The best Deadlock hero has a whopping 93% pick rate, and it's wiping the floor thanks to its "low skill ceiling" and huge area-of-effect attacks

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Seven has won a staggering 58.93% of all matches played

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The meta surrounding Valve's Deadlock is slowly coming into focus, and one character has a 93% win rate among closed beta players.

As first reported by PC Gamer, a new website called Tracklock just recently launched, letting you view ongoing trends for Deadlock's characters. You can view things like a character's pick rate among matches, their total win percentage of matches played, and their total wins and matches played to date. You can even change the date range of the stats pulled from Deadlock for more minute character analysis. 

Right now, while Deadlock is still very much in early access, Seven's success appears to hinge on his ability to harm multiple enemy players at once with his electric-based area-of-effect attacks. The Storm Cloud ability, for example, forms a cloud which deals 124 damage per second to every enemy caught in its radius, while Power Surge lets your attacks bounce between enemies for 10 seconds. 

There's even a post on the Deadlock subreddit exclaiming at how wild the character's pick and win rates are. The original post author theorizes that Seven's high pick rate is down to his "low skill ceiling" and the fact that he can "impact the game a lot," and right now at least, that appears to be a sentiment that a lot of Deadlock players agree with. 

"He's my crutch," reads one comment, while another commenter argues that Seven would be "a good character without his [Ultimate] at all," because it's effectively "busted for damage." Even a Seven main appears in the comments, writing that he's "still excellent especially in base fights, his jungle clear is very good for flash farming," and "his stun got buffed like crazy while being point and click."

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Hirun Cryer
Hirun Cryer
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Hirun Cryer is a freelance reporter and writer with Gamesradar+ based out of U.K. After earning a degree in American History specializing in journalism, cinema, literature, and history, he stepped into the games writing world, with a focus on shooters, indie games, and RPGs, and has since been the recipient of the MCV 30 Under 30 award for 2021. In his spare time he freelances with other outlets around the industry, practices Japanese, and enjoys contemporary manga and anime.