Paradox

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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
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

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.

x0.459

45

Pulse Damage

6%

Bonus Damage per Stack

0.8s  Pulse Interval

8s  Debuff Duration

30%  Movement Slow

2s  Slow Duration

1

+0.8s Duration

2

-8s Cooldown

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.

0.5s

Time Stop Duration

50

Damage on Touch

80%

Movement Slow

7m  Wall Width

3.5m  Wall Height

1

+2m Width,
+1m Height

2

+10% Max Health Damage on Touch

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

0.4s

Max Stop Duration

x0.0983

25%

Bonus Speed

5  Bullet Damage

15%  Headshot Damage

25%  Min Damage Amp

0.25s  Min Stop Duration

2.5s  Full Charge Time

3.5s  Speed Duration

1

+0.4s Max Stop Duration

2

+2s Speed Duration, 2s Charge Time

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.

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125

Swap Damage

100%

Spell Lifesteal

1

-15s Cooldown

2

+100 Swap Damage

5

+15m Cast Range

Weapon Card

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

Update history

Main article: Update history

Update	Changes
December 6, 2024	Time Wall Time Stop duration reduced from 0.6s to 0.5s Kinetic Carbine Max Stop duration reduced from 0.5s to 0.4s Kinetic Carbine T1 reduced from +0.5s to +0.4s [Undocumented]: Paradoxical Swap T3 cast range changed from +20m to +15m
November 21, 2024	Fixed Kinetic Carbine not proccing Headshot effects ( Headshot Booster, Headhunter, Crippling Headshot) Paradoxical Swap time min/max increased by 0.2/0.3s (to help with camera) Time Wall now deals 50 damage for going through it
November 13, 2024	Time Wall Time Stop duration reduced from 0.7s to 0.6s Time Wall duration reduced from 7s to 6s

Background

“

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

Lore

Paradox wants to lead the Paradox guild.

Character interactions

• Kelvin is one of Paradox's targets.
• Paradox threatens to reveal the location of Seven's safehouse.
• Seven wants to commission Paradox for a job.
• Paradox is interested in Abrams' tome.
• Lady Geist has an old grudge against Paradox. Paradox has stolen a painting from Geist, presumably made by Geist's husband.

Gallery

• 
  Portrait
• 
  Minimap icon
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  In-game render
• 
  Model sheet
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  Concept art
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  Weapon - Trade Secret
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  Chrono portrait (Neon Prime)

Trivia

• Paradox during Deadlock Pre-Alpha (Neon Prime) was named Chrono.
• Paradox simultaneously being an individual and a group is a "paradox".

See also

• Paradox/Quotes

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