Lane
5k≈ 6–9 minBuy
8%Extended Magazine800
9%Headshot Booster800
8%Extra Health800
8%ActiveGrit800
18%ActiveCold Front1,600Abilities
Marksman · Burst Fire
Paradox
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.
CalculatedDisruptorTactician
Builds
optimised by the simulator · generated 2026-10-23≥ 25% of offensive souls in each; vitality is free.
8%Extended Magazine8009%Headshot Booster8008%Extra Health8008%ActiveGrit80018%ActiveCold Front1,600Early mid
12k≈ 13–16 minBuy next
26%ActiveAlchemical Fire3,200
15%Battle Vest1,600
15%Enchanter's Emblem1,600
Upgrade16%Spirit Shielding1,600
5%ActiveRusted Barrel800Upgraded: Sold:
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Mid game
20k≈ 20–24 minBuy next
9%Spirit Shredder1,600
Upgrade8%Titanic Magazine1,600
31%ActiveFocus Lens6,400Upgraded: Sold:
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Late game
32k≈ 30–35 minBuy next
15%Berserker3,200
12%Hollow Point3,200
33%ActiveInfuser6,400
8%Bullet Resist Shredder1,600
9%Mystic Vulnerability1,600Sold:
Abilities
Very late
45k≈ 40 min +Buy next
13%Spirit Rend3,200
15%Toxic Bullets3,200
11%ActiveFury Trance3,200
Upgrade24%Escalating Exposure6,400
19%Mercurial Magnum6,400Upgraded: Sold:
Sold: Abilities
Each phase lists what to buy since the previous one; the % on a card is how much of the build's score you lose without it. Lit pips under an ability are its upgrade tiers (green: new in this phase). Hover anything for details.
How builds are chosen
For each net worth, the optimiser searches items and ability upgrades that maximise the score: damage per second against the reference enemy × effective health^weight, averaged over short, standard and long fights, each both fresh and mid-match (long cooldowns still recovering from the previous fight). Each checkpoint starts from the previous one's items, so the builds read as a path.
Gun, spirit and hybrid differ only in where the offensive souls go. The fight assumptions (accuracy, distance, the target…) are on the Data page and adjustable in the simulator.
Abilities
Ability 1
Pulse Grenade
32s
Throw a grenade that begins pulsing when it lands. Each pulse expands the radius and applies
spirit damage, time slow, and stacking
increased damage for Paradox against the victim.
35
Pulse Damage
+0.3 × spirit power
4%
Damage Amp per stack
- Radius Per Pulse
- 1mscales with ability radius
- Pulse Interval
- 0.8s
- Amp Duration
- 8sscales with ability duration
- Time Slow
- 20%
- Slow Duration
- 0.2sscales with ability duration
- Duration
- 3.2sscales with ability duration
- Cast Delay
- 0.2s
- 1Tier 1—
- 2Tier 2+20.0 Pulse Damage and increased Spirit scaling
- 5Tier 3+4.0% Damage Amp and +1.6s Duration
Partly simulated
• Pulses every PulseInterval for its duration; each pulse that catches the target deals PulseDamage and adds a stack of damage amplification (no stack limit), refreshing its duration.
• The target is in the pulse radius for the zone uptime share of the pulses (assumption zone-uptime). The time slow is not scored.
Values are base values with their scaling; the simulator shows them at a chosen net worth and build.
Growth without items
HealthGun DPS ×10Spirit power ×10
Value by net worth
Boons come with net worth; gun DPS is every bullet hitting at close range, no headshots. Items and investment bonuses come on top (see builds).
Patch history
- ▼Kinetic Carbine min damage multiplier reduced from 25% to 10% (max damage multiplier unaffected) 2026-09-16
- ▼Kinetic Carbine min damage multiplier no longer gets increased by the T3 2026-09-16
- •Kinetic Carbine T2 now also increases move speed spirit scaling (0.06) 2026-06-30
- •Kinetic Carbine T3 changed from affecting Max Damage Scaling to affecting both Min and Max Damage Scaling 2026-06-30
- ▲Time Wall T1 duration increased from +2.5s to +3.5s 2026-05-22
- ▲Time Wall T3 increased from +1 Charge to +2 2026-05-22
- ▲Time Wall T3 Charge Delay reduced from 4s to 2s 2026-05-22
- ▲Kinetic Carbine T3 increased from +50% Max Damage Scaling to +55% 2026-05-22
- ▲Paradoxical Swap damage increased from 125 to 150 2026-05-22
- ▲Kinetic Carbine cooldown reduced from 30s to 28s 2026-04-30
- ▲Time Wall T2 weapon damage increased from +30% to +35% 2026-04-30
- •Kinetic Carbine now provides +20% Air Dash Distance when charged 2026-04-30
- ▼Pulse Grenade radius reduced from 6m to 5.5m 2026-03-06
- •Pulse Grenade radius increases by +1m per Pulse 2026-03-06
- ▼Pulse Grenade Amp Per Stack reduced from 6% to 4% 2026-03-06
- ▼Pulse Grenade cooldown increased from 28s to 32s 2026-03-06
- ▼Pulse Grenade spirit scaling reduced from 0.6 to 0.4 2026-03-06
