Is Rico good in Brawl Stars?

Rico has a 50.0% adjusted win rate and a 2.2% pick rate over 22,853 sampled decided battles, which puts it in B tier.

What is the best mode for Rico?

Rico performs best in Last Stand, with a 31.2% raw win rate over 599 sampled battles there.

What is the best map for Rico?

On a Roll (Gem Grab) is where Rico has the strongest sampled record, at 88.5% over 183 battles.

Cosmo, Jae-Yong, Grom pull Rico furthest below its own 48.8% average in sampled team battles.

What star powers and gadgets does Rico have?

Rico has Super Bouncy and Robo Retreat as star powers and Multiball Launcher and Multiball as gadgets.

All brawlers

Super Rare

Damage DealerB tierMeta score6.1/10

Rico build, stats and matchups

Most Rico owners buy the Multiball Launcher gadget and the Super Bouncy star power first. Rico has a 50.0% adjusted win rate and 2.2% pick rate over 22,853 sampled battles, B tier in Ranked, as of 13 October 2026.

Rico is definitely a real space bounty hunter who tracks down the galaxy's most wanted criminals, not a gumball machine pretending to be cool.

Trophies TitleThe Lover

Prestige titleTrickshot Pro

The build owners run

Why, and what else

Star powersuper bouncy50.3% of owners
Gadgetmultiball launcher50.9% of owners
Gearshield31.4% of owners
Geardamage30.5% 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: 3000; 6,000 at Power 11
Main attack damage per bullet: 300; 600 at Power 11
Super damage per bullet: 360; 720 at Power 11
Reload: 1.1s; Very Fast
Range: 9.67; Very Long
Speed: 750; Normal

Hits to Super: 16; from empty, all hits landing
Super charge: 6.375%; per hit · 5 per attack
Hypercharge boost: 35%; speed, damage and shield

Build & upgrades

What Rico'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 Rico'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.

super bouncyMost picked52.3% win rate61.9% of first buyers · 658 players
robo retreat54.3% win rate38.1% of first buyers · 405 players

Gadget bought first

Building

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

multiball launcherMost picked59.4% win rate78.4% of first buyers · 1,072 players
multiball56.7% win rate21.6% of first buyers · 296 players

Read from 2,431 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.

shield55.4% of owners31.4%of picks
damage53.8% of owners30.5%of picks
vision24.6% of owners13.9%of picks
speed18.1% of owners10.3%of picks
gadget cooldown14.9% of owners8.4%of picks
health9.7% of owners5.5%of picks
reload speed0.0% of owners0.0%of picks

Measured across 23,917 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

super bouncy
Rico's bullets, from attack and Super alike, get supercharged by their first bounce and deal +240 damage!
robo retreat
Rico runs 35% faster when his health falls below 40%.

Gadgets

multiball launcher22 seconds cooldown
Rico deploys a vending machine with 4000 health. Rico can bounce attacks off the vending machine until it explodes, firing bouncing projectiles in all directions. Cooldown: 22 seconds.Read moreShow less
multiball17 seconds cooldown
Rico fires a big bullet that splits into 3 smaller bullets when hitting a wall or enemy Brawlers. Cooldown: 17 seconds.

Hypercharge

trick shot king

Rico's Super's projectiles bounce even further!

Buffies

multiball launcherGadget
When Rico bounces bullets off the vending machine, extra bullets are added to it when it explodes.
multiballGadget
Bullets also slow enemies.
super bouncyStar power
Bounced bullets also give 10% Super charge on hit.
robo retreatStar power
Increase movement speed by up to 50% when Rico is at 10% health.
trick shot kingHypercharge
Rico's Main Attack has increased bullet speed and fires additional bullets.

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.
reload speed15% faster reload.
gadget cooldownReduces Gadget cooldown by 15%.

Performance

Win rate

50.0%

22,853 battles

Pick rate

2.2%

Last 7 days

Avg trophies

1,361

Across tracked players

Avg rank

4.9

Across tracked players

Adjusted win rate

50.0%

+0.6 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

On a RollGem Grab · 183 battles · 88.5% raw63.7%
Let Me DanceGem Grab · 126 battles · 86.5% raw60.1%
The SmackdomeSiege · 262 battles · 69.8% raw58.0%
WALKING ON HOT SANDWipeout · 67 battles · 94.0% raw57.7%
Triple-DoubleBasket Brawl · 49 battles · 85.7% raw56.3%
MEGA BOSS DUO (20 player)Last Stand · 599 battles · 31.2% raw56.3%

Matchups

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

Strong against

Opponents rico beats more often than its own average

Weak against

Opponents that pull rico below its own average

Best team-mates

Allies rico wins more alongside

Percentage points above or below this brawler’s own 48.8% win rate across 306,554 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 Rico in Ranked, by rank →

Top players with rico

Skins

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

97.2% of sampled rico owners have a skin equipped. Shares are of players who own rico, from the rotating snapshot sample.

loaded rico21.0%4,986
sovereign bling rico15.6%3,706
sovereign rico10.7%2,532
final boss rico9.5%2,263
sovereign gem rico7.2%1,721
ghost diver rico7.2%1,702
egg rico5.3%1,261
guard rico5.0%1,185
ricoDefault2.8%677
firefly rico2.8%655
popcorn rico2.7%653
chicken rico2.2%530

8 rarer skins not shown.

Balance history

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

25 recorded

2026-09-01NeutralEvery Brawler's movement speed was increased, increasing Rico's movement speed to 750 (from 720).
2026-09-01NeutralRico's Multiball Gadget icon was changed.
2026-09-01NeutralRico's Bouncy Castle Gadget was renamed to Multiball.
2026-09-01NerfRico's Robo Retreat Star Power Buffie max movement speed boost was decreased to 50% (from 60%).
2026-09-01NerfRico's Multiball Gadget damage was decreased to 1440 (from 1568) per bullet.
2026-09-01NerfRico's Multiball Launcher Gadget cooldown was decreased to 22 seconds (from 19).
2026-09-01BuffRico's Multiball Launcher Gadget damage was increased to 640 (from 320) per bullet.
2026-07-08NeutralFixed a bug where Rico was able to charge his Super by bouncing projectiles from walls to Power Cube boxes with Super Bouncy Star Power equipped.

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.

Rico FAQ

Is Rico good in Brawl Stars?: Rico has a 50.0% adjusted win rate and a 2.2% pick rate over 22,853 sampled decided battles, which puts it in B tier.
What is the best mode for Rico?: Rico performs best in Last Stand, with a 31.2% raw win rate over 599 sampled battles there.
What is the best map for Rico?: On a Roll (Gem Grab) is where Rico has the strongest sampled record, at 88.5% over 183 battles.
What counters Rico?: Cosmo, Jae-Yong, Grom pull Rico furthest below its own 48.8% average in sampled team battles.
Who is Rico in Brawl Stars?: Rico is definitely a real space bounty hunter who tracks down the galaxy's most wanted criminals, not a gumball machine pretending to be cool.
What star powers and gadgets does Rico have?: Rico has Super Bouncy and Robo Retreat as star powers and Multiball Launcher and Multiball as gadgets.