Pierce

Who is Pierce

Pierce is a Legendary-rarity brawler of class Marksman. 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, Pierce has shown up in 15,083 battles with a global win rate of 63.5% and a pick rate of 1.8%. That pick rate is the share of matches where a top-PRO player chose Pierce out of every available brawler, so it works as a thermometer for how meta they are right now.

Across the full roster, Pierce's trend is among the weakest: their win rate is falling below 9% of brawlers with a measurable trend this week. That signal often foreshadows the meta turning against the brawler before it even shows in their global win rate.

Pierce 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 Marksman, the value lies in turning any long shooting line into an uninhabitable zone for the rival. The range outclasses most brawlers, so dictating positions is the primary weapon even before damage. Open maps with wide sightlines are the natural niche; walled maps punish it, and the draft around it must protect against assassins.

Best maps for Pierce

The best map for Pierce is Spiraling Out in Brawl Ball, with a Bayesian-adjusted win rate of 75.1% over 359 battles. That puts them above their class average in this mode, so it's worth picking Pierce when that rotation is live. A strong run on Spiraling Out usually combines favorable geometry (short ranges or cover) and a mode whose objective plays into the brawler's kit.

Pierce's performance is highly map-dependent: there are 55.8 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, Pierce also performs well on Sneaky Fields (Brawl Ball) with a 73.6% win rate, only 1.5 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, Pierce holds a 72.9% win rate on Sidetrack (Brawl Ball) over 158 battles. Having three competitive maps widens the rotation windows worth bringing them in for, not just their signature map.

Just above their worst result, Pierce also struggles on Crab Claws, where their win rate sits at 24.1%. Keep this map on your radar as a second warning sign when deciding the pick.

On the opposite end, Healthy Middle Ground (Knockout) drops Pierce's win rate to 19.2%. That's the bottom tail of a 55.8-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

Pierce clearly dominates the matchup against Colt: across the 2,352 recorded battles for that pairing, their win rate climbs to 69.4%. If you spot Colt on the enemy team in draft, that lane is an edge for Pierce — seek the duel out rather than avoid it.

Their second-best matchup is against Bull, where Pierce holds a 66.5% win rate over 1,002 battles. Two strong favorable counters like these give Pierce real value as a targeted pick against comps that lean on those two brawlers.

Where Pierce has a clear disadvantage is against Brock: their win rate drops to 58.9% across the 653 battles recorded for that matchup. If Brock shows up on the enemy team, consider not picking Pierce or changing the game plan to avoid the shared lane, because Brock wins that exchange.

Per-brawler matchups are the smallest-sample metric on the page: for Pierce the samples range from 357 to 2,352 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 Pierce 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 Pierce, and battle sample. The larger the sample, the more reliable the number.

Loses most against

Brawler	WR	Battles
Brock	58.9%	653
Shelly	66.4%	357
Bull	66.5%	1,002
Colt	69.4%	2,352

Dominates

Brawler	WR	Battles
Colt	69.4%	2,352
Bull	66.5%	1,002
Shelly	66.4%	357
Brock	58.9%	653

Star Powers, gadgets and hypercharge

To get the most out of Pierce 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 Pierce 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, Pierce performs best in Brawl Ball, with a 71.3% win rate over 4,427 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 Pierce 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, Pierce's win rate dropped from 70.8% to 57.7%, a fall of −13.1 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 Pierce, usually from a rotation of maps or a rising counter.

Compared with the rest of the roster, that move leaves Pierce falling below 9% of brawlers with a measurable trend this week — they're at the bottom end of those losing ground. It doesn't mean they're unplayable, but it's worth waiting for the next map rotation before prioritizing their investment.

Every percentage on the Pierce 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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