Top Ladder Stats (2025-06)

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Alpe

Last updated: 2025-07-12

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• Created: 2025-07-12

Page contents:

• About Season Stats
• Top 10 Players
• Deck Variety
• Most Popular Decks
• Tower Troops
• Evolutions
• Evolution Unlock Rate
• Evolutions VS Normal Cards
• Champions
• Spells
• Buildings
• Win Conditions
• Checks and Balances
• Recent Balances
• All Cards
• Top 20 Countries

About Season Stats

The Path of Legends (PoL) leaderboard is a great place to consistently find the best players and to see how they adapt to the meta. The first Monday of every month, the season ends and a new one begins. While players are competing to reach the top, we are tracking their results and deck choices.

With this blog, we present a summary and a few insights of all the data that we collected during the last days of the season, with a focus on the decks that players used to obtain their final rank.

Stats Format Basics

These stats are based on the decks and card collections of the best players, the ones who finished among the top 1,000 players in Path of Legends.

Over this blog, we'll look at card stats with tables that use the following format:

• Usage refers to the share of players who used the card in their main deck. This stat is paired with a change %, which is the difference when compared to last season's usage.
• Average Rank is the mean of all the placements from players who used this card. The center point is 500, so if the value is below 500, it means the card is quite good.
• Have It Maxed refers to the share of players who have that card at Level 15, which is the ideal level to compete in PoL. The companion bar chart also shows the amount of players who have this card at Level 14 (in light blue). If the light blue range is wide, it implies that a lot of players don't consider this card worthy to spend Elite Wild Cards on it, because EWCs are a scarce resource.
• Usage/Maxed (U/M) shows the amount of players who use a card from those that have it maxed. Some cards can be harder to unlock and level up, so usage may not be a good indicator if it's being held down by other factors. It's also relevant to know that every season boosts a few cards, which allows players to use them without the need to level them up.

Win Rate VS Rank

Due to the nature of the ladder system, card win rates aren't useful to understand the strength of a card. We think a mix of the stats listed above can paint a more accurate picture of the state of each card.

The main reason for this is that system which are based in score matchmaking aims to pair players with others of similar strength. If the amount of battles played is sufficient, the score of the player stabilises, leading to a win rate of ~50%.

Better players stabilise at higher scores than worse players, but in the long term, the winrate becomes similar. This causes this metric to be fairly irrelevant when compared to rank and usage.

Top 10 Players

These were the main decks used by the Top 10 players of the season.

#1 - 🇪🇬 Mohamed Light (4,161)

#2 - 🇰🇷 Ijihu (4,126)

#3 - 🇧🇷 Samuel Bassotto (4,124)

#4 - 🇮🇱 Betfas (4,115)

#5 - 🇸🇦 Rakan (4,104)

#6 - 🇪🇬 Mohamed Light (4,104)

#7 - 🇲🇦 Simo (4,101)

#8 - 🇸🇾 Osama (4,093)

#9 - 🇵🇪 JoelRS (4,090)

#10 - 🇯🇵 Guriko (4,087)

Deck Variety

Across the top 1K leaderboard, there are many kinds of players. Some regularly use the same deck, regardless of the meta (one-tricks), others like to create their own for each meta, and others run with the most popular decks of the leaderboard.

This chart compares deck variety with previous seasons. In the first category, you find decks that are unique in the leaderboard.

Moving to the right, each group represents a different threshold of deck popularity. In the last category, you can see the amount of players using decks with more than 20 users.

Most Popular Decks

The 10 most popular decks of the leaderboard were:

#1 - 35 Uses (#456 Average Rank)

#2 - 27 Uses (#440 Average Rank)

#3 - 22 Uses (#476 Average Rank)

#4 - 20 Uses (#542 Average Rank)

#5 - 20 Uses (#437 Average Rank)

#6 - 17 Uses (#595 Average Rank)

#7 - 15 Uses (#448 Average Rank)

#8 - 14 Uses (#532 Average Rank)

#9 - 13 Uses (#442 Average Rank)

#10 - 12 Uses (#558 Average Rank)

Tower Troops

• Royal Chef becomes the worst Tower Troop, both in usage and average rank.

