Kinessa

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Kinessa is a Damage Champion in Paladins, added on March 3, 2016.

Kinessa
Summary
Icon:
Title:	The Bounty Hunter
Class:	Damage
Affiliation:	[[{{{side}}}]]
Group:	[[{{{group}}}]]
Race:	Unknown
Gender:	{{{gender}}}
Release Date:	March 3, 2016
Release Version:	{{{release version}}}
Cost:	30000 or 200
Voice lines:	Kinessa voice lines
Voice Actor:	Martha Harms
Statistics
Health:	2100
Height:	{{{height}}}
Base Movement Speed:	350
No Dmg Falloff:	{{{range}}} Units
Healing Range:	{{{hrange}}} Units

Kinessa is one of the Champions in Paladins.

Lore

As a young recruit in the elite Sentinels unit, Kinessa took to her sniper lessons with an eagerness and enthusiasm that surprised her mentor. Frustrated by the rigors of military life, she left before she could complete her training and struck out on her own.

As the Realm descended into chaos and war, vigilante bounty contracts were plentiful, earning her all the fame and fortune she'd lacked while in the service of the Magistrate. She refuses to pick a side in the conflict, though, because it's much more profitable to contract with both than commit to either.

Summary

Coming soon

Skills

	Sniper Rifle Direct Damage A combination weapon that fires as an energy carbine or a powerful laser rifle. The carbine does 180 damage per shot every .15 seconds.
Details When unscoped, gain anywhere from 0.1-0.95% ultimate charge per shot. On headshots, gain 1.5% per shot. When scoped, gain anywhere from 1.5-8% ultimate charge per shot, based on damage dealt. On headshots, gain up to 12% ultimate charge per shot. Can deal headshot damage. Has a reload time of 2s. Has accuracy bloom from firing, losing 2% accuracy per shot. Has a minimum accuracy of 90%. Has dynamic damage fall off. Has an ammo count of 20.
	Sniper Rifle Direct Damage
A combination weapon that fires as an energy carbine or a powerful laser rifle. The carbine does 180 damage per shot every .15 seconds.
Details When unscoped, gain anywhere from 0.1-0.95% ultimate charge per shot. On headshots, gain 1.5% per shot. When scoped, gain anywhere from 1.5-8% ultimate charge per shot, based on damage dealt. On headshots, gain up to 12% ultimate charge per shot. Can deal headshot damage. Has a reload time of 2s. Has accuracy bloom from firing, losing 2% accuracy per shot. Has a minimum accuracy of 90%. Has dynamic damage fall off. Has an ammo count of 20.

	Sniper Mode Direct Damage Charge up and fire a long range attack dealing up to 1200 damage.
Details Lowers Kinessa's movement speed while it is used. Takes 0.5s to bring up the scope. Takes 1.4s to fully charge a shot. Has an ammo count of 5 during Sniper Mode, consuming 4 standard ammo per shot.
	Sniper Mode Direct Damage
Charge up and fire a long range attack dealing up to 1200 damage.
Details Lowers Kinessa's movement speed while it is used. Takes 0.5s to bring up the scope. Takes 1.4s to fully charge a shot. Has an ammo count of 5 during Sniper Mode, consuming 4 standard ammo per shot.

	Oppressor Mine Direct Damage Kinessa throws out up to 2 mines that deal 20 damage every .2s to connected enemies.	10
Details The mines have a targeting radius of 40 units. Can hold up to 2 charges at a time. Each charge is generated individually. Having deployed mines does not affect how many charges can be held. Plays a confirmation sound when a target is hit by a mine with a brief cooldown before the sound will trigger again. The damage from the mines won't enter neither target nor Kinessa into combat status. The mines won't begin targeting enemies until they land on a surface. The mines won't target stealthed targets.
	Oppressor Mine Direct Damage	10
Kinessa throws out up to 2 mines that deal 20 damage every .2s to connected enemies.
Details The mines have a targeting radius of 40 units. Can hold up to 2 charges at a time. Each charge is generated individually. Having deployed mines does not affect how many charges can be held. Plays a confirmation sound when a target is hit by a mine with a brief cooldown before the sound will trigger again. The damage from the mines won't enter neither target nor Kinessa into combat status. The mines won't begin targeting enemies until they land on a surface. The mines won't target stealthed targets.

