No drop zone places measurably better than the Vikendi average yet.
Zone 3 (Observatory), 5 (Lumber Yard): teams that land there place below the average, beyond the margin. Skip them if you want to reach the final circles.
PUBG / Vikendi / From real matches
Vikendi landing spotsWhere they drop. Who makes it.
Where players land on Vikendi, how many are still alive five minutes later and how their team places, measured on public matches from the official PUBG API. Squad only: modes are never mixed.
Vikendi, official map. Gold markers: kills recorded at each named place in 13 public squad matches. The plane is decoration.
13Public matches29 Oct – 1 Nov
1,098Landings readSquad, human players only
66%Alive 5 min after landingVikendi average
56.3Placement score100 = win, 0 = last team
6Drop zones judgedFrom 30 landings
The drop map
Every landing. On the map.
Each square is 255 m of Vikendi: the brighter, the more players landed there. Numbered squares had at least 30 landings and are judged below.
NarosLumber YardTrain StationDinolandKranikCoalmineDekamestoCastleObservatoryWineryTrikaLaveniZone 3 (Observatory): fewer players are still alive after five minutes than on the rest of Vikendi.
The busiest squares are where the fights start: the brightest ones on the map.
A zone is called above or below only beyond 3.29 standard errors: with hundreds of squares, a looser bar would label luck. Margins shown are 95%. 224 more squares had landings but fewer than 30: they are on the map only.
6 drop zones judged
Two ways to land.
Against the Vikendi average: 66% alive after five minutes, placement score 56.3.
Best placement first
- 6Near Naznova65.0 ±11.4within the margin
- 4Near Naros59.6 ±10.2within the margin
- 2Near Train Station56.7 ±9.1within the margin
- 1Near Naros48.7 ±7.5within the margin
- 3Near Observatory34.6 ±9.8below average
- 5Near Lumber Yard33.0 ±9.8below average
Hottest drop first
- 3Near Observatory40% ±13.8below average
- 5Near Lumber Yard42% ±17.4within the margin
- 4Near Naros56% ±16.2within the margin
- 2Near Train Station57% ±13.6within the margin
- 1Near Naros59% ±12.7within the margin
- 6Near Naznova74% ±15.4within the margin
| Drop zone | Landings | Share | Alive at 5 min | Placement | Kills / player |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Near Naros | 58 | 5.3% | 59% ±12.7 | 48.7 ±7.5 | 1.02 |
| 2Near Train Station | 51 | 4.6% | 57% ±13.6 | 56.7 ±9.1 | 1.27 |
| 3Near Observatory | 48 | 4.4% | 40% ±13.8 | 34.6 ±9.8 | 0.83 |
| 4Near Naros | 36 | 3.3% | 56% ±16.2 | 59.6 ±10.2 | 1.39 |
| 5Near Lumber Yard | 31 | 2.8% | 42% ±17.4 | 33.0 ±9.8 | 0.68 |
| 6Near Naznova | 31 | 2.8% | 74% ±15.4 | 65.0 ±11.4 | 1.00 |
Placement score: 100 is a win, 0 the last team, counted on the teams in each lobby. Kills / player counts kills on human players over the whole match of the players who landed there, not only in that square. “Near” names the closest named place, where kills on the map were recorded.
How it is measured
Real matches. Stated limits.
The sample
13 public squad matches on Vikendi, 29 Oct – 1 Nov, picked at random by the PUBG API on Steam and read every day. It is a sample, not every match played.
Who is counted
Human players only: bots, bot-only training matches, custom games and modes that are not battle royale are left out. Squad, duo and solo are never mixed, because a squad wins against 25 teams and a solo player against 100.
The grid
Vikendi is split into 32 × 32 squares of 255 m, from the coordinate extent in the PUBG API documentation (8.16 km per side). A landing is where a player touches the ground after the jump.