Brawl Stars NanoPowers Guide: Meta Tier List and Mechanics

Brawl Stars NanoPowers arrived with the June 2026 update as the centerpiece of the Ramen Rebellion season, and they change how we approach every event match. This isn’t a cosmetic system.

It’s a per-brawler power layer that can swing a Knockout round or a boss fight in seconds, and figuring out which powers matter before you grind for them saves you a mountain of wasted NanoDrops.

Nanopowers in Brawl Stars Context Story Explained

Ramen Rebellion is Supercell’s first attempt at linking two full seasons under one story. A new automated ramen shop opens across from Kenji and Kaze’s sushi restaurant, and the twist is dark: an outfit called NanoStarr has been lacing NanoNoodles with nanobots that mutate anyone who eats them, growing robotic limbs and pulling residents under NanoStarr’s control. Kenji, Kaze, and the rest of Starr Park have to fight back.

Season 1, NanoNoodles, runs from July 2 to August 6, 2026, and introduces NanoPowers alongside the new legendary brawler Nori, the son of Kenji and Kaze and the first brawler born inside Starr Park.

Nori fights with a fishing rod that behaves differently depending on how long you hold the attack button, giving him a close slash, a long-range hook, a wall pull, and a full charge leap.

Season 2, Windstock, takes over from August 6 to September 3 and swaps NanoPowers for Fusions, plus a new support brawler named Wendy.

We’ll cover Fusions in a separate breakdown once Windstock goes live, but the short version: Fusions randomly combine two of your unlocked NanoPowers into one match instead of letting you pick a single power yourself.

Supercell also split NanoPowers away from standard ladder and cups after community pushback.

Powers only activate in the event’s own modes, so ranked climbing stays untouched while the event modes get to be as chaotic as they want.

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How NanoPowers Work in Brawl Stars

Every brawler in the game gets one NanoPower set made up of exactly three unique abilities, and each set is locked to a rarity tier: Baseline for Shelly plus every Rare and Super Rare brawler, Augmented for Epics, Cybernetic for Mythics, and Quantum for Legendaries and Ultra Legendaries.

Across the whole roster, Supercell shipped 106 unique NanoPowers, and once a brawler’s power is unlocked through a NanoDrop, it stays unlocked for the rest of the event.

At the start of any match in a NanoPower-enabled mode, you’re shown two of your brawler’s three unlocked powers at random and you pick one for that round.

The choice only applies to that match, so knowing your brawler’s full kit ahead of time matters more here than in normal ranked prep. Here’s the confirmed breakdown for the brawlers Supercell has detailed so far.

