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{{Infobox hero
{{Infobox hero
| name            = Paradox
| key = hero_chrono
| art             = Paradox full.png
| weapon_name = Trade Secret
| card           = Paradox card.png
| art = Paradox full.png
| summary        = Manipulates Space and Time
| card = Paradox card.png
| description    = 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.
| no_bullet_resist=true
| dps            = 57
| no_spirit_resist=true
| bullet_damage  = 7.2
| no_sprint=true
| ammo            = 40
|max_health = {{#invoke:HeroData|get_hero_var|{{#var:hero_key_or_en}}|MaxHealth|3}}{{PI|40}}
| bullets_per_sec = 7.94
|bullet_damage= {{#invoke:HeroData|get_hero_var|{{#var:hero_key_or_en}}|BulletDamage|3}}{{PI|0.45}}
| light_melee    = 63
|light_melee= {{#invoke:HeroData|get_hero_var|{{#var:hero_key_or_en}}|LightMeleeDamage|3}}{{PI|2.67}}
| heavy_melee    = 116
|heavy_melee= {{#invoke:HeroData|get_hero_var|{{#var:hero_key_or_en}}|HeavyMeleeDamage|3}}{{PI|4.91}}
| max_health      = 550
 
| health_regen    = 2
| bullet_resist  = 0
| spirit_resist  = 0
| move_speed      = 6.5
| sprint_speed    = 0
| stamina        = 3
| increase1_value = 0.42
| increase1_stat = Base Bullet Damage
| increase2_value = 3.4
| increase2_stat  = Base Melee Damage
| increase3_value = 40
| increase3_stat  = Base Health
| range          = 22m → 58m
| weapon_name    = Trade Secret
}}
}}


'''Paradox''' is a time-manipulating Hero with potent disruption and slowing abilities. With a charged Kinetic Carbine, she can threaten her enemies at any range while damaging and slowing them with thrown Pulse Grenades and well-placed Time Walls. At just the right moment, Paradox can activate her Paradoxical Swap to change places with her target, dropping them into a dangerous situation amongst her team.
'''Paradox''' is a time-manipulating Hero with potent disruption and slowing abilities. With a charged Kinetic Carbine, she can threaten her enemies at any range while damaging and slowing them with thrown Pulse Grenades and well-placed Time Walls. At just the right moment, Paradox can activate her Paradoxical Swap to change places with her target, dropping them into a dangerous situation amongst her team.


Paradox is both the name of this Hero and the name of their Thieves' Guild, specializing in stealing the untouchable and breaking into ultra-secure facilities. Their motives are unclear, except for a certain level of delight that its members seem to take in snubbing the world's biggest corporations and governments.  
Paradox is both the name of this Hero and the name of their Thieves' Guild, specializing in stealing the untouchable and breaking into ultra-secure facilities. Their motives are unclear, except for a certain level of delight that its members seem to take in snubbing the world's biggest corporations and governments.


