Players from Valve's regional leaderboards, sorted by their latest recorded ranked badge, highest first. Ties follow Valve's leaderboard order. Recorded matches can lag behind a player's current rank.
Deadlock has twelve ranks, each split into six subranks. From lowest to highest they are Obscurus, Initiate, Seeker, Acolyte, Sentinel, Mystic, Ritualist, Emissary, Oracle, Phantom, Ascendant and Eternus. Several of these were renamed in the 2026-07-30 matchmaking update — Ritualist and Emissary each moved up a tier, and Alchemist, Arcanist and Archon were retired — so older guides and third-party sites still show the previous names for the same underlying tiers.
Ranked is a separate queue from Standard. You need 60 Standard wins before you can queue ranked at all, and you may only pick heroes you have at least 15 Standard wins on, with a minimum of three such heroes. Placement runs over eight calibration games that soft-reset your previous rank and cannot exit above Oracle VI. Parties are solo or duo only, and a duo must be within one rank of each other.
The overall list orders the entire regional board by recorded badge before pagination. Eternus appears before Ascendant, with higher subranks first. Players without a confirmed badge remain at the end of the full list without a numbered rank. The original Valve position breaks ties between equal badges. Hero leaderboards keep Valve's hero-specific order; their badge column shows the player's overall recorded rank.