Sprout

Who is Sprout

Sprout is a Mythic-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, Sprout has shown up in 5,647 battles with a global win rate of 68.5% and a pick rate of 0.7%. That pick rate is the share of matches where a top-PRO player chose Sprout out of every available brawler, so it works as a thermometer for how meta they are right now.

Sprout belongs to the Mythics, the rarity where nearly every kit is built around a high skill ceiling. They aren't first-pick brawlers for new accounts because they usually demand map reading, cooldown management and matchup knowledge, but in PRO hands they make the difference between winning and losing a match. Their upgrade investment becomes a priority once you understand the meta.

Best maps for Sprout

The best map for Sprout is New Perspective in Knockout, with a Bayesian-adjusted win rate of 72.8% over 220 battles. That puts them above their class average in this mode, so it's worth picking Sprout when that rotation is live. A strong run on New Perspective usually combines favorable geometry (short ranges or cover) and a mode whose objective plays into the brawler's kit.

Sprout's performance is highly map-dependent: there are 34.2 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, Sprout also performs well on Konnakol (Knockout) with a 70.7% win rate, only 2.1 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, Sprout holds a 70.2% win rate on Please Remain Standing (Knockout) over 101 battles. Having three competitive maps widens the rotation windows worth bringing them in for, not just their signature map.

Just above their worst result, Sprout also struggles on Spiraling Out, where their win rate sits at 44.6%. Keep this map on your radar as a second warning sign when deciding the pick.

On the opposite end, Undermine (Gem Grab) drops Sprout's win rate to 38.6%. That's the bottom tail of a 34.2-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

Sprout clearly dominates the matchup against Rico: across the 478 recorded battles for that pairing, their win rate climbs to 76.6%. If you spot Rico on the enemy team in draft, that lane is an edge for Sprout — seek the duel out rather than avoid it.

Their second-best matchup is against Shelly, where Sprout holds a 75.8% win rate over 102 battles. Two strong favorable counters like these give Sprout real value as a targeted pick against comps that lean on those two brawlers.

Where Sprout has a clear disadvantage is against El Primo: their win rate drops to 61.7% across the 85 battles recorded for that matchup. If El Primo shows up on the enemy team, consider not picking Sprout or changing the game plan to avoid the shared lane, because El Primo wins that exchange.

Per-brawler matchups are the smallest-sample metric on the page: for Sprout the samples range from 39 to 711 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 Sprout 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 Sprout, and battle sample. The larger the sample, the more reliable the number.

Loses most against

Brawler	WR	Battles
El Primo	61.7%	85
Nita	64.1%	48
Bull	66.5%	197
Barley	67.1%	40
Jessie	68.1%	39

Dominates

Brawler	WR	Battles
Rico	76.6%	478
Shelly	75.8%	102
Colt	74.9%	711
Spike	71.0%	249
Dynamike	70.6%	283

Star Powers, gadgets and hypercharge

To get the most out of Sprout 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 Sprout 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, Sprout performs best in Knockout, with a 68.3% win rate over 3,310 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 Sprout 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, Sprout's win rate dropped from 67.7% to 64.5%, a fall of −3.2 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 Sprout, usually from a rotation of maps or a rising counter.

Every percentage on the Sprout 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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