Official Brawl Stars news

The First Ultra Legendary Brawler Kaze, a Brawl MOBA, Wasabi Powers, Jae-yong the Karaoke King, and More!

Kaze was raised to be a living weapon by her parents, but this was not the life she wanted. After escaping to Starr Park with Kenji, she can now live how she wants. However, she is still torn between the two aspects of her life, being a humble geisha and a deadly ninja.

Kaze has a unique Gadget to switch between two different Aspects, her Geisha Aspect and her Ninja Aspect!

Both of her Aspects have completely unique abilities, and you can switch between them mid-game!

Pssst... You only need to unlock the regular 2 Star Powers, 2 Gadgets & 1 Hypercharge for them to be unlocked for BOTH Aspects. Nice.

Kaze dashes a short distance and strikes the nearest target. Kaze has a 'Strike Spot' at a fixed angle around herself. Hitting an enemy in a Strike Spot deals extra damage and resets the Strike Spot to a new position.

Kaze creates a deadly storm of fans in an area. Enemies within the Fan Storm can't see outside of it. The Fan Storm will also deal damage to an enemy if they touch it.

Kaze throws 2 knives in succession, dealing increased damage to closer targets.

Kaze dashes a long distance and marks enemies she passes through. Marks explode after a short time.

MYTHIC SUPPORT

By day, Jae-yong is your average office worker. By night, he is a karaoke GOD... or so he thinks. The jury is still out on his singing skills.

TRAIT: Super charges automatically.

Fires a piercing projectile, with different effects depending on Jae-yong's mode.

• WORK MODE: Deals less damage, but creates slipstreams with projectiles that give speed boosts to teammates and himself

• PARTY MODE: Heals teammates with a piercing, damaging projectile.

Switch between Jae-yong's Work & Party modes! Switching modes changes Jae-yong's main attack and activates the matching ability:

• WORK MODE: Gives all nearby teammates a temporary movement speed boost.

• PARTY MODE: Heals all nearby teammates.

This new Season sees the start of an epic 4 part event!

Kenji has been trying out a new sushi recipe, but it seems like something went wrong… Brawlers are causing chaos with new Wasabi Powers!

The Battle for Katana Kingdom will take place in May, with a new chapter unlocking every week.

Each chapter brings new gameplay, a new manga, and new ways to get sushi rolls!

WTH are Sushi Rolls?

By slicing open Sushi Rolls, players can unlock brand new Wasabi Powers and other rewards like progression and cosmetics!

• Sushi Rolls & Wasabi Powers are released!

• Featured game mode: Samurai Smash (active for the whole event)

• Double XP Weekend

SUSHI ROLLS are the way to earn event rewards during the Battle for Katana Kingdom!

• Sushi Rolls can be earned through Daily Wins, Samurai Smash (Chapter 1), the Club Event (Chapter 2), special Oni Hunt quests (Chapter 3), Daily Contests (Chapter 4), and through freebies & shop offers.

• Every Sushi Roll gives at least 1 reward when sliced open.

• Each time the player slices open a Sushi Roll, it has a chance to split into sushi and give extra rewards (1, 2, 4, or 8)!

• Each sushi gained also fills up your Sushi Meter, located in the event screen, for additional rewards!

Wasabi Powers allow Brawlers to unlock powerful ancient energy within themselves, and gives them new abilities!

There are a total of 60 Wasabi Powers, for 60 different Brawlers, and they come in 4 increasing levels of strength!

• 20 HOT Wasabi Powers

• 15 EXTRA HOT Wasabi Powers

• 15 CRAZY HOT Wasabi Powers

• 10 INFERNO Wasabi Powers

You can view every Brawlers' Wasabi Powers in the Event Screen!

Once unlocked, Brawlers with Wasabi Powers will have them automatically equipped in game modes with the Wasabi modifier.

Two teams clash in 5v5 or 3v3 battles to see who can collect the most Daruma dolls while ALSO fighting off samuraibots!

Each samuraibot has a different attack, and are hostile to both teams. Try to avoid getting caught between bots and the other team or you'll get Samurai Smashed!!

