Ocean Cup 6 Knockouts: Update Through the Quarterfinals

By GamingDiver · 1 November 2026

27 more matches, 91 more battles, and an update to the numbers we started in the group stage piece.

Ocean Cup 6 is down to four: CRD v PAIN and RSFX v TFKN in the semifinals. The knockouts tightened the meta: the standard lineup got more common, the core ships got picked even more, and Marco Polo went from a strong pick to the best battleship in the event.

The numbers so far

Tracked stat	Groups	Knockouts	Overall
Matches played	55	27	82
Battles	125	91	216
Different ships fielded	81	64	83
Matches won without dropping a battle	40 (73%)	20 (74%)	60 (73%)
Winner of battle 1 won the match	49 of 55	23 of 27	72 of 82
Standard 3 DD / 3 CA / 2 BB lineups	62%	69%	65%
Matches with Lushun banned	53 of 55	27 of 27	80 of 82
Matches with Michelangelo banned	52 of 55	25 of 27	77 of 82

Knockouts run through the quarterfinals. 1 knockout walkover is left out, as the group stage forfeit was, because it has no battles. Ban counts are matches with revealed bans.

Longer series didn’t make matches closer. 20 of 27 knockout matches ended 3–0, and the team that won battle 1 went on to win 23. Only 4 came back from losing the opener.

The ships: same core, sharper edges

Ship	Pick rate, groups	Pick rate, knockouts	Knockout record	Overall record	Overall win rate
Velos	64%	75%	21–13	61–35	64%
Somme	53%	68%	26–17	61–48	56%
Wisconsin	57%	58%	25–18	72–51	59%
Dm. Donskoi	47%	55%	30–16	68–47	59%
Dalian	46%	43%	29–15	67–46	59%
Tulsa	42%	47%	21–25	53–57	48%
Z-46	41%	34%	17–32	37–64	37%
Johan de Witt	26%	51%	23–25	49–54	48%
Marco Polo	17%	34%	32–11	60–24	71%
Christopher	24%	19%	12–22	42–42	50%
Minegumo	16%	29%	24–14	50–25	67%
Petropavlovsk	22%	20%	17–12	41–40	51%
Marceau	24%	14%	11–11	33–28	54%

Ships in at least 20% of all 432 lineups. As before, records only count battles where one side had the ship, because when both teams bring it one of them has to lose.

Marco Polo has the best knockout record of any battleship, 32–11, and its pick rate went from 17% to 34%. Overall it stands at 60–24.
Also strong: Dalian (29–15), Dm. Donskoi (30–16).
Biggest risers: Duncan (4% to 35%), Johan de Witt (26% to 51%), Marco Polo (17% to 34%). Biggest fallers: Marceau (24% to 14%), Z-46 (41% to 34%).
Popular but losing: Småland (6–12), Z-46 (17–32). Z-46 was the core pick that underperformed in the groups, and that hasn’t changed.

Bans: still two ships

Lushun was banned in all 27 knockout matches and Michelangelo in 25 of 27. A ban only stops the opponent, so a team that bans Lushun while the other side doesn’t keeps it for itself. That happened in 6 of the 27 matches, and it’s the only way Lushun got on the water: 21 lineups, all from the team that banned it, with a 16–5 record. Teams that leave it open are paying for it.

Maps and the first spawn-side numbers

Map	Battles	Times banned	Slot 1 record
Land of Fire	32	11	16–16
Hotspot	29	9	18–11
Greece	17	17	10–7
Warrior's Path	13	7	8–5

Slot = Training Room team slot, which swaps every battle. Each team bans one of the five maps, and the rest are played in pool order.

We said alternating spawns would let us measure spawn side for the first time. Slot 1 won 52 of 91 (57%). That leans towards slot 1, but with 91 battles the margin is about 10 points either way, so it’s well within chance. Hotspot (18–11) is the one to watch, though one map is too small a sample to call.

What’s left

The semifinals are still on the five-map pool. The final and the 3rd-place match move to Riposte, Mountain Range, Two Brothers, Tears of the Desert, Crash Zone, so the map table above won’t carry over.

How these numbers were made

Every figure comes from the match reports on the Ocean Cup 6 page: the ships each side fielded, who won each battle, and the revealed bans. The analysis is at the tournament level only: it does not include player names and never pairs players with ships.

Follow the rest on the Ocean Cup 6 page: the bracket, match lineups, bans, map bans and the pick’em.