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Billy is a Hero in Deadlock. A white hot ball of rage, furious at the very notion of... something. Billy is a chaotic front-liner who never backs down from a challenge. With Rising Ram he gets up close and personal, before slamming down with Bashdown to create shockwaves through his enemies. Running isn't even an option when Billy can use his ultimate Chain Gang to grapple enemies and pull them back in. A quick swig from his bottle gets him Blasted, and his enemies totally wrecked.

Punk

Chaotic

G.O.A.T.

Weapon Stats
Damage Per Second:	74.1
Bullet Damage:	6.3+0.127
Ammo:	30
Bullets per sec:	11.8
Reload Time:	2.9s
Bullet Velocity:	513m/s
Light Melee:	50+1.58
Heavy Melee:	116+3.67
Crit Bonus Scale:	-20%

Information

Voice Actor:	Ari Kappatos^[1]
Release Date:	August 20, 2025
Internal names:	Punkgoat

“

Smash the bottle, smash their heads, smash the ritual!

From looting to public vandalism, Billy makes sure anyone who can be bothered to listen gets to hear "the truth". Don't ask him how he got the goat head.

Billy was released on August 20, 2025 as the second hero of the Six New Heroes update (first winner of hero vote).

Innate

Billy has a passive that alters his light melee attacks. He can use light melees faster than other heroes (shorter recovery time), gets slowed less when using light melees, and his reload is not interrupted by light melees. This allows Billy to hit the Sinner's Sacrifice jackpot faster than other heroes if he uses only light melee.

Additionally, he can restore ammo when hitting melees once he unlocks his Blasted ability, as detailed below.

Weapon

Biquette

Close Range

74 Damage Per Second

Falloff Range

14m ➞ 32m

Due to Billy's Blasted passive, hitting a melee attack reloads his ammo by either 100% (heavy melee) or 35% (light melee).

Abilities

Bashdown

Slam your bat into the ground,

pulling enemies down and dealing melee damage.

The slam creates a shockwave that deals spirit damage and applies

knockup.

x0.9

45

Melee Damage

x1.1

35

Damage

On Hit:

Displacement

0.4s

Duration

1

-10s Cooldown

2

+1 Charge and +2m Radius

5

-3s Charge Time
Now deals 50% Heavy Melee Damage

Benefits from melee items (e.g. Melee Lifesteal) Debuff duration reduced by Debuff Resist

Triggers Reactive Barrier Effect can be dispelled Disable prevented by Indomitable CC effect suppressed by Unstoppable

Bashdown can be held down to delay the slam and causes Billy to rise vertically.
Billy rises 67.5 hu above his initial elevation if the ability is immediately released and up to 163.97 hu while the ability key is held.
If Billy reaches the max height of Bashdown, all horizontal movement becomes sharply reduced.
T3 upgrade results in ~27% damage increase for the ability, since Billy's Heavy Melee is roughly 2.32x of his Light Melee.
- Also enables item interactions that are specific to Heavy Melee, i.e. Melee Charge or Spirit Snatch.
- Also allows Bashdown to break Graves' Borrowed Decree.

Rising Ram

Charge head-first into an enemy and send them into the air along with Billy.

Cooldown reduced by 50% on impact.

On Impact:

x1.9

40

Damage

1

On Impact: +25% weapon damage for 5s

2

0.4s Charge Duration

5

-13s Cooldown
16s Duration
10% Max Health

Disabled by Slowing Hex

Blasted

Passive: Melee hits restore ammo and inflict wrecked on the victim for 7s.

Active: Bullets are amplified against wrecked enemies. Using melee boosts max health and extends duration.

While Blasted:

x0.6

70

Melee Bonus Health

While Blasted:

10%

Wrecked Bullet Amp

11s Health Boost Duration

1

While Blasted: +2.25m/s bonus move speed

2

+1 Bashdown Charge on use and +7% Wrecked Bullet Amp

5

+50 Melee Bonus Health and increases spirit scaling

Debuff duration reduced by Debuff Resist Effect can be dispelled On-shot effect prevented by Plated Armor

Hitting a heavy melee fully reloads Billy's ammo. Hitting a light melee reloads 35% of ammo, or reduces the reload time by 35% if depleted.
Bashdown procs the melee effects for Blasted.
In addition to melee attacks against players, melee hits on Structures and Denizens will proc Blasted's effects and extend its duration while active.
If the player reaches a certain threshold of Blasted stacks by landing multiple melee hits in a short time (10-15s), the Blasted duration will start going down even if the player keeps landing melee hits. However, Blasted can be sustained indefinitely by spacing out melee hits before hitting the max stacks threshold.

