Brawl Stars guides

What to learn first, and what to spend on while you are learning it.

23 Jul 2026 · 4 minHow to get Gems in Brawl StarsThe real ways to earn Gems are a short list, they are all slow, and every “free Gems” generator promising a shortcut is a scam after your account.23 Jul 2026 · 4 minHow to get better at Brawl StarsGetting better is mostly about where you stand, not how you aim, and the fastest way there is duller than anyone selling you a setting will admit.22 Jul 2026 · 3 minPlaying into a counterA counter is a mismatch of range or tempo, not a verdict. Most of them are survivable if you stop fighting the duel the other player wants.15 Jun 2026 · 5 minA beginner's first ten brawlers, and whyThe roster arrives on its own schedule. What you actually choose is which two or three you level, and that decision matters far more than which ten you own.

What each mode is actually asking you to do, and how a layout decides it.

23 Jul 2026 · 4 minWhat actually wins a ShowdownShowdown looks like a deathmatch and rewards the opposite. The player left standing at the end is almost never the one who did the most fighting to get there.23 Jul 2026 · 4 minKnockout: why the first death decides the roundThere are no respawns, so the player who falls first doesn’t just cost their team a body. They hand the other side a round it can barely lose.23 Jul 2026 · 3 minIn Bounty, not every trade is evenEvery other mode treats a life as a life. Bounty puts a price on each one, so the trade that looks fair on the kill feed can quietly hand the round away.23 Jul 2026 · 3 minHeist: the safe never healsDamage to a safe is permanent, which makes Heist a bank instead of a battle. Chip from the first minute is worth exactly as much as burst in the last.23 Jul 2026 · 3 minHot Zone punishes the fight it invitesThe circle pulls every player toward the same patch of ground, and standing in it trading shots is the most reliable way to stop scoring entirely.8 Jul 2026 · 4 minReading a map before the match startsThe loading screen is the only part of a match where you have complete information and nothing can shoot you. Six questions to answer before it disappears.27 Jun 2026 · 3 minPositioning in Brawl Ball: the three lanesMost goals are conceded by the player who left their lane to chase the ball, and every pitch in the mode is built to punish exactly that.21 Jun 2026 · 4 minWhat actually decides a Gem GrabThe scoreboard counts to ten. The match is decided by whether you can survive fifteen seconds while holding them, which is a different problem entirely.

Gadgets, star powers, gears and hypercharges — what each slot is for.

23 Jul 2026 · 4 minWhich Star Power to run, and whyA Star Power isn’t a button you save for the right moment. It’s always on, in every fight, so the best one is the one that fits how you actually play the brawler.22 Jul 2026 · 2 minWhich Gears are actually a choiceTwo slots, a handful of options, and most of the decision is already made by where you fight and what your kit runs out of first.19 Jul 2026 · 4 minHypercharge, and when it is worth building forA hypercharge is a second meter with its own clock, and on some brawlers it arrives after the fight it was supposed to decide.2 Jul 2026 · 4 minGadgets people pick wrongA gadget is not an upgrade. It is a limited answer to a specific way you keep losing, and most bad picks answer a question the player was never being asked.

What a win rate means, and why the game feels different the week after a patch.

23 Jul 2026 · 4 minWhat trophies actually measureA trophy count records how much you’ve played, and how stubbornly, and only loosely how well. That’s why comparing two of them tells you less than it looks like it should.14 Jul 2026 · 4 minWhy the meta moves after a balance changeThe brawlers whose numbers changed are rarely the biggest story. The ones that moved without being touched at all usually are.10 Jun 2026 · 5 minHow to read a win rateA rate without its match count is not a measurement, and two rates built on the same number of matches can still be worth wildly different amounts.