• Featured Game Mode: Mega Buffet!

• Mastery Madness Weekend

• Collaborate with your clubmates during the event to earn Sushi Rolls, competing in 3v3 game modes with Wasabi Powers and other modifiers!

• Everyone gets 4 tickets a day, which stack in case you miss a day.

• Each win in the mode contributes food to the Mega Buffet, and reaching a milestone gives a reward of 1 Sushi Roll to ALL Clubmates!

• The top contributors don’t get an additional reward at the end of the event, but you can see their win contributions. So you can still brag about being the best.

• Rewards can be claimed immediately when your Club reaches a milestone (no need to wait)!

• Contribute 3 wins to be able to earn rewards!

• Featured Game Mode: Oni Hunt

• Double XP Weekend

• Oni Hunt sees 3 brave warriors face off against a Hypercharged demon Kenji. I don’t know what was in his sushi but it wasn’t good!

• Oni Kenji has several different attacks so you have to pick the best trio to combat him.

• On the chapter that Oni Hunt unlocks, you will get 7 days worth of rewards (including Sushi Rolls!) by beating 5 stages of difficulty each day.

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• Featured Game Mode: Daily Contests

• x2 Starr Drops

• Compete in a Daily Contest to earn points and win rewards!

• Players can choose between 3 modes/maps each day, and this places them in a 10 player leaderboard with others who compete in the same mode/map.

  • If you team up and you have chosen different modes for the day, you will only get points if you are playing your chosen mode.

• You get 4 tickets each day to spend on the contest, and rewards are handed out at the end of the contest, based on your position in the leaderboard!

  • Make sure to use your tickets each day as they do NOT stack!

• Top 8 get rewards, bottom 2 get… nothing!

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The Battle for Katana Kingdom is also the name of the May season, and features the following skins!

BRAWL PASS SKIN

• Kasa-obake Piper

  • Yokai Piper | Chroma #1 | Brawl Pass Plus

  • Tsukumogami Piper | Chroma #2 | Brawl Pass Plus

EVENT SKINS

• Cursed Kenji

• Oni Kenji (Hypercharged)

• Wanderer Gray

• Shukuteki Tara

• Tanuki Sprout

• Tengu Angelo

• Shinobi Ash (recolor)

TITLE

• Wasabi Warrior

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It's a Brawl tokusatsu! Mighty beings battle it out, leaving destruction in their wake!

BRAWL PASS SKIN

• Shin Edgar | Brawl Pass

  • Drift Edgar | Chroma #1 | Brawl Pass Plus

  • Masked Edgar | Chroma #2 | Brawl Pass Plus

SEASON SKINS

• Mecha Finx

  • Crimson Tyfinx | Chroma #1

  • Mecha Chief Finx | Chroma #2

• Intergalactic Griff

• Kaiju Clancy

• Tokusatsu Colette

• Monstro Mico

We’re making a MOBA game mode! For real. Brawl Arena is being released in June!

• For real.

• 3v3 game mode where the first team to destroy the enemy base wins!

• The Arena consists of 2 lanes connecting each team’s base, each protected by towers.

  • Towers will attack when an enemy gets in range

  • Mini Bots spawn from each base, marching down the lanes and automatically attacking enemy Mini Bots, Brawlers, towers and base.

  • To win: Destroy the enemy towers, then destroy the enemy base!

• The jungle has neutral enemies that can be killed for XP: First spawn is 1 bot, then 2 bots and finally 4 bots.

  • After 4 bots are defeated, a Kaiju can spawn in the middle, and the team that defeats it gets a huge amount of XP, and a temporary movement speed and damage reduction buff.

• You can level up by earning Arena XP when you or a nearby teammate defeats:  Bots, Brawlers, towers, the Kaiju!

• Each Brawler starts at Arena Level 0 and can level up to max Arena Level 15.

  • Brawler level is still taken into account for abilities etc.

• Each level grants different stats based on your Brawler.

• You earn double Trophies in this game mode! You don’t lose double Trophies though (phew).

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We have 8 new Hypercharges coming, with Griff and Clancy finally getting one!

