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 6,210 battles with a global win rate of 67.6% and a pick rate of 1.3%. 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.

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 Raging Ocean in Brawl Hockey, with a Bayesian-adjusted win rate of 79.6% over 68 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 Raging Ocean 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 35.2 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, Pierce also performs well on Slippery Showdown (Brawl Hockey) with a 73.4% win rate, only 6.2 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 72.5% win rate on Cabin Fever (Brawl Hockey) over 108 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 Hot Potato, where their win rate sits at 45.0%. Keep this map on your radar as a second warning sign when deciding the pick.

On the opposite end, Singed Earth (Brawl Ball) drops Pierce's win rate to 44.4%. That's the bottom tail of a 35.2-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

Pierce clearly dominates the matchup against Dynamike: across the 146 recorded battles for that pairing, their win rate climbs to 75.6%. If you spot Dynamike 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 Shelly, where Pierce holds a 74.7% win rate over 148 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 R-T: their win rate drops to 51.8% across the 26 battles recorded for that matchup. If R-T shows up on the enemy team, consider not picking Pierce or changing the game plan to avoid the shared lane, because R-T wins that exchange.

Per-brawler matchups are the smallest-sample metric on the page: for Pierce the samples range from 26 to 1,012 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
R-T	51.8%	26
Bolt	52.7%	399
Sandy	53.1%	51
Ash	53.3%	30
Glowy	53.7%	37

Dominates

Brawler	WR	Battles
Dynamike	75.6%	146
Shelly	74.7%	148
Edgar	74.2%	1,012
Bibi	73.4%	575
Colt	72.4%	802

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 Knockout, with a 66.3% win rate over 1,627 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 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 70.9% to 67.8%, a fall of −3.2 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.

Every percentage on the Pierce 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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