Pierce Stats & Guide

Pierce is currently A tier at rank #27 with a meta score of 55.0 and a 49% win rate over 5410 weighted Ranked battles (high confidence). See the full tier list for the surrounding context.

Over the last 21 days, Pierce loses slightly more often than it wins in Ranked: a 49% win rate across 5,410 matches of top players (reliable).

Pierce is holding steady: 49% over the last 7 days (1,652 matches) against 49% in the 14 days before (3,758 matches).

Counted from Ranked matches of top players over the last 21 days, last updated 2026-10-10. Matches played before the latest balance change count for less.

Players take Pierce into Bounty most often: 23% of its matches are played there, where it wins 51% (1,257 matches, reliable). Pierce wins clearly more often than it loses in Brawl Ball: 52% over 263 matches (reliable), 3 points above its overall win rate. Pierce loses clearly more often than it wins in Hot Zone: 47% over 1,238 matches (reliable), 2 points below its overall win rate.

Pierce's strongest measured map is Shooting Star (Bounty): 57% over 330 matches (reliable). Its weakest is Ring of Fire (Hot Zone): 43% over 461 matches (reliable). 24 maps have at least 30 Pierce matches; maps with fewer are left out.

On these maps Pierce loses more often than it wins. The match count tells you how much weight to give each one.

A win rate only means something when enough matches sit behind it. Next to every number we say how sure we are:

• reliable — 200 matches or more: a solid basis for a verdict.
• fairly reliable — 80 to 199 matches: enough to spot a real pattern.
• early signal — 30 to 79 matches: a hint, not a verdict.
• too few matches — fewer than 30 matches, so we do not show a win rate yet.

A 60% win rate over 40 matches can easily be luck; a 54% win rate over 800 matches is a real edge. Maps and modes with fewer than 30 matches are listed without a win rate on purpose.

Blind-pick safety is coaching metadata, not a meta ranking: it says how risky Pierce is to lock in before you can see the enemy draft. Pierce scores 5/10.

Gadget: The gadget that gives you burst or mobility — Fighters win mid-range trades; the timing of your gadget decides those.

Star Power: The star power that increases your damage or sustain — You spend the whole fight in range, so sustained value outweighs burst.

Gears: Damage + Health — You stay in the fight for a long time: both more damage and more HP scale well.

Play the mid-range, punish every overcommit from the opponent.

This is the standard build pattern for the fighter class; we only name exact items once a Brawler-specific build has been verified.

More builds: Best Brawl Stars builds

As a fighter, Pierce is favoured into assassin, artillery, thrower.

• With your high damage in the mid-range trade you focus Barley: Barley can't shoot directly, so standing on him is free damage.
• With your high damage in the mid-range trade you focus Dynamike: Dynamike can't shoot in a straight line and misses everything moving.
• With your high damage in the mid-range trade you focus Penny: Penny is slow and has no escape.
• With your high damage in the mid-range trade you focus Tick: Tick has the lowest HP in the game.

Pierce struggles against marksman, sharpshooter and on maps that do not support the fighter role.

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Read the general counters guide for how to actually win those matchups.

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This is the coaches' view of which modes suit the fighter role of Pierce; the measured win rates per mode are higher up on this page.

• Gem Grab — fit 5/10
• Brawl Ball — fit 5/10
• Heist — fit 5/10

Pierce is a reasonable middle pick — check which counters are still open before locking it.

Learn the pick-order logic in the drafting guide.

Skip Pierce when the map layout works against the fighter role, when an unfavourable matchup is still open on the enemy side, or when your team already has the same role covered.