Jacky

Who is Jacky

Jacky is a Super Rare-rarity brawler of class Tank. 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, Jacky has shown up in 2,416 battles with a global win rate of 74.1% and a pick rate of 0.5%. That pick rate is the share of matches where a top-PRO player chose Jacky out of every available brawler, so it works as a thermometer for how meta they are right now.

Jacky 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 a Tank, the job is to absorb damage, create space and start favorable close-range fights. The tank is usually the first to commit to the mode objective, soaking enemy supers so the rest of the team can position without taking them. Defensive gears tend to outperform offensive ones, and matchups against throwers or snipers dictate when and where it's safe to commit the super.

Best maps for Jacky

The best map for Jacky is Pinball Dreams in Brawl Ball, with a Bayesian-adjusted win rate of 74.5% over 111 battles. That puts them above their class average in this mode, so it's worth picking Jacky when that rotation is live. A strong run on Pinball Dreams usually combines favorable geometry (short ranges or cover) and a mode whose objective plays into the brawler's kit.

Jacky's performance is highly map-dependent: there are 29.0 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, Jacky also performs well on Sneaky Fields (Brawl Ball) with a 74.2% win rate, only 0.3 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, Jacky holds a 73.4% win rate on Bustling Business (Brawl Ball) 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, Jacky also struggles on Reach for the Stars, where their win rate sits at 48.5%. Keep this map on your radar as a second warning sign when deciding the pick.

On the opposite end, In the Liminal (Hot Zone) drops Jacky's win rate to 45.5%. That's the bottom tail of a 29.0-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

Jacky clearly dominates the matchup against Mortis: across the 429 recorded battles for that pairing, their win rate climbs to 80.4%. If you spot Mortis on the enemy team in draft, that lane is an edge for Jacky — seek the duel out rather than avoid it.

Their second-best matchup is against Shelly, where Jacky holds a 79.4% win rate over 135 battles. Two strong favorable counters like these give Jacky real value as a targeted pick against comps that lean on those two brawlers.

Where Jacky has a clear disadvantage is against Najia: their win rate drops to 50.0% across the 26 battles recorded for that matchup. If Najia shows up on the enemy team, consider not picking Jacky or changing the game plan to avoid the shared lane, because Najia wins that exchange.

Per-brawler matchups are the smallest-sample metric on the page: for Jacky the samples range from 9 to 437 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 Jacky 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 Jacky, and battle sample. The larger the sample, the more reliable the number.

Loses most against

Brawler	WR	Battles
Najia	50.0%	26
Gene	51.3%	9
Squeak	52.4%	12
Trunk	52.9%	21
Sprout	53.5%	13

Dominates

Brawler	WR	Battles
Mortis	80.4%	429
Shelly	79.4%	135
Poco	77.5%	72
Rico	76.1%	234
Edgar	74.5%	437

Star Powers, gadgets and hypercharge

To get the most out of Jacky 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 Jacky 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, Jacky performs best in Brawl Ball, with a 76.0% win rate over 1,326 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 Jacky 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, Jacky's win rate dropped from 82.9% to 78.3%, a fall of −4.6 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 Jacky, usually from a rotation of maps or a rising counter.

Every percentage on the Jacky 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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