Best Hot Zone Brawlers

Updated October 24, 2026 · 614,124 battles analyzed

Hot Zone rewards sustained area denial over burst damage, so brawlers who can hold a zone against multiple opponents at once consistently outperform pure duelists.

Brawler Tiers: S+ to D

S+ Tier

Shade61.1% WR18,695games

Vince67% WR6,262games

S Tier

Edgar53.4% WR24,210games

Trunk66.2% WR5,729games

Juju64.3% WR6,677games

Nori62.2% WR7,776games

Doug62.1% WR7,389games

Amber61% WR8,454games

A Tier

Chuck62.2% WR7,179games

Starr Nova64.3% WR4,631games

Sirius62.4% WR6,310games

Cosmo65% WR4,016games

Wendy65.3% WR3,472games

R-T65.7% WR3,137games

Bo57.3% WR11,505games

Gus60.1% WR7,607games

Damian64.5% WR2,544games

Gigi62.5% WR3,258games

Mina60.6% WR3,566games

Hank60% WR3,769games

Draco61.5% WR2,438games

Lola61.2% WR2,250games

Finx60.8% WR2,267games

Poco48.8% WR14,644games

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Full Brawler Rankings

Every brawler in Hot Zone, ranked by score

How tiers are calculated →

Rank	Class	Brawler	Tier	Win Rate	Use Rate	Matches	Trend
1	Assassin	Shade	S+	61.1%	3.04%	18,695	▲ 4
2		Vince	S+	67%	1.02%	6,262	-
3	Assassin	Edgar	S	53.4%	3.94%	24,210	-
4	Tank	Trunk	S	66.2%	0.93%	5,729	▲ 6
5	Artillery	Juju	S	64.3%	1.09%	6,677	▲ 16
6	Assassin	Nori	S	62.2%	1.27%	7,776	▲ 6
7	Support	Doug	S	62.1%	1.2%	7,389	▲ 4
8	Controller	Amber	S	61%	1.38%	8,454	▼ 7
9	Damage Dealer	Chuck	A	62.2%	1.17%	7,179	▼ 5
10	Assassin	Starr Nova	A	64.3%	0.75%	4,631	▼ 3
11	Controller	Sirius	A	62.4%	1.03%	6,310	▲ 2
12		Cosmo	A	65%	0.65%	4,016	▼ 3
13	Support	Wendy	A	65.3%	0.57%	3,472	▼ 7
14	Damage Dealer	R-T	A	65.7%	0.51%	3,137	▲ 16
15	Controller	Bo	A	57.3%	1.87%	11,505	▼ 13
16	Support	Gus	A	60.1%	1.24%	7,607	▼ 8
17	Tank	Damian	A	64.5%	0.41%	2,544	▼ 3
18	Assassin	Gigi	A	62.5%	0.53%	3,258	▲ 2
19	Damage Dealer	Mina	A	60.6%	0.58%	3,566	-
20	Tank	Hank	A	60%	0.61%	3,769	▲ 2