• Firecracker Wizard Mike

• Whisked Meg

• Kansai Dragon Bull

• Secret Surgevice

• Sandcastle Ash

• Bandito Lou

• Sunflowerosa

• Grombin Hood

• Fruity Kaze

• Jammin’ Jae

MISC

• Street Shade

• Witch Mandy (Supercell ID rewards)

TRUE GOLD/SILVER

• True Gold Finx

• True Gold Lumi

• True Silver Finx

• True Silver Lumi

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Heist is back! With improvements!

• The Heist Safe is now sturdier: For every 25% of HP the Safe now gains a temporary shield where it is Immune to damage. This is to counter Hypercharge burst damage and Brawlers who can melt the safe with continual DPS.

Environments

• Removed

  • Retropolis

  • MadEvil Manor (incl. Showdown version)

  • Sk8Beats

• Added:

  • Katana Kingdom (NEW)

  • Stunt Show (incl. Showdown version & Brawl Ball)

Ranked

• Month 3

  • Featured game mode: Treasure Hunt

• Month 4

  • Featured game mode: Paint Brawl

• Gadget Cooldown is now visible below Brawlers. A Gadget icon is shown when equipped, and is grayed out when it’s on cooldown, with a visible timer.

• When firing a Super with Hypercharge activated, the aiming indicator now turns to purple

• Updated Korean Brawl font to match the English Brawl font style

• Updated shaders and textures for Rico, Barley & Tick Brawler models

• Updated Melodie's model to match proportions of other Brawlers

• Improvements to displaying bonus values & labels in the Shop

• Various internal changes to improve server & game quality/stability

• Pin & Spray categories are back!

• Bibi's Gadget 'Extra Sticky' now also applies to her Hypercharged Super attack

• Byron’s healing amount now scales with Power Cubes

• Fixed puck aiming as Meeple in Brawl Hockey

• Fixed Willow’s mind control over stealthed Brawlers

• Fixed weird interaction with Ollie and minecarts on Minecart Madness

• Fixed Player Profile Pins resetting back to default

• Fixed Gene’s Hypercharge aim indicator

• Fixed for correctly applying damage during respawn

• Fixed Kit being a bad kitty in certain situations

It’s the PAY TO... I mean PLAY TO WIN EVENT! #BrawlStarsP2W

You have 10 days to get as many rewards as you can, including an ULTRA TROPHY BOX! There is no reward limit for this event, the only limit is time!

HOW TO PARTICIPATE AND MORE DETAILS

For this event, we're tracking TAKEDOWNS! So all you have to do is ^£#$ other Brawlers!

Each milestone requires 1 billion takedowns and after completing a milestone, the rewards will appear on the next Shop daily refresh!

REWARDS

*DISCLAIMER: The Ultra Trophy Box will be delivered only after the event ends.

SPECIAL GIVEAWAY!

You can win a whole year of Brawl Pass Plus! That's 12 Brawl Passes Plus for you, in case math is not your thing.

But that's not all, if you're one of the lucky winners you will also get 10 Brawl Passes Plus to share with your friends!

HOW?

Share your best play on social media using the hashtag #BrawlStarsP2W on your post, and we’ll choose the 5 lucky winners after the event ends!

The Play to Win community event starts NOW and ends on April 24 at 9 a.m. UTC!

• Ash, Lola, and Buster can no longer charge their Hypercharge while still active.

• Patched an issue where players couldn't change the loadout of specific Brawlers (Sam, Meg, Mandy, Carl, Grom, Chester, Mr. P, Bea, Hank, Bo, Lola) with unlocked Hyperchages before playing a Ranked match in Mythic or above.

Brawl Stars Championship is coming to North America for the first time ever: Brawl Cup will take place at DreamHack Dallas! Get ready for intense competition and unforgettable moments - catch all the action May 23-25 in person or on event.brawlstars.com for the first international event of 2025!

In addition to a share of the $50,000 prize pool, the top teams will be able to unlock a World Finals or LCQ spot for their home region, literally shaping the rest of the competitive circuit! 

