Curious what hero came out on top of the Vainglory Autumn Finals in North America? We’ve dug through all of the draft pick data and compiled every hero’s win-ban rate, their presence in matches, and more.

Every Hero and Their Participation

The first graph depicts how many games that hero won, was banned from, lost and was neither played in or banned in (absent). The second graph displays each hero’s win-ban rate vs lose rate from the matches they were in or were banned from.

Win-ban rate is useful for giving us an idea of how successful a hero was in a tournament and can also show us if there are balance issues with a hero. Win-ban rate by itself isn’t that insightful, you need the context of how often the hero was played. For example, Petal had a 100% win-ban rate, which makes her sound insanely overpowered – until you learn that she was only played once.

 Adagio

 Ardan

With Fortress being banned so often, Ardan found himself as the primary support pick and played in a total of 26 (of the 34) games.

 Blackfeather
No Win-Ban Rate

Blackfeather wins the award for least popular hero in this tournament. He wasn’t played a single time. We actually had to double-check that he was enabled for this tournament.

 Catherine

While a popular support pick in this tournament, Catherine frequently found herself losing to the avenging father, Ardan.

 Celeste

Celeste was the obvious queen of these finals. She was present in 24 matches and banned from another 8. Despite being so popular, she still managed to maintain a positive win-ban rate.

 Fortress

Our king of aggression, Fortress came in just ahead of the Starqueen and snagged himself the title of king. He has not only the highest win-ban rate (out of any hero played more than once), but is tied for the highest presence missing only two matches. Because he was banned so often, however, this opened up an opportunity for Ardan to steal some limelight.

 Glaive

 Joule

 Koshka

Koshka pounces in just behind Celeste as the 3rd popular and successful hero in these matches.

 Krul

 Petal

While Petal technically has a 100% win rate, she was only played once and is omitted from the top choices.

 Phinn

Many tried and just as many failed with Phinn. Phinn has the highest number of matches played out of any 0% win rate hero.

 Ringo

 Rona

Rona beat out Koshka in terms of bans, but left the fray with a slightly lower win-ban rate despite this.

 SAW

The “Tier II Poop Strat” was attempted three times in this tournament and failed each time. Anyone who’s played against the strategy before, undoubtedly feels a sense of justice when they hear that.

 Skaarf

 Skye

 Taka

 Vox

Kings and Queens of the Vainglory Autumn Finals

This graph compares all of the heroes on two stats: win-ban rate—of the matches they were in or were banned from, what percent were wins or bans, not losses— and presence—the percent of matches they were in or were banned from, compared to the total number of matches (there were 34 total matches in the Vainglory Autumn Finals). Win-ban rate lets us see how successful a hero is, and presence lets us put that into some context by showing how much mind share a hero actually received. For example, by only looking at the win-ban rate, it would appear that Petal “won” this tournament; however, when factoring in presence, you know that her numbers were skewed due to only playing a few matches, meaning she likely wasn’t as popular as other choices because she wasn’t banned or picked often.

Celeste and Fortress had the highest presence in this tournament, and—ignoring Petal—Fortress had the highest win-ban rate, indicating that he was most successful hero in this tournament.

Now we take a slightly different perspective: the same win-ban rate compared with matches played—the percent of matches won or lost, not banned from or absent from. This allows us to ignore bans and see how much actual play a hero received.

When we look at this, we can see how Ardan ended up replacing Fortress in a lot of these matches because Fortress was so often banned or picked by the other team. We can also see how some heroes were almost never—or actually never—banned. Like Catherine, who was played 65% and present 68% of the time. This gives an indication that she wasn’t a threatening hero in the tournament, which is further backed up by her negative win-ban rate.

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For similar content, check out our 1.11 Tier List and expect a similar analysis of this coming weekend’s Vainglory Autumn Finals in Europe. Also check out some other posts about the North American Vainglory Autumn Finals and VIPL:

• Skye Gameplay Highlight from VIPL Match 3
• VIPL2 Round Three Preview Spotlight: SK Gaming vs Hunters
• The Must-See Games from the Autumn North American Live Finals
• Congratulations VGL NA Autumn Live Finals Winner!