Brawl Stars Tier List — Season 52 NanoNoodles (July 2026)
Two independent reads, deliberately kept separate: noff.gg tracks win and pick rates from the top 200 players in the world and refreshes daily, and Brawl Time Ninja publishes real-match adjusted win rate plus a community list carrying 189,086 votes collected since July 20, 2026. Where both agree, the verdict is safe. Where they split, the row says so — that split is usually the most useful information on the page.
| Tier | Brawler | What the data says |
|---|---|---|
| S | Surge | The only pick that is S-tier in every cut we checked — top-200 24-hour meta, top-200 30-day general, and the Brawl Time community list. If you own one Brawler for ranked, this is it. |
| S | Edgar | S in both top-200 windows and the community list, and the most-picked Brawler in Solo Showdown at 11.58% — but his Solo Showdown win rate is only 36.9%. Elite in coordinated play, a trap in solo queue. Read the next section before you main him. |
| S | Sirius | Ranked #1 in the top-200 24-hour meta and the single most popular Brawler right now; 49.8% win rate at 9.43% pick in Solo Showdown. Brawl Time places him one step lower at A — the gap is popularity, not power. |
| S | Starr Nova | Picked up a new Hypercharge in Update 68 and it shows: 69.4% adjusted win rate, S in the top-200 24-hour meta, A on Brawl Time. One of the clearest winners of this patch. |
| S | Nori | The Season 52 newcomer, and the team data is blunt: Nori/Nori/Nori is the single most-winning composition recorded, at 53,000 wins — more than double the next comp. She also appears in six of the ten most-winning trios. 55.3% Solo Showdown win rate. |
| A | Bolt | The sleeper of the patch. Highest adjusted win rate of any Brawler at 75.7%, yet only 1.82% use rate — almost nobody is playing the statistically strongest pick. Also gained a Hypercharge in Update 68 and is S-tier over the top-200 30-day window. Low sample inflates the number, so treat it as a strong lead rather than a guarantee. |
| A | Brock | S in both top-200 windows and the most team-flexible pick on the board — he anchors three of the ten most-winning trios (with Byron/Piper, Mandy/Piper, and Edgar/Piper). 44% Solo Showdown win rate. |
| A | Damian | A-tier in both sources with a 70.0% adjusted win rate at a modest 1.10% use rate — the second-best risk-adjusted pick after Bolt. |
| A | Griff | S in the top-200 24-hour meta, A on Brawl Time, and a fixture in top trios alongside Edgar and Nori. |
| A | Emz | S in the top-200 24-hour meta and the partner in the second most-winning trio recorded (Edgar/Emz/Nori, 25,000 wins). Brawl Time is cooler on her at B. |
| A | Chester · Crow · Bibi · Colette · Cordelius · Leon | The Brawl Time A block. Bibi is corroborated by the top-200 list and the third-best trio (Bibi/Edgar/Nori, 19,000 wins); the rest are solid picks that the very top of the ladder simply plays less. |
| B | Mortis | Biggest disagreement on the board. S-tier in both top-200 windows — and a 31.1% Solo Showdown win rate, one of the lowest of any popular Brawler. He is genuinely strong in expert hands and punishing in everyone else's. Ranked B here because most readers are not top-200. |
| B | Rosa | Another split: S in the top-200 24-hour meta with a 69.8% adjusted win rate and 54.2% in Solo Showdown, but the Brawl Time community votes her all the way down at D. The hard numbers favour Rosa; the community read has not caught up. |
| B | Colt · Kit · Max · Meg · Pierce · Bull · Kenji · 8-Bit · Spike · Rico · Otis · Stu | Reliable mid-board. These win games when the map suits them and lose to a well-drafted S-tier comp — fine to play, not worth grinding a new Brawler for. |
| B | Mandy | Update 68 buffed her main attack from 2,600 to 2,960 damage, and she now shows up in a top-ten trio (Brock/Mandy/Piper, 15,000 wins). Rising, not yet A. |
| C-D | Everyone else | Roughly 106 Brawlers exist and both sources agree the long tail is genuinely weak this patch — the balance spread scores a Gini coefficient of 0.43, which Brawl Time itself labels "mediocre" balance. Playing a C or D pick into an S-tier draft is a self-inflicted handicap. |
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Sleepers and traps — where the two sources disagree
A tier list that only tells you the popular answer is worth very little, because your opponents already know it. The gap between what people play and what actually wins is where free trophies live this patch:
- The biggest sleeper: Bolt. Best adjusted win rate in the game at 75.7%, and a 1.82% use rate. He got a new Hypercharge in Update 68 and the ladder has not adapted. Small sample means the true number is lower, but the direction is unambiguous.
