What is the best brawler for Hot Zone in Brawl Stars?

Wendy ranks highest in Hot Zone, with an adjusted win rate of 60.6% across 72 decided trophy-ladder battles over the last 24h. Najia and Nita follow.

How is this tier list made?

From 476 Hot Zone in trophy ladder sampled from real matches, not from votes or opinion. Win rate is adjusted against the average of the same sample, because the sampled pool wins more than half its games regardless of brawler — so a tier reflects the brawler rather than who was holding it. A brawler needs 20 decided battles in the window before it is rated at all.

How often is the tier list updated?

The sampler collects new battles every few hours and this page is rebuilt from the latest aggregate, so it never trails the data by more than a few hours.

Trophies Trophy ladder

Hot Zone trophy tier list

Based on 476 sampled trophy-ladder battles in Hot Zone from global-leaderboard players. Sampled 1 hour ago.

Meta score combines adjusted win rate and pick rate. Scores are relative to this trophy list, not the Ranked tier list. Disagree? Build your own.

How the meta score works

How brawlers perform on the trophy ladder. The games most people actually play, showdown included, where you pick what you own rather than what the draft leaves you. Brawlers are ranked by meta score out of 10, which combines an adjusted win rate with a log-scaled pick rate. Win rate alone would rate a brawler nobody plays the same as a staple with identical results, so popularity breaks the ties.

Ladder matchmaking is looser than Ranked, so some of a brawler’s record here is the lobby rather than the brawler. Each mode is scored against its own average to keep that from deciding the list.

The scale is calibrated within this list, so scores rank brawlers against each other here and cannot be compared with the Ranked list. A brawler needs 20 decided battles in the window before it is rated at all. Tap or hover a brawler for the full breakdown.

RankedCompetitive

TrophyLadder

Meta24h Recent7d

All modes Solo Showdown Brawl Ball Duo Showdown Knockout Gem Grab Duels Hot Zone Bounty Siege Wipeout Basket Brawl Heist Last Stand

wendy

10.0

W 60.6%P 15.1%

najia

8.1

W 51.8%P 4.6%

nita

7.5

W 50.0%P 5.0%

meg

6.7

W 47.8%P 5.9%

griff

6.7

W 47.9%P 14.3%

Most picked brawlers

The brawlers appearing in the most sampled trophy-ladder battles in Hot Zone over the 24h window. This is popularity, not strength — the tiers above rank how well a brawler performs, and the two disagree often. A pick rate is a share of all battles sampled, so it sums across the roster rather than to 100% per battle.

Strong but rarely picked

Brawlers with the best adjusted win rates among the less-played half of the roster, from sampled trophy-ladder battles in Hot Zone over the 24h window. They win when they are used and are not used much — which usually means they are underrated rather than bad.

Not enough ladder data

Newly released brawlers, and anything barely played on ladder, need more battles before a win rate means anything. Each needs 20 decided battles in the 24h window; the count below is how far along it is. Closest first.