WhichMain Report
Where players go when they want a new main
Every day, people land on our cross-game tool asking the same thing: I main this character, who do I play in that game? Over 30 days that added up to 16,570 lookups from 5,807 players, which turns out to be a decent map of who is shopping for a new main, and where they are looking.
- Players
- 5,807
- Character lookups
- 16,570
- Window
- 30 days
The busiest routes
Each bar is the number of distinct players who looked up a character from one game to find their match in another. League of Legends players heading for Deadlock is the single busiest route on the network.
Every game's players, and where they look first
Read this as "of the people who came here holding a League of Legends main, 66% were looking at Deadlock."
League of Legends
1,996 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 66%
Overwatch 2
1,257 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 67%
Marvel Rivals
637 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 73%
Deadlock
426 players shopping
Most look at Marvel Rivals 31%
Dota 2
324 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 40%
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
286 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 53%
Valorant
275 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 59%
Heroes of the Storm
235 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 30%
Guilty Gear Strive
214 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 57%
Apex Legends
202 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 61%
Tekken 8
183 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 30%
Street Fighter 6
176 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 36%
Team Fortress 2
155 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 75%
Rainbow Six Siege X
148 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 47%
Smite 2
140 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 56%
Pokemon Unite
140 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 36%
Brawlhalla
117 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 30%
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls
99 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 35%
Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising
89 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 42%
Dragon Ball FighterZ
74 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 43%
Mortal Kombat 1
66 players shopping
Most look at Marvel Rivals 30%
Dead or Alive 6
59 players shopping
Most look at Valorant 29%
2XKO
56 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 48%
My Hero Ultra Rumble
53 players shopping
Most look at Valorant 25%
Under Night In-Birth II
51 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 31%
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
50 players shopping
Most look at Deadlock 20%
The mains people most want to find again
These are the characters players most often ask us to translate into another game. A character showing up here means people are attached enough to go looking for the feeling somewhere else.
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Ana
Overwatch 2
152
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Genji
Overwatch 2
134
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Tracer
Overwatch 2
113
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Ahri
League of Legends
106
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Juno
Overwatch 2
100
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Cassidy
Overwatch 2
97
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Junkrat
Overwatch 2
95
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Anran
Overwatch 2
91
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Aatrox
League of Legends
88
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Ashe
Overwatch 2
85
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D.Va
Overwatch 2
84
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Reinhardt
Overwatch 2
79
How this was measured
The numbers come from our own cross-game character tool between September 10 to October 10, 2026. When someone opens a page for a character in one game to see their closest match in another, that is one lookup. Players are counted once per route per 30 day window, using a salted hash of the visiting IP address, so nobody is identified and repeat visits from the same person are not double counted.
What this measures is interest, not installs. Nothing here says a player left one game for another. It says they were curious enough to look up who they would play if they did, which is the moment before a switch rather than the switch itself. Routes with fewer than 50 players in the window are left out because small numbers move around too much to mean anything. Traffic is a mix of search, direct visits and links, so games with bigger search demand appear larger here for the same reason they do everywhere else on the internet.
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