Top Ladder Stats (2025-07)

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Last updated: 2025-08-05

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• Created: 2025-08-05

Page contents:

• About Season Stats
• Top 10 Players
• Deck Variety
• Most Popular Decks
• Best Player By Win Condition
• 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 - 🇮🇱 Asaf (4,225)

#2 - 🇲🇦 Simo (4,211)

#3 - 🇲🇽 Cristian (4,178)

#4 - 🇺🇸 Ian77 (4,173)

#5 - 🇧🇷 LucasXGamer (4,170)

#6 - 🇲🇽 Jorge Luis (4,167)

#7 - 🇳🇮 Walter (4,167)

#8 - 🇰🇷 Star Light (4,166)

#9 - 🇲🇽 Betfas (4,165)

#10 - 🇫🇷 ChetiFLGod (4,161)

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.

Previous Season Stats

Most Popular Decks

The 10 most popular decks of the leaderboard were:

#1 - 54 Uses (#512 Average Rank)

#2 - 40 Uses (#481 Average Rank)

#3 - 27 Uses (#547 Average Rank)

#4 - 25 Uses (#507 Average Rank)

#5 - 17 Uses (#466 Average Rank)

#6 - 12 Uses (#475 Average Rank)

#7 - 12 Uses (#572 Average Rank)

#8 - 12 Uses (#450 Average Rank)

#9 - 11 Uses (#474 Average Rank)

#10 - 11 Uses (#545 Average Rank)

Best Player By Win Condition

This section is a list with the highest ranked player for each win condition, and all the decks are available below to copy into the game.

Some of the players run decks with dual win conditions, causing them to appear also multiple times in the leaderboard.

Evolved Wall Breakers - 🇮🇱 Asaf ( #1 )

Evolved Battle Ram - 🇲🇦 Simo ( #2 )

Ram Rider - 🇲🇽 Cristian ( #3 )

Hog Rider - 🇺🇸 Ian77 ( #4 )

Evolved Goblin Giant - 🇧🇷 LucasXGamer ( #5 )

Graveyard - 🇲🇽 Jorge Luis ( #6 )

Giant - 🇲🇽 Jorge Luis ( #6 )

Goblinstein - 🇳🇮 Walter ( #7 )

X-Bow - 🇲🇽 Betfas ( #9 )

Lava Hound - 🇨🇴 Husse ( #13 )

Suspicious Bush - 🇩🇪 Morten ( #17 )

Evolved Skeleton Barrel - 🇺🇸 Luminary ( #19 )

Evolved Mortar - 🇺🇸 Luminary ( #19 )

Balloon - 🇲🇽 Pompeyo ( #21 )

Goblin Drill - 🇪🇬 Mohamed Light ( #22 )

Evolved Royal Giant - 🇧🇷 Pedro ( #23 )

Royal Hogs - 🇧🇭 Saleh ( #31 )

Mortar - 🇷🇺 Egór ( #36 )

Evolved Goblin Barrel - 🇰🇷 Ijihu ( #37 )

Electro Giant - 🇩🇪 Eastreaver ( #39 )

Wall Breakers - 🇨🇦 Ryley ( #76 )

Battle Ram - 🇮🇷 Mohammad Reza ( #79 )

Golem - 🇨🇳 Gzx ( #110 )

Elixir Golem - 🇩🇪 Eulenkralle ( #278 )

Three Musketeers - 🇵🇪 Lrip ( #420 )

Goblin Barrel - 🇺🇸 TheDisciple ( #537 )

Skeleton Barrel - 🇯🇵 Tomuya ( #603 )

Royal Giant - 🇺🇸 Murr20 ( #820 )

Tower Troops

• Cannoneer wins popularity, mostly at the expense of Tower Princess. The worse average rank implies this popularity wasn't really driven by better performance.

• Royal Chef goes from the worst average rank to the best. As we saw earlier, it was even featured twice among the Top 10 decks.

Previous Season Stats

Evolutions

• Evolved Skeleton Barrel has a great start, becoming the #2 evolution during the first season, with 13% usage.
• Evolved Giant Snowball was the best evolution of the season, with an average rank below 440.
• Evolved Wall Breakers and Evolved Bats had the biggest usage drops.
• From the most popular evolutions, Evolved Inferno Dragon had the worst average rank.
• This season, 3 players finished in the top 1,000 with a 1-evo deck. No one used a deck without evolutions.