Brawl Cup will feature the top teams from 6 different regions:

• 1 Team from East Asia

• 1 Team from South Asia OR Southeast Asia

• 2 Teams from EMEA

• 1 Team from South America

• 2 Teams from North America

• 1 Team from Chinese Mainland

For those of you looking to visit Brawl Cup in person, don’t miss out! All visitors to Dreamhack can enjoy the action, but those looking for a little something extra can opt for the limited Brawl Stars add-on offering exclusive Brawl merch! Both options can be found here.

Can’t join in person? No worries! All the action will be streamed on event.brawlstars.com, where you can watch and interact with the show to earn Pro Pass XP for awesome rewards and upgrades to Astral Colt VI!

The show goes live on May 23-25 starting 11am CST / 19:00 CEST! See you there! 

FIXES:

• Players no longer get their teammates' loadouts after swapping Brawlers in Ranked matches

• Ranked Battle Card Stars are now shown correctly (for real now!)

• When Sam defeats an opponent that has a knockback ability, it no longer triggers a crash

• The crash when Finx uses his No Escape Gadget on Penny's Salty Barrel, Ruff's Take Cover or Spike's Life Plant. For this, we had to temporarily disable Finx's stasis effect on these objects, but a full fix and normal behavior will return after the next game update

• Master and Pro Rank player profiles now appear properly

FIXED IN MAINTENANCE:

• A visual bug in Ranked showing a reward when getting promoted to a previously held Rank

• All Brawlers showing up as MAX and Favorited when trading Brawlers in Ranked matches

• Incorrect number of Stars in 2024's Battle Cards (most of you got your 10 Bronze Stars back yay)

• Calavera Piper's basic attack projectile disappears mid-flight when the "Ambush" Star Power was active

• Nita's Bear Hypercharge visuals looking inverted

• Cerberus Tick and Scorpion Willow basic attacks sometimes looking enlarged
  

FIXED WITH OPTIONAL UPDATE! Make sure you download it:

• Opponents carrying the ball in Brawl Ball do not drop the Ball when hit with Knockbacks, Pulls, or Roots

• Juju's Super not spawning on water

• Lily teleporting to enemies hit by her Super while in the Shadow Realm

• Pre-picked Brawler that gets banned by the enemy team in Diamond Rank matches still being selected for that match

• A few other small visual and localisation issues

MYTHIC CONTROLLER

The owner of Starr Park's escape room, Finx is meant to help visitors complete their tasks. Instead, he uses his time controlling abilities to cause mischief and havoc!

Also, he LOVES cats.

Finx fires 3 long range projectiles, with the outer ones dealing 50% damage of the center projectile.

Finx warps time in an area, decreasing the projectile speed of enemy Brawlers caught in the Super, while increasing the projectile speed of any teammates and himself. Finx's projectiles will also get a damage buff.

MYTHIC DAMAGE DEALER

A passionate metalhead and a talented drummer, Lumi traded her drumsticks for morning stars when she got her job at Starr Park. She controls elements of ice and fire, which reflects her shy nature and her burning passion for music!

Lumi throws one of her morning stars. She can throw both of her weapons, with her third attack recalling them, dealing damage to any enemies caught in their path!

Lumi pounds the ground three times, causing explosions that deal area damage. The third explosion briefly snares enemies, making them unable to move but still able to attack.

Pro Pass also has a free progress track and a paid progress track, but unlike the Brawl Pass, the Pro Pass is 4 months long!

Why is it 4 months long? Each Pro Pass Season is going to be tied to major esports events throughout the year. In 2024, these are the Brawl Cup in May, the Last Chance Qualifier in September, and the World Finals in November. The Current plan is to have 3 Pro Pass Seasons per year.

The free track includes better, more achievable rewards than the old Ranked system and even has a Legendary Starr Drop as the tail Reward!

Let's break it down:

To progress in the Pro Pass, you must collect Pro Pass XP by:

• Winning Ranked matches (similar to daily Brawl Pass XP for Brawl Pass, but the Pro Pass XP refreshes Weekly, and you have to win the match)

• Ranking up

• Watching and interacting with esports broadcasts on event.brawlstars.com throughout the year

• Purchasing the Pro Pass, which grants instant progression and double Pro Pass XP (which also doubles the weekly Pro Pass XP limit)

The paid track costs $24.99* for the 4-month duration ($6.25 per month) and includes all of the rewards listed above!