- The biggest trap: Edgar. Most-picked Brawler in Solo Showdown at 11.58%, win rate 36.9%. He is S-tier with a team feeding him and a coin-flip without one.
- Mortis is the same trap, sharper. Top-200 players rank him S; his Solo Showdown win rate is 31.1%. His ceiling is real and his floor is a loss streak.
- Quiet overperformers. Ash (71.1%), Ollie (71.0%), Jae-yong (70.4%), Trunk (69.9%) and Sam (69.4%) all post elite adjusted win rates at use rates under 0.5%. Low sample, so verify on your own maps before committing — but these are the picks nobody drafts against.
- Nori bends drafts around herself. A triple-Nori composition is the most-winning trio on record with 53,000 wins, roughly double the runner-up. If she is available in your draft, taking her is rarely wrong.
Straightforward rule of thumb: pick from the S block when you want the safe answer, and from the sleeper list when the lobby has learned to counter it.
Best Brawlers to climb ranked with (Season 52)
Climbing is not the same problem as winning a single match. You need Brawlers with a high floor, forgiving of a bad teammate, that stay useful across map rotations:
| Goal | Pick | Why it climbs |
|---|---|---|
| Safest single main | Surge | The only Brawler rated S by every source we checked. No map or mode where he is dead weight. |
| Highest win-rate pick | Bolt | 75.7% adjusted win rate and almost nobody drafts against him. |
| Best in a duo/trio | Nori | Present in six of the ten most-winning trios; the triple-Nori comp alone recorded 53k wins. |
| Solo Showdown | Nori (55.3%) · Rosa (54.2%) · Bolt (53.9%) | The three highest Solo Showdown win rates among Brawlers with meaningful pick rates — and all three are far less played than Edgar or Sirius. |
| Avoid while learning | Edgar · Mortis · Kit · Crow | All post Solo Showdown win rates between 29% and 37% despite heavy play. High skill ceiling, brutal learning cost. |
The honest catch: the strongest picks are frequently the ones you have not unlocked or maxed yet, and Ranked gates matchmaking on your account level, not your skill. That is the part of the climb no tier list solves for you.
Brawler rank & unlock options →Surge, Nori, Bolt and Starr Nova only help once they are unlocked and levelled. Get specific Brawlers ranked up, or open the whole roster in one order.
How we rank (methodology)
No opinions were used to build the table above. Every placement traces back to one of three inputs:
- Top-200 win and pick rates (noff.gg) — the ladder's best players, sampled over a 24-hour meta window and a 30-day general window. When these two windows agree, the read is stable; when only the 24-hour window is hot, the pick is trending, not established.
- Adjusted win rate and use rate (Brawl Time Ninja) — real match data with a Bayesian average applied to low-pick Brawlers, plus a community list carrying 189,086 votes since July 20, 2026. This catches Brawlers who win a lot while nobody plays them.
- Official patch notes (Supercell) — Update 68 / Ramen Rebellion, released June 29, 2026, plus the July 8 mid-season hotfix. Balance changes explain why a Brawler moved, which the rate data alone cannot tell you.
Where sources conflict, we publish the conflict and pick the ranking that fits a typical player rather than a top-200 one. That is why Mortis sits at B despite being S-tier at the very top of the ladder — his numbers only work with mechanics most accounts do not have yet.
Refresh cadence: Brawl Stars rebalances every few weeks and each Brawl Talk can reshuffle the board. This page is dated and re-checked against the same sources after every balance patch; the Season 53 "Windstock" update with the new Brawler Wendy is expected in August 2026 and will move these rankings.
Sources
Rates and tier placements consolidated from noff.gg top-200 Brawl Stars tier list (24-hour meta + 30-day general windows, Solo Showdown win/pick rates) and Brawl Time Ninja (adjusted win rate, use rate, top team compositions, community vote). Patch and season facts from Supercell's official June 2026 release notes (Ramen Rebellion, Update 68). Both statistics sources refresh continuously, so exact percentages will drift from the values quoted on this page's update date.
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