RICO
Super RareWho is RICO
RICO is a Super Rare-rarity brawler. This article summarizes their current competitive performance: best map, toughest counters, and weekly win-rate trend, all computed over real top-PRO battles in the last 14 days.
Over a 14-day window, RICO has appeared in 4,798 battles with a global win rate of 66.1% and a pick rate of 0.8%. That pick rate is the fraction of matches in which some top-PRO player chose RICO out of all available brawlers, 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.
Win Rate
66.1%
Pick Rate
0.8%
Total Battles
4,798
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#16000008Best maps for RICO
The best map for RICO is Local Restaurants in Gem Grab, with a Bayesian-smoothed win rate of 83.8%. That puts them above their class average in this mode, so it's worth picking RICO when that rotation is live. A strong showing on Local Restaurants usually combines favorable geometry (short ranges or cover) and a mode whose objective fits the brawler's kit.
As the second-best option, RICO also performs well on Singed Earth (Brawl Ball) with a 76.8% win rate. The gap from the top map is usually small; choosing one over the other depends more on the enemy team than on the brawler.
On the opposite end, Open Space (Gem Grab) drops RICO's win rate to 40.0%. If that rotation comes up in a session, consider another brawler to avoid throwing matches; the gap between best and worst map can be several percentage points.
Counters and matchups
RICO loses systematically to SHELLY: across the 100 battles recorded for that matchup, their win rate drops to 81.5%. If you see SHELLY on the enemy team during draft, consider not picking RICO or adjusting the game plan to avoid sharing a lane.
In the opposite matchup, RICO struggles against BARLEY too: across 45 battles, RICO's win rate stays low, around 56.0%, indicating that BARLEY deals heavy damage. These matchups often decide games as soon as the two brawlers share a lane.
Per-brawler matchups are the smallest-sample metric on this page, so read them with the sample-size badge in mind. A bad matchup with 50 battles tells you less than a map with 500.
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.
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
In the last 7 days, RICO's win rate has held essentially flat compared to the previous 7. A swing under 1 percentage point we treat as stable because it fits within the natural sampling noise, so the meta hasn't shifted meaningfully for this brawler.
The 7-day trend is precomputed every six hours in a small Postgres table and computed with filter source=global. Full technical details live on the methodology page.
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.
How we compute this data
Every percentage on this page comes from real top-PRO battles with a minimum sample threshold and Bayesian smoothing to avoid false positives. Technical details at /en/methodology.
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