Every Other Paradox Build Literally Sucks | Deadlock Guide

[@ithinkwerlost4490]

I have consistently had the lowest farm on my team as Paradox. Thank you for showing me there is more to this hero than building a glass rail gun.

[@fufu1405]

I think the best way to showcase a build and hero is to play a close match, not one that is 21k - 14k by minute 7 and 72k - 35k by minute 13. That's a stomp. Also the shield is not bad as you make it seem, it's really strong and helps outplay overfed enemies who are overconfident. Shield in the middle of the bubble and juking in and out of the shield creates a lot of time to survive and does a ton of damage.

[@clark1066]

I've figured out most public builds are actually hot garbage.

[@Lonnieyo]

Yes it´s insane, most literally only go fully into bullet damage no matter the hero

[@Sarpa.]

yea I tried 2 builds and felt no win condition or survivability

[@case44y]

You can cast wall while your 4 is travelling to your oponent

[@bellamygaming1376]

i did not know that thanks !

[@destroyedprawn]

if you didn't already know, holding right-click during carbine freezes you in place, making the shot a little easier.

[@harcoritowo]

Most times it just makes you a stationary target tho, speed is king in most situations 😭😭

[@smokeweebs8700]

I did not know that. If you can freeze yourself in the air, then that's actually insane!

[@theo90907]

Just tried out your build, think i underestimated how powerful just staying alive to push out the lanes really efficiently so they couldn't get an effective push when my team was down. Used to do the meme build and loved one shoting players, but this build is awesome too.

[@mikeyaction]

Yeah the game like the others he said really focuses on macro. Shows my important that is. Micro management is your aim and skill use, as long as you get souled up you’ll do good. And as you said it’s important to stay alive

[@robwalker3240]

I watched this video and finally understood Paradox playstyle, then went 8-0 playing the character correct with the build. Your reward is a Sub, TY.

[@Lonnieyo]

Love to hear it man!

[@AsirIset]

I would definetely say that this build is definetely the meme build rather than the weapon damage build. This completely misses the role of Paradox in a team as a burst ganker and goes for a farmer role. If you want to mega farm in saide lane or jungle there are so much better heroes to do that on, Pradox is one of the worst choices, but of course you will get results on her as well when players are bad. But watch any high level Paradox gameplay the mid to late game revolves around abusing your full combo every 25 seconds to gank someone and then finishing them off with your team and weapon damage. But sure this build will stomp low elo.

[@Lonnieyo]

You completely missed the point of this build, unlucky. The point of this build is to MINIMIZE farming by being able to only do it with pulse grenade while heavily focusing on ganking ONLY. It´s hole purpose is to get as many and as aggressive ults out as possible while staying alive. This is WAY better than the commonly played gun builds, but people, including the "high elo" gamers have no clue about roles in this game yet and think every single character has to deal damage. If you want damage only, play a different hero, this hero is about his ult and my build maximizes ult potential. edit* Just realized this is the old version of the build, new one is optimized and leaves out some of the weapon items like tesla bullets for even earlier ganking/brawling potential

[@AsirIset]

@@Lonnieyo But you definetely lessen his ganking potential by forgoing 3 upgrades and burst and instead go grenade build. This is highly anti synergistic, no?

[@Cheezy_UNI]

You can absolutely build hyper E railgun and still do massive damage off of swap into bomb & wall ticks. It’s really not a meme. Video starts off on a false premise. I agree the full wep builds getting up voted on the public boards are bad

[@Lonnieyo]

The point is that this hero isn´t all about doing as much damage as possible but using your ult as often as possible to let your team kill the enemies

[@Cheezy_UNI]

@@LonnieyoI think that’s fair and it’s valuable showcasing/explaining an AoE build focused more around Q and swaps. I just thinks it’s a bit misleading that E focused builds aren’t good. Esp since the good E builds are about stacking a ton of modifiers on E which also benefit her ult swap combos since they make use of spirit damage specially in the mid and late

[@Lonnieyo]

I understand your point and I believe the E focused build is especially good right now since no one (including me) really understands what´s happening in the game. I simply try to use DOTA 2 strategy in Deadlock atm and I´m finding huge success this way. I think many people right now are trying to build every single hero as a damage dealer ONLY and I´m 95% sure this is not going to be the best strat. I think once Deadlock picks up as an e-sport we will see a lot of changes to how the game is played fundamentally, but for now I believe playing the game like 3rd person Dota seems like the safest choice to be effective

[@PrismariLaura]

​@@Lonnieyo TBH I think your success comes mostly from your understanding of MOBA mechanics, and your understanding of this game as a MOBA first and foremost, rather than the build itself. What bothered me about your build in particular, is your statement that Paradox is not a carry - but your reasoning for maxing out grenade, and certain item choices, as farming items. IMO the build&playstyle you showcased is one more geared towards a position 4-6 player, i.e. low priority farming, playing more like a traditional Vengeful Spirit than, well... Paradox. It is by no means bad, mind! Swap is an incredible ability. But ignoring your Carbine is IMO a bit of a mistake - At max level, it offers a MASSIVE power spike, even if your farm is average. It does fall off, since it doesn't scale with spirit power. I think the best Paradox build is one that capitalizes on the Carbine's power spike, then transitions to a Swap build as the game progresses. That way you can develop a massive lead during that period where her damage is at its highest, and if that isn't sufficient to win you the game, you focus on those high-value swaps in order to take out key enemies.

