Is Gene good in Brawl Stars?

Gene has a 45.7% adjusted win rate and a 0.7% pick rate over 5,914 sampled decided battles, which puts it in E tier.

What is the best mode for Gene?

Gene performs best in Duels, with a 77.3% raw win rate over 317 sampled battles there.

What is the best map for Gene?

Warrior's Way (Duels) is where Gene has the strongest sampled record, at 85.6% over 90 battles.

Chuck, Ash, Sirius pull Gene furthest below its own 51.6% average in sampled team battles.

What star powers and gadgets does Gene have?

Gene has Magic Puffs and Spirit Slap as star powers and Lamp Blowout and Vengeful Spirits as gadgets.

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Mythic

ControllerE tierMeta score2.9/10

Gene build, stats and matchups

Most Gene owners buy the Lamp Blowout gadget and the Spirit Slap star power first. Gene has a 45.7% adjusted win rate and 0.7% pick rate over 5,914 sampled battles, E tier in Ranked, as of 13 October 2026.

Most people look at Gene and see a funny little guy in a costume. What they don't see is that his personality is split between his body and his teapot.

Trophies TitleTalk to the Hand!

Prestige titleAblablababa

The build owners run

Why, and what else

Star powerspirit slap50.2% of owners
Gadgetlamp blowout50.9% of owners
Geartalk to the hand28.9% of owners
Gearvision20.0% 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: 3800; 7,600 at Power 11
Damage: 1000; 2,000 at Power 11
Reload: 2s; Slow
Range: 5.67; close range; Normal
Speed: 750; Normal

Hits to Super: 4; from empty, all hits landing
Super charge: 25% (close range); per hit · 1 (close range) per attack
Hypercharge boost: 35%; speed, damage and shield

Build & upgrades

What Gene'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 Gene'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.

spirit slapMost picked62.3% win rate54.4% of first buyers · 722 players
magic puffs60.7% win rate45.6% of first buyers · 604 players

Gadget bought first

Building

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

lamp blowoutMost picked55.2% win rate71.0% of first buyers · 1,121 players
vengeful spirits61.1% win rate29.0% of first buyers · 457 players

Read from 2,904 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.

talk to the hand44.5% of owners28.9%of picks
vision30.9% of owners20.0%of picks
shield28.6% of owners18.6%of picks
damage27.2% of owners17.6%of picks
speed8.2% of owners5.3%of picks
gadget cooldown7.4% of owners4.8%of picks
health7.2% of owners4.7%of picks

Measured across 22,746 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

magic puffs
Gene heals all friendly Brawlers around him for 608 health per second.
spirit slap
Gene's Magic Hand also damages enemies, dealing 2000 damage on hit.

Gadgets

lamp blowout20 seconds cooldown
All enemies close to Gene are instantly pushed back. If at least one enemy Brawler is within range, Gene will also restore 10% of his max health. Cooldown: 20 seconds.
vengeful spirits20 seconds cooldown
Gene shoots a homing missile at all visible enemies within a large area, dealing up to 1600 damage based on distance. Cooldown: 20 seconds.

Hypercharge

hyper hands

Gene's Super splits into 3 different hands, each being able to grab one enemy. First goes straight, and the other 2 go diagonally.

Buffies

Unreleased. Gene has no buffies yet.

Gears

7 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.
talk to the hand
gadget cooldownReduces Gadget cooldown by 15%.

Performance

Win rate

45.7%

5,914 battles

Pick rate

0.7%

Last 7 days

Avg trophies

940

Across tracked players

Avg rank

4.1

Across tracked players

Adjusted win rate

45.7%

−0.3 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

Warrior's WayDuels · 90 battles · 85.6% raw61.6%
Brace for ImpactBounty · 95 battles · 85.3% raw60.8%
SupercutBounty · 83 battles · 85.5% raw59.4%
Scorched StoneSolo Showdown · 45 battles · 75.6% raw59.3%
Stone SkippingDuels · 15 battles · 100.0% raw58.7%
Search and DestroyDuels · 42 battles · 85.7% raw58.0%

Matchups

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

Strong against

Opponents gene beats more often than its own average

Weak against

Opponents that pull gene below its own average

Best team-mates

Allies gene wins more alongside

Percentage points above or below this brawler’s own 51.6% win rate across 56,181 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 Gene in Ranked, by rank →

Top players with gene

Skins

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

92.5% of sampled gene owners have a skin equipped. Shares are of players who own gene, from the rotating snapshot sample.

evil gene29.7%6,717
dark samurai gene19.0%4,299
angel gene17.0%3,843
swamp gene9.1%2,047
geneDefault7.5%1,700
jungle gene4.6%1,046
pirate gene4.3%969
score stopper gene3.3%737
keeper gene2.9%665
super ball gene1.9%438
true gold gene0.5%103
true silver gene0.2%51

Balance history

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

5 recorded

2026-09-01NeutralEvery Brawler's movement speed was increased, increasing Gene's movement speed to 750 (from 720).
2026-04-22NeutralFixed an issue with Gene's Super bypassing crowd control immunity.
2025-12-16BuffGene's Magic Puffs Star Power healing was increased to 548 (from 519) per second.
2025-12-16BuffGene's health was increased to 3800 (from 3600).
2024-10-29NeutralDark Samurai Gene's winning animation was slightly reworked.

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.

Gene FAQ

Is Gene good in Brawl Stars?: Gene has a 45.7% adjusted win rate and a 0.7% pick rate over 5,914 sampled decided battles, which puts it in E tier.
What is the best mode for Gene?: Gene performs best in Duels, with a 77.3% raw win rate over 317 sampled battles there.
What is the best map for Gene?: Warrior's Way (Duels) is where Gene has the strongest sampled record, at 85.6% over 90 battles.
What counters Gene?: Chuck, Ash, Sirius pull Gene furthest below its own 51.6% average in sampled team battles.
Who is Gene in Brawl Stars?: Most people look at Gene and see a funny little guy in a costume. What they don't see is that his personality is split between his body and his teapot.
What star powers and gadgets does Gene have?: Gene has Magic Puffs and Spirit Slap as star powers and Lamp Blowout and Vengeful Spirits as gadgets.