Nani

Who is Nani

Nani is a Epic-rarity brawler of class Marksman. 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, Nani has shown up in 4,411 battles with a global win rate of 65.9% and a pick rate of 0.9%. That pick rate is the share of matches where a top-PRO player chose Nani out of every available brawler, so it works as a thermometer for how meta they are right now.

Across the full roster, Nani's trend is among the weakest: their win rate is falling below 9% 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.

Nani is an Epic brawler, a rarity where kits start to break conventions: unique mechanics, supers with special effects and gadgets that flip the whole game plan. The gem or Star Drop investment is steeper, but in return you get a tool that defines entire lanes in draft and tends to be picked in tournaments whenever its signature map enters rotation.

As a Marksman, the value lies in turning any long shooting line into an uninhabitable zone for the rival. The range outclasses most brawlers, so dictating positions is the primary weapon even before damage. Open maps with wide sightlines are the natural niche; walled maps punish it, and the draft around it must protect against assassins.

Best maps for Nani

The best map for Nani is Grass Knot in Brawl Ball, with a Bayesian-adjusted win rate of 75.6% over 52 battles. That puts them above their class average in this mode, so it's worth picking Nani when that rotation is live. A strong run on Grass Knot usually combines favorable geometry (short ranges or cover) and a mode whose objective plays into the brawler's kit.

Nani's performance is highly map-dependent: there are 30.9 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, Nani also performs well on Opening Move (Knockout) with a 72.5% win rate, only 3.1 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, Nani holds a 71.3% win rate on Konnakol (Knockout) over 162 battles. Having three competitive maps widens the rotation windows worth bringing them in for, not just their signature map.

Just above their worst result, Nani also struggles on Playmaker, 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, Sneaky Fields (Brawl Ball) drops Nani's win rate to 44.7%. That's the bottom tail of a 30.9-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

Nani clearly dominates the matchup against Barley: across the 37 recorded battles for that pairing, their win rate climbs to 73.1%. If you spot Barley on the enemy team in draft, that lane is an edge for Nani — seek the duel out rather than avoid it.

Their second-best matchup is against Rosa, where Nani holds a 72.5% win rate over 39 battles. Two strong favorable counters like these give Nani real value as a targeted pick against comps that lean on those two brawlers.

Where Nani has a clear disadvantage is against Bolt: their win rate drops to 45.5% across the 328 battles recorded for that matchup. If Bolt shows up on the enemy team, consider not picking Nani or changing the game plan to avoid the shared lane, because Bolt wins that exchange.

Per-brawler matchups are the smallest-sample metric on the page: for Nani the samples range from 15 to 328 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 Nani 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 Nani, and battle sample. The larger the sample, the more reliable the number.

Loses most against

Brawler	WR	Battles
Bolt	45.5%	328
Ollie	46.7%	15
Wendy	48.0%	45
Gigi	48.7%	46
Damian	50.5%	75

Dominates

Brawler	WR	Battles
Barley	73.1%	37
Rosa	72.5%	39
Rico	72.4%	169
Poco	72.2%	67
Dynamike	71.8%	112

Star Powers, gadgets and hypercharge

To get the most out of Nani 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 Nani 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, Nani performs best in Knockout, with a 66.1% win rate over 1,999 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 Nani 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, Nani's win rate dropped from 74.7% to 59.6%, a fall of −15.1 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 Nani, usually from a rotation of maps or a rising counter.

Compared with the rest of the roster, that move leaves Nani falling below 9% 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 Nani 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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