Rico

Who is Rico

Rico is a Super Rare-rarity brawler of class Damage Dealer. This article summarizes their performance in the current competitive meta: best map, hardest counters, and the weekly trend of their win rate. The numbers come from top-PRO battles over the last 14 days, Bayesian-smoothed so a brawler with a small sample doesn't show a misleading percentage.

Over the 14-day window, Rico has shown up in 7,207 battles with a global win rate of 65.6% and a pick rate of 0.8%. That pick rate is the share of matches where a top-PRO player chose Rico out of every available brawler, so it works as a thermometer for how meta they are right now.

Rico falls into the Super Rares, an intermediate band where the roster starts to specialize for real. The upgrade investment is a notch higher than lower rarities, but the kits usually carry a clear identity: defined draft roles, specific synergies with certain modes and a skill ceiling high enough for a PRO to put real distance between themselves and a new account piloting the same brawler.

As a Damage Dealer, the role is to apply lane pressure at medium range: clean shooting lines hold zone control and force the enemy to move. This isn't a brawler that opens fights up close — it's the one that punishes any positioning mistake from the opponent. In team play it sits behind the tank, covering flanks and finishing objectives once the fight has already developed.

Best maps for Rico

The best map for Rico is Sidetrack in Brawl Ball, with a Bayesian-adjusted win rate of 75.1% over 143 battles. That puts them above their class average in this mode, so it's worth picking Rico when that rotation is live. A strong run on Sidetrack usually combines favorable geometry (short ranges or cover) and a mode whose objective plays into the brawler's kit.

Rico's performance is highly map-dependent: there are 35.1 percentage points between their best and worst map. That high variance means it pays to check the rotation before locking them in, because the same brawler swings from one of the best options to a clearly unfavorable pick depending on the map.

As a second map option, Rico also performs well on Too Gimmicky 2 (Wipeout) with a 73.9% win rate, only 1.2 points off their best map. When the gap between the top two maps is this small, picking one over the other comes down to the enemy team more than the brawler itself.

Rounding out the podium, Rico holds a 72.3% win rate on Hello Always Ends With a Goodbye (Wipeout) over 35 battles. Having three competitive maps widens the rotation windows worth bringing them in for, not just their signature map.

Just above their worst result, Rico also struggles on Parallel Plays, where their win rate sits at 42.1%. Keep this map on your radar as a second warning sign when deciding the pick.

On the opposite end, Open Space (Gem Grab) drops Rico's win rate to 40.0%. That's the bottom tail of a 35.1-point range between their best and worst map, so if that rotation comes up during a session, consider a different brawler to avoid throwing matches.

Counters and matchups

Rico clearly dominates the matchup against Spike: across the 340 recorded battles for that pairing, their win rate climbs to 77.3%. If you spot Spike on the enemy team in draft, that lane is an edge for Rico — seek the duel out rather than avoid it.

Their second-best matchup is against Shelly, where Rico holds a 76.4% win rate over 182 battles. Two strong favorable counters like these give Rico real value as a targeted pick against comps that lean on those two brawlers.

Where Rico has a clear disadvantage is against Barley: their win rate drops to 61.0% across the 70 battles recorded for that matchup. If Barley shows up on the enemy team, consider not picking Rico or changing the game plan to avoid the shared lane, because Barley wins that exchange.

Per-brawler matchups are the smallest-sample metric on the page: for Rico the samples range from 15 to 890 battles. Read them with the confidence that sample implies — a matchup at the low end says far less than one backed by the high one.

This section lists the matchups where Rico performs worst and best over the last 90 days, sampled from top PRO players and smoothed with Bayesian WR to avoid noise.

Read each row left to right: brawler, win rate vs Rico, and battle sample. The larger the sample, the more reliable the number.

Loses most against

Brawler	WR	Battles
Barley	61.0%	70
Jessie	62.2%	15
Brock	62.2%	203
Rico	63.6%	890
Colt	66.3%	849

Dominates

Brawler	WR	Battles
Spike	77.3%	340
Shelly	76.4%	182
Bull	67.9%	833
Colt	66.3%	849
Rico	63.6%	890

Star Powers, gadgets and hypercharge

To get the most out of Rico in the current meta, prioritize upgrades by synergy with their kit, not by gem cost. Star powers, gadgets and hypercharge change tiers depending on the meta, so the upgrade priority is dynamic.

As a general rule, the first profitable upgrade for Rico is usually the star power with the highest pick rate in PRO tournaments, followed by the gadget that best fits their role (lane, support, or pick). Hypercharge, when it exists, comes last because it costs more Coins and Power Points and only triggers with a full super bar.

By game mode, Rico performs best in Brawl Ball, with a 66.2% win rate over 3,160 battles — the mode with the most recorded sample for this brawler. That makes Brawl Ball the context where their performance is most reliable and where investing in upgrades pays off most clearly.

Beyond the immediate meta, the upgrade path for Rico should prioritize what moves the win rate needle the most: power 11 before gears, first star power before second, primary gadget before any hypercharge. Hypercharges cost a lot of coins and power points and only activate with a full super bar, so their real priority drops toward the end of the checklist.

Weekly meta analysis

Over the last 7 days, Rico's win rate dropped from 70.5% to 62.3%, a fall of −8.2 points versus the previous half of the window. With both halves above the sample minimum, that drop is a real signal: the meta is moving against Rico, usually from a rotation of maps or a rising counter.

Every percentage on the Rico page comes from sampling top PRO battles with source=global filtering and Bayesian smoothing, recomputed every six hours. If you want to understand why one map performs better than another or how a rotation affects the win rate, the methodology page covers the technical detail step by step.

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