The new MOBA Deadlock from Valve is still in an early development stage
, but a meta is slowly forming: On a new page, the pick and win rates are being tracked. And to play the currently most successful character, you don’t need any skills.
Which character is that? The character with the currently highest win rate is Seven. According to the website Tracklock.gg, which has recently begun tracking data for Deadlock, the hero has a win rate of 58.90%. That is currently the highest.
However, Seven also has the highest pick rate at 93.28%. Additionally, the character has been chosen in over 850,000 games. Thus, the character has appeared in 31% of the played matches so far.
Why Seven is so good can be read here.
High winning chance, low skill level
Why is this character so popular? Seven is a beginner-friendly hero whose area-of-effect attacks make him incredibly powerful: With a well-placed electric attack like Storm Cloud
(Storm Cloud), multiple opponents can be hit at the same time. This attack, for example, deals 124 damage per second while another player is within its radius.
But single-target attacks can also be spread to several opponents through Power Surge
(Power Surge): The ability allows an attack to bounce between multiple enemies like a bouncy ball.
What do players say? So, Seven makes it incredibly easy for even bloody beginners to achieve victories in Deadlock matches. This is exactly what players are currently discussing on reddit. Here are a few voices:
He clearly has an EXTREMELY low skill level but can significantly affect the game.
– CoatEnviromental901He is my crutch. Can’t aim? Not doing well in team? Just go AFK and farm the […] ultimate.
– rolandringo236He is still very good in high-Elo lobbies. His ultimate is excellent, his jungle is very good for flash-farming, his pistol with 3 is insane as a self-buff, and his stun has been massively buffed, even though it is point-and-click.
– True FishyFisyh, a self-proclaimed Seven main
Which other characters are in high demand? Seven is not the only popular hero in Deadlock. In second place by win rate is Warden with 53.26%. In third place is Haze with 53.18% of won matches.
But: Although Warden achieves the second most wins, he ranks only 10th in popularity with a pick rate of just 49.55%. Haze, on the other hand, climbs one spot here – with 92.06%, he has the second highest pick rate and is heavily challenging Seven’s throne. In third place is Vindicta with 82.21% – but she has only a win rate of 43.82%.
In fact, our shooter expert Dariusz Müller has already examined Deadlock in depth. The game is technically a MOBA, but is often referred to as a MOBA shooter. Whether there is some truth to that, he has broken it down for you here: Is Deadlock, the new hit on Steam, really a shooter? This is what our expert says
