Drafting Brawl Ball
Two goals wins. The ball doesn't care about your K/D.
The objective
Score two goals before the enemy does — or be ahead when the clock runs out. Carrying the ball disables your attacks, so Brawl Ball is a passing and spacing game: the player with the ball is temporarily the weakest player on the field, and the team that positions to receive, screen, and re-tackle wins possession battles.
Kills matter in Brawl Ball only as much as they open the lane to the goal. A team wipe with the ball on your side of the field is worth more than three kills without it.
How to draft it
01Bring stop power
Somebody on the enemy team is going to sprint the ball at your goal — usually a tank. If your draft has no answer (knockback, stun, slow, or a wall of damage at close range), every one of those runs is a coin flip at best. Crowd control converts a scoring run into a turnover, and comps without any concede goals they never had to.
02Count your goal threats
Someone has to actually finish. Tanks and assassins who survive the last stretch to the goal, or brawlers whose super carries them (or the ball) through a defense, are your scorers. A comp of three poke brawlers can dominate the field and still fail to convert — control the game and you'll get chances, but only if someone can take them.
03Respect the walls
Wall-breaking supers permanently reshape a Brawl Ball map. On tight maps, one wall-breaker turns a stall-fest into open goal lanes; against wall-breakers, a comp that depends on its cover degrades every minute. On already-open maps, skip the demolition and pick the control brawlers who punish dashes across open ground instead.
Who to ban
Tanks headline the ban phase: on tight maps, the meta tanks (or the healer that makes them unstoppable) are the default bans. On open maps, shift bans toward whatever dominates the midfield, because mid control decides who attacks. If one brawler on the current patch both scores and defends at an elite level, that's the ban before any comfort ban.
The ban phase runs from Diamond upward — below that, drafts go straight to picks. Bans are also the most patch-sensitive call in the draft: for today’s data-backed ban suggestions on a specific map, use the draft board.
The Brawl Ball maps
Walled, corridor-style maps play like rugby — tanks, crowd control, and short violent possessions. Open maps play like a control mode where goals happen on power-play advantages. Maps with breakable center walls change character mid-game, which is exactly when wall-breakers and flexible mid brawlers earn their pick.
- Backyard Bowl
- Beach Ball
- Center Stage
- Flute Chutes
- Goalies
- Grab The Moment
- Grass Knot
- Match 1123581321
- No Good Deed
- Nutmeg
- Pinball Dreams
- Pinhole Punt
- Priceless Cactus
- Rooftop Runners
- Sidetrack
- Singed Earth
- Sneaky Fields
- Spiraling Out
- Sunny Soccer
- Super Beach
- Triple Dribble
All 21 competitive Brawl Ball maps — Ranked rotates a handful of these each season, and the draft board’s map picker tracks the live rotation, with per-map win rates, synergies, and counters for each.