At a glance#
Role (our classification)
- Support — Keeps allies alive and makes them stronger, while still contributing damage.
Damage
- Spirit-leaning kit
Weapon
- Chapter's End
Released
- 25 Aug 2025
Paige is a spiritual bibliomancer who summons spirits from her tomes to attack, shield and charm fellow Ritualists.
Paige’s abilities explained#
Paige has three regular abilities and an ultimate. Ability names and behaviour below were checked on 27 Oct 2026; numbers are left out on purpose because they change with almost every patch — the in-game tooltip shows the current values.
Ability 1
Bookwyrm
Conjures a dragon that flies forward, dealing spirit damage and leaving a burning trail that keeps damaging enemies who stay in it.
Ability 2
Plot Armor
Grants an ally — or Paige herself — a barrier that also boosts weapon damage, delivered by a homing projectile.
Ability 3
Captivating Read
Marks an area that slows enemies, then detonates after a short delay to deal spirit damage and immobilize anyone inside.
Ultimate
Rallying Charge
Releases spectral knights that charge across the entire city, healing allies and damaging enemies; their effects grow the farther they travel.
How to play Paige#
Position behind your front line, keep track of which ally the enemy is focusing, and save your strongest save for the moment it decides the fight. Supports still need souls — share lane farm and take neutral camps between fights.
Tips from the current kit
- Use Bookwyrm's trail to zone areas.
- Plot Armor can be self-cast to stay alive.
- Aim Rallying Charge upward to make the knights jump on an arc.
- Rallying Charge has half cooldown if it hits nothing.
Build framework#
A starting framework, not a tested build
This section explains what kind of items Paige’s kit rewards, built from how the abilities work. It isn’t a win-rate-tested build. For community builds with current stats, open the in-game Build Browser and filter by hero, then check our items explainer to understand why each item is there.
Spirit lean. Most of the kit's damage is spirit damage from abilities, so spirit power, cooldown reduction and duration usually do the most for it.
| Stage | What to look for |
|---|---|
| Laning | Cheap 800-soul items that help you trade and sustain in lane, plus one that boosts your main damage source. |
| Mid game | Your first 3,200-soul item is usually the biggest single jump in power — buy toward the one that makes your best ability or your gun stronger. |
| Late game | Fill slots with 6,400-soul items, and swap cheap starters for upgrades. Leave room for an answer to what the enemy is doing. |
| Defence | Match the enemy’s damage: shields and resistance against whichever type is hurting you most. |
Items that fit a spirit kit
Defensive options
Items opponents commonly use against Paige — expect to see them, and plan around them:
Ability points#
Ability unlocks come from levelling up; ability points then buy upgrade tiers. A sensible default for Paige:
- Unlock the ability that helps you farm or trade in lane first — for most players that’s Bookwyrm or the ability you can hit most reliably.
- Unlock all three regular abilities early so you have every tool in the first fights.
- Unlock Rallying Charge as soon as it’s available.
- Put upgrade points into the ability you use most, then into whichever upgrade tier changes how an ability works (tier 3 upgrades often do).
General guidance; upgrade tiers and costs are shown in game.
Playing against Paige#
- Dispel Magic can remove Bookwyrm and Captivating Read effects.
- Indomitable prevents Captivating Read's disable.
- Debuff Resist shortens Captivating Read's slow and immobilize.
The full breakdown — abilities to play around, counter items with reasons and mistakes to avoid — is in how to counter Paige.
Recent changes#
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 30 Oct 2026 | Base bullet damage 35 → 32; bullet damage growth per boon 0.52 → 0.61. |
| 16 Sep 2026 | Heavy melee spirit scaling 0.3→0.45; Captivating Read T1 cooldown reduction 11s→14s. |
Every update that touches heroes is summarised in patch notes explained and the patch impact tracker.