Manipulating time lets Paradox outpace an enemy in one on one combat. She thrives by subjecting her enemies to timely swaps into a waiting pulse grenade, her wall, or into the middle of her teammates.
Manipulating time lets Paradox outpace an enemy in one on one combat. She thrives by subjecting her enemies to timely swaps into a waiting pulse grenade, her wall, or into the middle of her teammates.
Build focuses on gun damage, and utility. Build rushes silence wall instead of putting two points into carbine. Because of this, your carbine and grenade will have cooldowns in sync. In lane your biggest damage combo will be to hit them with nade + carbine, and put the wall behind them so when they back away they eat wall damage as well. Wall is the first thing we max to slience durring our full combo. After laning stage everything is situational, but can buy L > R in mid and late categories.
First things to sell if you need slots are optional lane items.
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Backstabber
Typically rush first item if lane is going well. Very strong, and very annoying to play against. Pro tip: getting shot while rolling backwards procs back stabber.
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Sprint Boots
Run boxes early game to get an easy lead on opponent. Upgrade to Trophy collector instead of enduring ONLY if you win lane, and can rome. It's a gamble that can backfire pretty easily.
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Mystic Shot
more damage
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Enchanter's Emblem
Cool downs + resist
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Extra Stamina
More dash!
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Imbue
Compress Cooldown
More swaps
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Headshot Booster
Can almost never go wrong buying in lane. You are one of the best characters to proc HS booster. Proc off of cooldown to make enemy very sad.
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Monster Rounds
Buy if you need more lane shove, or want to dive tower
If needed
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Restorative Shot
Not as efficent as rite, but can be solid regen throughout lane. Make sure you proc it off cooldown against enemy player for max value. Good to buy against large hitboxes.
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Healing Rite
Good heals but cannot peak for a while. Scales decently well into mid game.
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Spirit Shielding
Great item even into late game
Can buy veil instead of fortitude
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Enduring Speed
more run fast
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Hollow Point
Huge dps spike
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Stamina Mastery
"can" skip, but I find is essiential to get out of situations
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Fortitude
#1 roaming item. Veil could sub it out, but it's definatly the best item for staying active on the map. After a fight, run some boxes and heal.
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Opening Rounds
more dps, can skip if you need room for slots. Getting Curse or Crippling > this item, but if you'll have slots to allow can buy.
Only if your team has alot of gun, and they dont have flyers
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Alchemical Fire
different bomba. Also note for this route: After maxing wall max bomba. Also still upgrade to enduring speed at some point.
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Imbue
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Echo Shard
2 bomba, I usually wairt for a small room to spam two bombs and alch fire. Throwing it all in mid pit can wipe a team
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Greater Expansion
big bomba
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Imbue
Duration Extender
long bomba, superior durration does not add more ticks to bomb. The only benifit it will give is a longer silence from wall, as well as durration for your items.
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Spirit Burn
buring bomba, + damage, make enemy sad
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Escalating Exposure
At this point if anyone is caught in your bombs will die so fast.
"L > R" but at this point everything is optional
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Curse
Buy almost every game. Good against Lash, Pocket, Yamato, Sven, dynamo, and any character you hate.
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Crippling Headshot
Shreds resists, and healing reduction. Very good item 10/10
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Superior Cooldown
More abilities. Big power spike to roam.
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Transcendent Cooldown
Buy alot of the time, especially if you have multiple actives.
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Headhunter
Everyone else is buying it, not my jam buy you do you boo
Buy at any point as needed. Hex, silcence wave, and knockdown are the most common buys
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Slowing Hex
Lock down people after swap. Also good to stop Lash, Mina, and flyers
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Silence Wave
Good into casters. Swap into silence wall, then refresh silence with wave. Very good against Victor, Mina, Pocket, and all other casters.
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Knockdown
Anti flyer, also canceling sven, lash, beepboop ults
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Suppressor
Good item for the price, but can be hard to apply.
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Decay
Trash item IMO, but can be helpful if they have one issue sustain hero.
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Disarming Hex
Another trash item, but can keep you alive for 4 extra seconds if the enemy viper gets fed.
Read notes for items
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Warp Stone
Good for getting out after swap, bullet resiust is nice as well
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Trophy Collector
Rush if killing lane and want to roam. If you can build stacks early this gives you many stats that paradox loves, plus free money
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Glass Cannon
Somewhat troll, but I see you
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Cultist Sacrifice
Back in the meta baby! If planning to buy, it is most effiecint to buy right as T3 camps spawn @ 8 minuets and instantly take an ancient.
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Capacitor
Utility item that gives 100% SLOW and removes buffs like Cube, return fire, metal skin, seven's 2, warden's 2, and others.
stay alive!
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Debuff Remover
Cleanse debuffs
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Spirit Resilience
You're melting to spirit
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Bullet Resilience
You're melting to gun.
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Spellbreaker
Lash is one shotting you
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Veil Walker
Good heals, speed, and invis
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Counterspell
Make lash hate you, dodge ults and yama slash for max value
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