Firstly, let me say thank you to @Anchor and his alliance for the work they’ve done in creating a hero guide. I know I’ve used it in the past as have thousands of other players. This is in no way a criticism of their work.
I’ve noticed a lot of discussion about hero rankings lately and I thought having an alternative might be useful, especially if that alternative sourced its information in different way. I knew I couldn’t create a guide myself, since I only have access to a small pool of heroes, like most players. The solution, then, was to ask the player-base here to contribute to a crowd-sourced ranking system. This would not only help to make sure all heroes are represented, but would also allow for “consensus” rankings as an unlimited number of people could vote on each heroes. To that end, I’ve put together an “open” ranking system using Google Forms.
Each hero is listed below. Their name links to the analytics/responses page for that hero, which includes a breakdown of each ranking category by score. The second link is to the form itself so people can contribute.
For this first pass I’ve kept it simple:
Only 5 star heroes are included
Scoring is limited to three categories: Raid Attack, Raid Defense, and Titans
Contributors score the heroes in each category using a single number (1-5, higher being better)
If people want to use this tool, I’ll add 4 stars later, but I wanted to gauge the interest in having this as an alternative ranking system first.
This does seem like a useful idea. One suggestion I would make would be to split the Raid Defense category into positions (wing, flank, and tank) since many heroes are only useful in specific slots.
The only thing I dislike is that trolls may skew the stats.
What we SHOULD do is have an invite-only communal ranking that involves select members of the community. Those who exhibit reason and logic without too much knee-jerking.
It is fun and interesting, but i’m afraid not really effective as many of us are far to have all the heroes.
So i can value them on defence, but all the rest are pretty much “feelings”.
Right, not everyone has all of the heroes, but if a large enough group of people vote, then we’ll have data for at least most of the heroes. We can fill in the gaps for each other since everyone’s hero collection is different.
I can see the risk of trolls, sure. Hopefully, though, since the data is shown as a breakdown in the form of a pie chart, it will be easier to spot that kind of behavior since it should mostly be outliers.
I would also hope that since the people using this message board are more invested in the game (in more ways than one in some cases…) than the average user, most would want to have this type of data and would respect it as such.
The heroes are “ranked” by their scores in the three areas (Attack, Defense, Titans). You can compare them by clicking their names which link to the collected data for each. The list itself doesn’t sort by those scores, though.
I’ve contributed where I could based on only the 5* heroes I have currently maxed out. It’s nice to see I’m not too far off the range compared to other’s thoughts on how their rated.
Ok all i saw from a quick glimpse was the buttons to provide rank votes or whatever it is you choose to call them. I didnt see where they stacked up against others but will look again.