PENNY

Who is PENNY

PENNY is a brawler of Super Rare rarity, 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 90 days, Bayesian-smoothed so a brawler with a small sample doesn't show a misleading percentage.

Over the 30-day window, PENNY has shown up in 1,317 battles with a global win rate of 67.7%. 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, PENNY has 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. It uses the long window on purpose, because a brawler's popularity shifts more slowly than their win rate.

Across the full roster, PENNY's trend is among the weakest: their win rate is falling below 15% of brawlers with a measurable trend this week. That signal often foreshadows the meta turning against the brawler before it even shows in their global win rate.

The two figures for PENNY tell different things. The observed win rate, 67.7%, measures how often it wins in the hands of a top 200 player from its country. The discounted strength, 48.8%, 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.

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.

As Artillery, the projectile arcs over walls, so the job is to make ground unusable rather than to win duels. Damage lands where the enemy is forced to stand — on the objective, in a choke, behind the cover that would otherwise be safe — which is why the class decides matches without ever holding the front line. Closed maps with tight lanes are the natural niche; open ground removes the walls that make the arc worth anything, and any brawler that closes the distance wins the exchange outright.

Best maps for PENNY

The best map for PENNY is Think Ahead in Knockout, with a Bayesian-adjusted win rate of 77.7% over 40 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 Think Ahead 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 19.8 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 Spiraling Out (Brawl Ball) with a 76.8% 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, PENNY holds a 76.5% win rate on Jungle Top (Knockout) over 49 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 Out in the Open, where their win rate sits at 62.4%. Keep this map on your radar as a second warning sign when deciding the pick.

On the opposite end, Hot Potato (Heist) drops PENNY's win rate to 58.0%. That's the bottom tail of a 19.8-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 TICK: across the 109 recorded battles for that pairing, their win rate climbs to 78.0%. If you spot TICK 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 LEON, where PENNY holds a 76.9% win rate over 46 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 SHADE: their win rate drops to 57.0% across the 104 battles recorded for that matchup. If SHADE shows up on the enemy team, consider not picking PENNY 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 PENNY the samples range from 39 to 196 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 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 PENNY, and battle sample. The larger the sample, the more reliable the number.

Loses most against

Brawler	WR	Battles
SHADE	57.0%	104
WENDY	60.3%	52
MELODIE	61.5%	39
POCO	62.1%	56
JESSIE	62.5%	65

Dominates

Brawler	WR	Battles
TICK	78.0%	109
LEON	76.9%	46
COLT	75.3%	171
COLETTE	74.3%	81
EDGAR	73.6%	196

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 71.3% win rate over 974 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

Over the last 7 days, PENNY's win rate dropped from 68.3% to 64.3%, a fall of −3.9 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 PENNY, usually from a rotation of maps or a rising counter.

Compared with the rest of the roster, that move leaves PENNY falling below 15% of brawlers with a measurable trend this week — they're at the bottom end of those losing ground. It doesn't mean they're unplayable, but it's worth waiting for the next map rotation before prioritizing their investment.

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.