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Best civs on Golden Heights (AoE4, ranked 1v1)

Best win rate on Golden Heights: Golden Horde, 54.5% in its 2,545 ranked 1v1 games here. Biggest gain from this map: Mongols, 3.3 points above its win rate on all maps. Biggest drop: Malians, 3.8 points below its win rate on all maps and last in the table at 44.7%.

Map type
HybridLand and water both count.
Ranked 1v1 games
46,519On the current patch, all ranks.
Best win rate
Golden Horde54.5% over 2,545 games.

Golden Heights win rate by civ

AoE4 civs on Golden Heights in ranked 1v1: win rate, gap to the civ's win rate on all maps, games
#CivWin ratevs. its averageGames
1 Golden Horde 54.5% +0.9 2,545
2 Macedonian Dynasty 53.7% −1.1 3,400
3 Knights Templar 53.5% −0.1 9,738
4 Zhu Xi’s Legacy 53.3% +0.8 2,669
5 Order of the Dragon 52.7% ±0.0 4,827
6 Mongols 52.1% +3.3 4,278
7 Jin Dynasty 52.0% +0.8 1,315
8 Japanese 51.3% ±0.0 4,998
9 House of Lancaster 51.2% +1.2 2,729
10 Tughlaq Dynasty 50.1% +0.5 1,606
11 Jeanne d’Arc 49.6% +0.6 1,588
12 Abbasid Dynasty 49.5% +0.6 2,042
13 French 49.3% −1.3 10,534
14 Ayyubids 49.1% −1.3 1,814
15 English 48.6% +1.3 12,273
16 Rus 48.5% +0.5 3,320
17 Holy Roman Empire 47.9% −0.2 4,850
18 Ottomans 47.9% +0.1 4,359
19 Byzantines 46.0% −1.3 2,262
20 Sengoku Daimyo 45.4% −0.7 876
21 Chinese 45.4% +0.1 3,425
22 Delhi Sultanate 45.0% −3.8 1,602
23 Malians 44.7% −3.8 2,465

“vs. its average” compares each civ's win rate on Golden Heights with its win rate on all maps, in points: green means the map suits it. Civs with fewer than 200 games here are left out.

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Ranked 1v1 win rates from AoE4 World public data on 2026-10-16 (current patch, all ranks). MetaAOE is not affiliated with AoE4 World and these are not official statistics.