Guild War Top 10 Defend Teams

• 10 complete teams, 50 distinct heroes. Each defense has exactly five heroes, with no hero reused across the selected ten. Machines of War may repeat.
• Failure Rate shaped the original selection. Candidates needed at least 100 attempts, 10 wars and five known defending guilds, with no more than 30% of attempts from one war or 50% from one guild. This was the first tested support level that allowed ten teams without shared heroes.
• Current ordering by Failure Rate. Highest first
• Complete battle records. Both clears and failures count. Cleanup attacks and incomplete or ambiguous records are excluded from performance metrics.

Source: TacticusXYZ. Detailed results use the verified source counts. Logs were captured September 6, 2026 and extracted September 12, 2026; the report's community names and hero order were updated September 13, 2026.

Edition

September 2026

Seasons

24–26

Battlefield tiers

1–2–3–4–5

Recorded wars

395

Eligible non-cleanup attacks

135,754

Exact selected-defense attempts

3,494

The fixed Season 24–26 / BF1–5 sample contains 190,656 recorded attacks before exclusions. Counter results use this wider Battlefield scope; the attack page shows its own BF4–5 results.

Failure Rate

Attempts leaving at least one defender alive / eligible attempts against the exact five heroes and selected Machine of War. Higher favors the defense.

Meds Up Failure

Failures / eligible attempts recorded with Medicae Up, against that exact defense. Each Battlefield row uses only its own Meds Up subset.

Battlefield share

Eligible attempts in a Battlefield / all eligible attempts against that exact defense. The headline shows the most common tier; lower tier number breaks ties.

Meds Up

At least one recorded Defender Health (Medicae) buff. Missing buff information remains unknown and does not count as Meds Up.

Clear Rate

Clears / eligible counter attempts, including failures. A clear defeats all five defenders, with or without attacker deaths.

Meds Up Clear Rate

Clears / eligible counter attempts recorded with Medicae Up. The denominator is that counter's Meds Up attempts.

Perfect share of Attempts

Clears with all five attackers surviving / all eligible counter attempts, including failures.

Perfect share of Clears

Clears with all five attackers surviving / all clears by that counter.

Machine of War usage

Recorded occurrences of a Machine / all appearances of the exact five defender heroes. Includes cleanup and incomplete attack outcomes, plus unknown Machines in the denominator.

Counts and missing data

Each rate shows its numerator / denominator. Attempts are recorded attacks, not unique deployments or players. — means no observations for that metric; 0.0% is a measured zero.

• Defense performance: Main metrics and Battlefield results require all five named defenders and their selected, most common Machine of War. All eligible opponents count, whether or not they contain a listed attack core.
• Counter matching: Every named attack core hero must be present; remaining heroes and both Machines of War are unrestricted. The observed defense must share at least three of the target team's five heroes, including four- and five-hero matches. Blood Angels requires all five named heroes; its attack-page four-of-five flex cohort is excluded here.
• Counter order and support: All ten attack cores remain visible for every defense, sorted by total clear count descending, then attempts, wars and canonical core ID. Supported means at least 30 eligible attempts across 10 wars; smaller samples are Low support, and zero attempts means No data. Support labels describe the overall matchup, not each Meds Up subset.
• One attack, one observation: Repeated captures and multiple matching hero trios do not multiply a battle's weight. The same attack counts once within a matchup.
• Eligible outcomes: Performance requires five distinct identified heroes on each side, known death states, and the source's initial-convention marker (an em dash with no numeric debuff). A numeric debuff of at least one is Cleanup; numeric zero or ambiguous markers are excluded. The marker does not verify full starting health or the first attack against a deployment.
• Machines of War: Only options with at least 5% unrounded usage are shown, ordered by occurrence count. Missing or ambiguous Machines remain in the denominator. Recorded support does not establish that its abilities were activated, and the most common option is not selected by its failure rate.
• Battlefield composition: BF1–5 attempts sum to each team's total. Share describes where this team's observations occurred, not its prevalence among all defenses in a tier. Meds Up failure rates are calculated directly from the saved attempts for each Battlefield.
• Interpreting results: These are observed uploaded logs, not all Guild War play. Tier mix, opponent choice, power, caps, maps, season and repeated wars are not adjusted for. Broader counter rates do not directly estimate the exact five-hero-plus-Machine matchup, and Meds Up comparisons do not measure Medicae's causal effect.