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Draft room

Plan the draft, together or alone

Put both teams' heroes and the bans on one board, in any order, and see after every change who's ahead, what to pick next and how each lane should go. Start a room and send the code to your party to plan on one board, live.

Starts from this board and gives you a room code to send to your party.

The Amber Hand

50.0%

  1. York
  2. Broadway
  3. Greenwich

Bans (none)

    0 of 6 picked · bans 0 of 3 used in the match

    The Sapphire Flame

    50.0%

    1. York
    2. Broadway
    3. Greenwich

    Bans (none)

      0 of 6 picked · bans 0 of 3 used in the match

      Choose who you're picking for, then a hero; it goes in the chosen slot, or the first empty one. To move a hero to another lane, choose its slot, then the slot to swap with. ·

      Choosing a hero: amber picks.

      Who's ahead on the heroes

      The chance each team wins from the heroes alone, worked out again after every pick: each hero's strength, every pairing across the teams and every pairing within one.

      The Amber Hand50.0%

      The Sapphire Flame50.0%

      A toss-up

      0 of 6 on Amber and 0 of 6 on Sapphire picked. Empty slots count as average heroes, so the chance sits nearer 50% than a full draft's would.

      What moves it

      Nothing yet: pick a hero.

      Points of win chance a piece adds, against the chance without it.

      How sure: heroes say little. On 446,255 games it had never seen, this model picked the winner 59.7% of the time, where a coin flip gets 50%. Sides it gave 50–52% won 51.2%. It is fitted on all ranks and leaves out the map side. How it works

      Best next picks

      Every free hero, ranked by what it adds to its team's chance. The reasons are the pieces of that number; lane fit and bans are shown beside it and don't change the order.

      The Amber Hand

      1. Victor+7.6 points → 57.6%
        • Strong on its own +7.6
      2. Rat King+7.3 points → 57.3%
        • Strong on its own +7.3
      3. Graves+7.0 points → 57.0%
        • Strong on its own +7.0
      4. Baba+5.9 points → 55.9%
        • Strong on its own +5.9
      5. Kelvin+5.6 points → 55.6%
        • Strong on its own +5.6

      The Sapphire Flame

      1. Victor+7.6 points → 57.6%
        • Strong on its own +7.6
      2. Rat King+7.3 points → 57.3%
        • Strong on its own +7.3
      3. Graves+7.0 points → 57.0%
        • Strong on its own +7.0
      4. Baba+5.9 points → 55.9%
        • Strong on its own +5.9
      5. Kelvin+5.6 points → 55.6%
        • Strong on its own +5.6

      Bans

      A ban takes a hero out for both teams. A match has three bans in ranked.

      Most banned

      Reading ban rates…

      Bans that would cost them most

      Amber banning to hurt Sapphire

      • VictorSapphire gain +7.6 points picking it. Without it they take Baba (+5.9): 1.8 points less.
      • Rat KingSapphire gain +7.3 points picking it. Without it they take Baba (+5.9): 1.4 points less.
      • GravesSapphire gain +7.0 points picking it. Without it they take Baba (+5.9): 1.2 points less.

      Sapphire banning to hurt Amber

      • VictorAmber gain +7.6 points picking it. Without it they take Baba (+5.9): 1.8 points less.
      • Rat KingAmber gain +7.3 points picking it. Without it they take Baba (+5.9): 1.4 points less.
      • GravesAmber gain +7.0 points picking it. Without it they take Baba (+5.9): 1.2 points less.

      A ban only matters by the gap to the pick they'd take instead, so the points beside each are that gap. Heroes are the ones they'd most want for their open slots.

      Lanes at 9:00

      Each lane is two heroes a side. For each, the souls the Amber Hand's pair is expected to lead by at 9:00 (both players added together), and the chance it is ahead then. Fill the slots in lane order, or ask for a split.

      Amber's split

      Pick two heroes to get a suggested split.

      Sapphire's split

      Pick two heroes to get a suggested split.

      1. York

        Empty
        Empty

        Needs a hero on each team in this lane.

      2. Broadway

        Empty
        Empty

        Needs a hero on each team in this lane.

      3. Greenwich

        Empty
        Empty

        Needs a hero on each team in this lane.

      How sure: lanes are mostly decided by the players. On 1,337,238 lanes it had never seen, the model picked the lane's leader 54.9% of the time (55.4% with the map side, which this page uses), where a coin flip gets 50%. The numbers include the Amber Hand's edge in each lane: York −231, Broadway −48, Greenwich +83. How lanes are predicted

      Solo draft

      On your own, with nobody to draft with? Say who you're playing. The other team's open slots are filled with what is commonly picked, many times over, and every pick is judged on average against those teams.

      I'm on

      Likely enemy team

      Sapphire have 0 picked and 6 to come. Who is likeliest to fill them:

      • Rat King33%
      • Solomon25%
      • Deadman Danny23%
      • Haze21%
      • Graves20%
      • Mina20%
      • Infernus19%
      • Venator18%

      Picks are drawn at random, each in proportion to how often it is played (all ranks), without anyone picked or banned. Real lobbies pick in step with each other, which this doesn't know.

      Best heroes to play

      Your team as it stands wins 50.0% on average against those teams.

      1. Victor+7.5 points → 57.6%
        • Strong on its own +7.7
        • Weak into Baba −0.3
        • Weak into Vindicta −0.2
      2. Rat King+7.3 points → 57.3%
        • Strong on its own +7.4
        • Good into Deadman Danny +0.4
        • Weak into Haze −0.3
      3. Graves+6.3 points → 56.3%
        • Strong on its own +7.1
        • Weak into Rat King −0.4
        • Weak into Paige −0.3
      4. Kelvin+5.5 points → 55.6%
        • Strong on its own +5.6
        • Good into Deadman Danny +0.4
        • Weak into Baba −0.3
      5. Baba+5.4 points → 55.4%
        • Strong on its own +5.9
        • Weak into Vindicta −0.6
        • Weak into Haze −0.4

      How the draft room works

      Deadlock has no pick-by-pick draft: players choose heroes in the lobby, with a few bans and a short window to swap. So this is a planning board for a party (or two): put the heroes you mean to play on each side, in any order, ban what you like, and see what it does.

      • Who's ahead: the pre-game win-chance model on the heroes picked so far. It is fitted on a million recent matches; on 446,255 it had never seen it picked the winner 59.7% of the time. Heroes say little about who wins, and the page says so.
      • Best next picks: every free hero ranked by how much it would add to its team's chance, with the pieces of that number as reasons. Lane fit and ban rates sit beside them.
      • Bans: how often each hero is banned at your rank (a match has three bans in ranked, two otherwise, and they take a hero out for both teams), and which bans would cost the other team most.
      • Lanes: slots go in pairs, York, Broadway and Greenwich. The lane model predicts each lane's souls lead at 9:00 from the four heroes. Lanes are mostly decided by the players, so expect small edges.
      • Shared rooms: start a room and send the room code to your party; everyone sees the same board change live. The read-only link is for people who should only watch. A room is deleted two weeks after its last change.
      • Other tools: a draft is one line of text, and a room can be read as JSON. The format and the endpoint are on how drafts and lanes work.