Dota Auto Chess: best heroes Pick and Win rates - June 2019
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The pick and win rates of all Dota Auto Chess heroes. The data is gathered via an official API, considers all regions and servers, and is updated periodically.
The Heybox app from xiaoheihe.cn is a Chinese app officially authorized by the game developers. It gathers data from all the regions and servers, but it is based on the final boards, so it doesn’t take into consideration all the chess pieces bought and sold during the match.
Even if the statistics are slightly biased, they are the only reliable and official ones at our disposal, and I believe they are useful to study the meta. I will update this article over time, but be aware that the data might become inaccessible in the future.
May 27th - June 3rd
I could not update these stats in the past months due to API limitations, but things changed now, so I will be able to provide fresh data regularly.
The table below shows the match count and the win rate of all the heroes at Rook and above. The units are sorted based on their win rate.
All the tables are responsive. If you are using a phone, turn it sideways for a full view. Otherwise, zoom in or click the grey area of each table to swipe them. They are quite long, but there is no other option to display all the heroes.
Hero | Matches | Win% | Hero | Matches | Win% | |
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Techies | 13K | 33.8% | Chaos Knight | 44K | 17.3% | |
Sven | 15K | 32.8% | Troll Warlord | 41K | 17.3% | |
Death Prophet | 8146 | 31.0% | Abaddon | 49K | 17.2% | |
Enigma | 25K | 29.9% | Viper | 37K | 17.2% | |
Zeus | 14K | 29.4% | Slardar | 26K | 17.1% | |
Tidehunter | 25K | 29.3% | Enchantress | 21K | 16.9% | |
Tinker | 10K | 24.7% | Dazzle | 40K | 16.8% | |
Clockwerk | 11K | 24.1% | Puck | 32K | 16.8% | |
Terrorblade | 8211 | 24.0% | Disruptor | 30K | 16.8% | |
Gyrocopter | 9671 | 23.4% | Witch Doctor | 22K | 15.5% | |
Mars | 16K | 22.3% | Crystal Maiden | 47K | 15.4% | |
Timbersaw | 13K | 22.3% | Razor | 47K | 14.7% | |
Necrophos | 59K | 22.8% | Lich | 13K | 14.4% | |
Alchemist | 30K | 21.3% | Beastmaster | 25K | 14.3% | |
Medusa | 77K | 20.5% | Tiny | 14K | 14.0% | |
Venomancer | 12K | 19.6% | Anti-Mage | 56K | 13.8% | |
Bounty Hunter | 20K | 19.5% | Windranger | 70K | 13.4% | |
Dragon Knight | 33K | 19.4% | Morphling | 15K | 13.4% | |
Winter Wyvern | 9540 | 19.2% | Templar Assassin | 59K | 12.8% | |
Doom | 49K | 19.1% | Mirana | 28K | 12.7% | |
Omniknight | 32K | 18.9% | KotL | 34K | 12.6% | |
Luna | 36K | 18.1% | Treant Protector | 63K | 12.5% | |
Sniper | 9969 | 18.1% | Shadow Fiend | 33K | 12.3% | |
Shadow Shaman | 4425 | 18.1% | Queen of Pain | 38K | 12.2% | |
Kunkka | 74K | 18.0% | Nature's Prophet | 48K | 11.8% | |
Lycan | 52K | 18.0% | Phantom Assassin | 42K | 11.8% | |
Drow | 34K | 17.8% | Axe | 16K | 10.5% | |
Tusk | 27K | 17.4% | Lina | 5538 | 10.4% | |
Lone Druid | 81K | 17.3% | Juggernaut | 20K | 10.2% | |
Batrider | 45K | 17.3% | Io | 113 | 8.8% |
Winter Wyvern
The Auto Chess patch released on June 1st added a Dragon Mage into the game: Winter Wyvern.
It is still early to judge her real strength as high-ranked players will require more time to test new strategies, but adding more dragons surely helps to achieve the species bonus and thus to enable Dragon Knight. I also heard that Drodostudio might introduce two more dragon chess pieces soon: Jakiro and Visage.
Winter Wyvern works well in mage compositions when paired with a tough frontliner such as Axe or Mars. If placed correctly, the tank will absorb most of the enemy attacks while WW will heal him. She might become a core piece in Mage-God lineups.
