Season 9 ended with one hero clear at the top of each role, and all three finished above 56 percent. Mantis closed as the strongest hero in the game at 57.32 percent, Magik led Duelist at 56.23, and Peni Parker led Vanguard at 56.20.
Everything below is shrunk win rate from Season 9 community data through the final weeks of the season, Standard mode, all ranks, all game types, aggregated across maps. The shrink pulls thin samples toward the middle so a hero with a few hundred matches cannot fluke onto a list. Season 10 begins on September 11, so these are the closing numbers on The Mystery of Thebes, set against the four-week snapshot published in early August.
Vanguard
- Peni Parker, 56.20% over ~63,000 matches
- The Hood, 53.72% over ~120,100 matches
- The Thing, 52.54% over ~90,300 matches
- Bruce Banner, 51.47% over ~51,800 matches
- Thor, 51.45% over ~64,600 matches
Peni Parker held first from the four-week read to the end, though she came down from 56.97 percent as the sample filled in. The Hood is the real change here, absent from the early five and finishing second on roughly 120,100 matches, which is a big enough sample that the number is not a small-population artifact. The Thing and Thor each slipped a place, Bruce Banner held fourth, and Venom fell out of the five to seventh at 51.14 percent.
Duelist
- Magik, 56.23% over ~72,000 matches
- Storm, 55.50% over ~33,100 matches
- Blade, 53.10% over ~42,600 matches
- Iron Fist, 52.96% over ~44,300 matches
- Hela, 52.68% over ~78,200 matches
Magik and Storm traded places since the early snapshot, and the two of them still sit more than two points clear of the rest of the role. Storm carries the smallest sample of anyone in the five at roughly 33,100 matches, so hers is the number with the most room left in it. Blade and Hela held their ranks, Iron Fist climbed in at fourth, and Black Panther dropped out to seventh at 52.56 percent.
Strategist
- Mantis, 57.32% over ~81,700 matches
- Ultron, 54.37% over ~45,000 matches
- Rocket Raccoon, 54.26% over ~115,600 matches
- Jubilee, 51.06% over ~246,800 matches
- White Fox, 49.73% over ~145,900 matches
Support kept the same five heroes from the four-week read to the finish, and the only movement inside it was Ultron and Rocket Raccoon swapping second and third by a tenth of a point. It is also the most top heavy role in the game, with a drop of more than three points from Rocket Raccoon in third to Jubilee in fourth, and White Fox taking fifth while still under 50 percent. Jubilee logged roughly 246,800 matches, more than any other hero in the season, and settled at 51.06 percent.
What these numbers do not cover
Win rate is not the same as strength in a coordinated match, and an aggregate across every rank flattens picks that only work in one band. What the data does support is that Season 9 closed with a single clear leader in each role and a thin second tier under each of them, and that the top of Vanguard and Duelist moved considerably more over the back half of the season than Strategist did.
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