Dominates Pos 3 at 51.75% meta-score across 1,169 games with the highest pickrate (6.78%) in the position. His night-time power spikes create uncontested map control, while Hunter in the Night and Void provide exceptional kill threat and durability in the offlane.

Leads Pos 1 with 51.66% meta-score across 986 games, combining strong laning through Healing Ward with flexible build paths into either early fighting or hard-farming. His built-in magic immunity and healing make him exceptionally resilient in the current meta.

Posts 51.52% meta-score on the largest sample (1,457 games), demonstrating consistent performance as a position 1. His Feast provides innate sustain and damage scaling against tanky offlaners, while Rage and Infest offer unmatched survivability and repositioning for a carry.

Achieves 51.38% meta-score with strong AoE farm acceleration through Great Cleave and God's Strength. Storm Hammer provides reliable disable from the carry position, and his armor/strength gain lets him frontline effectively in mid-game skirmishes.

Reaches 51.22% meta-score as Pos 1 on 677 games, leveraging Focus Fire for objective-taking and Windrun for survivability. Her versatile skillset allows both physical damage builds and hybrid utility, adapting well to varied drafts.

Posts 50.46% meta-score across 514 mid games, excelling at dominating favorable matchups through Arcane Orb harass and Astral Imprisonment save/setup. His pure damage scaling and teamfight ultimate make him a potent core against intelligence-heavy lineups.

Achieves 50.27% meta-score on 767 games with 5.75% pickrate, thriving as a tempo-controlling mid. Ball Lightning enables unmatched mobility for pickoffs and escapes, while his magical burst damage punishes squishy supports and immobile cores.

Secures 50.24% meta-score as Pos 2 on 382 games, leveraging Fissure's long-range disable and Echo Slam's teamfight devastation. The mid lane provides him faster Blink Dagger timing, enabling earlier high-impact initiations than traditional support builds.

Matches Earthshaker at 50.24% meta-score with 800 games and strong 6.0% pickrate. The mid position grants Techies levels for mine damage scaling and earlier utility items, allowing map control and area denial that disrupts enemy farming patterns.

Achieves 50.92% meta-score as Pos 3 on 337 games, providing reliable initiation through Wraithfire Blast and Reincarnation's second life in fights. His low-complexity kit and innate durability make him effective even from the offlane's contested farm.

Reaches 50.84% meta-score across 429 offlane games, leveraging Death Pulse sustain to outlast enemy safelane aggression. Reaper's Scythe punishes high-strength cores while Ghost Shroud provides survivability and mana sustain for extended laning.

Posts 50.92% meta-score on 227 Pos 4 games, converting Track's gold multiplier into team-wide economic advantage. Shadow Walk enables safe warding, scouting, and harassment, while Shuriken Toss provides burst damage for early rotations and kills.

Achieves 50.62% meta-score across 276 support games, offering Disruption as both a save mechanism and setup tool for allied burst damage. Demonic Purge provides long-duration slow and dispel, crucial for dealing with evasive cores or purging defensive buffs.

Reaches 50.58% meta-score on 580 Pos 4 games with strong 4.96% pickrate. Hook creates pick-off opportunities from fog, while Flesh Heap stacks provide scaling durability that lets him transition into a frontline tank without core-level farm.

Dominates Pos 5 with 51.21% meta-score on the largest sample (1,097 games), combining Maledict's percentage-based damage with Death Ward's channeled DPS for exceptional teamfight impact. Cask provides reliable stun and Voodoo Restoration offers sustained healing from minimal farm.

Matches KotL at 50.65% meta-score on 800 games, offering False Promise as the premier save ability that delays damage and amplifies healing. His dispel, disarm, and nuke provide complete utility from the hard support position without item dependency.

Achieves 50.61% meta-score across 800 Pos 5 games, leveraging Winter's Curse to turn enemy positioning against them and Cold Embrace as a powerful save. Arctic Burn provides long-range harass and mobility for vision control without risking death.

Secures 50.57% meta-score on 800 games with 3.67% pickrate, using Stroke of Fate for lane harass and Soulbind to lock two enemies together for allied burst. Phantom's Embrace provides long silence duration, crucial for shutting down spell-dependent cores in fights.

Maintains 50.95% meta-score across 1,111 games as the premier scaling carry. Haunt provides global presence that punishes enemy rotations, while Dispersion and Desolate make her nearly unkillable in prolonged team fights oncefarmed.

Tops Pos 2 with 50.79% meta-score on a massive 1,238-game sample, the highest pickrate in the position at 9.29%. His spell versatility allows adaptation to any game state, providing control, damage, and utility from the mid lane throughout all phases.

Posts exceptional 51.21% meta-score on 283 offlane games, converting the jungle-adjacent offlane into rapid Blink and Black King Bar timings. Black Hole remains one of the game's most devastating teamfight ultimates, and Demonic Conversion provides pushing power and farming speed.

Secures 50.65% meta-score on 800 games with solid 4.64% pickrate. Astral Spirit provides safe lane harass and scouting, while Earth Splitter and Natural Order devastate armor/magic resistance, making him a premier offlane teamfighter against tanky lineups.

Posts 50.65% meta-score across 800 Pos 5 games, providing unmatched wave clear through Illuminate and mana sustain via Chakra Magic. His kit enables defensive high-ground holds and accelerates allied farmer item timings through mana regeneration.

No longer in top 5 — pushed out by stronger picks this patch.

No longer in top 5 — pushed out by stronger picks this patch.

No longer in top 5 — pushed out by stronger picks this patch.

No longer in top 5 — pushed out by stronger picks this patch.

No longer in top 5 — pushed out by stronger picks this patch.

No longer in top 5 — pushed out by stronger picks this patch.

No longer in top 5 — pushed out by stronger picks this patch.

No longer in top 5 — pushed out by stronger picks this patch.

No longer in top 5 — pushed out by stronger picks this patch.

No longer in top 5 — pushed out by stronger picks this patch.

No longer in top 5 — pushed out by stronger picks this patch.

No longer in top 5 — pushed out by stronger picks this patch.

No longer in top 5 — pushed out by stronger picks this patch.

No longer in top 5 — pushed out by stronger picks this patch.

No longer in top 5 — pushed out by stronger picks this patch.

No longer in top 5 — pushed out by stronger picks this patch.

No longer in top 5 — pushed out by stronger picks this patch.