All the Tomes

by Limbo_Darkness28v19Updated 9/5/2026In-Game

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Build ID: 674703 - copy and import it in the Deadlock shop

Description

Gun Paige build from a Gun Paige Main. Also a Support build under it... and an unfinished Spirit build under that. Changelog: 9/1: added paragraphs of explanation under the Gun Paige section. More will be added when Paigesheet calculator is complete.

Weapon

Damage

For Advanced Players

Skill Path

Recommended ability leveling order for this build

Bookwyrm

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Plot Armor

Gun Paige:

The role of a gun Paige is to be a backline DPS with three specific support tools: a team barrier, an immobilize skill, and a heal/stun wave. This puts her more in line with a Carbine Paradox, Vindicta, or Grey Talon in that she is a glass cannon aiming to take advantage of teamfights in the early/midgame, but has the damage to open up the match during the lategame. Gun Paige has several different match openers, mainly based on whether you want a strong initial burst window or better sustained damage. ==================================================================================================================== Sharp Opener is the common opener. Sharpshooter is just really strong, and has a lot of stats loaded into a 3200. While getting Sharpshooter initially after Egg is technically stronger, having an earlier Express Shot with Long Range gives you a very strong early game with good sustain and burst damage. Fortitude gives you more map presence and lets you take Sinners without having to immediately return to base. Combining it with Enduring Speed and Fleetfoot then give you the powers of speed, use it to play your backline and rotate. The midgame is just the road to Lucky Shot, before it, you are still doing huge damage, but as soon as you get it, then you have the ability to "crit". From there on, the build splits into focusing on more damage, survivability, or utility with a counter like Silencer or Toxic Bullets. ==================================================================================================================== Lucky Opener is a legacy/optional opener. When you get the choice between Express Shot or Sharpshooter, the difference in damage is 92x2 Express Shot if you hit both shots and 43 normal vs Sharpshooter having 65 per shot at range and 44 when out of range. Previously there was a non-Egg opener to rush Lucky, but it's not practical in the current meta. Buy Egg in this opener and eat AFTER you have enough money to buy Lucky to jumpstart your midgame. After you have Fleetfoot, the rest of the build is entirely up to personal preference and your matchup. This build is a lot more free than the Sharpshooter opener, and you can build around your counters more, but in exchange, you have a worse performance in early/midgame. Basically, for skill diff.0 items

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I need counters!2 items

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I need damage! ...or... I need velocity!4 items

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I need a Metal Skin counter or more damage!3 items

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I'm stomping!1 items

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I need a resist!4 items

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I need rotation speed!3 items

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I need close range!4 items

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OptionalI need some extras! (situational / being tested / storage!)18 items

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Merc Mag knowers.3 items

First Powerspike

Express Shot is what allows your main aggressive burst window. If you buy Egg and Trophy Collector, you get this at 5600 Souls. With delayed/no TC, you get at 4000 souls. If you do not want an Egg or TC to get the most snowball out of your early game, there are a few routes to get the most advantage out of this power spike: Close Quarters (800) will allow you to get insane value out of your burst window for cheap. Saving for Long Range (1600) to finish your 4.8k will give you the maximum damage on your burst window as long as you are beyond 15m. At the time of writing, Sep. 1st, Express Shot as an item provides the most value to Paige throughout the entire match compared to any other character. Other characters can surpass the total burst damage, however they do so at very late boons. Play around the 8s cooldown as best you can, it is very easy to hit both shots on your enemy, and you want to make sure that you use it effectively to damage heroes or a lineup to hit multiple troopers or creeps. This also is the point where you can quickly farm T2 camps.0 items

Stamina vs Speed

Paige, normally, is low mobility and low HP, making her a squishy target in fights. For the mobility, there are two main options: stamina, through Stamina Mastery, or speed, through various items that increase move speed and remove the reduction penalty while shooting. Stamina Mastery is a good option, but with Paige being in the slowest stamina bucket, and being affected by dash slows and stamina regeneration, instead of doing Instant Air Dashes mid fight to throw off enemy aim, the primary way of playing gun Paige is stacking many items that increase move speed. The key components of this are Fortitude (which also increases your map presence), Enduring Speed, Fleetfoot, Swift Striker, Burst Fire, and Trophy Collector. This combination of move and sprint speed allows you to have map presence in as many fights as you can, escape with minimal stam usage (and reductions against slow effects from Fleetfoot and Enduring), and more importantly, be harder to track in fights. Because you move fast while you shoot, move unpredictably to throw of the opponents' aim and therefore live longer. You can also mix and match for different games, grabbing things like Veil Walker or Warp Stone for conditional effects and different escape/engage angles. You build into this after 1st spike.0 items

Second Powerspike

The second powerspike is achieved when you obtain both Sharpshooter and Swift Striker. This allows you to have active damage during fights. Sharpshooter range is smaller than you think, you can be relatively close, but you want to be in the backline. At this point, close range fights are not your friend yet. Swift Striker is a temporary measure for fire rate, as that is one of the most important stats you can raise as the game goes on since you shoot high-damage projectiles. You *can* skip Swift Striker in it's entirety to rush to other items, but it does provide a lot of value for a 1600, giving both fire rate and additional rotation speed. Sharpshooter is at the time currently the strongest 3200 in the game for Paige, and it is currently loaded. Anticipate nerfs in the future, since it gives velocity, the effective damage of Glass Cannon, falloff extension, and rotation speed. It does reduce your base move speed, which is counteracted by Fortitude, Enduring Speed, and Fleetfoot if you take the speed route. It is significantly more effective to buy this instead of Opening Rounds. At 0 boons, Express+Opening deals 109x2 damage, Express+Long Range deals 111x2 damage.0 items

