Holliday build guide

Spirit Bruiser Holliday

by THE MADMANVersion 1Updated Jun 25, 2026Guide #699687

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Author's notes

Welcome to Spirit Bruiser Holliday! We are building early game health and tempo to win fights and transition into a lategame assassin. Please have an intermediate understanding of piloting the character before using the build

Item categories

1Spirit Start [L -> R] Hit Barrels off Cooldown
Author's category · 4 items
1. 1
  Mystic Burst
  Barrel is one of few abilities that can proc this as a first purchase buy. Very good for starting the game off hurling damage
2. 2
  Extra Charge
  Quite literally doubling your early game kit. It should be obvious how this item helps you out
3. 3
  Spirit Strike
  Sell this Later for Torment - Playing close range and meleeing barrels can lead you to proc this as well. its good early shred and lots of damage. We arent a melee build
4. 4
2Buy when you can kill
Author's category · 2 items
1. 1
  Sprint Boots
  Just a component but speed is nice, rotating is easier
2. 2
  Trophy Collector
  Built from Sprint Boots
  Trophy is important because Holliday is great at racking up a lot of kills early, which will generate a lot of revenue for you to get lots of items quicker!b
3Gun Items - Big Damage and Tempo
Author's category · 4 items
1. 1
  Headshot Booster
  Hollidays Gun has been recently made easier to control. And this damage will stack on top of your incentivized damage from Crackshot
2. 2
  Recharging Rush
  This item makes it so we dont have to buy cooldown reduction. Such an important and broken item. Hit this off cooldown with Crackshot
3. 3
  Mystic Shot
4Health Core
Author's category · 2 items
1. 1
  Extra Health
  Health is the budget at which Holliday is allowed to pick fights, and this item is a LOT of value for 800 souls.
2. 2
  Extra Stamina
  Holliday is a 2 stamina character with access to improved air control, this will help you take advantage of that and make up for low stamina early
5Core Item
Author's category · 1 items
1. 1
  Torment Pulse
  Sleeper OP Item when paired with a closerange-aggressive playstyle. Garunteed Multiple Procs off of lassos and helps a lot securing kills in close range chases
6Upgrades when Slots become Issue
Author's category · 3 items
1. 1
  Fortitude
  Built from Extra Health
  Almost necessary as an upgrade. So much HP, speed, and regenerating outside of combat will mean you show up to every fight, instead of losing time basing for regen
2. 2
  Stamina Mastery
  Built from Extra Stamina
  The depth of movement this character provides is honestly the reason we dont really build defensives here. We can just run and escape for free
3. 3
7Welcome to Spirit Bruiser Holliday. The thesis of this build is to build Health and Tempo to take early game fights, and transition into an aggressive lategame assassin to impact the game at all stages. Please have a fundamental understanding of Hollidays kit, as this build requires use of Active Items and an understanding of comboing your abilities
Author's category · 0 items
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81st Flex Item
Author's category · 1 items
1. 1
  Phantom Strike
  The first flex. This item with maxed jump pad is a garunteed stun. Disarms M1 Carries, Knocks down pixies and fliers. Gives Stats. Its amazing
92nd Flex Item
Author's category · 2 items
1. 1
  Spirit Sap
  Component of a much greater item. Practice applying this to your target right before a Phantom Strike Pad Stun
2. 2
  Focus Lens
  Built from Spirit Sap
  When part of your opening engage with Pad Stun and Phantom Strike, it can lead to amazing damage and difficult counterplay options. You cant debuff remove this if you are lasso'd. Great at disabling
103rd Flex Item - Massive Damage
Author's category · 3 items
1. 1
  Extra Spirit
2. 2
  Improved Spirit
  Built from Extra Spirit
3. 3
  Boundless Spirit
  Built from Improved Spirit
11Final item Choices - To Replace Trophy Collectoroptional
Author's category · 4 items
1. 1
  Alchemical Fire
  Great item to throw for area burn, shred, and damage during lassos
2. 2
  Mystic Vulnerability
  hrm
3. 3
  Escalating Exposure
  Built from Mystic Vulnerability
12If you really buy everything above and the game is still going on, start replacing 1600's with meta holliday items. Its really up to you to decide what you should get as every player is different and I do not want to take away from this builds readability by posting half the shop. This same logic should be applied to your counter buy purchases, although the components above in this build should REALLY cover most enemy win conditions in hollidays current state
Author's category · 0 items
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Published ability order

Published ability order: unlocks and upgrades in the author's order, one row per ability in slot order
Powder KegPowder Keg	Powder Keg: Ability unlocked, step 1				Powder Keg: 1 AP upgrade, step 5	Powder Keg: 2 AP upgrade, step 6	Powder Keg: 5 AP upgrade, step 7