Holliday Guide — Abilities, Builds & Strategy

Holliday Base Stats

• Role: Marksman
• Max Health: 780
• Max Move Speed: 8.2
• Stamina: 2
• Base Health Regen: 2
• Light Melee Damage: 50
• Heavy Melee Damage: 116

Holliday Weapon Stats

• DPS: 41.693
• Sustained DPS: 26.354
• Bullet Damage: 19.7
• Rounds Per Second: 2.1164
• Clip Size: 10
• Reload Time: 2.75s
• Bullet Speed: 1156
• Can Crit: Yes

Holliday Abilities

• Ability 1: Powder Keg
• Ability 2: Bounce Pad
• Ability 3: Crackshot
• Ability 4: Spirit Lasso

Holliday Guide — Strategy & Tips

Quick Answer: Holliday is a medium-range sheriff who slows and isolates targets with Crackshot, Powder Keg, and Spirit Lasso so her team can finish them. Lead with Crackshot headshots to slow, use Powder Keg for knockup and burn, and save Spirit Lasso to drag a key enemy out of position. Stay behind your frontline and let your revolver and setup do the work.

Holliday is a sheriff who wins fights with her revolver first and her abilities second: land your shots, then use Powder Keg, Bounce Pad, and Spirit Lasso to set up the next one. Her whole identity is the grab-and-shoot loop she calls her simple plan, "I grab 'em, you shoot 'em" — lasso a target, drag them out of position, and let your team finish the kill. She is strongest at medium range where Doc's Orders still hits hard, and Crackshot rewards you for putting rounds through heads by slowing whoever you hit. She is not a frontline brawler; she wants enemies slowed, separated, and unable to reach her. Keep a bounce pad available to reposition, and treat Powder Keg as both area threat and knockup for the fights your team commits to.

Early Game

Early on, trade with your revolver and keep Crackshot off cooldown so every headshot also applies a fading move speed slow and helps you win short exchanges. Use Powder Keg to punish anyone standing near the barrel or contesting your lane, and remember you can detonate it early by shooting it or hitting it with a melee. Bounce Pad is your escape and your setup — drop it to bail out of a gank or to launch a barrel at a target. Don't burn Spirit Lasso on low-value targets when its cooldown is still long. Stay behind your creep wave, because Holliday's edge is range, not absorbing hits.

Mid Game

Mid game Holliday turns picks into objectives: Crackshot the enemy carry to slow them, then Lasso them out of the fight while your team collapses on the kill. Powder Keg's knockup and stacking burn are strong in cramped teamfights and around contested objectives, so look for barrels already placed before a fight starts. Bounce Pad lets you follow a lasso, reposition over a wall, or cross ground to reach a fleeing target. Play just behind your frontline so you can shoot freely while staying ready to grab anyone who overextends.

Late Game

Late game Holliday is a pick-maker, not a face-tank: Crackshot to slow, Spirit Lasso to drag a key target into your team, and Powder Keg for the knockup and burn that decides the fight. Her lasso cooldown is long, so save it for a high-value enemy rather than the first thing that walks into range. Set barrels down before a siege or a push so a detonation is ready when the fight breaks out. Bounce Pad keeps you alive through dives and lets you follow up a grab or extend a lasso duration by 1.25s. Stay patient, chip with Crackshot slows, and only step in once your team is committed.

Combos

The core combo is Crackshot headshot to slow, Powder Keg to knock up and burn, then Spirit Lasso to pull and stun the target into your team's damage. Riding or dropping a Bounce Pad extends Spirit Lasso's duration by 1.25s, so time a pad launch to keep a grabbed enemy locked down longer. You can melee a barrel to launch it as an air projectile that explodes on contact, giving you a long-range detonation option. If you use Warp Stone just before Spirit Lasso ends, the lasso stretches and violently pulls the enemy past you, launching them in the direction you used Warp Stone. Layer barrels on the same spot so the stacking burn adds up on a held target.

