Deadlock HandbookPatch October 6, 2026

Mirage

Hybrid carry · Mobility · Map presence · Medium to learn

A djinn bodyguard who marks targets with every shot, drains them with scarabs, and teleports anywhere on the map.

By the Deadlock Handbook team·Updated ·Checked on the October 6, 2026 patch

Strengths and weaknesses

Good at

  • Traveler teleports him anywhere on the map, letting him join any fight
  • Djinn's Mark adds damage, reveals and (T3) stuns from gunfire alone
  • Fire Scarabs drain health and cut enemy damage
  • Dust Devil is a combined engage, slow and evasion tool

Struggles with

  • Low weapon DPS (40.3) without marks
  • Traveler can be interrupted by damage during the 2s wait
  • Medium health
  • Djinn's Mark can only apply once every 2.75s per target

Abilities

1

Fire Scarabs

35s cooldown

Infest an enemy with scarabs for 5s, stealing 8 health per second and reducing their damage by 20%. 2 charges.

Tier 1
1 point		+7 DPS
Tier 2
2 points		+1 charge and +2s duration
Tier 3
5 points		An extra -15% damage penalty and better spirit scaling
2

Dust Devil

36s cooldown

Become a whirlwind that travels forward (20m), dealing 65 spirit damage, briefly lifting enemies and slowing them by 24% for 3s. You get 30% bullet evasion for 4s afterwards.

Tier 1
1 point		+60 damage
Tier 2
2 points		-12s cooldown and +30% evasion
Tier 3
5 points		Recast within 6s; better spirit scaling
3

Djinn's Mark

Passive: your shots mark the target (once every 2.75s per target, up to 4 marks). When marks expire or are consumed they deal 11 spirit damage, doubling with each extra mark. Marked targets are revealed for 6s.

Tier 1
1 point		Procs slow by 48% for 0.8s
Tier 2
2 points		+20 base damage and +3s duration
Tier 3
5 points		-0.75s cooldown, +1 max mark, and a 0.5s stun at max marks
ULT

Traveler

140s cooldown

Pick a location on the minimap, wait 2s, then teleport there. Taking damage interrupts it.

Tier 1
1 point		+3 m/s move speed and +20% fire rate for 12s after arriving
Tier 2
2 points		400 barrier (scales with spirit power)
Tier 3
5 points		-90s cooldown

Ability order

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

  1. Unlock Djinn's Mark
  2. Unlock Fire Scarabs
  3. Unlock Dust Devil
  4. Djinn's Mark T1
  5. Fire Scarabs T1
  6. Unlock Traveler
  7. Djinn's Mark T2
  8. Dust Devil T1
  9. Fire Scarabs T2
  10. Djinn's Mark T3
  11. Traveler T1–T3
  12. Dust Devil T2–T3
  13. Fire Scarabs 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 9,672 Mirage matches from October 6–7, 2026 (all ranks). It keeps the items most Mirage players buy and fills the other slots with the items that won most often. See the item tier list for how we measure that.

WeaponVitalitySpirit

StageItems
Laning (800-soul items)Nearly nine in ten Mirage players open with Mystic Regeneration for lane sustain. Extended Magazine is the best-performing early gun item on him.
Mid game core (1,600–3,200)Mirage is built as a hybrid now: cooldown and spirit items that make Djinn's Mark and Fire Scarabs come round faster, plus Toxic Bullets for anti-heal. Superior Cooldown has the best results of his mid-game items.
Late game (6,400)Most players finish Ricochet and Escalating Exposure, but both do worse in our data than other 6,400-soul items bought at the same time. Silencer and Siphon Bullets have the best results, so they're worth trying first.
SituationalSpirit Lifesteal for long fights, Inhibitor against a fed carry or healers, Spirit Rend if your team deals spirit damage, Dispel Magic against slows and silences.

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How to play

Mirage is a hybrid gun carry with global map presence. Djinn’s Mark stacks on enemies as he shoots them, Fire Scarabs drain health and cut enemy damage, Dust Devil turns him into a whirlwind, and Traveler teleports him anywhere on the map.

Laning phase (0–10 min)

  • Stack Djinn’s Mark. Keep shooting the enemy hero; marks build up and detonate for growing spirit damage.
  • Fire Scarabs to win trades. Draining health and reducing their damage by 20% swings the trade in your favour.

Mid game (10–25 min)

  • Use Traveler to join fights. Teleport to a lane where your team is fighting, or to defend an objective.
  • Dust Devil to engage. It lifts and slows enemies, then gives you bullet evasion.

Late game and team fights (25+ min)

  • Traveler T3 cuts the cooldown by 90 seconds. Teleport to almost every fight.
  • Max out marks on the carry. With T3, max marks stun for 0.5 seconds.

Combos

  1. Duel: Fire Scarabs → shoot to stack marks → Dust Devil to slow → keep shooting.
  2. Global gank: Traveler next to a fight → (T1) +20% fire rate → Fire Scarabs → mark stacking.
  3. Escape: Dust Devil (evasion) → Traveler to safety (only if you won’t be hit).

Matchups

  • Good against: gun duelists (Fire Scarabs cuts their damage), and slow heroes.
  • Hard against: burst heroes who kill him before marks stack.

Pro tips

  • Djinn’s Mark reveals targets for 6 seconds, which helps track enemies.
  • Traveler from somewhere safe. Any damage during the 2-second wait cancels it.

Lore

Mirage is the bodyguard of Nashala Dion, a djinn ambassador. He's with her in New York on a diplomatic mission to negotiate the purchase of Wyoming as a sovereign nation for the djinn.

Frequently asked questions

How does Djinn's Mark work?

Mirage's shots apply a mark to the target, at most once every 2.75 seconds. Marks stack up to 4 (5 with T3). When they expire or are consumed, they deal spirit damage that doubles for each extra mark, and marked targets are revealed for 6 seconds. With T3, reaching max marks stuns for 0.5 seconds.

How does Traveler work?

Click a location on the minimap, wait 2 seconds, and Mirage teleports there. Damage during the wait interrupts it. With T3 its cooldown drops by 90 seconds, so he can teleport to nearly every fight.

How do you counter Mirage?

Damage him during Traveler's 2-second wait to interrupt it. Don't let marks stack up, and buy bullet resist against his gun.

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.