Dota 2 Rank Distribution (2026): What Medal Are Most Players?

Valve doesn't publish how many players hold each medal, so every Dota 2 rank distribution online is a third-party estimate. This page uses OpenDota's figures, read on 2 November 2026 from 8,768,869 accounts with a medal, and sets them next to the few percentiles Valve has stated itself. Treat every share below as a community figure: it describes the accounts OpenDota tracks, not every player in the game.

Every medal, by share of players

The "top" column is the share of tracked accounts at that medal or higher, so it answers "what percentage am I better than" from the other side: top 38.5% means 61.5% of tracked accounts sit below you.

Medal	Accounts	Share	Medal and above
Immortal	344,516	3.9%	top 3.9%
Divine	538,683	6.1%	top 10.1%
Ancient	941,872	10.7%	top 20.8%
Legend	1,548,916	17.7%	top 38.5%
Archon	1,756,086	20.0%	top 58.5%
Crusader	1,635,108	18.6%	top 77.2%
Guardian	1,302,780	14.9%	top 92.0%
Herald	700,908	8.0%	everyone

Read from the bottom, fewer than a quarter of tracked accounts (22.9%) are Herald or Guardian, and the curve peaks in Archon before thinning out fast: Ancient holds about three fifths as many accounts as Legend, and Divine a little over half as many as Ancient. The middle half of all tracked accounts, from the 25th to the 75th percentile, spans Crusader 1 to Legend 4.

Star by star: what percentile is your medal?

Each cell is the share of tracked accounts at that star or above. Find your medal on the left and your star along the top. Figures are rounded to one decimal from OpenDota's star shares, so they can differ by a tenth from other calculations.

Medal	Star 1	Star 2	Star 3	Star 4	Star 5
Herald	top 100.0%	top 99.9%	top 98.2%	top 96.5%	top 94.4%
Guardian	top 92.0%	top 89.4%	top 86.6%	top 83.6%	top 80.4%
Crusader	top 77.2%	top 73.6%	top 70.0%	top 66.2%	top 62.4%
Archon	top 58.5%	top 54.4%	top 50.4%	top 46.3%	top 42.4%
Legend	top 38.5%	top 34.5%	top 30.7%	top 27.1%	top 23.8%
Ancient	top 20.8%	top 17.9%	top 15.5%	top 13.4%	top 11.6%
Divine	top 10.1%	top 8.4%	top 6.9%	top 5.8%	top 4.8%
Immortal	top 3.9% (no stars; leaderboard places instead)

Some useful lines from the table: Crusader 1 is the top 77.2%, Archon 3 the top 50.4% (the median), Legend 1 the top 38.5%, Ancient 1 the top 20.8% and Divine 1 the top 10.1%. One oddity: Herald 1 holds only 0.10% of accounts, far fewer than Herald 2 (1.66%). OpenDota doesn't explain it, so read the bottom star with care.

What is the average Dota 2 rank?

In this data the median account, the one with half of all tracked accounts below it, is Archon 3: 49.6% of accounts sit up to Archon 2, and 53.7% up to Archon 3. Valve doesn't publish MMR cut-offs, but by the community table (154 MMR a star from Herald to Ancient) Archon 3 runs from about 2,618 to 2,771 MMR. By this data, then, the typical Dota 2 account sits at roughly 2,600 to 2,800 MMR.

Two cautions. A median of tracked accounts isn't the same as the average player you meet: the matchmaker puts you with people near your own MMR, so your games don't sample the whole curve. And the community MMR table is exactly that; your own exact MMR is visible only to you in the client. Our ranks guide has the full medal-to-MMR table.

What Valve has said itself

The most recent percentile figures from Valve that we found came with the Immortal Draft change of 19 March 2025. It wrote that the old Immortal Draft line of 6,500 MMR was "roughly the top 1.5% of players", and that players above 8,500 MMR are "the top 0.5% of players". From that date, every ranked game with a player above 8,500 uses Immortal Draft, and those players must register an official name to queue ranked.

It's tempting to line those up against OpenDota's 3.9% Immortal share, but they measure different things. Valve's figures are MMR lines across its own player base; OpenDota's are medal counts across the accounts it tracks. Immortal starts at about 5,620 MMR by the community table, far below 6,500, so a larger Immortal share than 1.5% is what you'd expect. Our Immortal and leaderboard guide covers the top end.

Why distribution numbers disagree

• Tracked accounts only. OpenDota counts the accounts whose matches it has parsed, not every Dota 2 player.
• No date in the data. The API doesn't say what period it covers, which is why we print the day we read it.
• Inactive accounts. An account that stopped playing can still be counted at its last medal.
• Hidden top games. Since 19 March 2025 Valve keeps Immortal Draft games out of public match history and the Web APIs, so third-party sites see less of the very top.
• No resets. Dota 2 has no seasonal resets, so the distribution drifts slowly instead of starting over.

What moving up a band takes

Valve says a ranked game moves you "closer to +/-25 MMR" once your Rank Confidence is high (May 2023). With the community table's 154 MMR a star, that's about six net wins a star below Divine and eight in Divine (200 MMR a star). Applied to the lines above:

Climb	MMR (community)	Net wins at ±25	Percentile change
Archon 3 → Legend 1	462	about 19	top 50.4% → top 38.5%
Legend 1 → Ancient 1	770	about 31	top 38.5% → top 20.8%
Ancient 1 → Divine 1	770	about 31	top 20.8% → top 10.1%
Divine 1 → Immortal	1,000	about 40	top 10.1% → top 3.9%

Net wins are wins minus losses. At a 55% win rate each game earns you a tenth of a net win on average, so 19 net wins is about 190 games; at 60% it's about 95. That is why the middle of the curve feels sticky. While your Rank Confidence is low (new or recalibrating accounts) the swings are larger, as our MMR guide explains.

Moving up the curve

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Related guides: every medal explained · MMR and Rank Confidence · Immortal and the leaderboard · calibration