Haze build guide

Chrome's Advanced Rapid Haze

by ChromeVersion 211Updated Oct 6, 2026Guide #3166

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Author's notes

UPDATED 10/05 - THIS IS A DIFFICULT BUILD. Creating the best midgame & lategame M1 dueler. We have insane damage & tempo for midgame and great farm speed for new haunts. Late game we shred with Smoke T3 sustain and LS / Rico damage. This build is fully annotated! Give them a read for insight on timing and use cases.

Item categories

1Lane Any Order
Author's category · 4 items · L → R Default
1. 1
  Extra Spirit
2. 2
  Rapid Rounds
3. 3
  Extended Magazine
4. 4
  Extra Regen
2Early game
Game stage · 5 items · T1 Bullet Dance to confirm lane
1. 1
  Active Reload
  Our core reload tool. Use this constantly for shredding waves & camps. In engages, use Active Reload while they're slept.
2. 2
  Swift Striker
  Built from Rapid Rounds
3. 3
  Titanic Magazine
  Built from Extended Magazine
  God this feels so troll but 3 Stack Fixation headshots MASSIVELY reward sustained fire as early as possible, this is also an absurd wave clear / jungle item. We sell it for Lucky Shot later.
3Lane Techoptional
Author's category · 3 items · Annotations
1. 1
  Healing Rite
  ONLY BUY IN MIDLANE, Sidelanes should run Healing Snack routes.
2. 2
  Rebuttal
  Buy into Viscous / Billy if needed
3. 3
  Reactive Barrier
  Bought into Bebop & Vindicta primarily, you can skip Healing Booster if you're slot crammed.
4Core Build
Author's category · 8 items · Sell Order: Extra Spirit → Titanic → Active Reload | Sell Healing Booster for better Vital
1. 1
  Slowing Hex
  Core ganking tool, I open with this out of smoke most times. Into heroes like Infernus or Mina especially, you need to apply this before they can escape.
2. 2
  Burst Fire
  Built from Rapid Rounds
  We should always be sliding on Haze to extend our ammo (even with Titanic!)
3. 3
  Extra Charge
5Prio Vital Tech
Author's category · 4 items · Mid & Late Game | Annotations
1. 1
  Counterspell
  I get this whenever I'm into serious Ult / Silencing CC and/or Curse. Anti-Pocket, Warden, Wraith, Drifter, Vyper & Lash item (Of course, you SHOULD Sleep the Lash, please do that)
2. 2
  Spirit Resilience
  Fury Trance does a great job bulking us against Spirit, which is always our biggest problem, but I sometimes need even more resist. If they have majority spirit damage, get this.
3. 3
6Late Tech
Author's category · 6 items · Annotations
1. 1
  Armor Piercer
  NOW ACTUALLY COUNTERS PLATED ARMOR - Bullet Resist stacking is very easy for enemies to do, this cuts through.
2. 2
  Silencer
  Incredibly strong for teamfights. Comm to your team when enemies are silenced at key times.
3. 3
  Toxic Bullets
  If you need DoT % damage and Anti-Heal, this is a great item. Not core.
7Late Damage
Author's category · 4 items
1. 1
  Spellslinger
  IMPORTANT: To be considered "in-combat" you need to have recently dealt or received damage. get in-combat before dumping cooldowns (which includes Active items)! This item kicks ass.
2. 2
  Crippling Headshot
  Easy Shred & Anti-Heal for late game.
3. 3
  Capacitor
  Our best Slowing Hex replacement for the hyper late game.
8Late Sustain
Author's category · 6 items · Read Annotations!
1. 1
  Siphon Bullets
  First half of the Siphon Tempo combo, getting Healing Tempo soon after is reliable but not necessary.
2. 2
  Healing Tempo
  Built from Healing Booster
  2nd Half of Siphon Tempo Combo, Continues to give us enhanced Lifesteal on Smoke T3. GET AFTER SIPHON.
3. 3
  Plated Armor
  If their team is carried by MASSIVE gun damage this is our best tool for survival.
9UPDATED 10/05 FOR CITY NEVER SLEEPS UPDATE - NEW ANNOTATIONS
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Author's category · 0 items · This build has a high skill floor and an even higher skill ceiling, especially for Haze, and piloting it well will give you more success than anything else you can find in the browser. There are 3 pillars of the learning curve for this: Fury Trance, Blood Tribute, & Smoke T3. Fury Trance is a very powerful active if you setup ganks for being silenced. Baiting out abilities & stamina early lets you sleep & shred them with Trance. Blood Tribute's health drain isn't a problem as long as you're dealing real damage, which it itself enables, and the debuff resist / movespeed gives you a lot of spacing control. Tribute in ganks is simple, but in teamfights I am intentionally looking for close-range openings and committing when it's good. The 60% Lifesteal & Dispel on a 5s cooldown from Smoke T3 is the crux of our lategame fight potential, and being SUPER intentional about when you use it is the difference maker for your teamfight success. A good rule of thumb is that when you're dealing lots of damage & taking lots of damage, pop Smoke T3. Any massive CC on you that you can't safely tank: pop Smoke T3, and see if you can't turn the engagement. If you get these down you'll actually be unstoppable. If you have any questions or feedback please ping me in #haze or in my build guide in the guides section of the server.
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Published ability order

Published ability order: unlocks and upgrades in the author's order, one row per ability in slot order
Sleep DaggerSleep Dagger		Sleep Dagger: Ability unlocked, step 2						Sleep Dagger: 1 AP upgrade, step 8					Sleep Dagger: 2 AP upgrade, step 13