[@Yhdyssanakoe]

I just got into the game and thought that the popular builds were really strange and not so effective, even as a total n00b SO THANKS FOR A GOOD ONE LOL

[@anazron805811]

Oh my god, thank you for this build. I am attracted to utility based characters, and I thought Paradox would be a really good vengeful spirit like character, which was always one of my favorite heroes. But when I saw the high fire rate and the online builds, I thought she was just a carry, tried it, and was amazingly unimpressed. She's just so squishy and honestly doesn't do a massive amount of damage anyway. Can't wait to give this build a try!

[@MaxVolumeHD]

Good luck with your new business and thanks for the vid

[@Lonnieyo]

Thank you!

[@tjmuela1265]

can you do a settings video? would be nice

[@IR-MaNu]

Why tho? There are not that many settings to consider

[@trippy1v349]

Is there any negative side to shooting through your own wall or are those bullets also slowed?

[@placidflunky6642]

Curious on no superior stamina in the main build, new to mobas so not sure if its just a case of more important items to build over it

[@GamingBossez]

Superior stamina is great, but kinda luxury. Don't want to delay the other power spikes too much

[@zanuzee12]

E before Swap are so op with Max E, you can swap Enemy to Silence wall and let ur team kill

[@ItzTotoMore]

Love youre Vibe tho! keep it up, gonna try Paradox next :))

[@Lonnieyo]

glgl!

[@Jon-vs4wr]

Why is hollow point ward good on paradox as opposed to other heros?

[@itzz_drs8346]

i cant find the build no matter what i search

[@MadVagabondVA]

I've been loving Paradox, but my biggest problem with playing her this way is thinking to myself "why should I not just play bebop". He seems to do everything this build does, but better, because he doesn't have to throw himself into the enemy team. What are your thoughts? Anything that Paradox brings to the table that I'm missing?

[@Lonnieyo]

Valid point, but Paradox does bring some extras. First, the Swap is not instant, it takes roughly two seconds for the animation to finish and especially in close ranges this allows your whole team to shoot the enemy for free, which usually results in a kill, whereas Bebops hook is faster and enemies can usually react right away to it. (It´s still a crazy strong non-ult ability ofc) And on top, the rest of the kit is obviously different too. Paradox with the bomb maxed out can outfarm Bebop very easily + you have another long range stun

[@pisk64]

i really like going return fire, metal skin (blademail) and building tanky and going balls into the fights also walls CAN be pretty mean, especially if you abuse double hit bug :^) I really dont like the sniper gun glass cannon build, it doesnt take a lot of hard thinking to realize that a 700-800 damage single target nuke with a really high investment is pretty bad when you compare it with other heroes (for example grey talon skillshot shits on carbine effortlessly)

[@SurprisedSyrup]

idk man, could be good in higher elo. It's hard to rely on your rando teammate to take avantage of paradox swap. IMO it's better to use it to use it to initiate fight and burst down the enemy, buy extra charge so you have another wall to sustain yourself and juke around

[@hummingbiirdy7207]

Nice Guide, ill try it out ^^

[@YTThatOneGuy]

If youre going to farm that much, you should definitely get monster rounds

[@regima1player]

Think this is a good intro build to something aside from the OMEGA IMMA OP 1 SHOT WITH SWAP LUL build. I think of it as a split push FIORA to jungle farm build.

[@hnooxi5518]

No way you said that wall is useless, basically one of best abilities paradox has

[@Lonnieyo]

Wall is useless, Id pay 3k sould not to have it

[@siccducc8499]

No healing items?

[@GamingBossez]

You have really high skill for early lane for sure. The only optimization i didnt see is staircase sliding for extra bullets on tower. Nice build! I was experiencing lack of farm with max carbine and figured the best build just had to be max bomb for farming but tesla makes soooo much sense to amp dmg on whole camp. Wp!!

[@Lonnieyo]

Thank you man, didn´t know about this staircase mechanic, I´ve seen it on Seagulls stream, but thought it´s a Mcginnis only thing. I´ll try to keep it in mind, ty for feedback!

[@fruitytuesdayz5760]

this guys got thee accent. yup ill copy the build hes qualified

[@Is-this-me-]

Yoo wassup, you still Posting on KZbin Lonnieyo 👋

[@kookiespace]

FINALLY a Paradox guide that might actually make me better. I've watched like 2-3 so far and people can't even get the fucking abilities right (i.e. saying that the wall blocks projectile instead of being a slow) so why TF would I trust their build advice x) I ended up trying to make a build myself because I thought all the popular ones seemed kinda sus and I did try to build for some survivability but it didn't really work. I'm gonna try yours and see how it goes.

[@Lonnieyo]

Good luck!