Sven
The developers also reduced Sven‘s God’s Strength bonus damage from 100%/200%/300% to 100%/150%/200%. Honestly, I don’t think this nerf will be enough to balance him; as you can see from the data, he has the highest win rate in the game after Techies (closing the Goblin synergy is still game-changing).
Sven has a high base damage, his attacks deal 50% damage to enemy pieces within 2 squares of his original attack target (Great Cleave passive), and God’s Strength boosts his damage and the one of all allied Demon pieces.
This active ability is so powerful that you may easily ignore the drawback of having two or more Demons on the battlefield. A solid DPS piece such as Doom will greatly benefit from it.
Death Prophet
Death Prophet obtained the third highest win rate of the week, but she isn’t as strong as other 5-gold pieces.
Her ultimate does damage over time, but it stops as soon as she dies, while other abilities like Enigma’s Black Hole continue affecting the battlefield even after the death of the caster. I do not consider her a reliable pick, and the two-star upgrade doesn’t bring a great damage boost either.
DP is mostly a synergy hero, which works well when you can maximize at least one of her two synergies (Undead or Warlock). She has a high win rate but a very low number of matches because Rook players mostly get her to complete those synergies and end the game, so she isn’t a hero who can adapt to many team compositions.
Related: Most popular synergy combos
February 22nd - March 4th
Hero | Matches (All) | Win% (All) | Matches (Rook) | Win% (Rook) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Tidehunter | 5905904 | 31.0 | 24003 | 32 |
Enigma | 3601181 | 31.4 | 16092 | 31.2 |
Death Prophet | 2220335 | 28.5 | 7431 | 29.5 |
Techies | 3168490 | 28.8 | 12411 | 28.5 |
Lich | 2686680 | 30.0 | 12978 | 28.1 |
Gyro | 3052311 | 27.9 | 11464 | 28 |
Medusa | 6185213 | 20.7 | 29713 | 27.7 |
Tinker | 5152737 | 10.9 | 5960 | 25 |
Doom | 4414275 | 18.8 | 15711 | 23.2 |
Slardar | 2958952 | 14.2 | 6989 | 22.6 |
Nercophos | 6468373 | 20.2 | 29905 | 22 |
Clockwork | 5804022 | 11.2 | 7807 | 21.8 |
Slark | 1838871 | 5.0 | 1582 | 21.8 |
Alchemist | 4901391 | 15.1 | 8888 | 21.1 |
Dragon Knight | 8370934 | 16.1 | 31154 | 21.1 |
Bounty Hunter | 6064768 | 10.4 | 7726 | 20.8 |
Tusk | 5673508 | 11.7 | 8217 | 20.8 |
Viper | 8099817 | 14.4 | 31266 | 20.7 |
Enchantress | 4775902 | 9.8 | 6070 | 20.7 |
Disruptor | 7926752 | 19.8 | 29519 | 20.3 |
Kunkka | 9427525 | 18.6 | 34381 | 20.3 |
Batrider | 7995861 | 13.1 | 18352 | 20.2 |
Omniknight | 6121102 | 12.2 | 16185 | 19.9 |
Lone Druid | 7604328 | 17.5 | 33408 | 19.8 |
Puck | 8748448 | 14.5 | 34994 | 19.8 |
Anti-Mage | 5965634 | 13.8 | 24113 | 19.5 |
Terroblade | 2180786 | 7.6 | 1524 | 19.5 |
Chaos Knight | 8864072 | 11.9 | 20961 | 19.3 |
Troll Warlord | 6695168 | 16.4 | 13223 | 19.2 |
Timbersaw | 6298077 | 11.2 | 9111 | 19 |
Luna | 9970450 | 13.3 | 29258 | 18.8 |
Shadow Shaman | 5395661 | 13.2 | 8667 | 18.7 |
Lycan | 6491325 | 13.4 | 13095 | 18.7 |
Drow Ranger | 4978849 | 11.8 | 11933 | 18.6 |
Templar Assassin | 7173559 | 14.1 | 27681 | 18.5 |
Treant Protector | 8080694 | 13.3 | 30377 | 18.2 |
Beastmaster | 8480852 | 15.2 | 22861 | 18.1 |
Abaddon | 9656777 | 13.1 | 26512 | 18.1 |
Crystal Maiden | 5745704 | 17.4 | 23830 | 17.9 |
Keeper of the Light | 5411752 | 17.5 | 21924 | 17.6 |
Sniper | 3214863 | 11.7 | 6471 | 17.6 |