21	Tank	Draco	A	61.5%	0.4%	2,438	▼ 4
22	Damage Dealer	Lola	A	61.2%	0.37%	2,250	▲ 11
23	Controller	Finx	A	60.8%	0.37%	2,267	▼ 8
24	Support	Poco	A	48.8%	2.38%	14,644	-
25	Damage Dealer	Lumi	B	59.6%	0.48%	2,970	▲ 7
26	Controller	Willow	B	59.4%	0.49%	3,015	▲ 20
27	Support	Glowy	B	59.3%	0.46%	2,835	▼ 9
28	Tank	Bolt	B	59.7%	0.35%	2,152	▼ 1
29	Controller	Emz	B	46.4%	2.63%	16,140	▼ 6
30	Marksman	Pierce	B	57%	0.58%	3,548	▼ 1
31	Assassin	Kaze	B	57.9%	0.47%	2,877	-
32	Damage Dealer	Chester	B	57.6%	0.49%	3,002	▲ 6
33	Artillery	Tick	B	42.1%	3.52%	21,603	▼ 17
34	Tank	Bibi	B	48.5%	1.86%	11,397	▲ 28
35	Support	Kit	B	56.7%	0.51%	3,106	▲ 2
36	Assassin	Kenji	B	50%	1.5%	9,184	▲ 9
37	Controller	Meeple	B	57.7%	0.36%	2,202	▲ 2
38	Damage Dealer	Colette	B	50%	1.42%	8,725	▼ 10
39	Controller	Griff	B	48.4%	1.73%	10,652	▼ 14
40	Damage Dealer	Nita	B	48.2%	1.72%	10,576	▲ 9
41	Assassin	Mortis	B	51.9%	1.03%	6,324	▲ 3
42	Assassin	Alli	B	58.1%	0.28%	1,700	▲ 10
43	Tank	El Primo	B	46.6%	2%	12,313	▼ 3
44	Marksman	Mandy	B	55.5%	0.51%	3,157	▼ 3
45	Assassin	Stu	B	55.4%	0.48%	2,928	▼ 19
46	Controller	Ziggy	B	56.4%	0.37%	2,278	▲ 13
47	Artillery	Barley	B	45.6%	1.89%	11,604	▲ 7
48	Marksman	Janet	B	57.1%	0.22%	1,354	▲ 3
49	Tank	Bull	B	49.3%	1.15%	7,043	▲ 8
50	Controller	Jessie	B	44.6%	2.07%	12,697	▼ 14
51	Assassin	Mico	B	54.2%	0.45%	2,790	▲ 19
52	Artillery	Larry & Lawrie	B	50.6%	0.89%	5,437	▲ 11
53	Artillery	Sprout	B	56%	0.26%	1,607	-
54	Damage Dealer	Colt	C	46.2%	1.63%	10,029	▲ 1
55	Support	Pam	C	51.5%	0.72%	4,417	▼ 21
56	Damage Dealer	Surge	C	45.8%	1.66%	10,190	▲ 22
57	Support	Gray	C	55.6%	0.26%	1,590	▼ 22
58	Marksman	Brock	C	45.3%	1.7%	10,464	▲ 8
59	Assassin	Sam	C	55.1%	0.27%	1,653	▼ 16
60	Damage Dealer	8-Bit	C	44.4%	1.84%	11,289	▼ 12
61	Support	Jae-Yong	C	56.4%	0.17%	1,043	▼ 19
62	Damage Dealer	Moe	C	56.1%	0.18%	1,096	▼ 6
63	Damage Dealer	Shelly	C	45.4%	1.57%	9,661	▲ 2
64	Tank	Frank	C	45.2%	1.52%	9,322	▼ 14