- ▼Pulse Grenade changed from -30% Move Speed for 2s to -20% Time Slow for 0.2s 2026-03-06
- ▲Pulse Grenade T1 changed from +0.8s Duration to -12s Cooldown 2026-03-06
- ▼Pulse Grenade T2 changed from "-8s Cooldown" to "+20 Pulse Damage and +0.5 Spirit Scaling" 2026-03-06
- ▼Pulse Grenade T3 changed from "+36 Pulse Damage and +0.8m Radius per Pulse" to "+4% Damage Amp Per Stack and +1.6s Duration" 2026-03-06
- ▼Time Wall duration reduced from 6s to 5.5 2026-03-06
- ▼Time Wall no longer damages enemies going through it 2026-03-06
- •Time Wall now increases allied bullet speeds going through it by 100% 2026-03-06
- •Time Wall now increases adds +30% Weapon Damage to allied bullet damage (affects Carbine) 2026-03-06
- ▲Time Wall T1 increased from +2m Width to +3m 2026-03-06
- ▼Time Wall T2 changed from "+9% Max Health Damage" to "+2.5s Duration and +30% Weapon Damage" 2026-03-06
- •Time Wall T3 changed from silencing enemies to Allowing Charges and Granting +1 Charge (4s Charge Time) 2026-03-06
- ▼Kinetic Carbine cooldown increased from 27s to 30s 2026-03-06
- ▲Kinetic Carbine speed spirit scaling increased from 0.09 to 0.13 2026-03-06
- ▲Kinetic Carbine base damage scale increased from 100% to 125% 2026-03-06
- ▲Kinetic Carbine T2 changed from "-8s Cooldown and +2s Charge Hold" to "-12s Cooldown" 2026-03-06
- •Kinetic Carbine T3 now also increases charge hold by 2s 2026-03-06
- ▼Paradoxical Swap cooldown increased from 75s to 95s 2026-03-06
- ▼Paradoxical Swap no longer has 80% Spirit Lifesteal 2026-03-06
- ▼Paradoxical Swap damage changed from 115 (0.6 spirit scaling) to 10% Current Health 2026-03-06
- ▼Paradoxical Swap T1 changed from "-15s Cooldown" to "+200 Barrier (1.5 Spirit Scaling)" 2026-03-06
- ▲Paradoxical Swap T2 changed from "+81 Damage" to "+13m Cast Range and -35s Cooldown" 2026-03-06
- ▼Paradoxical Swap T3 changed from "+15m Cast Range" to "Swaps additional enemies in 7m radius and +10% Current Health Damage" 2026-03-06
- ▼Pulse Grenade spirit scaling reduced from 0.4 to 0.3 2026-03-06
- ▲Time Wall slow duration increased from 1.25s to 2s 2026-03-06
- •Time Wall T1 now also increases duration by +2.5s 2026-03-06
- ▼Time Wall T2 no longer increases duration by +2.5s 2026-03-06
- •Time Wall T2 now also silences enemies for 2.3s 2026-03-06
- ▲Paradoxical Swap damage changed from 10% Current Health to 125 with 1.1 spirit scaling 2026-03-06
- •Paradoxical Swap T3 changed from 10% Current Health to 10% Max Health 2026-03-06
- •Paradoxical Swap can now be alt casted to swap only a single target with the T3 2026-03-06
- •Pulse Grenade does half damage to objectives 2026-03-06
- ▼Base regen reduced from 2.0 to 1.0 2025-11-21
- ▼Bullet damage growth reduced from 0.27 to 0.22 2025-11-21
- ▼Base health reduced from 700 to 650 2025-11-21
- ▼Health per boon reduced from 47 to 45 2025-11-21
- ▼Pulse Grenade damage reduced from 40 to 35 2025-11-21
- ▲Pulse Grenade spirit scaling increased from 0.43 to 0.55 2025-11-21
- •Fixed a bug where you could airdash further then expected with Kinetic Carbine 2025-11-21
- ▼Time Wall Time Stop duration reduced from 0.6s to 0.5s. 2024-12-06
- ▼Kinetic Carbine Max Stop duration reduced from 0.5s to 0.4s. 2024-12-06
- ▼Kinetic Carbine T1 reduced from +0.5s to +0.4s. 2024-12-06
- ▲Bullet velocity increased from 411 to 525. 2024-11-08
- ▼Time Wall no longer has charges. 2024-11-08
Weapon
Trade Secret- Bullet damage
- 6.8
- Fire rate
- 7.56 /s (bursts of 5)
- Magazine
- 40
- Reload
- 2.59 s
- Falloff
- 20–58 m
- Headshot
- ×1.65
- DPS
- 51.4 / 34.5
Base stats
- Health
- 730
- Health regen
- 1
- Move speed
- 6.7
- Sprint speed
- 1.6
- Stamina
- 3
- Light melee
- 50
- Heavy melee
- 116
- Headshot damage taken
- 1
Per boon
- Bullet damage
- +0.26
- Health
- +46
- Melee damage
- +1.58
- Spirit power
- +1.1
35 boons in all, the last at 49.2k souls.
Investment bonuses
| Souls | Weapon dmg | Base health | Spirit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 800 | +9% | +9% | +7 |
| 1.6k | +12% | +12% | +11 |
| 2.4k | +15% | +15% | +15 |
| 3.2k | +18% | +20% | +19 |
| 4.8k | +46% | +38% | +38 |
| 6.4k | +54% | +42% | +45 |
| 8k | +62% | +46% | +52 |
| 11.2k | +74% | +50% | +59 |
| 16k | +86% | +54% | +66 |
| 22.4k | +100% | +60% | +75 |
| 28.8k | +115% | +66% | +100 |
Souls spent in a category (each owned item's full price) unlock the highest tier reached. The biggest step is at 4.8k; after it each tier adds less per soul (weapon: +17.5% per 1k souls up to it, +5% per 1k to the next), so piling souls into one category has diminishing returns. Builds and tier lists include it.