Kowz Spiritdox Ouchie Build (w/ comments & guide!)

by Kowz58v6Updated 9/13/2024In-Game

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Build ID: 31784 - copy and import it in the Deadlock shop

Description

V2. This is a hybrid spirit/bullet damage build that focuses on ganks and excellent 1 on 1 fighting capabilities. If you're new to Paradox you should try the "Kowz Paradox Ouchie Build" instead. I have other Paradox builds that you can easily find by searching "Kowz".

Skill Path

Recommended ability leveling order for this build

Pulse Grenade

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Time Wall

Laning Phase

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Welcome to Spiritdox

If you're scrolling down for a noob hand-holding guide, well, go read the stuff at the bottom of my other guide (the default one that has thousands of follows). I am assuming people using this guide have at least some general grasp of the hero (and the game) since it involves playing a riskier playstyle that will likely flop in the hands of a new player. That said, this build is a lot of fun and very effective against certain teams. Heck, I would say its probably the most consistent semi-carry build you can play once you get the hang of it. Anyways, onto the theory-babble!0 items

The "Balance"

Paradox is a strange hero who is not innately tanky and yet has an ability that thrusts her into danger. She has great killing power and yet doesn't scale well. Her abilities are powerful and yet she has to work so hard to achieve what others seemingly get for free. Her strengths lie in that she is an assassin who can help her team and force the enemy into uncomfortable positions. This build tries to balance the following aspects of Paradox: her survivability, her damage, her consistency, and her roles as a support, assassin, and brawler.0 items

Survivability

Paradox is not innately tanky. If you want her to be an assassin or brawler in any capacity you have to build for it. You need damage, but beyond that you need to survive the encounter in the first place. This build quickly picks up several vitality items, including Fortitude and Phantom Strike in the mid game. By virtue of her kit, you will likely start skirmishes with a large advantage -- the enemy at half HP after your carbine-wall-swap-nade combo. With your bolstered defenses, after your initiation you can really bully your victim with somewhat impunity. Nobody wants to fight a tanky hero at full HP when they're nearly dead.0 items

Damage

Paradox deals a lot of damage upfront with her abilities. Between her grenade, wall, carbine, and swap, in the first half of most games you can drop nearly any non-tanky hero in one fell swoop. However, the damage that follows your combo quickly falls off a cliff if you don't build for it. With this build, we don't care about dishing out tons of bullet damage while our combo is on cooldown (though we still will deal decent bullet damage). Instead, we're focusing on dealing a solid burst of spirit damage and supplementing it with our passable bullet damage afterwards. Paradox excels as an assassin and brawler. We're playing to her strengths.0 items

Consistency

Paradox out of the box is everything but consistent. Her abilities are skill shots and so much of her playstyle relies on teammates following up on her setups. This build tackles that aspect of her kit: her consistency. Slowing Hex and Phantom Strike are reliable and not only synchronize with her other abilities, but improve them and make them easier to pull off. Silence Glyph (or any other Spirit active in this build) will also lend you consistent power and contribution. This build, at the end of the day, mitigates variables and introduces damage and utility into your gameplay that can't be easily dodged or shunted.0 items

Support

Paradox is not Haze. She's not Vindicta, either. She's a weird mix of an assassin, brawler, and support. If you completely neglect one of these three facets you detriment yourself tremendously. Wall can transform fights in your team's favor, grenade is great for zoning, carbine deals damage and psuedo-stuns, and swap completely screws over enemies and helps your team catch kills. This build doubles down on these supporting aspects with items like Slowing Hex, Decay, Knockdown, Silence Glyph, and Curse. They're all invaluable tools that shut down enemy heroes and give your team advantages.0 items

Assassin

There are few heroes as good as Paradox at catching enemies off guard. She has a kit suited for picking off unsuspecting heroes and quickly ruining their day. In fights you will often bounce between your role as a support, assassin, and brawler. Knowing when to fit each of these roles is something you'll need to learn with experience, but being an assassin is her forte. This build takes that forte up to the next level. Slowing Hex prevent escapes, Silence Glyph completely screws over many heroes, and Phantom Strike gives you additional chase. Not to mention you will absolutely annihilate squishy heroes late game that you catch off guard.0 items

Brawler

Paradox introduces chaos into fights and she can go toe to toe with enemies with the proper initation. She's often at her best when she's feeling confident on the map and is successfully dueling people in close proximity around her wall. This build plays up these strengths by building up her tankiness appropriately, giving her additional burst, and slapping utility onto her that makes enemies dread fighting her. Her regular combo already hurts to be on the receiving end of. Add in slows, silences, and her teleporting on you with a surprise punch or burst to the face. It's good (for you, not your enemies). Just be careful with your engagements.0 items

Gameplan

Play her as you normally would, but as the mid game comes and eventually transitions into late game, be active with your picks and fights. Don't neglect your farm and don't suicide. You want to come out of your engagements with kills, not deaths. Pick off heroes who can't handle your combos and assist your team with your abilities and items in teamfights. Be prepared to jump into the fray and finesse your way out alive. You've got the damage and survivability to brawl and the abilities to pick off enemies. Play to your strengths. Be an annoying and deadly nuisance that makes the enemy team loathe fighting you.0 items

Kowz Spiritdox Ouchie Build (w/ comments & guide!)

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