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Finished Oct 18–19 · Warlockguy is Death's Duelist Data as of 2026-10-18

Champion: Warlockguy beat Neepzen in the best-of-5 grand final. $50,000 prize.

Not part of the class scores. Level-30 duels only, so many class tools were still missing.

1,714 players · 4,749 matches · 48 pods · $100,000 · level 30

Row class vs column class	Paladin	Mage	Hunter	Warlock	Shaman	Warrior	Priest	Rogue	Druid
Paladin		45	67	49	67	83	62	62	67
Mage	55		47	26	49	65	39	67	43
Hunter	33	53		40	61	51	44	41	49
Warlock	51	74	60		51	72	62	65	61
Shaman	33	51	39	49		44	58	37	72
Warrior	17	35	49	28	56		28	45	31
Priest	38	61	56	38	42	72		73	52
Rogue	38	33	59	35	63	55	27		52
Druid	33	57	51	39	28	69	48	48

• Hard counter
• Favored
• Slight edge
• Even
• Slight loss
• Unfavored
• Countered
• 73Bold number: exact win rate, same colour scale (36 pairs; the other 0 show words)

Find a class on the left, then read across to the class it fights. A number is how often the left class wins, in percent. Words show who came out ahead without an exact figure. Hover or focus a cell for details. Bloodsports will fill this grid with real data after launch.

Warlockguy defeated Neepzen in the best-of-5 grand final.

• 36 finalists on Oct 18 in the Hyjal Crater arena, double elimination.
• Upper bracket Bo3, lower bracket Bo1, lower final Bo3, grand final Bo5 with no bracket reset.
• Upper bracket series allowed only 1 minute between duels, so Paladins could not reset Lay on Hands.
• The 8 lowest 5-1 seeds played in. Both grand finalists were Warlocks.

Stated results

• Warlockguy lost the upper final 1-2 to Neepzen, then won through the lower bracket.
• Cdewx finished 3rd, winning the lower final.
• Oddwaffletv finished 4th, losing the lower semifinal to Cdewx.

Other pairings were not published with a winner, so they are left out.

• Orc
  Orc made up 7 of the 36 finalists.
• Tauren
  Tauren made up 4 of the 36 finalists, all of them Druids.
• Troll
  Troll made up 7 of the 36 finalists.
• Undead
  Undead made up 17 of the 36 finalists, including all four Paladin finalists.
• Skyborne
  Windshaper Skyborne had 1 of the 36 finalists. Every finalist was Horde.

• Warlockguy 6-0
  Won the grand final and the $50,000 Death's Duelist title.
• Neepzen 6-0
  Grand final runner-up. Took the Top Warlock prize.
• Sodapoppin 6-0
  Lost 0-2 to Neepzen in the winners' bracket.
• Oddwaffletv 5-1
  Came in through the play-in and made a deep lower-bracket run.
• Reed 6-0
  6-0 in qualifiers.
• Realsavix 5-1
  Missed the finals. Only the top four in each class advanced.

• Launch-week data. Bloodsports data replaces this once the addon is live.
• Class and spec win rates and the class matchup grid come from foreveropen.live (Raider.IO event data). Specs under 60 games are not ranked on that source.
• Pick percentages on spec rows are the share of that class's players on the spec.
• Each class's top player won $5,555. Warlockguy won $50,000 as overall champion. Neepzen won the Top Warlock prize.
• Qualifier and format rules are not confirmed by a primary source.

• foreveropen.live: meta, classes, specs, matchups
• foreveropen.live: finals bracket
• Warcraft Tavern: champion and prizes
• Endgame Tools: results