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  • @Acex2ron
    @Acex2ron  Місяць тому +2

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    • @Doomblud
      @Doomblud Місяць тому +1

      Isn't gearup a scam?

  • @Taziod
    @Taziod Місяць тому +121

    One tip I noticed I was doing is to PING THE ENEMY YOU SWAP. It highlights them through the effects and such and makes it way easier for your team to see them even if you call it out.

    • @ArkbladeIX
      @ArkbladeIX Місяць тому +10

      That habit is so ingrained in my play that I'll ping even if it's a 1v1 lol

    • @novastar6112
      @novastar6112 Місяць тому +1

      As a DRG player, this is a habit ingrained into my soul xd

    • @TuffSZN
      @TuffSZN Місяць тому +1

      This became a muscle memory to me now. The funny thing is I still ping them even if I miss the swap. Lol

    • @fireemblemistrash75
      @fireemblemistrash75 Місяць тому

      How do you ping?

    • @CokeConnoisseur
      @CokeConnoisseur Місяць тому

      @@fireemblemistrash75just tap the middle mouse button or the scroll wheel

  • @feelsofsteel5210
    @feelsofsteel5210 Місяць тому +143

    The paradox main pipeline:
    - "wow this character looks kinda cool"
    - "wow her accent is kinda cool"
    - "wow her kit is kinda cool"
    - her thighs

  • @verybadsalad3903
    @verybadsalad3903 Місяць тому +47

    Part of Paradox's design is the blue rose which does not appear naturally and hammers down the fact that she can time travel since fully blue roses were made by Australian and Japanese scientist in the 2000's and i love that.

  • @The_ASMR_Listener
    @The_ASMR_Listener Місяць тому +55

    Paradox is like Lee sin. The best play is displacing an opponent into a bad spot.
    Where you're using 110% of your brain just to secure one kill, meanwhile, abrams fogot he had a gun after the 100th melee

    • @lebo1999
      @lebo1999 Місяць тому +2

      as an Abrams player I can confirm, I have 50 bullets in my 9 bullet mag due to melee charge, I forget bullets exist

  • @eugkra33
    @eugkra33 Місяць тому +38

    What a fitting name for contradictory and paradoxical character.

  • @TheSparkgod
    @TheSparkgod Місяць тому +14

    I have played against exactly 1 good paradox in my time playing this game, and I have never hated someone more in my life
    EDIT: I now main paradox, I have become the very thing I swore to destroy

    • @AeneaSXI
      @AeneaSXI Місяць тому

      mind sharing the match id? ; ) Would be fun to watch.

    • @ryanhoang1123
      @ryanhoang1123 Місяць тому +2

      as a pocket main, a good paradox is the bane of my existance, I CANT BARAGE FOR MY LIFE IT MAKES ME SO SAD

    • @damnation4562
      @damnation4562 Місяць тому

      ​@@AeneaSXII played against this one very good paradox the other day, she went 20+ kills.
      Here's the match id: 24284185
      (ignore the bm at the end of the match)

    • @mephisto-blackknife-5231
      @mephisto-blackknife-5231 Місяць тому

      It was probably me bro B)

  • @tacogodboomdogg
    @tacogodboomdogg Місяць тому +45

    It's agreed that she's both a top tier and trash tier? Sounds like she really is a paradox.

  • @DrPepper7892
    @DrPepper7892 Місяць тому +46

    After 507 games and making it to Oracle rank playing only her, she is either batshit useless or "too oppressive" with a coordinated team.
    In general, she requires 150% effort for 60%-70% of what any other hero can do way easier. With her early game nerfed, she is even harder to play now then ever.
    She needs a complete kit redesign to fix the vast disparity between "pros" and casuals.
    I'm getting tired of all the effort you have to put in with her... Just so maybe you barley break even against a decent opponent but then fall off so hard late game.
    You just become a swap and wall silence machine at that point.
    Thinking about switching to braindead characters like seven, Infernus or shiv. They easily have way more impact anytime in the match for half of the effort.
    But god dam she is the coolest looking character in the game so far.