Top 3 evolutions:

1. Giant Snowball (again)
2. Goblin Giant
3. Tesla

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:

• Witch (S71): 40% on release
• Inferno Dragon (S72): 40% on release
• Skeleton Barrel (S73): 42%

Pass Royale buyer share among the top 10,000 players keeps performing very well and trending upwards. This month it increased from the annual high of 40% to 42%.

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:

• Skeleton Barrel
• Goblin Giant
• Witch
• Archers
• Electro Dragon
• Wizard

And a few that very close to the complete replacement were Skeleton Barrel, Valkyrie, Tesla and Executioner.

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.

• Skeleton King doubles its usage, and now stands out significantly over the other Champions. Most of this can probably be attributed to the strong synergy it has with Evolved Skeleton Barrel in the most popular deck of the season.

• No significant changes in usage for other Champions.

• Goblinstein replaces Golden Knight as the best Champion in terms of average rank

Previous Season Stats

Spells

• The Log has the biggest decrease in usage, but was so far ahead that it remains the most popular spell.

• Barbarian Barrel and Fireball get the biggest popularity increases.

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

• Royal Delivery takes the place of Rocket for the best average rank, although it's quite less popular.

Previous Season Stats

Buildings

• There were 42.5% of decks without any buildings at all.

• Goblin Hut and Evolved Tesla had the best average ranks.

Previous Season Stats

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.

• Evolved Skeleton Barrel had the biggest usage increase.

• Evolved Mortar also had a relevant increase, due to the main deck of the season.

Top 3 Win Conditions:

1. Ram Rider
2. Evolved Goblin Giant
3. Evolved Battle Ram

Previous Season Stats

Checks and Balances

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

Balance Changes

• All the nerfs caused usage reductions, and very significant ones for The Log and Ice Spirit.

• Buffed cards had very modest improvements in usage, and average ranks got worse.

State before balance changes

Recent Balances

The balances for next season were already announced, so we can take a look at their current stats. This is the biggest round of balance changes we've had in recent times, so they could shape the meta in a significant way; although it seems the Furnace rework is already dealing with that by itself.

