Best Knockout Brawlers

Updated October 19, 2026 · 4,268,406 battles analyzed

Knockout is a bush-heavy, no-respawn mode where positioning mistakes are final, so brawlers with strong pick potential and safe engage tools dominate the tier list.

Brawler Tiers: S+ to D

S+ Tier

Vince77.8% WR5,266games

Gus60.6% WR144,845games

S Tier

Cosmo68% WR35,028games

Wendy66.7% WR37,257games

Pierce61.2% WR64,290games

Mandy56.9% WR109,853games

Pearl63.8% WR25,383games

Shade59.7% WR57,894games

A Tier

Gray59.9% WR43,384games

Nori58.3% WR59,725games

Piper45.9% WR284,765games

Najia60.6% WR34,229games

Belle57.9% WR55,828games

Starr Nova60.6% WR28,812games

Meeple60.9% WR26,178games

Mina59.4% WR37,173games

Maisie60.5% WR26,583games

Amber60.6% WR22,742games

Gigi60.6% WR20,314games

Nani57.4% WR42,841games

Chester59.1% WR24,282games

Sprout59.8% WR19,407games

Gene58.8% WR25,112games

Janet59.9% WR16,936games

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Full Brawler Rankings

Every brawler in Knockout, ranked by score

How tiers are calculated →

Rank	Class	Brawler	Tier	Win Rate	Use Rate	Matches	Trend
1		Vince	S+	77.8%	0.12%	5,266	-
2	Support	Gus	S+	60.6%	3.39%	144,845	-
3		Cosmo	S	68%	0.82%	35,028	▼ 2
4	Support	Wendy	S	66.7%	0.87%	37,257	▼ 1
5	Marksman	Pierce	S	61.2%	1.51%	64,290	▲ 1
6	Marksman	Mandy	S	56.9%	2.57%	109,853	▲ 1
7	Damage Dealer	Pearl	S	63.8%	0.59%	25,383	▼ 3
8	Assassin	Shade	S	59.7%	1.36%	57,894	▼ 3
9	Support	Gray	A	59.9%	1.02%	43,384	▲ 3
10	Assassin	Nori	A	58.3%	1.4%	59,725	▼ 2
11	Marksman	Piper	A	45.9%	6.67%	284,765	▲ 61
12	Damage Dealer	Najia	A	60.6%	0.8%	34,229	▲ 1
13	Marksman	Belle	A	57.9%	1.31%	55,828	▲ 7
14	Assassin	Starr Nova	A	60.6%	0.68%	28,812	▼ 5
15	Controller	Meeple	A	60.9%	0.61%	26,178	▼ 4
16	Damage Dealer	Mina	A	59.4%	0.87%	37,173	▲ 3
17	Marksman	Maisie	A	60.5%	0.62%	26,583	▼ 7
18	Controller	Amber	A	60.6%	0.53%	22,742	▼ 3
19	Assassin	Gigi	A	60.6%	0.48%	20,314	▼ 3
