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Compare Haze (Assassin) and Paradox (Marksman) in Deadlock — stats, weapon, abilities, and playstyle side by side.
Haze is an Assassin hero with 730 base health and 50.095 weapon DPS. Paradox is a Marksman hero with 730 base health and 51.398weapon DPS. In a direct comparison, Haze has the larger health pool, while Paradox brings more raw weapon damage per second.
Raw stats only tell part of the story — abilities, item builds, and player skill decide most matchups. Compare the ability lists below, then check each hero's full guide for builds and counters.
Based on real ranked matches from deadlock-api.com, Haze currently has the higher win rate this week — 53.8% for Haze vs 45.9% for Paradox. Haze also sits in tier S in the live meta.
Live data from 1,617,924+ ranked matches · Source: deadlock-api.com · updated weekly
| Stat | Haze | Paradox |
|---|---|---|
| Max Health | 730 | 730 |
| Move Speed | 8.2 | 6.7 |
| Stamina | 3 | 3 |
| Health Regen | 2 | 1 |
| Light Melee | 50 | 50 |
| Heavy Melee | 116 | 116 |
| Stat | Haze | Paradox |
|---|---|---|
| DPS | 50.1 | 51.4 |
| Sustained DPS | 26.4 | 34.5 |
| Bullet Damage | 5.26 | 6.8 |
| Fire Rate (RPS) | 9.52 | 7.56 |
| Clip Size | 25 | 40 |
| Reload (s) | 2.4 | 2.6 |
| Bullet Speed | 762 | 525 |
| Can Crit | Yes | Yes |
Haze is an assassin who wins by catching enemies out of position and deleting them before they can react. She sneaks in with Smoke Bomb, opens with a Sleep Dagger to knock a target out, then pours close-range fire from Censure & Penance into them while Fixation stacks up. Her whole kit rewards patience and target selection far more than brawling in the open. When a fight collapses into a desperate close-range scramble, Bullet Dance lets her keep firing with perfect accuracy and added bullet damage while dodging some return fire. Play her like a stalker: pick your moment, take the free kill, and slip back into the shadows to reset.
Strong vs: Haze is strongest against isolated, squishy targets: supports, backline damage dealers, and anyone who splits off to farm or rotate alone. She punishes players who don't watch their flanks, because Smoke Bomb lets her close distance unseen and Sleep Dagger removes their chance to react. She also thrives in chaotic close-range fights where Bullet Dance lets her ignore some return fire and finish off low-health enemies. Anyone who relies on fair, stand-up trades or needs to keep their distance finds it hard to answer a Haze who has already gotten on top of them.
Weak vs: Clustered teams are a problem, because within the Smoke Bomb spot radius close enemies can see straight through Haze's invisibility, so she can't ghost past a grouped-up team. Heroes with reliable reveals, roots, or hard crowd control catch her mid-dive and strip away her whole game plan. She struggles against tanky frontline heroes who can survive her burst window, since if the target is still standing after her magazine she has almost nothing left to spend. Sleep Dagger does not interrupt channeling abilities, so heroes who fight from a channel can keep their ability running straight through her engage. She is also fragile, and if she's caught before Smoke Bomb is up she has little to fall back on.
Paradox is a disruptor who wins by controlling when and where a fight happens, not by out-trading anyone. Her mid-range rifle, Trade Secret, fires five-round bursts, but her real identity is time manipulation: Pulse Grenade, Time Wall, Kinetic Carbine and Paradoxical Swap. She opens an engagement by dropping a Time Wall that stops every enemy bullet and projectile touching it while speeding up her team's, then picks the moment to swap an enemy into her waiting squad. She can threaten at any range with a charged Kinetic Carbine, whose Time-Stop and weapon-damage scaling make it both a poke tool and an execution. She has no ability-based escape and only 730 base health, so she plays behind her frontline and refuses fair fights — she wins by making fights unfair.
Strong vs: Paradox feasts on bullet- and projectile-reliant heroes: Time Wall stops every enemy bullet and projectile that touches it, including projectiles from abilities and items, so one wall blunts a ranged carry's whole output. Against an isolated, immobile target a charged Carbine Time-Stop into Paradoxical Swap is close to a guaranteed pick, since the swap only has to connect once and then ignores walls and distance. She is strong against anyone who cannot escape a stationary fight, because Pulse Grenade punishes standing in its expanding pulse and keeps stacking increased damage on that victim. And because her identity is repositioning, she is strongest against squishy backline heroes who can be swapped out of position and buried before their team reacts.
Weak vs: Her entire kit is crowd control and displacement, so effects that shrug off or cleanse those blank her. Unstoppable suppresses the Time-Stop on Kinetic Carbine and the slow on Time Wall, denying the freeze she needs for a swap kill, even though it does not stop the Pulse Grenade damage debuff. Dispel Magic can wipe her grenade debuff, wall slow and swap, and Indomitable or Cloak of Opportunity cleanse Paradoxical Swap outright so neither she nor the target moves. Hard dive and gap-closers punish her, because she has no ability escape and only 730 base health — if she is caught out, the swap cannot save her. She also struggles against teams that spread out and refuse to clump, since her kit rewards pulling enemies together and a disciplined enemy never gives her the isolated target she wants.
Haze has the larger base health pool at 730, compared to 730 for Paradox.
Paradox has the higher weapon DPS at 51.398, versus 50.095 for Haze.
Neither hero is strictly better — they fit different roles. Haze is an Assassin and Paradox is a Marksman, so the right pick depends on your team composition, the enemy draft, and which playstyle you are comfortable with. Check the win rates on our tier list for the current patch.