Best brawlers for Leaping Dogs in Knockout

Brawler ranking on Leaping Dogs

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

🥇Ziggy

+2.1 pp74.2%🥈Nori

-5.2 pp73%🥉Pearl

-2.9 pp69%4Mr. P

-5.8 pp68.3%5Chuck

-4.3 pp67.4%6Grom

-1.8 pp67.3%7Tick

+0.8 pp64.4%8Eve

-3.8 pp64.4%9Rosa

-7 pp64.3%10Glowy

-9.1 pp61.4%

What the data says about Leaping Dogs

Leaping Dogs is one of the Knockout maps with the most recorded battles in our sample: 1,019 high-level games over the last 14 days, with 84 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 1,019 battles in the 14-day window spread that sample across 84 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 Leaping Dogs is Ziggy, with a 74.2% win rate across 67 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 Ziggy here is not the absolute number but the gap: across the rest of the Knockout maps it sits at 72.1%, so Leaping Dogs adds 2.1 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 73% across 85 battles, 1.2 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.

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

The most picked brawler on Leaping Dogs is not necessarily the best: it is Wendy, present in 273 battles, 26.8% 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.

Leaping Dogs is a polarised map: there are 22.3 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 Leaping Dogs

Sprout24 battles51.9%Meeple19 battles55.1%Brock13 battles55.8%

The worst record on the map belongs to Sprout, who stays at a 51.9% win rate across 24 battles on Leaping Dogs. 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 Meeple at 55.1%, 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 Leaping Dogs avoids more losses than nailing the best pick, especially in Knockout, where a bad selection is paid for across the whole game and not just in the first fight.

How Knockout is played

In Knockout there is no respawn: every death is final within the round, so the value of information and of the first shot goes through the roof. Brawlers with long range and with tools to reveal positions dominate, and risking a badly judged push costs the whole round. Read the Leaping Dogs order with that caution in mind.

Leaping Dogs rotates in and out of the official Knockout 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 Leaping Dogs with the rest of the Knockout 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.