Brawl Stars Tier List October 2026: Best Brawlers in Season 55 Brawl-O-Ween

Season 55 Brawl-O-Ween has been live since 1 October 2026. It replaced Season Royal Academy and runs as a month-long Halloween event in phases, built around a Gus story, returning bosses and a new coffin gacha. The season launch shipped no balance changes, so the 16 September balance patch still sets the meta.

That 16 September maintenance was a full balance patch. Nerfs hit Shade, Gus, El Primo, Amber, Nori, Wendy, Meg, Colette and Brock. Buffs went to Poco, Chuck, Ollie, Trunk, Willow, Juju, Pam, Belle and R-T.

The numbers that moved letters: Nori's main attack takes 25% longer to fully charge, and her Hypercharge rate fell from 50 to 28. Wendy's spawn shield fell from 100% to 40% of max health, her main-attack shield from 580 to 300 and Solar Shield from 1,000 to 600. Her base health rose from 2,000 to 2,500.

Shade lost 15% of his Super charge near enemies, and his Hypercharge Buffie bonus fell from 75% to 30%. Amber's Fire Starters health fell from 1,750 to 1,300. Ollie's main attack rose from 900 to 1,000, Belle's from 1,040 to 1,140, and Juju gained 400 health.

The trims on the top were small. Shade, Gus and Amber lead both top-200 windows 3 weeks later, and Wendy shares the best adjusted win rate on the board. Nori is the Brawler the patch moved: she slides from S to A.

Vince is the 108th Brawler, a Mythic Damage Dealer who runs the Creepy Café. He arrives this season through early access and stays off the letters until match data exists. Cosmo, the 107th, has weeks of match data and enters the board at A.

How to read the letters below. Each letter rests on 3 reads taken on 9 October 2026: the top-200 24-hour meta window, the top-200 30-day window, and real-match adjusted win rate with use rate. S needs S in at least 2 of the 3, or S plus a top adjusted win rate. The last column says what moved since 20 September. Moves are measured against this page's 20 September table. Wendy, Nita and Jessie were not in that table. They sat on the 20 September live S row, so their move is measured from that row.

A community vote of 127,419 ballots since 28 September 2026 breaks ties. Where the vote and the rates split, the row says so. That split is usually the most useful information on the page.

Tier	Brawler	Why it sits here (move since 20 September)
S	Shade	#1 in the top-200 24-hour and 30-day windows, and the most-picked Solo Showdown Brawler at 19.9% with a 66.5% win rate. The 16 September cut to his Super charge did not move him. New to the S row.
S	Gus	S in both top-200 windows and anchors the Brock/Gus/Piper trio at about 10,000 wins. The Knockback Spirit and Health Bonanza nerfs did not move him. New to the S row.
S	Amber	S in both top-200 windows and the community vote puts her at A. Her Hypercharge Buffie burn fell from 500 to 240 and she still holds the top 3. New to the S row.
S	Rico	S in both top-200 windows after a nerf on 1 September. Bounce damage still wins the narrow maps. Up from B.
S	Wendy	S on the 30-day window, A on the 24-hour window, and the joint-best adjusted win rate on the board at 73.8% on 1.83% use. 2 nerf passes cut her shields and she still wins. Holds S.
A	Nori	The community votes her S. Both top-200 windows have her at A after the 16 September patch slowed her full charge by 25% and cut her Hypercharge rate from 50 to 28. Down from S.
A	Edgar	A in both top-200 windows and A on the community vote. His Solo Showdown win rate is only 37.6% on a 5.76% pick rate, so he stays a team pick. Down from S.
A	Griff	S on the 24-hour window and A on the 30-day window and the vote. Steady since August. Holds A.
A	Brock	S on the 24-hour window and A over 30 days. He anchors 2 of the top 5 trios with Piper. Holds A after the Rocket Laces nerf.
A	Mortis	S on the 24-hour window and A over 30 days. His Solo Showdown win rate climbed from 31.1% to 48.4%. Up from B.
A	El Primo	S on the 30-day window and A over 24 hours, even after the Asteroid Belt and Meteor Rush nerfs. New to the board.
A	Cosmo	The 107th Brawler, A in both top-200 windows with a 72.1% adjusted win rate. Triple Cosmo is the most-winning trio on record at 11,000 wins. New to the board.
A	Colette · Max · Bibi	A in both top-200 windows. Colette lost Hypercharge Buffie damage on 16 September and held. Max moves up from B. Bibi holds A.
A	Colt · Maisie · Mandy · Piper	A in both top-200 windows. Piper sits in 2 of the top 5 trios with Brock. Mandy and Colt move up from B.
B	Surge	B on the 24-hour window. The community vote still has him at A. Down from S.
B	Bolt	B on the 24-hour window after the 1 September acceleration nerf, yet tied for the best adjusted win rate at 73.8% on 0.54% use. The sleeper of the month. Down from A.
B	Damian	B on the 24-hour window with a 71.0% adjusted win rate on low use. Down from A.
B	8-Bit · Kaze · Emz · Stu · Kit · Kenji	A on 1 top-200 window only. Reliable mid-board that wins when the map suits them. Emz drops from A. Kaze is new to the board. 8-Bit, Stu, Kit and Kenji hold B.
C	Starr Nova	C on the 24-hour window. The August 4 nerfs to her health, reload and Floaty Time show in the rates. Down from S.
C	Sirius	C on the 24-hour window and outside the 30-day A list. Down from S.
C	Rosa	D on the 24-hour window, yet a 71.4% adjusted win rate and 58.2% in Solo Showdown. A sleeper for solo players. Down from B.
C	Nita	D on the 24-hour window and C on the community vote. Down from the 20 September S row.
D	Jessie	D on the 24-hour window and D on the community vote despite her 1 September buff. Down from the 20 September S row.
D	Crow	F on the 24-hour window and a 27.9% Solo Showdown win rate. Down from A.
D	Chuck	F on the 24-hour window even after the Pit Stop buff on 16 September. New to the board.
C-D	Everyone else	107 Brawlers are playable, Vince will be the 108th, and the long tail sits here. Chester, Cordelius, Leon, Meg, Pierce, Spike, Otis and Bull sit B to D on the 24-hour window. Brawl Time Ninja scores the balance spread at a Gini coefficient of 0.39, which it labels fair, down from 0.43 (mediocre) in August. Vince stays unranked until his match data exists.

