New Brawler: Gene

Brawl Stars GeneA week ago a new Brawler named Gene was revealed. He is a purple genie with a magic lamp that shoots smoke. And I suspect he might be related to Tara.

He is a medium ranged support Brawler with quite a long loading time. His Super is rather unique: He shoots a Magic hand from his lamp that drags the enemy towards him. This will be a good way of getting enemies that hide in the bushes!

His Star Power is called Magic puffs, where he heals team mates around him for 100 health points per second. Quite a versatile Brawler in my opinion!
Here is a video of Gene in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWu6zteAwas

Brawl Stars art – Shelly 3D

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A couple of weeks ago I posted a 3D render of Nita here on the blog. It was the first post out of a Brawl Stars fan art series I have started, and the post can be found here.

Now it’s time for Shelly! I did a 3D render of Shelly with a custom shotgun, slightly bigger than her original shotgun from the game. What do you think?

How to get Star Tokens in Brawl Stars

stars-tokens-brawl-starsDo you want to get your hands on the Big Box? To do that You’ll need no more than 10 Star Tokens. Here are some tips and tricks to get Star Tokens the easy way.

A Star Token is available every time a New Event appears, but only once per New Event. If you win the Star Token you have to wait until the next New Event is released before you can get another. You will get the Star Token if you win a 3v3 game or place in the top in the Showdown events. star token brawl stars

Tips:

  • Use your lowest Brawler when participating in the Star Token Event. That way you will have the easiest opponents.
  • Play Solo Showdown rather than Duo Showdown. Your odds will be better to get the Star Token in Solo Showdown (Top 4 in Solo Showdown vs Top 2 in Duo Showdown).
  • Win all available events at least once per day to maximize your Star Token rewards.

How to be the Star Player

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When playing Brawl Stars have you noticed that the Star Player award doesn’t always go to the one you think is the most deserving player, the one with the most kills? The game picks the Star Player based on a secret algorithm. It’snot only the damage you did, but how much you helped your team in a brawl. And of course the main object of the played Event.

In Bounty events the kill to death ratio is the most inportant. Getting the most stars in the end of the match increases your chance of being the Star Player, so if time is running out and you have a lot of stars try running away from the opponents rather towards them!

In Gem Grab try finding a combination of grabbing as many gems as possible and also get as many kills as possible. Sounds easy, right? Brawlers with strong normal attacks who can steal kills are useful. Another way to be the Star Player in Gem Grab is to pick either Pam or Poco and heal your teammates as much as you can while still grabbing some Gems.

In Heist, try to deal as much damage as you can to the Safe. Brawlers who can break walls and damage the safe with their Supers, such as Colt and Bull, are good in Heist.
In Brawl Ball try to score the most goals. Heavy Brawlers like El Primo are to be considered here.

Brawl Stars system requirements

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Brawl Stars on Samsung Galaxy S2? Not so much.

Brawl Stars only works on Android phones with Android version 4.3 (Jelly bean) or newer. Android 4.3 was released in july 2013, so if your phone model is older than 2013 you might have a problem running Brawl Stars on it.

The requirements for iOS is iOS 9.0 or later. iOS 9.0 was released in September 2015 so if you Apple product is much older than that Brawl Stars will probably not run on it.

One might not think about it because most people have newer phones today, but it might affect someone out there.

Is Leon the best Brawler?

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Ever since Leon was released a month ago players have argued if he simply is too good against other Brawlers? Will we see a weaker Leon after the next balance update of the game?

Leon is very fast with a movement speed of 820, the same speed as Mortis and Crow. But when he uses his Star Power Smoke Trails and goes invisible he gets a whooping 24% speed boost up to 1017! With a Super speed of 1017 this means that Leon is in fact the fastest Brawler in the game at times and quick players can take advantage of this. By a lot of practicing of course!

”With a Super speed of 1017 this means that Leon is
in fact the fastest Brawler in the game at times.”

Leon’s main attack is four spinning blades that deal a lot of damage if all blades hit. The blades have a long range, same as Colt‘s, but makes less damage the further they go. To maximize the damage Leon must get as close as possible to his opponent and make sure all four blades hit. This takes a lot of aiming precision and again a lot of practicing to master! His damage is from longest to shortest: 208, 324, 436, 554, and 676. That means that the maximum damage with one attack from up close is  a total of 2704, which is very good.

 

Super

Leon’s Super is turning invisible for  6 seconds.  He can not be seen by enemy Brawlers even if he goes through them. The invisibility stops if Leon attacks, and he will be revealed for a brief moment if an enemy brawler hits him, just like if you’re hiding in a bush. As mentioned earlier his speed is also increased while invisible.

Leon’s super is most effective against long-range sniper Brawlers, where he can use his Super to get in close to the snipers without being seen. Then he can fire his blade shots once emerging from his invisibility. If all four blades hit he will take out any Sniper Brawler.

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Hiding in the bushes can be effective in Showdown.

Tips on playing Leon

  • Leon is best used against long-range sniper Brawlers if you get close to your opponent. If all four blades hit on close range he will take out any Sniper Brawler.
  • Leon is very good in Showdown. Try searching for people who are already engaged in combat and wait until they are both low on health. Leon then can be effective finishing off both players or the winning brawler and then collect both cubes.
  • Leon can be weak against tanks and shotgunners. To be most effective Leon has to get really close to his opponent, which is very risky against these kinds of Brawlers.

Here is a good video guide giving many useful tips on playing Leon:

Brawlers timeline

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There are currently 22 Brawlers in Brawl Stars. But when Brawl Stars soft launched in June 2017 there were only 15 original Brawlers available. They were:

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Common: Shelly, Nita, Colt, El Primo, Jessie, Dynamike, Brock
Rare: Poco, Barley, Ricochet, Bull
Epic: Bo, Mortis
Legendary: Spike, Crow

After the first release it didn’t take long for the next game update and in June, just a month later, Piper was released.

In September 2017 it was time again for two new Brawlers to see the world, Pam and Tara.

The December update added Darryl to the game.

Then it took a couple of months until the next Brawlers joined the fun. In May 2018 Penny and Frank were added to the game.

After that it was the longest break yet for any new Brawlers to join the game but in December 2018 Leon was released and instantly became many player’s favourite Brawler.

That’s the timeline of all 22 Brawlers so far. We don’t know when there will be more Brawlers in the game but the statistics says anywhere between January and August 2019. The release of new Brawlers has so far been in pair or single, and since the latest release was a single Brawler, then maybe it’s time for a pair of Brawlers to join next time?