Brawl Comp
A comp archetype where everyone stacks on one line and crushes through with sustained close-to-mid range damage and area healing.
Where Dive splits angles and elevation to pick targets off one at a time and Poke keeps chipping with sightlines, the identifying criterion of Brawl Comp is that it keeps sharing the same space as one stack. Built around area buffs and sustained healing, it physically pushes the front line up and carves away the enemy's space. Because it moves as one block, it carries the risk of collapsing the instant an angle is broken and everyone gets caught in a sightline. The premise is picking terrain where the flanks can be pinched — chokes, indoor spaces — to match into; on open terrain it stays exposed to Poke range the whole time. Where Rush is a verb-like concept for how you push the engage and at what tempo, Brawl Comp is a noun-like classification as a comp archetype, and a comp built around the Rush style of fighting is its typical example.
On chokes, corridors and indoor spaces where the flanks can be pinched — pushing back as one stack when the enemy comp steps forward with Dive or Poke. Against Poke, walk forward to kill the range; against Dive, keep stack density tight enough that nobody gets picked off.
Picking Brawl Comp on open flats or terrain with multiple high grounds: angles from the side and sightlines from above hit everyone at once and the stack melts. Or teammates spread beyond area-heal range, breaking Brawl's premise of sharing one line.
Rush
Brawl composition that stacks close-range damage and sustain to overwhelm the enemy before they can respond.
Space
Physical control over the favorable parts of the map — high ground, routes, sightlines.
High Ground
Elevated map position offering downward sightlines, cover, and safe retreat — the foundation of most setups.
Tempo
The initiative — who gets to choose when and on whose terms the next fight starts.