Egg Explanation

Egg is inherently a 'skill diff' buy. 10% amp reduction is not as impactful as people think, but it is also completely reasonable to assume that it's going to have an early impact. The number 1 reason we *try* to buy it is that we cannot guarantee that our team will allow us to get any sinners, or that Trophy Collector will get any stacks. Having passive income AND multiple sinners worth of buffs allows us to completely turn a game in the mid-lategame. I typically use it to finish off my first 6400, and by that time I'm getting around 24 buffs.0 items

Spike 6.4k

Either Ricochet or Lucky, but there is nuance. Lucky Shot adds incredible value to your burst window and individual 1v1s. If you're taking teamfights first, Split+Rico alone will dominate something like a midboss pit fight. Split+Lucky can also take teamfights, but it's ultimately up to personal preference. After both, Vampiric Burst will make you not fall over.0 items

Fire Rate 3200s

In the 'core' build, AKA the most common purchase order, Blood Tribute is considered the undisputed king. You have to manage your toggle for it, but it gives +move speed, +fire rate, and +debuff resist on the go, all of which are the most important stats you can have. However, there are alternatives to fill this slot: As another active item, Heroic Aura moves a lower fire rate to your burst DPS window, but gives you and your entire team Bullet Armor. On top of that, it boosts your split push potential from Creeps. The other 3200 Option is Burst Fire, which is the most fire rate that you can get in a 3200, but it has a massive caveat, being that it only triggers when you actively damage a player. Burst Fire does have it's own upside though, given that it increases your slide distance just like Fleetfoot. There is an argument in super late game that when you replace Fleetfoot with Fury Trance for the increased Spirit Armor, Bullet Lifesteal, move speed, and fire rate on a high uptime. Fury Trance can also be the 3200 you choose, and allows to skip Fleetfoot for the move speed penalty removal.0 items

Counterbuys

This build has room to get different counter items, and ideally you should aim to eventually free-build your midgame onwards based on what your team and the enemy team is comprised of. Toxic Bullets is your friend for antiheal, being a 4-shot buildup. Silencer is one of the most common counterbuys you can get for Spirit nukers on the enemy team. While not included in the main build currently (because duping items in builds is weird), Dispel Magic and/or EShift are both great counters to your counters, being Disarms, Metal Skins, Focus Lens, any nuking debuffs. With a free active slot, you can also take Cursed Relic to counter Metal Skin and be extremely annoying, and provide general support. Spellbreaker is essentially a mandatory item in the presence of a Carbine Paradox. Ensure you get armor shred when the opponents start building armor for you when they realize what you are. These are not all counterbuys available to you, it is heavily dependent on the matchup and players you are around. The number 1 biggest weakness you have is isolated pick characters like Haze, but it is not unbeatable.0 items

Fortitude

Some people see this item as cope, but it does a lot. Beyond move speed, this increases HP especially in the early game by a significant amount, which is important because Paige has a low base HP. It also gives you passive regen back to max HP while out of combat, which serves to make you more present in the map. You never need to return to base to heal, meaning you can always be clearing boxes, doing camps, positioning for fights. If you take heavy damage in a fight, you can back up temporarily to gain some HP, then re-engage from the advantageous position. This comes up in many games. Alternatively, you can run Veil Walker for this sort of neutral sustain and faster rotations with invisibility, but you lose out on the consistency of base HP and HP regen.0 items

Support Paige

Support Paige is basically playing around your team composition and the enemy team's composition and using your crowd-control and shield to support the team. This build has organized actives based on what your team and what your enemy team is bringing to the match, with a small core of items that are core to the Paige loop. Also included is a 4.8k gun investment to still be able to output damage throughout the game. Personally, I play this by freebuilding based on the gamestate, and would encourage others to build according to their needs rather than following L-R.0 items

ACTIVE

800

Golden Goose Egg

800

High-Velocity Rounds

ACTIVE

1.600

Guardian Ward

ACTIVE

800

Healing Rite

3.200

Stamina Mastery

4.8k Gun

OptionalPick OR for velocity and better initial dmg. Pick MS for stronger burst window that gets better with purple.3 items

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Choose your actives!4 items

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Support Core - Prio CD/Duration when you want to spam actives/stunlocks.6 items

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My enemies have spirit!9 items

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My enemies have guns!6 items

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My teammates have guns / spirit!6 items

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My enemies can heal!3 items

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I need escape or rotation tools!6 items

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My enemies like to melee!3 items

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My enemies are fast!3 items

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Great general living items!3 items

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Use all your abilities again1 items

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I need various sorts of escape tools!5 items

3.200

Surge of Power

Break glass in case of Vindicta

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Spirit Paige

OptionalSpirit Paige is basically support paige, but you are also contributing damage. ==================================================================================================================== First main way to play spirit Paige is through Bookwyrm spam. This is probably the most effective way to generally be playing Paige as a pseudo-support, as you get more room for team options, but also can just be great for whenever you need to control an area in a teamfight. (Experimental build!) ==================================================================================================================== Also I made an experimental bleed setup with Scourge, Toxic Bullets, Decay, and Spirit Burn that might be funny0 items

Bookwyrm Opening 4.8k Spikes

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