Strong Against

Holliday is strong against enemies who have to stand in one place to fight, because Powder Keg's knockup and burn punish a stationary target while Crackshot's slow keeps them from walking out. She does well against melee bruisers who want to close distance: Crackshot's fading move speed penalty and the barrel knockup let her create the space to keep shooting. Low-mobility heroes caught out of position are easy lasso targets, since a Spirit Lasso drag plus a follow-up barrel can isolate and finish them. She also favors fights around chokes and objectives where a pre-placed barrel forces enemies to give up ground.

Weak Against

Holliday struggles when the enemy can shut down her crowd control: Spirit Lasso and Powder Keg's knockup are suppressed by Unstoppable, and the lasso's disable is prevented by Indomitable, so heroes who lean on those tools walk straight through her combo. Long-range poke that outranges her revolver keeps her taking damage before she can land Crackshot slows. Debuff Resist and Dispel Magic cut down her slows and burn, and Plated Armor prevents Crackshot's on-shot effect entirely. She is also vulnerable once her lasso is on cooldown and a diver closes the gap on her.

Synergies

Holliday pairs best with allies who can capitalize on a held target: every lasso is a free window for a burst damage teammate to unload, which is exactly her "I grab 'em, you shoot 'em" plan. Bounce Pad helps her team too, since allies receive the additional air control and stomp damage, and the ally stomp damage scales with the spirit items Holliday has bought. Teammates who can chain their own crowd control onto her knockdown make a grabbed enemy impossible to survive, while a frontliner who soaks the dive lets Holliday stay back and keep Crackshot slows up. Anyone who can hold a lane or objective lets her set barrels before a fight and detonate into the cluster.

Common Mistakes

• Firing Spirit Lasso the moment anything enters range — its cooldown is long, so spend it on a high-value target instead of the first enemy you see.
• Forgetting Powder Keg can be detonated early by shooting or meleeing it, leaving barrels to sit and expire instead of knocking up and burning the enemy.
• Playing Holliday like a frontline brawler and absorbing damage, when her strength is medium-range shooting with Crackshot slows keeping enemies at distance.

Matchup Notes

• vs Abrams — He wants to close the gap and brawl, so open with a Crackshot headshot to slow his approach and save Powder Keg's knockup to break his dive; keep Bounce Pad ready to peel off when he commits.
• vs Vindicta — She pokes from range, so use Crackshot hits (it ignores damage fall-off) to tag her and slow her repositioning, and look to land Spirit Lasso before she can shoot from safety.
• vs Haze — She relies on standing and shooting to stack her damage, so drop a Powder Keg for knockup and burn and Crackshot-slow her to spoil her aim; a lasso drag pulls her out of her own team's protection.
• vs Mo & Krill — They want to walk you down, so Crackshot slows and barrel knockup create the space you need, and a Spirit Lasso can isolate one of them away from the other and into your team.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does Holliday's Spirit Lasso do?

It throws out a lasso that deals spirit damage, pulls the target, and applies a 2.25s stun, with 20m cast range and a 130s cooldown. Using a Bounce Pad extends the lasso duration by 1.25s.

How do I detonate Powder Keg?

The barrel explodes on its own after a delay, but you can set it off early by shooting it, meleeing it, or hitting it with another barrel. Meleeing it launches the barrel as an air projectile that explodes on contact.

Does Crackshot work at long range?

Yes — Crackshot ignores range damage fall-off, so your bonus headshot damage and slow still land even at distance. It does not apply to objectives, and its cooldown is cut by 50% on NPC hits.

What is Holliday's best combo?

Slow with a Crackshot headshot, knock up and burn with Powder Keg, then Spirit Lasso to pull and stun the target into your team. A Bounce Pad launch extends the lasso's duration by 1.25s.

Can Bounce Pad help my teammates?

Yes. Allies receive both the additional air control and the stomp damage from Bounce Pad, and the ally stomp damage scales with the spirit items Holliday has bought. The Tier 3 stun bonus is not applied to allies.

How do I extend or reposition a Spirit Lasso?

Ride or drop a Bounce Pad to add 1.25s to the lasso duration. If you use Warp Stone just before the lasso ends, it stretches and violently pulls the enemy past you, launching them in the direction you used Warp Stone.