Is Sandy good in Brawl Stars?

Sandy has a 51.6% adjusted win rate and a 0.4% pick rate over 507 sampled decided battles, which puts it in D tier.

What is the best mode for Sandy?

Sandy performs best in Bounty, with a 71.2% raw win rate over 125 sampled battles there.

What is the best map for Sandy?

Acid Lakes (Solo Showdown) is where Sandy has the strongest sampled record, at 73.1% over 197 battles.

Juju, R-T, Najia pull Sandy furthest below its own 56.8% average in sampled team battles.

What star powers and gadgets does Sandy have?

Sandy has Rude Sands and Healing Winds as star powers and Sleep Stimulator and Sweet Dreams as gadgets.

All brawlers

Legendary

ControllerD tierMeta score3.9/10

Sandy build, stats and matchups

Most Sandy owners buy the Sweet Dreams gadget and the Rude Sands star power first. Sandy has a 51.6% adjusted win rate and 0.4% pick rate over 507 sampled battles, D tier in Ranked, as of 13 October 2026.

On the rare occasions Sandy wakes from his slumber, he tries to help his big sister Tara around their store. But it's never long before he falls asleep again.

Trophies TitleThe Sleepy

Prestige titleZzzz...

The build owners run

Why, and what else

Star powerrude sands50.2% of owners
Gadgetsweet dreams51.3% of owners
Geardamage23.6% of owners
Gearexhausting storm23.6% 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: 4100; 8,200 at Power 11
Damage: 900; 1,800 at Power 11
Reload: 1.8s; Normal
Range: 6; Normal
Speed: 800; Fast

Hits to Super: 6; from empty, all hits landing
Super charge: 16.875%; per hit
Hypercharge boost: 40%; speed, damage and shield

Build & upgrades

What Sandy'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 Sandy'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.

rude sandsMost picked65.9% win rate55.7% of first buyers · 753 players
healing winds74.0% win rate44.3% of first buyers · 598 players

Gadget bought first

Building

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

sweet dreamsMost picked74.5% win rate78.2% of first buyers · 1,370 players
sleep stimulator69.3% win rate21.8% of first buyers · 383 players

Read from 3,104 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.

damage33.6% of owners23.6%of picks
exhausting storm33.6% of owners23.6%of picks
shield27.2% of owners19.1%of picks
speed19.7% of owners13.8%of picks
gadget cooldown15.6% of owners10.9%of picks
health6.5% of owners4.6%of picks
vision6.0% of owners4.2%of picks

Measured across 23,641 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

rude sands
Sandstorm now also damages enemies for 216 damage per second.
healing winds
Sandstorm now also heals friendly Brawlers for 410 health per second.

Gadgets

sleep stimulator11 seconds cooldown
Sandy falls asleep for 1.5 seconds and his health is fully restored. Cooldown: 11 seconds.
sweet dreams18 seconds cooldown
Sandy's next attack lulls opponents to sleep for 1 second. They will however wake up from any damage. Cooldown: 18 seconds.

Hypercharge

swift winds

Sandy grants himself and his allies 20% increased movement speed while inside of Sandstorm. His Super will also silence enemies for 0.5 seconds when it lands.

Buffies

Unreleased. Sandy 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.
exhausting storm
gadget cooldownReduces Gadget cooldown by 15%.

Performance

Win rate

51.6%

507 battles

Pick rate

0.4%

Last 7 days

Avg trophies

956

Across tracked players

Avg rank

4.2

Across tracked players

Adjusted win rate

51.6%

−2.6 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 sandy beats, which ones win the matchup, and who to draft alongside.

Strong against

Opponents sandy beats more often than its own average

Weak against

Opponents that pull sandy below its own average

Best team-mates

Allies sandy wins more alongside

Percentage points above or below this brawler’s own 56.8% win rate across 31,877 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 Sandy in Ranked, by rank →

Top players with sandy

Skins

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

95.1% of sampled sandy owners have a skin equipped. Shares are of players who own sandy, from the rotating snapshot sample.

nightmare sandy28.9%6,420
neon jellyfish sandy20.5%4,556
hypnos sandy14.6%3,247
lantern sandy11.8%2,628
sugar rush sandy7.9%1,749
sandyDefault4.9%1,082
jellyfish sandy3.7%830
sandy koya2.8%618
glowing jellyfish sandy2.3%520
sleepy sandy2.0%449
true gold sandy0.4%95
true silver sandy0.2%49

Balance history

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

4 recorded

2026-09-01NeutralEvery Brawler's movement speed was increased, increasing Sandy's movement speed to 800 (from 770).
2026-06-30BuffSandy's level up damage was increased to 5% (from 4%) in Brawl Arena.
2025-12-16BuffSandy's Healing Winds Star Power healing was increased to 369 (from 342) per second.
2025-12-16BuffSandy's health was increased to 4100 (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.

Sandy FAQ

Is Sandy good in Brawl Stars?: Sandy has a 51.6% adjusted win rate and a 0.4% pick rate over 507 sampled decided battles, which puts it in D tier.
What is the best mode for Sandy?: Sandy performs best in Bounty, with a 71.2% raw win rate over 125 sampled battles there.
What is the best map for Sandy?: Acid Lakes (Solo Showdown) is where Sandy has the strongest sampled record, at 73.1% over 197 battles.
What counters Sandy?: Juju, R-T, Najia pull Sandy furthest below its own 56.8% average in sampled team battles.
Who is Sandy in Brawl Stars?: On the rare occasions Sandy wakes from his slumber, he tries to help his big sister Tara around their store. But it's never long before he falls asleep again.
What star powers and gadgets does Sandy have?: Sandy has Rude Sands and Healing Winds as star powers and Sleep Stimulator and Sweet Dreams as gadgets.