Tick

Who is Tick

Tick 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, Tick has shown up in 5,873 battles with a global win rate of 70.4% and a pick rate of 0.7%. That pick rate is the share of matches where a top-PRO player chose Tick out of every available brawler, so it works as a thermometer for how meta they are right now.

Tick 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 Tick

The best map for Tick is Think Ahead in Knockout, with a Bayesian-adjusted win rate of 74.3% over 277 battles. That puts them above their class average in this mode, so it's worth picking Tick 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.

Tick's performance is highly map-dependent: there are 29.5 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, Tick also performs well on Goldarm Gulch (Knockout) with a 73.9% win rate, only 0.4 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, Tick holds a 73.5% win rate on Crab Claws (Knockout) over 170 battles. Having three competitive maps widens the rotation windows worth bringing them in for, not just their signature map.

Just above their worst result, Tick also struggles on Picturesque, where their win rate sits at 45.5%. Keep this map on your radar as a second warning sign when deciding the pick.

On the opposite end, Undermine (Gem Grab) drops Tick's win rate to 44.7%. That's the bottom tail of a 29.5-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

Tick clearly dominates the matchup against Rico: across the 480 recorded battles for that pairing, their win rate climbs to 79.8%. If you spot Rico on the enemy team in draft, that lane is an edge for Tick — seek the duel out rather than avoid it.

Their second-best matchup is against Spike, where Tick holds a 79.0% win rate over 275 battles. Two strong favorable counters like these give Tick real value as a targeted pick against comps that lean on those two brawlers.

Where Tick has a clear disadvantage is against Nita: their win rate drops to 63.2% across the 57 battles recorded for that matchup. If Nita shows up on the enemy team, consider not picking Tick or changing the game plan to avoid the shared lane, because Nita wins that exchange.

Per-brawler matchups are the smallest-sample metric on the page: for Tick the samples range from 33 to 734 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 Tick 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 Tick, and battle sample. The larger the sample, the more reliable the number.

Loses most against

Brawler	WR	Battles
Nita	63.2%	57
Barley	63.5%	33
Jessie	65.3%	45
Bull	69.8%	205
Dynamike	70.1%	137

Dominates

Brawler	WR	Battles
Rico	79.8%	480
Spike	79.0%	275
Shelly	77.4%	103
Colt	76.7%	734
Brock	70.1%	559

Star Powers, gadgets and hypercharge

To get the most out of Tick 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 Tick 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, Tick performs best in Knockout, with a 72.7% win rate over 3,327 battles — the mode with the most recorded sample for this brawler. That makes Knockout 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 Tick 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, Tick's win rate moved from 69.0% to 71.1%, a climb of +2.1 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 Tick's favor, usually from a rotation of maps or modes where they perform better.

Every percentage on the Tick 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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