Penny

Who is Penny

Penny is a Super Rare-rarity brawler of class Artillery. 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, Penny has shown up in 3,418 battles with a global win rate of 68.3% and a pick rate of 0.7%. That pick rate is the share of matches where a top-PRO player chose Penny out of every available brawler, so it works as a thermometer for how meta they are right now.

Penny 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.

Best maps for Penny

The best map for Penny is Arabesque in Brawl Hockey, with a Bayesian-adjusted win rate of 73.8% over 35 battles. That puts them above their class average in this mode, so it's worth picking Penny when that rotation is live. A strong run on Arabesque usually combines favorable geometry (short ranges or cover) and a mode whose objective plays into the brawler's kit.

Penny's performance is highly map-dependent: there are 28.6 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, Penny also performs well on Think Ahead (Knockout) with a 73.3% win rate, only 0.5 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, Penny holds a 72.4% win rate on Backyard Bowl (Brawl Ball) over 144 battles. Having three competitive maps widens the rotation windows worth bringing them in for, not just their signature map.

Just above their worst result, Penny also struggles on Choral Chambers, where their win rate sits at 47.1%. Keep this map on your radar as a second warning sign when deciding the pick.

On the opposite end, Bridge Too Far (Heist) drops Penny's win rate to 45.2%. That's the bottom tail of a 28.6-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

Penny clearly dominates the matchup against Rico: across the 205 recorded battles for that pairing, their win rate climbs to 75.3%. If you spot Rico on the enemy team in draft, that lane is an edge for Penny — seek the duel out rather than avoid it.

Their second-best matchup is against El Primo, where Penny holds a 75.2% win rate over 111 battles. Two strong favorable counters like these give Penny real value as a targeted pick against comps that lean on those two brawlers.

Where Penny has a clear disadvantage is against Ruffs: their win rate drops to 44.1% across the 29 battles recorded for that matchup. If Ruffs shows up on the enemy team, consider not picking Penny or changing the game plan to avoid the shared lane, because Ruffs wins that exchange.

Per-brawler matchups are the smallest-sample metric on the page: for Penny the samples range from 8 to 401 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 Penny 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 Penny, and battle sample. The larger the sample, the more reliable the number.

Loses most against

Brawler	WR	Battles
Ruffs	44.1%	29
Nori	47.3%	82
Jae-Yong	50.0%	8
Ollie	50.0%	12
Alli	50.9%	29

Dominates

Brawler	WR	Battles
Rico	75.3%	205
El Primo	75.2%	111
Dynamike	73.5%	132
Colt	73.3%	401
Shelly	72.8%	84

Star Powers, gadgets and hypercharge

To get the most out of Penny 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 Penny 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, Penny performs best in Brawl Ball, with a 71.6% win rate over 918 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 Penny 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, Penny'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.

Every percentage on the Penny 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.

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