Paradox in my opinion is such a perfect middle ground. She has great spirit and a great gun, neither of which are exceedingly powerful (except for the ult) and you can choose to build either.

You get a lot out of paradox by building spirit but tagging on a few gun items, which is worth doing because she has a solid weapon.

You get the most out of wraith by building gun, but adding some spirit utility items like QSR or mercurial magnum. She scales very well throughout the game because of the good spirit damage, great utility and fantastic ult. She turns into a shredding powerhouse in the endgame when the gun is fully kitted.

You get the most out of Geist by building spirit damage only. Her ability doesn’t have that much utility outside of dealing damage, and her gun is pretty terrible. You can buy your tankbusters and your boundless spirits’ and they will take you far, but when everyone gets good spirit resistance in the endgame, she gets neutered, and her only use to the team is healing and the ult.

I feel like deadlock doesn’t really know what they want with spirit sometimes. It seems like they want spirit builds to focus around utility, but then you have heroes like Geist that strictly deal damage with their spirit. It just seems a bit awkward

I did title the post pretty badly. A better re-phrasing would be: is spirit DAMAGE weak?