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.
Description
Revolving around Pulse Grenade, you dive into the enemy team throwing 2 Pulse Grenades, and making them stay in the AoE Mayhem. Also extremely good at jungle.
A fairly trappy and tricky Paradox style of play. Trick people into CQC situations and youl see.
Item Build
#Citadel_HeroBuilds_Early
Also, feel free to just... Queue Build and go from there. Start killing T2 creeps at Mystic Vulnerability
Useful lane and other items
Core
T2 Camps die with Lv3 Pulse at Duration Extender. Can take on T2.5 camps. T3 die with Echo Shard fairly Easily.
Choose your Final Items
You can eventually get all of these items. Choose in any order.
Alternate itemsDox
MeleeDox
SurviveDox
Alternate ActivatablesDox
Dont forget to use pulses on objectives. Does big damage there too.
When placing pulses, use Vortex and/or Swap to keep them in the pulse
Having people in tight quarters, getting chased into one is ideal. Makes you feel like paradox. 2 Pulses + Arctic with a wall in tight quarters is death for them.
2 pulses + AlchFire will ensure you do great big damage. The -bullet resist items can grant you up to like 700 heavy melee damage (350 lights) on top of damage amp.
Nice, you scrolled down.
Fighting walkers is a great specialty since you will be doing damage to the walker and any enemies nearby. 2pulses+AlchFire and Shots. When you need to make an escape, use Carbine charge for fast dashes and move speed, and wall infront of you+Dash through into a funnel like a doorway.
With Stamina mastery, remember you can be speedy with double air-dashes. Carbine charge ground dashes are also quite fast.
MeleeDox - Getting Crushing fists after Alchemical + BR shredder is good, but what if you skip all CORE items and just buy Echo + alchemical, BR shredder and then Crushing Fists? That is at its lowest, 21k Souls doing 600+dmg per Heavy Melee. (Duration Extender on Pulse is also still important)
Carbine increases heavy melee range. Double-jump over an enemy while carbine charge and Hmelee down at them.
Im serious. Carbine charge + Jump Jump is crazy dodgy and still is in range for Hmelee with Crushing Fists.
Changes - 27 jan 2026
Moved Fleetfoot and Bullet Shredder to an Optional box because you dont need them, only for the synergies. This opened up more free-thinking for Alternate Activatables, "Grab one or two" options or something else dynamic. It is also perfectly in slots with Flex (Minus the obvious sellables). This makes the build in general much more clear and open to counter-items.
Ability Point Order
Pulse Grenade
Time Wall
Kinetic Carbine
Paradoxical Swap
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