Best brawlers for Layer Cake in Bounty

Brawler ranking on Layer Cake

Bayesian-adjusted win rate. The points column compares each brawler against itself on the rest of the Bounty maps.

🥇Wendy

-3.4 pp82.1%🥈Squeak

+1.9 pp68.6%🥉Nori

-4.8 pp68.3%4Penny

-2 pp60.5%5Mr. P

-4.6 pp60.5%6Brock

-1.7 pp59.6%7Lily

+2.2 pp59.6%8Alli

+0.3 pp58.2%9Gray

-0.5 pp58.1%10Pierce

-7.4 pp57.1%

What the data says about Layer Cake

Layer Cake is one of the Bounty maps with the most recorded battles in our sample: 593 high-level games over the last 14 days, with 63 different brawlers seen on it. This page ranks those brawlers by their real win rate on this specific map, not by their average performance across the game, which is the figure that usually leads to bad picks.

The 593 battles in the 14-day window spread that sample across 63 brawlers, so the top of the ranking is backed by dozens of games each rather than by a handful of isolated cases. Every row shows its own count so you can judge how reliable the figure is without leaving the page.

The best picks on this map

The best brawler on Layer Cake is Wendy, with a 82.1% win rate across 65 battles recorded on this map. It is the first option to consider when this rotation comes around, and also the pick most worth banning or countering if the enemy team gets there first.

The figure for Wendy needs some nuance: although it leads this map, across Bounty as a whole it performs even better, at 85.5%, so Layer Cake costs it 3.4 points against its own average. It tops the ranking because the map punishes everyone else more than it punishes them, not because this is its best ground.

The second option is Squeak, with 68.6% across 21 battles, 13.5 points behind the leader. When the distance between the first and second pick is that short, the choice depends more on the enemy composition and on the rest of your team than on the map itself.

Nori closes the podium at 68.3%. Having three clear options instead of just one makes Layer Cake a comfortable map to draft on: if the first one gets banned, you are not left without a plan.

The most picked brawler on Layer Cake is not necessarily the best: it is Nori, present in 93 battles, 15.7% of every game recorded on the map. The distance between what is most picked and what actually works is usually where the edge is, because most players repeat a pick out of habit rather than out of data.

Layer Cake is a polarised map: there are 35.6 percentage points between the best and the worst brawler in the ranking. On a map like this the draft matters more than mechanics, and bringing a pick from the bottom of the table is giving away an advantage before the game starts.

Brawlers that perform worse on Layer Cake

Gene13 battles46.5%Ziggy12 battles52.4%Meg13 battles53.5%

The worst record on the map belongs to Gene, who stays at a 46.5% win rate across 13 battles on Layer Cake. It is not a bad brawler: this ground neutralises what it usually excels at, so there are better options almost every time.

Just above it comes Ziggy at 52.4%, so it is worth keeping on the radar too before confirming your pick.

These bottom placements are as useful as the top ones: knowing what not to bring to Layer Cake avoids more losses than nailing the best pick, especially in Bounty, where a bad selection is paid for across the whole game and not just in the first fight.

How Bounty is played

In Bounty every elimination raises the enemy's bounty, so dying costs double and long range dominates. Short-range brawlers need cover to close the gap, and on open maps they simply never get there. That is why the order on Layer Cake tends to look little like the objective modes.

Layer Cake rotates in and out of the official Bounty rotation every few days. This page does not depend on it being active right now: the ranking is computed over recent history, so it remains the best reference available the day the map shows up again.

Every percentage comes from real high-level battles sampled continuously, aggregated over a rolling 14-day window and adjusted with Bayesian smoothing. That adjustment avoids the classic false positive: a brawler with three games and three wins does not show up at 100%, but close to the average, until it builds up the sample to back it.

If you want to compare Layer Cake with the rest of the Bounty maps, the links are at the bottom of the page. And if what you are after is what to pick in today's rotation, the picks page filters the maps that are active right now.