Holliday
Bounces about dispensing trick shots
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.
Playstyle
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.
Signature abilities
Holliday's four signature abilities, from Valve's game files.
Throw a barrel that explodes after a delay, dealing spirit damage, setting enemies on fire and applying knockup. The barrel can be detonated early by being shot, melee'd, or detonated by another barrel. The burn stacks, so overlapping barrels burn for their combined damage.Can be Alt-Cast to place the barrel in front of Holliday.
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 person per Bounce Pad.
Headshots deal bonus Damage and applies a Fading Move Speed penalty. This effect can only occur when off cooldown. Cooldown is reduced by 50% on NPC hits. Crackshot ignores range damage fall-off and does not apply to objectives.
Throw out your lasso, dealing spirit damage, pulling, and applying stun.Using a Bounce Pad extends the duration of Spirit Lasso.
Performance
Aggregate of 350,760 tracked public matches.
Aggregate, anonymized stats across ~1,569,766 matches from deadlock-api.com. Snapshot from 2026-10-10.
Starting stats
Holliday's base values at the start of a match, from Valve's game files.
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