65	Assassin	Buzz	C	50.1%	0.7%	4,321	▲ 10
66	Marksman	Nani	C	54.1%	0.26%	1,614	▼ 6
67	Tank	Ash	C	48.2%	0.85%	5,195	▲ 2
68	Artillery	Dynamike	C	41.5%	2.02%	12,391	▲ 4
69	Controller	Lou	C	47.2%	0.88%	5,403	▼ 8
70	Support	Ruffs	C	53.6%	0.18%	1,121	▼ 23
71	Tank	Rosa	C	46.5%	0.8%	4,899	▼ 3
72	Damage Dealer	Rico	C	42.2%	1.48%	9,067	▼ 5
73	Artillery	Penny	C	41.3%	1.57%	9,664	▼ 15
74	Support	Berry	C	42.4%	1.34%	8,256	▼ 3
75	Damage Dealer	Najia	C	50.8%	0.22%	1,342	▼ 11
76	Assassin	Fang	C	43.8%	0.91%	5,600	▼ 2
77	Damage Dealer	Spike	C	41.1%	1.21%	7,412	▼ 4
78	Marksman	Maisie	C	44.9%	0.63%	3,880	▼ 2
79	Marksman	Angelo	C	48.8%	0.17%	1,041	▲ 1
80	Damage Dealer	Tara	C	43.8%	0.57%	3,507	▼ 3
81	Tank	Meg	C	41.9%	0.72%	4,393	-
82	Controller	Sandy	C	41.1%	0.81%	5,004	▼ 3
83	Controller	Gale	C	41.3%	0.71%	4,338	▼ 1
84	Damage Dealer	Carl	C	39.5%	0.95%	5,843	▼ 1
85	Assassin	Cordelius	C	41.3%	0.62%	3,793	▲ 11
86	Controller	Squeak	C	37.9%	1.09%	6,677	▼ 1
87	Assassin	Melodie	D	42.3%	0.46%	2,822	▲ 2
88	Tank	Jacky	D	36.6%	1.12%	6,880	▲ 11
89	Damage Dealer	Pearl	D	40.1%	0.57%	3,500	▼ 5
90	Damage Dealer	Clancy	D	37.3%	0.63%	3,868	▼ 3
91	Tank	Darryl	D	34.4%	1.01%	6,229	▲ 2
92	Controller	Otis	D	37.4%	0.44%	2,713	▼ 6
93	Marksman	Piper	D	36.1%	0.57%	3,528	▲ 2
94	Assassin	Crow	D	33.3%	0.92%	5,651	▼ 4
95	Assassin	Leon	D	34.7%	0.66%	4,057	▼ 1
96	Assassin	Lily	D	35.7%	0.51%	3,104	▲ 4
97	Marksman	Belle	D	36.3%	0.39%	2,379	▼ 9
98	Damage Dealer	Eve	D	35.1%	0.41%	2,548	-
99	Support	Max	D	33.4%	0.55%	3,388	▼ 8
100	Artillery	Grom	D	33.7%	0.51%	3,151	▼ 8
101	Controller	Mr. P	D	34.1%	0.43%	2,649	▼ 4
102	Support	Byron	D	31.1%	0.64%	3,911	▲ 2
103	Controller	Charlie	D	30.9%	0.45%	2,754	▲ 2
104	Marksman	Bonnie	D	31%	0.39%	2,366	▲ 2
105	Tank	Ollie	D	31.1%	0.28%	1,749	▼ 2
106	Marksman	Bea	D	28%	0.55%	3,406	▼ 5
107	Tank	Buster	D	29%	0.44%	2,672	▼ 5
108	Controller	Gene	D	20.1%	0.37%	2,283	▼ 1