* Price may vary depending on your country/region.

Pro Pass comes with a new unique & upgradeable Skin Rarity: Pro!

Pro Skins are upgradeable Skins, which can be upgraded as you progress through the Pro Pass!

GOOD TO KNOW

• Pro Skins can be upgraded up to 11 times by collecting “Skin upgrades” from the Pro Pass (or in Ranked Drops 8 months after the Skin release)

• Each upgrade will give you either a visual improvement for the Skin, including the brand new spawn VFX, or other cosmetics, like the new animated Brawler Battle Cards!

• Every Season, you can get a Legendary-level Skin in the Free Track of the Pro Pass!

The first Pro Skin is ASTRAL COLT!

There are SO many more changes coming with the Ranked rework.

So many in fact, that it has it's own release notes article! Here you will find all of the detailed changes coming to the Ranked rework (there's a lot).

12 Brawlers are getting Hypercharges this update!

They will be released in 2 stages, with each release containing 6 Hypercharges.

The Sands of Time have been corrupted by Finx's chronomancy and replaced by Dark Sands that have awakened ancient evils!

Mummified Frank | Brawl Pass

Charcoal Frank | Chroma #1 | Brawl Pass Plus

Papyrus Frank | Chroma #2 | Brawl Pass Plus

Ruffesses II | Super Rare

Queen Juju | Super Rare

Pharaollie | Epic

Mystic Meeple | Epic

Scarab Squeak | Epic

The evil Insector and his sidekick Electroid have made Starr Park the next target of their crime spree.

Can Spectaculor and his heroes handle the threat? Or will they need help from a mysterious vigilante...

• Justice Smasher Bibi | Brawl Pass

• Injustice Smasher Bibi | Chroma #1 | Brawl Pass Plus

• Virtue Smasher Bibi | Chroma #2 | Brawl Pass Plus

The below Skins were designed by artists in our community that won the Supercell MAKE competition: Brawlers, Assemble!

• Spectaculor Sam | Epic

  • by FinnyShow

• Firewing Janet | Epic

  • by WarpWave

• Protector Grom | Epic

  • by J-Y Jacky

• Insector Carl | Epic

  • by Artho_Max

• Electroid Chuck | Epic

  • by Gedi-Kor

• Equilibrium Buster | Epic

  • by Vinuui

Ever wanted to UNO reverse someone in Brawl? Well now you can!

Gadgets no longer have charges but are now based on cooldowns!

This means that you can use Gadgets whenever they are charged, and can be used an unlimited amount of times in a match!

GOOD TO KNOW:

• Gadgets will have different cooldown times depending on how powerful they are. For example, Lily's 'Vanish' Gadget has a 22 sec cooldown, compared to Rosa's 'Grow Light' Gadget, which has a 10 sec cooldown.

• The Gear that added +1 Gadget charge now reduces the cooldown of a Gadget by 15%.

(NOTE: The Daily Streak feature will be launching a few days after the update goes live - not on update day!)

Log in daily and get rewards! Keep the streak going and watch the number go higher and on fire!

Also, open a mystical fortune cookie. Oooh! Mystical.

Rare Skins

• Dark Knight Lumi

• Jurassic Finx

• Fiendish Amber

• Beach Belle

• First Mate Fang

• Cored Eve

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True Gold & True Silver

• Juju

• Meeple

• Shade

• Ollie

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Misc.

• Carnaval Mandy | Mythic

• P.E.K.K.A.S.H | Supercell ID Rewards

• This game mode ended up being a fan favorite, so we decided to add it to the game permanently, because... why not!?

• To keep things as fair as possible, we decided to make major changes to the current Trio Showdown map pool, to provide a more balanced gameplay experience. We made adjustments for Trio Showdown to some of the most iconic Showdown maps and and ALSO added completely new maps created by the community that follow the same rationale.

