Is Carl good in Brawl Stars?

Carl has a 49.6% adjusted win rate and a 0.9% pick rate over 5,334 sampled decided battles, which puts it in C tier.

What is the best mode for Carl?

Carl performs best in Duels, with a 71.4% raw win rate over 238 sampled battles there.

What is the best map for Carl?

Rice Field (Solo Showdown) is where Carl has the strongest sampled record, at 74.8% over 135 battles.

Draco, Glowy, Ziggy pull Carl furthest below its own 53.0% average in sampled team battles.

What star powers and gadgets does Carl have?

Carl has Power Throw and Protective Pirouette as star powers and Heat Ejector and Flying Hook as gadgets.

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Super Rare

Damage DealerC tierMeta score5.4/10

Carl build, stats and matchups

Most Carl owners buy the Flying Hook gadget and the Protective Pirouette star power first. Carl has a 49.6% adjusted win rate and 0.9% pick rate over 5,334 sampled battles, C tier in Ranked, as of 13 October 2026.

Carl is a mining robot who's fascinated by rocks and stones of all kinds. Don't let him get started on his latest obsession: the effects of Gems!

Trophies TitleThe Geologist

Prestige titleIQ too high

The build owners run

Why, and what else

Star powerprotective pirouette50.3% of owners
Gadgetflying hook50.2% of owners
Geardamage34.1% of owners
Gearshield31.3% of owners

Combat stats

Power 1 values from the wiki, before gears and star powers. Health and damage double at Power 11; reload, range and speed do not change.

Health: 4200; 8,400 at Power 11
Damage on hit: 820; 1,640 at Power 11
Super damage per swing: 500; 1,000 at Power 11
Range: 8.33; Long
Speed: 750; Normal

Hits to Super: 6; from empty, all hits landing
Super charge: 19.475%; per hit
Hypercharge boost: 50%; speed, damage and shield

Build & upgrades

What Carl's kit does, and what owners spend their coins on first.

What owners bought and how it has gone for them.How to read this

What owners bought is popularity — the game's API reports what a player has unlocked, never what they took into a match. How it has gone is the win rate among the players who made each choice, which covers the ability and the kind of player who picks it together. Neither is a recommendation from us: BrawlZone does not rank Carl's kit, and nothing here is an opinion about what you should buy.

Star power bought first

Building

Among owners who have only one so far. Win rates cover the choice and the chooser together.

protective pirouetteMost picked65.8% win rate57.5% of first buyers · 764 players
power throw62.7% win rate42.5% of first buyers · 565 players

Gadget bought first

Building

Among owners who have only one so far. Win rates cover the choice and the chooser together.

flying hookMost picked57.7% win rate55.3% of first buyers · 745 players
heat ejector60.8% win rate44.7% of first buyers · 601 players

Read from 2,675 first-buyers

Counted from tracked players who own exactly one of the pair: they chose it, and every battle they played on this brawler was played with it, so this measures a decision rather than ownership. It is not a controlled comparison. Which option a player bought is their own choice, so each win rate covers the ability and the kind of player who picks it together. Owning one option does not make two groups otherwise alike, and nothing here separates the two. Read it as how it has gone for the people who bought each one — not as what the ability will do to your win rate.

Gears owners buy

Gears cost coins and you can only run two, so what owners have bought is a real preference.

damage44.2% of owners34.1%of picks
shield40.5% of owners31.3%of picks
gadget cooldown15.2% of owners11.7%of picks
speed11.1% of owners8.6%of picks
health10.9% of owners8.4%of picks
vision7.7% of owners5.9%of picks

Measured across 23,860 tracked players who own this brawler. “Of owners” is how many of them have that item; “of picks” is its share of every unlock of that kind, which is what makes the options comparable with each other. A player can own several gears, so the first column does not add up to 100% and the second does. Almost all of them own both star powers and both gadgets.

Star powers

power throw
Carl throws his Pickaxe with 10% more speed, allowing it to travel faster and return faster.
protective pirouette
During Carl's Super, all damage he receives is reduced by 35%.