== Abilities ==
== Abilities ==
<tabber>
<tabber>
|-|(1) Pulse Grenade=
|-|(1) Pulse Grenade=
{{Ability card
{{Ability card v2
| name            = Pulse Grenade
| hero_name=Paradox
| description    = Throw a grenade that begins pulsing when it lands. Each pulse applies '''damage, movement slow, and stacking damage amplification''' for Paradox against the victim.
| ability_num=1
| cooldown        = 28s
| range          = 7m
| effect1        = '''Pulse Damage:''' 45 {{ss|0.5}}
| effect2        = '''Pulses:''' 4
| effect3        = '''Damage Amp per stack:''' 5%
| effect4        = '''Pulse Interval:''' 0.8s
| effect5        = '''Amp Duration:''' 8s
| effect6        = '''Movement Slow:''' 30%
| effect7        = '''Slow Duration:''' 2s
| upgrade1        = '''+1''' Pulses
| upgrade2        = '''-7.5s''' Cooldown
| upgrade3        = '''+45''' Pulse Damage
}}
}}
|-|(2) Time Wall=
|-|(2) Time Wall=
{{Ability card
{{Ability card v2
| name            = Time Wall
| hero_name=Paradox
| description    = 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.
| ability_num=2
| cooldown        = 37s
| duration        = 7s
| effect1        = '''Charges:''' 1
| effect2        = '''Time Stop Duration:''' 1s
| effect3        = '''Max Health Damage:''' 10%
| effect4        = '''Movement Slow:''' 80%
| effect5        = '''Wall Width:''' 7m
| effect6        = '''Wall Height:''' 3.5m
| upgrade1        = '''+2m Width, +1m Height'''
| upgrade2        = '''+1''' Charges
| upgrade3        = Enemies that touch Time Wall will be '''Silenced''' for '''3s'''
}}
}}
|-|(3) Kinetic Carbine=
|-|(3) Kinetic Carbine=
{{Ability card
{{Ability card v2
| name            = Kinetic Carbine
| hero_name=Paradox
| description    = Start charging your weapon and gain '''increased movement speed''' once it's fully charged. Your next shot will release 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 of yourself by pressing [Alt Fire] while an empowered shot is available.
| ability_num=3
| cooldown        = 30s
| effect1        = '''Max Damage Amp:''' +85%
| effect2        = '''Max Stop Duration:''' 0.5s
| effect3        = '''Bonus Speed:''' 25% {{ss|0.1}}
| effect4        = '''Bullet Damage:''' 5
| effect5        = '''Min Damage Amp:''' +25%
| effect6        = '''Full Charge Time:''' 2.5s
| effect7        = '''Min Stop Duration:''' 0.25s
| effect8        = '''Speed Duration:''' 3.5s
| upgrade1        = '''+0.5s''' Max Stop Duration
| upgrade2        = '''-10s''' Cooldown and '''+2s''' Speed Boost Duration
| upgrade3        = '''+50%''' Max Damage Amp
}}
}}
|-|(4) Paradoxical Swap=
|-|(4) Paradoxical Swap=
{{Ability card
{{Ability card v2
| name            = Paradoxical Swap
| hero_name=Paradox
| description    = 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'''.
| ability_num=4
| cooldown        = 48s
| range          = 30m
| effect1        = '''Swap Damage:''' 125 {{ss|0.7}}
| effect2        = '''Spell Lifesteal:''' 100%
| upgrade1        = '''+15m''' Cast Range
| upgrade2        = '''+100''' Swap Damage
| upgrade3        = '''-14s''' Cooldown
}}
}}
</tabber>
</tabber>
== Weapon Card ==
{{WeaponCard|key=hero_chrono}}


== Background ==
== Background ==
{{Quotation||
{{Quotation|'''A FATE'S TALE'''|
'''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.
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 organization’s name. They are everywhere. They are nowhere. And if they want something, they are inevitable.}}
Shrouded in mystery, each member of Paradox dons a mask and takes on the organization’s name. They are everywhere. They are nowhere. And if they want something, they are inevitable.
}}


== Update history ==
== Update history ==
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="background-color:#FEF6E7; width: 50%"
{{Main|Paradox/Update history|l1=Update history}}
|- style="text-align: center; background-color:#f0dbbb;"
{{Update history}}
|'''Patch'''
|'''Changes'''
|-
|[[Update:September 12, 2024|Update: September 12, 2024]]
| - Fixed issues with {{AbilityIcon|Paradoxical Swap|Size=20}} Hitting targets behind walls.
|-
|[[Update: August 29, 2024]]
| - Fixed {{AbilityIcon|Paradoxical Swap|Size=20}} Still going through even if Paradox dies during it.
|-
|Update: August 15, 2024
| - Base ammo Reduced: 45 → <u>40</u>.
- {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}} Projectile size Reduced by <u>10%</u>.


- {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}} Cooldown Increased: 24s → <u>28s</u>.
== Trivia ==
 
* Paradox during ''Deadlock'' Pre-Alpha (''Neon Prime'') was named '''Chrono'''.
- {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}} Speed Duration: 4s → <u>3.5s</u>.
 
- {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}} No longer affects channels, cast times or things like Lash's {{AbilityIcon|Death Slam|Size=20|Lash}}.
 
- {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}} T1 Max stop duration Reduced: +0.75s → <u>+0.5s</u>.
 
- {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}} T2 CD Reduction: -8s → <u>-10s</u>.
 
- {{AbilityIcon|Time Wall|Size=20}} T3 Silence duration Reduced: 3.5s → <u>3s</u>
 
- {{AbilityIcon|Paradoxical Swap|Size=20}} Projectile size Reduced by <u>10%</u>.
|-
|Update: August 1, 2024
| - Fixed {{AbilityIcon|Paradoxical Swap|Size=20}} Sometimes putting players behind walls.
- {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}} Time Slowed targets that were moving before the time slow will now resume their momentum when time slow wears off.
 
