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Compare Paradox (Marksman) and Kelvin (Brawler) in Deadlock — stats, weapon, abilities, and playstyle side by side.
Paradox is a Marksman hero with 730 base health and 51.398 weapon DPS. Kelvin is a Brawler hero with 880 base health and 70.857weapon DPS. In a direct comparison, Kelvin has the larger health pool, while Kelvin 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, Kelvin currently has the higher win rate this week — 45.9% for Paradox vs 54% for Kelvin. Kelvin also sits in tier S in the live meta.
Live data from 873,072+ ranked matches · Source: deadlock-api.com · updated weekly
| Stat | Paradox | Kelvin |
|---|---|---|
| Max Health | 730 | 880 |
| Move Speed | 6.7 | 6.7 |
| Stamina | 3 | 3 |
| Health Regen | 1 | 1 |
| Light Melee | 50 | 50 |
| Heavy Melee | 116 | 116 |
| Stat | Paradox | Kelvin |
|---|---|---|
| DPS | 51.4 | 70.9 |
| Sustained DPS | 34.5 | 41.6 |
| Bullet Damage | 6.8 | 18.6 |
| Fire Rate (RPS) | 7.56 | 3.81 |
| Clip Size | 40 | 14 |
| Reload (s) | 2.6 | 2.6 |
| Bullet Speed | 525 | 160 |
| Can Crit | Yes | Yes |
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.
Kelvin is a supportive frost hero who slows and damages the enemy team while healing, protecting, and speeding up his own. He lays Ice Path under his feet so he and his allies move faster across the map, then uses Frost Grenade and Arctic Beam to chip away and slow whoever he catches. Frozen Shelter is his panic button and his playmaker: an ice dome that rapidly regenerates allies inside while slowing enemies trapped with them. He wants to sit in the middle of the fight, healing and slowing, not solo diving. Play him patient and team-first, and he turns ordinary skirmishes into one-sided fights.
Strong vs: He shines against heroes who rely on sustained damage and mobility, because his slow stacks and Frozen Shelter blunt both. Arctic Beam's fire-rate and move-speed reduction hurts auto-attack carries who need to stand and shoot. Ice Path's slow resistance alongside the team speed-up helps him escape and chase heroes built around slows. Against clustered teams, Frost Grenade plus the dome turn their grouping into a weakness.
Weak vs: He struggles against heroes who burst him down before he can heal or dome, because his value ends if he dies first. Long-range poke and heroes who punish him for standing still during Arctic Beam hurt him, since he moves slower while channeling. Silences and hard crowd control that stop him from casting Frozen Shelter strip away his team's best save. Hard-engage heroes who dive past his slow and lock him up can delete him before the dome ever goes down.
Kelvin has the larger base health pool at 880, compared to 730 for Paradox.
Kelvin has the higher weapon DPS at 70.857, versus 51.398 for Paradox.
Neither hero is strictly better — they fit different roles. Paradox is a Marksman and Kelvin is a Brawler, 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.