Best brawlers for Open Business in Hot Zone

Brawler ranking on Open Business

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

🥇Griff

+2.6 pp82.1%🥈Nori

-12 pp64%🥉Meg

-5.9 pp59.6%4Wendy

-22.2 pp57.8%5Shelly

-1 pp54.3%68-Bit

-11.3 pp50%

What the data says about Open Business

Open Business is one of the Hot Zone maps with the most recorded battles in our sample: 575 high-level games over the last 14 days, with 54 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 575 battles in the 14-day window spread that sample across 54 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 Open Business is Griff, with a 82.1% win rate across 227 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.

What is interesting about Griff here is not the absolute number but the gap: across the rest of the Hot Zone maps it sits at 79.5%, so Open Business adds 2.6 percentage points. That jump is the sign that the map specifically favours its kit, not that it is a strong brawler in general.

The second option is Nori, with 64% across 20 battles, 18.1 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.

Meg closes the podium at 59.6%. Having three clear options instead of just one makes Open Business a comfortable map to draft on: if the first one gets banned, you are not left without a plan.

The most picked brawler on Open Business is not necessarily the best: it is Griff, present in 227 battles, 39.5% 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.

Open Business is a polarised map: there are 32.1 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 Open Business

There is not enough sample yet to confidently point out which brawlers perform worst on Open Business. We only publish the bottom tail when the ranking has enough depth for the best and the worst to be genuinely separate groups instead of overlapping.

How Hot Zone is played

In Hot Zone the win goes to whoever occupies the zone longest, so area damage per second and the ability to deny space matter more than accuracy. A brawler that forces the enemy out of the circle contributes more than one that gets eliminations outside it. The Open Business ranking rewards exactly that.

Open Business rotates in and out of the official Hot Zone 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 Open Business with the rest of the Hot Zone 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.