Baseline Powers

• Shelly: attack range grows from 7.67 to 8.67 tiles with 25 percent less spread. Her super fires a second shot 0.25 seconds after the first. She heals 200 health every 0.25 seconds while moving.
• Nita: attack width jumps from 1.67 to 2.33 tiles. Her super charges on a 26.7 second timer without landing a single hit, though her hypercharge doesn’t benefit. Bruce’s health rises from 8,600 to 18,920 at power 11.
• Colt: shots bounce off walls, gaining 1.67 tiles of range per bounce up to seven bounces. His super widens from 0.67 to 1.35 tiles. Movement speed rises 30 percent and stacks with his Slick Boost star power.
• Bull: attack range extends from 5.33 to 6.83 tiles. His super dash speed jumps from 2,000 to 3,500. Any enemy under 30 percent health dies instantly to his hits, with their health bar glowing red and a skull icon warning you it’s a guaranteed kill.
• Jessie: her attack fires a second shot 0.35 seconds later, though it adds 0.6 seconds to her reload per ammo. Her super deploys two turrets at once. Her chain attack splits into two projectiles and its range extends from 6.67 to 8.67 tiles.
• Brock: explosion radius grows from 1.5 to 2.1 tiles and fire radius from 1 to 1.96 tiles, though a bug currently doubles the fire radius bonus. Super charge rate rises 50 percent. Gadgets recharge in a quarter of the normal time.
• Dynamike: attack damage climbs from 1,600 to 2,000 at power 11. Super explosion radius grows from 2.67 to 4 tiles. Dynamite detonates in 40 percent of the normal time, and throwing it further delays the blast until it lands.
• Tick: his attack splits into five mines instead of three. His super gets two uses with two heads active at once. Head health rises 2,000 at every power level and damage climbs from 4,000 to 5,200 at power 11.
• 8-Bit: attack projectile speed rises 20 percent. Super radius grows from 3.33 to 4.5 tiles, or 6.75 tiles with Boosted Booster equipped. Each takedown adds 15 percent movement speed, capping at 60 percent after four kills.
• El Primo: attack range extends from 3 to 5.5 tiles at the cost of 20 percent projectile speed. Super radius grows from 2.67 to 4.67 tiles. Super and hypercharge both charge 40 percent faster.
• Barley: attack radius grows from 2 to 2.4 tiles. Super duration doubles from 3.9 to 7.8 seconds. Attacks and his super poison for 300 damage per second over three seconds, though the poison doesn’t charge his super.
• Poco: attack spread widens from 58.5 to 120 degrees and projectile count doubles from four to eight. Super healing rises to 5,460 for teammates and 6,300 for himself at power 11, with range extending from 9.33 to 12.33 tiles. Attack damage climbs 35 percent to 2,052 at power 11.
• Rosa: her attack spawns a bush that survives round resets, unlike her Grow Light gadget’s bushes. Super duration extends from 4 to 6.8 seconds. Damage and movement speed both rise 40 percent while she’s inside a bush.
• Carl: attack width grows from 1.67 to 2.08 tiles. His spinning super radius grows 60 percent and grants 10 percent movement speed during the spin. He leaves a trail of burning rocks while moving, dealing 600 damage per second and feeding his super charge.

Augmented Powers

Supercell has only detailed two Epic kits so far, with more expected as the season continues.

• Sam: builds a one-second charge bar that grants a 50 percent speed boost on his next attack once full. His super’s knuckle hits slow enemies for 0.5 seconds. His super also auto-charges every 3 seconds while he’s grounded.
• Edgar: defeating an enemy while his gadget is on cooldown resets it instantly. His passive super and hypercharge generation from his trait speeds up sharply, though attack-based charging is unaffected. Attack range increases and stacks with the Hyper Buffie.

Cybernetic Powers

• Melodie: each landed attack grants two notes, with her max note count raised to five. Her super gets up to five uses instead of three, and each dash completes faster. Her orbiting notes spin 75 percent faster, including during her hypercharge.
• Mico: super range and damage jump 70 percent and 2,000 respectively. Attack range extends by one tile and stacks with his Presto gadget. Reload speed increases 50 percent.
• Clancy: starts every match at stage 2, skipping stage 1 entirely. His super projectiles grow 50 percent larger and can destroy walls, though they disappear once they do. Attack range extends by one tile.

Quantum Powers

• Meg: in Mecha mode, her attack fires three shots per volley instead of two, with spread widening from 9 to 23.4 degrees. Her Mecha super range grows from 4.33 to 5.83 tiles, or 6.67 to 8.17 tiles while hypercharged, and now breaks through obstacles. Takedowns in Mecha mode add 800 max health at power 11, capping at 8,000 bonus health after ten kills, though the bonus resets if the Mecha gets destroyed.
• Kenji: his slash attack range extends by 1.5 tiles, though this doesn’t affect his dash attack. His super charges 35 percent faster and teleports him to its landing point instead of firing from range. Healing from attacks increases multiplicatively by 80 percent, so his existing 35 percent lifesteal becomes 63 percent rather than a flat 115 percent.

Supercell’s own patch notes flag a handful of unintended interactions it had to fix at launch, including Emz’s main attack piercing walls with one of her powers and Larry & Lawrie spawning extra clones off a third power, so expect some of these combinations to keep getting tuned throughout the season.

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Best Brawl Stars NanoPowers by Community & Creator Testing

Nobody outside Supercell has full numeric access to all 106 powers yet, and even the wiki tables are being filled in week by week.

That said, creators who’ve spent hundreds of NanoDrops testing combinations point to a few recurring standouts across community breakdowns:

Powers that add extra super uses or extra projectiles tend to test the strongest in NanoBosses, since sustained pressure matters more than a single burst there.

