Are you on target with your Compendium predictions? A quick overview about picks and bans statistics after the first two groups of The International Qualifier.

Part of The International Interactive Compendium is also bets on the most picked and banned heroes in the Western and Eastern qualifiers. The following is an update of the most picked and banned heroes in the 23 games of the Western qualifier so far..

Top 5 most picked heroes Heroes Picks (23 games) Lifestealer Lifestealer 16 Gyrocopter Gyrocopter 14 Shadow Demon Shadow Demon 13 Rubick Rubick 11 Nature's Prophet Nature's Prophet 11





Lifestealer, Gyrocopter and Shadow Demon top picks

You've done well guessing one of the three heroes, Lifestealer, Gyrocopter or Shadow Demon for the most picked hero in the Western qualifier. Lifestealer is leading the board with 16 picks out of 23 games, followed by Gyrocopter and Shadow Demon with 14 and 13 picks respectively. Rubick and Nature's Prophet most likely will not surpass them any more.



Top 5 Most Banned Heroes Heroes Bans (23 games) Io Io 20 Batrider Batrider 19 Magnus Magnus 13 Keeper of the Light Keeper of the Light 13 Lone Druid Lone Druid 9 Shadow Demon 9 Dark Seer 9





Batrider and Io fighting for top ban position

The two top banned heroes are Batrider and Io. Going back and forth throughout the first few days, they have almost always been banned. After 23 games, Io is now leading the race with just one ban ahead. Whether or not Batrider will regain the lead as the top ban, we will have to find out in the next three days.



Top Meta Game Relevance Heroes Picks + Bans (23 games) Batrider Batrider 23 Lifestealer Lifestealer 23 Io Io 23 Shadow Demon Shadow Demon 22 Gyrocopter Gyrocopter 20 Magnus 20





Batrider, Io and Lifestealer never ignored

Three heroes have been picked or banned 23 out of 23 times: Batrider and Lifestealer. They are closely followed by Magnus, Io and Shadow Demon with 20 or 22 picks or bans each.

Overall, 54 different heroes have been picked so far in the West Qualifier matches. With 98 heroes in the Captain's Mode pool, this gives us 44 heroes untouched so far.



Most successful heroes Most Successful Heroes

(+/- Difference) Win-Loss-Difference Keeper of the Light Keeper of the Light +4 (5-1) Lone Druid Lone Druid +4 (7-3) Lifestealer Lifestealer +4 (10-6) Slark Slark +3 (4-1)

Most Successful Heroes

(Winning-%) Win-%

(min. 4 games) Keeper of the Light Keeper of the Light 83% (5-1) Slark Slark 80% (4-1) Lone Druid Lone Druid 70% (7-3) Juggernaut Juggernaut 67% (4-2) Lifestealer Lifestealer 63% (10-6)





KotL most successful

Although the data pool is very small, with only 23 games played, Keeper of the Light topped the chart as the most successful hero in the Western qualifier. The horseman is 5-1 in his games followed closely by Slark and Lone Druid, depending if you rate winning percentage or win-loss difference higher.



Least successful heroes Least Successful Heroes

(+/- Difference) Win-Loss-Difference Nature's Prophet Nature's Prophet -5 (3-8) Queen of Pain Queen of Pain -3 (0-3) Visage Visage -2 (1-3) Gyrocopter Gyrocopter -2 (6-8) Alchemist Alchemist -2 (0-2) Anti-Mage Anti-Mage -2 (0-2) Sand King Sand King -2 (0-2) Ursa Ursa -2 (0-2)

Least Successful Heroes

(Winning-%) Win-%

(min. 4 games) Visage Visage 25% (1-3) Nature's Prophet Nature's Prophet 27% (3-8) Lina Lina 40% (2-3) Magnus Magnus 43% (3-4) Bane Bane 43% (3-4) Gyrocopter Gyrocopter 43% (6-8)





Nature's Prophet: Popular, but struggling

Nature's Prophet is popular with a lot of the TI3 West Qualifier teams, but he's currently struggling in performance. Just three of his games ended with a victory for him, in eight other games his own throne fell first. Suffering even more struggle is Queen of Pain. She was picked three times in total but still has not won a single game. Visage on the other hand, had the lowest winning percentage (25%) compared to heroes picked at least four times.

Remaining schedule TI3 West qualifier:

17 May: 3 games playoffs (Bo3s)

18 May: 2 games playoffs (Bo3s)

19 May: Deciding final match

Teams remaining in TI3 West qualifier

DD.Dota

RoX.KIS

Evil Geniuses

Mousesports



Compendium Betting Categories: Most picked hero

Most banned hero

Hero with most first bloods

Hero with most deaths

Highest GPM in a single match

Number of heroes never picked or banned

Number of big comebacks (comeback is winning when you are 10.000+ gold behind)

Fastest Game

Number of games more than 60 minutes

Earliest Roshan kill

Earliest Tower kill

Rapiers Purchased

Refreshers Purchased

Largest single critical damage hit

Roshan Kills in a single game





More Information: ​The International Coverage Hub

Special thanks to Dota Academy for pick and ban statistics raw data.