Best brawlers for Backyard Bowl in Brawl Ball

Brawler ranking on Backyard Bowl

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

🥇Wendy

+1.3 pp88.7%🥈Nori

-7 pp75%🥉Carl

+1.3 pp73.3%4Bolt

-9.7 pp72.6%5Colt

+3.6 pp70.7%6Melodie

+1.4 pp67.9%7Sam

-1.8 pp67.4%8Gus

-5.3 pp65.5%9Meg

-0.4 pp65.3%10Pam

-14.9 pp65.2%

What the data says about Backyard Bowl

Backyard Bowl is one of the Brawl Ball maps with the most recorded battles in our sample: 2,066 high-level games over the last 14 days, with 93 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 2,066 battles in the 14-day window spread that sample across 93 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 Backyard Bowl is Wendy, with a 88.7% win rate across 679 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.

Wendy performs here practically the same as on the rest of the Brawl Ball maps: it is a consistent pick, the kind that does not depend on a particular rotation showing up. In draft that is worth a lot, because you can commit to it before knowing which map is coming.

The second option is Nori, with 75% across 50 battles, 13.7 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.

Carl closes the podium at 73.3%. Having three clear options instead of just one makes Backyard Bowl a comfortable map to draft on: if the first one gets banned, you are not left without a plan.

The most picked brawler on Backyard Bowl is not necessarily the best: it is Wendy, present in 679 battles, 32.9% 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.

Backyard Bowl is a polarised map: there are 39.6 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 Backyard Bowl

Gray23 battles49.1%Kaze25 battles50.9%Alli17 battles51.1%

The worst record on the map belongs to Gray, who stays at a 49.1% win rate across 23 battles on Backyard Bowl. 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 Kaze at 50.9%, 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 Backyard Bowl avoids more losses than nailing the best pick, especially in Brawl Ball, where a bad selection is paid for across the whole game and not just in the first fight.

How Brawl Ball is played

In Brawl Ball the win goes to whoever scores two goals, and that makes control of the central lane and the ability to clear it the two decisive skills. Brawlers that push, shove or lock down perform above their average, while those with sustained damage and no control fall behind. That is the lens for reading the Backyard Bowl ranking.

Backyard Bowl rotates in and out of the official Brawl Ball 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 Backyard Bowl with the rest of the Brawl Ball 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.