Billy Guide — Abilities, Builds & Strategy

Billy Base Stats

• Role: Brawler
• Max Health: 820
• Max Move Speed: 7
• Stamina: 3
• Base Health Regen: 2
• Light Melee Damage: 50
• Heavy Melee Damage: 116

Billy Weapon Stats

• DPS: 74.12
• Sustained DPS: 34.679
• Bullet Damage: 6.3
• Rounds Per Second: 11.765
• Clip Size: 30
• Reload Time: 2.9s
• Bullet Speed: 513.1
• Can Crit: Yes

Billy Abilities

• Ability 1: Bashdown
• Ability 2: Rising Ram
• Ability 3: Blasted
• Ability 4: Chain Gang

Billy Guide — Strategy & Tips

Quick Answer: Billy is a melee-first frontline bruiser: land Rising Ram to launch a target, slam Bashdown for the knockup, and keep firing while his Blasted passive marks them Wrecked so bullets hit harder. Use Chain Gang to cut off movement abilities and drag runners back into the fight. Keep swinging to reload, heal, and sustain Blasted - Billy wins by staying in melee range.

Billy is a furious frontline brawler who wants to be in your face and stay there. His entire kit is built around melee: his Innate makes his light melees faster, slows him less, and lets him swing without interrupting his reload, and once Blasted is online every melee hit restores ammo and marks the victim Wrecked for 7 seconds. He closes gaps with Rising Ram, planting himself head-first into a target and launching both of them skyward, then crashes down with Bashdown to send out a shockwave and knock enemies up. Chain Gang is his answer to runners - it tethers nearby enemies, cuts off their movement abilities, and drags them back toward him. Play him as the tip of the spear: lead the charge, force fights, and never back down from a duel.

Early Game

Spend the first minutes leaning on your light melee innate and your gun. Biquette's fast light swings let you hit the Sinner's Sacrifice jackpot and chew through McGinnis' Spectral Wall segments quicker than most heroes because your reload never gets interrupted. Get Blasted online early so melee hits start topping off your ammo and stacking the Wrecked debuff on trades. Rising Ram is your level-one engage check - one connect launches the enemy and refunds half the cooldown, so you can threaten another duel soon after. Don't dive past your lane partner before you have some health to back it up; you are a frontliner, not a solo diver.

Mid Game

Midgame is where Blasted and Bashdown carry your damage. Land a Rising Ram to launch a target, follow with Bashdown's shockwave to knock them up, then open fire while they're Wrecked so your bullets hit amplified. Keep the melee-to-reload loop going and farm Denizens with Blasted active - it heals you and feeds your soul count at the same time. Build into melee items, since Bashdown's slam benefits from them and counts as a heavy melee for item interactions. Hunt squishies who stick near walls or chokepoints, and track their escape tools because Chain Gang ignores movement abilities.

Late Game

In the late game you are the initiator who tears the fight apart. Call your Chain Gang before you cast it, then land it on the enemy backline so they can't dash or leap out of the slow, and yank them into your team's damage. Bashdown controls chokepoints and objectives, and its shockwave knockup can break up a push or cancel a dive. Your Wrecked amp rewards sustained melee uptime, so keep hitting heroes, structures, or summoned units to refresh it. With the resistances from your ultimate upgrade you can eat the first volley and let your team trade behind you.

Combos

The bread-and-butter line is Rising Ram into Bashdown: Ram launches the target and refunds cooldown, then Bashdown pulls them down and knocks them up while you keep firing on the Wrecked victim. Weave a melee swing in between bursts of gunfire to reload instantly and extend Blasted. Chain Gang sets up everything - tether first, then Rising Ram whoever you pulled, then Bashdown to hold them in the shockwave. Against slippery heroes, Chain Gang's slow plus movement-ability lock stops the escape before the pull even resolves. Remember Bashdown procs your melee effects, so it double-dips your reload and Blasted value.