20	Marksman	Nani	A	57.4%	1%	42,841	▲ 17
21	Damage Dealer	Chester	A	59.1%	0.57%	24,282	▼ 4
22	Artillery	Sprout	A	59.8%	0.45%	19,407	▼ 1
23	Controller	Gene	A	58.8%	0.59%	25,112	▲ 30
24	Marksman	Janet	A	59.9%	0.4%	16,936	▼ 2
25	Damage Dealer	Colette	B	54.9%	1.45%	61,719	▲ 19
26	Tank	Trunk	B	60.3%	0.34%	14,402	▼ 12
27	Damage Dealer	R-T	B	60.5%	0.28%	11,927	▲ 8
28	Controller	Otis	B	59.7%	0.38%	16,230	▲ 5
29	Support	Kit	B	56.4%	0.94%	40,060	▲ 2
30	Controller	Mr. P	B	59.7%	0.34%	14,373	▲ 10
31	Assassin	Cordelius	B	59.6%	0.35%	15,040	▼ 8
32	Controller	Sirius	B	58.9%	0.44%	18,992	▼ 14
33	Damage Dealer	Lola	B	59.2%	0.4%	17,271	▼ 8
34	Controller	Squeak	B	55.7%	1.03%	43,959	▼ 5
35	Controller	Griff	B	56.3%	0.88%	37,461	▲ 28
36	Support	Doug	B	59.6%	0.32%	13,812	▼ 12
37	Assassin	Alli	B	58.9%	0.4%	17,184	▼ 11
38	Marksman	Angelo	B	57.3%	0.66%	28,327	▲ 4
39	Support	Glowy	B	59%	0.39%	16,667	▼ 7
40	Controller	Finx	B	59.2%	0.34%	14,440	▼ 6
41	Artillery	Larry & Lawrie	B	58.8%	0.37%	15,733	▼ 14
42	Controller	Bo	B	56.2%	0.82%	34,939	▲ 36
43	Damage Dealer	Eve	B	59.1%	0.3%	12,608	▼ 13
44	Support	Jae-Yong	B	59.5%	0.22%	9,318	▲ 4
45	Assassin	Stu	B	55.9%	0.76%	32,421	▲ 15
46	Controller	Charlie	B	58.7%	0.3%	12,852	▲ 5
47	Marksman	Bonnie	B	57.7%	0.42%	17,966	▼ 2
48	Tank	Ash	B	59.2%	0.22%	9,339	▼ 7
49	Tank	Bolt	B	58.2%	0.33%	14,232	▲ 6
50	Support	Ruffs	B	58.5%	0.29%	12,235	▼ 1
51	Marksman	Brock	B	41.9%	5.91%	252,414	▲ 14
52	Assassin	Lily	B	56.1%	0.64%	27,368	▲ 5
53	Assassin	Buzz	B	57.1%	0.45%	19,245	▲ 1
54	Tank	Draco	C	58.8%	0.21%	8,908	▼ 26
55	Damage Dealer	Lumi	C	57.8%	0.32%	13,799	▼ 17
56	Assassin	Mortis	C	52.8%	1.28%	54,623	▲ 15
57	Controller	Willow	C	57.8%	0.28%	11,789	▼ 18
58	Tank	Ollie	C	58.4%	0.2%	8,482	▼ 22
59	Assassin	Fang	C	53.8%	0.93%	39,516	▲ 3
60	Tank	Buster	C	58%	0.22%	9,552	▼ 4
61	Artillery	Juju	C	58%	0.22%	9,237	-
62	Controller	Ziggy	C	57.7%	0.25%	10,627	▼ 16
63	Artillery	Grom	C	56.1%	0.45%	19,075	▲ 4
