Mirage

Bodyguard

Traveller

Focused

Weapon Stats
Damage Per Second:	40.3
Bullet Damage:	14.8+0.3
Ammo:	16
Bullets per sec:	2.72
Reload Time:	2.6s
Bullet Velocity:	828m/s
Light Melee:	50+1.58
Heavy Melee:	116+3.67

Information

Voice Actor:	Fareed Ward^[1]
Release Date:	September 26, 2024
Codenames:	Sandeep

“

Your life is my life.

Mirage is a Hero in Deadlock. He is agile and uses powerful wind-based abilities for disruption. By throwing out Fire Scarabs and transforming into a Dust Devil, Mirage can damage, lift up, steal life and elude his targets while applying Djinn's Mark to enemies to enhance his attacks. When the time is right, he can Travel across the map in an instant to assist his allies, hunt down weak foes and take care of objectives.

An emissary of the Djinn ambassador Nashala Dion, Mirage is a diplomatic bodyguard who is charged with carrying and protecting the djinn's vessel.

Mirage was released on September 26, 2024.

Weapon

Promises Kept

Medium Range

Heavy Hitter

40 Damage Per Second

Falloff Range

20m ➞ 58m

Abilities

Fire Scarabs

Infest an enemy with fire scarabs, stealing life from them and causing them to deal reduced damage.

x0.1

8

Damage Per Second

-20%

Damage Penalty

7s Steal Duration

1

7 Damage Per Second

2

+2 Charges

5

0 Damage Per Second
-15% Damage Penalty

Dust Devil

Transform yourself into a whirlwind that travels forward, damaging enemies, slowing their move speed and lifting them up in the air. After emerging from the tornado you gain bullet evasion.

x0.3

65

Damage

0.3s

Lift Duration

30%

Bullet Evasion Chance

4m Radius

4s Bullet Evasion Duration

30% Move Speed

3s Slow Duration

1

+60 Damage

2

-12s Cooldown
+30% Evasion

5

Recast within 6s.
+0.3s Lift Duration
Increases spirit scaling.

Mirage is Invincible when casting Dust Devil.

Djinn's Mark

Passive: Your shots apply a Djinn Mark on the target. When the mark expires or is consumed, it deals

spirit damage and the target is briefly revealed on the map. Each added mark doubles the current damage.

There is a per target Cooldown for applying additional marks

x0.35

11

Base Damage

2x

Damage Per Mark

4

Max Stacks

3s Max Frequency

5s Djinn's Mark Duration

6s Reveal Duration

40m Proc Max Range

Active: Consume all Djinn Mark's to deal its damage now.

1

On Proc: Apply a fading 60% Slow for 0.8s

2

+20 Base Damage and +3s Multiplier Duration

5

-1s Cooldown
+1 Max Marks
Stun Victim for 0.5s on Max Marks

Djinn's Mark is considered a damage-over-time ability. Thus, the damage won't knock a hero off a zipline, and it cannot be blocked by Counterspell.

Traveler

Target a location on the minimap. After a brief wait, teleport to that location. Taking damage during the wait period causes the teleport to be interrupted.

2s

Wait Time

4s Interrupt Cooldown

1

+3m Move Speed and +20% Fire Rate for 12s

2

400 Barrier that scales with Spirit

5

-80s Cooldown

Backstory

See Mirage/Lore for more story content.

“

The Djinn are one of the more curious groups of people in the modern world. Possessing great power in controlled doses, Djinn are incapable of maintaining corporeal form for longer than 48 minutes without resting within a vessel. As a result, most Djinn employ human bodyguards for transport, protection, and companionship.

Mirage is one such bodyguard. Employed by Djinn ambassador Nashala Dion, Mirage is in New York on a diplomatic mission. It's the hope of the Djinn that they can negotiate with the US government for a sale of part of Wyoming so that they can build a sovereign nation for their people.

Update history

View the full update history: Mirage/Update history

Update	Changes
May 22, 2026	Updated Djinn's Mark visuals.
April 30, 2026	Base health regen reduced from 2 to 1.5. Fire Scarabs Health Steal per second reduced from 8 to 7.
April 10, 2026	Fire Scarabs Health Steal per second reduced from 9 to 8. Fire Scarabs Health Steal per second spirit scaling reduced from 0.12 to 0.1. Djinn's Mark spirit scaling reduced from 0.38 to 0.35.

Gallery

Mirage portrait
Mirage icon
Mirage in-game render
Mirage select background
Mirage reference sheet
Mirage name typography
Mirage weapon - Promises Kept
Previous Mirage portrait
Mirage's model before the 2024-12-06 Update
Mirage 2024 Winter skin
Nashala model (unused)
Mirage's model before his official release
Gloat portrait for Mirage.
Critical health portrait for Mirage.

Trivia

Mirage became known in the player community for his screaming voice lines at release (the frequency of which was later reduced according to patch notes),^[2] as well as his unused "Akira laser" screams. This has been acknowledged by developer Kaori, who joked that Mirage's voice actor Fareed Ward could be easily identified by his screams,^[3] and referenced in voice lines by Mina, Silver and Vyper.^[4]^[5]^[6]
Nashala has an unused human-sized model in the game files.
Mirage's model was updated in the 2024-12-06 Update.
Mirage carries Nashala in the bottle in his hand. In his previous model, it used to be attached to his chest.
Mirage's first official model wasn't shipped in the game files until he was officially released. However, the model was leaked a couple weeks earlier by an updated portrait art.
Mirage's pre-release model was based on Paradox's model with a modified McGinnis head.
"Dreaming of Wyoming in the Hideout" is displayed as one's status in the in-game Friends List when playing as Mirage in the Hideout.

References

↑ 2025-06-10 - Kaori; Deadlock Discord - "Fareed is in fact currently employed by the djinn"
↑ October 10, 2024 update - "Mirage still loves the Djinn, but he yells about them less frequently."
↑ 2025-06-10 - Kaori; Deadlock Discord - "Fareed is in fact currently employed by the djinn (...) like. come on. there's no hiding that scream"
↑ Mina's in-game voice line (Killed Mirage): "You don't have to yell everything, Jesus!"
↑ Silver's in-game voice line (killed Mirage): "Won't have to hear that guy scream about the Djinn for a while."
↑ Vyper's in-game voice line - "Anything to stop that guy from yelling about the Djinn!"