	Transporter   Deploy a Transporter that teleports you to its location after a short duration.	10
Details Takes 0.6s to charge. Has a range of 80 units. Has a speed of 300. Hold the keybind to see where you will teleport. Release the keybind or hit Primary Fire to teleport, or hit Alt Fire to cancel. Kinessa cannot use other skills or shoot her weapon while targeting the Transporter or while it is in flight. Getting hit by hard Crowd Control while the Transporter is flying will interrupt the skill, causing it to go on cooldown without effect.
	Transporter	10
Deploy a Transporter that teleports you to its location after a short duration.
Details Takes 0.6s to charge. Has a range of 80 units. Has a speed of 300. Hold the keybind to see where you will teleport. Release the keybind or hit Primary Fire to teleport, or hit Alt Fire to cancel. Kinessa cannot use other skills or shoot her weapon while targeting the Transporter or while it is in flight. Getting hit by hard Crowd Control while the Transporter is flying will interrupt the skill, causing it to go on cooldown without effect.

	Headhunter (Ultimate) Direct Damage For 5 seconds successful shots made to the upper half of an enemy character will deal 50% increased damage. Your Sniper Shots also do not use ammo.
Details Cannot gain ultimate charge for the duration. Sniper Mode also charges 50% faster for the duration. Carbine shots also do not use ammo. Restores 5 ammo when activated.
	Headhunter (Ultimate) Direct Damage
For 5 seconds successful shots made to the upper half of an enemy character will deal 50% increased damage. Your Sniper Shots also do not use ammo.
Details Cannot gain ultimate charge for the duration. Sniper Mode also charges 50% faster for the duration. Carbine shots also do not use ammo. Restores 5 ammo when activated.

Talents

	Suppression Oppressor Mines can now affect 2 more targets and Sniper Shots against enemies affected by Mines deal 30% more damage.
	Steady Aim Hitting a fully charged shot will cause your next fully charged shot within 7s to deal 30% more damage.
	Reposition Transporter is now instant.
	Eagle Eye Headshots deal an additional 50% damage.

Cards

This is a list with all cards available to Kinessa:

Name	Image	Description	Cooldown
Amplitude		Increase the range of Oppressor Mines beams by {20|20}%.
Beam Me Up		Increases the Flight Speed of Transporter by {10|10}%.
Bob and Weave		Increase your Movement Speed by {27|27}% for 2s after Teleporting with Transporter.	10
Calibrate		Hitting an enemy with your Sniper Rifle in Carbine lowers the Cooldown of Transporter by {0.15|0.15}s.
Generator		Reduce the Cooldown of Oppressor Mine by {1.5|1.5}s.
Headstrong		Increase your maximum Health by {50|50}.
Lie in Wait		After 1s of standing still, regenerate {1|1} Ammo every 2s.
Octoppressor		Increase the number of targets affected by Oppressor Mines by {1|1}.
Open Season		Hitting an enemy with a fully-charged Sniper Mode shot generates {1|1} Ammo.
Power Supply		Reset the Cooldown of Transporter after dropping to or below {12|12}% Health.	15
Prodigy		Increase your Movement Speed while in Sniper Mode by {25|25}%.
Quick Scope		Reduce scope-in and scope-out time by {20|20}%.
Reconfigure		Activating Transporter generates {4|4} Ammo.
Restore		Heal for 25% of your maximum Health after Teleporting with Transporter. Can activate every {30|-5}s.	30-10
True Grit		Hitting an enemy with a fully-charged Sniper Mode shot Heals you for {100|100}.
Well Stocked		Activating Oppressor Mine generates {3|3} Ammo.

