T3

Item build

A starting build that works in most games. Swap pieces based on the enemy team; the notes explain what each stage is for.

Checked against 29,098 Mina matches from October 6–7, 2026 (all ranks). It keeps the items most Mina players buy and fills the other slots with the items that won most often. See the item tier list for how we measure that.

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How to play

Mina is a vampire harasser with the lowest health in the game, but plenty of ways to avoid getting hit. Love Bites adds spirit damage to her bullets and procs a big bite, Rake slashes for damage that grows with the target’s missing health, Sanguine Retreat turns her into bats, and Nox Nostra releases a bat swarm that grows every time she bites a hero.

Laning phase (0–10 min)

• Proc Love Bites on the enemy hero as often as possible. Each proc adds 2 bats to your ultimate permanently.
• Rake to finish low targets and troopers. It executes non-heroes below 60 health and heals you.
• Stay safe. At 660 health you can’t afford bad trades.

Mid game (10–25 min)

• Harass constantly. Keep stacking your swarm.
• Sanguine Retreat to escape or reposition; T3 gives an extra recast.

Late game and team fights (25+ min)

• Nox Nostra with a full swarm deals huge damage and silences.
• Rake low-health enemies. Its missing-health damage makes it a great finisher.

Combos

1. Harass: shoot → Love Bites proc → Rake.
2. Escape: Sanguine Retreat → recast → float with zoom to stay airborne.
3. Team fight: Nox Nostra on the group (silence) → Rake the lowest target.

Matchups

• Good against: heroes who can’t punish her poke, and teams with low mobility.
• Hard against: burst assassins, since she has very little health.

Pro tips

• Love Bites has a 10-second cooldown per target, so spread your attacks across several heroes to proc it more often.
• Mina has -8% debuff resist innately, so crowd control lasts slightly longer on her.

Lore

Mina Ha was due to marry into high society until her fiancé was assassinated. Her wealthy parents paid a vampire to make her immortal as consolation, and now she navigates vampire politics with her sights set on becoming the Viscount of New York.

Ability numbers are checked against the game and the community-run Deadlock Wiki after every patch. Builds are our own recommendations, checked against public match data. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.