64	Controller	Sandy	C	57.5%	0.26%	11,233	▼ 14
65	Controller	Lou	C	57.1%	0.31%	13,271	▼ 7
66	Marksman	Bea	C	51.6%	1.31%	56,072	▲ 8
67	Controller	Gale	C	56.5%	0.34%	14,361	▼ 15
68	Assassin	Kenji	C	53.5%	0.77%	32,846	-
69	Assassin	Mico	C	56.1%	0.33%	13,908	▼ 26
70	Tank	Damian	C	56.9%	0.23%	9,656	▼ 23
71	Assassin	Kaze	C	55.3%	0.44%	18,598	▼ 12
72	Support	Max	C	52.3%	1.02%	43,452	▲ 15
73	Support	Pam	C	56.8%	0.23%	9,761	▼ 9
74	Assassin	Melodie	C	55.6%	0.31%	13,296	▼ 8
75	Damage Dealer	Moe	C	55.9%	0.21%	8,966	▼ 6
76	Damage Dealer	Spike	C	49.6%	1.36%	58,159	▲ 1
77	Support	Berry	C	55.3%	0.26%	10,936	▼ 2
78	Damage Dealer	Surge	C	52.1%	0.76%	32,283	▲ 7
79	Tank	Bull	C	52.4%	0.57%	24,490	▲ 2
80	Support	Byron	C	46.4%	2.08%	88,971	-
81	Assassin	Edgar	C	37%	6.23%	265,766	▼ 2
82	Tank	Hank	C	54.8%	0.19%	8,031	▼ 12
83	Assassin	Sam	C	54.6%	0.19%	8,122	▼ 7
84	Artillery	Tick	C	49.2%	1.07%	45,870	▲ 2
85	Damage Dealer	Chuck	C	54.3%	0.15%	6,607	▼ 12
86	Support	Poco	C	48.7%	0.96%	41,190	▲ 4
87	Tank	Bibi	D	50.2%	0.65%	27,870	▲ 5
88	Assassin	Leon	D	45.4%	1.68%	71,846	-
89	Damage Dealer	Colt	D	37.6%	4.43%	189,145	▲ 4
90	Artillery	Dynamike	D	46.3%	1.12%	47,938	▲ 6
91	Damage Dealer	Carl	D	46.8%	0.89%	37,804	▼ 2
92	Damage Dealer	Tara	D	49.7%	0.34%	14,710	▲ 2
93	Tank	Rosa	D	49.5%	0.37%	15,865	▼ 9
94	Damage Dealer	Clancy	D	51.7%	0.12%	5,074	▼ 12
95	Tank	Frank	D	46.4%	0.86%	36,815	-
96	Artillery	Penny	D	47.6%	0.56%	24,081	▼ 5
97	Damage Dealer	Rico	D	37.6%	3.31%	141,171	▲ 1
98	Tank	Darryl	D	46.2%	0.67%	28,527	▼ 1
99	Artillery	Barley	D	44.1%	0.63%	27,016	-
100	Damage Dealer	8-Bit	D	37.8%	2.13%	90,996	▲ 1
101	Controller	Emz	D	37.3%	1.62%	69,048	▼ 1
102	Controller	Jessie	D	41%	0.7%	29,798	▲ 3
103	Tank	Meg	D	41.6%	0.56%	24,110	▼ 20
104	Assassin	Crow	D	37.4%	1.44%	61,261	▼ 2
105	Damage Dealer	Nita	D	38.5%	0.92%	39,412	▲ 1
106	Damage Dealer	Shelly	D	34.4%	1.94%	82,776	▼ 2
107	Tank	El Primo	D	35.7%	1.53%	65,263	▼ 4
108	Tank	Jacky	D	32.3%	0.37%	15,766	▼ 1