[@xseveredsaintx]

You get infinite ammo anytime youre sliding:)

[@SirCrusher]

I don't think buying extra spirit and the other items which give raw spirit power is good on her. Her skills have extremely low scaling ratios. You're just wasting gold.

[@Lonnieyo]

The only item I buy for spirit power is extra spirit, which I upgrade through the game, the other spirit items are for their unique effects. The main purpose of this build is to become tanky enough to spam out swaps whenever I can. I think spirit power is very important since it allows us to farm with the bomb, I just did some testing for you real quick: Maxed out bomb with no items = 495 damage, Maxed out bomb with only the 500 gold Extra Spirit item = 526 damage; with boundless spirit = 687 damage. We spam this bomb whenever we can and honestly the rest of the passives are also decent to have. I think it´s probably the most unnecessary item in the build but since we have a slot for it I wouldn´t want to switch this for something else.

[@SirCrusher]

@@Lonnieyo it might be better to use the slot on a duration extender so the bomb lasts for longer and upgrade it to superior duration later

[@Lonnieyo]

@@SirCrusher Had the same idea, however duration extender doesn´t work for the bomb - it has a set amount of pulses

[@kritz9997]

Other cool options for paradox is maxing out ult and imbuing superior cd on it to get an insane 20 second cooldown and imbuing Superior duration on wall which proc’s its damage to enemies twice and making it’s silence upgrade last as long as 6 seconds

[@QuackQuackBang]

More please :)

[@cloudson3886]

I prefer to play her full ap(spirit power) using ult and 3 to keep them inside the granades for one shots. No vitality, no weapon dmg, just gonna get 7-8 spirit items, some vitality and just delete someone as fast as possible. that works for me, it's just fun. I think Paradox could use a buff in general, she feels weak. I would add her E passive ability that it increases her weapon dmg based on spirit. Also your gameplay hurts your credibility. No wall jumps, no dash cancels, barely any advanced movement in combat and your aim has a lot left to desire. Paradox one shot + movement speed and stamina is not a "meme build" it's the correct build. She is a hyper mobile assasin and you want to play her as one, your ult is more of a gimmick, than an ability you want to play around. you want to run fast, one shot people and get out faster.

[@squeemhaymmeemhaym9686]

I think his aim is pretty dang good. Movement not so much.

[@CrapsGoodxD]

actually good build lmao

[@Hyper-Reality]

I knew it was going I knew it would be cool down reduction before even watching... You can also reduce cooldown when spirit shielded with enchanters. Paradox is unfortunately only good for swaps, and in solo queue only is as good as your team taking advantage of your swaps.

[@Fawastaken]

Realm royale man pls

[@Lonnieyo]

I quit 2 years ago and will never return, please stop asking

[@Lanzal0t]

Play deadlock man

[@Kingayun]

​@@Lonnieyo realms ending soon ): They fired thor and layed of his team. And all the skins are 1 crown now. Its a matter of time so for olds time sake could you please play some customs

[@mbnqpl]

Bro I like your build but your mic sucks. Thanks =D

[@rolfunglauben389]

Nice 😊😊😊

[@naturalnuts7485]

common L Paradox build

[@Lonnieyo]

no u

[@naturalnuts7485]

@@Lonnieyo the build showcase game is ur team steamrolling them while you farm slower than ur team

[@Lonnieyo]

@@naturalnuts7485 Unlucky that you don´t understand how farm works. Do you understand that farm is split among all nearby teammates? Staying on the same lane as your teammates = same farm as when they are on the lane alone. By splitting up and killing additional neutrals your team IN TOTAL gets more networth = you help your team get more souls. If your team can win teamfights without you ITS ALWAYS better not to join them, because this means you snowball as a team and get additional resources that your team normally won´t get. On top, deathballing as 6 is almost always also the wrong choice to begin with. If you don´t end the game right away you will be vastly outfarmed by an opponent that doesn´t feed 4v6 fights, but splits, farms and pushes multiple lanes. I know you are angry at me for not confirming your dogshit glasscannon Paradox build, but that doesn´t change that there is way more to Deadlock strategy than we all know so far. Especially people like you that didn´t play mobas before should probably specifically pay more attention Gl in the game natural nuts man

[@naturalnuts7485]

@@Lonnieyo forsure bud, keep it up, big value build💀

[@nbshftr]

you should fix your lisp. good video

[@omegacam]

That's pretty fucking rude. Bad manners.

[@Lonnieyo]

nono it´s okay, it´s actually the mic

[@Lonnieyo]

But ty for defending me :D

[@nbshftr]

@@omegacam i have no ill intention, its just a suggestion. lisps are not some sort of debilitating disease that people are stuck with forever. they are also not an improvement on normal speech. they exist because some schools dont have access to speech therapy programs and parent cant/dont necessarily want to pay for something like that. maybe your perception of lisps is that people with them dont have a choice, but that is not true and anybody who has worked with younger children and even adults in speech therapy with tell you the same thing.

[@nbshftr]

@@Lonnieyo i went back to see your older videos and it really does seem to be the mic. thanks for responding btw