Chain Gang

Chain nearby enemies to you. Chained enemies cannot use movement abilities and receive a heavy slow when they pull on the chain.

After a delay, yank everyone towards Billy and deal spirit damage.

The chain breaks if you lose line of sight for a short while.

x0.7

120

Damage

2.8s

Duration

35% Velocity Slow

1

+40% spirit resist & bullet resist

2

-40s Cooldown

5

+5m Range
+1.3s of Unstoppable Per Hero pulled in

Triggers Reactive Barrier Disable prevented by Indomitable CC effect suppressed by Unstoppable

Backstory

See Billy/Lore for more story content.

“

Billy is a white hot ball of rage, furious at the very notion of...something. Maybe it’s the cops. Maybe it’s magic regulations. Maybe it’s the service at the gyro place downtown. (Not the good one. The other one.)

Don't ask him how he got the goat head.

Update history

View the full update history: Billy/Update history

Update	Changes
August 12, 2026	Base health regen reduced from 2.5 to 2.0. Rising Ram T3 changed from "On Impact: Deal 7% max health as spirit damage" to "On hero hit: +10% Max HP for 16s". Chain Gang spirit scaling reduced from 1 to 0.7.
July 28, 2026	Rising Ram T3 reduced from 8% Max Health to 7%.
July 9, 2026	Rising Ram T3 spirit scaling reduced from 0.035 to 0.03.

Gallery

Billy portrait
Billy icon
Billy in-game render
Billy's select background
Billy poster
Billy reference sheet
Billy name typography
Billy weapon - Biquette
Unfinished Billy model art
Unfinished Billy model art "v2"
Gloat portrait for Billy.
Critical health portrait for Billy.

Trivia

"Billy goat" is a term used for a male goat.
Billy's weapon name, Biquette, means "young female goat" in French. It is a reference to "Biquette the punk rock goat", who went viral on the internet for hanging around punk rock and metal concerts.
Billy has unused "bespoke" voicelines that make meta references to the game, such as the popular melee Abrams build,^[2] calling McGinnis' turrets "aimbots",^[3] and calling out Haze for "pressing 4".^[4]
- Billy makes a reference to the Rejuvenator rework, saying that "it used to go out to everybody until the Man decided it was too good".^[5]
Billy was one of the heroes in a private build who was accidentally leaked on stream in May 2025. Being early in development, he was using Shiv's model as a placeholder.^[6] Billy's work-in-progress portrait was later leaked by an anonymous Discord user in July 2025.
"Ranting in the Hideout" is displayed as one's status in the in-game Friends List when playing as Billy in the Hideout.
One of Billy's in-game hero select screen labels is G.O.A.T., a common acronym standing for "greatest of all time".
Wrecked was originally called 'Pissed', remnants of this can still be seen while hovering over the icon next to the healthbar while Billy is Blasted.
Billy had the largest lead in the Six New Heroes contest, at 30%.^[7]
Due to always carrying his bat in his left hand, Billy has a unique reloading animation where he will eat his weapon's magazine before loading a new one that he pulls out from his jacket.
- This animation is also likely a reference to the popular myth that goats can consume and digest any material, including inedible ones.
Billy possesses a full set of teeth at the front of his mouth. This is unlike real goats, who lack an upper set and instead have a hard dental pad.

References

↑ Deadlock on IMDb
↑ Billy's in-game voice line - "Oh. You went melee Abrams. Real original, pal."
↑ Billy's in-game voice line - "McGinnis! You didn't kill me, your stupid aimbot turrets did!"
↑ Billy's in-game voice line - "Way to press 4, Haze."
↑ Billy's in-game voice line (picked up Rejuv) - "You know, this used to go to everybody 'til the Man decided it was too good."
↑ 2025-05-01 - atahutahatena on Reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumors - Streamer accidentally leaks hero roster of a more "secret" private Deadlock pre-alpha playtest build
↑ Update:August 29, 2025