Paradox

Weapon	Trade Secret
DPS	57
Health	550
Speed	6.5 m/s
Stamina	3
Voice	Unknown

"I represent Paradox, and we always get what we want."

Paradox is a vexing opponent made out of fragments of time, who may or not be a thieves' guild in a trenchcoat. Using her time manipulation powers to ruin the enemy's position, her ultimate ability is to swap positions with an opponent, taking them out of the fight, and who hopefully will be dead soon after. Beyond that, her pulse grenade amplifies her damage in an area, her time wall protects her from enemy projectiles, and her kinetic carbine acts as a long-shot sniper that halts enemies from afar. With all her abilities combined, the real paradox is where she stores all that stuff.

Bio

Paradox

Manipulates Space and Time

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.

Statistics

Weapon:

Trade Secret
57 DPS
7.2 Bullet Damage
40 Ammo
7.94 Bullets per sec
63 Light Melee
116 Heavy Melee

Vitality:

550 Max Health
2 Health Regen
0% Bullet Resist
0% Spirit Resist
6.5 m/s move Speed
0 m/s Sprint Speed
3 Stamina

Level up:

+0.42 bullet damage
+3.4 base melee damage
+40 base health

Advanced:

Time per bullet: 0.28
Bullets per second: 7.94
Bullet radius: 4
Bullet spread: 0
Bullets per shot: 1
Bullet speed: 18000
Reload time: 2.585
Magazine size: 40
Pellet spread: N/A
Reload type: Magazine
Bullet lifetime: 2
Bullet gravity scale: 0.1
Bullet range: 6
Burst amount: 5
Burst cycletime: 0.07
Recoil punch: 0.3
Has recoil: Yes

Abilities

Pulse Grenade

Throw a grenade that begins pulsing when it lands. Each pulse applies damage, movement slow, and stacking damage amplification for Paradox against the victim.

Damage type: Spirit
Cooldown: 28s
Trait 1: 45 Pulse Damage
Trait 1 scaling: x0.45864
Trait 2: 4 Pulses
Trait 3: 5% Damage Amp per stack
Trait extra 1: 0.8s Pulse Interval
Trait extra 2: 8s Amp Duration
Trait extra 3: 30% Movement Slow
Trait extra 4: 2s Slow Duration
Upgrade 1: +1 Pulses
Upgrade 2: -7.5s Cooldown
Upgrade 3: +45 Pulse Damage and +2% Damage Amp per stack

Time Wall

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.

Damage type: Spirit
Charges: 1
Charge time: 37s
Cooldown: 8s
Duration: 7s
Trait 1: 1s Time Stop Duration
Trait 2: 10% Max Health Damage
Trait 3: 80% Movement Slow
Trait extra 1: 7m Wall Width
Trait extra 2: 3.5 Wall Height
Upgrade 1: +2m Width, +1m Height
Upgrade 2: +1 Charges
Upgrade 3: Enemies that touch Time Wall will be Silenced for 3s

Kinetic Carbine

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 [M2] while an empowered shot is available.

Damage type: Spirit
Cooldown: 30s
Trait 1: +85% Max Damage Amp
Trait 2: 0.5s Max Stop Duration
Trait 3: 25% Bonus Speed
Trait 3 scaling: x0.09828
Trait extra 1: 5 Bullet Damage
Trait extra 1 scaling: 1.000000 (Bullet Scaling)
Trait extra 2: +25% Min Damage Amp
Trait extra 4: 2.5s Full Charge Time
Trait extra 5: 0.25s Min stop Duration
Trait extra 6: 3.5s Speed Duration
Upgrade 1: +0.5s Max Stop Duration
Upgrade 2: -9.5s Cooldown and +2s Speed Boost Duration
Upgrade 3: +50% Max Damage Amp

Note: Minimum Damage is 45 with no items at level 0

Paradoxical Swap

Fire a projectile that swaps your position with the target enemy hero. While the effect occurs, you gain spirit lifesteal and the enemy takes damage over time.

