Deadlock Haze Build Guide

Welcome, Deadlock fans; today, we’re giving you the Deadlock best Haze build. Haze is one of the most popular picks in every game. We’ll explain how this character works and what items you should buy in all three stages of the match. Now, this won’t be a complete character guide, though, but a good build always relies on a good understanding of the character’s abilities. So, if you’re just picking up Haze, go into Hero Sandbox and familiarize yourself with her toolkit. Do that, and you’ll be able to hold your lane with confidence. Haze is one of the heroes with the highest win rate, and our build will help you get more wins, adding to the statistics.

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Deadlock Haze Abilities Overview

Before talking about itemization, it would be best to start off our Deadlock Haze build guide by explaining how the character works.

Haze is a dual-machine-gun-wielding damage dealer. She is among the fastest characters in the game with 8 m/s move speed and 56 damage per second. As the game describes her playstyle: “When Haze fixates on a target, she can hold her own in a firefight. She prefers to create one-sided exchanges, avoiding damage and then picking off unsuspecting targets up close.”

The Deadlock Haze abilities includes:

Icon	Ability	Description
	Sleep Dagger	Throw a dagger that damages and sleeps the target. Sleeping Targets wake up shortly after being damaged. Throwing a Dagger does not break your invisibility. Sleep Dagger does not interrupt enemies’ channeling abilities.
	Smoke Bomb	Fade out of sight, becoming invisible and gaining sprint speed. Attacking removes invisibility. Close enemies can see through your invisibility.
	Fixation	Shooting a target increases your bullet damage on that target. Gain one stack per bullet hit, two if the hit is a headshot.
	Bullet Dance (ult)	Enter a flurry, firing your weapon at nearby enemies with perfect accuracy. During the flurry, Haze gains a fire rate bonus and will evade some of the bullets shot at her.

You can clearly see what her fighting style is – Haze is a typical assassin and a glass-canon. Fragile but deadly. Hop in and out of invisibility, put enemies to sleep with the dagger, move for a better setup, and unleash the hailstorm by either auto-attacking to build up stacks of Fixation or use your ultimate on groups of enemies.

All you need now is a suitable collection of items that will reinforce this playstyle. Remember about limited inventory capacity. You have 4 slots for weapon, vitality, and spirit items and 4 extra “flex” slots for when you reach the endgame. So, a total of 16 slots for the entire game. Now, let’s talk about what to buy for Haze in Deadlock and why these items are the best for her. BLOG20

Early Game Items

We’ll start with the early stage of the game when you just deployed into your lane. A few minutes into the game, you should be able to accumulate enough souls to buy your first items. Each one of them costs 500 Souls. In the first part of the Deadlock Haze build that you see below, we’ve laid out the items you’ll need to get as soon as you have enough souls.

Stand your ground against the enemy in your lane and get the items in the same order as they are in this table. This is the most optimal order of the Deadlock Haze item progression, but if the situation calls for a change, then, by all means, get whatever you think is more important at the moment.

Mid Game Items

Once you’ve destroyed your lane opponent’s Guardian, you can consider yourself entering the mid-game. That’s when you’ll get your core items that will allow you to roam around, helping your teammates get enemy hero kills and push other lanes.

Your role as a damage dealer dictates that you participate in team fights and almost never go out to push lanes alone. And these are the Deadlock Haze best items for mid game.

Late Game Items

In the late game, you’ll have more opportunities to focus on your survivability thanks to items like UNstoppable and Escalating Resilience.

These items should be enough for the final push but don’t just settle for these. As you and your team rack up kills and more Souls end up in your “pockets,” there are more fun items that you should get:

1. Superior Stamina – Increases the number of air dashes and air jumps that can be performed from 1 to 2 before landing.
2. Enduring Speed – Reduces the effect of the enemy Movement Slow
3. Ricochet – Your bullets will ricochet on enemies near your target, applying any bullet procs and dealing a percentage of the original damage.
4. Silencer (Active) – For the next 4s, al your bullets immediately apply Silence. Silcence prevents targets from using abilities.
5. Leech – Gives you 35% lifesteal from your bullets and abilities. BLOG20

These endgame items are optional and depend on the heroes on the enemy team. If you see a lot of characters with control abilities, then grab Silencer, which will go great with Unstoppable. If some tanks are making your team run in the opposite direction, take Leecha and drain their health, restoring yours. The late-game phase is flexible. By the time you get there, you’ll have a good idea of what kind of enemies you’re dealing with.

Conclusion

Haze is a super strong character in the game if you buy the right items. With this build, you will feel comfortable during the laning phases and all the way into the final stages. For all the new players who are unfamiliar with the concept of buying items for the character, which is common for MOBA games – shop items are the only way to make your characters stronger besides upgrading their abilities. While there are a lot of items, you only need to concern yourself with those items that are very selected for you in this build. Alternatively, the recommended tab of the shop shows only essential items that are separated into 3 sections representing the 3 main phases of a match – early game, mid-game, and late game. Everything you need is that tab.

We’d also like to encourage you to try and experiment with your build by going into the Weapon, Vitality, or Spirit tabs that contain all of the items from those categories. And with that, we wish you good luck and many victories!

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