How to counter Nurse Harrow in Deadlock

Hybrid hero. Counter items for lane, mid and late game, and tips for the hero you play.

Updated for patch 10-05-2026. Counter profile from 2026-11-06.

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Threat profile

Gun healer support. Her syringes heal allies, leeches she collects from you make her stronger, Wretched Vapors delays an ally's damage, and her ult fears anyone who looks at her.

Key principle

Anti heal is the most reliable counter. Focus her early, she has no escape and loses leech stacks every time she dies. Turn away from Lurking Terrors, facing away stops the fear and halves the damage, and keep hitting a Vapors target, the stored damage lands later.

Lane phase items≈ 0-10 min

Healbane the core counter, it cuts the healing on her and on the teammate she keeps alive.
Rusted Barrel her gun is her healing, so cutting her fire rate cuts her heals.
Suppressor your spirit damage lowers her fire rate, which also lowers her healing output.
Debuff Reducer shortens the fear from Lurking Terrors.

Mid game items≈ 10-25 min

Counterspell How to use: parry as her leech jar reaches you. It should stop the leech from attaching, so she can't collect it for stacks. Don't rely on it against Lurking Terrors, the fear builds over almost 2 seconds, so turn away and leave the cone instead.
Toxic Bullets gun anti heal, use it on the teammate she's healing.
Decay strong anti heal on her or her patient.
Knockdown interrupts Lurking Terrors, even with her T3 damage reduction.
Disarming Hex shuts off her gun, which also stops her healing syringes for 4 seconds.

Late game items≈ 25 min +

Cursed Relic interrupts Lurking Terrors and disarms her, so she can't heal or ult.
Crippling Headshot headshots cut healing by 35% and lower her resists.
Spirit Burn for spirit heroes, a big spirit burst cuts healing by 70%.
Inhibitor for gun heroes, cuts healing by 40% and damage by 30% on whoever you shoot.
Unstoppable ignores the Lurking Terrors fear.
Focus Lens silences her for 4.5 seconds, so she can't start her ult or use Wretched Vapors.

Patch note

11-04-2026: Buffed. Bullet damage up 8%, and Lurking Terrors now builds fear faster (1.75s) with a taller cone. On 10-30 her gun and Healing Needles were nerfed, and the T3 ult now gives 50% damage reduction instead of immunity.