Witch Doctor | 5218932 | 13.7 | 8528 | 17.4 |
Phantom Assassin | 5842623 | 12.2 | 23458 | 17.3 |
Nature's Prophet | 5928553 | 12.7 | 22477 | 17.1 |
Axe | 8955524 | 12.9 | 18844 | 16.8 |
Tiny | 2735468 | 10.2 | 3919 | 16.8 |
Juggernaut | 8813998 | 14.7 | 23945 | 16.6 |
Windranger | 5720766 | 13.9 | 26164 | 16.6 |
Sand King | 2460703 | 8.7 | 4303 | 16.5 |
Razor | 8378770 | 14.5 | 29006 | 16.4 |
Ogre Magi | 2518822 | 6.3 | 3634 | 16.2 |
Venomancer | 1980854 | 10.2 | 3090 | 16.2 |
Riki | 1015955 | 3.7 | 661 | 16.2 |
Mirana | 2704576 | 10.0 | 5415 | 15.3 |
Shadow Fiend | 9629004 | 12.5 | 26811 | 15 |
Morphling | 1922397 | 5.6 | 2604 | 14.6 |
Lina | 1891080 | 8.7 | 3862 | 14.1 |
Queen of Pain | 3781148 | 7.6 | 9470 | 13.5 |
A summary of the data
Tidehunter is the best hero in Auto Chess because he can change the fate of any team fight in the late game thanks to his AoE stun.
The elf composition is extremely popular at the moment as this species synergy provides a huge amount of evasion.
Magic damage is necessary to deal against elves, and this factor increases the pick and win rate of mages such as Crystal Maiden and Keeper of the Light. Note that three mages are better than six in most teams.
Crystal Maiden is a very underrated hero. Her mana regeneration isn’t helpful only in mage lineups, but it is also great in combination with crowd control and AoE abilities as they will trigger earlier, and occasionally twice in the same round.
Naga is the only species that counters magic damage directly as the synergy increases the magic resistance of the whole team. This explains the win rate of naga heroes in this meta, raises the versatility of units such as Tidehunter and Medusa, and the pick rate of other nagas, like Slardar and Slark. In particular, the latter is quite underwhelming on his own.
Anti-Mage is a solid hero in the early game, and he is a member of the infamous elf lineup. In the late game, his passive ability Mana Burn counters heroes with powerful abilities like Enigma, Disruptor, and Lone Druid, as they won’t be able to generate enough mana to activate them.
Swine Sappers loading screen for Techies - Valve
Looking at the data, you might notice also some odd placements, here are a few examples:
Tinker is in the top 5. He is not considered a powerful chess piece, but having Tinker on your final board means that you used a composition based on mech and/or goblin, which are effective and rather easy to build.
Techies isn’t a popular hero just for the goblin synergy, but mainly because he possesses an AoE ability which inflicts heavy physical damage. It can’t be countered by nagas, neither evaded by elves as their passive works only against auto-attacks. A two-star Techies is a game-winning chess piece because Explosive Bomb deals 1,100 AoE damage.
Techies is also powerful in combination with undead as their synergy decreases the armor of the opponents, and thus the damage inflicted by physical attacks and spells. It partly explains the win rate of undead units, but be aware that while some aren’t very popular (Drow), others are great picks in the current meta (Necrophos).
Shadow Fiend has an abysmal win rate. He is an amazing hero in Auto Chess, particularly in the early and mid game, so the players tend to overuse him. SF is picked even when there are no synergies with other chess pieces on the board, so overall his win rate is low only because he is a highly-contested unit.