Update 69 and the August 4 nerfs still in the kits

Update 69 went live on 1 September 2026. Starr Road became Brawler Blast: Credits progress you toward the next rarity, then a 10-target gallery unlocks 1 Brawler. Mythic Controller Cosmo arrived with it. Nori and Wendy received new Hypercharges.

The same update trimmed Wendy and Nori before 16 September trimmed them again. Wendy's Super charge fell 20%, her generator health fell from 3,500 to 2,500, and its damage reduction from 75% to 60%. Nori lost health (3,800 → 3,500), slash damage (1,100 → 1,000) and Sushi Snack speed (12s → 18s). Bolt lost 15% acceleration. Rico, Griff, Max, Meg, Brock and Ash took smaller nerfs. Jessie got a buff.

The August 4 base-kit nerfs still sit in the kits:

• Starr Nova (health 4,000 → 3,700, reload 1,400 → 1,600, Power Level: Maximum 30% → 20%, Floaty Time 10s → 7s)
• Damian (fire punch and explosion 1,000 → 800, speaker bounce 800 → 400)
• Crow (main attack 380 → 320)
• Bolt (Super shield 40% → 30%)
• 8-Bit (Super charge 99 → 80)
• Max (Super charge 92 → 80)
• Griff (Piggy Bank radius 800 → 600)
• Surge (unload 400 → 470, Power Shield ammo 2 → 1)

2 names often get this wrong. Sirius' base kit was never touched on August 4. Only his NanoPowers were, and those applied solely in modes running the seasonal modifier. Edgar's August buff was also NanoPower-only. Reporting a seasonal-power change as a power-level shift is the most common error in Brawl Stars tier lists.

Wendy · the 106th Brawler, 2 nerf passes later

Wendy is a Mythic Support and has been live since August. She still sits on the S row after 2 nerf passes, so her current kit is worth knowing:

• Trait: walks over water, and charges her Super when her shields take damage. She is rewarded for shielding into pressure.
• Attack · Blow Dryer: 2,400 damage, and it shields as it fires. The main-attack shield is now 300, down from 580.
• Super · Planet Protector: a deployed generator that absorbs 60% of all damage taken by Wendy and any teammate inside it, with 2,500 health.
• Gadgets: Wind-Powered (short jump that now works on water) and Green Grenade (slows every enemy hit and briefly stops them healing).
• Star Powers: Slowing Shield (enemies inside the generator are slowed) or Solar Shield (+600 health on the generator, down from +1,000).
• Hypercharge: turret health is now 3,500, down from 4,500.

Her spawn shield is 40% of max health. Base health rose to 2,500, which is why she still lasts in fights.

Vince · the 108th Brawler, arriving in Brawl-O-Ween

Vince is a Mythic Damage Dealer, a barista who keeps bugs in his Creepy Café. He arrives through early access this season and joins the regular Brawler Blast pool later. His published kit:

• Trait: caterpillars spawn near him. Hitting them with coffee or walking over them turns them into moths for his collection. He drops half the collection when defeated.
• Attack · Espresso Shot: a coffee shot that deals damage.
• Super · Barista Barrage: a single projectile that applies a Caterpillar debuff. Main attacks deal bonus damage to a debuffed target.
• Gadgets: Hot Coffee (an explosive cappuccino for area damage) and Metamothosis (turns nearby caterpillars into moths, with a bonus moth for each collected).
• Star Powers: Come to Papa (nearby caterpillars crawl toward him) and Bug Bandage (each moth heals him for 1,200).

