KAZE

Who is KAZE

KAZE is a brawler of Ultra Legendary rarity, 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 90 days, Bayesian-smoothed so a brawler with a small sample doesn't show a misleading percentage.

Over the 30-day window, KAZE has shown up in 1,283 battles with a global win rate of 65.2%. 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, KAZE has a pick rate of 1.0%. That pick rate is the share of matches where a top-PRO player chose KAZE 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 KAZE tell different things. The observed win rate, 65.2%, measures how often it wins in the hands of a top 200 player from its country. The discounted strength, 50.0%, 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.

KAZE belongs to the Ultra Legendaries, the highest rarity in the game and the one that demands the most gem or Starr Drop investment to secure the unlock. The kit is built to rewrite the rules of the modes it fits: supers with unique interactions, hypercharges that break tempo and gadgets no other brawler has. In PRO tournaments it shows up when the draft lets the team lean into its specific niche.

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 KAZE

The best map for KAZE is Arabesque in Brawl Hockey, with a Bayesian-adjusted win rate of 81.0% over 94 battles. That puts them above their class average in this mode, so it's worth picking KAZE when that rotation is live. A strong run on Arabesque usually combines favorable geometry (short ranges or cover) and a mode whose objective plays into the brawler's kit.

KAZE's performance is highly map-dependent: there are 30.3 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, KAZE also performs well on Healthy Middle Ground (Knockout) with a 80.3% 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, KAZE holds a 80.0% win rate on Pinhole Punt (Brawl Ball) over 58 battles. Having three competitive maps widens the rotation windows worth bringing them in for, not just their signature map.

Just above their worst result, KAZE also struggles on Hideout, where their win rate sits at 58.9%. Keep this map on your radar as a second warning sign when deciding the pick.

On the opposite end, Sneaky Fields (Brawl Ball) drops KAZE's win rate to 50.7%. That's the bottom tail of a 30.3-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

KAZE clearly dominates the matchup against CORDELIUS: across the 30 recorded battles for that pairing, their win rate climbs to 77.4%. If you spot CORDELIUS on the enemy team in draft, that lane is an edge for KAZE — seek the duel out rather than avoid it.

Their second-best matchup is against DYNAMIKE, where KAZE holds a 77.1% win rate over 51 battles. Two strong favorable counters like these give KAZE real value as a targeted pick against comps that lean on those two brawlers.

Where KAZE has a clear disadvantage is against AMBER: their win rate drops to 52.0% across the 88 battles recorded for that matchup. If AMBER shows up on the enemy team, consider not picking KAZE 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 KAZE the samples range from 30 to 204 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 KAZE 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 KAZE, and battle sample. The larger the sample, the more reliable the number.

Loses most against

Brawler	WR	Battles
AMBER	52.0%	88
MAISIE	52.4%	30
GUS	55.6%	102
SHADE	56.1%	183
NORI	57.1%	137

Dominates

Brawler	WR	Battles
CORDELIUS	77.4%	30
DYNAMIKE	77.1%	51
BO	74.1%	34
EMZ	73.6%	63
COLT	73.3%	204

Star Powers, Gadgets and Hypercharge

To get the most out of KAZE 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 KAZE 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, KAZE performs best in Heist, with a 64.5% win rate over 1,776 battles — the mode with the most recorded sample for this brawler. That makes Heist 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 KAZE 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, KAZE's win rate moved from 64.9% to 66.1%, a climb of +1.2 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 KAZE's favor, usually from a rotation of maps or modes where they perform better.

Every percentage on the KAZE 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.