Is Penny good in Brawl Stars?

Penny has a 48.0% adjusted win rate and a 0.7% pick rate over 4,312 sampled decided battles, which puts it in C tier.

What is the best mode for Penny?

Penny performs best in Gem Grab, with a 66.4% raw win rate over 1,005 sampled battles there.

What is the best map for Penny?

Gated Community (Solo Showdown) is where Penny has the strongest sampled record, at 81.3% over 48 battles.

Starr Nova, Nita, Doug pull Penny furthest below its own 49.9% average in sampled team battles.

What star powers and gadgets does Penny have?

Penny has Heavy Coffers and Master Blaster as star powers and Salty Barrel and Trusty Spyglass as gadgets.

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Super Rare

ControllerC tierMeta score4.1/10

Penny build, stats and matchups

Most Penny owners buy the Salty Barrel gadget and the Master Blaster star power first. Penny has a 48.0% adjusted win rate and 0.7% pick rate over 4,312 sampled battles, C tier in Ranked, as of 13 October 2026.

Penny doesn't care about studying old maps or puzzling over sea shanty riddles. She's a pirate so she can blow stuff up and grab whatever she wants!

Trophies TitleThe Salty

Prestige titleThe Rebel

The build owners run

Why, and what else

Star powermaster blaster50.0% of owners
Gadgetsalty barrel50.3% of owners
Gearpet power25.8% of owners
Geardamage25.5% 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
Damage: 980; 1,960 at Power 11
Super health: 3400; 6,800 at Power 11
Reload: 2s; Slow
Range: 8.67; Long
Speed: 750; Normal

Hits to Super: 5; from empty, all hits landing
Super charge: 21.8%; per hit · 1 per attack
Hypercharge boost: 30%; speed, damage and shield

Build & upgrades

What Penny'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 Penny'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.

master blasterMost picked64.8% win rate50.9% of first buyers · 741 players
heavy coffers61.0% win rate49.1% of first buyers · 714 players

Gadget bought first

Building

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

salty barrelMost picked65.0% win rate59.8% of first buyers · 868 players
trusty spyglass50.0% win rate40.2% of first buyers · 584 players

Read from 2,907 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.

pet power33.0% of owners25.8%of picks
damage32.6% of owners25.5%of picks
shield31.3% of owners24.4%of picks
speed10.0% of owners7.8%of picks
vision9.1% of owners7.1%of picks
health6.8% of owners5.3%of picks
gadget cooldown5.3% of owners4.1%of picks

Measured across 25,233 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

heavy coffers
Penny's gold pouches burst with a 100% wider cone after each hit.
master blaster
Penny's cannon deals 1372 damage and knocks back nearby enemies on landing.

Gadgets

salty barrel18 seconds cooldown
Penny drops a barrel of salt that blocks enemy projectiles. She can also use it to burst her own gold pouches. Cooldown: 18 seconds.
trusty spyglass15 seconds cooldown
Penny's cannon blasts at every visible enemy position within range. Cooldown: 15 seconds.

Hypercharge

new lobber

Penny deploys a bigger cannon that shoots 2 cannonballs at a time instead of 1

Buffies

Unreleased. Penny 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.
pet powerPet power increased by 25%.
gadget cooldownReduces Gadget cooldown by 15%.

Performance

Win rate

48.0%

4,312 battles

Pick rate

0.7%

Last 7 days

Avg trophies

947

Across tracked players

Avg rank

4.1

Across tracked players

Adjusted win rate

48.0%

−1.6 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 penny beats, which ones win the matchup, and who to draft alongside.

Strong against

Opponents penny beats more often than its own average

Weak against

Opponents that pull penny below its own average

Best team-mates

Allies penny wins more alongside

Percentage points above or below this brawler’s own 49.9% win rate across 74,659 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 Penny in Ranked, by rank →

Top players with penny

Skins

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

93.6% of sampled penny owners have a skin equipped. Shares are of players who own penny, from the rotating snapshot sample.

pop penny22.0%5,522
moon-curser penny19.1%4,800
trash panda penny11.1%2,776
truant penny9.8%2,469
archer queen penny9.1%2,290
dark bunny penny7.4%1,845
pennyDefault6.4%1,618
robo penny5.0%1,248
bunny penny4.8%1,201
smuggler penny2.7%686
lil helper penny2.1%535
true gold penny0.2%62

1 rarer skin not shown.

Balance history

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

5 recorded

2026-09-01NeutralEvery Brawler's movement speed was increased, increasing Penny's movement speed to 750 (from 720).
2026-06-30NerfPenny's level up reload speed was decreased to 1.5% (from 2%) in Brawl Arena.
2026-06-30NerfPenny's level up movement speed was decreased to 6 (from 8) in Brawl Arena.
2025-12-16BuffPenny's Salty Barrel Gadget health was increased to 1960 (from 1792).
2025-12-16BuffPenny's health was increased to 3500 (from 3200).

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.

Penny FAQ

Is Penny good in Brawl Stars?: Penny has a 48.0% adjusted win rate and a 0.7% pick rate over 4,312 sampled decided battles, which puts it in C tier.
What is the best mode for Penny?: Penny performs best in Gem Grab, with a 66.4% raw win rate over 1,005 sampled battles there.
What is the best map for Penny?: Gated Community (Solo Showdown) is where Penny has the strongest sampled record, at 81.3% over 48 battles.
What counters Penny?: Starr Nova, Nita, Doug pull Penny furthest below its own 49.9% average in sampled team battles.
Who is Penny in Brawl Stars?: Penny doesn't care about studying old maps or puzzling over sea shanty riddles. She's a pirate so she can blow stuff up and grab whatever she wants!
What star powers and gadgets does Penny have?: Penny has Heavy Coffers and Master Blaster as star powers and Salty Barrel and Trusty Spyglass as gadgets.