He stays off the letters until he has match data. Re-check this page after his 1st full week.

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 season:

• The biggest sleeper: Bolt. A 73.8% adjusted win rate on 0.54% use, tied with Wendy for the best on the board, and 90.6% in Solo Showdown on a 0.82% pick rate. The 1 September acceleration nerf pushed him to B on the top-200 24-hour window. The ladder stopped drafting him and he kept winning. Small sample, so test him on your own maps.
• Rosa is the 2nd sleeper. D on the top-200 24-hour window, yet a 71.4% adjusted win rate and 58.2% in Solo Showdown. The hard numbers favour Rosa and top players ignore her.
• The biggest trap: Edgar. 5.76% of Solo Showdown picks and a 37.6% win rate. He is A with a team feeding him and a coin-flip without 1.
• Crow fell off the board. F on the top-200 24-hour window and a 27.9% Solo Showdown win rate.
• Mortis climbed out of the trap list. His Solo Showdown win rate rose from 31.1% to 48.4%, and he is S on the top-200 24-hour window. He still needs mechanics.
• Buffed overperformers. Ollie (72.6%) and Juju (71.4%) both got 16 September buffs and now post elite adjusted win rates. Draco (71.3%), Sam (71.1%) and Damian (71.0%) sit right behind them on low use.
• Chuck took a buff and stayed down. His Pit Stop Star Power got longer, stronger slows and more Buffie damage. He is F on the top-200 24-hour window anyway.
• Cosmo bends drafts now. Triple Cosmo is the most-winning trio on record at 11,000 wins, and Cosmo/Nori/Wendy sits at 10,000. Nori held that slot in July with 53,000 triple-Nori wins.

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.

Climbing is a different problem from 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	Shade	#1 in both top-200 windows and the most-picked Solo Showdown Brawler at a 66.5% win rate. No map or mode where he is dead weight.
Highest win-rate pick	Wendy	73.8% adjusted win rate on 1.83% use, with a sample 3 times larger than Bolt's.
Best in a duo/trio	Cosmo	Triple Cosmo is the top trio at 11,000 wins. Cosmo/Nori/Wendy follows at 10,000.
Best support core	Gus with Brock and Piper	Brock/Gus/Piper has about 10,000 wins and Gus keeps the healing that carries it.
Solo Showdown	Shade (66.5% on 19.9%) · Alli (85.7% on 3.3%) · Lily (69.5% on 2.5%) · Colette (66.6% on 2.2%)	Top 4 win rates at 2%+ pick (30 days, 9 October). Shade holds his rate on 6 to 9 times the play of the other 3. Low-pick sleepers: Bolt 90.6% on 0.8%, Cosmo 70.6% on 1.2% and Rosa 58.2% on 0.8%.
Avoid while learning	Edgar · Crow · Chuck	Edgar wins 37.6% of Solo Showdowns and Crow 27.9%. Chuck sits at F on the top-200 window even after his buff.

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. The developers also said in the 4 October Time to Explain episode that a Ranked rework is planned. When it lands, this table moves with it.

No opinions were used to build the table above. Every placement traces back to 3 inputs:

1. Top-200 win and pick rates · the ladder's best players, sampled over a 24-hour meta window and a 30-day window. When these 2 windows agree, the placement is stable. When only the 24-hour window is hot, the pick is trending. An established pick needs both windows.
2. Adjusted win rate and use rate · real match data with a Bayesian average applied to low-pick Brawlers, plus a community vote of 127,419 ballots since 28 September 2026. This catches Brawlers who win a lot while nobody plays them.
3. Official patch notes (Supercell) · Update 69 on 1 September 2026, the 16 September balance maintenance, and the Brawl-O-Ween season launch on 1 October with no balance changes. 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 player. That is why Bolt sits at B with the best adjusted win rate on the board: his sample is tiny, and the top-200 windows keep him below A.

Refresh cadence: Brawl Stars rebalances every few weeks, and the developers plan at least 1 new Brawler every month. This page is dated and re-checked against the same inputs after every balance patch. Vince takes a letter once his match data exists.

Rates and tier placements come from 2 trackers. noff.gg top-200 supplies the 24-hour and 30-day windows plus Solo Showdown win and pick rates. Brawl Time Ninja supplies adjusted win rate, use rate, top team compositions and the community vote. Patch and season facts from Supercell's official August 2026 release notes (Update 69, the 16 September maintenance, Brawl-O-Ween and Vince). Both statistics sources refresh continuously, so exact percentages will drift from the values quoted on this page's update date.

Named-brawler child (not a roster clone): Kaze build (August 2026).