Strong Against

Billy thrives against squishy ranged carries and backline mages who depend on dashes, leaps, or flight to escape, because Chain Gang locks out movement abilities and drags them into melee range. Anyone who wants to stand and shoot in a lane eats a Rising Ram launch and a Bashdown knockup-lock. He is strong in chokepoints and around walls where his shockwave covers the space and denies repositioning. Heroes with no reliable way to break or cleanse the tether have a miserable time getting pulled back into the punk goat's reach.

Weak Against

Billy struggles into anything that out-ranges him and refuses to let him close, because if he can't reach melee his ammo, healing, and Wrecked amp all dry up. Crowd-control and cleansing tools hurt him badly: Unstoppable suppresses the pull and Indomitable stops a tethered target from being yanked in, while Debuff Resist shortens Wrecked. Slowing Hex disables Rising Ram outright, and displacement can peel him off a target mid-swing. He also can't punish heroes who keep a hard wall between them, since the tether snaps without line of sight and he has to re-engage from scratch.

Synergies

Billy scales off melee, so melee items like Melee Lifesteal and Melee Charge amplify both Bashdown's slam and his auto-attacks. Once Bashdown counts as a heavy melee it enables item interactions such as Spirit Snatch, opening up more of the pool. He loves teammates who can hold enemies in a clump so his Bashdown shockwave lands on multiple targets, and supports who can keep him topped up while he frontlines. Because Chain Gang groups enemies around him, follow-up AoE from allies lands cleanly, and his Wrecked debuff lets his own gun hit harder.

Common Mistakes

• Playing Billy like a marksman and skipping melee - his Innate and Blasted only pay off when he's swinging, so staying at range starves his reload, his Wrecked amp, and his self-heal.
• Spamming melee hits back-to-back and burning his own Blasted uptime - stacking hits too fast in a short window makes the duration start ticking down, so space your swings to keep it rolling indefinitely.
• Casting Chain Gang around cover - the tether shatters after roughly a second without line of sight, so open the pull in the open or it simply drops.

Matchup Notes

• vs Vindicta - She wants to poke and fly from range, but Chain Gang locks out her movement abilities and drags her in, and Rising Ram turns any gap into a launch, so force her off her perch instead of trading shots.
• vs McGinnis - Her Spectral Wall can't be destroyed by Bashdown, but Billy's fast light melee innate shreds wall segments, and her turrets keep his Blasted stacks alive, so close the gap before she sets up a nest.
• vs Haze - She's a glass backline carry, so a Chain Gang pull or Rising Ram launch drops her before her fight-winning ultimate lands; play to jump her rather than get caught in the open.
• vs Abrams - He's a melee bruiser too, so this turns into a slugfest; don't brawl him head-on, use your gun and reposition, and save Bashdown's shockwave knockup to interrupt his engage.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are Billy's pronouns?

He/Him. Billy is a male goat-headed punk hero, released on August 20, 2025 as the second hero of the Six New Heroes update and the first winner of the hero vote.

How does Billy reload so fast?

His Blasted passive makes melee hits restore ammo - a heavy melee fully reloads his magazine, and a light melee restores 35% of his ammo or cuts 35% off his reload if he's empty. His Innate also means light melees never interrupt his reload.

How does Bashdown work?

Billy slams his bat into the ground, pulling enemies down and dealing melee damage while the slam's shockwave adds spirit damage and a knockup. He can hold the key to rise higher and delay the descent, and the shockwave spawns closer to him the more vertically he looks down.

What does Blasted actually do?

Passively, melee hits restore ammo and inflict Wrecked on the victim for 7 seconds; actively, his bullets are amplified against Wrecked enemies, and landing melee boosts his max health and extends the buff.

Can enemies escape Chain Gang?

Not with movement abilities - chained enemies can't use them and take a heavy slow when they pull on the chain, then get yanked toward Billy after the delay. The tether breaks if line of sight is lost for about a second, so a hard wall or Cosmic Veil can free them.

Does Billy's ultimate fire while he's attacking?

Yes. Chain Gang isn't a channel, so Billy keeps full use of his weapon, movement, and abilities during the 2.8-second cast, and the duration is unaffected by ability-duration modifiers.