Best Brawlers in Knockout right now

Best Overall

VinceMeta Score 7.0/10

Highest Win Rate

Vince77.8% win rate

Most Used

Piper6.67% use rate

Biggest Riser

Piperup 61 ranks

In the Knockout meta, Vince leads with a Meta Score of 7.0/10. Vince has the highest win rate at 77.8%, while Piper is the most used at 6.67%. Vince is the most underrated brawler here: it ranks #1 by win rate but only #107 by use rate. That gap suggests its results are stronger than its popularity. Piper moved the most since the last update, climbing 61 ranks as the rest of the roster shifted around it. Every ranking on this page weighs win rate more heavily than raw popularity, so a widely picked brawler with a mediocre win rate does not automatically outrank one that is rarer but quietly wins more often. This view is built from 4,268,406 recorded brawler appearances across Knockout.

About this tier list

This is the Knockout tier list for October 2026, ranking every eligible brawler by win rate and pick rate in this mode specifically. Knockout is a bush-heavy, no-respawn mode where positioning mistakes are final, so brawlers with strong pick potential and safe engage tools dominate the tier list. There are no respawns within a round, so a single bad engage can cost a team the numbers advantage for the rest of it. Bush-heavy maps reward brawlers with strong pick potential from cover and safe engage tools that do not require walking into the open, since a death here cannot be undone until the next round starts. Every brawler here is scored the same way regardless of class, so a support and a tank can be compared directly by how much they win and get picked. A class filter sits below the tier grid too, so you can jump straight to the Knockout picks that matter for your preferred role without wading through every brawler outside it. The full table further down lists every eligible brawler in Knockout individually with its exact win rate, use rate, and match count, so two brawlers that land in the same tier can still be compared side by side before you settle on a pick. Brawlers with too few recorded matches in Knockout are shown separately as Unranked rather than forced into a tier on thin data. Their win rate is hidden rather than shown too, since a rate built on a sample that small is not something you should treat as a real signal, even though the exact number looks precise enough to invite reading it as one.

Computed from 4,268,406 battles BrawlMetrics counted itself over the last 7 days. The rate shown is a Wilson score lower bound, not the raw rate, so a small sample cannot outrank a large one on a hot streak. Composite score is 70% of that plus 30% use rate. Tiers are assigned by percentile of that score (S+ top 2%, S next 6%, A next 15%, B next 27%, C next 30%, D bottom 20%). Brawlers under 300 battles in this slice are marked Unranked rather than tiered on too little data, and a movement arrow is only shown when the previous 7 days also had at least 300 battles for that brawler.

This page pulls fresh battle data on a daily cycle, so tiers shift gradually as the metagame evolves rather than jumping around from a single unusual day of results. The same underlying pipeline feeds every mode, rank, and Showdown variant tier list on this site, so a brawler's tier here and its tier on a mode-specific page are always built from a consistent, comparable methodology, never two different formulas pretending to agree.

Tier List FAQ

What matters most in Knockout?

There are no respawns within a round, so a single bad engage can cost a team the numbers advantage for the rest of it. Bush-heavy maps reward brawlers with strong pick potential from cover and safe engage tools that do not require walking into the open, since a death here cannot be undone until the next round starts.

Why might this list differ from the overall Brawl Stars tier list?

A brawler can lead the overall tier list and still land lower here, or the other way around, because Knockout has its own pace and its own objective. The overall list blends every mode's results together, while this page only counts battles played in Knockout, so a kit that is only average in the wider blend can still be one of the best picks for this specific mode.

How is the tier list score calculated?

Each brawler gets a composite score: 70% a Wilson lower-bound win rate plus 30% use rate, both normalized against the rest of the brawlers in that same slice. The Wilson bound stops a brawler with very few games and a lucky streak from outranking one with a huge, reliable sample. Win rate is weighted more heavily than use rate on purpose: a brawler that a lot of players happen to pick is not automatically a strong one, but a brawler that wins consistently almost always deserves the higher tier.

How are S+ through D tiers assigned?

By percentile of the composite score, not fixed cutoffs: S+ is the top 2%, S the next 6%, A the next 15%, B the next 27%, C the next 30%, and D the bottom 20%. Percentiles keep every tier populated even as the numbers shift, so S+ never quietly empties out after a balance patch and D never quietly fills up with half the roster.

What do win rate and use rate mean?

Win rate is the share of recorded battles that brawler won, Wilson-adjusted for sample size. Use rate is how often that brawler was picked relative to every other brawler in the same slice. A brawler can have a great win rate on a small player base or a middling win rate across a huge one, which is exactly why both numbers are shown side by side instead of collapsing everything into one figure.

How often is this tier list updated?

The date at the top of every page is the exact time this data was last refreshed from a new scrape of recorded battles, shown next to the total number of battles that refresh was built from. Judge freshness by that date rather than by a promised schedule: it is the real timestamp of the data on the page, not the time the page was generated.

Why do some brawlers show as Unranked or New?

A brawler needs at least 1,000 recorded matches in a given slice to be tiered. Below that, the sample is too small to trust, so it is shown separately instead of forced into a tier. This most often catches a brawler recently released, or an older brawler that is simply rare in this specific mode or rank.