Pre-Built Loadout

• Restore
• Beam Me Up
• Reconfigure
• Well Stocked
• Bob and Weave

Cosmetic Items

These are the Cosmetic Items currently available for Kinessa:

Body skins

Default

Atomic

(Uncommon)

40000 or 200 (Atomic Collection)

Cutthroat

(Rare, Exclusive)

Viking

(Rare, Exclusive)

or or

Nova Strike

(Epic, Exclusive)

or or (Nova Strike Collection)

Star Silver

(Epic)

Star Silver Collection

Weapon skins

Default

Atomic Sniper Rifle

(Uncommon)

150px

Atomic Collection

Cobalt

(Rare)

125

Mixed Berry

(Rare)

125

Buster Rifle

(Rare)

125

Nova Strike Vaporizer

(Epic, Exclusive)

Nova Strike Collection

Nova Strike Atomizer

(Epic, Quest Item)

Star Silver Atomizer

(Epic)

Star Silver Collection

REKT Long Gun

(Epic, Exclusive)

Golden Sniper Rifle

(Legendary, Mastery)

Available at Mastery Level 50

Emotes

Enforcer

Present Arms

(Rare, Exclusive)

MVP Poses

Default

Kneeling

(Rare, Exclusive)

Trivia

• In a tweet from Thomas Holt, it was revealed Strix was Kinessa's mentor.
• If you look closely, Kinessa's Buster Rifle has the phrase "Read pwner's manual before operating" written on it.
• Kinessa's kill taunt to Barik , "You are a sad, strange little man.", might be a reference to Buzz Lighyear from Toy Story.

Changelog

Paladins Beta Version 0.62.2219.2 (November 2, 2017)

• Sniper Rifle

• Minimum accuracy increased from 85% to 90%.
• Accuracy loss per shot decreased from 4% to 2%.

Paladins Beta Version 0.61.2189 (October 18, 2017)

• Cards

• Bob and Weave

• Movement Speed reduced from 40/80/120/160% to 35/70/105/140%.

Paladins Beta Version 0.59.2111.2 (September 20, 2017)

• General

• Fixed a bug where the Blue transition lighting could get stuck on Cutthroat Accessory in game

Paladins Beta Version 0.55.1992.3 (July 26, 2017)

• Transporter

• This ability should be more responsive in a high ping environment.

Paladins Beta Version 0.53.1938 (June 28, 2017)

• General

• Improvements made to weapon fire feel.

Paladins Beta Version 0.51.1872 (June 1, 2017)

• Legendary Cards

• Steady Aim

• Increased time interval between empowered shots from 5 to 7s.

Paladins Beta Version 0.48.1768.1 (April 19, 2017)

• General

• Fixed Kinessa poking her finger through her helmet when using her Default Emote with Nova Strike Helmet.

• Transporter

• Fixed an issue where Kinessa could get stuck on Ice Mines when using Transporter.

• Cards

• Headstrong

• Increased slow limit from 40/50/60/70% to 50/60/70/80% of base movement speed.

• Legendary Cards

• Steady Aim

• Will no longer activate when hitting Deployables or Shields.

Paladins Beta Version 0.46.1707 (March 22, 2017)

• Cards

• Tracking

• Renamed to Calibrate.

Paladins Beta Version 0.45.1674.2 (March 9, 2017)

• Cards

• Reconfigure

• Fixed a condition where Reconfigure card was incorrectly granting ammo.

Paladins Beta Version 0.44.1634 (February 22, 2017)

• Sniper Mode

• No longer deals bonus damage for a fully charged shot.
• Increased maximum damage from 1000 to 1200.

• Cards

• Beam Me Up

• Decreased Flight Speed Increase from 20/40/60/80% to 10/20/30/40%.

• Reconfigure

• Reworked.
• Activating Transporter generates 4/8/12/16 ammo.

• Legendary Cards

• Eagle Eye

• [Weapon] Deal 50% increased damage with Headshots.

• Steady Aim

• [Sniper Mode] Hitting a fully charged shot will cause your next fully charged shot within 5s to deal 30% more damage.

• Suppression

• [Oppresor Mine] Multiple Oppressor Mines can now affect the same target and Oppressor Mines now slow for an additional 20%.

Paladins Beta Version 0.43.1585 (February 8, 2017)

• Oppressor Mine

• Now affected by Cooldown reduction, such as Chronos.

Paladins Beta Version 0.39.1450.2 (December 7, 2016)

• Transporter

• Reduced Cooldown from 12 to 10s.

Paladins Beta Version 0.37.1400 (November 10, 2016)

• Sniper Mode

• Updated description to reflect that kinessa gains 30% bonus damage for fully charged shots.

