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DeadlockDeadlock Holliday Guide and Overview

In this Deadlock Holliday guide, you’ll learn the fundamentals of her abilities, unique play styles, and fundamental tips.

Holliday's hero tags are: Crackshot, Explosive, Apprehender

Voice Actor: Melanie Minichino

Overview

From the official Deadlock Steam page:

Armed with an heirloom revolver and a spirit lasso, Holliday's investigations have led her to New York... and when she finds the killer she's looking for she's bringing him in dead, not alive.

In-game description:

Holliday depends on her skills as a crack shot, shooting things she's bounced into the air. With good aim, she can lay out heavy damage. Her movement skills let her isolate her enemies or beat a hasty retreat.

Lore

There are people who spent their whole lives dreaming about moving to New York. Holliday isn't one of those people. Content with being a Sheriff in a small town, Holliday enjoyed a career where the only time she had to use her gun was when trick shooting at the county fair...then the murders started.

Grisly and inhumane; the bodies were found with their ribcages ripped open... their innards picked apart as if by birds. Holliday tracked down the killer, a travelling folk musician that the media dubbed "The Troubadour", but when she confronted him he exploded into a murder of crows and flew away.

That was 6 months ago, and while the murders in central Illinois have stopped, Holliday's investigation has not. She believes that The Troubadour is travelling to New York, and when she finds him she's going to kill that evil son of a bitch.

Holliday Strengths And Weaknesses

  • Great pick potential with Spirit Lasso.
  • Good mobility options with Bounce Pad.
  • Great trading and combos.
  • Requires hitting skillshots consistently
  • Requires ally help to consistently kill enemies
  • Weak against CC and counter items

Deadlock Holliday Abilities

Underlined = Scales with Spirit.

Powder Keg (1)

Powder Keg

Throw an explosive barrel that arms after a delay.

Once armed, the barrel can be shot, meleed, launched, or detonated by another barrel to explode, dealing Damage.

6m Radius

2 Charges, 7.5s Cooldown Between Charges

28s Cooldown

80 Explosion Damage

0.5s Arm Time

Powder Keg Upgrades

1 AP

2 AP

5 AP

-10s Cooldown

+1 Charge

+80 Damage, +0.5 Spirit Scaling and -5s Charge Time

Tips for Powder Keg

  • When Alt-Casting, looking down or walking backwards, Powder Keg is placed directly beneath Holliday, and you can instantly detonate them with a melee attack.
  • Barrels apply burn damage, which stacks if enemies are hit with multiple barrels at once.
  • Make sure to jump and melee downwards to make the barrel easier to land. Getting some height with Bounce Pad helps getting on top of people and gives us more vision.

Bounce Pad (2)

Bounce Pad

Drop a bounce pad in the world that launches any hero. You explode on landing, dealing Damage to any nearby enemies. The explosion can only occur once per Bounce Pad.

1 Charges

3.5s Cooldown Between Charges

9m Radius

22s Duration

41s Cooldown

60 Stomp Damage

+100% Air Control

Bounce Pad Upgrades

1 AP

2 AP

5 AP

-10s Cooldown

You and allies gain a +4m/s move speed bonus for 4s on landing.

+0.7s Stomp Stun

Tips for Bounce Pad

  • The first use of Bounce Pad gives Holliday 100% air momentum, make sure to let go of W (Forward Movement) and to strafe with A or D (Side Movement) only. That will allow for more control and more distance.
  • Bounce Pad does landing damage as well, combo that burst with a Powder Keg to increase Holliday's burst.

Crackshot (3)

Crackshot

Headshots deal bonus Damage and applies a Fading Slow. This effect can only occur when off cooldown. Crackshot ignores range damage fall-off. It can be triggered on units but only uses half cooldown this way.

20s Cooldown

55 Damage

+50% Fading Movement Slow

2s Debuff Duration

Crackshot Upgrades

1 AP

2 AP

5 AP

+25% Fading Movement Slow

+55 Damage, -6% Bullet Resistance for 5s

-6s Cooldown Per Hero Headshot, -3s on NPC Headshots

Tips for Crackshot

  • It is very similar to Restorative Shot and Mystic Shot, so prepare the shot by getting in a strong position such as the Middle Bridges.

Spirit Lasso (4)

Spirit Lasso

Throw out your lasso, dealing Damage and grabbing the first enemy hit. Grabbed enemies are Stunned and dragged along behind you. When Spirit Lasso is active, Holliday cannot melee or shoot.

20m Range

2.5s Duration, 2.5s Stun Duration


115s Cooldown

80 Damage

Spirit Lasso Upgrades

1 AP

2 AP

5 AP

+80 Damage

+0.75s Duration

-50s Cooldown

Tips for Spirit Lasso

  • In most cases, Spirit Lasso is best used to pull enemies toward your allies. Bounce Pad extends the duration of Spirit Lasso.
  • Flanking enemies from the sides makes it easier to land Spirit Lasso and get picks.
  • You can use Spirit Lasso to chain CC and lock down enemies in place.

Holliday Build Guide

Check out best starter build for Holliday

Holliday Weapon Stats

DPS

55

Bullet Damage

19.7

Ammo

10 Ammo

Bullets per Second

2.12 Bullets per sec

Light Melee

50

Heavy Melee

116

Holliday Vitality Stats

Max Health

700

Health Regen

2

Bullet Resist

0%

Spirit Resist

0%

Move Speed

8.31 m/s

Sprint Speed

2 m/s

Stamina

2

How to Counter Holliday

  • Knockdown is a fantastic item that will quickly stop Holliday from jumping around on her Bounce Pad. Silence Wave is also a great alternative to stop her from casting Powder Keg and Bounce Pad.
  • Counterspell to stop her Spirit Lasso and to counter-engage on Holliday.
  • Outside of items, maintaining a strong positional advantage such as being on High Ground like being on top of buildings or being near the jumppads around the map will help immensely.