Draco

Who is Draco

Draco is a Legendary-rarity brawler of 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 14 days, Bayesian-smoothed so a brawler with a small sample doesn't show a misleading percentage.

Over the 14-day window, Draco has shown up in 3,271 battles with a global win rate of 71.5% and a pick rate of 0.7%. That pick rate is the share of matches where a top-PRO player chose Draco out of every available brawler, so it works as a thermometer for how meta they are right now.

Draco is a Legendary brawler, one of the most coveted rarities in the game because it blends a unique identity with low box drop chance. The kit is usually built to define entire matches: hypercharges with critical timing, supers that zone whole maps off, or gadgets that break the standard logic of the mode. In PRO tournaments they show up when the draft calls for a specific piece no other brawler can cover the same way.

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 Draco

The best map for Draco is Bustling Business in Brawl Ball, with a Bayesian-adjusted win rate of 78.7% over 106 battles. That puts them above their class average in this mode, so it's worth picking Draco when that rotation is live. A strong run on Bustling Business usually combines favorable geometry (short ranges or cover) and a mode whose objective plays into the brawler's kit.

Draco's performance is highly map-dependent: there are 33.7 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, Draco also performs well on Nutmeg (Brawl Ball) with a 77.4% win rate, only 1.3 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, Draco holds a 74.1% win rate on In the Liminal (Hot Zone) over 171 battles. Having three competitive maps widens the rotation windows worth bringing them in for, not just their signature map.

Just above their worst result, Draco also struggles on Hideout, where their win rate sits at 48.5%. Keep this map on your radar as a second warning sign when deciding the pick.

On the opposite end, Bottom Two (Gem Grab) drops Draco's win rate to 45.0%. That's the bottom tail of a 33.7-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

Draco clearly dominates the matchup against Piper: across the 87 recorded battles for that pairing, their win rate climbs to 76.1%. If you spot Piper on the enemy team in draft, that lane is an edge for Draco — seek the duel out rather than avoid it.

Their second-best matchup is against Colt, where Draco holds a 76.0% win rate over 407 battles. Two strong favorable counters like these give Draco real value as a targeted pick against comps that lean on those two brawlers.

Where Draco has a clear disadvantage is against Jae-Yong: their win rate drops to 48.6% across the 5 battles recorded for that matchup. If Jae-Yong shows up on the enemy team, consider not picking Draco or changing the game plan to avoid the shared lane, because Jae-Yong wins that exchange.

Per-brawler matchups are the smallest-sample metric on the page: for Draco the samples range from 5 to 407 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 Draco 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 Draco, and battle sample. The larger the sample, the more reliable the number.

Loses most against

Brawler	WR	Battles
Jae-Yong	48.6%	5
Glowy	49.0%	21
Lumi	52.3%	58
Wendy	52.4%	52
Ziggy	52.5%	10

Dominates

Brawler	WR	Battles
Piper	76.1%	87
Colt	76.0%	407
Shelly	75.7%	114
Bull	75.2%	248
Brock	73.5%	151

Star Powers, gadgets and hypercharge

To get the most out of Draco 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 Draco 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, Draco performs best in Brawl Ball, with a 74.6% win rate over 1,315 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 Draco 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, Draco's win rate dropped from 81.7% to 71.4%, a fall of −10.3 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 Draco, usually from a rotation of maps or a rising counter.

Every percentage on the Draco 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.

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