    • @ibrahimdelomavicsmithson164
      @ibrahimdelomavicsmithson164 Місяць тому +6

      As a paradox main that switched to infernus, it is so much easier and provides much better results. Paradox is still my favorite though

    • @DrPepper7892
      @DrPepper7892 Місяць тому

      @@ibrahimdelomavicsmithson164 yeah I will prob switch to him.
      Vs him as paradox, he just ignites you once and you auto lose the trade always.

    • @AeneaSXI
      @AeneaSXI Місяць тому

      @@ibrahimdelomavicsmithson164 Same lol. Paradox is my favorite but I now play Infernus the most just because of how much easier it is to carry with him. She needs so much effort and then also needs your team to be well coordinated as well. The falloff lategame is just heartbreaking at times ngl. And then if your team can't follow up on your swaps you feel so useless.

    • @Ulvorskets
      @Ulvorskets Місяць тому +1

      still tho, we'll always need a fun/unique character like her in this kinda games. she's the kind of character that'll always be in low wr average where her mains tend to have spiked up win rate.

    • @spnked9516
      @spnked9516 Місяць тому

      The problem with Paradox is that her impact in a give game is determined by individual skill as much as it is the levels of coordination present in both teams. Faced with uncoordinated teammates or coordinated enemies her ability to contribute is substantially diminished.
      Honestly, I think this is down to her kit. It's not bad, by any means, but it has some glaring shortcomings. Take the carbine, as an example. Good damage on it, but the charge up time on it absolutely hamstrings it. The charge makes it so paradox's best nuke actually does less damage than basic attacks in the same time frame, relegating the skill to poke or the opener to a fight
      The rest of her kit has similar issues. Both the grenade and the wall are glaringly weak against enemies who can either tank through them or have repositioning skills as they will either ignore or avoid them and displace paradox. Abrams, Lash, and Shiv are three examples who can either reliably crush paradox in a face off or simply ruin her positioning efforts. Abrams and lash are particularly nasty against paradox as a swap of one of their team mates could mean an easy 5 man ult against your team for them as your team piles in on the person you swapped.

  • @P0wd33r
    @P0wd33r Місяць тому +15

    Punchadox is the giga chad build

    • @AeneaSXI
      @AeneaSXI Місяць тому +1

      right? its fun as hell too and the movement tech with the further reaching - heavy melee item is so cool.

  • @electus2098
    @electus2098 Місяць тому +51

    I main Paradox. All i can say is it depends on your style of playing. Some builds can be good for you, some absolutely catastrophic, for example, i did not like carbine builds, so i made my own build that resolves more around bomb damage.

    • @electus2098
      @electus2098 Місяць тому +5

      If someone wants to try it, heres the id: 121188
      most of the items have instructions and if you scroll all the way down theres a small guide on how to output the most damage

    • @fenekin04040
      @fenekin04040 Місяць тому +1

      this! I think she has a lot of self expression because i made my own build that is revolved around being supportive

    • @Mochichino15
      @Mochichino15 Місяць тому

      ​@@fenekin04040I use her as support, her low ability cooldown and 3/4 shield (charge items) means you can spam her ability even if it doesn't deal much dmg. Combine it with slow bullets and healbane to make sure shiv&Abram having a hard time to kill you

    • @tavish1658
      @tavish1658 Місяць тому +2

      I think Paradox is among the best designed heroes in the game, because she has so many build options both for abilities as well as items. She also offers a high skill ceiling.

    • @Windowsprodukt
      @Windowsprodukt Місяць тому

      That's why I love the char. So many options! I'm currently running either shotgun carbine or a bomb/spirit build, both involving a ton of punching.

  • @silence7230
    @silence7230 Місяць тому +4

    The wall is Soo underrated. It delays practically everything. Dynamo's stomp delayed, shiv knife delayed, even wraith ult can be delayed.

  • @soap6264
    @soap6264 26 днів тому +1

    Just started playing paradox and she is really strong. The problem is shes good helping out in teamfights which makes me feel bad for farming instead of helping my teammates kill someone...

  • @Windowsprodukt
    @Windowsprodukt Місяць тому +4

    I'm just sayi'n, Echo Shard grenade build.
    Holy moly it makes her entire kit flow together and it's beautiful.

