North American Dota Challengers League Premiere Season 3 report

Published: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/b8xjg9/north_american_dota_challengers_league_premiere/

Spectral stats guy here. This post is based on data collected during season 3 of NADCL (didn’t see that one coming, huh?)

A note from PPD about NADCL:

We currently do not have any plans for a fourth season of @NADCLeague at the moment. It is possible that the league returns for a fourth season after TI9.

Our discord will remain open for chatting about games, dota, team recruitment, and news about NA qualifiers/tournaments.

Happy to make this happen. I hope it was helpful.

Shoutout to everyone who competed, casted, produced, watched, chatted in our discord, and enjoyed NADCL. I truly believe this is an important and necessary project.

– http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sqrmr7

It sure was a fun experience.

Full report - 7.21d first week trends - Spectral Stats Hub - Nerds Hero Builds project

Premiere

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Records

Record Match Value Player Hero
GPM 4521462004 994 MOIST.Quasimoto Alchemist
XPM 4489494486 1,024 Fbyte.OFF !!! Weaver
Kills 4589330324 32 EOOD.adz Ember Spirit
Deaths 4589330324 21 tth.empyreaN Nyx Assassin
Assists 4484615956 42 S=B.clutch Grimstroke
KDA with 0 deaths 4517318618 33 SRHO.Pishtya Razor
KDA with 1+ deaths 4585354052 41 tsukuyomi Juggernaut
Gold Earned 4597312839 60,978 BB.Rusy Monkey King
Last hits 4597312839 770 BB.Rusy Monkey King
Damage to heroes 4552368016 117,563 WD.W.Stealer.e Lina
Damage to buildings 4497684117 20,533 TA.2nerla Leshrac
Hero healing 4544541858 22,814 bs.Bloody Nine Necrophos
Damage taken from heroes 4551832378 92,024 XOLOTL.esk Huskar
Observer wards placed 4597312839 35 MEEP.God is Here LibTards Vengeful Spirit
Sentries placed 4589330324 71 EOOD.Husky Undying
Obs Wards destroyed 4454871256 11 THD.awsl Bane
Map pings 4585307637 370 MOIST.eve(HAPPY) Undying
Stuns 4552368016 435.00 KFT.KillyGod Underlord
Couriers killed by a player 4540414402 4 TCO.Fat fuck Bounty Hunter

Heroes

Overview

Heroes by rank

Hero Matches Contest Rate Rank Matches Picked Winrate Picked Matches Banned Winrate Banned
Necrophos 57 17.59% 100.00 31 74.19% 26 61.54%
Juggernaut 218 67.28% 99.14 86 53.49% 132 54.55%
Viper 258 79.63% 98.28 62 46.77% 196 54.08%
Troll Warlord 194 59.88% 97.41 86 50.00% 108 58.33%
Nature’s Prophet 178 54.94% 96.55 54 53.70% 124 54.03%
Pangolier 239 73.77% 95.69 64 51.56% 175 50.86%
Lifestealer 278 85.80% 94.83 46 45.65% 232 50.86%
Bane 97 29.94% 93.97 66 59.09% 31 48.39%
Batrider 98 30.25% 93.10 47 61.70% 51 49.02%
Lycan 71 21.91% 92.24 30 66.67% 41 51.22%

Most picked and banned

Picks | Bans

Hero Matches Picked Winrate Picked   Hero Matches Banned Winrate Banned
Shadow Shaman 93 47.31%   Lifestealer 232 50.86%
Juggernaut 86 53.49%   Viper 196 54.08%
Troll Warlord 86 50.00%   Pangolier 175 50.86%
Oracle 82 48.78%   Ursa 158 44.94%
Leshrac 70 58.57%   Juggernaut 132 54.55%

First stage of draft

Picks | Bans

Hero Matches Picked Winrate Picked   Hero Matches Banned Winrate Banned
Oracle 62 48.39%   Lifestealer 173 50.29%
Shadow Shaman 58 50.00%   Pangolier 152 51.97%
Lich 54 51.85%   Viper 138 55.80%
Grimstroke 53 41.51%   Nature’s Prophet 113 54.87%
Leshrac 47 51.06%   Grimstroke 99 46.46%

This section is sorted by deviation - number of matches played over expected value. Full table is available here

Heroes Matches Winrate Expected matches Deviation Same lane rate  
Doom + Grimstroke 18 44.44% 6.520 11.480 63.78% 50.00%
Dark Seer + Oracle 14 50.00% 5.568 8.432 60.23% 7.14%
Juggernaut + Lich 17 52.94% 8.759 8.241 48.47% 70.59%
Troll Warlord + Oracle 18 44.44% 10.883 7.117 39.54% 72.22%
Lich + Monkey King 12 50.00% 5.398 6.602 55.02% 41.67%
Juggernaut + Rubick 13 61.54% 6.636 6.364 48.96% 15.38%

I suggest you to avoid meta graph for now. It doesn’t work as intended, gonna fix it in a couple of weeks.

Hero positions

Safelane Core Midlane Core Offlane Core Support
Troll Warlord (20, 35.00%) Razor (20, 60.00%) Brewmaster (15, 40.00%) Oracle (35, 65.71%)
Phantom Assassin (18, 33.33%) Outworld Devourer (17, 70.59%) Doom (14, 42.86%) Shadow Shaman (32, 53.13%)
Lifestealer (14, 57.14%) Viper (15, 46.67%) Dark Seer (12, 66.67%) Nyx Assassin (22, 72.73%)
Terrorblade (12, 58.33%) Shadow Fiend (11, 36.36%) Ursa (12, 50.00%) Bane (22, 40.91%)
Ursa (11, 45.45%) Death Prophet (10, 60.00%) Enigma (12, 66.67%) Disruptor (22, 45.45%)

Players

Notable participants

Notable matches

Full report is available here

Immortal Rank Meta Trends - a week into 7.21d

Spectral Stats Hub

Nerds Hero Builds project

Thanks to OpenDota and Stratz for their awesome APIs.