Sniper Mommy [Fully annotated]

Author's notes

[Kinetic Carbine does not have damage fall off, you can easily hit cross map 2k damage time shots.] Kinetic Carbine has very interesting item synergies, this build has all of the ones that work, making it the best and original Paradox one-shot build.

Item categories

1. 1Core

   Author's category · 10 items · L > R, Rush 4.8k spikes for first urn. | After Express Shot choose either Weighted Shots or Hollow Point, select by preference.

   1. 1

      High-Velocity Rounds

      Fun fact, Paradox Kinetic Carbine shot actually has travel speed, very strange for a literal shot of time energy but eh.

   2. 2

      Mystic Shot

      Don't sell until giga late game, it's essentially the perfect item for sniping.

   3. 3

      Mystic Burst

      Early game with these 3 items 3 starts dealing like 200 damage every 15s.// The early game isn't changed too much, but the damage drop really hurts late, be less hesitant to buy Mercurial Magnum.

   4. 4

2. 2Optionaloptional

   Author's category · 1 items

   1. 1

      Veil Walker

      For those who have a soft spot for Veil Walker, you can still build it, even if it got decimated by the nerfs, it's still fun.

3. 3Late game

   Game stage · 7 items · L > R Unless you have enough money for t4's, then buy those first.

   1. 1

      Stamina Mastery

      This item is underrated, which is strange, since everyone buys it, but I promise it is absurdly good for keeping space, it will save you far more often then 90% of greens.

   2. 2

      Mystic Reverb

      This is literally just 50% more damage, and the aoe will easily deal thousands of damage in teamfights.

   3. 3

      Glass Cannon

4. 4Componentsoptional

   Author's category · 4 items · On demand.

   1. 1

      Extra Health

      The extra health does help in lane, and if you're going up against a melee/dangerous lane, you can pick it up early, especially since we're back to building Fortitude.

   2. 2

      Extra Stamina

      We take Stamina over other greens because it helps us stay out of other champion's effective range, we dont need to mitigate damage that we dont take.

   3. 3

      Long Range

5. 5Survivabilityoptional

   Author's category · 9 items · This build has exactly one slot for greens, choose wisely.

   1. 1

      Restorative Shot

      Surprisingly viable, very decent for sustain, and you can simply sell it first later. It also just literally out dps' headshot booster, that item is only for very early poke, so I dont recommend it.

   2. 2

      Extra Regen

      Essentially 4 extra health regen, over a minute thats 240 health healed (as long as your not in combat), this or Restorative Shot and you won't need to back.

   3. 3

6. 6Last Purchasesoptional

   Author's category · 2 items

   1. 1

      Superior Cooldown

      Built from Compress Cooldown

      Very low priority, your 3 is the only thing we care about.

   2. 2

      Transcendent Cooldown

      Built from Superior Cooldown

      This finishes our spirit investment after buying Mercurial Magnum, buying it before then isn't usually optimal.// With the increased movespeed spirit scaling change this is now viable earlier.

7. 7Notes - Early/Mid game

   Author's category · 0 items · Just poke with 3 whenever its off cooldown, go for a few box runs with the movement speed, and ask your laner to not instantly clear waves if you're not there to get souls. | Always take t1 camps with your bombs, but only take t2 camps a bit later, because trophy collector makes them hard to get early, t3's are only much later when you have maxxed your bombs or 3 can oneshot them. | Roam often, remember to just press 3, double jump near the edge of your lane to fire of a sneaky half-cross map slow, and maybe nag an assist.

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8. 8Notes - Late Game

   Author's category · 0 items · By roughly glass cannon your 3 deals about half of anyone's health. When there are no objectives use your speed to zipline to lanes, clear them with 1 and hit a shot with 3 to force someone to back. Play teamfights like a scaredy cat, always far away, shoot 3's and throw bombs, never get too close, or else you will explode.

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9. 9Notes - Miscellaneous

   Author's category · 0 items · 1) Never ult to engage, try to use it to juke, going high then jumping off and swapping with them. 2) Altough it doesn't have damage fall-off, Kinetic Carbine doesn't actually have unlimited range, it's just a bit shorter then the range between bridge buffs, and increases slightly once you purchase Sharpshooter or Long Range. 3) You might get flamed for it, but going into the rift territory or midboss pit is very risky, try to poke from afar. 4) NEVER shot you're 3 without fully charging it anymore.

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10. 10And Lastly

    Author's category · 0 items · Try to have fun, its a game after all, dont be sad even if you miss shots, try to find new playstyles, like subbing out compress cooldown for slowing hex to make the shot easier, or switch sharpshooter for point blank and oneshot people whilst hugging them. Paradox is in a really bad state right now, all of us need to try and invent her back into the META, if anyone can think of a brilliant, groundbreaking strategy, its gonna be us.

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Categories appear in the author's order. Only the editor's default Early, Mid and Late sections are marked as game stages; the author's own categories keep their names. “Built from” links come from the game's item recipes.

Published ability order

Published ability order: unlocks and upgrades in the author's order, one row per ability in slot order

Pulse GrenadePulse Grenade			Pulse Grenade: Ability unlocked, step 3	Pulse Grenade: 1 AP upgrade, step 41									Pulse Grenade: 2 AP upgrade, step 132