Heroes / Haze / How to play

Field manual · Oct 30 patch

How to play HazeHow to play

53.6% win rate · #7 of 44 · Assassin · Stealthy · Lethal

Updated 2026-11-06 22:09 UTC · n = 5,293,472 matches

How to play Haze

1Smoke Bomb Bullet Dance

2Bullet Dance

Your combo: Go invisible with Smoke Bomb to flank, then channel Bullet Dance for 3.5s, firing at everyone near you with bonus evasion.

Don’t waste: Enemies hold a stun, silence or sleep for Bullet Dance. Start it when their CC is spent, or bait it first.

Edge: With 2 Smoke Bomb charges (tier 2) you can escape a failed all-in. Bullet resist blunts you, and you have 730 health.

From community hero guides, Oct 2026 patches, checked against deadlock.wiki. The same combo from the other side is on how to counter Haze.

Your kit

Sleep Dagger

Ability 1 · 30s cooldown · sleep 2.75s

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

Ability 2 · 33s cooldown

Fade out of sight, becoming invisible and gaining sprint speed. Attacking removes invisibility, but using items does not. Close enemies can see through your invisibility.

Fixation

Ability 3

Shooting a target increases your bullet damage on that target. Gain one stack per bullet hit, three if the hit is a headshot.

Bullet Dance

Ultimate · 165s cooldown · ultimate

Enter a flurry, firing your weapon at nearby enemies with perfect accuracy and added Bullet Damage.

Skill order

Max first: Sleep Dagger Sleep Dagger› Smoke Bomb Smoke Bomb› Fixation Fixation› Bullet Dance Bullet Dance

From the most common upgrade order (14k matches): the order abilities reach their last tier.

	10m	21m	32m	43m	54m	65m	76m	88m	912m	1013m	1114m	1219m	1325m	1426m	1530m
Sleep DaggerAbility 1						I		II	III
Smoke BombAbility 2										I	II	III
FixationAbility 3		I			II								III
Bullet DanceUltimate														I	II

unlock I II III upgrade tiers · column labels are the average minute of each step

Build path with timings

Early

Rapid Rounds~3:52 · 88%
→ Swift Striker
Extra Spirit~4:12 · 74%
→ Surge of Power
Swift Striker~7:15 · 94%
Active Reload~8:09 · 76%

Mid

Bullet Lifesteal~14:18 · 67%
sold ~27:29
Surge of Power~16:34 · 66%
Burst Fire~19:41 · 82%

Late

Ricochet~24:41 · 70%
Capacitor~27:50 · 37%
Silencer~32:10 · 39%

Items that win most on Haze

Healing Tempo
+10.0 pp · 2% buy it

Frenzy
+9.8 pp · 3% buy it

Silencer
+9.6 pp · 35% buy it

Glass Cannon
+9.5 pp · 6% buy it

Spellslinger
+9.4 pp · 1% buy it

Siphon Bullets
+9.2 pp · 20% buy it

Lanes you win

Shiv+6.3 pp
Sinclair+5.6 pp
Mirage+5.2 pp
Pocket+4.9 pp
Rem+4.2 pp

Lanes to play safe

Graves−6.8 pp
Paige−6.1 pp
Rat King−5.2 pp
Victor−4.8 pp
Seven−4.0 pp

When they counter you

−6.6 ppGraves

Buy against Graves:

−5.7 ppPaige

Buy against Paige:

−5.5 ppRat King

Buy against Rat King:

Ethereal Shift+3.3 pp
Juggernaut+2.9 pp
Refresher+2.8 pp

Best teammates

Graves
60.8% together

Paige
60.0% together

Seven
59.5% together

Victor
59.1% together

Rat King
59.0% together

Kelvin
58.3% together

Notes from the best builds

420 JAMSIDE MLG BLAZE IT DOUBLE QUICKSCOPE ANNIHILS+

ATION BUILD 360 NOSCOPE MOM GET THE CAMERA

63.1% over 439 games · open build →

DNLP JamsideS+

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58.8% over 2.5k games · open build →

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