Billy counters and synergy
How to counter Billy
To counter Billy, play Graves, Paige and Rat King: Billy wins only 39.7% against Graves. Overall Billy wins 47.5% of 1.0M matches in the last 30 days. Billy does best with Rat King on the team.
- Win rate
- 47.5%
- Pick rate
- 30.0%
- Matches
- 1.0M
- Updated
- 26 October 2026
Each number is compared with what Billy's win rate and the other hero's predict, so a strong hero doesn't top every list. Green bars beat that expectation, red fall short, grey are within chance.
Same team
Best teammates
Rat King 190k matches
+1.8 vs expected
56.4% win rate
Nurse Harrow 99k matches
+1.6 vs expected
50.6% win rate
Deadman Danny 181k matches
+1.5 vs expected
46.9% win rate
Violet 124k matches
+1.4 vs expected
49.9% win rate
Seven 139k matches
+1.3 vs expected
53.7% win rate
Mo & Krill 25k matches
+1.3 vs expected
49.0% win rate
Paige 159k matches
+1.1 vs expected
54.9% win rate
Vindicta 202k matches
+1.1 vs expected
48.0% win rate
Sharing a lane
Best lane partners
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Rat King 38k matches
+2.1 vs expected
56.7% win rate
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Deadman Danny 32k matches
+1.7 vs expected
47.2% win rate
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Nurse Harrow 20k matches
+1.6 vs expected
50.6% win rate
Grey Talon 18k matches
+1.4 vs expected
46.0% win rate
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Violet 23k matches
+1.4 vs expected
49.9% win rate
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Paige 35k matches
+1.4 vs expected
55.1% win rate
Enemy team, against expectations
Good matchups
Wraith 171k matches
+1.2 vs expected
47.9% win rate
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Rat King 384k matches
+1.1 vs expected
41.6% win rate
Kelvin 70k matches
+0.9 vs expected
44.4% win rate
Calico 66k matches
+0.9 vs expected
50.0% win rate
Sinclair 66k matches
+0.9 vs expected
52.7% win rate
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Mo & Krill 123k matches
+0.6 vs expected
48.0% win rate
Vyper 78k matches
+0.6 vs expected
51.2% win rate
Haze 251k matches
+0.5 vs expected
44.2% win rate
Enemy team, against expectations
Bad matchups
Solomon 117k matches
−0.9 vs expected
50.7% win rate
Graves 237k matches
−0.7 vs expected
39.7% win rate
Warden 67k matches
−0.6 vs expected
50.4% win rate
Silver 176k matches
−0.5 vs expected
51.2% win rate
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Deadman Danny 135k matches
−0.3 vs expected
49.3% win rate
Pocket 88k matches
As expected
52.4% win rate
Celeste 165k matches
−0.3 vs expected
48.5% win rate
The Doorman 96k matches
As expected
51.4% win rate
Win rate against each hero
Billy against every hero
The plain win rate: how often Billy wins with each hero on the enemy team, lowest first. Strong heroes are hard for everyone, so the last column says how this compares with what the two heroes' win rates predict.
| Enemy hero | Billy wins | Matches | Against expected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graves | 39.7% | 237k | −0.7 points |
| Paige | 41.3% | 178k | As expected |
| Rat King | 41.6% | 384k | +1.1 points |
| Seven | 42.5% | 195k | As expected |
 Victor | 43.7% | 179k | +0.5 points |
| Haze | 44.2% | 251k | +0.5 points |
| Kelvin | 44.4% | 70k | +0.9 points |
 Baba | 44.7% | 122k | As expected |
 Ivy | 44.9% | 110k | +0.3 points |
 Dynamo | 45.7% | 126k | As expected |
| Nurse Harrow | 46.2% | 67k | As expected |
 Lady Geist | 46.6% | 125k | As expected |
 Abrams | 46.6% | 166k | +0.3 points |
 Lash | 47.0% | 186k | +0.4 points |
| Violet | 47.0% | 118k | +0.5 points |
 Drifter | 47.4% | 156k | As expected |
| Wraith | 47.9% | 171k | +1.2 points |
| Mo & Krill | 48.0% | 123k | +0.6 points |
| Vindicta | 48.4% | 141k | +0.3 points |
 Apollo | 48.4% | 138k | +0.4 points |
| Celeste | 48.5% | 165k | −0.3 points |
 Infernus | 48.9% | 192k | +0.4 points |
 McGinnis | 49.3% | 59k | As expected |
| Deadman Danny | 49.3% | 135k | −0.3 points |
 Bebop | 49.7% | 190k | As expected |
| Calico | 50.0% | 66k | +0.9 points |
 Yamato | 50.2% | 138k | +0.3 points |
| Warden | 50.4% | 67k | −0.6 points |
 Venator | 50.4% | 226k | As expected |
| Grey Talon | 50.5% | 69k | As expected |
 Holliday | 50.6% | 103k | +0.4 points |
| Solomon | 50.7% | 117k | −0.9 points |
| Vyper | 51.2% | 78k | +0.6 points |
| Silver | 51.2% | 176k | −0.5 points |
| The Doorman | 51.4% | 96k | As expected |
 Mina | 51.4% | 207k | −0.2 points |
 Rem | 51.7% | 161k | +0.4 points |
 Viscous | 51.8% | 64k | As expected |
 Paradox | 51.9% | 134k | +0.3 points |
| Pocket | 52.4% | 88k | As expected |
| Sinclair | 52.7% | 66k | +0.9 points |
 Shiv | 52.9% | 129k | As expected |
 Mirage | 53.1% | 60k | As expected |
Quick answers
Questions
- How do you counter Billy in Deadlock?
- Pick a hero Billy struggles against. Billy has the lowest win rate against Graves, Paige and Rat King (39.7% against Graves). Taking each hero's own strength into account, Solomon, Graves and Warden do better against Billy than expected.
- Who is Billy good against?
- Billy has the highest win rate against Mirage, Shiv and Sinclair (53.1% against Mirage). Taking each hero's own strength into account, Billy does better than expected against Wraith, Rat King and Kelvin.
- Who is the best teammate for Billy?
- Rat King: together they win 56.4%, 1.8 percentage points more than their own win rates predict.
- Who should Billy lane with?
- Rat King, Deadman Danny and Nurse Harrow make the best lane partners for Billy, measured against what each pair is expected to win.