AbramsThreat · Lane
Watch for
His engage can reach you if you stand in melee range.
Do this
Keep distance from his engage and heal the teammate he pressures from cover. Do not walk into melee range to retrieve leeches.
How to play
How to play Nurse Harrow in Deadlock
How to play Nurse Harrow in Deadlock
DifficultyHard
RoleSupport
Quick answer
- Your job
- Keep the teammate doing the fighting alive, collect leeches to strengthen your sustain, and use fear to protect your team or push enemies out of a useful position.
- Positioning
- Play behind or beside your frontline, close enough to land healing shots and reach returning leeches.
- How to win fights
- Keep a clear healing angle on the teammate your team needs for the next fight or objective, and heal before they are already lost.
- When you’re in trouble
- Move back toward your frontline and cover.
Strong at
- Sustained healingHealing Needles keep an ally fighting through a long exchange.
- Growing sustainCollected leeches grant lasting regeneration and fire rate.
- Facing pressureEnemies who look at her ultimate build terror and lose movement options.
Weak to
- Aim and chargesHealing needs accurate shots and available charges.
- Risky pickupsUnsafe leech pickups put her in danger, and deaths cost stacks.
- Split teammatesAllies who fight out of her range are hard to support.
How to play Nurse Harrow
The full version of the quick answer.
Your goal
Keep the teammate doing the fighting alive, collect leeches to strengthen your sustain, and use fear to protect your team or push enemies out of a useful position.
Positioning
Play behind or beside your frontline, close enough to land healing shots and reach returning leeches. Use cover between heals and keep a retreat route.
How to fight
- Keep a clear healing angle on the teammate your team needs for the next fight or objective, and heal before they are already lost.
- Use Wretched Vapours for a planned commitment. Its damage is delayed, not erased: heal the affected ally to clear the stored spectres, then help them reach cover before the slower crash.
- Use Lurking Terrors when enemies must face you to fight, or to discourage a dive onto your backline. Enemies who look at you build terror and lose stamina and movement abilities; enemies who turn away take reduced damage.
- Before the final upgrade, channel from a protected angle. The final upgrade grants damage immunity while channeling, but not control immunity: enemies can still interrupt it with Knockdown.
When an enemy threatens you
Move back toward your frontline and cover. Use Lurking Terrors to discourage a dive onto you, but do not rely on it as a guaranteed escape; before its final upgrade you can still be damaged while channeling.
Nurse Harrow Items & Ability Order
Popular Nurse Harrow Items
See which items Nurse Harrow players purchase throughout a match, exploring common choices for her combination of sustain support and teamfight control.
0–9 min
Extra Regen88%
Extended Magazine66%
Titanic Magazine59%
Extra Spirit47%
9–20 min
Healing Booster52%
Arcane Surge40%
Duration Extender33%
Mystic Expansion31%
20–30 min
Superior Duration36%
Superior Cooldown32%
Ricochet26%
Greater Expansion23%
30+ min
Healing Tempo22%
Boundless Spirit19%- Ricochet17%
- Superior Duration11%
Nurse Harrow Ability Order
Compare Nurse Harrow’s popular ability paths and how players develop healing, harassment and control through their first 10 upgrades.
| Ability point | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Leech Therapy | 1 | 2 | – | – | 5 | – | – | – | – | – |
 Healing Needles | – | – | 3 | – | – | 6 | – | 8 | – | – |
 Wretched Vapors | – | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | 10 |
 Lurking Terrors | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7 | – | 9 | – |
| Ability point | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leech Therapy | 1 | 2 | – | – | 5 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Healing Needles | – | – | 3 | – | – | 6 | – | 8 | – | – |
| Wretched Vapors | – | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | – | 9 | – |
| Lurking Terrors | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7 | – | – | 10 |
| Ability point | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leech Therapy | 1 | 2 | – | – | – | 6 | – | – | – | – |
| Healing Needles | – | – | 3 | 4 | – | – | – | 8 | – | – |
| Wretched Vapors | – | – | – | – | 5 | – | – | – | – | 10 |
| Lurking Terrors | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7 | – | 9 | – |
Nurse Harrow game plan
Timings are approximate. When teams start grouping and pushing objectives, use the next phase’s advice.
Early game
~0–10 minUse Leech Therapy when enemies commit to trading or stand close together, then pick up the leeches when the route is safe: the pickup heals you and builds lasting regeneration and fire rate. Keep farming and dealing damage between healing clips, because damage recovers Healing Needles charges.
Mid game
~10–25 minMove with an ally who can hold the fight near you. Use Wretched Vapours for a planned commitment, heal the affected ally to clear the stored damage, and help them reach cover before the crash.
Late game
~25+ minKeep a clear healing angle on your damage dealer, save resources for the enemy’s commitment and collect only safe leeches. Protect your own life: dying costs part of your leech stacks.
Tips
Good to know
- Recast Healing Needles to return to fighting when nobody needs a heal; unused syringes refund part of a charge.
- Heal a Vapours target before the crash; a healthy-looking bar can hide stored damage.
- Use safe leech pickups to prepare for the next fight, rather than risking stacks after the fight is already lost.
- Upgraded needles extend non-ultimate buffs up to their maximum duration; they do not refresh ultimates.
Avoid these mistakes
- Chasing leech pickups after the fight is already lost and losing stacks.
- Using Wretched Vapours without being able to heal the ally through the crash.
- Standing alone behind the fight where an enemy can isolate you.
If you’re struggling
Stay near the teammate who is fighting, heal from cover and take only safe leech pickups. Contribute damage between clips to keep your charges coming back.
One useful tip
Heal a Vapours target before the crash; a healthy-looking health bar can hide stored damage.
Matchups to watch
Heroes that change how you play Nurse Harrow. Situational adjustments, not rankings.
HazeThreat · Mid game
Watch for
She looks for isolated targets behind the fight.
Do this
Stay near protection so she cannot isolate you. Keep a safe route back to your team instead of standing alone behind the fight.
Grey TalonThreat · Lane
Watch for
An exposed healing angle gives him repeated long-range shots.
Do this
Use cover between healing shots instead of holding the same open angle.
BebopThreat · Lane
Watch for
His hook can reach you through the same line as your ally.
Do this
Heal from an angle where the ally in front does not expose you to the same hook line. Reposition when that protection moves.