• Oppressor Mine

• Description updated to reflect that the increased damage from Sniper Rifle's Carbine mode is Bonus Damage.

Paladins Beta Version 0.35.1340 (October 13, 2016)

• General

• Fixed issue where Kinessa's mine (and other projectiles) could be placed at the end of round 1 and persist to round 2.

Paladins Beta Version 0.34.1310.4 (September 28, 2016)

• General

• Addressed an issue where tracers would not appear when looking below a certain angle.

• Sniper Rifle

• Reduced reload time from 2.2 to 2s.

• Cards

• *NEW* Headstrong

• [Armor] You cannot be slowed below 40/50/60/70%.

Paladins Closed Beta Version 0.33.1272 (September 14, 2016)

• Carbine

• Reduced damage from 200 to 150.
• Now Deals 30% increased damage to targets under the effect of Oppressor Mines.

• Transporter

• Increased Cooldown from 10 to 12s.
• Added a brief pause before the Transporter appears on screen to be thrown.
• Kinessa can no longer use other abilities while holding Transporter before throwing it.

• Cards

• *NEW* True Grit

• [Sniper Mode] Hitting an enemy with a fully charged shot heals you for 75/150/225/300.

• *NEW* Power Supply

• [Weapon] After getting a Kill Reload 8/16/24/32% faster for 5s.

• Lie in Wait

• Now applies in combat.
• Health per Second reduced from 100/200/300/400 to 50/100/150/200.

Paladins Closed Beta Version 0.32.1220.3 (August 18, 2016)

• Transporter

• Updated targeter for transporter

• Cards

• Generator

• Fixed a bug where Rank 2 was not increasing the rate at which mines generated.
• Changed rate at which mines generated from 25/50/75/100% to 1.25/2.5/3.75/5s.

• Tracking

• Reworked.
• [Weapon] Hitting an enemy with your Carbine lowers the cooldown of Transporter by .25/.5/.75/1s.

• Open Season

• Reworked.
• [Sniper Mode] Your Sniper attacks reveal enemies for 1/2/3/4s.

Paladins Closed Beta Version 0.31.1195.3 (August 10, 2016)

• Transporter

• Cooldown reduced from 12s → 10s.
• Speed increased from 200 → 300.

Paladins Closed Beta Version 0.30.1193.2 (August 5, 2016)

• General

• Movement abilities will no longer remove Crowd Control effects.

• Sniper Mode

• Damage decreased from 1200 → 1000.
• Bonus damage reduced from 30% when fully charged → 20% when fully charged.

Paladins Closed Beta Version 0.30.1190.2 (August 4, 2016)

• General

• Champion values were changed across the board.

• Transporter

• No longer goes to third person.

Paladins Closed Beta Version 0.29.1143.3 (July 14, 2016)

• Oppressor Mine

• No longer force her into combat when mines trigger on nearby enemies.

Paladins Closed Beta Version 0.28.1121.4 (June 30, 2016)

• General

• Reduced movement speed from 365 → 360.

• Sniper Mode

• Adjusted maximum range of Sniper Mode to match draw distance.

• Transporter

• Fixed Knockup interrupting Transporter.

• Cards

• Critical Hits

• Reworked.
• Renamed to Beam Me Up.
• [Transporter] Increases the flight speed of Transporter by {20/40/60/80}%.

• Open Season

• Now only affects Kinessa.
• Duration reduced from {3/6/9/12}s → {1/2/3/4}s.

• Tracking

• Duration reduced from {10/20/30/40}s → {1/2/3/4}s.
• Now refreshes when Oppressor Mine ticks.

Paladins Closed Beta Version 0.27.1089 (June 16, 2016)

• Bonus Damage

• Hitting a target with a fully charged shot increases the damage of your next fully charged shot to any target by 10%. Has five stacks and lasts 5 seconds. Resets on a miss.

• General

• Reduced Movement Speed from 400 → 365.

• Carbine

• Increased attack speed from .2 → .15.
• Reduced Damage from 70 → 65.
• Now has accuracy bloom from firing.
• Now has dynamic damage fall off.
• Updated reload animation.
• Reduced size of ground decals when hitting a surface.
• Reduced time that tracer shots linger after firing.
• Updated muzzle fire visual effects.
• Updated crosshair to circle.