Damage type: Spirit
Cooldown: 48s
Range: 30m
Trait 1: 125 Swap Damage
Trait 1 scaling: x0.6552
Trait 2: 100% Spell Lifesteal
Upgrade 1: +15m Cast Range
Upgrade 2: +100 Swap Damage
Upgrade 3: -14s Cooldown

Default build

Early Game

Mid Game

Late Game

Changelog

2024-09-26

Pulse Grenade T3 now also grants +2% Damage Amp
Fixed being unable to be damaged by multiple Time Walls

2024-09-12

Fixed issues with Paradoxical Swap hitting targets behind walls
Unlisted
Pulse Grenade T2 cooldown reduction reduced from -8s to -7.5s
Kinetic Carbine T2 cooldown reduction reduced from -10s to -9.5s
Paradoxical Swap T3 cooldown reduction reduced from -15s to -14s

2024-08-29

Fixed Paradoxical Swap still going through even if Paradox dies during it

2024-08-15

Base ammo reduced from 45 to 40
Kinetic Carbine projectile size reduced by 10%
Kinetic Carbine cooldown increased from 24s to 28s
Kinetic Carbine speed duration reduced from 4s to 3.5s
Kinetic Carbine no longer affects channels, cast times or things like Lash's Death Slam
Kinetic Carbine T1 reduced from +0.75s Max Stop duration to +0.5s
Kinetic Carbine T2 cd reduction increased from -8s to -10s
Time Wall T3 silence duration reduced from 3.5s to 3s
Paradoxical Swap projectile size reduced by 10%

2024-08-01

Kinetic Carbine Time Slowed targets that were moving before the time slow will now resume their momentum when time slow wears off
Bullet (and Kinetic Carbine) projectile speed reduced by 10%
Ammo count reduced from 54 to 45

2024-07-18

Time Wall projectile stop duration reduced from 1.25s to 1s
Pulse Grenade amp duration increased from 6s to 8s
Paradoxical Swap projectile size reduced by 10%

2024-07-11

Fixed Time Wall projectiles and bullets being stuck in the wall for its full duration instead of for the shorter time stop duration
Kinetic Carbine collision radius reduced by 10%
Fixed Pulse Grenade not going where you had targeted if you moved quickly during the cast

2024-06-27

Base movement speed reduced from 7 to 6.5
Kinetic Carbine impact radius reduced by 15%
Kinetic Carbine Max Stop Duration reduced from 0.75 to 0.5
Kinetic Carbine buff duration reduced from 6 to 4
Kinetic Carbine T1 increased from +0.5s Max Stop Duration to +0.75
Kinetic Carbine T2 now also increases buff by +2s
Paradoxical Swap range reduced from 35m to 30m

2024-06-20

Kinetic Carbine cooldown increased from 22s to 24s
Paradoxical Swap cooldown increased from 35s to 45s

2024-05-30

Bullet base damage reduced from 8 to 7.2 (indirectly affects Kinetic Carbine)
Bullet growth reduced from 0.48 to 0.42 (indirectly affects Kinetic Carbine)
Kinetic Carbine damage reduced from +100% to +85%
Paradoxical Swap range reduced from 40m to 35m
Fixed Paradoxical Swap being able to grab multiple heroes if they were really close to each other

2024-05-23

Kinetic Carbine Max Damage Amp reduced from 125% to 100%
Paradoxical Swap range reduced from 45m to 40m

2024-05-16

Kinetic Carbine T3 reduced from +75% to +50%

2024-05-10

Time Wall bullet freeze duration no longer increases with Spirit or Duration Extender
Time Wall bullet freeze base duration reduced from 1.5 to 1.25
Time Wall no longer deals damage to Mid Boss
Kinetic Carbine: Max Damage Amp reduced from 150% to 125%
Kinetic Carbine T3 no longer provides +50% Min Damage Amp
Kinetic Carbine T3 reduced from +125% Max Damage to +75%

Background

A Fate's Tale

Paradox. An artifact of time, and the name of a notorious thieves' guild... one that prides themselves on constructing elaborate heists that target the most untouchable of individuals and institutions. What does Paradox do with the countless artifacts, state secrets and celebrity paternity tests that they have stolen? Put it on display at pop-up museums, so that they can show the world that no one is out of Paradox's reach.

Shrouded in mystery, each member of Paradox dons a mask and takes on the organisation's name. They are everywhere. They are nowhere. And if they want something, they are inevitable.