Gadgets

heat ejector17 seconds cooldown
The next pickaxe Carl throws will drop a trail of hot rocks behind it! Opponents that touch them are set on fire, and receive 600 damage per second. Cooldown: 17 seconds.
flying hook19 seconds cooldown
Carl's next attack makes his pickaxe pull him to the farthest point of the attack. Cooldown: 19 seconds.

Hypercharge

flamespin

Carl gains a flame trail while using his Super. The trail burns on contact, causing damage over time.

Buffies

Unreleased. Carl has no buffies yet.

Gears

6 equippable

speedGain 15% speed increase when moving in bushes.
healthRecover health 50% more effectively.
damageDeal 15% extra damage when your Brawler is below 50% Health.
visionReveal opponents for 2 seconds after dealing damage to them.
shieldGain extra 900 health as a consumable shield. The shield regenerates in 10 seconds, when at full health.
gadget cooldownReduces Gadget cooldown by 15%.

Performance

Win rate

49.6%

5,334 battles

Pick rate

0.9%

Last 7 days

Avg trophies

1,064

Across tracked players

Avg rank

4.4

Across tracked players

Adjusted win rate

49.4%

±0.1 pts

31 daily snapshots. Adjusted against the sample average, so a shift here is the brawler moving rather than the cohort.

Where it performs

Each mode and map is scored against its own average, so a showdown record and a gem grab one can be read in the same list.

Best modes

Best maps

Rice FieldSolo Showdown · 135 battles · 74.8% raw62.3%
Cavern ChurnSolo Showdown · 191 battles · 67.5% raw60.3%
On a RollGem Grab · 37 battles · 91.9% raw58.8%
Stone SkippingDuels · 18 battles · 94.4% raw58.5%
WALKING ON HOT SANDWipeout · 47 battles · 97.9% raw58.4%
Cabin FeverBrawl Ball · 154 battles · 78.6% raw58.0%

Matchups

Which brawlers carl beats, which ones win the matchup, and who to draft alongside.

Strong against

Opponents carl beats more often than its own average

Weak against

Opponents that pull carl below its own average

Best team-mates

Allies carl wins more alongside

Percentage points above or below this brawler’s own 53.0% win rate across 84,410 sampled team battles. Counted once per battle from one player’s side, and kept out of the win-rate and pick-rate numbers above. Those would be skewed by counting every participant.

How to counter Carl in Ranked, by rank →

Top players with carl

Skins

Which Carl skins players actually equip, from the sampled snapshot pool.

94.1% of sampled carl owners have a skin equipped. Shares are of players who own carl, from the rotating snapshot sample.

sultan carl19.8%4,517
insector carl14.3%3,257
biker carl11.5%2,617
captain carl11.1%2,538
hog rider carl7.1%1,622
dark tide carl6.8%1,562
crazy clown carl6.3%1,427
carlDefault5.9%1,351
goblin carl4.6%1,052
surfer carl3.4%771
striker carl2.3%518
leonard carl1.9%431

5 rarer skins not shown.

Balance history

The last changes Supercell made to Carl. Cosmetic releases are left out.

2 recorded

2026-09-01NeutralEvery Brawler's movement speed was increased, increasing Carl's movement speed to 750 (from 720).
2025-12-16BuffCarl's health was increased to 4200 (from 4000).

Combat stats, ability and gear descriptions, hypercharge and buffie effects, and balance history from the Brawl Stars Wiki, CC-BY-SA. Win rates, pick rates and matchups are our own.

Carl FAQ

Is Carl good in Brawl Stars?: Carl has a 49.6% adjusted win rate and a 0.9% pick rate over 5,334 sampled decided battles, which puts it in C tier.
What is the best mode for Carl?: Carl performs best in Duels, with a 71.4% raw win rate over 238 sampled battles there.
What is the best map for Carl?: Rice Field (Solo Showdown) is where Carl has the strongest sampled record, at 74.8% over 135 battles.
What counters Carl?: Draco, Glowy, Ziggy pull Carl furthest below its own 53.0% average in sampled team battles.
Who is Carl in Brawl Stars?: Carl is a mining robot who's fascinated by rocks and stones of all kinds. Don't let him get started on his latest obsession: the effects of Gems!
What star powers and gadgets does Carl have?: Carl has Power Throw and Protective Pirouette as star powers and Heat Ejector and Flying Hook as gadgets.