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Friday, October 31, 2008

MYM PDL: Final Heroes Statistics

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Previously we've seen how the heroes are ranked based on picks and bans in online Tournament MYM Prime Defending League, up to playday 7. Now that the PDL season 1 is officially over, after the Grand Final matches between MYM and SK, it's time to revise the ranking again and see how much things have changed since then, especially since the discovery of some first picks/bans material post-ESWC. This time, there are two aspects of the ranking to be looked into; 1) the total picks/bans and win/lose ratio, as well as 2) the score for each heroes based on their bans/picking order.

1. Statistic 1: http://www.mymym.com/en/coverage/498/3.html
2. Statistic 2: http://dota.pizdec9000.ru/

First, the ranking list created by Ruven in MyMYM. This ranking is solely based off the bans and picks regardless of picking order, and coupled with the result of the game, the win/lose ratio is calculated.

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Some facts I found to be interesting:

-The top 4 heroes: Warlock, Puck, Zeus and Beastmaster remain unchanged, albeit the order is slightly different. Their role remain significant in every games. One is massive babysitter/ pusher, one is awesome initiator/ganker, one is brutal spell spammer and one is a ridiculous map controller/initiator/ganker.

-Omniknight and Lich who ranked 5th and 6th respectively, have similar win/lose ratio, at 50% but the total opposite amount of ban/pick. Lich remains to be one of the best ward bitch in 6.52e and all he need to do in teamfight is cast Frost Nova/Chain Frost/Meka if applicable and then it doesn't matter if he died. Omni who was picked largely because of his Repel.

-Chen, Vengeful Spirit and Broodmother have a very high win/losr ratio, at more than 80%. In fact, VS has been one of the most successful heroes in recent days, rarely seen her losing any games. With stun, command aura and Swap, she fits with many kind sof lineup - push, ganking, and even one of the best hero to counter the frightening Turtling strat (hello Pit Lord).
Chen and Broodmother don't change much in their ranking since the previous one, but their win/lose ratio certainly is not something to be mislooked. The current Broodmother is a beast once she got her BKB and a little bit of high tier item, her Web forced enemy to buy sentry to counter her, and her Spiderling is useful in pushing. Chen is feared because of his jungling capabilities, and of course, ganking with his Creep army. And in crucial teamfights, his global heal can make the difference between winning and losing.

-Visage. This is probably the most noticable changes in the ranking. His position only rise a little in the list (rank 32 to 22), but his ban ratio increased significantly (1 to 19 bans). Yes, this is LARGELY because of ESWC, where many teams discover the potential of this heroes as pusher/map controller and dps/tanks. In ESWC, we've seen how SK made a huge comeback against KS in the group stage with the picks of Visage/TB, and in the other group, the champion Zenith beat MYM with the same strat. It is from that point that people start to realize how fearsome visage is, especially because he is one of the best counter to top-picked heroes like Lich and Luna.


The second statistics, automatically generated from parsed games (click to view).


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This ranking was based on point system, where banned heroes receive 7 points, and the picked heroes were given points based on their picking order (7 / 6 - 6 / 5 - 5 / 4 - 4 / 3 - 3 / 3) . In term of overall rank, there really is not much change for most heroes, especially the top 4 which is again dominated by the same heroes - Beastmaster, Warlock, Puck and Zeus. It was clear from the table that these heroes really are the best first pick material, judging how the amount of picks skewed toward the first few picks, and barely used as last pick (people will start bitching if they see Zeus last picked lol)



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