GUS

Who is GUS

GUS is a brawler of Super Rare rarity, class Support. 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 90 days, Bayesian-smoothed so a brawler with a small sample doesn't show a misleading percentage.

Over the 30-day window, GUS has shown up in 6,645 battles with a global win rate of 74.0%. That window belongs to the figure itself and is shorter than the one feeding the rest of the page, because a win rate needs recent data so it doesn't drag along a meta that already moved on.

Across the full 90 days, GUS has a pick rate of 2.8%. That pick rate is the share of matches where a top-PRO player chose GUS out of every available brawler, so it works as a thermometer for how meta they are right now. It uses the long window on purpose, because a brawler's popularity shifts more slowly than their win rate.

The two figures for GUS tell different things. The observed win rate, 74.0%, measures how often it wins in the hands of a top 200 player from its country. The discounted strength, 50.5%, estimates how often it would win against a mid-level opponent once the mix of opponents it happened to face is discounted. The first one orders the lists across the site and the second sits beside it, as context.

GUS 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 Support, the value sits in what the brawler enables for the team rather than what it kills directly. The best moments are pushing the tank forward with heals, shields or crowd control on key enemies, and the super is saved for the decisive moment of the mode. In draft, it completes compositions that would otherwise lack sustain or control.

Best maps for GUS

The best map for GUS is Turnover in Basket Brawl, with a Bayesian-adjusted win rate of 85.7% over 191 battles. That puts them above their class average in this mode, so it's worth picking GUS when that rotation is live. A strong run on Turnover usually combines favorable geometry (short ranges or cover) and a mode whose objective plays into the brawler's kit.

GUS's performance is highly map-dependent: there are 29.7 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, GUS also performs well on Crystal Arcade (Gem Grab) with a 85.0% win rate, only 0.7 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, GUS holds a 84.8% win rate on Golden Bay (Hot Zone) over 92 battles. Having three competitive maps widens the rotation windows worth bringing them in for, not just their signature map.

Just above their worst result, GUS also struggles on Dueling Beetles, where their win rate sits at 61.8%. Keep this map on your radar as a second warning sign when deciding the pick.

On the opposite end, Hot Potato (Heist) drops GUS's win rate to 56.0%. That's the bottom tail of a 29.7-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

GUS clearly dominates the matchup against BULL: across the 203 recorded battles for that pairing, their win rate climbs to 84.3%. If you spot BULL on the enemy team in draft, that lane is an edge for GUS — seek the duel out rather than avoid it.

Their second-best matchup is against EDGAR, where GUS holds a 83.9% win rate over 800 battles. Two strong favorable counters like these give GUS real value as a targeted pick against comps that lean on those two brawlers.

Where GUS has a clear disadvantage is against AMBER: their win rate drops to 61.0% across the 571 battles recorded for that matchup. If AMBER shows up on the enemy team, consider not picking GUS or changing the game plan to avoid the shared lane, because AMBER wins that exchange.

Per-brawler matchups are the smallest-sample metric on the page: for GUS the samples range from 36 to 800 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 GUS performs worst and best over the last 30 days, sampled from top PRO players and smoothed with Bayesian WR to avoid noise.

Read each row left to right: brawler, win rate vs GUS, and battle sample. The larger the sample, the more reliable the number.

Loses most against

Brawler	WR	Battles
AMBER	61.0%	571
ASH	62.9%	101
WENDY	62.9%	538
OLLIE	63.8%	49
CHARLIE	64.3%	36

Dominates

Brawler	WR	Battles
BULL	84.3%	203
EDGAR	83.9%	800
SHELLY	83.8%	146
DYNAMIKE	82.7%	170
BOLT	81.9%	95

Star Powers, Gadgets and Hypercharge

To get the most out of GUS 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 GUS 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, GUS performs best in Brawl Ball, with a 76.3% win rate over 4,688 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 GUS 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, GUS's win rate moved from 70.8% to 74.5%, a climb of +3.7 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 GUS's favor, usually from a rotation of maps or modes where they perform better.

Every percentage on the GUS 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.