  • @PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth
    @PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth Місяць тому +5

    I think it'd be really cool if Paradox had both a male and female model, and it was random which one was used each game. Combine that with pitch-shifting their voice to sound like different people, and it'd really emphasize the whole "anonymous collective with one face" thing!

  • @NoodleCDS
    @NoodleCDS Місяць тому +5

    maining paradox, the most success i've seen with her is when your team cooperates with you or when you play around the carries/DPS. i find her to be most useful as a support rather than a carry or tank even if her damage output is high enough to solo someone squishy like vindicta, haze, or infernus. slow any targets with her carbine so your teammates can finish them off, or snipe them yourself. swap targets as an offering to your teammates or pull them back to your team if they start to run.
    she's definitely a character that centers around teamwork because of her kit and so she suffers in the late game if you have nobody to play around with. her kit is excellent but she can't carry 5 people, believe me i've tried. for me, her grenade is a mixed bag because while it's useful in some situations, i just find it best in say lane clearing or area denial. on the flipside her carbine is definitely her most useful tool next to her swap. her wall is the most misunderstood piece of utility because to be honest there's no real wrong way to use it. it's useful to catch others on retreat after a swap, the mentioned swap into a wall, covering yourself or teammates with it, playing in and out/peeking behind the wall.
    tldr: best as support and i love her thighs.

  • @sanitynotfound866
    @sanitynotfound866 Місяць тому +6

    I love this hero and mastering them. Yesterday i managed to block Bebop's hook with my wall and dophamine rush immideatly kicks, other time playing her on my mmr is horrendous tho ahahaha

  • @benjaminmartinezhernandez7200
    @benjaminmartinezhernandez7200 Місяць тому +4

    I love this kind off videos! Please keep doing more!!!

  • @kamikeserpentail3778
    @kamikeserpentail3778 Місяць тому +6

    Her abilities beg you to play her as a tank.
    Max range swap is (harr harr youtube bs just let me say the word) self deletion if you build as a glass cannon, but quite effective if you can take some hits. It does a fair amount of damage with 100% lifesteal. It's a great peel option to protect squishy allies. More often than not I use it at close range though.
    Wall gains aoe silence, and begs you to throw it in the enemy's face. The damage doesn't care about bullet or spirit power, so you're free to build vitality and still do heavy damage. I go full wall build and can easily throw out 5 back to back walls in a team fight, sometimes swapping people through the wall they just escaped through, or through a double wall, or trapping them by putting a wall in two directions.
    Carbine's time stop doesn't care if you charge it or not, the duration is the same so instant fire it to peel or catch enemies out of position.
    Pulse Grenade is best against unmoving targets, like camps or minion waves, allowing you to do that even when you don't build for damage. It's also more effective against players when you can keep the enemy inside it, which the wall's extreme slow, pulse carbine's stop, and swap's everything all facilitate, all of which are much easier at point blank.
    I hope they play into that and buff her base HP a bit. I see no reason Kelvin should have more health than her.

    • @h2o848
      @h2o848 Місяць тому +5

      Carbine has a minimum .25s stop and a max stop of .5-1s, scaling with ability points. Sure, you still stop them with a quick shot, but for less Time (and damage). Quick shots still have their situational uses though!

    • @Turned2Ice
      @Turned2Ice Місяць тому

      @@h2o848 MikaelS uses quick carbine pretty much often

  • @REPHIA
    @REPHIA Місяць тому +1

    Paradox gives me the vibe of a Durarara!'s Celty

  • @justwhybros
    @justwhybros Місяць тому +4

    You could say she is a bit of a paradox

  • @DoubleMallow
    @DoubleMallow Місяць тому +4

    As a trans girl the pronouns joke made giggle out loud tbh I loved it

    • @Gofaw
      @Gofaw Місяць тому

      You will NEVER be a woman

  • @lebo1999
    @lebo1999 Місяць тому

    in my experience before watching the video, paradox is either the most brutal 99/0 or an awful 0/99, there is NO in-between

  • @CrazyBloo
    @CrazyBloo Місяць тому +1

    I think a lot of the high mmr players say she is the best because she was for a long time. She is still really strong but from april-july before nerfs paradox was thanos level hyper carry

  • @mdbones1582
    @mdbones1582 Місяць тому +2

    I exclusively play Paradox and have about 60% winrate with her
    She's great and sexy

  • @freeman8990
    @freeman8990 Місяць тому

    Paradox is basically earth spirit cept she never had a broken phase.