• Oppressor Mine

• Now deal 4 damage every 0.2s while channeling on a target per mine.
• Slowing beams now correctly come from the top of the mine.
• Updated visual presentation of the slowing beams to be easier to identify at a distance.

• Sniper Mode

• Fixed an issue where kinessa could hit players outside of her sight range.
• Removed motion from the Sniper Mode tracer shot to make it more distinguishable from a distance.
• Sniper Mode tracer is now at its brightest instantly, and then fades to improve clarity.

• Transporter

• Fixed an issue where the teleport visual effects would not stick with Kinessa before the teleport takes place.
• Updated visual effects trail on the Transporter projectile to make it more noticeable during flight.
• The end portal visual effects now start playing immediately upon the Transporter locating a teleport location.

• Headhunter

• The audio trigger for Headhunter now travels further and is more noticeable.
• Headhunter now causes Sniper Mode to charge 50% faster for its duration.

• Cards

• Well Stocked

• Increase your maximum deployed mine count by {1/2/3/4}.

• Generator

• Mines Generate {1.5/3/4.5/6}s faster.

• Critical Hits

• Hitting an enemy in the upper third of their body dazes them for {1.5/3/4.5/6}s. 5s Cooldown.

Paladins Closed Beta Version 0.26.1032.2 (May 19, 2016)

• General

• Added improvements to reload sound.

• Oppressor Mine

• Now plays a confirmation sound when a new enemy champion is hit by Oppressor Mines with a brief cooldown before the sound will trigger again.

• Sniper Mode

• Fixed an issue where the timings would change when rapidly scoping in and out.

• Headhunter

• Added improvements to sound when firing Headhunter shots in Sniper Mode.

Cards

• Well Stocked

• Reduced maximum number of mines from {3/4/5/6} to {1/2/3/4}.

Paladins Closed Beta Version 0.25.1004 (May 5, 2016)

• Transporter

• Increased cooldown from 10s → 12s.
• Updated ability description to correctly describe Transporters function

Cards

• Generator

• Changed category from "Weapon" to "Sniper Mode" in order to reflect that this card only affects Sniper Mode.

• Octoppressor

• Updated description.

Paladins Closed Beta Version 0.24.990.1 (April 28, 2016)

• Sniper Rifle

• Updates have been made to Kinessa's rifle fire being too loud in some cases.

• Transporter

• Reduced the time it takes to charge your Transporter from 1.2s → 0.6s.
• Increased the range of Transporter from 50 units → 80 units.
• Fixed an issue with Transporting delay if mounting immediately afterwards.

Cards

• Critical Hits

• Increased damage bonus from {5/10/15/20}% to {10/20/30/40}%.
• No longer reduces Sniper Mode charge time.

• Generator

• Reintroduced as a Specialty card.
• [Weapon] Reduce the time it takes your Sniper Mode shots to fully charge by {1.5/3.0/4.5/0.6}s.

Paladins Closed Beta Version 0.23.978.5 (April 23, 2016) Cards

• Removed from the game:

• Generator, Steady

Paladins Closed Beta Version 0.23.978 (April 21, 2016)

• Oppressor Mine

• Slow no longer stacks

Cards

• Removed from the game:

• Size of the Fight

• Critical Hits

• Now a Specialty card.
• Successful shots made to the upper half of an enemy character will deal 5/10/15/20% increased damage. Reduces time to fully charge by .20s.

• Well Stocked

• Now a Specialty card.
• You may have up to 3/4/5/6 Oppressor Mines active at once and reduce Oppressor Mine's cooldown by 4s.

Paladins Closed Beta Version 0.22.968 (April 18, 2016)

• Transporter

• No longer persists in the world for a duration and instead immediately teleports Kinessa once it reaches it's max distance. Press and Hold "F" to increase the max deploy distance.

Cards

• Beam Me Up

• Removed from game.

• Restore

• Fixed a typo in the description for Restore IV.

• Steady

• Reduced damage from {8/16/24/32}% → {5/10/15/20}%.

