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Best civs on Waterholes (AoE4, ranked 1v1)

Best win rate on Waterholes: Knights Templar, 56.0% in its 3,565 ranked 1v1 games here. Biggest gain from this map: Mongols, 5.7 points above its win rate on all maps. Biggest drop: Byzantines, 4.2 points below its win rate on all maps and last in the table at 43.1%.

Map type
HybridLand and water both count.
Ranked 1v1 games
18,163On the current patch, all ranks.
Best win rate
Knights Templar56.0% over 3,565 games.

Waterholes win rate by civ

AoE4 civs on Waterholes in ranked 1v1: win rate, gap to the civ's win rate on all maps, games
#CivWin ratevs. its averageGames
1 Knights Templar 56.0% +2.4 3,565
2 Macedonian Dynasty 55.7% +0.9 1,487
3 Mongols 54.5% +5.7 1,571
4 Zhu Xi’s Legacy 54.4% +1.9 970
5 Golden Horde 53.9% +0.3 976
6 Order of the Dragon 53.8% +1.2 1,707
7 French 52.0% +1.4 4,700
8 Jin Dynasty 51.8% +0.5 697
9 Japanese 51.2% −0.1 2,204
10 Ayyubids 50.8% +0.3 793
11 Rus 49.0% +1.0 1,178
12 House of Lancaster 48.5% −1.6 801
13 Holy Roman Empire 46.6% −1.5 1,685
14 Ottomans 46.2% −1.5 1,925
15 Jeanne d’Arc 46.2% −2.9 683
16 Tughlaq Dynasty 46.1% −3.4 369
17 English 45.9% −1.4 4,626
18 Malians 45.8% −2.8 855
19 Sengoku Daimyo 45.2% −0.9 483
20 Delhi Sultanate 45.0% −3.8 619
21 Abbasid Dynasty 45.0% −3.9 882
22 Chinese 43.7% −1.5 1,285
23 Byzantines 43.1% −4.2 909

“vs. its average” compares each civ's win rate on Waterholes 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.