Wakanda takes the crown with fairytale win rates for both M'Baku and, as usual, King T (in a small amount of games). Classic Black Panther is a liability at this point and Killmonger, Usurper completely irrelevant. The number of games played with Wakanda also increased quite a bit again.
August: 2. +1
Servants of the Apocalypse steadily scratch at the 60% mark and September was no different in AE netting them the second place.
August: 4. +2
Black Bolt has the highest win rate of the top three factions main leaders and Inhumans are only brought down to number 3 by a bad month for Maximus.
August: 1. -2
August: 3. -1
With Elsa edging slowly closer to 50% and Blade having kind of a resurgence month Midnight Sons get into the top 5, which is by far their best rank of the year so far.
Augst: 16. +11
Convocation have seen an uptick in games played and done very well in them (including winning Carlcon played by Danny Modesto).
August: 9. +3
Scratching 600 games Avengers win the popularity award and all four leaders sit at least at 50%. Sam smashes every other leader in the game with an insane 70% win rate in quite a number of games and untypically Steve 1 sits below Steve 3.
August: 12. +5
Web Warriors games numbers are going to explode once the new packs are officially released but as we see people are already playing games with the new "leadership". And it hasn't worked out well so far. Multiple podcasts said it will break the game at worst and replace Miles' leadership at minimum because that is "only a defensive reroll" which is just plain false. The strength in Miles' leadership is the unlocking of Skulls which keeps the defensive rerolls relevant. Sure rolling a Skull under Spider-Verse gets you the place which is really really strong, but you can't place when you're dead. It's going to be better than what we see here eventually but it will not be the de facto leadership in my opinion.
August: 8. Same
Green Goblin has an enormous amount of games played while Doc Ock is barely relevant for the Spider-Foes anymore. Goblin also did better claiming a top 10 spot for the Foes.
August: 10. +1
I don't talk about unaffiliated, but maybe I should change that for next year 🤔
Almost 50 games is decent for New Mutants and a perfectly even 50/50 split is good, too.
August: 27. +16
Legion of the Lost for whom I just got the 10 games badge get to almost 100 games and the overall player base did better with them at 50% than I did at 30... Mephisto ist fun to play anyway.
August: 22. +10
If you prefer Dormammu as your evil overlord you've fared ever so slightly worse than LotL in almost exactly as many games.
August: 11. -2
An absolutely terrible month for Nick Fury drags SHIELD down to under 50% overall whereas Namor sits north of 60% which is firmly in the not OK collum (#banBattlefieldMedicine).
August: 5. -9
Defenders seems to find their grove with the leader mix and split the games 2/1 between Doctor Strange and Daredevil and both are perfectly average in terms of win rates.
August: 14. -1
Hydra has been decently popular but not super successful in September.
August: 6. -10
Guardians of the Galaxy are popular as ever but can't seem to get back into the above 50% win rate club. Adam Warlock will maybe change that? Here's hoping we see his card at Ministravaganza 25
August: 19. +2
Asgard remains popular but can't reach its highs from before the crisis rotation any more. Loki, who had dropped heavily at first seems to have found his footing again and emerges as the only above 50% win rate leader in September.
August: 13. -5
Brotherhood of Mutants scratch the 300 games mark but are pretty far from 50% overall, with Mystique being a lot closer. Their new box doesn't seem to have turned their fortunes around a whole lot, even though I think every model and TTC in there is good.
August: 15. -4
X-Force has finally lost players it seems with below 90 games played. Those that stayed were a bit better than what we've seen from the affiliation recently and at least got them to rank 20.
August: 23. +3
Usually high numbers of games played under Red Skull 1 (with little success) bring down the otherwise decent numbers for Cabal. I der RS3 they'd be in the top 10. And even Sin and Malekith aren't far from 50% at least.
August: 20. -1
Hellfire Club has somehow gained a big following again even before the coming updates to Emma, Mr. Sinister and hopefully also Omega Red and Shadow King. They weren't great but also not completely horrible in their games.
August: 25. +3
Sitting below all of Brotherhood, X-Force and Hellfire Club must not feel great for the X-Men who also join the 400 games played club. Professor X stays somewhat competitively relevant, Cyclops struggles and Storm leadership borders on unplayable in this day and age of the game apparently.
August: 18. -5
Thralls of Dracula win the popularity award of the three "everyone is in" affiliations but fared way worse than LotL and Dark Dimension.
