HANK

Who is HANK

HANK is a brawler of Epic rarity, class Tank. 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, HANK has shown up in 992 battles with a global win rate of 72.7%. 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, HANK has a pick rate of 0.7%. That pick rate is the share of matches where a top-PRO player chose HANK 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 HANK tell different things. The observed win rate, 72.7%, measures how often it wins in the hands of a top 200 player from its country. The discounted strength, 54.8%, 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.

By discounted strength, HANK takes rank 34 of 107, inside the top third of the roster. Its observed win rate also holds up against the opponents that suit it worst.

HANK 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 Starr 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 Tank, the job is to absorb damage, create space and start favorable close-range fights. The tank is usually the first to commit to the mode objective, soaking enemy supers so the rest of the team can position without taking them. Defensive gears tend to outperform offensive ones, and matchups against throwers or snipers dictate when and where it's safe to commit the super.

Best maps for HANK

The best map for HANK is Grass Knot in Brawl Ball, with a Bayesian-adjusted win rate of 83.6% over 108 battles. That puts them above their class average in this mode, so it's worth picking HANK 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.

HANK's performance is highly map-dependent: there are 21.2 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, HANK also performs well on Triple Dribble (Brawl Ball) with a 82.6% win rate, only 1.1 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, HANK holds a 80.9% win rate on Deadlock (Brawl Ball) over 57 battles. Having three competitive maps widens the rotation windows worth bringing them in for, not just their signature map.

Just above their worst result, HANK also struggles on Konnakol, where their win rate sits at 64.4%. Keep this map on your radar as a second warning sign when deciding the pick.

On the opposite end, Quintillion (Heist) drops HANK's win rate to 62.4%. That's the bottom tail of a 21.2-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

HANK clearly dominates the matchup against TICK: across the 84 recorded battles for that pairing, their win rate climbs to 81.1%. If you spot TICK on the enemy team in draft, that lane is an edge for HANK — seek the duel out rather than avoid it.

Their second-best matchup is against EDGAR, where HANK holds a 81.0% win rate over 152 battles. Two strong favorable counters like these give HANK real value as a targeted pick against comps that lean on those two brawlers.

Where HANK has a clear disadvantage is against AMBER: their win rate drops to 63.2% across the 64 battles recorded for that matchup. If AMBER shows up on the enemy team, consider not picking HANK 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 HANK the samples range from 30 to 215 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 HANK 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 HANK, and battle sample. The larger the sample, the more reliable the number.

Loses most against

Brawler	WR	Battles
AMBER	63.2%	64
GUS	65.3%	110
COLETTE	67.2%	45
SHADE	67.3%	198
EMZ	67.5%	58

Dominates

Brawler	WR	Battles
TICK	81.1%	84
EDGAR	81.0%	152
KENJI	80.7%	30
SURGE	79.1%	97
MORTIS	79.0%	215

Star Powers, Gadgets and Hypercharge

To get the most out of HANK 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 HANK 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, HANK performs best in Brawl Ball, with a 73.7% win rate over 1,392 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 HANK 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, HANK'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 HANK 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.