Paige Guide — Abilities, Builds & Strategy

Paige Base Stats

• Role: Mystic
• Max Health: 680
• Max Move Speed: 6.9
• Stamina: 3
• Base Health Regen: 2
• Light Melee Damage: 42
• Heavy Melee Damage: 120

Paige Weapon Stats

• DPS: 70
• Sustained DPS: 51.579
• Bullet Damage: 35
• Rounds Per Second: 2
• Clip Size: 14
• Reload Time: 2.5s
• Bullet Speed: 43.43
• Can Crit: No

Paige Abilities

• Ability 1: Bookwyrm
• Ability 2: Plot Armor
• Ability 3: Captivating Read
• Ability 4: Rallying Charge

Paige Guide — Strategy & Tips

Quick Answer: Paige is a support-minded bibliomancer who wins fights by keeping her team alive and locking enemies down, not by bursting them herself. Barrier allies with Plot Armor, root targets with Captivating Read, and swing objectives with Rallying Charge's lane-wide heal and stun.

Paige is a support-minded bibliomancer who bends fights with barriers, heals, and hard crowd control rather than raw burst. She pokes and zones with Bookwyrm's burning trail, then converts a won fight by dropping Plot Armor on the ally who is diving or taking damage. Captivating Read is her setup tool, slowing a target and then immobilizing whoever is caught for the team to collapse on. Her ultimate, Rallying Charge, is a city-wide cavalry charge that heals allies and stuns enemies, and it grows stronger the further the knights travel. She wants to hold mid-to-long range with her piercing weapon, Chapter's End, keep her team alive, and chain her crowd control into picks. She is a force multiplier: she makes her team fight longer and hit harder.

Early Game

In lane, poke with Chapter's End from range — its shots pierce, so you can clip a hero hiding behind creeps or hit two targets at once. Keep Bookwyrm's trail on the wave and chokepoints to punish anyone who steps up, and remember it does not crit, so build around on-hit procs like headshot items instead of headshots themselves. Plot Armor on yourself or your lane partner flips a trade, since the barrier also adds weapon damage while it holds.

Mid Game

Mid game is where Captivating Read carries you: tag a target with the slow, let the delayed detonation immobilize them, and layer Bookwyrm's burn on top for the damage. Rotate with your team and use Plot Armor to keep your initiator alive through their dive. Save Rallying Charge for a real fight rather than a skirmish, since it heals allies and stuns enemies across the whole lane.

Late Game

Late game, keep your positioning well behind the front line — Paige has no built-in escape, so one bad angle ends your fight. Fire Rallying Charge down a long lane so the knights travel far and land with the amplified heal and damage. Hold Captivating Read for the enemy carry's engage, and spread your team out so a single area ultimate cannot catch everyone.

Combos

Open a pick by tagging the target with Captivating Read to slow them, then drop Bookwyrm across their escape so the burn and the delayed immobilize land together. In a teamfight, pre-barrier your diver with Plot Armor, let them engage, then send Rallying Charge straight down the lane so the knights build amplification as they run. If you pick up Echo Shard, re-apply Plot Armor to refresh the barrier and its weapon-damage buff on a second ally.

Strong Against

Paige shines against heroes who have to stand their ground or have limited mobility. Captivating Read's slow into immobilize punishes anyone who commits to a spot, and Bookwyrm's burning trail zones out chokepoints and forces low-mobility heroes off objectives. She is also strong against teams that lack dispels, since Bookwyrm and Captivating Read both lose value the moment they are cleansed.

Weak Against

She struggles against heroes who can go Unstoppable or use Indomitable, since both suppress her immobilize and her stun. Long-range poke heroes can out-trade Chapter's End before she ever gets in range, and any source of dispel can wipe Bookwyrm's trail or Captivating Read's mark. She also has no hard escape of her own, so getting caught isolated is a death sentence.

Synergies

Paige is a force multiplier, so she pairs best with committed damage dealers. Plot Armor's barrier adds weapon damage while it holds, so hand it to whichever carry is diving and let them snowball. Rallying Charge heals the whole team as it crosses the map, rewarding coordinated pushes, so drop it down a lane your allies are already running. She fits any composition that wants a support who also brings hard crowd control and a lane-wide heal.

Common Mistakes

• Firing Rallying Charge into a point-blank scrum — the knights' heal and damage amplify over distance, so send it down a lane where it can actually build up.
• Casting Captivating Read and expecting instant value: the detonation is delayed, so lead the target and use the slow to hold them in place until the immobilize lands.
• Treating Chapter's End like a headshot weapon — it deals no critical damage, so build around on-hit procs and piercing multi-hits instead of stacking crit.

Matchup Notes

• vs Vindicta — Vindicta pokes you from range in the air, so stay near cover and do not trade shots in the open. Save Captivating Read to immobilize her the moment she comes in low, then follow with Bookwyrm to burn her off her perch.
• vs Lash — Lash's dive wants to catch you isolated, so keep a Plot Armor ready for whoever gets slammed and punish his landing with Captivating Read's slow-then-immobilize so your team can collapse on him.
• vs Infernus — Infernus wins extended close-range fights, so kite him with Chapter's End's long range and never let him sustain on top of you. Use Bookwyrm's trail to wall off his approach and Captivating Read to peel for allies he jumps.
• vs Dynamo — Dynamo wants to group your team for his area ultimate, so spread out in fights and hold Rallying Charge to heal and stun your team back into the retake. Immobilize him with Captivating Read before he can jump your backline.

Frequently Asked Questions

What role does Paige play?

Paige is a support and utility hero. She provides barriers, healing, and crowd control to enable her team rather than carrying fights herself.

What are Paige's pronouns?

She/Her — as listed on the Deadlock Wiki.

What does Plot Armor do?

It grants an ally (or Paige herself) a barrier, and while that barrier holds the ally gains bonus weapon damage. The barrier arrives as a homing projectile rather than being applied instantly, so it takes a moment to land.

How does Captivating Read work?

It marks an area with a movement slow, then detonates after a delay to deal spirit damage and immobilize anyone still caught in it.

What is Paige's ultimate?

Rallying Charge releases a wave of spectral knights and steeds that charge across the entire city, healing allies and dealing spirit damage and a stun to enemies. The heal and damage are amplified the further the knights travel.

Does Paige's weapon crit on headshots?

No. Chapter's End does not deal critical damage on headshots, but it still procs headshot items such as Headshot Booster, and its projectiles pierce through enemies.