• Dagger Duchess loses her lead and is now on par with Tower Princess.

Previous Season Stats

Evolutions

• Evolved Inferno Dragon scores #11 in evolution usage during the first season, with 7% usage.
• Evolved Cannon jumps to the top with the highest usage increase among evolutions, but has a below-average rank.
• Evolved Witch and Ice Spirit have significant decreases in popularity, dropping from #2 to #5 and from #1 to #19 respectively.
• Evolved Wizard had the best average rank, but very little usage.
• This season 1 player used a 1-evo deck, and no players had 0-evos.
• Firecracker was the worst evolution among those with relevant usage.

Top 3 evolutions:

1. Giant Snowball
2. Tesla
3. Bats

Previous Season Stats

Evolution Unlock Rate

Evolutions are arguably the most challenging progression limitation for players who don't purchase Pass Royale regularly. This means they are also a great indicator for seasonal revenue from the competitive players.

Over time, players find evolution shards through other means, so older evolutions lose that strong correlation with Pass Royale purchases. To avoid that, it's best to keep comparisons to very recent evolutions from the last 2 seasons.

Monetisation performance of recent evolutions:

• Executioner (S70): 31% on release
• Witch (S71): 40% on release
• Inferno Dragon (S72): 40%

Inferno Dragon matches the buyer share of last season, which was the best out of recent seasons. This evolution isn't as versatile as Witch (last season), so this could point towards a trend of better monetisation results.

Previous Season Stats

Evolutions VS Normal Cards

Comparing evolutions to their normal cards is a great way to see how relevant each evolution ability actually is.

If we also look at the usage of the normal card, we can get a better sense of their place in the meta, helping us answer:

• Is the normal card strong and usable by itself?
• Is the evolution necessary and what makes it strong?

Several evolutions take this to an extreme, where the normal card is completely unused and only the Evolution has usage. For these cases, it seems fair to argue that the normal card has been weakened so that the evolution buff turns it into a balanced one.

It seems incompatible to have both the normal card and the evolution in a balanced state, at least as long as the evolution provides a relevant advantage.

What is LUR?

This chart introduces a new stat: Log-based Usage Ratio (LUR). This is a value that directly compares the usage of an Evolution with the usage of it's normal variant.

$$\mathsf{LUR}={\log }_{10}\left(\frac{\mathsf{Evolution}\mathsf{Usage}}{\mathsf{Normal}\mathsf{Card}\mathsf{Usage}}\right)$$

The basic way to read it is:

• A positive value means that the Evolution is more popular
• A negative value means that the Normal Card is more popular

The logarithm is simply used to translate this ratio into a simpler number that's easier to read. E.g.:

• LUR=1: Evolution is used 10x more
• LUR=2: Evolution is used 100x more

Cards that have been completely overshadowed by their evolutions:

• Witch
• Archers
• Goblin Giant
• Royal Recruits
• Electro Dragon
• Wizard

Most unappealing evolutions compared to their counterparts:

1. Goblin Drill
2. Skeletons
3. Ice Spirit

Previous Season Stats

Champions

Champions are always an interesting category because they exclude each other in decks. But players don't always have a Champion in their deck, so that's why "No Champion" is listed as well.

• No significant changes in usage for specific Champions, but most of them have increased their usage slightly. This resulted in a significant reduction of no-Champion decks.

• Boss Bandit remains with average stats despite vocal complaints from the community.

• Golden Knight remains the best Champion among those with relevant usage.

Previous Season Stats

Spells

• Lightning was very popular during the Evolved Witch release, and now had a significant usage decrease.

• The Log remains as the most popular spell, by far.

• Like last season, Rocket stands out with a great average rank, even if it wasn't very popular.

Previous Season Stats

Buildings

This is a new section requested by one of our readers. We decided to show all the buildings, offensive and defensive, even if some cards like Goblin Drill may seem a bit out of place.

