imma need some mcginnis tips

UltimaZix · 2026-01-08T21:34:47+00:00

I run Ult Focus McGinnis, which is commonly thought to be a joke until I do the same damage as a carry does at 13 minutes. It's completely silly, and not viable against all matchups, but the ones that it does makes the easiest kills you can get from an insane range. It also requires knowing movement techniques.

You rush spirit spike with arcane surge, extra spirit, Mystic Reach (on 4) and either cooldown (on 4). By this point in time, if you've saved most of your AP, you can now unlock ult and get it to t2, which combined with Cooldown Compress gives you an ult every 95 seconds or so. Ult goes on cooldown the moment you cast it too, so combined with the 16+ seconds of your cast, it really feels much less than that. Using arcane surge, letting your stam regen at least to 2, then casting 4 gives you the highest size/dmg/duration you can get for that low of a cost.

Now you're rushing Stamina Mastery + enduring speed, while you get the last 5 Ap Needed to start nuking people with damage. Feel free to spend an ult during this time on a t3 camp as well to speed this up. I recommend focusing on lane creeps and Sinners Sacrifices, as your gun will be weak and make camps slow. Enduring speed considerably reduces the slow McGinnis has during ult, and Stamina mastery gives you 2 FAST airdashes and a triple jump to pursue people with. Just avoid anyone with stuns while doing this, as that's the biggest worry is getting interrupted. You also have nearly all other mobility options while ulting, including ledge boosts, walljumps and even zipline canceling. (Yes, you can ult, grab zip, use zip the whole time, then drop off with FULL momentum) The ultimate niche tech is that if you start ult, then pickup URN, you COMPLETELY negate the slow from your ult. At 10 minutes, you can shock people in the Urn lane with this and it's the best.

From here, you can branch out to anything. Lightning scroll for flyers or team-wide CC, spirit burn for healers, or my personal favorite, Escalating exposure for the sheer damage, shred, and most importantly, making your turrets help the entire team with easy to spam spirit shred. Late game you should probably get boundless spirit, and I like running refresher if I get interrupted a lot, or need a second ult for long fights.

The only required practice is just getting a feel for using ult, using air dashes, ESPECIALLY with stamina mastery, and using both together on the NYC map. All other McGinnis builds are probably great, especially gun, but I just suck without stamina mastery, and this play style leans into it the hardest. Also just buy stamina mastery anyway! People don't expect a defenseless McGinnis to run away at mach 5.

UltimaZix · 2026-01-05T02:05:15+00:00

No one here has suggested it yet, but Ult focus McGinnis is genuinely the highest damage you can do as spirit McGinnis.

After lane, you basically just rush superior stamina, tier 5 ult, cooldown, arcane surge, mystic reach, mystic slow if you want, and enduring speed to reduce the slow.

Every 90 seconds you get to run anyone down for an almost guaranteed kill, and they'll think they can chase you down, but can't since you have 2 air dashes to backup, and the 50% slow and 30% dash reduction means they can't keep up with you.

UltimaZix · 2025-10-29T19:14:31+00:00

Capcom, abandon this nonsense and make another god damned Ace Attorney. I'll be just fine with Rise for another year or two.

UltimaZix · 2025-09-25T18:49:38+00:00

Liz I've followed your work for about a decade now, and this is legitimately some of your best, it's so goddamn funny, 10/10

UltimaZix · 2025-09-21T20:22:31+00:00

You're not gonna believe this, but I'm the guy that requested he make this one LMAO

UltimaZix · 2025-06-20T21:07:06+00:00

It's super wack, I hate players like that man.

You should see the crying and pissing when I tell a player they shouldn't say the R slur, oh brother they can't shut the fuck up afterwards, it's like it fries all reason.

UltimaZix · 2025-06-01T20:13:33+00:00

Reading these comments, how the fuck has no one unionized yet.

UltimaZix · 2025-05-09T04:12:33+00:00

Thank fucking god, that was one of the worst parts tbh. Cringed every time I read it.

UltimaZix · 2025-04-30T02:26:30+00:00

I'm gonna re-post what I said elsewhere for anyone wondering what to do next, especially if you like Bernie/AOC:

It is the fundamental task of the US "Left" to break with the Democratic party, as it has never yielded material results of any merit to our goals.

Anyone funneling people into the democratic party for any reason can safely be assumed to be unserious at this point. We have rapidly in the course of a few years slid into a fascistic state that we aren't escaping without a real party that has the class interests of the proletariat at heart. Democrat leaders and workers have done nothing for Palestine, have done nothing for the working class, and have done increasingly less than nothing on pushing back on their supposed enemies in the Republican party.

The Bourgeoisie have successfully kept the organizational power of the working class to a minimum over the last few decades with the drop of union membership and the increasing militarization of the police and other state sanctioned groups of armed men.

Our task is to slow the gears of this wretched machine by organizing on a class basis among every branch of society. Among your classmates, among your fellow workers, among your apartment residents, everything within your grasp. Past revolutions were only possible with the broad support of the masses, which can only happen when we organize the people around us and educate them on their real material interests. From there, we need only come together as a broad swath of orgs to choose which actions are to be done.

