In Strinova, Maddelena is a powerful mid range agent to use as enabler and defender. Find this character key features, best build for demolition, and guides down below.
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Maddelena Key Features
Maddelena is a Urbino agent with official role of Controller. Her 3 skills allows her to control large zone, causing delay to the enemy team.
Maddelena primary weapon is Chroma, it's a semi automatic DMR that deal very good damage at medium to close range with great accuracy, and good handling.
Playstyle wise, Maddelena suited well for players that like to play more of tactical, snatching kills from mid range when enemies walk into their zone.
Maddelena skills heavily assist the way she play, especially her first awaken is very essential to outplay the enemy.
Down below we cover every aspect of this character from how to effectively use her skill and ultimate, her weapon stats details, to the best Maddelena build for Demolition mode, and best awaken.
Maddelena Skills Details & Best Way To Utilize
Maddelan skills consist of Paint Tracks, Pigment Bind, Paint Bubble. These 3 skills will gain your team huge advantage over the enemy team during gunfight.
Paint Tracks
In-game description: Hits from Maddelena's primary weapon slow enemies and expose their tracks.
This passive empowers Maddelena's weapon Chroma, and encourage you to hit your shot more, so that you can eliminate the enemy easily auto semi-automatic firing.
Tip: Always strive to get your shot on your placement most of your shot so your passive can be effective, and you should make sure you are in mid range during your shot.
Pigment Build (Q)
In-game description: Maddelena fires a splash of paint that slows enemies, string-blocks them, and reveals their tracks.
Pigment Build is by far the best Maddelena skill to utilize, when any enemy stand in the yellow spalsh zone, they won't be able to turn into paper mode, which mean you can eliminate them easily.
Tip: Always try to stay behind your aggressive teammate then use this skill, this way you can provide mid range support and your aggressive teammate can help secure the kill.
Tip: Always try to find a strategic location to use this ability, ie: tight space hallways, bombsite cover area, and back site entry, knowing these location on the map will allows you to be more creative with this skill.
Paint Bubble (Ultimate)
In-game description: Maddelena fires a giant bubble that string-blocks and tracks enemies within it. Upon bursting, it slows and makes enemies vulnerable within the blast area.
Maddelena Ultimate is her Q but on steroid, by creating a large bubble to prevent the enemies from turning into paper mode, it can be use for countless scenario that will help your team to win that round.
Tip: Always save this ultimate for crucial round, this ultimate can be very good for both Defender and Attacker, it's big, and it's allows your team to gain advantages during gunfight against the enemy.
Tip: Always know where to strategically place this ultimate to get as much area covered as possible so that your team can defend or attack the bomb site with confidence.
Overall, Maddelena skills required maps knowledge to fully utilize them, timing is also another important aspect, knowing when to place the skill will help you and your team as well.
Maddelena Weapon: Chroma Stats & Recoil
Chroma is a semi-automatic DMR that fire single shot, it has high damage that can eliminate in 4 to 5 shots, or 3 if you hit all headshot. Find more detail down below:
Note: This is base stats. No build apply on it yet.
- Damage (10M): Head: 87 | Body: 50 | Leg: 35
- Damage (30M): Head: 85 | Body: 48 | Leg: 34
- Damage (50M): Head: 81 | Body: 46 | Leg: 32
- Rate of Fire: 300
- ADS Speed: 42
- Accuracy: 15
- Handling: 60
- Magazine Capacity: 15
- Reload Speed: 21
The Chroma prime range is up to 30 meters, the damage then start to drop after 30 meters, which is why it is very important to play in close to mid range.
The damage after 30 meters will drop down to 5 to 6 shots for one eliminate which is very hard to get especially for new players to hit all of 5 to 6 shots in one firing.
Since, this weapon is a DMR, we don't have any recoil pattern guide for you, what you need is to always adjust your shot placement so that your shot can hit the target with accuracy.
Understand our skills and Weapon guide will help you improve as a Maddelena players, down below you going to understand how to properly build him to suit your playstyle.
Best Maddelena Build in Strinova
Disclaimer: This build is only for Demolition and Escort game mode. Please read the awaken list first.
Maddelena Awaken List
| Awaken # | Details |
Awaken 1: Wall Whisper 2 Yellow | Maddelena can now conceal herself by wall-sticking in painted ares, slowly healing while camouflaged. |
Awaken 2: Painter's Trail 2 Yellow 2 Green | Maddelena's active skill fires paint that forms a trailing line, creating painted zones. |
Awaken 3: Dyeblast 2 Blue 2 Yellow | A view-blocking bubble forms over the painted area, exploding upon contact and applying a paint debuff to enemies. |
When reading our build guide, please pay attention to our color: blue, yellow, green.
1st Awaken Build
This first awaken is call Wall Whisper it's very good if you are on defender side, placing this in some obvious wall and you will catch the enemy off guard easily.
- For the first yellow we recommend getting Duration +5s.
- For the second yellow we recommend getting Enemy Exposure Duration +3s.
This build won't affect Maddelena weapon, but it will enhance her first skill Pigment Build to last longer as well as keep the track of the enemy longer when they walk on the splash area.
The reason this work well with defender side is because you can gain more advantage spotting enemies from unexpected place around any map to call out number of enemy for your team to rotate.
2nd Awaken Build
The second awaken that we build is call Painter's Trail, this awaken make the enemy even harder to enter any site that you're defending.
In order to activate this awaken you need to buy 2 green. It's a worth of investment that you need in every demolition game mode:
- For the first green we recommend getting Heavy Armor.
- For the second green we recommend getting Stringified DMG reduction.
This awaken will be your Maddelena survive longer with armor, as well as dealing more damage when enemy turn paper mode. Basically, it's a win win for you.
By creating a second zone when you throw the first ability, create an even longer trail for the enemy to walk past without the ability to turn into paper is a great opportunity for you to take them down.
3rd Awaken Build
The third awaken that you can activate is call Dyeblast, this awaken is optional if you want to build it or not.
In order to activate this awaken you need to buy 2 blue. It's a good awaken that you can activate it or not.
- For the first blue we recommend getting Headshot Damage.
- For the second blue we recommend getting Recoil Handling.
This awaken will make your weapon deal higher headshot damage and improve the recoil so that you don't have to struggle when fast tapping the enemy.
This awaken work like a smoke bubble when you use your first skill, this can be good when you are in the defender side.
Overall, the best awaken for Maddelena is the 1st and 2nd awaken, while the 3rd awaken is optional for you to decide.
Best Secondary For Maddelena
Maddelena primary is a DMR with single shot, so we need to pick a secondary that can help support with the main weapon.
| Secondary | Summary |
 Stinger | Stinger is a fully automatic SMG that deals good damage with low recoil control. |
 Emberspit | If you want to deal more close range damage but you don't want to aim, you can use Emberspit instead. |
These 2 weapons are the most suited for Maddelena, when your primary weapon run out, you can switch to the stinger to spry the enemy down.
You can also use the emberspit instead of the Stinger if you don't want to control the recoil of the stinger.
Best Tactical Items for Maddelena
Tactical items is also very important to use when playing Maddelena, here are our tactical items recommendation:
| Tac Items | Summary |
 Smoke Bomb | Smoke Bomb function very well when you throw at to delay the team from rushing you. |
 Frag Grenade | Frag Grenade is good damage dealer that you can secure elimination during escort mode. |
You can also swap to Slow Grenade or Windstorm Grenade if you want to disabled the enemy team.
You can also get Healing Grenade to extend your survivability even more.
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End of Maddelena Build Guide.