Is Nori good in Brawl Stars?

Nori has a 51.9% adjusted win rate and a 1.9% pick rate over 7,801 sampled decided battles, which puts it in A tier.

What is the best mode for Nori?

Nori performs best in Basket Brawl, with a 78.9% raw win rate over 280 sampled battles there.

What is the best map for Nori?

Stone Skipping (Duels) is where Nori has the strongest sampled record, at 86.9% over 61 battles.

Doug, Fang, Stu pull Nori furthest below its own 56.5% average in sampled team battles.

What star powers and gadgets does Nori have?

Nori has Big Haul and His Mothers Son as star powers and Sushi Snack and Gonna Need A Bigger Net as gadgets.

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AssassinA tierMeta score6.7/10

Nori build, stats and matchups

Most Nori owners buy the Sushi Snack gadget and the Big Haul star power first. Nori has a 51.9% adjusted win rate and 1.9% pick rate over 7,801 sampled battles, A tier in Ranked, as of 13 October 2026.

As the child of Kenji and Kaze, Nori was always destined for great things. Being the first Brawler ever born in Starr Park has also given him extraordinary powers! He's not too bad at cooking either.

Trophies TitleKatana Kid

Prestige titleGone Fishin'

The build owners run

Why, and what else

Star powerbig haul51.2% of owners
Gadgetsushi snack50.6% of owners
Gearshield38.9% of owners
Geardamage37.4% 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: 3500; 7,000 at Power 11
Melee Damage: 1000; 2,000 at Power 11
Super min. Damage: 1250; 2,500 at Power 11
Reload: 0.1s; Very Fast
Range: 8.33; melee; Very Long
Speed: 855; Very Fast

Hits to Super: 5; from empty, all hits landing
Super charge: 24.5% (melee); per hit
Hypercharge boost: 28%; speed, damage and shield

Build & upgrades

What Nori'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 Nori's kit, and nothing here is an opinion about what you should buy.

Star power bought first

Well sampled

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

big haulMost picked64.0% win rate60.0% of first buyers · 2,306 players
his mothers son63.9% win rate40.0% of first buyers · 1,536 players

Gadget bought first

Well sampled

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

sushi snackMost picked63.0% win rate54.9% of first buyers · 2,184 players
gonna need a bigger net67.0% win rate45.1% of first buyers · 1,791 players

Read from 7,817 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.

shield56.1% of owners38.9%of picks
damage53.9% of owners37.4%of picks
health17.1% of owners11.8%of picks
gadget cooldown7.5% of owners5.2%of picks
speed7.5% of owners5.2%of picks
vision2.2% of owners1.5%of picks

Measured across 21,978 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

big haul
Nori catches 3 fish when his Super hits enemy Brawlers.
his mothers son
Nori gains +20% speed for 1 sec whenever he hits an enemy with his Main Attack.

Gadgets

sushi snack18 seconds cooldown
Nori eats up to 3 fish to heal himself for 1000 per fish. Cooldown: 18 seconds.
gonna need a bigger net20 seconds cooldown
Aim a fishing net that roots the first Brawler hit for 1.25 sec and deals 800 damage. Cooldown: 20 seconds.

Hypercharge

master fisherman

When Nori jumps into the water, he pulls all enemies in before dealing area damage!

Buffies

Unreleased. Nori 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

51.9%

7,801 battles

Pick rate

1.9%

Last 7 days

Avg trophies

1,268

Across tracked players

Avg rank

4.3

Across tracked players

Adjusted win rate

51.9%

+3.1 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

Matchups

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

Strong against

Opponents nori beats more often than its own average

Weak against

Opponents that pull nori below its own average

Best team-mates

Allies nori wins more alongside

Percentage points above or below this brawler’s own 56.5% win rate across 133,401 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 Nori in Ranked, by rank →

Top players with nori

Skins

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

24.8% of sampled nori owners have a skin equipped. Shares are of players who own nori, from the rotating snapshot sample.

noriDefault75.2%16,438
nano nori24.0%5,248
true gold nori0.7%142
true silver nori0.1%18

Balance history

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

14 recorded

2026-09-16NerfNori's Master Fisherman Hypercharge multiplier was decreased to 28% (from 50%).
2026-09-16NerfNori's main attack max charge time was increased to 2.5 seconds (from 2).
2026-09-01NeutralNori's Master Fisherman Hypercharge was added.
2026-09-01NeutralEvery Brawler's movement speed was increased, increasing Nori's movement speed to 855 (from 820).
2026-09-01NerfNori's level up damage was decreased to 3% (from 5%) in Brawl Arena.
2026-09-01NerfNori's Sushi Snack Gadget cooldown was increased to 18 seconds (from 12).
2026-09-01NerfThe number of hits necessary to charge Nori's Super with the swing attack was increased to 5 hits (from 4).
2026-09-01NerfNori's main attack swing damage was decreased to 1000 (from 1100).

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.

Nori FAQ

Is Nori good in Brawl Stars?: Nori has a 51.9% adjusted win rate and a 1.9% pick rate over 7,801 sampled decided battles, which puts it in A tier.
What is the best mode for Nori?: Nori performs best in Basket Brawl, with a 78.9% raw win rate over 280 sampled battles there.
What is the best map for Nori?: Stone Skipping (Duels) is where Nori has the strongest sampled record, at 86.9% over 61 battles.
What counters Nori?: Doug, Fang, Stu pull Nori furthest below its own 56.5% average in sampled team battles.
Who is Nori in Brawl Stars?: As the child of Kenji and Kaze, Nori was always destined for great things. Being the first Brawler ever born in Starr Park has also given him extraordinary powers! He's not too bad at cooking either.
What star powers and gadgets does Nori have?: Nori has Big Haul and His Mothers Son as star powers and Sushi Snack and Gonna Need A Bigger Net as gadgets.