August: 21. -3
Winter Guard almost double their usual number of games in a month but that didn't lead to more success sadly. They'll hope for my predicted updates at Ministravaganza to get some relevancy again.
August: 24. +2
A-Force hope that the upcoming Sensational She-Hulk is going to be a new leader option (or someone else entirely) because She-Hulk 1 is a decent 6 threat with low defenses and a very strong leadership that people want to get rid off and especially in lower threat games she can become a liability.
August: 7. -19
Interesting to see that Logan isn't really even considered an option as the leader of Weapon X (and neither of the other two James Logan Howletts either for that matter). More games played with the affiliation than I would have expected but still the bottom of the mutant teams who all aren't doing too hot, except for Servants of the Apocalypse of course.
August: 17. -10
I'm pretty sure Sentinels will see their updated cards in November but that won't be what gets them out of the cellar immediately. They are looking forward to four new models in early 2026 and that will do it.
August: 26. -2
Black Order needs a full rework at this point but they aren't on the re release schedule. They will hope the announced changes to the Infinity Gems will have a positive effect on them.
August: 28. -1
Rated Singles Events
Wakanda absolutely dominated in RSE. Without the 10 games of their bad leaders they would've ended with an above 60% win rate. And an even 60 is still insane.
August: 2. +1
Kingpin also sits at an not OK 60% win rate in RSE and Shadowland Daredevil helps him out with good numbers, too. Criminals were also very popular in September.
August: 3. +1
Someone must've found a lot of success in RSE with Legion of the Lost and got them into a surprise top 3 spot here.
August: 17. +14
The same can be said for New Mutants but at less than half the amount of games. Still impressive.
August: 26. +22
Inhumans are absolutely no surprise in the top 5 and Black Bolt even beats Kingpins numbers.
August: 1. -4
Blade posts top numbers again and Midnight Sons have their best RSE ranking of the year as a result.
August: 18. +12
Servants of the Apocalypse fell to rank 7 but they still win way more games than they loose.
August: 5. -2
Convocation are always floating around the 100 games and slightly above 50% mark. It's not an Affiliation for everyone but their dedicated fans definitely keep them relevant.
August: 8. Same
Sam Wilson had even better numbers in RSE than in AE which is kind of insane. Steve 1 was perfectly even and Steve 3 and Hulkbuster sit slightly below 50%. Overall a strong month for Avengers.
August: 9. Same
In RSE Spider-Verse has seen some success already while Miles absolutely still runs the show.
August: 4. -6
Weirdly in RSE Doc Ock, in a fraction of the games played, was more successful than Green Goblin for the Spider-Foes.
August: 12. +1
Dark Dimension is nowadays often as a splash affiliation but has also seen a decent number of games played and had done fine in them.
August: 14. +2
Daredevil doesn't see much play in RSE for the Defenders and Doctor Strange is more successful anyway in quite a number of games.
August: 16. +3
RSE appears to be more kind to Guardians of the Galaxy who end up closer to 50% here and are very popular, too.
August: 22. +8
Nick Fury and to a lesser extent Invincible Iron Man tank SHIELD when under Namor they'd be in the top 5.
August: 7. -8
Red Skull 2 did well for Hydra but Baron Strucker not so much.
August: 6. -10
A-Force had significantly better numbers in RSE than in AE in September so it's not like they can't win compete games.
August: 10. -7
Quite a resurgence in games played under Malekith in RSE and also Red Skull 1 with the c r t latter not helping the overall numbers of Cabal very much.
August: 15. -3
Not a lot of RSE games as is to be expected for Winter Guard.
August: 19. Same
A pretty terrible RSE month for Jane leadership and neither Loki nor Thor can balance that out enough to keep Asgard in the teens.
August: 11. -9
For Brotherhood of Mutants Magneto lost about two thirds of his games while Mystique was at least able to win almost half of hers.
August: 13. -8
It blows my mind that with 28 affiliations in the game people choose to play unaffiliated in RSE.
For their expected win rate Sentinels actually weren't too bad last month and importantly beat X-Men in the standings.
August: 27. +4
Without Cyclops and Storm weighing him down Professor X could have lead the X-Men to at least a spot on the top 20.
August: 20. -4
Thralls of Dracula were pretty popular in RSE with limited success.
August: 23. -2 is
And finally we have the "why bother competitively club" that I run out of things to say about.
Weapon X
August: 21. -5
Hellfire Club
August: 24. -3
X-Force
August: 25. -3
Black Order
August: Not Ranked (too few games played)
That's it for today.
Cheers from Germany 🍻
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