Rat King vs Bebop

Brawler vs Brawler

A brawler mirror is about who commits second. Both of you want close range, so the hero who lands crowd control on the other’s engage wins the trade. Keep stamina for a disengage and fight near your troopers.

Your game plan as Rat King

A scrappy frontliner who makes your bullets work against you.

How to beat Bebop

The hook. Bebop decides fights by dragging one hero into five.

• 01Stand behind troopers; Grapple Arm grabs the first character it hits.
• 02Punish the 23-second Grapple cooldown — he has no other gap-closer.
• 03Interrupt or out-range Hyper Beam; it’s a channel, not a burst.
• 04Don’t let him stack Sticky Bomb hits early.

1. 01Rat King out-farms Bebop by ~53.4 last hits per match. Contest every orb and punish them for walking up to last-hit.
2. 02Bebop denies ~1.2 more orbs per match — secure your orbs before they can.
3. 03Brawler mirror: whoever lands crowd control first wins the trade. Keep stamina for the dash out.

This matchup

321

Usual

312

60.2% win rate over 81,046 matches

• 2
  Early point

  Put an early point into Rat Swarm: Bebop can drag you out of position, so keep a way back.

• 3
  Max first

  You out-farm Bebop: keep the standard order and push your lead with Royal Pestments.

• Rat King averages 0.82 kills per death against Bebop.
• On average Rat King finishes 1.9k souls ahead of Bebop — convert the lead into objectives.
• Rat King deals 5.0k more objective damage per match than Bebop — push structures when you win lane.
• Track Hyper Beam (120s cooldown). The window right after Bebop uses it is your best time to fight.