Hot Zone is a game mode that celebrates the Lunar New year. It’s like capture the flag mode where you get points the longer you stay in the hot zone. Let’s take a look at the Brawl Stars Tier List for the Hot Zone.
The Hot Zone is a pretty interesting game mode, especially because no one has yet found the best strategy to use in the mode.
Here we go through all the best tips and tricks and also the Brawl Stars Tier List for this new game mode.
Hot Zone is a newer mode that challenges you to hold zones on a map to gain points, with the team with the most points over two minutes winning the match.
Enemy brawlers can enter the hot zone at any moment, preventing you from gathering points. If you leave the zone while gaining a point, the process is interrupted.
The final 30 seconds provides double points.
Brawl Stars hots tier list
The Brawl Stars hots tier list is a ranking of the best brawlers in the game.
The top 3 brawlers are Brock, Shelly, and Bull, who are all incredibly strong and versatile. Piper, Barley, Mortis, and Crow are all very strong as well and make up the next tier.
The final tier consists of Dynamike, Boomer, El Primo, and Frank who are still very powerful but not quite as strong as the previous brawlers.
– Tier 1: Brock, Shelly, Bull, Jessie
– Tier 2: Piper, Barley, Mortis, Crow
– Tier 3: Dynamike, Boomer, El Primo, Frank
Play Hot Zone Game Mode Like a Pro
Well, basically this is a mixture of gem grab and bounty where you should have the control over the center.
It is sometimes too late for a comeback because it is very hard to gain control once you are team wiped. Always have at least one team mate alive for a little pushback or else you can’t do anything.
Clumping in the middle, most of the time either wipes your team or the enemy’s, so be very careful. Always use an area control brawler when playing this mode.
While it is actually very similar to gem grab because it’s all about like maintaining control at a specific location, it’s also kind of unlike all other 3v3 modes.
The mode rewards brawlers clumping like sticking together in order to sustain control of the zone.
This is actually a big no-no in multiple game modes where it is much better for you to spread out so it’s hard for people to hit their shots and so you can kind of like surround people.
What can make a brawler better in hot zone?
First of all, abilities to sustain control at a set location like spawners, like Pam.
Also an ability to like move other brawlers or prevent brawlers from entering a zone kind of like Tara is really beneficial.
The ability for brawlers to get themselves or help teammates get into the zone is really helpful.
For example, Sandy’s super. Also, a brawler’s ability to deal with clumps of brawlers and deal with lots of damage all in one place can be a challenge.
If you pass through dealing damage to multiple people at the same time it is really good.
Overall, a brawler’s ability to deal with close-range brawlers is super important.
For example, if you are in the thick of a fight, you don’t want to leave the zone, right? After all, it is called a hot zone for a reason.
Now for maps with two zones, a brawler’s ability to multitask zones, either using ranged abilities or throwing a spawner or something like that becomes really important.
Best Tips For Hot Zone Game Mode
- Use an area control brawler literally all the time because this mode is all about area control
- Don’t ever leave the zone even if you want to kill someone, other than if you’re going to die.
- Never solo the whole team if you have brawlers like a Leon or a Darryl where you think you can kill the whole team, but here you have to have your team’s assistance.
- Even the enemy stepping into the zone for some microseconds can reset the timer, so try to stay in the zone and push them back constantly, you don’t have to kill them.
- If there is only one in the entire map, try to sneak from behind the enemies and with the help of your team, you have easily wiped them, especially because these maps have closed quarters.
Brawl Stars Tier List For Competitive Meta
- S – Excellent: Excellent on almost all maps/comps; Best options for randoms.
- A – Great: Great on most maps & comps; Okay with randoms.
- B – Good: Maps & comp dependent; Team highly recommended.
- F – Bad: Not recommended to play unless you have some grinch in you.
This Brawl Stars tier list is for competitive meta and most meta brawlers.