Ranked Game Modes & Maps

• Season 1 (3 Maps each)

  • Brawl Ball

  • Knockout

  • Gem Grab

  • Hot Zone

  • Brawl Hockey

• Season 2 (3 Maps each)

  • Brawl Ball

  • Knockout 

  • Gem Grab

  • Heist

  • Cleaning Duty

Environments

• Removed

  • Snowtel

  • Starrforce

  • Giftshop

  • Toons

  • Fighting Game

• Added:

  • Dragon Forge

  • Retropolis

  • Tara’s Bazaar

  • Egypt

Maps

• Showdown

  • Skull Creek (Modified)

  • Rockwall Brawl (Modified)

  • Feast or Famine (Modified)

  • Cavern Churn (Modified)

  • Acid Lakes (Modified)

  • Flying Fantasies (Modified)

  • Island Invasion (Modified)

  • Double Trouble (Modified)

• UNO

  • Wild Greens (New)

  • Reverse Crossing (New)

  • Skipyard (New)

• Wipeout 5v5/Knockout 5v5

  • Big Battle Basin (New)

  • Unhappy Arena (New)

  • Survival Of The Meanest (New)

  • Mirages Of Madness (New)

  • Courtyard Clashers (New)

• Brawl Ball 5v5

  • Polar Park (New)

  • Stockpile Stadium (New)

  • Siberian Stand Off (New)

• Gem Grab 5v5

  • Shimmering Forest (New)

  • Arctic Ambush (New)

  • Treasure Island (New)

• Brawl Hockey 3v3

  • Below Zero

  • Cool Box

  • Starr Garden

• Cleaning Duty

  • Rubbish Rampage

  • Trash Bash

  • Dumpster Drive

  • Waste Haven

  • In The Bins

  • Garbage Yard

  • Litterbug Lane

• Treasure Hunt

  • Middle Management

  • Excellent Excavations

  • Brawl Starrgate

GENERAL

• Battle Cards & Fame Frames are now part of your collection and you can choose which ones you want to equip and show off!

• You can now Favorite Brawlers in the Brawler screen by clicking the heart icon.

  • Favorited Brawlers will be placed at the start of the Brawler select screen in Ranked/Mega Pig picks.

  • Favorite Brawlers can be toggled to show at the top of the Brawler list (the same way as Brawlers with Quests etc).

• Re-ordered Quick Chat messages to put the most frequently used ones first

• True Gold & True Silver Skins have been given a polish by Gale, and now have a new updated shiny look!

• Added missing VFX to Demon Emz Skin

• Kenji’s Super return location VFX has been improved to be more accurate and visible

PERFORMANCE

• Reduced game’s memory consumption overall, so lower end devices should crash less.

• Starr Road has reduced memory usage, improved responsiveness and sees the return of fully animated Brawlers

• Performance improved for Mad Evil Manor maps

• Fixed an edge case where Sam’s gauntlet & Gus' attacks sometimes went in a strange angle when shooting over water or certain objects

• Fixed Kit exploit

• Fixed Brawler textures appearing in low resolution on high-end devices

• Fixed Pop Melodie Skin accidentally playing Poco's attack sound (she writes her own music, we promise!)

• Fixed Angelo's "Master Fletcher" Gadget cancelling his Super's Damage over Time

• Fixed Byron's Main Attack not triggering Haptic Feedback

• Fixed Rosa's base Skin using the Main Attack VFX of another Skin during her Hypercharge

• Fixed Willow's Star Power "Love is Blind" not reducing the reload speed of enemies

• Fixed the Brawl Hockey puck passing through certain obstacles on the Air Sports Arena map

• Fixed a crash that could occur when claiming rewards from past Events

• Fixed Brawlers being unable to pick up the Air Hockey puck as soon as it bounces from a pinball bumper

• Fixed Sam briefly losing upper body animation if his Super was activated when moving (he's old and his back gets stiff sometimes)

• Fixed 3 Pins not being able to be sent in Club Chat

• As part of our efforts to find affordable pricing for different regions of the world, we're starting to roll out global pricing with this update

• We still need to do some tests before doing a full rollout to all the target regions, so these local price changes will first be live in a few select countries only, and more regions will be gradually added in the coming months

• Since we're still testing things, different players might also see different prices even within the same region

• Brawl Pass donations will also be temporarily deactivated in the regions where testing is taking place and will be reactivated once these are completed

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• The current Good Randoms Ranked Season is going to be shorter. The new Ranked Season starts with the next update on the 25th of February

• The changes below should be final, but things might still change when the new Ranked is released 

ANYWAY, Big changes are coming, so let's break them down!

