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Team composition

Team synergy

Victor and Rat King are the best duo right now: together they win 64.3% of matches, 3.0 percentage points more than their own win rates predict. Based on 3.3M matches from the last 30 days.

Two strong heroes win a lot together anyway, so each pair is compared with what their own win rates predict. The bar shows the difference: green means they do better together than apart, red worse, grey within chance.

Same team

Best duos

  1. Victor+Rat King 145k matches

    +3.0 vs expected

    64.3% win rate

  2. Solomon+Baba 161k matches

    +3.0 vs expected

    51.9% win rate

  3. Abrams+Rat King 149k matches

    +2.3 vs expected

    60.4% win rate

  4. +2.2 vs expected

    51.6% win rate

  5. Shiv+Rat King 96k matches

    +2.2 vs expected

    53.9% win rate

  6. Yamato+Rat King 141k matches

    +2.2 vs expected

    56.9% win rate

  7. Kelvin+Viscous 12k matches

    +2.0 vs expected

    51.8% win rate

  8. Mo & Krill+Rat King 125k matches

    +2.0 vs expected

    59.2% win rate

  9. McGinnis+Violet 44k matches

    +2.0 vs expected

    51.0% win rate

  10. McGinnis+Viscous 16k matches

    +1.9 vs expected

    45.8% win rate

Sharing a lane

Best lane partners

  1. Victor+Rat King 30k matches

    +3.4 vs expected

    64.6% win rate

  2. Viscous+Rem 5,273 matches

    +2.8 vs expected

    44.9% win rate

  3. McGinnis+Viscous 3,702 matches

    +2.7 vs expected

    46.6% win rate

  4. Solomon+Baba 37k matches

    +2.7 vs expected

    51.5% win rate

  5. Dynamo+Paige 7,725 matches

    +2.6 vs expected

    60.8% win rate

  6. McGinnis+The Doorman 5,822 matches

    +2.6 vs expected

    46.5% win rate

  7. McGinnis+Dynamo 5,329 matches

    +2.5 vs expected

    52.6% win rate

  8. Shiv+Rat King 21k matches

    +2.4 vs expected

    54.1% win rate

  9. Lady Geist+Drifter 19k matches

    +2.4 vs expected

    53.6% win rate

  10. Yamato+Rat King 30k matches

    +2.4 vs expected

    57.1% win rate

Three on a team

Best trios

  1. Abrams+Shiv+Rat King 1,122 matches

    +7.9 vs expected

    60.8% win rate

  2. Shiv+Victor+Rat King 1,005 matches

    +7.8 vs expected

    63.8% win rate

  3. Shiv+Billy+Rat King 1,304 matches

    +7.7 vs expected

    56.9% win rate

  4. Abrams+Victor+Rat King 1,474 matches

    +7.3 vs expected

    69.6% win rate

  5. Mo & Krill+Sinclair+Paige 1,236 matches

    +6.4 vs expected

    58.7% win rate

  6. Victor+Billy+Rat King 1,530 matches

    +6.4 vs expected

    65.2% win rate

  7. Shiv+Yamato+Rat King 1,336 matches

    +6.3 vs expected

    55.6% win rate

  8. Abrams+Kelvin+Rat King 3,775 matches

    +6.0 vs expected

    68.0% win rate

  9. Yamato+Victor+Rat King 2,143 matches

    +5.9 vs expected

    64.9% win rate

  10. Mo & Krill+Yamato+Rat King 2,269 matches

    +5.7 vs expected

    60.6% win rate

Same team

Duos that struggle

  1. Sinclair+Nurse Harrow 16k matches

    −3.0 vs expected

    44.2% win rate

  2. −2.3 vs expected

    42.6% win rate

  3. Shiv+Mirage 39k matches

    −2.2 vs expected

    37.3% win rate

  4. Paige+Solomon 57k matches

    −2.1 vs expected

    50.1% win rate

  5. −2.0 vs expected

    46.5% win rate

  6. Vindicta+Grey Talon 62k matches

    −2.0 vs expected

    44.5% win rate

  7. Holliday+Deadman Danny 88k matches

    −1.9 vs expected

    43.3% win rate

  8. Holliday+Nurse Harrow 43k matches

    −1.9 vs expected

    46.9% win rate

  9. Holliday+Violet 85k matches

    −1.8 vs expected

    46.5% win rate

  10. Mina+Deadman Danny 159k matches

    −1.8 vs expected

    41.9% win rate

Quick answers

Questions

What is the best duo in Deadlock?
Victor and Rat King are the best teammates right now: together they win 64.3% of matches, 3.0 percentage points more than their own win rates predict. Based on 145k matches.
What are the best lane partners in Deadlock?
Victor and Rat King are the best pair to share a lane: together they win 64.6% of matches, 3.4 percentage points more than their own win rates predict.
What is the best three-hero combo?
Abrams, Shiv and Rat King are the strongest trio: together they win 60.8% of matches, 7.9 percentage points more than their own win rates predict.
Which heroes are bad together?
Sinclair and Nurse Harrow do worst as teammates: they win 44.2% together, 3.0 percentage points less than their own win rates predict.
Why are there no full six-hero team comps?
With dozens of heroes there are millions of possible six-hero teams, and almost every team in a month of matches is a one-off. Any "best team" list would be noise, so we rank duos and trios, which repeat thousands of times.
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