Best Brawlers in Hot Zone right now

Best Overall

ShadeMeta Score 8.7/10

Highest Win Rate

Vince67% win rate

Most Used

Edgar3.94% use rate

Biggest Riser

Bibiup 28 ranks

In the Hot Zone meta, Shade leads with a Meta Score of 8.7/10. Vince has the highest win rate at 67%, while Edgar is the most used at 3.94%. R-T is the most underrated brawler here: it ranks #3 by win rate but only #69 by use rate. That gap suggests its results are stronger than its popularity. Bibi moved the most since the last update, climbing 28 ranks as the rest of the roster shifted around it. Every ranking on this page weighs win rate more heavily than raw popularity, so a widely picked brawler with a mediocre win rate does not automatically outrank one that is rarer but quietly wins more often. This view is built from 614,124 recorded brawler appearances across Hot Zone.

About this tier list

This is the Hot Zone tier list for October 2026, ranking every eligible brawler by win rate and pick rate in this mode specifically. Hot Zone rewards sustained area denial over burst damage, so brawlers who can hold a zone against multiple opponents at once consistently outperform pure duelists. Holding the zone here is about numbers advantage in one spot, not about winning individual duels, so a brawler that can threaten an area with sustained damage often outperforms one that only wins a single 1v1. Losing the zone even briefly lets the meter reverse, so area denial that holds up over time matters more than a single big burst. Every brawler here is scored the same way regardless of class, so a support and a tank can be compared directly by how much they win and get picked. A class filter sits below the tier grid too, so you can jump straight to the Hot Zone picks that matter for your preferred role without wading through every brawler outside it. The full table further down lists every eligible brawler in Hot Zone individually with its exact win rate, use rate, and match count, so two brawlers that land in the same tier can still be compared side by side before you settle on a pick. Brawlers with too few recorded matches in Hot Zone are shown separately as Unranked rather than forced into a tier on thin data. Their win rate is hidden rather than shown too, since a rate built on a sample that small is not something you should treat as a real signal, even though the exact number looks precise enough to invite reading it as one.

Computed from 614,124 battles BrawlMetrics counted itself over the last 7 days. The rate shown is a Wilson score lower bound, not the raw rate, so a small sample cannot outrank a large one on a hot streak. Composite score is 70% of that plus 30% use rate. Tiers are assigned by percentile of that score (S+ top 2%, S next 6%, A next 15%, B next 27%, C next 30%, D bottom 20%). Brawlers under 300 battles in this slice are marked Unranked rather than tiered on too little data, and a movement arrow is only shown when the previous 7 days also had at least 300 battles for that brawler.

This page pulls fresh battle data on a daily cycle, so tiers shift gradually as the metagame evolves rather than jumping around from a single unusual day of results. The same underlying pipeline feeds every mode, rank, and Showdown variant tier list on this site, so a brawler's tier here and its tier on a mode-specific page are always built from a consistent, comparable methodology, never two different formulas pretending to agree.

Tier List FAQ

What matters most in Hot Zone?

Holding the zone here is about numbers advantage in one spot, not about winning individual duels, so a brawler that can threaten an area with sustained damage often outperforms one that only wins a single 1v1. Losing the zone even briefly lets the meter reverse, so area denial that holds up over time matters more than a single big burst.

Why might this list differ from the overall Brawl Stars tier list?

A brawler can lead the overall tier list and still land lower here, or the other way around, because Hot Zone has its own pace and its own objective. The overall list blends every mode's results together, while this page only counts battles played in Hot Zone, so a kit that is only average in the wider blend can still be one of the best picks for this specific mode.

How is the tier list score calculated?

Each brawler gets a composite score: 70% a Wilson lower-bound win rate plus 30% use rate, both normalized against the rest of the brawlers in that same slice. The Wilson bound stops a brawler with very few games and a lucky streak from outranking one with a huge, reliable sample. Win rate is weighted more heavily than use rate on purpose: a brawler that a lot of players happen to pick is not automatically a strong one, but a brawler that wins consistently almost always deserves the higher tier.

How are S+ through D tiers assigned?

By percentile of the composite score, not fixed cutoffs: S+ is the top 2%, S the next 6%, A the next 15%, B the next 27%, C the next 30%, and D the bottom 20%. Percentiles keep every tier populated even as the numbers shift, so S+ never quietly empties out after a balance patch and D never quietly fills up with half the roster.

What do win rate and use rate mean?

Win rate is the share of recorded battles that brawler won, Wilson-adjusted for sample size. Use rate is how often that brawler was picked relative to every other brawler in the same slice. A brawler can have a great win rate on a small player base or a middling win rate across a huge one, which is exactly why both numbers are shown side by side instead of collapsing everything into one figure.

How often is this tier list updated?

The date at the top of every page is the exact time this data was last refreshed from a new scrape of recorded battles, shown next to the total number of battles that refresh was built from. Judge freshness by that date rather than by a promised schedule: it is the real timestamp of the data on the page, not the time the page was generated.

Why do some brawlers show as Unranked or New?

A brawler needs at least 1,000 recorded matches in a given slice to be tiered. Below that, the sample is too small to trust, so it is shown separately instead of forced into a tier. This most often catches a brawler recently released, or an older brawler that is simply rare in this specific mode or rank.