CROW

Who is CROW

CROW is a brawler of Legendary rarity, class Assassin. 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 90 days, Bayesian-smoothed so a brawler with a small sample doesn't show a misleading percentage.

Over the 30-day window, CROW has shown up in 357 battles with a global win rate of 56.7%. That window belongs to the figure itself and is shorter than the one feeding the rest of the page, because a win rate needs recent data so it doesn't drag along a meta that already moved on.

Across the full 90 days, CROW has a pick rate of 0.4%. That pick rate is the share of matches where a top-PRO player chose CROW out of every available brawler, so it works as a thermometer for how meta they are right now. It uses the long window on purpose, because a brawler's popularity shifts more slowly than their win rate.

The two figures for CROW tell different things. The observed win rate, 56.7%, measures how often it wins in the hands of a top 200 player from its country. The discounted strength, 25.0%, estimates how often it would win against a mid-level opponent once the mix of opponents it happened to face is discounted. The first one orders the lists across the site and the second sits beside it, as context.

By discounted strength, CROW takes rank 107 of 107, in the bottom third of the roster. Its observed win rate leans in part on the opponents it happened to face, so read it together with the specific map and mode.

CROW is a Legendary brawler, one of the most coveted rarities in the game because it blends a unique identity with low box drop chance. The kit is usually built to define entire matches: hypercharges with critical timing, supers that zone whole maps off, or gadgets that break the standard logic of the mode. In PRO tournaments they show up when the draft calls for a specific piece no other brawler can cover the same way.

As an Assassin, the pattern is aggressive burst: lean on the kit mobility to flank, eliminate a priority target and exit before the counter-attack lands. Super economy is critical because most assassins rely on it to escape after the pick. Maps with walls and blind angles amplify the playstyle; open maps punish it severely.

Best maps for CROW

The best map for CROW is Turnover in Basket Brawl, with a Bayesian-adjusted win rate of 84.0% over 36 battles. That puts them above their class average in this mode, so it's worth picking CROW when that rotation is live. A strong run on Turnover usually combines favorable geometry (short ranges or cover) and a mode whose objective plays into the brawler's kit.

CROW's performance is highly map-dependent: there are 30.7 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, CROW also performs well on Supercut (Bounty) with a 83.0% win rate, only 1.0 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, CROW holds a 82.9% win rate on Arabesque (Brawl Hockey) over 32 battles. Having three competitive maps widens the rotation windows worth bringing them in for, not just their signature map.

Just above their worst result, CROW also struggles on Open Business, where their win rate sits at 55.7%. Keep this map on your radar as a second warning sign when deciding the pick.

On the opposite end, Dueling Beetles (Hot Zone) drops CROW's win rate to 53.3%. That's the bottom tail of a 30.7-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

CROW clearly dominates the matchup against EDGAR: across the 37 recorded battles for that pairing, their win rate climbs to 75.3%. If you spot EDGAR on the enemy team in draft, that lane is an edge for CROW — seek the duel out rather than avoid it.

Their second-best matchup is against BROCK, where CROW holds a 74.0% win rate over 30 battles. Two strong favorable counters like these give CROW real value as a targeted pick against comps that lean on those two brawlers.

Where CROW has a clear disadvantage is against SHADE: their win rate drops to 51.3% across the 39 battles recorded for that matchup. If SHADE shows up on the enemy team, consider not picking CROW or changing the game plan to avoid the shared lane, because SHADE wins that exchange.

Per-brawler matchups are the smallest-sample metric on the page: for CROW the samples range from 30 to 69 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 CROW performs worst and best over the last 30 days, sampled from top PRO players and smoothed with Bayesian WR to avoid noise.

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

Loses most against

Brawler	WR	Battles
SHADE	51.3%	39
AMBER	53.0%	33
GUS	57.5%	42
FANG	60.7%	30
BIBI	61.0%	33

Dominates

Brawler	WR	Battles
EDGAR	75.3%	37
BROCK	74.0%	30
COLT	68.4%	32
MORTIS	66.1%	69
RICO	64.7%	34

Star Powers, Gadgets and Hypercharge

To get the most out of CROW 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 CROW 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, CROW performs best in Brawl Ball, with a 60.8% win rate over 564 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 CROW 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, CROW's win rate moved from 53.8% to 58.9%, a climb of +5.1 points versus the previous half of the window. Since each half clears the 3-battle minimum, that move isn't noise: it reflects the meta shifting in CROW's favor, usually from a rotation of maps or modes where they perform better.

Every percentage on the CROW page comes from real battles played by the world's top players, aggregated with statistical smoothing and 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.