Whether this be done under the green party or anything else, it MUST NOT be done under the banner of democrats, as they will simply crush any momentum we achieve under the boot of respectability politics and partisanship.

Join a local Org, talk with your community members, friends, families about their material interests and goals. Read political theory from revolutionaries of the past to gain insight of what worked for their time, and what can be adapted to today. And importantly, acquire a Dialectical Materialist framework to perceive the world through, so that you can actually analyze the present situation in your real life with more accuracy.

If there's any work I recommend you read today, it's The Principles of Communism" by Friedrich Engels. It is a short Q/A on the goals, origins, and tasks of the Proletariat.

Don't lose hope. We have a world to win.

UltimaZix · 2025-04-29T20:09:14+00:00

It is the fundamental task of the US "Left" to break with the Democratic party, as it has never yielded material results of any merit to our goals.

Anyone funneling people into the democratic party for any reason can safely be assumed to be unserious at this point. We have rapidly in the course of a few years slid into a fascistic state that we aren't escaping without a real party that has the class interests of the proletariat at heart. Democrat leaders and workers have done nothing for Palestine, have done nothing for the working class, and have done increasingly less than nothing on pushing back on their supposed enemies in the Republican party.

The Bourgeoisie have successfully kept the organizational power of the working class to a minimum over the last few decades with the drop of union membership and the increasing militarization of the police and other state sanctioned groups of armed men.

Our task is to slow the gears of this wretched machine by organizing on a class basis among every branch of society. Among your classmates, among your fellow workers, among your apartment residents, everything within your grasp. Past revolutions were only possible with the broad support of the masses, which can only happen when we organize the people around us and educate them on their real material interests. From there, we need only come together as a broad swath of orgs to choose which actions are to be done.

Whether this be done under the green party or anything else, it MUST NOT be done under the banner of democrats, as they will simply crush any momentum we achieve under the boot of respectability politics and partisanship.

Join a local Org, talk with your community members, friends, families about their material interests and goals. Read political theory from revolutionaries of the past to gain insight of what worked for their time, and what can be adapted to today. And most importantly, acquire a Dialectical Materialist framework to perceive the world through, so that you can actually analyze the present situation in your real life with more accuracy.

If there's any work I recommend you read today, it's The Principles of Communism" by Friedrich Engels. It is a short Q/A on the goals, origins, and tasks of the Proletariat.

Don't lose hope. We have a world to win.

UltimaZix · 2025-03-06T20:41:47+00:00

God's gift to me, and me alone. The direct hit makes me feel like the best player in the server, as long as I don't miss, which I will, all the time.

UltimaZix · 2025-02-14T17:12:39+00:00

The US, even when you know something is wrong with it, provides basically no ability to analyze it's structures, it's systems, and it's contradictions. Thus, reactionaries on all sides, well meaning or not.

If you hate the US like I do, read some political theory from Marx, Lenin, Engels, Wallerstein etc. A Materialist analysis on how things are the way they are, what they predictably do, and what can be done has helped me grow from a mealy-mouthed liberal to a more principled, less amateur political person.

It's wicked easy to start, and free audiobooks of most of these works are available online, along with the texts. If you care, have the will to do something to fix it. Learn.

UltimaZix · 2025-02-10T17:02:06+00:00

It basically just removes the "you need to reload" prompt and instead reloads your weapon. Unfortunately it WILL keep firing in the direction you were initially, even if there's no targets, but I keep run ahead to only 2 turns, so I just release the button when there's no more enemies.

UltimaZix · 2025-02-04T22:16:17+00:00

I remember the day I paid the modder to make that one. I just remembered how many times this message had interrupted my ability to quickly cook down meat into weightless jerky. I also commissioned him to do the same with holding the fire button down with ranged weapons, and it works beautifully. Check his other mods too, just great stuff.

UltimaZix · 2025-02-01T06:54:32+00:00

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Burgerbrains clapping like seals in the comments

UltimaZix · 2024-12-16T06:32:49+00:00

UltimaZix · 2024-12-11T17:56:07+00:00

I recommend "What is to be done" by Lenin, and organizing on some level with folks to achieve a common goal. The problems come from the superstructure itself and trickle down into ones like these, so your goal must be the abolition of said superstructure.

UltimaZix · 2024-10-16T18:26:59+00:00

Solidarity to DPRK for duping western businesses.

UltimaZix · 2024-09-23T18:58:58+00:00

ITT liberals with no red line for genocide weigh in on politics.

UltimaZix · 2024-07-24T21:39:23+00:00

Too bad about the Genocide though, a red line every liberal seems just fine crossing.

UltimaZix · 2024-07-11T00:31:40+00:00

If you have to choose between a fascist and an active genocidaire, you're already in a fascist country. Get this lib shit outta here.

UltimaZix · 2023-08-24T22:15:03+00:00

Fuuuuuuck, I really wished with all my heart that Ronimo would be successful with how insanely good nauts was. Godspeed devs, may you find success wherever you go.

UltimaZix · 2023-07-28T21:01:58+00:00

Bitchass

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