The Hot Zone Brawl Stars Tier List
- S Tier: Sandy, Rosa, Darryl
- A Tier: Nita, Jessie, Bo, Spike, 8 bit, Tara, Penny, Carl, Pam, Bea, Spike, Mr.P, Emz
- B Tier: Bull, Shelly, Primo, Brock, Barley, Piper, Gene, Rico, Max, Bibi, Poco, Frank, Tick
- F Tier: Colt, Leon, Crow, Dyna, Mortis
We won’t go through the F-Tier brawlers on the brawl stars tier list as they are really bad for this mode.
S – TIER
Sandy
Darryl
Rosa
A – TIER
Nita
Jessie
Bo
Spike 
8 bit
Tara
Penny
Carl
Pam 
Bea
Mr.P
Emz
B – TIER
Bull
Shelly
Primo
Brock
Barley
Piper
Gene-
Rico -
Max -
Bibi 
Poco-
Frank -
Tick
F – TIER
Colt
Leon
Crow
Dyna
Mortis
B – TIER BRAWLERS | Brawl Stars Tier List
Shelly
Shelly is a beast against tanks and sometimes that’s really good for her but she’s also really vulnerable against brawlers that are really common in this mode that can just still damage and out Ranger and she just you know, she’s only really good against tanks.
Bull
Bull is also in the beast category here, as a tank he’s viable but there are better melee options. He can be pretty good on maps with one zone on the map specifically the one with the box around it but he struggles a lot on the two-zone maps which are the majority of the maps.
Brock
He has really decent burst damage and he’s also got really good damage up close and like range to be able to deal down from people far away so that does make him viable.
His super also does a really good job at clearing an entire zone while also breaking cover of some of those close-range brawlers.
However with that lower amount of help that he has a really difficult time holding down his own because he just kind of like has to fall back to stay alive.
Tick
On one hand, tick his absolutely incredible for pushing brawlers outside of the zone but you know yeah he’s got the range.
He’s got the spread of the attack and he’s just kind of like that have to fall back now then, on the other hand, he has incredibly low health.
It is very difficult for him to maintain control of his own when melee brawlers just kind of like a running toward him.
He can be played with the right team comp and on the right map so that definitely justifies.
El Primo
El Primo is also gonna be in a B tier list. He’s kind of similar to Bull there are other high health brawlers and melee brawlers who were a little bit better than el primo that does succeed in the mode.
But el primo, his ability to get back into the zone with his super is even like better than bulls because of the fact that he’s immune while he’s traveling.
He can just like jump right down and all some people really do have to deal with him.
Barley
Like a lot of the other thrower throwers Barley is vulnerable to close-range combat and that’s a really large trade-off for the fact that he does have the ability to really control the hot zone.
He is better than tick and Dynamike at dealing with enemies up close though so he can be played well.
Rico
Rico also making his way into the B tier. He has range damage and his ability to bounce his shots just makes him a pretty decent choice similar to many other beater brawlers.
However, he kind of lacks the ability to keep maintaining that control over the zone because he ever has that low HP.
Piper
Piper is kind of in the same rate same bow right, she has the range and that great burst damage that makes it really good for it.
Like take somebody out and then enter into the zone and then if somebody does try to come to her zone, she does have his/her super to like run away you know.
Piper is terrible up close but in that type of situation. She gives up the zone so you know not typically the best on the right map
Frank
Frank’s also in the B tier list here. He does have the ability to pierce through multiple targets dealing damage to them and stun them and he can really punish brawlers for clumping up.
But he has that shot delay and that is such a big weakness and so that makes him just like not quite as good as some of these other brawlers consistently.
However, on a single-point map you know he can do really really well.
Bibi
Bibi also in the B tier list. You’d think that the knocking brawlers out of the zone might seem like pretty strong but most of the time it’s actually just better to eliminate the brawler completely and to make it so that they have to wait even longer before re-entering because she’s just like knocks them out and they can come right back or she knocks him out and then they had that opportunity to fault him to run away.
