Best brawlers for Parallel Plays in Hot Zone

Brawler ranking on Parallel Plays

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

🥇Nori

-6.7 pp69.3%🥈Juju

-0.8 pp63.3%🥉Stu

+3.2 pp63.2%4Sirius

-5.2 pp62.7%5R-T

+1.1 pp61.5%6Surge

-1.5 pp61.2%7Barley

-8.7 pp61%8Draco

-10.4 pp60.7%9Trunk

+2.7 pp59.4%10Willow

-3.5 pp59.2%

What the data says about Parallel Plays

Parallel Plays is one of the Hot Zone maps with the most recorded battles in our sample: 771 high-level games over the last 14 days, with 57 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 771 battles in the 14-day window spread that sample across 57 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 Parallel Plays is Nori, with a 69.3% win rate across 71 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 Nori needs some nuance: although it leads this map, across Hot Zone as a whole it performs even better, at 76%, so Parallel Plays costs it 6.7 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 Juju, with 63.3% across 79 battles, 6 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.

Stu closes the podium at 63.2%. Having three clear options instead of just one makes Parallel Plays a comfortable map to draft on: if the first one gets banned, you are not left without a plan.

The most picked brawler on Parallel Plays is not necessarily the best: it is Juju, present in 79 battles, 10.2% 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.

Parallel Plays is a polarised map: there are 24.9 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 Parallel Plays

Ash15 battles44.4%Berry13 battles48.8%Starr Nova21 battles51%

The worst record on the map belongs to Ash, who stays at a 44.4% win rate across 15 battles on Parallel Plays. 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 Berry at 48.8%, 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 Parallel Plays avoids more losses than nailing the best pick, especially in Hot Zone, where a bad selection is paid for across the whole game and not just in the first fight.

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 Parallel Plays ranking rewards exactly that.

Parallel Plays 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 Parallel Plays 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.