Olden Era Meta Pulse — Oct 16: Jebus Cross Share Slides to 73%
By OldenEra.gg Staff
The Oct 16, 03:57 UTC snapshot shows Classic's map pool tightening at the second slot: Jebus Cross sits at a 73% share while Jebus Tournament reads 19%, the highest figure that template shows in the recorded share trend. Elsewhere, LEXIAV took over the Single Hero top spot and SOLISORA held Arena's.
Classic
PINOKEW holds #1 on the Classic ladder at 2,210 rating with a 93% win rate over 43 games and a WWWWW form line. YAKRUTISH moved #3 → #2 (▲1) at 2,110, pushing SHELVETAL to #3. MR YUDIN at #4 is unbeaten: 19 wins, 0 losses in 19 games, and a current win streak of 17, the longest current streak listed in Classic stats. The ladder counts 198 players.
Map meta
| Template | Games | Share | Avg days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jebus Cross | 3,793 | 73% | 6.3 |
| Jebus Tournament | 846 | 16% | 6.7 |
| Arcade | 70 | 1% | 4.7 |
| Universe | 57 | 1% | 8.6 |
| Infinity | 55 | 1% | 9.1 |
| Last Fortress | 23 | 0% | 10.7 |
In the share trend, Jebus Cross reads 73% at this snapshot against 77% at the Oct 15 00:26 reading, while Jebus Tournament moved from 18% to 19%. Alongside the maps, the non-map buckets in the Classic meta record 342 games with no template and 45 in the pick-and-ban phase.
Factions
From the 3,028 Classic games with both factions recorded, Dungeon leads the picks at 25.7% pick share with a 52% win rate over 1,554 games. Hive has the highest win rate in the set at 61% from 806 games, while Schism, the least picked at 4.7%, sits at 38% over 283 games. Full detail is on the Classic factions page.
| Faction | Pick share | Games | Record | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dungeon | 25.7% | 1,554 | 801-753 | 52% |
| Temple | 22.6% | 1,368 | 653-715 | 48% |
| Necropolis | 20.5% | 1,241 | 606-635 | 49% |
| Hive | 13.3% | 806 | 491-315 | 61% |
| Grove | 13.3% | 804 | 369-435 | 46% |
| Schism | 4.7% | 283 | 108-175 | 38% |
The most played pair is Dungeon against Temple, 303-246 over 549 games for a 55% Dungeon win rate. Dungeon against Necropolis follows at 425 games (215-210, 51%), then Necropolis against Temple at 328 games (173-155, 53%).
Movers and streaks
@SvPre SASQUATCH gained 78 places, from 179 to 101, on 135 rating points, the largest climb in Classic movers. The steepest fall belongs to 322, 141 to 178. PREHISTORIC dropped from a last rank of #3 and carries a current streak of 15. In rivalries, YAKRUTISH leads YARO 12-0 over 12 games.
Arena
SOLISORA stays at #1 on the Arena ladder with 2,600 rating and a 79% win rate across 126 games. DAIMONSBET TWITCHTV holds #2 and ВРОТАРВ #3 with a WWWWW line and an 11-game current streak. HD1O1 slid #13 → #18 (▼5) but is the top performer across Arena's 22,855 games, which average 1,519 rating on the single Arena map.
CEKATA_SENSEI added 282 rating points in climbing 125 to 23, the biggest rating gain in Arena movers; 4NDREWCH made the biggest rank jump, 185 to 46. VULKANGROZA fell 55 to 154. The busiest head-to-head in Arena stats is LDXHEISI against 青铜战士, 24-18 over 42 games.
Single Hero
LEXIAV moved #2 → #1 (▲1) at 2,210 rating, 52-13 across 65 games, with FEEDER now #2. DREAMHUNTER at #6 holds the longest current streak in Single Hero stats at 20. Exodus dominates the Single Hero meta with 11,165 games, a 68% share and 13.7 average in-game days, ahead of Outcast Tournament (1,304 games, 8%) and Sprint (1,276 games, 8%).
A Steam discussion argues the 1-hero ranked queue serves Exodus too often and asks for a map ban system; the ladder's share trend for Exodus reads 68% at this snapshot against 65% at the Oct 15 00:26 reading.
Factions
Across 11,657 recorded Single Hero games, Dungeon is the most picked at 23.3% with a 48% win rate over 5,421 games, while Necropolis has the highest win rate at 57% from 2,351 games on a 10.1% pick share. Schism follows at 55% over 3,818 games. Temple is picked second most at 21.5% but wins 45% of its 5,019 games. The most played matchup is Dungeon against Temple, 774-733 over 1,507 games (51%); Grove against Dungeon is next at 1,463 games and a 50% Grove win rate. See Single Hero factions for the full table.
Necromancy raising is the subject of an active Steam discussion, where the original poster calls the mechanic unclear.
STRESSLORD leads Single Hero movers with a 115-place climb from 182 to 67; WINTOX_GOD fell 92 to 195.
Data: ladder snapshot 2026-10-16 03:57 UTC, from the Classic, Arena and Single Hero ladders.