Deadlock’s Haze Hero Guide: Master the Art of Stealth

Haze, a starter blademistress, embarks on bewildering assassination sorties gaining knots on the neck of opponents. Being focused on stealth and hurling AOE ultimate on her opponents, Haze is targeted by those who love agility and loading bursts on their enemies. However, one should be ready, it can take time to understand how she works and the approach needed to maximize her skills requires constancy and effective strategizing.

Overview of Haze in Deadlock

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Haze’s gameplay is of close range as she gets in, attacks and retreats as she can be killed swiftly. With a being a low health, high damage hero Haze has to rely on her attacking, stunning and quickness to always be on the offensive. Some of her abilities like Smoke Bomb and Bullet Dance are very efficient in aiding her disrupt the opposition and create havoc on during team fights.

Role: Assassin, Stealth DPS

Strengths and Weaknesses of Haze

Strengths:

• Invisibility and Speed : Assaults become much easier with Haze as she is able to augment speed alongside dodge rolling so that she does not have to take flank shunners and enables an easy flyby to fight.

• High Damage Potential: Fixation passive also allows for Haze to stab the mess out of other buffed targets performing instant attacks with AEO while resisting foes in her way.

• Overwhelming Teamfight Presence: One of her strengths is the ultimate ability ‘Bullet Dance’ which can swing the fight in favor of her team if it is effectively used against multiple foes.

Weaknesses:

• Low Health Pool: Haze possesses only 500 base health making her a weak hero, so she needs to be played very strategically otherwise she becomes an easy target.

• Skill-Dependent Abilities: The key to using Haze’s Sleep Dagger effectively is aiming it right and timing well and for her ultimate, timing is crucial as it can be affected by enemy skills.

• Weak in Prolonged Fights: Haze loses a lot of power when she uses her skills and fights against people with high mobility or sustains abilities.

Deadlock Haze Abilities

Sleep Dagger: A 3 sec spell casted after throwing a dagger while making the target sleep but also does damage. Invisibility isn’t an option. cd 26s. Use this to cut enemies who are out of position or set up great surround attacks. It is fantastic when fighting one on one or when waiting to get rid of backline enemies.

Smoke Bomb: Haze’s normal abilities can be drawn out to literally make enemies waste time. cd 37s. Smoke bomp instead is great for initiating or disengaging fights if need be. An 8 sec invisibility along with additional 2 sprint speed will deal with melee attackers. Haze can use Smoke Bomb to hide in plain sight.

Fixation (Passive) Effect: Applies one level of modification for every bullet that strikes the same target, and the first headshot will apply two levels. Fixation makes scoring hits more beneficial and as such, players are encouraged to focus on landing consistent shots. This especially works on meaty targets who require damage over time.

Bullet Dance (Ultimate) Effect: At the same time encircling the Haze into a barrage and within 15m, strikes with perfect accuracy and 50% evade for the duration. Cooldown: 138. Tips: From a flank position, use Bullet Dance and catch them by surprise with the AOE damage. Make sure to use it once the enemy’s crowd control powers are on cooldown to avoid interruptions.

Optimal Build for Haze in Deadlock

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To get the optimal haze potential, she needs items that help increase her rate of fire, increase her ammo, and increase her survivability as well. Here’s a run through Haze’s ideal build in every time frame look in the game:

Early Game Build

In the early stages of the game, players should aim to secure victory through a higher reservoir, thus focusing on the items mainly aimed at increasing ammo would be the focus.

• Ammo Scavenger: Tools during the early game for last hits and sealing kills.

• Extra Regen: Provides better sustain and much lesser downtime between fights.

• Restorative Shot: More healing to the reserves.

Mid-Game Build

In this phase, get items that increase Haze’s damage and wave-clear capacity:

• Tesla Bullets — Helps her to be more effective in farming and to clear enemy waves.

• Swift Striker — Enhances fire rate and adds more ammo necessary for mid game fights.

• Withering Whip — Decreases enemy bullet resist, granting Haze more potential during fights.

Late-Game Build

Late game, the current hits emphasize on the importance of concentrating on the burst stage as well as Haze’s survivability:

• Burst Fire - Added a lot to Haze’s overall fire rates, making sure that applying Fixation stacks would be easy and stable.

• Mystic Reach - This gives the user a larger distance from which to fire at an enemy making their positioning safer.

• Lucky Shot – Greatly provides extra damage considering the damage is increased based on Haze’s Fixation state.

Situational and Luxury Items for Haze

According to the specific enemies that the team is up against and composition of the opposing team, Haze can use some items to gain advantage:

• Superior Stamina - Increases mobility which in return helps Haze to move out of the enemy’s damage.

• Unstoppable - Reduces Crowd control and is valuable when enemies have many stuns or snares.

• Silencer – Applies silence on surrounding enemies during Bullet Dance thus reducing their chance to strike back after being attacked.

Tips for Playing Haze Effectively

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1. Positioning and Timing: For Haze to be able to perform her tasks, great attention has to be given to positioning. Using smoke bomb can help get closer to enemies to attack or help get away, and the timing of sleep dagger has to be right in order to snipe out the important targets.

2. Focus on Early Farming: Haze's early game might not be her most exciting aspect to begin with as weaknesses sprout forth everywhere. The way to go about it would be to focus on gathering Souls, so as to construct her core items whilst waiting for the mid-game with unchanged strengths, so there isn’t a strong push for farming more onto her core.

3. Prioritize Fixation Stacks: Its best practice to chase after higher health targets to increase your Fixation stacks as that guarantees better DPS. The extra Spirit Power provides quite an improvement to burst damage as well.

4. Ultimate Usage: Engage in Bullet Dance when the need arises and make sure not to expose yourself completely. Waiting for the enemy team to get grouped and then attacking from the center provides the least resistance. Once you get proper good Unstoppable, there is no way of getting interrupted completely while sending out powerful attacks.

How to Counter Haze

1. Maintain Distance: Haze is a close range fighter so champions with considerable range should be effective in staving her off.

2. Use CC: Relocating or debuffing spells like Knockdown or Curse can be detrimental to Haze’s success particularly during her special ability Bullet Dance.

3. Build Anti-Stealth Items: Items or abilities with the potential of revealing hidden units make it tough for Haze to use Smoke Bomb properly hence revealing her to be targeted easily.

Conclusion

Haze is a strong player on the team for those who prefer patience and perfect execution as her game-play style requires precision. She has the capability to inflict burst damage through stealth and that makes her useful in Deadlock. If appropriately built and played, Haze can effectively cause the enemy team disruption, kill important characters, and help her team win the game. Her positioning and low health puts a target on her back making her a fragile character, thus the player must engage into any combat with great planning. Those who are eager and willing to put in the work necessary to master her distinct approach to the game, will find Haze to be an interesting and fulfilling character to play in Deadlock.