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How to Press '4' and Win as Haze
By guccihighwaters
In this guide I'll tell you how to optimize Haze's ultimate Bullet Dance to the fullest and win games just by pressing '4' button.
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Understanding Haze
Well unfortunately you still need a decent understanding of the hero even though this playstyle requires far less skill, but no worries, I am here to briefly explain how to use your abilities.

SLEEP DAGGER
Sleep Dagger is our main trading and laning tool, it has variety of uses, such as sleeping the target as soon as they kill a creep with their gun so they can't hit the soul and we get a free deny, but for the most part, we wan't to use it to close distance to the target and use our ultimate as close to them as possible so they can't run away.

The first and second upgrades of Sleep Dagger is super important as deduced stamina means enemies have harder time dashing out of our ultimate, second upgrade noticably reduces the cooldown of the dagger so we can utilize Quicksilver Reload more efficiently.

We don't care about the third upgrade at all and you should unlock it after all your other abilities are already maxed.

SMOKE BOMB
Smoke Bomb is our mobility tool, in early stages of game we should use it to get close to a target to put them to sleep with our Sleep Dagger, so we can get some free headshots (or a heavy melee) on them, in mid game use it to gank other lanes or move quickier between jungle camps/lanes, note that you need the second upgrade as soon as possible so you can farm faster utilizing its movement speed boost.

Don't forget we become visible if we take any hit or get too close to an enemy, also note that we won't be revealed under turret vision.

When splitpushing a lane, if they only bring one enemy to defend the lane and possibly kill us, we put them to sleep with our Sleep Dagger then run away with Smoke Bomb, its virtually impossible for them to catch up to us.

FIXATION
Fixation is a passive ability that increases our damage against a target the more we hit them, it works with our ultimate and procs on extra hits such as Ricochet, we want to get it to level 2 after our ultimate for extra stacks as well as spirit damage which is vital to the core of the build we're going to use.

BULLET DANCE
Bullet Dance is the ultimate ability of Haze which we're going to base our build around, it gives Haze extra fire rate and a chance to dodge bullets while entering a flurry and shooting everyone around them, those shoots aren't real bullets so they will go through Paradox's wall, still they will proc most bullet effects, the damage is split evenly between all enemies in radius, but if the last upgrade is obtained, split will be reduced.

As for the skill build, we want to get Bullet Dance to level 2, then Sleep Dagger, then Fixation and Smoke Bomb, afterwards maxing Bullet Dance followed by Fixation, Smoke Bomb and Sleep Dagger, since we won't have access to Bullet Dance for at least 5 minutes in lane, its okay to get Sleep Dagger and Fixation to first upgrade.

For extra information, most people aren't aware Haze's ammo scales with Spirit (2 Spirit = 1 Ammo), so we don't need to build magazine size on her, buying Spirit and reload items are enough.
Item Build
In lane, our main goal is to secure as much last hits and denies as possible, if we're getting harrassed we don't try to trade back, we stay back and get our farm, in laning stage we want the following items:
Indisputably the most important laning item for Haze, stacks last long enough that we will have around 20 Spirit Power permanently, half of it increasing our magazine size as well, it also amplifies the damage of our Sleep Dagger, and Fixation once it's upgraded to first level.

Allows us to stay in lane against enemies harass, we can skip this if we're not getting harassed enough to need it.

Increases our damage against enemies close to us, perfect for our build as we want to use ultimate after getting in front of the face of enemy heroes.

A cheap way of increasing our fire rate, also grants extra speed that makes farming faster.

Since we will be spending most of our time farming monsters, it would be super inefficient to skip this item.

Extra stamina is super important considering when we want to outrun enemies and become invisible with our Smoke Bomb, we want to be able to dash as many times as possible.

So, those were the list of items we want in laning stage, but what about after it?
After the laning stage, we want to farm up the following three items to be able to clear out red jungle camps:
Haze's magazine size is pretty small compared to her considerably fast fire rate, so we will be running out of ammo pretty often, thankfully Active Reload doesn't only make reload faster, it also grants us extra fire rate and lifesteal for next few seconds, it might take a bit to get used to the timing, but its nothing difficult, really.

Imbue your Sleep Dagger with this item, now combined with Active Reload we have virtually no reload issue left, we can walk up to a lane or a jungle camp and follow this order to maximize our farm speed:
    [1] Empty the clip.[2] Use Sleep Dagger to trigger Quicksilver Reload[3] Empty the clip again.[4] Use Active Reload to reload faster[5] Empty the clip again.
Once we have enough magazine size from Spirit Power combined with cooldown reduction, this will be a permanent way of never having to wait full reload time, but until then you'll still have to manually reload from time to time, especially when farming red camps.

There is one more item we need to be able to farm red jungle monsters without being hurt much, and its nothing other than Bullet Lifesteal, its also very important to not die during our ultimate since its damage is converted to health with Bullet Lifesteal as well.