Paladins Closed Beta Version 0.20.948.8 (April 11, 2016)

• Sniper Rifle

• Reduced damage from a fully charged shot from 880 → 800

• Headhunter

• Reduced bonus damage from 100% → 50%.

Cards

• Generator

• Reduced charge time from {0.15/0.30/0.45/0.60}s → {0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4}s.

Paladins Closed Beta Version 0.20.946.4 (April 7, 2016)

• Sniper Rifle

• Increased audio volume on weapon firing when heard at a distance.

• Transporter

• Transporter is now thrown instantly and does not require the player to hold down the ability to throw.
• Reactivating Transporter will teleport you to it with a faster channel time.
• Transporter now lasts for 30s.
• Reduced Cooldown to 10s.
• Fixed an issue where a traced outlined image of herself would persist.

Cards

• *NEW* Size of the Fight

• [Weapon] Your attacks made in Sniper Mode deal {2/4/6/8}% more damage for every 200 health more your opponent has than you.

• Critical Hits

• Reduced damage from {10/20/30/40}% → {5/10/15/20}%.

• Steady

• Reduced damage from {15/30/45/60}% → {8/16/24/32}%.

• Generator

• Reduced charge time reduction from 0.2/0.4/0.6/0.8 → 0.15/0.3/0.45/0.6.

• Restore

• Reduced healing per rank from 20% → 10%.

• Beam Me Up

• Increased Teleport Speed bonus per rank from 15% → 20%.

• Snag

• Removed from the game.

Paladins Closed Beta Version 0.19.899.1 (March 17, 2016)

• Scout Rifle

• Increased damage from 77 → 97.

• Sniper Rifle

• Increased maximum damage from a full charge from 800 → 880.

• Sniper Mode

• Removed voice cue playing while aiming down sight.

• Headhunter

• Fixed an issue where Headhunter would reveal stealthed targets.

Cards

• Beam Me Up

• Reduced the cast time reduction per rank from 25% → 15%.
• Rank 1 now starts at 15%.

• Bob and Weave

• This card has been re-enabled.

Paladins Closed Beta Version 0.18.885.2 (March 11, 2016) Cards

• Removed from the game:

• Bob and Weave.

Paladins Closed Beta Version 0.18.885.1 (March 11, 2016)

• Sniper Rifle

• Increased damage per shot from 70 → 77.

• Oppressor Mine

• Fixed an issue where these could be deployed on a Siege Engine or Payload Cart.

• Sniper Mode

• Reduced the time to fully charge a sniper shot from 1.6s → 1.4s.

• Transporter

• Updated description to state that Kinessa must hold F to deploy a new Transporter.
• Fixed an issue where visual effects would persist on Kinessa after she has used Transporter.

• Headhunter

• Your weapon shots no longer consume ammo for the duration.

Cards

• Steady

• Increased the damage bonus per rank from 10% → 15%.
• Rank 1 starts at 15%.

• Generator

• Increased the charge reduction per rank from 0.1 → 0.15.
• Rank 1 now starts at 0.15s.

• Beam Me Up

• Updated description to correctly reference Transporter.
• Fixed an issue where this card would stop working during a match.
• Channel time reduction increased to 25% per rank.
• Rank 1 now starts at 25% channel time reduction.

• Amplitude

• Increased range bonus per rank from 20% → 30%.
• Rank 1 now starts at 30%.

• Lie in Wait

• Fixed an issue where Kinessa would get into a state where she had Health regen that was too high.
• Increased the heal bonus per rank from 50 → 100.
• Rank 1 now starts at 100.

• Octoppressor

• This card now works properly.

• Open Season

• Increased reveal duration per rank from 3s → 4s.
• Rank 1 now starts at 4s.

• Prodigy

• Increased movement speed bonus per rank from 20% → 25%.
• Rank 1 now starts at 25%.

• Reconfigure

• Increased DOT reduction per rank from 20% → 25%.
• Rank 1 now starts at 25%.

• Restore

• Increased the heal percent per rank from 10% → 20%.
• Rank 1 now starts at 20%.

• Bob and Weave

• Increased move speed bonus per rank from 25% → 40%.
• Rank 1 now starts at 40%.

Paladins Closed Beta Version 0.17.865.1 (March 3, 2016)

• Kinessa has been added to the game.