Is Gus good in Brawl Stars?

Gus has a 50.9% adjusted win rate and a 4.0% pick rate over 30,414 sampled decided battles, which puts it in A tier.

What is the best mode for Gus?

Gus performs best in Wipeout, with a 79.6% raw win rate over 914 sampled battles there.

What is the best map for Gus?

Gated Community (Solo Showdown) is where Gus has the strongest sampled record, at 70.9% over 382 battles.

Nita, Ash, 8-Bit pull Gus furthest below its own 57.4% average in sampled team battles.

What star powers and gadgets does Gus have?

Gus has Health Bonanza and Spirit Animal as star powers and Kooky Popper and Knockback Spirit as gadgets.

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SupportA tierMeta score6.8/10

Gus build, stats and matchups

Most Gus owners buy the Kooky Popper gadget and the Health Bonanza star power first. Gus has a 50.9% adjusted win rate and 4.0% pick rate over 30,414 sampled battles, A tier in Ranked, as of 13 October 2026.

Gus looks so much like a ghost child that he's often mistaken for one. Perhaps fittingly, he's an enthusiast of all things Supernatural, since he's too innocent to be scared.

Trophies TitleThe Lost

Prestige titleBalloon Boy

The build owners run

Why, and what else

Star powerhealth bonanza50.7% of owners
Gadgetkooky popper50.6% of owners
Gearshield35.3% of owners
Geardamage33.6% 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: 3300; 6,600 at Power 11
Damage per balloon: 1080; 2,160 at Power 11
Super shield Health: 2600; 5,200 at Power 11
Reload: 1.5s; Normal
Range: 9.33; Very Long
Speed: 750; Normal

Hits to Super: 4; from empty, all hits landing
Super charge: 25.375%; per hit · 1 per attack
Hypercharge boost: 35%; speed, damage and shield

Build & upgrades

What Gus'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 Gus'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.

health bonanzaMost picked62.0% win rate63.5% of first buyers · 1,180 players
spirit animal58.0% win rate36.5% of first buyers · 679 players

Gadget bought first

Building

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

kooky popperMost picked64.5% win rate61.5% of first buyers · 1,238 players
knockback spirit63.7% win rate38.5% of first buyers · 776 players

Read from 3,873 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.

shield52.9% of owners35.3%of picks
damage50.4% of owners33.6%of picks
gadget cooldown13.8% of owners9.2%of picks
vision12.6% of owners8.4%of picks
health10.8% of owners7.2%of picks
speed9.3% of owners6.2%of picks

Measured across 23,847 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

health bonanza
Healing gained from spirits is increased by 75%.
spirit animal
Spooky increases the damage of a teammate by 25% for 5 seconds.

Gadgets

kooky popper16 seconds cooldown
Explode all uncollected spirits, dealing 2160 damage to nearby enemies. Cooldown: 16 seconds.
knockback spirit18 seconds cooldown
Gus throws a spirit, knocking back enemies and dealing 1080 damage. Cooldown: 18 seconds.

Hypercharge

spooky pop

On impact, Gus' Super will drop spirits in all directions that deal damage to enemies and heal teammates!

Buffies

kooky popperGadget
Nearby enemies lose 1 ammo.
knockback spiritGadget
Create a spirit for each enemy hit.
health bonanzaStar power
Spirits move toward the nearest ally.
spirit animalStar power
Spooky also gives a teammate a 15% speed boost for 5 sec.
spooky popHypercharge
Gus' main attack becomes larger and can go through walls!

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

50.9%

30,414 battles

Pick rate

4.0%

Last 7 days

Avg trophies

1,125

Across tracked players

Avg rank

4.4

Across tracked players

Adjusted win rate

50.9%

−2.9 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

Gated CommunitySolo Showdown · 382 battles · 70.9% raw60.9%
AttritionWipeout · 129 battles · 83.7% raw58.2%
PicturesqueGem Grab · 188 battles · 76.1% raw57.8%
Rice FieldSolo Showdown · 535 battles · 66.0% raw57.3%
Hee HeeWipeout · 49 battles · 89.8% raw57.3%
Big Battle BasinWipeout · 204 battles · 80.4% raw57.2%

Matchups

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

Strong against

Opponents gus beats more often than its own average

Weak against

Opponents that pull gus below its own average

Best team-mates

Allies gus wins more alongside

Percentage points above or below this brawler’s own 57.4% win rate across 398,949 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 Gus in Ranked, by rank →

Top players with gus

Skins

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

85.0% of sampled gus owners have a skin equipped. Shares are of players who own gus, from the rotating snapshot sample.

grim gus26.2%6,205
gruesome gus15.6%3,702
gusDefault15.0%3,550
world champion gus14.4%3,424
boy scout gus9.1%2,159
tomura shigaraki: gus6.5%1,529
will gus6.1%1,449
balloon sally5.2%1,229
true gold gus1.3%309
true silver gus0.6%148

Balance history

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

12 recorded

2026-09-16NerfGus' extra healing from Health Bonanza Star Power was decreased to 75% (from 100%).
2026-09-16NerfGus' Knockback Spirit Gadget cooldown was increased to 18 seconds (from 10).
2026-09-01NeutralGus' Buffies were added.
2026-09-01NeutralEvery Brawler's movement speed was increased, increasing Gus' movement speed to 750 (from 720).
2026-09-01NeutralWorld Champion Gus' Super visual effects were reworked.
2026-09-01NeutralGus' Knockback Spirit Gadget icon was changed.
2026-09-01NeutralGus' Soul Switcher Gadget was renamed to Knockback Spirit, and reworked from instantly charging his bar in exchange for 5% of his current health to throwing a piercing attack that deals 1080 damage, knocks enemies back, and spawning a spirit at the end of its 6.67-tile-range.
2026-05-13NeutralTomura Shigaraki: Gus' Super visual effects were 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.

Gus FAQ

Is Gus good in Brawl Stars?: Gus has a 50.9% adjusted win rate and a 4.0% pick rate over 30,414 sampled decided battles, which puts it in A tier.
What is the best mode for Gus?: Gus performs best in Wipeout, with a 79.6% raw win rate over 914 sampled battles there.
What is the best map for Gus?: Gated Community (Solo Showdown) is where Gus has the strongest sampled record, at 70.9% over 382 battles.
What counters Gus?: Nita, Ash, 8-Bit pull Gus furthest below its own 57.4% average in sampled team battles.
Who is Gus in Brawl Stars?: Gus looks so much like a ghost child that he's often mistaken for one. Perhaps fittingly, he's an enthusiast of all things Supernatural, since he's too innocent to be scared.
What star powers and gadgets does Gus have?: Gus has Health Bonanza and Spirit Animal as star powers and Kooky Popper and Knockback Spirit as gadgets.