Our main goals with the Ranked rework are: 

• Making Ranked more competitive for skilled players

• Encouraging more players to engage with Ranked and spark their interest in becoming better at Brawl

• Rewarding players more for their time and effort

• Keeping every season fresh and exciting

• Monetizing the game better and having a consistent source to sustain Brawl esports activities 

Pro Pass - the new Ranked progression system

Ranked is getting a Brawl Pass-like progression system called Pro Pass. It also has a free track and a paid track, but unlike the Brawl Pass, the Pro Pass is 4 months long!

The reason why it is 4 months long is because it’s going to be tied to major esports events in the year. The first is the Brawl Cup in May, the Last Chance Qualifier in September, and the World Finals in November.  The Current plan is to have 3 Pro Passes per year.

To progress in the Pro Pass, you must collect Pro Pass XP, and it can be collected from:

• Winning Ranked matches (similar to daily Brawl Pass XP for Brawl Pass, but the Pro Pass XP refreshes Weekly, and you have to win the match)

• Ranking up

• Watching and interacting with esports broadcasts on event.brawlstars.com throughout the year

  • You are not REQUIRED to watch Esports to complete the Pass, but it can speed up your progression (especially if you don’t reach higher ranks) and grant you more of the tail reward

• Purchasing the Pro Pass, which grants instant progression and 2x Pro Pass XP (and double the weekly limit)

The free track includes better rewards than the old Ranked system and a Legendary Starr Drop as the tail Reward!

See the graphic below: 

It’s important to mention that Master Players are not receiving much of a buff in the free track (still a buff, though). But considering around 1% of the players who engage with Ranked get to Masters, and around 5% get to Legendary, this is going to be a more significant buff for 95%(ish) of the current Ranked players and hopefully more attractive for all the rest of the community as well. 

The paid track costs $24.99* for the 4-month duration ($6.25 per month) and includes the following:

* Price may vary depending on your country/region.

New Skin Rarity - Pro

As you saw above, we're introducing a new Skin Rarity: Pro!

• Pro Skins can be upgraded up to 11 times by collecting “Skin upgrade” items from the Pro Pass (or in Ranked Drops 8 months after the Skin release)

• Each upgrade will give you either a visual improvement for the Skin, including a new Spawn VFX, or other cosmetics, including a new animated Brawler Battle Card

• For every Season, you can get a Legendary-level Skin in the Free Track of the Pass!

The list of upgrades is as follows:

1st Upgrade - Free Track: [Base Skin]
2nd Upgrade - Free Track: Pin x1, Profile Picture x1, and Spray x1
3rd Upgrade - Free Track: Special Attack effects
4th Upgrade - Free Track: [Upgraded Skin Model]
5th Upgrade - Free Track: Pins x8
6th Upgrade - Free Track: Special Takedown effects
7th Upgrade - Paid Track: Animated Brawler Card - NEW COSMETIC!
8th Upgrade - Paid Track: Special Spawn & Respawn effects - NEW COSMETIC!
9th Upgrade - Paid Track: [Hypercharge form]
10th Upgrade - Paid Track: [Chroma 1]
11th Upgrade - Paid Track: [Chroma 2]

The first Pro Skin will be for Colt (because he obviously doesn’t have enough skins).
Check out the sneak peek for the Base Skin and some concepts!

Ranked is now more competitive!