Balance Changes

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	68.8%	499
2		The Log	28.1%	491
3		Barbarian Barrel	24.5%	496
4		Arrows	22.8%	503
5		Skeletons	22.2%	464
6		Fireball	20.9%	465
7		Goblin Gang	17.4%	514
8		Guards	16.4%	483
9		Evolved Cannon	16.3%	494
10		Spear Goblins	15.7%	470
11		Cannoneer	15.6%	534
12		Miner	13.6%	491
13		Evolved Skeleton Barrel	13.1%	497
14		Electro Spirit	13.0%	507
15		Ice Wizard	12.5%	513
16		Skeleton King	12.5%	528
17		Rage	11.9%	451
18		Evolved Zap	11.6%	533
19		Evolved Giant Snowball	11.4%	438
20		Cannon Cart	11.2%	498
21		Balloon	11.0%	551
22		Lightning	11.0%	547
23		Ice Spirit	10.8%	502
24		Tornado	10.5%	595
25		Bomber	10.0%	448
26		Hog Rider	9.6%	572
27		Goblin Curse	9.5%	560
28		Dagger Duchess	9.3%	488
29		Evolved Mortar	9.1%	501
30		Berserker	8.7%	428
31		Graveyard	8.6%	486
32		Evolved Knight	8.5%	505
33		Royal Ghost	8.3%	487
34		Inferno Dragon	8.3%	541
35		Knight	8.1%	493
36		Fisherman	8.0%	455
37		Ice Golem	7.9%	536
38		Mega Minion	7.4%	483
39		Poison	7.1%	453
40		Evolved Lumberjack	7.1%	486
41		Earthquake	6.9%	502
42		Zap	6.8%	521
43		Mighty Miner	6.7%	536
44		Evolved Goblin Giant	6.7%	442
45		Evolved Witch	6.6%	510
46		Giant	6.5%	518
47		Prince	6.5%	491
48		Evolved Archers	6.5%	534
49		Evolved Valkyrie	6.5%	510
50		Fire Spirit	6.4%	477
51		Giant Snowball	6.4%	528
52		Evolved Tesla	6.3%	449
53		Royal Chef	6.3%	456
54		Evolved Executioner	6.3%	489
55		Bandit	6.2%	435
56		Evolved Wall Breakers	6.1%	501
57		Boss Bandit	6.0%	439
58		Evolved Skeletons	5.9%	508
59		Bomb Tower	5.8%	509
60		Rocket	5.7%	425
61		Goblin Drill	5.7%	471
62		Evolved Firecracker	5.6%	582
63		Archer Queen	5.5%	460
64		Goblin Hut	5.1%	448
65		Evolved Bats	5.1%	470
66		Evolved Musketeer	5.1%	520
67		Golden Knight	5.0%	482
68		Bowler	4.9%	574
69		X-Bow	4.9%	481
70		Evolved Battle Ram	4.9%	465
71		Electro Wizard	4.7%	500
72		Ram Rider	4.7%	438
73		Heal Spirit	4.6%	514
74		Mother Witch	4.6%	531
75		Skeleton Dragons	4.5%	567
76		Evolved Royal Giant	4.5%	487
77		Evolved P.E.K.K.A	4.3%	457
78		Evolved Barbarians	4.2%	557
79		Lava Hound	4.1%	550
80		Evolved Bomber	3.7%	456
81		Goblin Machine	3.7%	570
82		Princess	3.6%	536
83		Evolved Royal Recruits	3.6%	523
84		Evolved Dart Goblin	3.5%	540
85		Baby Dragon	3.3%	528
86		Dark Prince	3.3%	420
87		Freeze	3.3%	562
88		Evolved Goblin Cage	3.3%	551
89		Monk	3.2%	431
90		Evolved Goblin Barrel	3.2%	469
91		Evolved Hunter	3.2%	426
92		Elixir Collector	3.1%	542
93		Royal Hogs	2.9%	436
94		Evolved Ice Spirit	2.9%	427
95		Dart Goblin	2.8%	464
96		Tombstone	2.8%	613
97		Wall Breakers	2.7%	422
98		Minions	2.6%	579
99		Electro Giant	2.6%	610
100		Evolved Electro Dragon	2.6%	632
101		Cannon	2.5%	533
102		Sparky	2.5%	528
103		Royal Delivery	2.5%	421
104		Evolved Mega Knight	2.5%	533
105		Bats	2.4%	485
106		Mini P.E.K.K.A	2.4%	626
107		Goblinstein	2.3%	403
108		Firecracker	2.2%	507
109		Flying Machine	2.0%	469
110		Suspicious Bush	2.0%	569
111		Giant Skeleton	1.9%	598
112		Goblins	1.7%	516
113		Musketeer	1.7%	573
114		Night Witch	1.7%	558
115		Inferno Dragon	1.6%	567
116		Mega Knight	1.6%	431
117		Elixir Golem	1.6%	601
118		Inferno Tower	1.5%	500
119		P.E.K.K.A	1.4%	359
120		Golem	1.3%	557
121		Zappies	1.3%	408
122		Elite Barbarians	1.2%	424
123		Battle Healer	1.2%	616
124		Phoenix	1.2%	614
125		Evolved Wizard	1.2%	708
126		Magic Archer	1.1%	567
127		Minion Horde	1.1%	555
128		Mortar	1.1%	438
129		Skeleton Army	1.1%	714
130		Lumberjack	1.0%	682
131		Rascals	1.0%	504
132		Goblin Demolisher	0.8%	668
133		Battle Ram	0.7%	360
134		Little Prince	0.7%	509
135		Three Musketeers	0.4%	468
136		Spirit Empress	0.4%	750
137		Goblin Barrel	0.3%	748
138		Barbarians	0.2%	507
139		Royal Giant	0.2%	838
140		Royal Recruits	0.2%	516
141		Void	0.2%	452
142		Clone	0.1%	900
143		Executioner	0.1%	200
144		Hunter	0.1%	487
145		Mirror	0.1%	862
146		Skeleton Barrel	0.1%	603
147		Tesla	0.1%	833
148		Valkyrie	0.1%	883
149		Goblin Cage	0.1%	342
150		Archers	0.0%	-
151		Barbarian Hut	0.0%	-
152		Electro Dragon	0.0%	-
153		Furnace	0.0%	-
154		Goblin Giant	0.0%	-
155		Witch	0.0%	-
156		Wizard	0.0%	-
157		Evolved Goblin Drill	0.0%	-
158		Rune Giant	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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