Gene
Here he is great when he’s outside of the zone because he can pull brawler’s outside of it but when he’s in the zone.
If he pulls an enemy toward him that means that you’re no longer scoring points and that means that it could actually reset the countdown foot timer for you to actually score a point.
Now, with the goal being to like stay in the zone and prevent enemy brawlers from getting into the zone. Gene is pretty limited in what he can do.
Max
Max’s value is similar to multiple game modes when in her super right although she has a pretty good DPS now.
But you guys get the idea her super can’t help her and her team get to the zone faster but it’s like kind of useless for continuing to maintain control of that zone.
Poco
This was actually kind of a little bit of a toss-up for our collaborators.
Poco shields are amazing and allowing him to like regain health and get back into the zone and also do the same thing for his teammates.
He also benefits from having a ranged pierced attack that allows some of these damage multiple targets.
But he just doesn’t deal a lot of burst damage and he’s really vulnerable to close-range combat and he really lacks that substantial DPS to really make him viable.
Poco is amazing if you have a couple of tanks that you can really like keep alive that can kind of help supports him on a single point map.
A – TIER BRAWLERS | Brawl Stars Tier List
Mr.P
Mr P’s turret seems to like never die and this is especially true in the hot zone because enemy players don’t want to get out of the zone to try and actually reach it to take it out when they have that opportunity to because they’d rather just make or continue to get those points.
So unless the enemy team has a thrower, his turret is permanently there and he generates huge value for his team over time now that being said he’s really great at attacking from a long-range.
He’s really terrible up close because it’s so easy to dodge will really just cut his damage in half so you got to be kind of prepared to fall back if necessary.
However, he’s still gonna gain a lot of the value simply because of his turret.
Nita
Spawners are really good in a hot zone and this brawler needs no exception, especially with her bear.
Nita is super easily able to just drive enemy teams away from zones, push them back and maintain control when she does have control of her own maps.
With two zones really allowed her to operate effectively as a lone agent in case she can just like go back and forth between the two zones helping and adding support wherever she needs to her allies.
She kind of keeps people pushed back. Here piercing damage also allows for her to create get a lot of value against enemies that really clump up, which happens very frequently in this mode.
Jessie
When you need a lot of control in the center or at specific locations, being scrappy generates a huge value for Jesse.
Not only does scrappy chips a target, the enemies have to waste their attacks and she gets a lot of value that way.
Also, just the fact that she’s able to attack and hit multiple targets at a time allows her to recharge up her ability over and over and over again and she’s just really really good.
Bo
He’s got high health, he can deal damage from a distance, he can burst damage up close is just all-around great for the hot zone. His greatest asset is his super bombs right enemies will either waste time trying to trigger them or they will get hit by the mines because they didn’t see where they were or they’ll waste time trying to trigger them and get hit by the mines because it’s hard to do that while you’re dodging shots and you’re trying to stay within the area of the zone that gives Bo insane amounts of value with every single super next.
8 Bit
With an impressive range and impressive damage, impressive HP, he’s a little slow but all those things kind of come together to help him be a really good on maps with two zones and of course guys, his turret the star of the show it just generates so much value for his team in that not only being a target the enemies have to waste their attacks on but also just increasing that damage and making it so much more difficult for the enemy team to actually get in the zone.
Tara
With her super I mean oh my goodness her super, she’s just able to light you get enemies close up bunched up she throws down that super you can wipe an enemy team, regain control of zones and not only is her super just super great. When she has it charged up it makes it a huge risk for the enemy team to try and get back into the zone once they see that yellow flashing right it’s like immediately they feel like they have to fall back and she can basically just sit there.
Penny
You won’t find a single spawner that is not good here, they’re just all so good.
She has pierced damaged just incredibly punishes brawler’s who clump up and allows you to really just maintain that control of the zone and that Splash Damage also takes advantage of all of the tanks in the mode.