- Bullet (''and {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}}'') Projectile speed Reduced by <u>10%</u>.
 
- Ammo count Reduced: 54 → <u>45</u>.
|-
|Update: July 18, 2024
| - {{AbilityIcon|Time Wall|Size=20}} Projectile stop duration Reduced: 1.25s → <u>1s</u>.
- {{AbilityIcon|Pulse Grenade|Size=20}} Amp duration Increased: 6s → <u>8s</u>.
 
- {{AbilityIcon|Paradoxical Swap|Size=20}} Projectile size Reduced by <u>10%</u>.
|-
|Update: July 11, 2024
| - Fixed the following abilities changing their launch direction if the player snapped their camera quickly during the cast time: Ivy's {{AbilityIcon|Kudzu Bomb|Size=20|Ivy}}, Paradox's {{AbilityIcon|Pulse Grenade|Size=20}}, Warden's {{AbilityIcon|Alchemical Flask|Size=20|Warden}}, Vindicta's {{AbilityIcon|Stake|Size=20|Vindicta}} and [[Alchemical Fire]] (''T3 Weapon item'').
 
- Fixed {{AbilityIcon|Time Wall|Size=20}} Projectiles and bullets being stuck in the wall for its full duration instead of for the shorter time stop duration.
 
- {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}} Collision radius Reduced by <u>10%</u>.
 
- Fixed {{AbilityIcon|Pulse Grenade|Size=20}} Not going where you had targeted if you moved quickly during the cast.
|-
|Update: June 27, 2024
| - Base movement speed Reduced: 7 → <u>6.5</u>.
- {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}} Impact radius Reduced by <u>15%</u>.
 
- {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}} Max stop duration Reduced: 0.75 → <u>0.5</u>.
 
- {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}} Buff duration Reduced: 6 → <u>4</u>.
 
- {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}} T1 Max stop duration Increased: +0.5s → <u>+0.75</u>.
 
- {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}} T2 Now also Increases buff by <u>+2s</u>.
 
- {{AbilityIcon|Paradoxical Swap|Size=20}} Range Reduced: 35m → <u>30m</u>.
|-
|Update: June 20, 2024
| - {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}} Cooldown Increased:22s → <u>24s</u>.
- {{AbilityIcon|Paradoxical Swap|Size=20}} Cooldown Increased: 35s → <u>45s</u>.
|-
|Update: May 30, 2024
| - Bullet base damage Reduced: 8 → <u>7.2</u> (''indirectly affects {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}}'').
- Bullet growth Reduced: 0.48 → <u>0.42</u> (''indirectly affects {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}}'').
 
- {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}} Damage Reduced: +100% → <u>+85%</u>.
 
- {{AbilityIcon|Paradoxical Swap|Size=20}} Range Reduced: 40m → <u>35m</u>.
 
- Fixed {{AbilityIcon|Paradoxical Swap|Size=20}} Being able to grab multiple heroes if they were really close to each other.
|-
|Update: May 23, 2024
| - Fixed a bug that could cause all of Paradox {{AbilityIcon|Pulse Grenade|Size=20}}'s pulses to go off at once.
- Improved visibility of  Paradox's bullet and travel path.
 
- Added custom tracer and muzzle flash for Paradox's gun.
 
- {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}} Max Damage Amp Reduced: 125% → <u>100%</u>.
 
- {{AbilityIcon|Paradoxical Swap|Size=20}} Range Reduced: 45m → <u>40m</u>.
|-
|Update: May 16, 2024
| - {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}} T3 Reduced: +75% → <u>+50%</u>.
|-
|Update: May 10, 2024
| - {{AbilityIcon|Time Wall|Size=20}} Bullet freeze duration no longer Increases with spirit or suration extender.
- {{AbilityIcon|Time Wall|Size=20}} Bullet freeze base duration Reduced: 1.5 → <u>1.25</u>.
 
- {{AbilityIcon|Time Wall|Size=20}} No longer deals damage to Mid Boss.
 
- {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}} Max damage amp Reduced: 150% → <u>125%</u>.
 
- {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}} T3 No longer provides +50% Min Damage Amp.
 
