DeadlockDeadlock Paradox Guide and 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.

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.

Underlined = Scales with Spirit

Pulse Grenade (1)
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

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)
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

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)
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. You can slow time on yourself by pressing [RMC] while an empowered shot is available.
+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

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)
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

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.