Damian

Who is Damian

Damian is a Mythic-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, Damian has shown up in 38,052 battles with a global win rate of 82.8% and a pick rate of 5.1%. That pick rate is the share of matches where a top-PRO player chose Damian out of every available brawler, so it works as a thermometer for how meta they are right now.

Across the full roster, Damian's trend is among the strongest: their win rate is climbing faster than 82% of brawlers with a measurable trend this week. When a brawler rises this fast it's usually because maps or modes rotated in where their kit fits better than average.

Damian belongs to the Mythics, the rarity where nearly every kit is built around a high skill ceiling. They aren't first-pick brawlers for new accounts because they usually demand map reading, cooldown management and matchup knowledge, but in PRO hands they make the difference between winning and losing a match. Their upgrade investment becomes a priority once you understand the meta.

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 Damian

The best map for Damian is Hit and Run in Bounty, with a Bayesian-adjusted win rate of 89.5% over 188 battles. That puts them above their class average in this mode, so it's worth picking Damian when that rotation is live. A strong run on Hit and Run usually combines favorable geometry (short ranges or cover) and a mode whose objective plays into the brawler's kit.

Damian's performance is highly map-dependent: there are 44.5 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, Damian also performs well on Backyard Bowl (Brawl Ball) with a 86.6% win rate, only 2.8 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, Damian holds a 86.5% win rate on Sidetrack (Brawl Ball) over 2,094 battles. Having three competitive maps widens the rotation windows worth bringing them in for, not just their signature map.

Just above their worst result, Damian also struggles on Below Zero, where their win rate sits at 47.3%. Keep this map on your radar as a second warning sign when deciding the pick.

On the opposite end, Quintillion (Heist) drops Damian's win rate to 45.0%. That's the bottom tail of a 44.5-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

Damian clearly dominates the matchup against Shelly: across the 1,470 recorded battles for that pairing, their win rate climbs to 90.1%. If you spot Shelly on the enemy team in draft, that lane is an edge for Damian — seek the duel out rather than avoid it.

Their second-best matchup is against Brock, where Damian holds a 87.7% win rate over 913 battles. Two strong favorable counters like these give Damian real value as a targeted pick against comps that lean on those two brawlers.

Where Damian has a clear disadvantage is against Bull: their win rate drops to 83.0% across the 3,200 battles recorded for that matchup. If Bull shows up on the enemy team, consider not picking Damian or changing the game plan to avoid the shared lane, because Bull wins that exchange.

Per-brawler matchups are the smallest-sample metric on the page: for Damian the samples range from 913 to 4,991 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 Damian 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 Damian, and battle sample. The larger the sample, the more reliable the number.

Loses most against

Brawler	WR	Battles
Bull	83.0%	3,200
Colt	85.1%	4,991
Rico	87.2%	2,807
Brock	87.7%	913
Shelly	90.1%	1,470

Dominates

Brawler	WR	Battles
Shelly	90.1%	1,470
Brock	87.7%	913
Rico	87.2%	2,807
Colt	85.1%	4,991
Bull	83.0%	3,200

Star Powers, gadgets and hypercharge

To get the most out of Damian 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 Damian 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, Damian performs best in Brawl Ball, with a 84.0% win rate over 19,907 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 Damian 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, Damian's win rate moved from 76.7% to 80.8%, a climb of +4.0 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 Damian's favor, usually from a rotation of maps or modes where they perform better.

Compared with the rest of the roster, that move puts Damian climbing faster than 82% of brawlers with a measurable trend this week — they're at the top end of the risers. When a brawler lands in that band it's often a good moment to invest in their upgrades before a possible nerf arrives.

Every percentage on the Damian 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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