Jessie and Tick both fall into this bracket, since their extra-turret and extra-mine powers effectively double their map control for the whole match.

Execute-style powers that finish off low-health enemies also rank high in tester breakdowns, and Bull’s power is the clearest example: any enemy under 30 percent health dies outright to his hits, which turns close-range fights into guaranteed kills the moment you land a solid dash.

Mobility and bounce mechanics round out the top tier. Colt’s wall-bounce power can stretch his effective range well past his usual line-of-sight limit, gaining 1.67 tiles per bounce across up to seven bounces.

Straight stat stacking, like Mico’s 50 percent reload speed boost or Colt’s 30 percent movement speed increase, shows up constantly in “best of” rankings too, mostly because it’s reliable rather than flashy.

Creators and the Reddit community don’t always agree on rankings past the top tier. Testers weigh raw power and consistency; the community cares more about which powers feel fun to pull off and which ones players think need a nerf.

Either way, the strongest signal we’ve seen is that no single rarity tier dominates the “best” conversation. A well-built Baseline power on Shelly can matter just as much as a flashy Quantum power on a Legendary, depending on the mode you’re queuing into.

For the full numeric breakdown per brawler, creator comparison videos (search “Brawl Stars NanoPowers ranking”) currently go deeper than any single written source, since Supercell hasn’t published an official stat sheet.

How to Unlock Brawl Stars NanoPowers

NanoDrops are the only path to a NanoPower. You earn them through daily wins, Mega Quests, boss fights, side quests, daily contests, and creator QR codes, plus a recurring freebie: the Supercell Store gives away two free NanoDrops every Friday through July.

Opening a NanoDrop shows you five noodle cups. You pick three of them, and each cup contains between zero and three NanoNoodles, so a single drop can pay out anywhere from one to nine noodles.

Every noodle converts into a reward: coins, power points, cosmetics, or, on the rare pull, a NanoPower for a specific brawler.

Reward odds scale down as the payout size goes up, so a single-item pull is common and a full nine-noodle jackpot is rare.

Every drop you open also fills the NanoMeter, a separate progress bar that hands out milestone rewards, including a free skin, regardless of what your NanoNoodles rolled. That means grinding drops pays off twice: once through direct pulls, once through the meter.

There’s no shortcut to a specific brawler’s power. It’s fully random which brawler’s NanoPower you land on, so if you’re chasing one brawler in particular, expect to open a large number of drops before you see it.

Prioritizing the event’s own modes over standard ladder speeds this up, since NanoDrops show up more often there.

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How to Use NanoPowers in Matches

Unlock a brawler’s power first, then queue into any Ramen Rebellion event mode, since powers stay dormant everywhere else. Before each match starts, you’ll see two of that brawler’s three unlocked powers and choose one for the round.

Match your pick to the map and mode rather than defaulting to whatever feels strongest on paper. Open maps reward range and speed powers. Tight, close-quarters maps reward execute effects or burst damage.

NanoBosses and Topple the Tower both reward sustained powers, since those modes are built around outlasting a fight rather than winning it in one exchange.

Check your brawler’s full kit under the Powers screen in the event hub before you queue, since some combinations only make sense once you know how a power interacts with your equipped star power or gadget.

A few of the reported interactions, like Sprout’s power combining with certain star powers, only reveal their full value once you’ve actually tested them in a live match.

If you’re running Topple the Tower, lean toward brawlers whose powers you’ve already unlocked and tested, since losing a floor burns that brawler for the rest of the run. Save your untested picks for lower-stakes modes like Combat Cooking or Food Fight instead.

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Brawl Stars NanoPowers add a real pre-match decision layer that didn’t exist before Ramen Rebellion, and the four-tier rarity split means every brawler in the game, not just the flashy Legendaries, has a shot at mattering in these event modes.

Grind NanoDrops through the event’s own modes, prioritize the free weekly pulls, and don’t assume the Quantum tier always beats Baseline.

Match your power choice to the map in front of you, and you’ll get more value out of a single NanoDrop than most players chasing raw rarity.