Holliday counters and synergy
How to counter Holliday
To counter Holliday, play Graves, Rat King and Paige: Holliday wins only 40.7% against Graves. Overall Holliday wins 47.3% of 678k matches in the last 30 days. Holliday does best with Rat King on the team.
- Win rate
- 47.3%
- Pick rate
- 20.2%
- Matches
- 678k
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Each number is compared with what Holliday'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 191k matches
+0.8 vs expected
55.2% win rate
McGinnis 42k matches
+0.8 vs expected
46.2% win rate
Baba 100k matches
+0.8 vs expected
51.1% win rate
Ivy 79k matches
+0.6 vs expected
50.8% win rate
Yamato 73k matches
+0.6 vs expected
45.5% win rate
Dynamo 93k matches
+0.5 vs expected
49.9% win rate
Graves 84k matches
+0.5 vs expected
55.0% win rate
Kelvin 50k matches
As expected
51.7% win rate
Sharing a lane
Best lane partners
Enemy team, against expectations
Good matchups
Shiv 83k matches
+0.7 vs expected
53.4% win rate
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Rat King 227k matches
+0.7 vs expected
41.1% win rate
Calico 63k matches
+0.7 vs expected
49.6% win rate
Solomon 93k matches
+0.6 vs expected
52.1% win rate
-
Baba 81k matches
+0.5 vs expected
44.9% win rate
Mo & Krill 84k matches
+0.5 vs expected
47.7% win rate
Paige 115k matches
+0.5 vs expected
41.7% win rate
Drifter 130k matches
+0.5 vs expected
47.7% win rate
Enemy team, against expectations
Bad matchups
Violet 79k matches
−1.0 vs expected
45.3% win rate
-
Dynamo 66k matches
−0.9 vs expected
44.4% win rate
Victor 82k matches
−0.8 vs expected
42.2% win rate
-
Kelvin 45k matches
−0.7 vs expected
42.6% win rate
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McGinnis 37k matches
−0.7 vs expected
48.6% win rate
Silver 101k matches
−0.6 vs expected
50.9% win rate
Nurse Harrow 59k matches
−0.5 vs expected
45.4% win rate
Deadman Danny 119k matches
−0.4 vs expected
48.9% win rate
Win rate against each hero
Holliday against every hero
The plain win rate: how often Holliday 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 | Holliday wins | Matches | Against expected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graves | 40.7% | 157k | +0.4 points |
| Rat King | 41.1% | 227k | +0.7 points |
| Paige | 41.7% | 115k | +0.5 points |
 Seven | 42.2% | 107k | −0.3 points |
| Victor | 42.2% | 82k | −0.8 points |
| Kelvin | 42.6% | 45k | −0.7 points |
 Haze | 44.0% | 156k | +0.5 points |
| Dynamo | 44.4% | 66k | −0.9 points |
| Ivy | 44.5% | 69k | As expected |
| Baba | 44.9% | 81k | +0.5 points |
| Violet | 45.3% | 79k | −1.0 points |
| Nurse Harrow | 45.4% | 59k | −0.5 points |
 Lady Geist | 46.1% | 71k | As expected |
 Lash | 46.1% | 138k | −0.3 points |
 Abrams | 46.2% | 100k | As expected |
 Wraith | 46.6% | 108k | As expected |
| Drifter | 47.7% | 130k | +0.5 points |
| Mo & Krill | 47.7% | 84k | +0.5 points |
 Vindicta | 47.9% | 109k | As expected |
 Apollo | 47.9% | 103k | As expected |
 Infernus | 48.4% | 121k | As expected |
 Celeste | 48.6% | 117k | As expected |
| McGinnis | 48.6% | 37k | −0.7 points |
| Deadman Danny | 48.9% | 119k | −0.4 points |
 Bebop | 49.3% | 147k | As expected |
| Yamato | 49.3% | 92k | −0.4 points |
 Billy | 49.4% | 102k | −0.4 points |
| Calico | 49.6% | 63k | +0.7 points |
 Venator | 49.9% | 143k | As expected |
 Vyper | 50.1% | 50k | As expected |
 Grey Talon | 50.3% | 55k | As expected |
 Rem | 50.7% | 122k | −0.4 points |
 Warden | 50.8% | 34k | As expected |
| Silver | 50.9% | 101k | −0.6 points |
 The Doorman | 51.1% | 61k | As expected |
 Paradox | 51.2% | 96k | As expected |
 Mina | 51.3% | 140k | As expected |
 Viscous | 51.6% | 45k | As expected |
 Sinclair | 51.9% | 45k | As expected |
| Solomon | 52.1% | 93k | +0.6 points |
 Mirage | 52.4% | 38k | As expected |
 Pocket | 52.5% | 68k | As expected |
| Shiv | 53.4% | 83k | +0.7 points |
Quick answers
Questions
- How do you counter Holliday in Deadlock?
- Pick a hero Holliday struggles against. Holliday has the lowest win rate against Graves, Rat King and Paige (40.7% against Graves). Taking each hero's own strength into account, Violet, Dynamo and Victor do better against Holliday than expected.
- Who is Holliday good against?
- Holliday has the highest win rate against Shiv, Pocket and Mirage (53.4% against Shiv). Taking each hero's own strength into account, Holliday does better than expected against Shiv, Rat King and Calico.
- Who is the best teammate for Holliday?
- Rat King: together they win 55.2%, 0.8 percentage points more than their own win rates predict.
- Who should Holliday lane with?
- McGinnis, Abrams and Yamato make the best lane partners for Holliday, measured against what each pair is expected to win.