What is the best brawler for Knockout in Brawl Stars?

Cosmo ranks highest in Knockout, with an adjusted win rate of 58.9% across 11,856 decided trophy-ladder battles over the last 7d. Wendy and Frank follow.

How is this tier list made?

From 188,087 Knockout in trophy ladder sampled from real matches, not from votes or opinion. Win rate is adjusted against the average of the same sample, because the sampled pool wins more than half its games regardless of brawler — so a tier reflects the brawler rather than who was holding it. A brawler needs 20 decided battles in the window before it is rated at all.

How often is the tier list updated?

The sampler collects new battles every few hours and this page is rebuilt from the latest aggregate, so it never trails the data by more than a few hours.

Trophies Trophy ladder

Knockout trophy tier list

Cosmo, Wendy and Frank are the best Knockout brawlers in trophy ladder right now (as of 13 October 2026). Cosmo leads with a 58.9% adjusted win rate over 11,856 decided battles.

Based on 188,087 sampled trophy-ladder battles in Knockout from players across the Ranked ladder. Sampled 1 hour ago. Disagree? Build your own.

How the meta score works

Meta score combines adjusted win rate and pick rate, relative to this trophy list.

How brawlers perform on the trophy ladder. The games most people actually play, showdown included, where you pick what you own rather than what the draft leaves you. Brawlers are ranked by meta score out of 10, which combines an adjusted win rate with a log-scaled pick rate. Win rate alone would rate a brawler nobody plays the same as a staple with identical results, so popularity breaks the ties.

Ladder matchmaking is looser than Ranked, so some of a brawler’s record here is the lobby rather than the brawler. Each mode is scored against its own average to keep that from deciding the list.

The scale is calibrated within this list, so scores rank brawlers against each other here and cannot be compared with the Ranked list. A brawler needs 20 decided battles in the window before it is rated at all. Tap or hover a brawler for the full breakdown, or read the full method — sampling, the mode adjustment, the anchors, and what it cannot tell you.

cosmo

10.0

W58.9%P6.3%

wendy

9.9

W58.6%P2.5%

frank

8.5

W60.4%P0.6%

pearl

8.4

W57.7%P1.2%

amber

8.4

W53.3%P1.1%

ash

7.7

W57.2%P0.5%

bolt

7.5

W51.6%P0.6%

starr nova

7.5

W53.7%P0.6%

A12

gus

7.4

W51.6%P5.4%

eve

7.4

W53.2%P1.2%

gray

7.4

W54.8%P1.9%

bonnie

7.4

W54.6%P0.6%

7.4

W53.1%P0.8%

glowy

7.2

W55.3%P0.7%

mr. p

7.0

W53.1%P1.3%

rosa

6.9

W55.4%P0.4%

ollie

6.9

W53.8%P0.5%

janet

6.7

W53.6%P0.6%

shade

6.7

W48.1%P1.8%

jessie

6.6

W54.4%P0.4%

D19

byron

3.9

W44.9%P2.5%

surge

3.9

W47.4%P0.6%

melodie

3.8

W50.6%P0.2%

draco

3.8

W48.8%P0.2%

emz

3.8

W45.9%P0.4%

ruffs

3.7

W49.6%P0.5%

tara

3.6

W48.6%P0.2%

max

3.6

W47.2%P1.0%

bibi

3.6

W46.4%P0.3%

lily

3.6

W47.1%P0.9%

moe

3.5

W48.8%P0.3%

spike

3.5

W45.5%P0.8%

bull

3.5

W46.9%P0.3%

stu

3.5

W47.1%P0.7%

cordelius

3.4

W48.6%P0.2%

mico

3.4

W46.4%P0.4%

rico

3.2

W44.2%P1.2%

griff

3.2

W45.8%P0.7%

berry

3.0

W47.9%P0.2%

kaze

2.9

W45.7%P0.4%

colt

2.7

W43.3%P1.7%

lumi

2.6

W48.6%P0.3%

barley

2.6

W46.3%P0.3%

buzz

2.5

W46.0%P0.4%

edgar

2.4

W41.2%P1.3%

chester

2.0

W45.2%P0.3%

dynamike

2.0

W44.2%P0.5%

mortis

1.9

W42.5%P1.2%

kit

1.8

W43.0%P0.7%

crow

1.7

W41.7%P0.6%

Most picked brawlers

The brawlers appearing in the most sampled trophy-ladder battles in Knockout over the 7d window. This is popularity, not strength — the tiers above rank how well a brawler performs, and the two disagree often. A pick rate is a share of all battles sampled, so it sums across the roster rather than to 100% per battle.

Strong but rarely picked

Brawlers with the best adjusted win rates among the less-played half of the roster, from sampled trophy-ladder battles in Knockout over the 7d window. They win when they are used and are not used much — which usually means they are underrated rather than bad.