Emz Best Build & Counters (Updated Daily)

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Best Emz Build

Most picked build across all modes

Star Power

Bad Karma

50% Pick

Gadget

Acid Spray

54% Pick

Gear 1

SHIELD

37.8% Pick

Gear 2

DAMAGE

33.3% Pick

Best star power for Emz

50.0% of Emz's star power picks go to Bad Karma. A brawler owns two star powers but fights with one, so the slot is a standing choice about how Emz plays rather than something you activate. Hype trails behind at 50.0%.

Best gadget for Emz

54.0% of Emz players equip Acid Spray. A gadget has no cap on uses in a match, just a cooldown between them, so the choice comes down to which effect is worth reaching for again and again. Friendzoner sees the rest of the picks at 46.0%.

Best gears for Emz

SHIELD leads the gear slot at 37.8%, with DAMAGE (33.3%) close behind. Gears add a smaller boost rather than a new effect, so this pick fine-tunes the build more than it redefines it.

What Emz players unlock

Of the Emz players who have unlocked only one star power, 54.7% chose Bad Karma.

ItemUnlocked byUnlocked first

Bad KarmaStar Power89.6%54.7%

HypeStar Power88.6%45.3%

FriendzonerGadget84.8%62.7%

Acid SprayGadget80.7%37.3%

DamageGear53.4%-

ShieldGear52.1%-

SpeedGear25.1%-

HealthGear17.3%-

VisionGear9.9%-

90.7% of maxed Emz owners have unlocked her Hypercharge.

What players who own Emz have unlocked, counted from tracked profiles over the last 30 days. "Unlocked first" is the share among the players who own only one of a pair, which is the closest thing to a preference the game data exposes: Supercell never publishes which build a player equipped in a match, so nothing here is a pick rate or a win rate by build.

Best Modes & Maps for Emz

Best Modes

Wipeout 5v548.4%

Brawl Arena48%

Gem Grab46.5%

Best Maps

Double SwooshGem Grab

Photic DoomHeist

Beach BallBrawl Ball

Emz Counters

Strong Against

Best matchups: how often Emz wins against each

Crow53.1%

Jacky51.8%

Meg49.9%

Weak Against

Toughest matchups: how often Emz wins against each

Cosmo26.5%

Bolt29.6%

Trunk29.6%

How to counter Emz

Queueing into Emz? These are the picks that beat her most often in our matchup data.

Cosmo wins 73.5% of recorded matchups.
Bolt wins 70.4% of recorded matchups, soaking Emz’s damage and winning the fight up close.
Trunk wins 70.4% of recorded matchups, soaking Emz’s damage and winning the fight up close.

Emz Synergies

Best Teammates

Moe63.2%

Trunk63.6%

Wendy64.7%

Popular Comps

Shelly + Emz + Edgar13%

Rico + Emz + Edgar16.3%

Colt + Emz + Edgar22.4%

Emz Stats

At Level 11

Health7,800

Speed720

Damage1,120

Reload2.0s

Range6.7

Ammo3

DPS2,800

Super480

Win Rate by Mode

Wipeout 5v548.4%

Brawl Arena48%

Gem Grab46.5%

Basket Brawl46.4%

Brawl Hockey45.8%

About Emz

Emz supposedly works for her uncle Mortis at the mortuary, but she rarely makes an appearance there. She's too busy hawking her hairspray brand online.

Bad Karma is the star power of choice for Emz at 50.0%, usually paired with Acid Spray (54.0%). The data puts Emz at D-tier, strongest in Wipeout 5v5 at 48.4%. Out of 108 rated brawlers, Emz sits at #93 right now. On the class breakdown, Emz falls in the Controller bucket alongside the rest of that role's picks. Its best matchup is Crow (53.1% win rate against), while Cosmo is the pick that shuts it down hardest (26.5%). Moe is its most effective teammate. Further down the list, Jacky (51.8%) and Meg (49.9%) are also favorable fights for Emz. Trunk is a solid secondary pairing for Emz too, at 63.6% together. Emz is currently one of the weaker picks in the roster; it can still work on the right map, but it's fighting the meta. The Cosmo matchup is severe enough that Emz players should consider swapping when it appears on the enemy team. The star power choice is genuinely contested, Bad Karma (50.0%) and Hype (50.0%) both see serious play, usually split by mode.

Emz Star Powers and Gadgets

Attack

Spray

Emz gives you a blast of her hair spray! It's strong enough to melt your face.

Super

Caustic Charisma

Emz creates a cloud of toxicity around herself, slowing down the movement of enemies and damaging them.

Bad Karma

Star Power

Enemies that stay within the cloud of Emz's toxic hair spray suffer increasing damage per hit.

Hype

Star Power

Emz recovers health over time for each enemy Brawler inside her Super's area of effect.

Friendzoner

Gadget

Emz fires off some hairspray that pushes enemies back. Deals damage.

Acid Spray

Gadget

Emz squirts out hairspray that goes through walls! Deals damage.

Emz Skins

13 in the catalog

HypebeastEpic

TechwearEpic

StreetwearEpic

Sapphire MedusaEpic

9 Epic, 1 Super Rare, 1 Rare, 2 more

View all Emz skins

Emz FAQ

What is the best Emz build in Brawl Stars?

The most picked Emz build runs Bad Karma star power (50.0% pick rate) with Acid Spray gadget (54.0% pick rate). The top gear picks are SHIELD and DAMAGE. Across all builds combined, Emz holds a 42.6% overall win rate and rates D-tier.

What star power should you use on Emz?

Bad Karma. It leads Emz's star power picks at 50.0%, against 50.0% for Hype. Star powers are passive, so the equipped one works by itself all match and the leader is usually the one whose effect fits how the brawler is played.

Is Emz good right now?

Emz is currently D-tier with a 42.6% overall win rate. Its best mode is Wipeout 5v5 at 48.4%. It sees 2.0% pick rate across all modes. That puts it at #93 out of 108 rated brawlers.

Which brawlers beat Emz?

Cosmo beats Emz 73.5% of the time, the strongest counter in the data. Bolt (70.4%) and Trunk (70.4%) are also unfavorable matchups to face. On the other side, Emz beats Crow 53.1% of the time, its best matchup in the data.

What modes is Emz best in?

Emz performs best in Wipeout 5v5 (48.4% win rate), followed by Brawl Arena (48.0%) and Gem Grab (46.5%). Basket Brawl rounds out its next-best mode at 46.4%.

What is Emz's max health in Brawl Stars?

At level 11, Emz has 7,800 health and a movement speed of 720. Its basic attack deals 1,120 damage with 3 ammo at a range of 6.7. It reloads in 2.0s.