Is Willow good in Brawl Stars?

Willow has a 51.4% adjusted win rate and a 0.4% pick rate over 2,128 sampled decided battles, which puts it in B tier.

What is the best mode for Willow?

Willow performs best in Duels, with a 72.5% raw win rate over 291 sampled battles there.

What is the best map for Willow?

Dark Passage (Duo Showdown) is where Willow has the strongest sampled record, at 80.0% over 40 battles.

What counters Willow?

Bolt, Alli, Grom pull Willow furthest below its own 57.1% average in sampled team battles.

What star powers and gadgets does Willow have?

Willow has Love Is Blind and Obsession as star powers and Spellbound and Dive as gadgets.

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ControllerB tierMeta score5.6/10

Willow build, stats and matchups

Most Willow owners buy the Dive gadget and the Obsession star power first. Willow has a 51.4% adjusted win rate and 0.4% pick rate over 2,128 sampled battles, B tier in Ranked, as of 13 October 2026.

Willow works as a gondoliera in the Swamp of Love. She gives couples in search of a romantic evening the creepiest, most unsettling time they could imagine.

Trophies TitleIs in your head!

Prestige titleControl Freak

The build owners run

Why, and what else

Star powerobsession50.1% of owners
Gadgetdive51.1% of owners
Gearshield38.1% of owners
Geardamage34.7% 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: 3600; 7,200 at Power 11
Damage per second: 400; 800 at Power 11
Reload: 1.8s; Normal
Range: 7.33; Long
Speed: 750; Normal

Hits to Super: 12; from empty, all hits landing
Super charge: 8.5%; per hit
Hypercharge boost: 40%; speed, damage and shield

Build & upgrades

What Willow'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 Willow'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.

obsessionMost picked69.3% win rate51.5% of first buyers · 824 players
love is blind70.1% win rate48.5% of first buyers · 777 players

Gadget bought first

Building

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

diveMost picked68.5% win rate71.0% of first buyers · 1,338 players
spellbound78.3% win rate29.0% of first buyers · 547 players

Read from 3,486 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.

shield37.1% of owners38.1%of picks
damage33.8% of owners34.7%of picks
speed7.8% of owners8.0%of picks
gadget cooldown7.3% of owners7.5%of picks
health6.3% of owners6.5%of picks
vision5.0% of owners5.2%of picks

Measured across 22,416 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

love is blind
Lantern's Curse also reduces reload speed of affected Brawlers by 30% for 3 seconds.
obsession
Hexed enemies gain 33% movement speed while mind controlled.

Gadgets

spellbound13 seconds cooldown
Willow's next Lantern's Curse deals 600 more damage and applies the entire damage instantly rather than over time. Cooldown: 13 seconds.
dive16 seconds cooldown
Willow dives for 2 seconds, becoming untargetable but unable to take any action for the duration. Cooldown: 16 seconds.

Hypercharge

psychic safety

Willow gains an invulnerability shield on landing her Hex. She remains shielded until Hex is broken.

Buffies

Unreleased. Willow 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

51.4%

2,128 battles

Pick rate

0.4%

Last 7 days

Avg trophies

920

Across tracked players

Avg rank

4.0

Across tracked players

Adjusted win rate

51.4%

+5.2 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

Dark PassageDuo Showdown · 40 battles · 80.0% raw59.0%
Cavern ChurnDuo Showdown · 68 battles · 77.9% raw58.4%
Belle's RockKnockout · 194 battles · 66.0% raw57.2%
Gated CommunityDuo Showdown · 59 battles · 76.3% raw57.1%
The SmackdomeSiege · 41 battles · 75.6% raw56.9%
Cavern ChurnSolo Showdown · 427 battles · 62.1% raw56.8%

Matchups

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

Strong against

Opponents willow beats more often than its own average

Weak against

Opponents that pull willow below its own average

Best team-mates

Allies willow wins more alongside

Percentage points above or below this brawler’s own 57.1% win rate across 33,619 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 Willow in Ranked, by rank →

Top players with willow

Skins

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

90.3% of sampled willow owners have a skin equipped. Shares are of players who own willow, from the rotating snapshot sample.

demon willow49.7%11,070
scorpion willow29.5%6,566
willowDefault9.7%2,164
lunar lotus willow6.8%1,507
axl willow3.9%874
true gold willow0.4%78
true silver willow0.1%25

Balance history

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

4 recorded

2026-09-16BuffWillow's reload time was decreased to 1.8 seconds (from 2).
2026-09-16BuffWillow's health was increased to 3600 (from 3300).
2026-09-01NeutralEvery Brawler's movement speed was increased, increasing Willow's movement speed to 750 (from 720).
2025-12-16BuffWillow's health was increased to 3300 (from 3100).

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.

Willow FAQ

Is Willow good in Brawl Stars?: Willow has a 51.4% adjusted win rate and a 0.4% pick rate over 2,128 sampled decided battles, which puts it in B tier.
What is the best mode for Willow?: Willow performs best in Duels, with a 72.5% raw win rate over 291 sampled battles there.
What is the best map for Willow?: Dark Passage (Duo Showdown) is where Willow has the strongest sampled record, at 80.0% over 40 battles.
What counters Willow?: Bolt, Alli, Grom pull Willow furthest below its own 57.1% average in sampled team battles.
Who is Willow in Brawl Stars?: Willow works as a gondoliera in the Swamp of Love. She gives couples in search of a romantic evening the creepiest, most unsettling time they could imagine.
What star powers and gadgets does Willow have?: Willow has Love Is Blind and Obsession as star powers and Spellbound and Dive as gadgets.