• There were 43.6% of decks without any buildings at all.

Win Conditions

Win Conditions are one of the best ways to look at archetype performance. Unlike support cards, which can fit in several archetypes, these are the core cards that define them.

• No Win Conditions had a significant usage increase, which is usually indicative of a balanced meta.

Top 3 Win Conditions:

1. Giant
2. Evolved Battle Ram
3. X-Bow

Previous Season Stats

Checks and Balances

The start of the season introduced balance changes, what was their outcome?

Balance Changes

• Most of the nerfs resulted in usage reduction, expect for the Boss Bandit one.

• The buffs to Cannon Cart and Goblin Demolisher had significant effects.

• Evolved Wizard, Little Prince, Hunter and Rune Giant remain mostly irrelevant despite the buffs. The first two of these have very good average ranks, so the effect of the buff may need more time to appeal players.

Recent Balances

The balances for next season were already announced, so we can take a look at their current stats.

Balance Changes

• As expected, this shows higher usages for the cards that were targeted with nerfs.

All Cards

This data can be used as long as we are properly credited as the source.

Data Dump

#		Card	Usage	Rank
1		Tower Princess	73.8%	495
2		The Log	38.6%	494
3		Skeletons	26.9%	481
4		Arrows	23.7%	520
5		Barbarian Barrel	18.6%	499
6		Ice Spirit	18.0%	527
7		Goblin Gang	16.2%	535
8		Miner	16.2%	416
9		Lightning	15.6%	495
10		Guards	15.5%	494
11		Electro Spirit	15.3%	498
12		Fireball	15.1%	484
13		Evolved Cannon	13.2%	532
14		Poison	12.5%	486
15		Cannoneer	12.2%	520
16		Knight	12.1%	480
17		Tornado	11.7%	502
18		Evolved Zap	11.5%	470
19		Ice Wizard	10.9%	482
20		Spear Goblins	10.8%	461
21		Evolved Wall Breakers	10.7%	518
22		Evolved Knight	10.6%	534
23		Graveyard	10.3%	547
24		Evolved Witch	10.3%	542
25		Evolved Bats	10.2%	457
26		Hog Rider	10.1%	539
27		Rage	10.1%	506
28		Fisherman	9.7%	476
29		Mighty Miner	9.7%	517
30		Dagger Duchess	9.1%	495
31		Balloon	8.9%	484
32		Royal Ghost	8.4%	447
33		Goblin Curse	8.3%	524
34		Goblin Hut	8.1%	500
35		Evolved Tesla	8.1%	433
36		Boss Bandit	7.5%	473
37		Evolved Valkyrie	7.1%	481
38		Giant	7.0%	437
39		Evolved Archers	7.0%	494
40		Bomber	6.9%	487
41		Evolved Goblin Barrel	6.8%	522
42		Inferno Dragon	6.8%	502
43		Bandit	6.7%	472
44		Golden Knight	6.7%	458
45		Evolved Giant Snowball	6.7%	422
46		Evolved Dart Goblin	6.7%	531
47		Earthquake	6.6%	547
48		Rocket	6.5%	423
49		Evolved Royal Giant	6.4%	471
50		Princess	6.3%	537
51		Skeleton King	6.3%	510
52		Cannon Cart	6.2%	431
53		Evolved Barbarians	6.2%	485
54		Evolved Firecracker	6.0%	609
55		Zap	5.9%	501
56		Prince	5.8%	528
57		Evolved Goblin Giant	5.8%	529
58		Evolved Skeletons	5.7%	546
59		Evolved Ice Spirit	5.6%	448
60		Evolved Battle Ram	5.6%	444
61		Ice Golem	5.5%	497
62		X-Bow	5.5%	461
63		Monk	5.5%	460
64		Mega Minion	5.4%	440
65		Evolved Mortar	5.3%	461
66		Evolved Executioner	5.0%	446
