Olden Era Meta Pulse — Oct 7: Jebus Cross Share Climbs to 77%
By OldenEra.gg Staff
The Oct 7, 00:24 UTC snapshot has Jebus Cross at 77% of Classic template share, against 71% at the Oct 6 reading, while Arena and Single Hero both saw triple-digit rank jumps inside the top 25.
Classic
PINOKEW holds #1 on the Classic ladder at 2,022 rating from a 26-2 record (93%), with a day and week line of #1 → #1 and five straight wins in the form string. PREHISTORIC moved #4 → #2 (▲2) at 1,910, and YAKRUTISH slipped #2 → #4 (▼2) with an LWLLL form. The largest single-day moves in the top 25 are matched: SKEPTIC28 climbed #18 → #11 (▲7) and BLACK BUTTERFLY fell #12 → #19 (▼7). Two players in the top 25 are unbeaten over double-digit games: MR YUDIN at 14-0 and BLOODKEEPER at 12-0.
Map meta
| Template | Games | Share | Avg length (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jebus Cross | 1,766 | 69% | 6.4 |
| Jebus Tournament | 431 | 17% | 6.6 |
| Arcade | 36 | 1% | 5.1 |
| Infinity | 34 | 1% | 9.4 |
| Universe | 25 | 1% | 9.8 |
| Last Fortress | 15 | 1% | 7.5 |
Across 2,550 recorded Classic games, 226 (9%) sit in the Unknown bucket with no recorded template and 17 (1%) in the pick-and-ban draft phase; neither is a map. In the duration trend, Jebus Tournament averaged 8.7 in-game days on Oct 6 against 7.7 on Oct 5, while Jebus Cross read 6 on both days. SHELVETAL is the top performer by wins on Jebus Cross and PODPIVKOVICH on Jebus Tournament — full detail on the Classic meta page.
Factions
From the 1,259 Classic games with both factions recorded (Classic factions):
| Faction | Pick share | Win rate | Record |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dungeon | 24.8% | 52% | 325-299 |
| Temple | 24.5% | 46% | 284-332 |
| Necropolis | 19.8% | 49% | 244-254 |
| Grove | 13.3% | 52% | 173-161 |
| Hive | 12.9% | 57% | 186-140 |
| Schism | 4.8% | 39% | 47-73 |
Hive has the highest win rate of the six over 326 games; Dungeon and Grove are tied at 52%. The most played pair is Dungeon against Temple, 139-102 over 241 games (58% for Dungeon), followed by Dungeon against Necropolis at 80-71 over 151. Hive's best-recorded pair is against Necropolis, 52-35 over 87 games (60%).
Movers, streaks and activity
TRATATENKO is the biggest climb on the Classic movers board, 123 → 41 for 82 places and 235 rating; BLACK IS THE SOUL dropped 76 places to 191. BLOODKEEPER carries a 16-game current win streak, his best; PINOKEW's best in the Classic stats is 18. BANGOFFF leads SSCAISS 8-0 across their eight meetings. Oct 4 is the busiest day recorded here at 448 games.
Arena
SOLISORA stays #1 → #1 on the Arena ladder at 2,381 with 47-6 (89%) and a 17-game current streak, the longest in the Arena streak list. VOID made the biggest top-25 jump, #123 → #19 (▲104), and MAETS went #31 → #5 (▲26). FOKYSNIK fell #5 → #11 and ILIAS1982 #6 → #21. On Arena movers, SLKLEON gained 166 places (194 → 28) and 296 rating. Arena is played on the single Arena map: 10,932 games at an average rating of 1,401, with FOKYSNIK the top performer and also the most active at 155 games in the Arena stats.
Single Hero
COLGREAVANCE heads the listed Single Hero top 25 at 2,015 after #1 → #2 (▼1), with DREEAMHUNTER at 1,982 and FEEDER at 1,964. 我是一名网络喷子 climbed #79 → #14 (▲65), the largest top-25 move. L is 23-1 with a 22-game current streak. Exodus dominates the Single Hero meta with 4,789 games (69%) at 13.9 average in-game days, ahead of Sprint (590, 8%) and Outcast Tournament (506, 7%); Exodus read 67% share at both the Oct 6 and Oct 7 snapshots. Exodus averaged 9.1 days on Oct 7 against 13.3 on Oct 6.
Factions
Of 4,554 games with both factions recorded (Single Hero factions), Dungeon leads picks at 24.3% but wins 49%; Temple is next at 21.5% and 44%. Necropolis, at 10.1% of picks, has the highest win rate at 58% over 924 games, with Schism at 56% from 1,377. The most played pair is Dungeon against Temple, 325-297 over 622 games (52%); Necropolis against Temple is 165-96 over 261 (63%). On Exodus alone, Necropolis is 406-228 (64%) over 634 games.
What players are asking
A Steam thread asking players to rank the factions after winning with each one is still drawing disagreement, and the faction rankings discussion runs on opinion rather than records — the ladder numbers above cover Classic and Single Hero only. Pick-order questions come up too in a favourite-faction thread: on the ladder, Dungeon is the most picked faction in both modes that record factions. Newcomers asking how to prepare for PvP in a Steam help thread can note the length gap in the data: Classic games average 6.4 in-game days on Jebus Cross, Single Hero 13.9 on Exodus.
Data: ladder snapshot 2026-10-07 00:24 UTC, from the Classic, Arena and Single Hero ladders.