Sam

Who is Sam

Sam is a Chromatic-rarity brawler of class Assassin. 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, Sam has shown up in 4,435 battles with a global win rate of 70.7% and a pick rate of 0.5%. That pick rate is the share of matches where a top-PRO player chose Sam out of every available brawler, so it works as a thermometer for how meta they are right now.

Across the full roster, Sam's trend is among the strongest: their win rate is climbing faster than 90% of brawlers with a measurable trend this week. When a brawler rises this fast it's usually because maps or modes rotated in where their kit fits better than average.

Sam is a Chromatic brawler, originally tied to the seasonal Brawl Pass and now folded into the general collection. These brawlers were designed with very strong kits at release, so many remain meta several seasons later even after nerfs. Their presence in PRO tournaments depends heavily on map rotation and the current state of the counters that usually answer them.

As an Assassin, the pattern is aggressive burst: lean on the kit mobility to flank, eliminate a priority target and exit before the counter-attack lands. Super economy is critical because most assassins rely on it to escape after the pick. Maps with walls and blind angles amplify the playstyle; open maps punish it severely.

Best maps for Sam

The best map for Sam is Railroad Robbery in Gem Grab, with a Bayesian-adjusted win rate of 79.5% over 82 battles. That puts them above their class average in this mode, so it's worth picking Sam when that rotation is live. A strong run on Railroad Robbery usually combines favorable geometry (short ranges or cover) and a mode whose objective plays into the brawler's kit.

Sam's performance is highly map-dependent: there are 36.9 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, Sam also performs well on Opening Move (Knockout) with a 78.5% 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, Sam holds a 74.8% win rate on Match 1123581321 (Brawl Ball) over 89 battles. Having three competitive maps widens the rotation windows worth bringing them in for, not just their signature map.

Just above their worst result, Sam also struggles on Parallel Plays, 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, Dueling Beetles (Hot Zone) drops Sam's win rate to 42.5%. That's the bottom tail of a 36.9-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

Sam clearly dominates the matchup against Spike: across the 161 recorded battles for that pairing, their win rate climbs to 81.2%. If you spot Spike on the enemy team in draft, that lane is an edge for Sam — seek the duel out rather than avoid it.

Their second-best matchup is against Dynamike, where Sam holds a 80.7% win rate over 187 battles. Two strong favorable counters like these give Sam real value as a targeted pick against comps that lean on those two brawlers.

Where Sam has a clear disadvantage is against El Primo: their win rate drops to 56.3% across the 73 battles recorded for that matchup. If El Primo shows up on the enemy team, consider not picking Sam 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 Sam the samples range from 26 to 558 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 Sam 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 Sam, and battle sample. The larger the sample, the more reliable the number.

Loses most against

Brawler	WR	Battles
El Primo	56.3%	73
Bull	57.3%	558
Jessie	58.5%	76
Barley	64.3%	26
Nita	66.4%	107

Dominates

Brawler	WR	Battles
Spike	81.2%	161
Dynamike	80.7%	187
Brock	77.4%	107
Shelly	77.1%	114
Rico	74.5%	433

Star Powers, gadgets and hypercharge

To get the most out of Sam 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 Sam 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, Sam performs best in Brawl Ball, with a 73.4% win rate over 1,724 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 Sam 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, Sam's win rate moved from 67.7% to 73.0%, a climb of +5.3 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 Sam's favor, usually from a rotation of maps or modes where they perform better.

Compared with the rest of the roster, that move puts Sam climbing faster than 90% of brawlers with a measurable trend this week — they're at the top end of the risers. When a brawler lands in that band it's often a good moment to invest in their upgrades before a possible nerf arrives.

Every percentage on the Sam 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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