67		Electro Wizard	4.9%	508
68		Archer Queen	4.9%	533
69		Royal Chef	4.9%	540
70		Evolved Lumberjack	4.8%	529
71		Bowler	4.6%	524
72		Cannon	4.6%	518
73		Giant Snowball	4.6%	492
74		Evolved P.E.K.K.A	4.5%	518
75		Evolved Royal Recruits	4.4%	586
76		Goblin Machine	4.1%	559
77		Bomb Tower	4.0%	459
78		Evolved Goblin Cage	4.0%	551
79		Elixir Collector	3.8%	531
80		Fire Spirit	3.8%	586
81		Lava Hound	3.8%	504
82		Heal Spirit	3.8%	475
83		Royal Hogs	3.7%	563
84		Baby Dragon	3.6%	500
85		Goblin Drill	3.5%	530
86		Skeleton Dragons	3.3%	527
87		Mother Witch	3.3%	580
88		Evolved Bomber	3.2%	446
89		Suspicious Bush	3.1%	561
90		Evolved Musketeer	3.1%	444
91		Goblinstein	3.0%	512
92		Evolved Hunter	2.9%	462
93		Minions	2.8%	527
94		Sparky	2.8%	516
95		Dark Prince	2.7%	489
96		Electro Giant	2.6%	600
97		Freeze	2.5%	467
98		Night Witch	2.5%	574
99		Inferno Tower	2.4%	569
100		Ram Rider	2.3%	364
101		Evolved Electro Dragon	2.3%	604
102		Skeleton Barrel	2.2%	680
103		Flying Machine	2.1%	570
104		Goblins	2.1%	542
105		Elixir Golem	2.1%	568
106		Royal Delivery	2.1%	490
107		Goblin Demolisher	2.1%	513
108		Inferno Dragon	2.0%	494
109		Evolved Mega Knight	2.0%	543
110		Wall Breakers	1.9%	427
111		Berserker	1.9%	596
112		Dart Goblin	1.8%	578
113		Musketeer	1.8%	591
114		Tombstone	1.7%	565
115		Firecracker	1.7%	468
116		Skeleton Army	1.6%	530
117		Mini P.E.K.K.A	1.5%	476
118		Elite Barbarians	1.4%	642
119		Magic Archer	1.3%	430
120		Giant Skeleton	1.2%	557
121		Golem	1.2%	572
122		Battle Healer	1.2%	698
123		Minion Horde	1.1%	386
124		Rascals	1.1%	736
125		Evolved Wizard	1.1%	343
126		Battle Ram	1.0%	334
127		Zappies	1.0%	622
128		Phoenix	1.0%	606
129		Bats	0.9%	673
130		Little Prince	0.9%	381
131		Mega Knight	0.8%	544
132		Lumberjack	0.7%	560
133		P.E.K.K.A	0.7%	310
134		Mortar	0.4%	133
135		Royal Giant	0.4%	612
136		Tesla	0.4%	528
137		Valkyrie	0.4%	483
138		Void	0.4%	492
139		Three Musketeers	0.3%	764
140		Evolved Goblin Drill	0.3%	783
141		Executioner	0.2%	579
142		Hunter	0.2%	571
143		Mirror	0.2%	649
144		Barbarians	0.1%	668
145		Clone	0.1%	739
146		Goblin Barrel	0.1%	878
147		Goblin Cage	0.1%	901
148		Rune Giant	0.1%	630
149		Archers	0.0%	-
150		Barbarian Hut	0.0%	-
151		Electro Dragon	0.0%	-
152		Furnace	0.0%	-
153		Goblin Giant	0.0%	-
154		Royal Recruits	0.0%	-
155		Witch	0.0%	-
156		Wizard	0.0%	-

Top 20 Countries

This leaderboard sorts countries based on the amount of players in the Top 1,000.

The amount of players for each country is displayed in the "Count" column; to the right, you can see a ±value, which is the change compared to last season.

Signature Cards are cards which were disproportionately used in the region when compared to the global average. The 5 displayed cards are sorted, meaning that the first card is the Top 1 signature card. Usually signature cards hint towards a specific archetype that is unusually popular in the country.

Previous Season Stats

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