Mid-February
Hero | Matches (All) | Win% (All) | Matches (Rook) | Win% (Rook) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Tidehunter | 5905904 | 31.0 | 24003 | 32 |
Enigma | 3601181 | 31.4 | 16092 | 31.2 |
Death Prophet | 2220335 | 28.5 | 7431 | 29.5 |
Techies | 3168490 | 28.8 | 12411 | 28.5 |
Lich | 2686680 | 30.0 | 12978 | 28.1 |
Gyro | 3052311 | 27.9 | 11464 | 28 |
Medusa | 6185213 | 20.7 | 29713 | 27.7 |
Tinker | 5152737 | 10.9 | 5960 | 25 |
Doom | 4414275 | 18.8 | 15711 | 23.2 |
Slardar | 2958952 | 14.2 | 6989 | 22.6 |
Nercophos | 6468373 | 20.2 | 29905 | 22 |
Clockwork | 5804022 | 11.2 | 7807 | 21.8 |
Slark | 1838871 | 5.0 | 1582 | 21.8 |
Alchemist | 4901391 | 15.1 | 8888 | 21.1 |
Dragon Knight | 8370934 | 16.1 | 31154 | 21.1 |
Bounty Hunter | 6064768 | 10.4 | 7726 | 20.8 |
Tusk | 5673508 | 11.7 | 8217 | 20.8 |
Viper | 8099817 | 14.4 | 31266 | 20.7 |
Enchantress | 4775902 | 9.8 | 6070 | 20.7 |
Disruptor | 7926752 | 19.8 | 29519 | 20.3 |
Kunkka | 9427525 | 18.6 | 34381 | 20.3 |
Batrider | 7995861 | 13.1 | 18352 | 20.2 |
Omniknight | 6121102 | 12.2 | 16185 | 19.9 |
Lone Druid | 7604328 | 17.5 | 33408 | 19.8 |
Puck | 8748448 | 14.5 | 34994 | 19.8 |
Anti-Mage | 5965634 | 13.8 | 24113 | 19.5 |
Terroblade | 2180786 | 7.6 | 1524 | 19.5 |
Chaos Knight | 8864072 | 11.9 | 20961 | 19.3 |
Troll Warlord | 6695168 | 16.4 | 13223 | 19.2 |
Timbersaw | 6298077 | 11.2 | 9111 | 19 |
Luna | 9970450 | 13.3 | 29258 | 18.8 |
Shadow Shaman | 5395661 | 13.2 | 8667 | 18.7 |
Lycan | 6491325 | 13.4 | 13095 | 18.7 |
Drow Ranger | 4978849 | 11.8 | 11933 | 18.6 |
Templar Assassin | 7173559 | 14.1 | 27681 | 18.5 |
Treant Protector | 8080694 | 13.3 | 30377 | 18.2 |
Beastmaster | 8480852 | 15.2 | 22861 | 18.1 |
Abaddon | 9656777 | 13.1 | 26512 | 18.1 |
Crystal Maiden | 5745704 | 17.4 | 23830 | 17.9 |
Keeper of the Light | 5411752 | 17.5 | 21924 | 17.6 |
Sniper | 3214863 | 11.7 | 6471 | 17.6 |
Witch Doctor | 5218932 | 13.7 | 8528 | 17.4 |
Phantom Assassin | 5842623 | 12.2 | 23458 | 17.3 |
Nature's Prophet | 5928553 | 12.7 | 22477 | 17.1 |
Axe | 8955524 | 12.9 | 18844 | 16.8 |
Tiny | 2735468 | 10.2 | 3919 | 16.8 |
Juggernaut | 8813998 | 14.7 | 23945 | 16.6 |
Windranger | 5720766 | 13.9 | 26164 | 16.6 |
Sand King | 2460703 | 8.7 | 4303 | 16.5 |
Razor | 8378770 | 14.5 | 29006 | 16.4 |
Ogre Magi | 2518822 | 6.3 | 3634 | 16.2 |
Venomancer | 1980854 | 10.2 | 3090 | 16.2 |
Riki | 1015955 | 3.7 | 661 | 16.2 |
Mirana | 2704576 | 10.0 | 5415 | 15.3 |
Shadow Fiend | 9629004 | 12.5 | 26811 | 15 |
Morphling | 1922397 | 5.6 | 2604 | 14.6 |
Lina | 1891080 | 8.7 | 3862 | 14.1 |
Queen of Pain | 3781148 | 7.6 | 9470 | 13.5 |