  • @dantedrake1112
    @dantedrake1112 Місяць тому

    Paradox unintentionally ended up being my main, I played more support and front line characters but I wanted to play a killer character that wasn't Haze, Seven, Infernus or any like that. So I learned to play it, it was difficult and made mistakes, but I like it. Besides your own skill she depends on your teammates too, a swap is almost a certified kill but if your team don't take advantage of it, it's just a wasted skill

  • @loaduscoolclipz5505
    @loaduscoolclipz5505 Місяць тому

    i mean not to flatter myself, but i have not seen another decemt paradox player in my 200 hours of playing aside from yours truly

  • @Quinti22
    @Quinti22 Місяць тому

    i suck mechanically and i main paradox, damn i got destroyed the first two weeks but now, even with my aim that can not hit a carabine shot to save my life, i started poping off with her. possitioning and knowing how to approach every fight is crucial with her.
    you are a backline character that should be weaving in and out of the fight pocking enemies and being vigilant to combo out of allies CC or to punish misspossitioned enemies.
    i also like getting alchemical fire with her after getting all my core items because is like having a 2nd pulse granade and you will be comboing from allies CC anyway

  • @fireemblemistrash75
    @fireemblemistrash75 Місяць тому

    Paradox and solo que is a recipe for disaster. Without good team composition, and a team that follows up on your plays, just like a kelvin, ivy, dynamo, you end up lost in the dust and open your eyes to a 1v6 your team left you to deal with.
    76 games with 52 games one and I swapped to kelvin, ivy, and infernus and never looked back. She needs a rework because her laning phase is just her losing most of it with maybe a well played swap shield, carbine, nade combo.

  • @lunerstempaccount8160
    @lunerstempaccount8160 Місяць тому

    Paradox is similar to a sniper character in a sense. Mid to high skill floor and extremely high skill ceiling.

  • @ghostblade1042
    @ghostblade1042 12 днів тому

    BEAR IN MIND that most people love to think that ' everything in her kit just has time theme but ITS NOT ITS ACTUAL TIME MANIPULATION'
    NO NO NO NO NO HELL NO
    Lemme tell you a few secrets about her abilities, ITS NOT STUN SLOW OR ANYTHING ITS REAL TIME MANIPULATION PPL GOT IT WRONG SO MUCH
    FIRSTLY CARBINE SHOT IS REALLY ACCELERATING UR OWN TIME
    it works as a free zipline speed boost that give u 30 percent speed on zipline. If you think enemy has character that can snipe you really well in the air, You could use it as a fast fall booster. You fall faster when you have carbine and when you press aim with carbine it's a real Jooking tool, Cuz in this game bullet has a travel time they have to aim sligthly infront of u to hit ur head. You could slide jump and hit ur aim right click so they miss calculate ur jump trajectory. GET CREATIVE WITH CARBINE
    SECONDLY UR WALL IS A TIME STOP NOT ACTUAL SHIELD
    Think of this as a rectangle that stops anything passing it for a few seconds. Bullets? Nades? Any item or curse projectile?? ALL WILL BE STOP BY TIME, You could delay an inevitable fate like if enemy throw Anything that is about to cripple ur character and you are close to walker or teammates, DELAYING THOSE CAN ACTUALLY BE A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH. You could even save ur teammate by stopping enemy for a few sec to actually put distance between ur teammates and enemy. AND IF U THROW PARADOX NADE ON A FLOOR BETWEEN A WALL, ITS A REAL 4 SEC TIME STOP. THEY CANT DO JACK. TRUST ME
    LASTLY
    Take this in mind, Her time power is a double edge sword and could hurt or save ur teammates. ONE RULE IMA TELL YALL RN. DONT SHOOT CARBINE ON ENEMY ULTS LIKE SEVEN OR DYNAMO, IT LAST 3 to 4 SECONDS LONGER IF YOU DO. Any Abilities that is a continuous ability can not be stop by ur time wall, like Vindicta ult.
    I will give u some good scenario to Carbine, Lash ult and Abrams Ult will take longer to slam if you land carbine on them when they are aiming for ur friends. Landing carbine on These 2 will actually give ur teammates enough time to take cover or run. Here are some niche one, If you anticipate or react to haze ult and land a carbine on her ult start up, you can stop bullets coming out of her gun even though her uls radius animation is already played.
    Get creative with time and stop thinking that this character just have normal stuns or slow cuz it's not
    GO OUT THER AND HAVE FUN WITH OUR PHANTOM THIEF PIXAR MOM.

