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Holliday
Bounces about dispensing trick shots

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.

Holliday
Bounces about dispensing trick shots

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.

Description

Bruiser Holliday is all about stacking health and damage to win fights! Once you reach lategame, you become a Spirit Nuke + Lasso Spamming menace. This build is a good intro into learning a Spirit Based Holliday playstyle. Please research barrel combos to pilot this build effectively. Even so, this build is HEAVILY ANNOTATED and could be your introduction into an Ability Combo Based Holliday.

9/5 UPDATE: The ability Order and Lane Phase buy order is now inverted. Holliday is still fine and playable ^_^

Item Build

Lane Phase L->R

[Ability Order | Crackshot -> Barrel -> Pad] [AP Order | 3 - 3 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 4 - 4 - 2 - 4 - 3 ]

Deadlock Item

I

Headshot Booster

Your barrels are gonna be sort of weak early for soft CC. So laning now is all about poking with your gun and the flat damage from this item

Deadlock Item

II

Mystic Shot

Insane spirit burst on your gun for the 1600 value. No range falloff???? Insane item

Deadlock Item

III

Headhunter

Insanely nice buffed item that is gonna scale well into midgame!!! Use it to heal and poke HARD in lane

Deadlock Item

I

Extra Health

200+ HP is very nice for stat checking in fights. Builds into Fortitude later. Research Regen/Health options, other players prefer veil walker over this

Deadlock Item

I

Extra Charge

Now that our crackshot core is built for lane and midgame, we are gonna start transitioning into a Barrel Build. Start rushing AP into your barrels.

Deadlock Item

I

Mystic Burst

This will become easy to proc with a barrel. Burst helps you one shot people in lane. This can proc off of mystic shot

Deadlock Item

I

Extra Stamina

Holliday is a two stamina character with access to a lot of air mobility. For that reason, we will build stamina and not raw speed.

Deadlock Item

I

Extra Spirit

We are going to start stacking spirit to amp all of our abilities. Even our gun ability, [Crackshot] will get 10 more damage just off of this purchase.

Hard Lane Phase! Take only one

Deadlock Item

I

Extra Regen

Nice against passive chip damage and not against people bursting you down three times. Sell this later for the raw spirit item

Deadlock Item

I

Active

Healing Rite

Great for recovering from a bad fight and healing + moving in jungle! Sell later for raw spirit item

Deadlock Item

I

Restorative Shot

50 health is great off of raw hits. Might actually mathematically be better than regen if you hit this off cooldown. Sell later for raw spirit

BUILD AFTER LANE CORE

TPULSE OP

Deadlock Item

III

Fortitude

Fortitudes value comes from letting you not have to base. Use the downtime while you are regenerating to push minions or hit boxes. Pick fights at full HP

Deadlock Item

III

Torment Pulse

Sleeper OP item. Just the damage ramping up from a lassod victim means this outpeforms Cold Front for me. Absolutely love this item. Also gives you 125+ HP like WOW

Deadlock Item

III

Rapid Recharge

Adding yet another charge to what is essentially your entire kit is mandatory as we approach midgame

Unprioritized Upgrades

Upgrade when needed

Deadlock Item

III

Stamina Mastery

Be hard to hit while airborne. After a lasso, jump, and do two airdashes to really go far with people

Deadlock Item

II

Improved Spirit

Just extra spirit scaling if you need to spend money right now

Deadlock Item

IV

Boundless Spirit

They keep making this item an insane power spike. Hollidays entire kit scales with spirit so this item quite literally is a powerspike like no other

Deadlock Item

III

Tankbuster

Great to buy once people start hitting higher HP values. Upgrade when you feel like you need it. Lets you rush a camp to death if you need souls

Welcome to Spirit Bruiser Holliday! Like in other mobas, we are stacking damage and health in order to win a lot of fights. This build requires an understanding of Hollidays ability combos in order to effectively pilot. Play close range and pick solo fights once online. This build is heavily annotated----------------- I HOPE YOU ENJOY HOLLIDAY :D

1st Flex Slot

Deadlock Item

II

Imbue

Compress Cooldown

Cooldowns are insanely important right now. Hollidays are long so even just 20 seconds on lasso helps

Deadlock Item

III

Superior Cooldown

Your entire kit honestly benefits from lower cooldowns. Helps you stay active

Deadlock Item

IV

Transcendent Cooldown

Insane item holy shit. Burst cooldown, headhunter, mystic shot, torment pulse, your abilities, all your actives, lower cooldowns. OP OP item

2nd Flex Slot

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Alchemical Fire

Amazing tool and the damage adds up. Throw on camps to farm. Throw on lane to save barrel. When you lasso someone, throw this on the ground. Teammates benefit shooting victim from bullet shred

3rd Flex Slot

Deadlock Item

III

Active

Warp Stone

Be creative with this movement tool. use it to move farther with people you lasso, use it to fight gun characters with the resist you get. Use your movement to stay alive

4th Flex Slot

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Phantom Strike

A personal favorite combo tool. Gapclose and make your combos tighter and more true. Use it to disarm problematic gun characters. The grounded aspect of this item helps you hit lassos. Great with pad

Lategame - Time to replace

See Annotation

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Scourge

[SELL MYSTIC SHOT] Apply this to yourself. Phantom strike in, lasso and throw the Alch Fire. BE PROUD

Deadlock Item

IV

Spirit Burn

[SELL HEADHUNTER] The burn is really nice and we're not really using our gun to kill people. Your combos and just raw barrels are gonna hurt

Deadlock Item

IV

Imbue

Mystic Reverb

[SELL ALCH FIRE] At this point this isnt spirit bruiser. This is full spirit hypercarry. Good luck

Deadlock Item

IV

Active

Arctic Blast

Idk at this point bro. If you honestly had enough souls to reach this point. Your game is probably FUBAR

Patch 9/5/2025

The patch has shifted power away from Hollidays Lane Phase but made her Midgame and Spirit potential SO MUCH MORE powerful, in exchange for a SOFT nerf to barrels soft CC and uptime [the 1 charge removal] This build still can be piloted effectively but we are building Gun Damage Cheats in lane instead of Spirit Damage Cheats

Ability Point Order

Powder Keg

Bounce Pad

Crackshot

Spirit Lasso

1

2

1

2

5

1

1

2

2

5

5

5