Haze

Strengths and weaknesses

Abilities

1

Sleep Dagger

30s cooldown

Throws a dagger that damages the target and puts them to sleep. Damage wakes them up.

Tier 1 1 point	On wake-up, the target has 10% less bullet resist for 6s
Tier 2 2 points	+1s sleep duration and applies 15 Fixation stacks
Tier 3 5 points	-17s cooldown; on wake-up, -40% move and dash speed for 3s

2

Smoke Bomb

33s cooldown

Haze fades out of sight, becoming invisible for 8 seconds and gaining sprint speed. Attacking reveals her.

Tier 1 1 point	+7m invisible sprint speed
Tier 2 2 points	2 charges
Tier 3 5 points	Dispels non-ultimate debuffs and gives +50% bullet lifesteal for 5s

3

Fixation

Passive. Each bullet hit on a target adds a stack (three for a headshot) that increases Haze's bullet damage against that target. Stacks last 6s, up to 40.

Tier 1 1 point	Every 20 stacks: 40 spirit damage and a 12% slow for 2s
Tier 2 2 points	+40 max stacks and +5s duration
Tier 3 5 points	+0.11 damage per stack, scaling with weapon damage

ULT

Bullet Dance

165s cooldown

For 3.5 seconds, Haze fires at all nearby enemies with perfect accuracy.

Tier 1 1 point	+7 weapon damage
Tier 2 2 points	+10% fire rate and +3m move speed
Tier 3 5 points	+40% evasion and -65s cooldown

Ability order

Spend points in this order. Each ability's tiers cost 1, 2 and 5 points.

1. Unlock Fixation
2. Unlock Sleep Dagger
3. Unlock Smoke Bomb
4. Fixation T1
5. Sleep Dagger T1
6. Unlock Bullet Dance
7. Fixation T2
8. Smoke Bomb T1
9. Fixation T3
10. Bullet Dance T1–T2
11. Sleep Dagger T2
12. Bullet Dance T3
13. Smoke Bomb T2–T3
14. Sleep Dagger T3

Item build

A starting build that works in most games. Swap pieces based on the enemy team; the notes explain what each stage is for.

Checked against 35,907 Haze matches from October 6–7, 2026 (all ranks). It keeps the items most Haze players buy and fills the other slots with the items that won most often. See the item tier list for how we measure that.

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How to play

Haze is a gun-focused assassin and carry. Fixation makes every bullet hit harder than the last against the same target, so she melts single targets. In the late game, Bullet Dance lets her spray perfect-accuracy fire at a whole team at once.

Laning phase (0–10 min)

• Farm safely. Haze is fragile early. Focus on last hits, orbs and denies rather than trades.
• Fixation rewards focus. When you do trade, keep shooting the same target so the stacks build. Headshots add three stacks each.
• Sleep Dagger is your lane-saver. Sleep an enemy who’s chasing you, or set up an easy kill if your lane partner is nearby.

Mid game (10–25 min)

• Hunt isolated targets. Smoke Bomb lets you move unseen. Find an enemy farming alone, sleep them, then start shooting. Remember that damage wakes them up, so open your attack with your best shot.
• Use Smoke Bomb to farm. Invisible sprint speed gets you between jungle camps quickly.
• Don’t force fights before your core items. Haze gets much stronger once her fire-rate core (Swift Striker, Active Reload and Burst Fire) is bought.

Late game and team fights (25+ min)

• Wait for the right Bullet Dance. Look for moments when three or more enemies are close together, or after your team has landed a stun.
• Position on the side, not the front. Smoke Bomb in, appear from an angle, then ult.
• Watch for enemy CC. Stuns and silences interrupt Bullet Dance. If a key enemy still has their stun, bait it out first.

Combos

1. Assassination: Smoke Bomb → walk behind the target → Sleep Dagger → reposition and shoot for headshots. Fixation stacks build while they wake up.
2. Team wipe: Smoke Bomb into a flank → Bullet Dance on a grouped team → Smoke Bomb again (with T2 charges) to escape.
3. Duel opener (T2 Sleep Dagger): Sleep Dagger gives 15 Fixation stacks at once, so a duel starts with your damage already ramped up.

Matchups

• Good against: squishy heroes who can’t escape, and teams that spread out.
• Hard against: heroes with stuns or silences that interrupt Bullet Dance, and tanks stacking bullet resist.
• Spirit damage is your weakness. Burst spirit heroes can delete Haze before Fixation builds up, so pick up Spirit Resilience if that’s what’s killing you.

Pro tips

• Headshots give three Fixation stacks instead of one. Aiming for the head speeds up your ramp-up massively.
• Smoke Bomb T3 dispels debuffs. Use it to escape slows and damage-over-time effects as well as to reposition.
• In lane, don’t use Sleep Dagger just to poke. Its cooldown is long early on, and it’s your only escape tool besides Smoke Bomb.

Lore

Haze is an agent of the OSIC's secretive Sandman Division, slipping into people's dreams to judge whether they're a threat. When someone is, she ends them with sleep-inducing daggers and precise gunfire.

Ability numbers are checked against the game and the community-run Deadlock Wiki after every patch. Builds are our own recommendations, checked against public match data. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.