- {{AbilityIcon|Kinetic Carbine|Size=20}} T3 Max damage Reduced: +125%  → <u>+75%</u>.
|}


== Gallery ==
== Gallery ==
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="200" heights="200">
<gallery>
File:Paradox Render.png
File:Paradox Render.png|Render of Paradox in action.
File:Paradox concept art.png|Concept art of Paradox found in the game files.
File:Paradox concept art.png|Concept art of Paradox.
</gallery>
</gallery>


== Trivia ==
{{Hero Navbox}}
* In the game files, Paradox is referred to as ''Chrono''. This is likely an earlier name.
 
{{Heroes}}
[[Category:Heroes]]
[[Category:Heroes]]

Latest revision as of 12:41, 29 October 2024

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.

Paradox
{{{BASEPAGENAME}}}
Weapon:
"Trade Secret"


BASE STATS

Weapon Stats
DPS: 57
Bullet Damage: 7.2+0.45
Ammo:

40

Bullets per sec:

3.57

Reload Time:

2.59s

Bullet Velocity:

525m/s

Light Melee: 63+2.67
Heavy Melee: 116+4.91
Falloff Range: 20m → 58m
Vitality Stats
Health:

550+40

Health Regen:

2

Move Speed:

6.8m/s

Stamina:

3


Paradox is a time-manipulating Hero with potent disruption and slowing abilities. With a charged Kinetic Carbine, she can threaten her enemies at any range while damaging and slowing them with thrown Pulse Grenades and well-placed Time Walls. At just the right moment, Paradox can activate her Paradoxical Swap to change places with her target, dropping them into a dangerous situation amongst her team.

Paradox is both the name of this Hero and the name of their Thieves' Guild, specializing in stealing the untouchable and breaking into ultra-secure facilities. Their motives are unclear, except for a certain level of delight that its members seem to take in snubbing the world's biggest corporations and governments.

Abilities[edit | edit source]

Pulse Grenade

6m

3.2s


28s

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

Spirit Power#Spirit Power Scalingx0.459

45

Pulse Damage


6%

Bonus Damage per Stack


0.8s  Pulse Interval

8s  Debuff Duration

2s  Slow Duration

30%  Movement Slow

Ability Point 1
+0.8s Duration


Ability Point 2
-8s Cooldown


Ability Point 5
+45 Pulse Damage and +0.75m Radius per pulse.


Time Wall

200m


6s


25s

Create a time warping wall that stops time for all enemy projectiles and bullets that touch it. Enemies that touch the wall will be briefly slowed.

0.6s

Time Stop Duration


50

Damage on Touch


80%

Movement Slow


7m  Wall Width

3.5m  Wall Height

Ability Point 1
+2m Width,
+1m Height


Ability Point 2
+10% Max Health Damage on Touch


Ability Point 5
Enemies that touch Time Wall will be Silenced for 2.5s


Kinetic Carbine




30s

Start charging your weapon and gain increased move 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 while an empowered shot is available.

100%

Max Damage Amp


0.5s

Max Stop Duration


Spirit Power#Spirit Power Scalingx0.0983

25%

Bonus Speed


3.5s  Speed Duration

15%  Headshot Damage

25%  Min Damage Amp

5 Bullet Damage

0.25s  Min Stop Duration

2.5s  Full Charge Time

Ability Point 1
+0.5s Max Stop Duration


Ability Point 2
+2s Speed Duration, 2s Charge Time


Ability Point 5
+50% Max Damage Amp


Paradoxical Swap

25m



65s

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.

Spirit Power#Spirit Power Scalingx0.655

125

Swap Damage


100%

Spell Lifesteal


Ability Point 1
-15s Cooldown


Ability Point 2
+100 Swap Damage


Ability Point 5
+20m Cast Range


Weapon Card[edit | edit source]

Weapon Stats
Falloff Range
20m - 58m
57 DPS
Trade Secret
Burst Fire Medium Range

Background[edit | edit source]

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 organization’s name. They are everywhere. They are nowhere. And if they want something, they are inevitable.

A FATE'S TALE

Update history[edit | edit source]

Main article: Update history
Update Changes

November 21, 2024

November 13, 2024

  • Time Wall Time Stop duration reduced from 0.7s to 0.6s
  • Time Wall duration reduced from 7s to 6s

November 10, 2024

Trivia[edit | edit source]

  • Paradox during Deadlock Pre-Alpha (Neon Prime) was named Chrono.

Gallery[edit | edit source]

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