Is Kenji good in Brawl Stars?

Kenji has a 51.0% adjusted win rate and a 0.7% pick rate over 1,868 sampled decided battles, which puts it in C tier.

What is the best mode for Kenji?

Kenji performs best in Solo Showdown, with a 78.6% raw win rate over 8,903 sampled battles there.

What is the best map for Kenji?

Rockwall Brawl (Duo Showdown) is where Kenji has the strongest sampled record, at 75.3% over 263 battles.

Doug, Lola, Chester pull Kenji furthest below its own 48.2% average in sampled team battles.

What star powers and gadgets does Kenji have?

Kenji has Studied The Blade and Nigiri Nemesis as star powers and Dashi Dash and Hosomaki Healing as gadgets.

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Legendary

AssassinC tierMeta score5.0/10

Kenji build, stats and matchups

Most Kenji owners buy the Hosomaki Healing gadget and the Nigiri Nemesis star power first. Kenji has a 51.0% adjusted win rate and 0.7% pick rate over 1,868 sampled battles, C tier in Ranked, as of 13 October 2026.

This highly skilled sushi chef has a wholesome life running his restaurant in Starr Park, but it feels like he's trying to hide something about his past... though his sushi tastes so good, nobody cares!

Trophies TitleSamurai

Prestige titleChopped

The build owners run

Why, and what else

Star powernigiri nemesis50.9% of owners
Gadgethosomaki healing51.1% of owners
Geardamage35.9% of owners
Gearshield33.7% 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: 4000; 8,000 at Power 11
Dash Damage: 750; 1,500 at Power 11
Super damage per slice: 1300; 2,600 at Power 11
Reload: 1s; Very Fast
Range: 2.67; dash; Short
Speed: 855; Very Fast

Hits to Super: 5; from empty, all hits landing
Super charge: 21.55% (dash); per hit
Hypercharge boost: 25%; speed, damage and shield

Build & upgrades

What Kenji'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 Kenji'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.

nigiri nemesisMost picked58.1% win rate71.2% of first buyers · 1,169 players
studied the blade72.0% win rate28.8% of first buyers · 472 players

Gadget bought first

Building

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

hosomaki healingMost picked67.0% win rate70.9% of first buyers · 1,471 players
dashi dash69.5% win rate29.1% of first buyers · 604 players

Read from 3,716 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.

damage58.2% of owners35.9%of picks
shield54.6% of owners33.7%of picks
gadget cooldown21.8% of owners13.4%of picks
health13.5% of owners8.3%of picks
speed12.1% of owners7.4%of picks
vision1.9% of owners1.2%of picks

Measured across 22,263 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

studied the blade
Slashimi's slices have 30% longer range.
nigiri nemesis
After avoiding damage for 5 seconds, gets 60% damage reduction from the next enemy attack.

Gadgets

dashi dash15 seconds cooldown
Kenji's basic attack only uses Dash for the next 3 seconds. Cooldown: 15 seconds.
hosomaki healing17 seconds cooldown
Kenji instantly heals 50% of the damage taken over the last 3 seconds. Cooldown: 17 seconds.

Hypercharge

all you can eat

Kenji pulls nearby enemies to the middle of his Super.

Buffies

Unreleased. Kenji 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

51.0%

1,868 battles

Pick rate

0.7%

Last 7 days

Avg trophies

1,215

Across tracked players

Avg rank

4.7

Across tracked players

Adjusted win rate

51.2%

±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

Rockwall BrawlDuo Showdown · 263 battles · 75.3% raw59.5%
Call of the WaterKnockout · 111 battles · 82.0% raw58.7%
SupercutBounty · 88 battles · 84.1% raw58.7%
Starfruit SupernovaSolo Showdown · 288 battles · 67.7% raw58.1%
Dark PassageDuo Showdown · 65 battles · 72.3% raw57.1%
In the LiminalHot Zone · 295 battles · 66.8% raw56.0%

Matchups

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

Strong against

Opponents kenji beats more often than its own average

Weak against

Opponents that pull kenji below its own average

Best team-mates

Allies kenji wins more alongside

Percentage points above or below this brawler’s own 48.2% win rate across 69,482 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 Kenji in Ranked, by rank →

Top players with kenji

Skins

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

93.7% of sampled kenji owners have a skin equipped. Shares are of players who own kenji, from the rotating snapshot sample.

grizzled kenji40.1%8,876
manga kenji13.8%3,046
kizu kenji9.9%2,182
cursed kenji9.0%1,991
oni kenji8.7%1,931
kenjiDefault6.3%1,395
fruit samurai kenji4.3%960
hebi kenji2.3%516
true gold kenji2.0%436
aodaisho kenji1.9%413
mamushi kenji1.3%279
true silver kenji0.5%107

Balance history

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

2 recorded

2026-09-01NeutralEvery Brawler's movement speed was increased, increasing Kenji's movement speed to 855 (from 820).
2025-12-16BuffKenji's health was increased to 4000 (from 3800).

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.

Kenji FAQ

Is Kenji good in Brawl Stars?: Kenji has a 51.0% adjusted win rate and a 0.7% pick rate over 1,868 sampled decided battles, which puts it in C tier.
What is the best mode for Kenji?: Kenji performs best in Solo Showdown, with a 78.6% raw win rate over 8,903 sampled battles there.
What is the best map for Kenji?: Rockwall Brawl (Duo Showdown) is where Kenji has the strongest sampled record, at 75.3% over 263 battles.
What counters Kenji?: Doug, Lola, Chester pull Kenji furthest below its own 48.2% average in sampled team battles.
Who is Kenji in Brawl Stars?: This highly skilled sushi chef has a wholesome life running his restaurant in Starr Park, but it feels like he's trying to hide something about his past... though his sushi tastes so good, nobody cares!
What star powers and gadgets does Kenji have?: Kenji has Studied The Blade and Nigiri Nemesis as star powers and Dashi Dash and Hosomaki Healing as gadgets.