Mina

1:17 Mina is a Deadlock hero who plays as a ranged glass cannon: her passive, Love Bites, turns pistol hits into bursts of spirit damage, Rake finishes troopers and wounded heroes, Sanguine Retreat turns her into bats to escape, and her ultimate, Nox Nostra, releases a swarm of bats that silence. Valve called her "a glass cannon that delivers quick bursts of Spirit damage at range" when it added her on Aug 18, 2025, the first of its Six New Heroes, released ahead of the five that players then voted on (Hero Voting).

Quick facts

Source: the game files as read by deadlock-api and its item data, Oct 26, 2026 (current with Valve's Oct 14, 2026 patch); win rate from deadlock-api's measured hero stats, normal-mode matches Oct 15 to Oct 25, 2026.

Abilities

Source: the game files as read by deadlock-api, Oct 26, 2026.

5:15 Rake is her lane and finishing tool. It heals 25 per kill (0.3 per point of Spirit Power), and Mina can float with her umbrella for up to 4s, a time Valve raised from 2.5s on Mar 6, 2026. T1 adds 60 damage, T2 adds 30 heal per kill and cuts 8s from the cooldown, and T3 adds 7% more missing-health damage and 1.2 heal scaling, per the game files.

6:08 Sanguine Retreat is her escape. T1 grants 25% fire rate and 8 extra bullets for 8s on cast, T2 cuts 10s from the cooldown, and T3 adds a second recast and 4m of range, per the game files. Valve stopped it from resetting air jumps and dashes on Nov 21, 2025.

2:44 Love Bites is her damage engine. Each bullet adds 4 spirit damage (0.09 scaling), and the bite itself deals 45 bonus damage with 1.85 spirit scaling, once every 10s per target. T1 slows 24% for 3s on proc, T2 adds 3 damage per bullet and 45 bite damage, and T3 cuts 5s from the per-target cooldown and grants 25% fire rate for 5s on proc, per the game files. Each bite also makes her stronger for the rest of the match, as Valve's reveal put it: every proc on a hero permanently adds 2 bats to Nox Nostra, up to 50 more.

8:33 Nox Nostra is her team-fight ultimate: each bat hit deals 4.6 damage (raised from 4.45 on Jun 30, 2026) and silences. T1 adds 1.9 damage per hit, T2 cuts 45s from the cooldown, and T3 adds 0.5% of the target's current health per hit, per the game files.

How to play

Mina plays from range, landing pistol shots to trigger Love Bites and escaping before she is caught. Mobalytics' Mina guide lists high mobility, burst from Rake, Love Bites and Nox Nostra, and sustain as her strengths, and her glass-cannon health, poor weapon scaling and items that hard-counter her as weaknesses. She starts with 660 health and gains only 27 per boon, per the game files.

In lane, Rake clears troopers under 60% health and heals her per kill, while Love Bites punishes enemies who trade. Dexerto's Mina build (Feb 26, 2026) unlocks Rake, Sanguine Retreat, Love Bites and then Nox Nostra. See Ability Points and Leveling for how points come in.

9:40 In fights, she wants to proc Love Bites on as many heroes as she can before casting Nox Nostra, since every proc adds bats for good. Sanguine Retreat is her only escape, so she holds it until she is targeted.

Builds

Players build Mina for spirit, as deadlock-api measured in her matches from Oct 15 to 25, 2026:

Source: deadlock-api, item stats for Mina, Oct 15 to Oct 25, 2026.

Dexerto's build runs Extra Spirit, Mystic Burst, Healing Rite, Cold Front and Extra Stamina early; Improved Spirit, Kinetic Dash, Dispel Magic, Toxic Bullets and Stamina Mastery mid; and Superior Cooldown, Boundless Spirit, Spirit Burn, Surge of Power and Spirit Rend late. Most of these are Spirit Items, with Healing Rite, Extra Stamina, Dispel Magic and Stamina Mastery from Vitality Items and Kinetic Dash, Toxic Bullets and Spirit Rend from Weapon Items. Items and Shop explains costs and slots.

Counters and matchups

10:58 Mina is countered by anything that stops her escape or bursts her low health, Mobalytics' guide says: Slowing Hex shuts off Sanguine Retreat, burst such as Pocket's Enchanter's Satchel or Sinclair's Vexing Bolt kills her, and fast-firing guns such as Infernus or Wraith chip her out. Among Counter Items, Mobalytics' Street Brawl guide (Aug 27, 2026) also lists Cursed Relic against her.

Measured matchups put her worst against Graves (36.8% win rate when facing), Rat King (38.4%) and Paige (38.5%), and best against Mirage (50.8%), Pocket (50.6%) and Shiv (49.8%), in deadlock-api's counter stats for Oct 15 to 25, 2026. Graves, Rat King and Paige win more against almost everyone in that window, so read those numbers against her own 44.94% average.