Every spawner that places down a turret is weak against Penny and that makes her so good and on top of that her turret really just punishes the typical brawler that like you know hovers around the zone which you see a lot in the zone and this just makes it very likely they’re gonna get hit by the turret.
They’re not gonna want to leave the zone to try and get rid of the turret because of that, there’s it’s gonna be up there for as long as she wants it to be and really the only way they’re gonna get rid of it is if you have a thrower.
Carl
Range combat check, high health check, melee abilities in a super check, yeah Carl’s a beast in almost every mode.
There is no questioning that he is A tier list in this mode as well. I don’t know why people aren’t playing him as much as they should.
Pam
This is actually like a really good mode for Pam. I really like that she deals a decent amount of damage from a distance.
It is not the most damage, but it makes for an excellent choice.
Her turret generates a consistent value in sustaining control of the zone, especially in the hot zone where you want to bunch up in a way.
In no other game mode is bunching up good, so this is especially good for Pam.
Especially once again when she is equipped with Mama’s squeeze at Starpower which damages brawlers that try and enter into the zone.
Her other star power also really works well in this mode but I really do like her mama squeeze.
Bea
Bea is still so good because the brute strength of her power shot and that her slow down. Just those two things together just absolutely qualify her for A tier regardless of her nerfed star power.
Spike
He has a decent amount of damage at a distance. He has a really good amount of damage up close his ability to burst brawlers down is really solid.
And the ability for him to heal with his fertilized star power is so good and his super are basically covers the entire zone. I mean oh man this is a really good mode for you to put a spike in as well.
He’s a solid A tier list brawler.
Emz
She is an absolute beast for this mode. She’s got spread damage, she’s got Pierce damage, she has burst DPS, she has a super that covers more than the entire zone.
She can basically cover two zones at once if she’s between them.
Emz does really struggle with enemies that get up close to her and are really all up in her business.
However, when in control, she is amazing but she’s very vulnerable to the upcoming S tier list brawlers.
S – TIER | Brawl Stars Tier List
Darryl
Despite the nerf to his duration of the steel hoop star power Daryl is still such a strong brawler compared to other meta brawlers.
Even with his steel hoops star power with his automatic loading ambush, super Daryl was able to return into the zone and like immediately push brawlers out direct hits.
His super, often allows him to go 1v1 any brawler in the game and his ability to change supers also allows him to sometimes go in against a lot of brawlers at once.
Also, he can super in, kill one of them and super back out. This kind of offset the balance that was going on before because Darryl was losing and he killed somebody and now he’s winning.
Also, the frequency of his supers makes it so that the mistakes with the super forgives the whole play.
Rosa
Rosa is a character that excels in 3v3 modes, especially Gem Grab and Hot Zone.
She has fast movement speed which helps with healing star power abilities as well as high damage output to take down foes quickly before they can cause problems for her allies inside of the zone.
In Hot Zone game mode, she has increased resistance against shots fired.
In addition, she also protects teammates by taking shots herself if needed!
Sandy
Lastly, we have the golden S Tier List brawler, the best brawler for the mode voted by the tier list collaborators is Sandy.
No one is better than Sandy, the golden S tier brawler for the hot zone. He is the King of this tier trio and just makes this comp specifically so incredibly dominant his super covers more than an entire zone.
A lot of the time he can use it to just connect the zones which makes it very easy for him to attack from one zone to the other or for his teammates to do the same thing while going undetected.
With Rude sands, enemies are exposed and that means they are forced to leave the zone for up to nine seconds.
With healing winds, he and his teammates are gonna do a better job at staying inside the zone with an insane amount of healing per second.
The cherry on the cake is his unload spread and the ability for him to attack more than one target at a time.
This just makes it so easy for him to contest against other brawlers and charge up a super once an enemy is within range.
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Final Word
We touched upon a few important aspects of the Hot Zone and looked across the brawl star tier list. With the exception of the f tier, you now have a good indication of what to expect from different brawlers when playing the Hot Zone and brawl star tier list.
