Best brawlers for Hard Rock Mine in Gem Grab

Brawler ranking on Hard Rock Mine

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

🥇Wendy

-5.1 pp77.5%🥈Damian

-5.4 pp69.7%🥉Bo

+0.4 pp69%4Surge

-3.9 pp68.3%5Fang

-8.6 pp64.7%6Starr Nova

-10 pp63.3%7Bolt

-15.3 pp61.4%8Nori

-10.6 pp60.8%9Lily

-2.6 pp60.2%10Rico

+4.6 pp59.6%

What the data says about Hard Rock Mine

Hard Rock Mine is one of the Gem Grab maps with the most recorded battles in our sample: 1,245 high-level games over the last 14 days, with 94 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 1,245 battles in the 14-day window spread that sample across 94 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 Hard Rock Mine is Wendy, with a 77.5% win rate across 170 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 Gem Grab as a whole it performs even better, at 82.6%, so Hard Rock Mine costs it 5.1 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 Damian, with 69.7% across 36 battles, 7.8 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.

Bo closes the podium at 69%. Having three clear options instead of just one makes Hard Rock Mine a comfortable map to draft on: if the first one gets banned, you are not left without a plan.

The most picked brawler on Hard Rock Mine is not necessarily the best: it is Wendy, present in 170 battles, 13.7% 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.

Hard Rock Mine is a polarised map: there are 33.3 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 Hard Rock Mine

Griff13 battles44.2%Max32 battles46.8%Otis16 battles47.8%

The worst record on the map belongs to Griff, who stays at a 44.2% win rate across 13 battles on Hard Rock Mine. 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 Max at 46.8%, 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 Hard Rock Mine avoids more losses than nailing the best pick, especially in Gem Grab, where a bad selection is paid for across the whole game and not just in the first fight.

How Gem Grab is played

In Gem Grab the objective outranks the kills: the win goes to whoever holds ten gems through the countdown, not to whoever eliminates the most. That rewards brawlers who can control the centre and protect the carrier, and punishes those who need to look for duels away from the mine. On Hard Rock Mine, read the ranking thinking about who holds the middle, not about who hits hardest.

Hard Rock Mine rotates in and out of the official Gem Grab 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 Hard Rock Mine with the rest of the Gem Grab 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.