Paradox’s main threat#
Paradox is a controller: shapes where fights happen with zones, walls, traps and disables.
The kit is hybrid-leaning, so a mix of bullet and spirit defence do the most to blunt it.
Abilities to play around#
Ability 1
Pulse Grenade
A grenade that pulses where it lands, applying spirit damage, a slow and stacking damage amplification to enemies in its area.
Play around it Slows — Enduring Speed and Debuff Reducer help you walk out of it.
Ability 2
Time Wall
A time-warping wall that halts enemy projectiles while boosting allied bullets that pass through it. Enemies touching it are briefly slowed.
Play around it Mobility — it’s also the escape. Don’t chase it into their team; force it out first, then commit. Slowing Hex shuts down many movement abilities.
Play around it Slows — Enduring Speed and Debuff Reducer help you walk out of it.
Ability 3
Kinetic Carbine
Charges a shot of time energy that deals spirit damage and time-stops enemies hit. Damage scales with weapon damage and charge time.
Play around it Mobility — it’s also the escape. Don’t chase it into their team; force it out first, then commit. Slowing Hex shuts down many movement abilities.
Ultimate
Paradoxical Swap
Fires a projectile that swaps Paradox's position with the enemy hero it hits, dropping them into her team's territory.
Play around it Disable or displacement — this is what starts kills. Track its cooldown and punish the window after it’s used; Debuff Reducer shortens it, and Unstoppable or Indomitable answer the biggest ones.
Counter items, with reasons#
Specific answers to this kit
Unstoppable
Vitality · 6,400 souls
Unstoppable suppresses the Pulse Grenade slow and Kinetic Carbine crowd control.
General answers
General answers are our editorial reading of the kit. Counter items only help if you’re the one being hit — buy for the threat you actually face.
How to beat Paradox#
- Unstoppable suppresses the Pulse Grenade slow and Kinetic Carbine crowd control.
- Indomitable cleanses Paradoxical Swap.
- Disarm prevents Kinetic Carbine from firing.
- Dispel Magic removes most of her effects.
Mistakes to avoid
- Fighting inside their zones and walls.
- Chasing into areas they prepared before the fight.
Want to see the hero from the other side? Read the Paradox guide, or open the counter-pick helper to plan against a whole enemy team.