Once we have those items, and got all of our abilities to their second upgrades, we can farm any camp we want, from there on the game plan is simple, save up gold for a strong Tier III item, go fight with our team and use our ultimate, go back to farming (or splitpushing) until our ultimate is off cooldown again, until we have enough souls collected that we don't need to kill monsters anymore.

Here is the list of items we want to maximize the damage on Bullet Dance:
Increases the AoE of Bullet Dance, making it more difficult for enemies to get out of its radius.

Enemies hit by Bullet Dance are slowed, making it more difficult for them to outrun us, later we will also upgrade it to Silencer.

Bullets ricochet between enemies, not only its amazing for our ultimate, it also increases our farming speed considerably.

Best form of antiheal if we ever need a one, otherwise its best to skip it.

Allows us to contribute to teamfights with Bullet Dance more often, as well as reducing the downtime on Smoke Bomb.

Isn't the most important item, since we want enemies death as soon as possible after we use Bullet Dance, but its still good to have as it allows us to deny a zone for longer at worst case, also increases Smoke Bomb duration to move around the map more.

An upgrade to Mystic Reach, furthermore increases the radius of our ultimate, imbue Bullet Dance with it.

Furthermore reduces the cooldown of our abilities, imbue Bullet Dance with it.

Furthermore reduces our cooldowns, while also giving more survivability against Spirit damage.

Upgrades from Slowing Bullets, not only our bullets apply movement slow, now we can activate the ability to silence everyone in our ultimate's AoE, note that they can't dispel the silence since we will be continuously applying it, the only way to deal with it for our enemies is to either escape the radius somehow (which is not possible since we will have Improved Reach), or use Unstoppable.

Our ultimate will reduce the outgoing damage of everyone in its radius, plus slows from different sources stack so they will be slowed furthermore combined with Slowing Bullets/Silencer.

We want this only if we're super ahead (15/3/5 score for example), after 7 kills without deaths or few more with deaths included, it will grant us a lot of extra weapon damage which fully works with our ultimate.

Extra weapon damage on top of the ability to get in the midst of action faster, we just approach enemies with Smoke Bomb, and right when we're in reveal distance, we use Warp Stone followed by Bullet Dance and watch our enemies melt in front of your eyes.

Makes us uninterruptable during our ultimate, its not needed if we have Silencer and enemies don't have any items that can disable us, as they will be silenced thus not being able to disable us with abilities.

This is the very last spirit upgrade we want, since extra duration is usually wasted or used for area denial rather than actually dealing damage.

We use this before Bullet Dance for extra fire rate to amplify our damage, note that lifesteal also works so if enemies can somehow outdamage us during our ultimate, Vampiric Burst ensures they can't anymore.

Grants both types of shield as well as extra Spirit Power during our ultimate, again its a very unlikely late game purchase as Spirit Power isn't that important for Haze and shields are more useful after the ultimate rather than during it.

Fixation procs this once it reaches 20 stacks.
Item's That Don't Function in Bullet Dance
Lucky Shot never procs for Bullet Dance bullets, but they may proc for Ricochet bounces during it.

Intensifying Magazine won't buildup during our ultimate, also all escalated stacks will be lost once it is cast.

Tesla Bullets don't proc on Bullet Dance at all.

Avoid buying those three items as we want to maximize the potential of our ultimate.
In-game Guide Name
Search ''Bullet Dancer v1.0 by abdushaw'' on Haze builds and you will see this guide show up.
Last Words
That's all there is to it, now go push your '4' button in the middle of enemies (don't forget to push Z, X, C and V, too when they are available) and enjoy free kills.
15 Comments
Big doge 30 Jan @ 11:00am 
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Big doge 30 Jan @ 11:00am 
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acorda 28 Sep, 2024 @ 8:36am 
thanks dude, very insightful. idk why the other comments are being so negative lol
guccihighwaters  [author] 28 Sep, 2024 @ 8:24am 
Update to the guide, Tesla Bullets and Lucky Shot fully works on Haze ult as of last patch adding Mirage to the game, still Tesla Bullets is a very mediocre damage boost for your ultimate since it only has 25% proc chance which doesn't scale off your weapon damage, Lucky Shot is the real deal and you should buy it after Silencer in most games to skyrocket Bullet Dance DPS.
Fawxkitteh 27 Sep, 2024 @ 1:01am 
It's too dumb for me to bother reading.
Just plain stupid.
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как сделать любой ПРИЦЕЛ через КОНСОЛЬ O_O
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Empty_ch 22 Sep, 2024 @ 2:47pm 
metal skin enters the chat
CC 21 Sep, 2024 @ 5:03pm 
too much info just press 4 guys
t.me/cor1ch 21 Sep, 2024 @ 5:26am 
Кину инвайт за коммент в профиль
guccihighwaters  [author] 20 Sep, 2024 @ 1:39pm 
@Kwame updated the guide and added a section before the last one.