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DeadlockDeadlock Haze Guide and Overview

In this Deadlock Haze guide, you’ll learn the fundamentals of his abilities, unique play styles, and fundamental tips.

Haze's hero tags are: Assassin, Stealthy, Lethal

Voice Actor: Unknown

Deadlock Haze Overview

Haze is the stealth-based hero of Deadlock, with the usual Rogue-esque playstyle of isolating targets, attacking from key angles from stealth, or causing havoc with enemies trying to track you.

On top of these aspects, she also has what is essentially Reaper’s ult from Overwatch, offering a ton of AoE team fight damage with Bullet Dance.

Lore

The Occult Security and Investigation Commission is a black box government organization that makes the CIA look transparent. It falls on the men, women, and entities of the OSIC to keep the country safe from sinister forces that are beyond the capabilities of local law enforcement.

As a member of the notorious Sandman Division, Haze is routinely tasked with infiltrating the dreams of persons of interest, to assess their threat level, and if needed... to put them to sleep.

Strengths and Weaknesses Summary

Strong when ahead
Invisibility
Great at farming and pushing

Little utility for the team
Her ultimate can be interrupted
No mobility

Deadlock Haze Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths

Haze has high damage and scaling from items, making her a threat when she gets ahead.
Her invisibility lets her safely navigate the map and chase down enemies.
Smoke Bomb + Sleep Dagger is her bread-and-butter combo to get picks on enemies and start fights.

Weaknesses

Struggles with damage when behind, and her only utility tool is Sleep Dagger.
Her ultimate is easily interrupted by CC and items like Knockdown and Cursed Relic.
She has no mobility, and Smoke Bomb is her only escape tool, but it is not reliable against experienced players.

Deadlock Haze Abilities

Underlined = Scales with Spirit

Sleep Dagger (1)
Throw a dagger that damages and sleeps the target. Sleeping targets wake up shortly after being damaged. Throwing a dagger does not break your invisibility. Sleep Dagger does not interrupt enemies' channeling abilities.
Sleep Status Effect	65 Damage	30s Cooldown
0.2s Min Sleep Time	0.1s Wake Up Time	2.75s Sleep Duration

Sleep Dagger (1)

Sleep Dagger

Throw a dagger that damages and sleeps the target. Sleeping targets wake up shortly after being damaged. Throwing a dagger does not break your invisibility. Sleep Dagger does not interrupt enemies' channeling abilities.

Sleep Status Effect

65 Damage

30s Cooldown

0.2s Min Sleep Time

0.1s Wake Up Time

2.75s Sleep Duration

Sleep Dagger Upgrades
1 AP	2 AP	5 AP
10% Bullet Resist Reduction for 6s	+1s Sleep Duration and Applies 15 Fixation Stacks	-17s Cooldown and -50% Move and Dash Speed for 3s on wake-up

Maxing Sleep Dagger makes it easier to kill targets by reducing their Stamina (escape potential) and Bullet Resist, and lets you spam it more often with reduced cooldown.

Tips for Sleep Dagger

In situations where you’re against an isolated target, take the time to get closer and position after a Sleep Dagger lands before you fire at them. This will help you get more headshots and maximize your damage and kill potential.

Smoke Bomb (2)
Fade out of sight, becoming invisible and gaining sprint speed. Attacking removes invisibility. Close enemies can see through your invisibility.
8s Duration	Invisible Status Effect	33s Cooldown
18m Spot Radius	1.5s Fade Time

Smoke Bomb (2)

Fade out of sight, becoming invisible and gaining sprint speed. Attacking removes invisibility. Close enemies can see through your invisibility.

8s Duration

Invisible Status Effect

33s Cooldown

18m Spot Radius

1.5s Fade Time

Smoke Bomb Upgrades
1 AP	2 AP	5 AP
+7m/s Invis Sprint Speed	Enables 2 Ability Charges	Dispels non-ult debuffs and grants 50% Lifesteal for 5s

Maxing Smoke Bomb almost halves its cooldown, provides additional Sprint Speed when Invisible, and grants you Bullet Lifesteal.

Tips for Smoke Bomb

Learning how to maximize the fundamental movement options like Slides, Dashes, Dash Jumps is helpful for any Deadlock hero but is particularly crucial for Haze players.
Experienced enemy players will be good at predicting your movement into invisibility so knowing how to mixup your movement until you’re safe will greatly improve your survivability.

Fixation (3)
Shooting a target increases your bullet damage on that target. Gain one stack per bullet hit, three if the hit is a headshot.
6s Duration	+0.2 per stack Weapon Damage	40 Max Stacks

Fixation (3)

Fixation

Shooting a target increases your bullet damage on that target. Gain one stack per bullet hit, three if the hit is a headshot.

6s Duration

+0.2 per stack Weapon Damage

40 Max Stacks

Fixation Upgrades
1 AP	2 AP	5 AP
40 Spirit damage and 15% slow for 2s to target every 20 stacks	+40 Max Stacks and +5s Duration	+0.11 per stack Weapon Damage

Maxing Fixation makes your left-click primary fire absolutely monstrous with upgraded stacks that add Spirit damage, slow, max stacks, duration, and more Weapon damage per stack.

Tips for Fixation

Different characters have different head sizes and shapes - some easier than others For example, did you know that Mo And Krill have two heads that proc headshots?
Factor character sizes when aiming, as it’s better to hit a body shot than try for a headshot and miss completely.

Bullet Dance (4)
Enter a flurry, firing your weapon at nearby enemies with perfect accuracy. During the flurry, Haze gains a fire rate bonus and will evade some of the bullets shot at her.
3s Channel Time	16m Range	145s Cooldown
+25% Fire Rate	3.5m/s Dance Movespeed	+6 Bullet Damage

Bullet Dance (4)

Enter a flurry, firing your weapon at nearby enemies with perfect accuracy. During the flurry, Haze gains a fire rate bonus and will evade some of the bullets shot at her.

3s Channel Time

16m Range

145s Cooldown

+25% Fire Rate

3.5m/s Dance Movespeed

+6 Bullet Damage

Bullet Dance Upgrades
1 AP	2 AP	5 AP
+7 Bullet Damage	+10% Fire Rate and +3m Move Speed	+40% Evasion and -75s Cooldown

Maxing Bullet Dance increases its damage output and lets you cast it more often.

Tips for Bullet Dance

Unstoppable is a crucial late-game buy to make sure your Bullet Dance gets off consistently.
Flanking with this ult from invisibility can devastate enemy teams that aren’t ready or are distracted by your team

Haze Build Guide

Check out the best starter build for Haze

Hero Overview

Weapon Stats

DPS	48
Bullet Damage	5.04
Ammo	25
Bullets per Second	9.52
Light Melee	50
Heavy Melee	116

Vitality Stats

Max Health	650
Health Regen	2
Bullet Resist	0%
Spirit Resist	0%
Move Speed	8.31 m/s
Sprint Speed	2 m/s
Stamina	3

How to Counter Haze

Haze has a weak laning phase, so look to bully her in the early game.
Be careful pushing your lane hard if she hasn't shown on the map, have an exit plan or proceed with an ally nearby.
Keep an eye on her itemization and change your gameplan accordingly.