Ringmaster — win rate, matchups and best allies

Popular builds

A build is the first three key items a player bought, in any order, shown in the most common buying order. Win rate and how often it is played are shown under each, from matches with item timings.

Top 5 builds cover 20% of games that reach three key items

Selected build

Aether Lens → Blink Dagger → Glimmer Cape · 206 games · win rate 59.7%

Everything below follows the selected build.

Full build

From the starting items to the late game, in this build's games with the filters above. Each phase shows up to 3 combinations with win rate, games and share of the build's games; the most played is highlighted.

Most common path

1 · Starting items

0:00

47.8%23 · 11%
47.6%21 · 10%
84.6%13 · 6%

Bought before the horn.

2 · Early game

before the 1st key item

57.4%148 · 72%
64.6%48 · 23%

Finished items only: no components, consumables or Aghanim's Shard. Any order; shown in the most common one.

3 · Core

first 3 key items

59.6%47 · 23%
59.5%42 · 20%
67.5%40 · 19%

The build itself, in its most common buying orders.

4 · Late game

next 3 items after the core

58.1%31 · 15%
70.0%30 · 15%
72.4%29 · 14%

Any order, shown in the most common one. A game counts if it reached at least one of the items.

Situational items

Bought in at least 5% of this build's games and not on the most common path, sorted by win-rate change.

No item outside the most common path is bought in at least 5% of this build's games with 30 games on each side.

Win-rate change: win rate of the build's games with the item minus without it, in percentage points. At least 30 games on each side.

Skill order, levels 1–25

60.4% · 53 games with this order

Ability	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
Tame the Beasts		2	3		5		7
Escape Act				4								12		14	15
Impalement Arts	1							8	9	10
Wheel of Wonder						6							13					18
Talent											T					T				T					T
Attributes																	17		19		21	22	23	24

The most common order. Games count if they followed it for as long as they lasted, from 10 points on. Gold numbers: the levels where an ultimate point or a talent usually comes. T: a talent is taken here; the tree shows which.

Talents

Escape Act Grants Strong Dispel and Flying

69% · 63.9% · 721

+150 Wheel of Wonder Radius and Range

31% · 62.8% · 331

+75/+300 Tame the Beasts Min/Max Damage

75% · 63.4% · 2,677

+1s Impalement Arts Bleed and Slow Duration

25% · 59.5% · 871

Debuff Immunity While Channeling Tame the Beasts

67% · 59.4% · 133

Impalement Arts Penetrates One Target

34% · 62.7% · 67

+75 Tame the Beasts Radius

85% · 58.3% · 175

+1 Impalement Arts Charge

15% · 67.7% · 31

+2 to All Attributes · levels 17, 19, 21–24

Talents at 10, 15: the games of this build. Talents at 20, 25: all the hero's games at this rank and position, because this build has under 30 games on a side. Under each talent: how often it is picked, win rate, games. ★ the higher win rate we are 95% sure of, with at least 30 games on each side. Bar: how often each side is picked.

Neutral items

47.4% · 1,273

55.4% · 1,148

45.6% · 548

46.7% · 527

45.1% · 525

54.1% · 473

When to buy

Win rate depending on when the item was bought (first purchase, 5-minute windows). Earlier is usually better — this shows by how much.

Blink Dagger~27:49

10–15 min	▲ 69.2%	26
15–20 min	▲ 62.9%	421
20–25 min	▲ 59.1%	775
25–30 min	▲ 58.8%	809
30–35 min	▲ 53.8%	554
35–40 min	▲ 56.0%	298
40–45 min	▲ 61.8%	136
45–50 min	▲ 51.1%	45
50–55 min	▲ 56.5%	23
55–60 min	▼ 40.0%	5
60–65 min	▲ 50.0%	4

Bought before 25:00: 60.6% wins; later: 56.8%.

