As always we start with All Events (AE) and further down we have Rated Singles Events (RSE).
It's a weird in-between time where we wait for the (delayed into July) big character update and where some people and Events still use the former Crisis Rotation while some already use the new one.
All Events:
SHIELD has been dominating for some time now mostly relying Namor, who stays unhealthy above 60% but in May Nick Fury also got back on track with an even higher win rate (in a fraction of the games played).
It's only 23 games but a 65% win rate before the update is impressive for Hellfire Club, the first big surprise of the month.
Convocation in the top 3 is not that big of a surprise for regular readers but going over 60% is not that common even for them.
Wakanda is back with a vengeance. King T absolutely dominated and M'Baku also got back on track. And even Killmonger Usurper won 4 of 6 games in May.
Rumours of the dead of Black Bolt were greatly exaggerated. He is back to old form storming back into the top 5 overall for the Inhumans, despite below 50% months for Maximus and Medusa.
What the hell happened with Avengers? Close to 500 games and fantastic results from all four leaders were not expected at all after the continued bad months before this.
Good performances from both relevant Hydra leaders in close to 100 overall games.
Midnight Sons crawl out of the Shadows with a real Comeback month and even Elsa Bloodstone performing well above her (very low) average.
I'm pretty sure Dark Dimension misses the top 10 for the first time since Dormammu got his update in November 25. They still stayed positive though.
Kingpin who absolutely dominated the play rate for Criminal Syndicate had a good, but not great month this time around and received very little help from MODOK and especially Shadowland Daredevil.
Cabal apparently only had four of the five leaders record any games in May and Kang was absolutely the driving factor of the Affiliation and also the most successful.
Guardians of the Galaxy were immensely popular with Adam Warlock alone recording over 300 games played and being above 50% but Star-Lord could not hang with those numbers dragging the Affiliation overall down to a flat 50%.
Bastion is instrumental in bringing the Sentinels to over 250 games played but could not quite reach 50% himself, while Sentinel Prime MK4 could.
A-Force didn't have a great but also not a terrible month.
Professor X could play in the big leagues with X-Men but his students Storm and especially Cyclops will not let him (even if they improved a bit).
After their Mighty start Mighty Avengers have lost a lot of steam lately. Play rate is still relatively high but the win rate has dropped about 10 percent from their release.
Almost half of the few Weapon X games were played without the leadership (AtB Jaime approves) but it did make much of a difference either way.
If anyone has anything new to say about X-Force be sure to let me know...
Very sad to see Spider-Foes, many people's first affiliation nowadays with the excellent Starter Set, and also the one with the best average in sculpts so low.
Black Order also has to hope the Character updates will do something for them even if none of them are on the Rerelease schedule making it much less likely to receive anything else than pure Stamina buffs.
Unaffiliated is dead last where it belongs 🙂
I don't usually include the played crisises in these articles but for this month I think it's pretty interesting living in these in between times:
High numbers for soon to be gone Deadly Legacy Virus, Fear Grips and Montessi Formular.
The 20s (Scoundrels and Wedding Party), even though very different are both very popular.
You can absolutely expect your game to go 4 rounds but be aware that a good portion of them already ended after 3 (which is too short in my opinion) and about as much went to 5. A small margin went to 6 and the rest are statistical outliers.
Rated Singles Events (RSE):
Bow before the White Queen of the Hellfire Club. Sure 19 games is not a relevant amount but going 14:5 in those is a statement anyway. Someone must've found a very good working list there.
I hate you too Namor (and yes Pizza is life). He continues to absolutely dominate and Nick Fury, who enjoys being well above the curve for a bit longer with the delayed updates does his job extremely well when called upon (and so did iTony for that matter).
SimsalaBam! Convocation didn't reach 100 RSE games but they won an incredible 46 of their 75.
Black Bolt rocking numbers like it's 2025 scratching 70% wins and only Maximus keeps the Inhumans at least a little bit in check.
Good numbers in few games for the New Mutants.
60% win rate you say? Miles Morales can play that game as well. And Web of the Spider-Verse and even ASM don't follow too far behind with good months on their own rights.
A fantastic overall month for the Avengers. Everyone performed very well and the play rate was high.
Wakanda had a comeback in win rate even if play rate was extremely low in RSE for them.
Limited games but good success for Hydra in RSE as well.
Sentinels make the top 10 in RSE and both leaders have better numbers here than in AE.
The resurgence of the Midnight Sons proves not to be an AE fluke but also holds true in RSE.
Rank 12 is very unusually low for Servants of the Apocalypse but they still sit well above 50% anyway.
Kingpin had an even better month in RSE and is the only really relevant leader for Criminal Syndicate in competitive games at the moment it seems.
Mighty Avengers fared a lot better in RSE than in AE and were able to stay just above 50%.
Dark Dimension held on to exactly 50% which still is their worst performance since Dormammus buff.
Kang has clearly taken over Cabal as their main leader and leads the charge with an above 50% win rate.
Asgards best affiliated 5 threat Thor, Prince of Asgard had a good month going above 50% but Loki and Jane couldn't support him well enough for the Affiliation overall to get over the mark eben if neither was completely terrible.
Almost 400 games for the Affiliation with the best comics and movies (even though the movies are bad representations of the actual characters) but Star-Lord struggled a bit and Adam Warlock was only perfectly average, leaving them below 50%.
The majority of A-Force games in May were played in RSE but it didn't change much about the average win percentage for them.
Defenders once again super popular but not able to turn it into consistent success.
It's closer in RSE than in AE but Professor X remains the best leader for the X-Men.
X-Force is closer to the X-Men in RSE at least so there's that I guess?
Winter Guard awaits being relevant again.
A sad month in RSE for Brotherhood of Mutants and Spider-Foes alike.
Thralls of Dracula have their worst RSE month yet, Weapon X lost 2/3 of their very few RSE games, Legion of the Lost didn't have many games nor wins and Black Order was beyond terrible.
That's it for today.
Cheers from Germany 🍻
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