What roles do you play in Draft

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What are your set Role Preferences and which Role has what percentage of your Draft games?

Here’s mine (for solo Q (HL+SL)):
I’m queueing as Flex for ranked

  • 37% as Tank
  • 30% as Bruiser (these two are actually blurry because I played Bruisers as tanks and Tanks as bruisers)
  • 19% Healer
  • 14% Assa (Ranged mostly, but Melee are also in this)

If I have a choice I usually go for the sololane role, because that’s my most successful but it seems that if someone is willing for filling they need to peeling.

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40% healer
15% bruiser
15% tank
30% ranged

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Ha ha! We did the same thing at the same time, Karabars! I deleted mine, as we didn’t need the duplicate effort. Anyway, this is what I posted there.

Tank: 61%
Bruiser: 12%
Ranged assassin (ha!): 4%
Healer: 22%

As far as win rates are concerned, my two best roles are healer at 53% and tank at 52%. Granted, the stats for tank and bruiser are a little muddled, as I play Blaze in the offlane more than I play him as a tank, and I play Varian as a tank far more than I play him as a bruiser.

But based on these numbers, we can see what roles really are underrepresented given that I am usually the one to fill!

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I think I have 55% wr on Bruiser and 54% on Healer as my two best.

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I find the win rate thing particularly interesting, given all the people who always claim that you can only carry as an assassin. Given my personal win rates, I think if I tried to carry and climb as an assassin, I would be in Bronze by now. I find I have far more impact on a game as one of the lesser-represented roles.

Either that, or I am constantly getting carried by assassins…

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For SL, mostly solo Q:

Bruiser 69%
Tank 16%
Healer 7%
Ranged Assassin 7%

I’d play bruiser in the 4 man, but it’s not common.

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Set to ranged / flex.

This season:
27 tank, 59% winrate (wins mostly low silver)
12 bruiser, 42% winrate (Varian included)
51 ranged, 63% winrate (20:8 Tassadar)
9 melee, 33% winrate
33 healer, 45% winrate (7:2 Rehgar, 5:10 Li Li)
0 support

Lifetime SL:
142 tank, 52% winrate (40:28 Anub’arak, 23:21 Johanna
47 bruiser, 36% winrate (9:9 Xul, 7:10 Varian, 0:5 Sonya)
378 ranged, 52% winrate (71:47 Tassadar, 20:14 Orphea, 29:23 Jaina, 32:35 Valla
82 melee, 48% winrate (39:39 Qhira)
354 healer, 50% winrate (44:29 Rehgar, 21:21 Ana, 93:100 Li Li)
11 support, 27% winrate (3:8 Zarya)

Considering to drop flex. QM:
18 tank, 39% (4:8 Mei)
40 bruiser, 52% (7:5 Thrall, 6:6 Artanis, 6:7 DVa)
99 ranged, 59% (11:6 Orphea, 21:13 Nazeebo, 7:5 Kael, 7:5 Jaina, 6:6 Tass, 6:6 Mephisto)
1 melee, 100%
49 healer, 43% (8:5 Li Li, 6:7 Stukov, 4:5 Tyrande, 2:10 Ana)
3 support, 0%

Meh, I must love to type stats. Should have just copied Heroes Profile :smiley:

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Me thinks if you get the hang of a specific role and stick to it, you adapt its playstyle and become superior. I’ve seen a literally invincible Mei yesterday on stream and met a similarly durable Artanis today.

I absolutely enjoy tanking when we are on the same page with the team. Healing feels a bit like following the pack, though, can’t do anything but patch and support. It’s just rare.
I don’t know why my winrates shifted, did the community improve or I got worse overall. Not doing well on my old heroes and lost many in the reworks. Just found a few nice ones and they happen to be ranged assassins.

Did you recover your rank? :wink:

Also, I’d argue that bruisers and ranged assassins are equally strong, although in different ways obviously. It’s just when I see “their smurf was the healer, of course they lost”, it’s an implicit role judgment.

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Given that my most-played healer is Lucio, I would beg to differ. His healing output is probably the least important part of his kit. Yes, his speed buff is a support tool, but it absolutely turns fights around. When I play a healer, I try not to be nothing but a heal bot, but look for places I can peel or set up a kill. One of the friends I have been playing a lot of SL with recently is a Garrosh main, and Garrosh+Lucio is absurdly good. If I can’t speed him into range, he trusts me enough to just throw me at them so I can slow and boop them back into the killzone.

Sadly, not yet. My winrate has gotten better recently, but I am still far below where I was last season. The first half of this season was just horrendous. Ah well, I may get back up there one of these days!

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Nice.

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Am I blind? How can I see % played

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Look at total games for each role. Divide that by total games played.

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I’m not at home for a few hours for exact figures but I have an idea what I play the most!

The roles I play the most and have the most heroes I’m competent with are Tanks and Bruisers.

I like tanking but I like to mix it up. However tank seems to be the role that people pre pick the least in ranked so I usually end up doing it more than I’d like.

I went a time barely having any mage experience in ranked because everyone always pre picked a mage e.g. Li Ming, Kael, Azmo, Nazeebo instantly so I played auto attack ranged asassins quite a bit but I have a few mages to my name now.

I like playing all roles, healer is probably my least favourite but I don’t mind filling it as long as it’s not a few games in a row.

I think my best Winrates are on tanks but I’d have to check.

I agree with Hoku in that I think tanks make a big difference in the outcomes of matches and it’s very noticeable if there is a weaker tank on one team than the other.

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Support: 0.2%
Healer: 10%
Tank: 11%
Melee Assassin: 15%
Bruiser: 26%
Ranged Assassin: 37%

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I’m going to blindly guess 50-50 ranged assassin (specifically marksmen) and healer

If someone goes into my actual profile and check maybe they’ll find the real answer. Earlier seasons I definitely marksmaned more

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UD

SL

Don’t forget Tassadar games were moved from support role.

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Storm League Solo Q 355 games
Win ratio:

Bruiser : 63.5 %
Ranged Assasin; 70.0 %
Support : 74%

Play rate %
Tank: 5%
Bruiser: 35%
Ranged Assasin: 50%
Support 10%

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Those numbers do not add up to 100%

The original post is asking for play rate %, not win rate % of each role

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Storm League Solo Q Win Ratio:

  • Ranged Assassin: 45.3%
  • Bruiser: 35%
  • Tank: 8%
  • Support: 11%
  • Healer: 16%
  • Melee Assassin: 12%
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Can you please explain what you mean by win ratio? Are these individual winrates?