Patch history

• Sep 16, 2026: every move slow in the game was cut by about 20% (Valve), which is why Love Bites' T1 slow reads 24% in the game files after Valve's 30% in March.
• Jul 28, 2026: Sanguine Retreat's recast window raised from 3.5s to 4s, its T3 range from +3m to +4m (Valve).
• Jun 30, 2026: Rake's missing-health damage raised from 5% to 6%; Nox Nostra damage raised from 4.45 to 4.6 (Valve). The same update made every ultimate's cooldowns 15% weaker, which is why Nox Nostra reads 150s with a -45s T2 in the game files after Valve's 130s and -55s in March.
• May 22, 2026: Mina gained -8% innate debuff resist; Love Bites' flat on-hit damage no longer applies to abilities; Nox Nostra's T3 cut from 1% to 0.5% current health (Valve).
• Apr 30, 2026: Nox Nostra DPS cut by 6% (Valve).
• Mar 6, 2026: Rake's cooldown raised from 10s to 16s with new T1 to T3; Sanguine Retreat's upgrades rewritten; Love Bites' cooldown raised from 8s to 10s; Nox Nostra's cooldown raised from 115s to 130s (Valve).
• Nov 21, 2025: Sanguine Retreat cooldown raised from 30s to 32s; Love Bites cooldown from 7s to 8s (Valve).

All Valve changes are in Patches and Updates.

Lore

35:19 Mina Ha was born rich and engaged to marry into "American royalty", Valve's in-game lore entry says; when her fiance was assassinated she wept, not for him but for the future stolen from her (game files, Oct 26, 2026). Valve's Aug 18, 2025 post introduced her as "Mina the vampire". More on the city in Lore and Setting.

Frequently asked questions

Is Mina good in Deadlock? Mina won 44.94% of normal-mode Deadlock matches from Oct 15 to 25, 2026, 41st of 44 heroes, while appearing in 39.33% of them, in deadlock-api's measurement. Dexerto's Oct 9, 2026 tier list puts her in C tier and Mobalytics' expert list (Oct 22, 2026) in A.

When was Mina added to Deadlock? Valve added Mina to Deadlock on Aug 18, 2025, the first of its Six New Heroes, with the other five unlocking every other day by player vote.

What is the best Mina build in Deadlock? The most bought Mina items in Deadlock from Oct 15 to 25, 2026 were Extra Spirit, Mystic Burst and Quicksilver Reload in lane, Tankbuster and Stamina Mastery mid game, and Spirit Burn, Boundless Spirit and Superior Cooldown late, per deadlock-api.

How does Mina's Love Bites work? In Deadlock, Mina's passive Love Bites adds 4 spirit damage to each bullet and builds to a 45-damage bite, once every 10s per target, and each bite on a hero permanently adds 2 bats to her ultimate, per the game files (Oct 26, 2026).

How do you counter Mina? In Deadlock, counter Mina with Slowing Hex to stop Sanguine Retreat, burst damage against her 660 base health, and fast-firing guns, as Mobalytics advises.

Is Mina a vampire? Yes: Valve introduced her as "Mina the vampire" in its Aug 18, 2025 Deadlock post, and her kit turns her into bats and feeds on Love Bites.

Sources

• Items and abilities (data read from the game files), deadlock-api, Oct 26, 2026
• Heroes (data read from the game files), deadlock-api, Oct 26, 2026
• Hero stats, normal-mode matches Oct 15 to Oct 25, 2026, deadlock-api, Oct 26, 2026
• Hero counter stats, Oct 15 to Oct 25, 2026, deadlock-api, Oct 26, 2026
• Item stats for Mina, Oct 15 to Oct 25, 2026, deadlock-api, Oct 26, 2026
• Minor Update - 09-16-2026, Valve, Sep 16, 2026
• Minor Update - 07-28-2026, Valve, Jul 28, 2026
• Minor Update - 06-30-2026, Valve, Jun 30, 2026
• Gameplay Update - 05-22-2026, Valve, May 22, 2026
• Gameplay Update - 04-30-2026, Valve, Apr 30, 2026
• Gameplay Update - 03-06-2026, Valve, Mar 6, 2026
• 11-21-2025 Update, Valve, Nov 21, 2025
• Six New Heroes, Valve, Aug 18, 2025
• Best Mina build in Deadlock, Dexerto (Cande Maldonado), Feb 26, 2026
• Deadlock Tier List: Best characters to pick in the 2026 meta, Dexerto, Oct 9, 2026
• Deadlock Mina Guide, Mobalytics, undated, read Oct 26, 2026
• Expert Deadlock Tier List, Mobalytics (RinaVX), Oct 22, 2026
• Deadlock Street Brawl Mode Explained, Mobalytics (dxvis), Aug 27, 2026
• How to Play Mina in Deadlock, The Gwen Gaming Experience, Jul 23, 2026 (video)
• The Complete Lore Of Valve's Next Game | Deadlock Story Explained, OhHeckItsTristan, Mar 28, 2026 (video)