Aether Lens~27:33

10–15 min	▲ 67.6%	37
15–20 min	▲ 57.8%	481
20–25 min	▲ 52.6%	744
25–30 min	▲ 56.0%	623
30–35 min	▲ 54.9%	510
35–40 min	▲ 55.4%	276
40–45 min	▲ 56.9%	123
45–50 min	▲ 50.0%	52
50–55 min	▲ 55.2%	29
55–60 min	▲ 80.0%	5
60–65 min	▲ 75.0%	4
65–70 min	▲ 50.0%	2
70–75 min	▲ 100.0%	1

Bought before 25:00: 55.0% wins; later: 55.6%.

Glimmer Cape~26:30

10–15 min	▼ 45.5%	22
15–20 min	▲ 57.2%	442
20–25 min	▲ 50.3%	890
25–30 min	▼ 49.7%	732
30–35 min	▼ 44.9%	421
35–40 min	▼ 47.0%	200
40–45 min	▼ 48.1%	81
45–50 min	▲ 64.7%	34
50–55 min	▼ 33.3%	9
55–60 min	▲ 50.0%	2
60–65 min	▲ 50.0%	2

Bought before 25:00: 52.5% wins; later: 48.1%.

Rod of Atos~25:00

5–10 min	▲ 100.0%	1
10–15 min	▲ 53.2%	47
15–20 min	▲ 62.3%	658
20–25 min	▲ 55.0%	733
25–30 min	▲ 50.2%	418
30–35 min	▲ 53.3%	276
35–40 min	▲ 56.5%	154
40–45 min	▲ 51.5%	66
45–50 min	▲ 51.5%	33
50–55 min	▲ 72.7%	11
55–60 min	▼ 25.0%	4
60–65 min	▲ 100.0%	1

Bought before 25:00: 58.3% wins; later: 52.4%.

Eul's Scepter of Divinity~27:39

10–15 min	▼ 45.5%	11
15–20 min	▲ 58.4%	281
20–25 min	▲ 50.5%	620
25–30 min	▲ 55.0%	422
30–35 min	▲ 56.4%	298
35–40 min	▲ 56.9%	181
40–45 min	▲ 51.9%	79
45–50 min	▲ 55.8%	52
50–55 min	▲ 55.0%	20
55–60 min	▲ 54.5%	11
60–65 min	▼ 0.0%	1
65–70 min	▼ 0.0%	1
80–85 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 25:00: 52.9% wins; later: 55.3%.

Force Staff~28:11

10–15 min	▼ 30.0%	10
15–20 min	▲ 58.8%	187
20–25 min	▼ 46.5%	331
25–30 min	▲ 53.1%	352
30–35 min	▲ 53.0%	287
35–40 min	▲ 59.2%	147
40–45 min	▼ 49.2%	65
45–50 min	▼ 41.7%	24
50–55 min	▼ 14.3%	7
55–60 min	▼ 33.3%	3
65–70 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 25:00: 50.6% wins; later: 53.0%.

Aghanim's Scepter~38:54

15–20 min	▼ 0.0%	1
20–25 min	▲ 62.5%	32
25–30 min	▲ 74.5%	137
30–35 min	▲ 74.6%	248
35–40 min	▲ 65.6%	381
40–45 min	▲ 67.3%	278
45–50 min	▲ 58.2%	158
50–55 min	▲ 56.3%	71
55–60 min	▼ 45.0%	20
60–65 min	▲ 53.8%	13
65–70 min	▼ 25.0%	4
70–75 min	▼ 33.3%	3

Bought before 35:00: 73.4% wins; later: 63.3%.

Gleipnir~37:30

10–15 min	▲ 100.0%	1
20–25 min	▲ 80.8%	26
25–30 min	▲ 69.7%	119
30–35 min	▲ 67.9%	190
35–40 min	▲ 66.5%	179
40–45 min	▲ 64.3%	140
45–50 min	▲ 58.8%	85
50–55 min	▲ 64.7%	34
55–60 min	▼ 37.5%	8
60–65 min	▼ 28.6%	7
65–70 min	▲ 100.0%	2
70–75 min	▲ 50.0%	2

Bought before 35:00: 69.6% wins; later: 63.2%.