DeadlockDeadlock Paradox Guide and Overview
In this Deadlock Paradox guide, you’ll learn the fundamentals of her abilities, unique play styles, and fundamental tips.
Deadlock Paradox Overview
As one of the harder characters in Deadlock, Paradox rewards the time invested into learning her with the ability to dominate a game with unique playmaking options.
Although she can work alone just fine, she can really shine when she coordinates with her team to maximize her kit.
Deadlock Paradox Strengths and Weaknesses
Strengths
Versatile with tools for any situation.
Can make massive plays with Paradoxical Swap.
High skill ceiling and room for creativity .
Weaknesses
Can be difficult to pilot in general due to high skill ceiling.
Lacks mobility and escape tools.
More reliant on team coordination to get value from her ultimate.
Deadlock Paradox Abilities
Underlined = Scales with Spirit
Pulse Grenade (1) | ||
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Throw a grenade the begins pulsing when it lands. Each pulse applies damage, movement slow, and stacking damage amplification for Paradox against the victim. | ||
7m Radius | 4 Pulses | 28s CD |
0.8s Pulse Interval | 45 Pulse Damage | 5% Damage Amp per Stack |
8s Amp Duration | 30% Movement Slow | 2s Slow Duration |
Pulse Grenade Upgrades | ||
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1 AP | 2 AP | 5 AP |
+1 Pulses | -8s CD | +45 Pulse Damage |
Maxing Pulse Grenade improves Paradox’s AoE potential for wave clear, teamfights, and taking neutral camps. It increases the number of pulses, decreases its cooldown, and upgrades its damage per pulse.
Tips for Pulse Grenade
Pulse Grenade explodes in a big sphere, so it can wrap around cover and hit enemies behind it if your skillshot indicator shows them in range before you cast it.
Remember that it can stick to walls and ceilings, so be creative with your placement.
Time Wall (2) | ||
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Create a time warping wall that stops time for all enemy projectiles and bullets that touch it. Enemies that touch the wall will take damage as a percentage of their max health and be briefly slowed. | ||
1 Charge | 8s between Charges | 37s CD |
1s Time Stop Duration | 10% Max Health Damage | 7s Duration |
80% Movement Slow | 7m Wall Width | 3.5m Wall Height |
Time Wall Upgrades | ||
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1 AP | 2 AP | 5 AP |
+2m Width, +1m Height | +1 Charges | Enemies that touch Time Wall will be silenced for 3s |
Maxing Time Wall lets Paradox maximize her defensive capabilities, giving it a larger size, a second charge, and even Silencing enemies who touch it.
Tips for Time Wall
When trying to escape enemies, we often see newer Paradox players turning around to place her wall. There’s no need for this as it works in both directions, so just place the wall in the direction you’re running and run through it.
Kinetic Carbine (3) | ||
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Start charging your weapon and gain increased movement speed once it's fully charged. Your next shot will release the energy, dealing spirit damage and applying a time stop to the enemy hit. The damage dealt is an amplification of your current weapon damage. | ||
+85% Max Damage Amp | +25% Min Damage Amp | 30s CD |
0.25s Min Stop Duration | 25% Bonus Speed | 0.5s Max Stop Duration |
5 Bullet Damage | 2.5s Full Charge Time | 3.5s Speed Duration |
Kinetic Carbine Upgrades | ||
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1 AP | 2 AP | 5 AP |
+0.5s Max Stop Duration | -10s CD and +2s Speed Boost Duration | +50% Max Damage Amp |
Maxing Kinetic Carbine gives Paradox massive pokes and increases her playmaking potential. You’ll get increased Max Stop duration to help you aim, lowered cooldown, increased movement speed, and additional damage amp.
Tips for Kinetic Carbine
You can stall yourself in the air multiple times between dashes and any other movement while Kinetic Carbine is activated, so you can really mix up your movement in a fight to get the perfect shot.
Improve your efficiency by reloading your gun while your Kinetic Carbine shot is charging.
Paradoxical Swap (4) | |
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Fire a projectile that swaps your position with the target enemy hero. While the effect occurs, you gain spirit lifesteal and the enemy hero takes damage over time. | |
30m Range | 48s CD |
125 Swap Damage | 100% Spell Lifesteal |
Paradoxical Swap Upgrades | ||
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1 AP | 2 AP | 5 AP |
+15m Cast Range | +100 Swap Damage | -15s CD |
Maxing Paradoxical Swap makes her ultimate easier to use with a longer cast range, makes it deal more damage, and lets her cast it more often.
Tips for Paradoxical Swap
This one might be obvious for Paradox veterans, but use the CC from your (1), (2), and (3) abilities to set up easier Paradoxical Swaps.
You can also do tricks like throwing a grenade at the ground and then swapping your enemy into it. Be creative and look to swap your enemy into the most fatal situations whether you’re setting it up solo or with allies.
Hero Overview
Weapon Stats
DPS | 57 |
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Bullet Damage | 7.2 |
Ammo | 40 |
Bullets per Second | 7.94 |
Light Melee | 63 |
Heavy Melee | 116 |
Vitality Stats
Max Health | 550 |
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Health Regen | 2 |
Bullet Resist | 0% |
Spirit Resist | 0% |
Move Speed | 6.5 m/s |
Sprint Speed | 0 m/s |
Stamina | 3 |