Deadlock tier list
The current meta, computed from ranked match data
This tier list is computed from ranked match data. Heroes are ranked by the lower bound of a 95% confidence interval on their win rate, not by raw win rate, so a hero with 300 matches cannot outrank one with 300,000 on a lucky streak.
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Method
- Ranked matches from the last 30 days, from the community Deadlock API's match dataset.
- Heroes with fewer than 200 matches are excluded rather than ranked on noise.
- Ordering is by Wilson score lower bound at 95% confidence, which penalises small samples in proportion to how small they are.
- Tiers are assigned by standard deviations from the roster mean. Deadlock's win rates sit in a narrow band, so fixed cutoffs would produce an empty S tier one week and a twelve-hero S tier the next.
Common questions
- Who are the best characters in Deadlock right now?
- The S-tier heroes on this page have the highest confidence-adjusted win rates over the last 30 days. Rankings are recomputed as new match data arrives.
- How is this tier list calculated?
- Heroes are ranked by the lower bound of a 95% confidence interval on their win rate, so a hero with a small sample cannot outrank a proven one. Tiers are then assigned by standard deviations from the roster mean rather than at fixed win-rate cutoffs.
- Why is a 52% win rate considered strong?
- Every Deadlock match produces one winning team and one losing team, so the average hero win rate is pinned near 50% by arithmetic — no amount of balancing moves the mean. Individual heroes still spread well clear of it, so 52% is around two thirds of a standard deviation above the roster average: a real edge, though not the top of the range. The section above gives the current spread and standard deviation.
- Does a high pick rate mean a hero is strong?
- No, and it often means the opposite for the win-rate number. A hero everyone plays carries the full range of skill and is dragged toward 50%, while a rarely-picked hero is played mostly by specialists and looks better than they are. Pick rate is shown on every row so the sample behind a win rate is visible.
- How often does this tier list update?
- It is recomputed from a rolling 30-day window of ranked matches and refreshes several times a day. Balance patches move heroes with a lag, because the window still contains matches played before the patch.
Win rate measures how often a hero's team wins, across all skill levels. It is not a measure of how strong a hero is in expert hands, and heroes that are hard to play tend to under-perform their ceiling here.