  • @mrgamewatch4169
    @mrgamewatch4169 Місяць тому +2

    Such a cool character

  • @natehollingsworth5944
    @natehollingsworth5944 Місяць тому

    Build?

  • @h2o848
    @h2o848 Місяць тому

    Paradox sucks? Counterpoint: carbinecharge echoshard alchemicalfire grenadedrop carbineshot wall carbinecharge swap knockdown carbineshot warpstone phantomstrike meleecharge
    If anyone manages to land this ridiculous combo in game, you are truly having a good Time

    • @ryanhoang1123
      @ryanhoang1123 Місяць тому +3

      the combo is impossible there are 5 actives listed here...

    • @press2ifyouhate130
      @press2ifyouhate130 Місяць тому

      Then Mo presses 4 and his entire team one shots you

    • @blackomega34
      @blackomega34 Місяць тому +1

      All this just to do as much damage as 2 shiv qs and a heavy melee.

    • @edwin7788
      @edwin7788 14 днів тому

      Haze : Unstoppable and 4

  • @collegehumorrulz1
    @collegehumorrulz1 Місяць тому

    Tempo gank hero. You push out lane with gernade and gank to snowball team. Quicker you get the 3k headshot item the better. Max wall first most of the time

  • @dumpsta-divrr365
    @dumpsta-divrr365 Місяць тому

    Her design is fantastic but i think the hourglass on her back looks a bit cheesy

  • @GrubbyWubby
    @GrubbyWubby Місяць тому

    13:06 the fed, Haze

  • @LFaithF
    @LFaithF Місяць тому

    hourglass head with hourglass body

  • @breezeless_7665
    @breezeless_7665 Місяць тому

    Uuh… idk what to say, I’ve had a blast with Paradox pretty much every match so I thought she was good as hell

  • @Goober70000
    @Goober70000 Місяць тому

    just wait till u see melee paradox 🤫🤫

  • @matthewtaylor744
    @matthewtaylor744 Місяць тому

    Ivy

  • @kendob9642
    @kendob9642 Місяць тому +1

    MikaelS aimbots

  • @Thee_Znutz
    @Thee_Znutz 28 днів тому

    1:20 same

  • @seancardinus7089
    @seancardinus7089 Місяць тому

    Ima phantom 5 paradox otp wheres my badge at 🤑

  • @boris_bulletdodger9109
    @boris_bulletdodger9109 Місяць тому

    Positive comment

  • @ced5491
    @ced5491 Місяць тому

    Check out Karebu’s paradox, its nasty and has a unique build!!

  • @Tonyinglicious
    @Tonyinglicious Місяць тому

    anyone can send me an invite for deadlock?

  • @emred4653
    @emred4653 Місяць тому +5

    1:17 ???

  • @noboot6558
    @noboot6558 Місяць тому

    Its a shame i have the iq of a brick because i really think shes fun to play xd

  • @turtuul3919
    @turtuul3919 Місяць тому

    11:09 yeh it called micro and macro

  • @HeavensBane53
    @HeavensBane53 Місяць тому

    I think another problem for her is that she (in my experience anyways) falls off pretty hard late game. I've had paradoxes pop the fuck off early only to end up feeling nearly irrelevant late game. So you have a high skill floor hero that needs to dominate and win early, which is something else that lower rank teams will always struggle to do. The only games I can think of playing with, against, or as a Paradox where the Paradox won were games where the team as a whole dominated; I've never seen a Paradox hard carry a game.

