The biggest enemy in all segments, Donghuang Taiyi is eliminated, and purification is more difficult to deal with than control.

When it comes to bans in ranked matches, I wonder what mindset goes into your decisions? Do you consider the troublesome character from the previous game? The hero who was lost to a tanking player? Or do you rationally select based on statistics and strength? Or do you just follow your heart and pick the thorn in everyone's side?

In Honor of Kings, reaching the Brickstone rank immediately activates draft mode, also known as hero banning. Ranked matches are currently using a three-player format, for a total of six players. Peak matches will go to a five-player format, with both teams banning a total of ten heroes, with some overlap possible. As we near the end of the season, have you ever wondered who's the most hated player in any rank?

Donghuang Taiyi restrains displacement heroes

The functionality of disabling is stronger than you think. It can eliminate the most threatening enemies to expand the advantage, or break up the mandarin ducks and prevent the opponent from using the conjoined twin combination. Take Donghuang Taiyi as an example. This auxiliary is good at sucking people in place. No matter how fancy the displacement is, he can fly, dive and climb mountains. Whenever there is a back and forth movement, if there is no invincible effect, he will immediately control you and leave you motionless and be beaten to death by a group of people.

He is also a nightmare for squishy heroes. He can be killed in teamfights or by tower diving. He can trade one for one or even life in extreme cases. Occasionally, his health is enough for him to survive the damage from the defensive tower. In other words, Donghuang Taiyi is the nemesis and nemesis of flexible heroes. Instead of thinking about how to deal with him in the game, the simplest way to fight is to send him directly to the ban zone and not let anyone play with him. When you come here, you may think that he is a support who is spurned and targeted by the whole world, but there is actually someone else. In all segments, the hero with the highest ban rate is Zhuang Zhou.

Zhuang Zhou is the biggest enemy in the entire canyon

Across all tiers, he has a ban rate of 60.7% and a win rate of 51.1%. In the Peak League, he has a ban rate of 55.8% and a win rate of 48.9%. In the top tier, he has a ban rate of 60.6% and a win rate of 50.1%. While his win rate isn't particularly impressive—it's breaking the 50% mark, it's hardly a dominant force. So why do players across all tiers, both amateurs and experts, choose Zhuang Zhou as their pick for bans? It's clearly due to his unique mechanic, Purification.