Ranked Draft Helper — who to pick now

How Ranked drafting works in Brawl Stars

Ranked is a 3v3 mode with a pick phase before every match. From Bronze I to Gold III the pick is free: each player locks one brawler, every pick has 22 seconds, and a timeout means the match is cancelled (“match cancelled”). There are no bans in that band, so the first decision is simply which brawler your team can field.

Bans start at Diamond I. Each side bans three brawlers before the picks, with a 22.5-second timer; if a player lets it run out the game picks a random ban (random ban on timeout). The same team cannot ban the same brawler twice (no repeat). A ban removes the brawler from the whole match, so the board on this page treats bans as taken before any pick.

From Mythic I a match becomes best-of-3: the first team to 2 rounds wins, and the first pick of a round goes to one side by coin flip. When Blue picks first the order is Blue 3 → Red 3 → Red 2 → Blue 2 → Blue 1 → Red 1. Each pick has 22 seconds and each loadout step has 17 seconds. A swap needs Power 11, and the captain — the highest-Elo player or the room host — takes the last pick (Mythic I and above: highest Elo or room host, last pick).

The power gates decide whether you can enter at all: Diamond I needs 9 brawlers at Power 9; Mythic I needs 12 brawlers at Power 11. The pool here is the 50-season active list, checked 2026-10-19.

Source: Brawl Stars Wiki, Ranked (CC BY-SA 3.0), revision 2026-10-15. Figures only; the wording is ours.

The Ranked Season 50 map pool

The wiki's active list for Season 50 (2026-10-15 → 2026-11-19) holds 26 maps across 6 modes. Brawl Ball is the featured mode and carries six maps; every other mode carries four. The same list is what the draft room offers above, so a pick is always judged on a map that is actually in the pool.

Pool: Brawl Stars Wiki, Ranked (CC BY-SA 3.0). Counts: the Season 50 pool table, counted from top players' battle logs. A map with no counted rows says 0 rather than a guess.

Role shapes behind a pick

Every brawler carries the wiki's class and its Range band. Those two facts are what the draft room can compare without a win rate: a Tank wants a short lane, a Marksman wants a long one, an Artillery brawler throws over the wall a Marksman hides behind. The pool of 108 is split 23 short / 21 mid / 62 long Range.

• Damage Dealer — deals steady damage in a lane; 21 in the pool.
• Tank — soaks damage and starts fights up close; 16 in the pool.
• Marksman — wins long sightlines from a distance; 11 in the pool.
• Assassin — dives in to finish weak targets; 19 in the pool.
• Support — heals, shields or boosts teammates; 13 in the pool.
• Controller — controls space and slows movement; 21 in the pool.
• Artillery — throws over walls to hit hidden enemies; 7 in the pool.

On top of class and Range, each brawler has a short set of editorial role words — lane, frontline, control, anti-tank, burst, mobility, wall break, bush check, heal, thrower and gem. They are words, not numbers: they say what a brawler is for, never how often it wins. The same is true of the three-step ease word: it describes how hard a kit is to pick up and is used only in Learnable mode.

Class and Range: Brawl Stars Wiki infoboxes (CC BY-SA 3.0). Role words and ease: GamGem editorial, checked 2026-10-19.

How this draft helper ranks a pick

The recommendation is a relative ranking of the brawlers still available, for the slot in front of you. It is not a win probability and it is not a tier list: it answers “which of these fits this board”, using only the things this page can actually show.

Score = 100 × (35% × map + 20% × ally fit + 25% × class answer + 20% × role need) − a risk penalty while the enemy still has picks. The situation chips re-weight the same four parts (Safe first pick raises the risk penalty; Counter enemy raises the class answer to 40%); the style toggle adds the ease bonus only in Learnable mode. The full per-pick numbers are in the Evidence drawer above.

What ranks a pick. A visible model: 35% map context, 20% ally fit, 25% class answer, 20% role need, minus a risk penalty while the enemy still picks. Every input is a class, a Range band, an editorial role word or the mode’s objective.

What is not in it. Win rate, pick share, ban rate and counter edge. The battle-log gate is closed, so those cells say Being measured and do not enter the score.

No-data fallback. A brawler with no class or no Range band loses that component and says so; nothing is filled in. A map with no counted battles shows its wiki pool row and no fingerprint.

Not a prophecy. A relative role ranking from the board in front of you — not a win probability, and never a claim about your account.

The class counts come from Ranked (solo) battles of the global top 49601 trophy players · 2026-09-16–2026-10-16 · n = 197495 battles · Preview sample. The battle-log sample whose win, pick and ban rates are pending is Recent battles of the global top 200 trophy players · 2026-09-16–2026-10-16 · n = 678,168 battles · Preview sample. Neither sample is “all players”, and no rate is printed from either while the battle-log gate is closed.