    • @AeneaSXI
      @AeneaSXI Місяць тому +1

      So true. If your having a good game you can hard-carry midgame with lots of kills. But if your team can't finish up the game pretty early you fall off so badly lategame that while you were slaughtering people before left right and center all of a sudden you can't properly 1v1 anyone anymore which is a very frustrating experience. Then you can just rely on hitting your swaps and hope your team will capitalise on your plays, and if they don't you basically become irrelevant. Also makes her >very< cooldown dependent lategame.

  • @aubadeknight5649
    @aubadeknight5649 Місяць тому

    What rank have you gotten?

    • @Acex2ron
      @Acex2ron  Місяць тому +1

      I refuse to touch ranked (in any game) out of principle

    • @rooseveltskerrit2838
      @rooseveltskerrit2838 Місяць тому

      @@Acex2ronwhy is that ?

    • @Acex2ron
      @Acex2ron  Місяць тому +6

      ​@@rooseveltskerrit2838 Simple answer? I don't think it's worth my time.
      Long answer?
      Climbing ranked is a full-time job. If you want to climb consistently, you need to keep up with the meta, you need to play often, and for Deadlock specifically, the game is in alpha so changes could happen at the drop of a hat and force you to have to rethink how you use a hero.
      And I realized that if I'm going to commit 30-45 minutes of my life to one thing, I better be enjoying every second of it or have something to show for it. I personally don't attach any value to an in-game medal or stats that only I will ever get to see or care about. I'd much rather use that time to learn to improve my content creation skills or to play video games where my level of fun isn't ultimately dictated by the 9 (or in Deadlock's case, 11) other people in the match.
      I don't see any reason to play ranked because the style of content that I do doesn't necessitate "top 0.01% gameplay," and all things considered my channel's growth kinda shows that you don't need a high rank to make content that people want to watch.

    • @moie1647
      @moie1647 Місяць тому

      @@Acex2ronWell ranked in this game is kind of different in my experience. I don’t really care for a rank, but I still play it whenever my friends are away since the likelihood of toxic people is much lower, and people are just more communicative, and I also feel like the SBMM is pretty balanced

  • @milano515
    @milano515 15 днів тому

    m my llm

  • @qualitycenter9700
    @qualitycenter9700 Місяць тому +33

    When you said pronouns I closed the video

    • @palmxo2675
      @palmxo2675 Місяць тому +15

      congrats?

    • @ReginaldMusgrave
      @ReginaldMusgrave Місяць тому +16

      Counterpoint, when they said Pronouns, I closed the vid to send to all my friends with the caption, "Based quote of the day"

    • @Acex2ron
      @Acex2ron  Місяць тому +76

      If you get triggered by the word "pronoun" I wonder if you even made it past elementary school 💀💀💀

    • @alext6933
      @alext6933 Місяць тому +7

      Pretty sure it was a joke. Jeez.

    • @RovingTroll
      @RovingTroll Місяць тому

      These people unfortunately don't joke. They hate women and trans people so much they can't even engage in grammar because of the pronouns.​@@alext6933

  • @helmwg
    @helmwg Місяць тому

    1:20 that’s clearly a woman

    • @Acex2ron
      @Acex2ron  Місяць тому

      Do I have to explain to people what a "setup" for a joke is?

  • @viltautasYT
    @viltautasYT Місяць тому

    i havent played deadlock, but they should make most female chars/weak male characters have bigger recoil on average due to weaker arms (same for 1 arm weapons)
    havent played deadlock, but would make sense from physics perspective (the bigger the wrist, the less recoil)

    • @callmera0uf560
      @callmera0uf560 Місяць тому +9

      i see where youre coming from but i feel like this game isnt going for realism

    • @dinugs4052
      @dinugs4052 Місяць тому +29

      Brother this game has a living gargoyle and a walking pile of goo

    • @engineergaming3422
      @engineergaming3422 Місяць тому +27

      Never cook again

    • @viewtifulhoe
      @viewtifulhoe Місяць тому

      mf thinks women can't use guns

    • @blackomega34
      @blackomega34 Місяць тому +15

      If we're talking realism then Paradox would be dead because replacing your head with a lightbulb results in instant death.