R-T

Who is R-T

R-T is a Chromatic-rarity brawler of class Damage Dealer. 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, R-T has shown up in 5,524 battles with a global win rate of 71.6% and a pick rate of 0.7%. That pick rate is the share of matches where a top-PRO player chose R-T out of every available brawler, so it works as a thermometer for how meta they are right now.

R-T 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 a Damage Dealer, the role is to apply lane pressure at medium range: clean shooting lines hold zone control and force the enemy to move. This isn't a brawler that opens fights up close — it's the one that punishes any positioning mistake from the opponent. In team play it sits behind the tank, covering flanks and finishing objectives once the fight has already developed.

Best maps for R-T

The best map for R-T is Sidetrack in Brawl Ball, with a Bayesian-adjusted win rate of 85.2% over 125 battles. That puts them above their class average in this mode, so it's worth picking R-T when that rotation is live. A strong run on Sidetrack usually combines favorable geometry (short ranges or cover) and a mode whose objective plays into the brawler's kit.

R-T's performance is highly map-dependent: there are 38.5 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, R-T also performs well on Please Remain Standing (Knockout) with a 76.1% win rate, only 9.0 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, R-T holds a 76.0% win rate on New Perspective (Knockout) over 145 battles. Having three competitive maps widens the rotation windows worth bringing them in for, not just their signature map.

Just above their worst result, R-T also struggles on Bridge Too Far, where their win rate sits at 47.1%. Keep this map on your radar as a second warning sign when deciding the pick.

On the opposite end, Snake Prairie (Bounty) drops R-T's win rate to 46.7%. That's the bottom tail of a 38.5-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

R-T clearly dominates the matchup against Bull: across the 459 recorded battles for that pairing, their win rate climbs to 76.9%. If you spot Bull on the enemy team in draft, that lane is an edge for R-T — seek the duel out rather than avoid it.

Their second-best matchup is against Shelly, where R-T holds a 76.4% win rate over 110 battles. Two strong favorable counters like these give R-T real value as a targeted pick against comps that lean on those two brawlers.

Where R-T has a clear disadvantage is against Barley: their win rate drops to 59.1% across the 41 battles recorded for that matchup. If Barley shows up on the enemy team, consider not picking R-T or changing the game plan to avoid the shared lane, because Barley wins that exchange.

Per-brawler matchups are the smallest-sample metric on the page: for R-T the samples range from 41 to 814 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 R-T 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 R-T, and battle sample. The larger the sample, the more reliable the number.

Loses most against

Brawler	WR	Battles
Barley	59.1%	41
Jessie	65.8%	84
Nita	66.1%	88
Rico	70.3%	438
Brock	73.0%	362

Dominates

Brawler	WR	Battles
Bull	76.9%	459
Shelly	76.4%	110
Colt	74.4%	814
Spike	73.8%	195
Brock	73.0%	362

Star Powers, gadgets and hypercharge

To get the most out of R-T 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 R-T 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, R-T performs best in Knockout, with a 72.5% win rate over 2,363 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 R-T 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

In the last 7 days, R-T's win rate has held essentially flat compared to the previous 7. A swing under 1 percentage point we treat as stable because it fits within the natural sampling noise, so the meta hasn't shifted meaningfully for this brawler.

Every percentage on the R-T 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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