Our initial goal with the Ranked mode was to make it more receptive to casual players - which we reached! Ranked has around 10 times more players than its previous version (Power League)

However, it became TOO casual for players who were looking for a challenge.
So, in this new rework:

1. We added a new Tier for the highest level of play

• New Rank above Masters: Pro

• Pro Tier will also unlock the esports button (a special button unlocked for players who want to compete in Brawl Stars esports events)

• Masters now has 3 Tiers, Masters I, II, III, which takes 1000 Elo each to advance

• Legendary now takes 750 Elo to advance each Tier

2. We are tackling Elo inflation from multiple angles

• Removed Floor Protection for Mythic and up (you can now be demoted back to Diamond if you lose more than you win in Mythic)

• Elo gain is increased, but Elo loss is more punishing for Legendary and above

• Reduced Rank Boost values dramatically (Boost is still only until Mythic)

• Trio and Duo team-up is more restrictive as you increase Ranks (you can’t team up with a friend if their Rank is too low compared to yours)

3. Improved Matchmaking

• At lower Ranks, matchmaking time should become faster

• At higher Ranks, matchmaking will become much more restrictive to your current Rank

• Searching will no longer increase Elo search range outside of your Rank restriction

• Rank reset no longer puts everyone in Bronze I every month. If you’re Diamond 1 and above, it's always -6 minor ranks from your ending rank. (If you’re Gold 3 and below, you get reset to Silver I and so on)

• Mythic and above will now require 12 Power Level 11 Brawlers to play

4. Removed modifiers 

• We felt modifiers were complex for casual players to understand and it restricted the viable Brawlers meta too much, so we’re scrapping it and will make Ranked Seasons feel fresh in other ways!

5. Big change to Gadgets

• Gadgets can now be used unlimited times but with a cooldown

• Each Gadget has its own cooldown based on how strong they are (starting from 7 seconds up to 30 seconds)

• +1 Gadget Gear has now been changed to a reduced cooldown Gear

• (This change is not exclusive to Ranked, but the competitive Players would be the ones more interested in it)

New Game Modes in Ranked

To keep things fresh, we’ll be experimenting with a new game mode every month in Ranked

• First, the mode will be tested in Trophies

• If competitive, it will be added to Ranked

• If not competitive, it may be adjusted or reworked before being added

• The first game mode added will be CLEANING DUTY (same as Jelly Catch but reskinned)

• Brawl Hockey is the next candidate, but it still needs discussion and maybe some changes

Try Maxed out Brawlers every Season!

If you don’t own all the Brawlers and are struggling with maxing them all out for Ranked, we have something for you

• Each season, 3 fully maxed-out Brawlers will be available for everyone to use ONLY in Ranked

• These trial Brawlers will rotate each season

• This will allow players to try out new Brawlers, experience max power levels, and fill in team gaps when needed

• These 3 maxed Brawlers will count towards the Brawler requirements for each Rank 

Changes to the Ranked Drop

Since Pro Skins are now guaranteed in the Pro Pass, we are changing Ranked Drops. We:

• Kept all previous Ranked Skins that were available in Ranked Drops

• Added more cosmetics such as Profile Pictures, Pins, and Sprays that can only be obtained from Ranked Drops

• Added Skin Upgrade item (but it’s only available in Ranked Drops 8 months after the release of the Pro Skin)

• Added Pro Pass XP as one of the possible rewards to progress faster and get to the Legendary Starr Drop tail reward 

New Paint Job for Ranked 2025

We’re visually refreshing Ranked all together!

• Battle Cards no longer decay and are permanently collected

• New Ranked Tier visuals for all Ranks

• New Battle Card visuals to collect

• You can now customize which Battle Card to display in your profile

Other Ranked Improvements

• Ranked 2.0 Seasons timing will be changed to start on the 3rd Thursday of each month, with the first Ranked 2.0 starting immediately after the update on February 25th, running until April 16th. The 2nd Ranked 2.0 Season will start April 17th, the 3rd Thursday of April

• The ranked emblem is now always shown in Ranked (instead of Brawler Mastery)

• You can now “Heart” Brawlers to favorite them!

  • Favorite Brawlers will be filtered to the front during the Ranked Pick phase

• Red and Blue side spawn viewing distance fixed to match

So, Ranked is expected to be more competitive, have better rewards, and provide a smoother progression with the Pro Pass! Things can still change, but we expect to release everything above with the upcoming update.