Holosmith - Oneshot Holo

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Focused on: Strike damage and Roaming

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Hard

This build was last updated on May 18, 2026.

Overview

This build is centered around stealthing and then using Photonic Blasting Module's ability to turn Overheat into a oneshot. Additionally, this build focuses a lot on mobility and has a decent amount of crowd control.

Skill Bar

Spear

Utility

Skill Variants

• A.E.D. can be taken in matches where more teamfights are expected, as in teamfights, A.E.D. is almost guarenteed to trigger.

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Equipment

Spear

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Relic

Equipment Variants

Sigils

• Sigil of Exploitation for more damage.

Rune

• Rune of Deadeye for more precision.

Relic

• Relic of the Daredevil for more chance of your oneshot critting.

Usage

Holosmith Basics

• The Holosmith elite specalization gives access to Photon Forge as a replacement for your elite toolbelt skill.
• While Photon Forge provides access to unique and powerful skills, being in Photon Forge and using it's skills fills your heat bar. Once the heat bar is full, you Overheat, making you lose a lot of health and putting Photon Forge and the rest of your toolbelt skills on cooldown.
• On this build specifically, Photonic Blasting Module means Overheat doesn't deal as much damage to yourself and instead deals very large damage to enemies nearby.

General

• While this build lacks survival, it has a lot of mobility which it can use to escape any unfavorable fight. Mobility comes from:
  • Superspeed, Holo Leap, Rocket Boots, Streamlined Kits

• This build severely lacks condi cleanse. Mechanized Deployment and Healing Turret are your only condi cleanses.

• Slick Shoes is a stunbreak and provides stability thanks to Gadgeteer.

• Using Slick Shoes before Rocket Boots can be used as an offensive way to ensure your Slick Shoes actually lands on your opponent.

• Reactive Lenses makes a lesser Utility Goggles trigger twice when you use Healing Turret. These goggles are buffed by Gadgeteer.

• This build is best used on enemies that are capturing nodes or other map objectives. While it can be used in teamfights, enemies will already be using a lot of dodges, blocks, aegis, healing, and revival skills that can make it harder to get value.

• Typically start matches by oneshotting the enemy at the far node. To do this, preheat before the starting gates open and enter stealth about halfway to the node. Most of the time, it is possible to reach the far node before the opponents cap it.

• While this build struggles in 1v1 scenarios, the idea is to oneshot the opponent and end the fight before they have a chance to use a single skill. Oneshotting is explained below:

Oneshot

• The oneshot comes in three steps: Preheating, Stealthing, Oneshot

Preheating

• Whenever you are not in a fight, use your Photon Forge skills to fill up your heat. You should fill up the heat bar to about 95% full. Photonic Blasting Module will keep this heat from going down.
• Ideally the last skill you use is Corona Burst, since it pulses adding heat even when you are not in Photon Forge. Even if these pulses fill your heat bar up all the way, it will not Overheat you.

Stealth

• Stealth is obtained by using a lot of leap finishers and blast finishers in a smoke field. Use the following combination of skills to stealth:
  • Bomb Kit (Enter Bomb Kit)
  • Big Ol' Bomb (This skill is a blast finisher that takes a while to activate. This is why it is cast before the smoke field)
  • Smoke Bomb (engineer) (Smoke Field)
  • Galvanic Bomb (Blast Finisher)
  • Bomb Kit (Leave Bomb Kit)
  • Conduit Surge (Leap Finisher)
  • Rocket Boots (This skills is a blast finisher that also launches you far in the direction you need to go.)

This should give you around 13 seconds of stealth after finishing the combo.

Since bombs have a large range and damage enemies, any enemy who walks near you and into your bombs as they detonate will reveal you.

A few skills can be seen by opponents even when you are in stealth. The important ones are Rocket Boots which leaves an explosion on the ground when used, and Holo Leap which leaves a hexagon on the ground when used. Try to avoid or hide these behind walls when in stealth or enemies will see you approaching.

Oneshot

• In order to kill almost any player no matter their health, the following four attacks need to land at the same time:
  • Explosive Entrance
  • Corona Burst
  • Devastator
  • Overheat

• When preheated, stealthed, and ready, enter photon forge with Engage Photon Forge and use Corona Burst to overheat. Once you are back on your spear weapon set, use Devastator to get close to your enemy and deal additional damage.

• If you are preheated to 100% heat, you can't use Corona Burst before you overheat. If you are only preheated to around 90%, Corona Burst won't overheat you. This is why it's important to aim for about 95% of the heat bar while preheating.

• Explosive Entrance triggers when you first attack an enemy in battle and when you first attack an enemy after you dodge. Since this oneshot attack hits on the first time you attack the enemy in battle, Explosive Entrance will always hit with your oneshot.
• Corona Burst triggers in 2 parts. The first part deals very little damage. Since you will use this skill to overheat, it's important that the first part doesn't hit anyone near you or it will reveal you. Then, the second part, which deals the majority of the damage, will hit at the same time as Overheat and Devastator.

This oneshot can miss if used on a tanky guardian with aegis.

This oneshot can miss if used on a necromancer in shroud.

This oneshot can miss if you are hit with cc before devastator lands. To ensure it lands, use Slick Shoes for its stability.

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