Rico Counters

Best counters to Rico

Ordered by the low end of each brawler's 95% range against Rico, so a lucky small sample never tops the list.

Brawler	Win rate vs Rico	95% range	vs expected	Games
Wendy	63.7%	60–68%	+1.7	521
Willow	65.8%	57–74%	+6.3	120
Shade	60.2%	56–64%	+0.3	666
Gigi	63%	56–70%	+1.0	192
Nori	60.5%	56–65%	+0.4	463
Starr Nova	61.8%	56–67%	-0.5	267
Sprout	62.1%	55–69%	+0.6	174
Doug	63%	55–71%	+2.2	135
Kit	61.7%	54–69%	+7.4	167
El Primo	57.8%	54–62%	+6.6	595

"vs expected" is the difference, in percentage points, from what the two brawlers' usual win rates alone would predict. Coloured values are outside the 95% range of chance; grey ones could be noise.

Specific counters: better against Rico than usual

These brawlers win against Rico clearly more often than their own usual win rate predicts — the matchup itself favours them, beyond being strong overall.

Brawler	Win rate vs Rico	95% range	vs expected	Games
Nita	55%	48–61%	+11.4	222
El Primo	57.8%	54–62%	+6.6	595
Crow	48.7%	43–54%	+5.6	343
Colt	50.2%	47–53%	+3.2	1,151

How Rico's counters change by mode

The strongest counters within each game mode. A brawler that answers Rico in one mode can be a poor pick in another.

What BrawlPick's draft engine picks into Rico

The picker's own answer when the enemy's only known pick is Rico, on current Ranked maps — before any bans, your team's picks or your collection are taken into account. It weighs map and mode fit, its counter rules, synergy and the observed map statistics, so it can differ from the measured counters above. It is the picker's model, not a measured result.

Maps: the current Ranked maps in the modes where Rico is played most in BrawlPick's data.

Map and mode statistics behind these answers last updated September 19, 2026.

Brawlers Rico beats

The other side of the coin: opponents against whom Rico's team wins most reliably — risky picks once the enemy has shown Rico.

Brawler	Rico's win rate	95% range	vs expected	Games
Shelly	66.9%	61–72%	-3.5	266
Edgar	57.7%	55–61%	+0.6	1,091
Leon	60.1%	54–66%	+8.6	291
Dynamike	55.7%	51–61%	+0.2	370
Griff	51.9%	49–55%	+4.6	1,155

About this data

Source:

battle logs from the official Brawl Stars API, collected by BrawlPick. Not copied from another site.

Players:

seeded from BrawlPick users, public leaderboards and top clubs, then widened to the players they met. Likely skewed toward more active, higher-skill players; not a random sample.

Battles:

every 3v3 battle with a win or loss (Ranked and regular matches), each counted once even if seen through several players. These numbers come from battles played Sep 18 – Sep 28, 2026.

Win rate:

share of a brawler's appearances where its team won. Both teams are counted, so the average is about 50%. "Games" is the number of appearances.

Pick rate:

how often a brawler was picked per 100 battles in the same scope. Every battle has six brawlers, so the pick rates of all brawlers add up to about 600%; a brawler on both teams of one battle counts twice.

Battle counts:

unique battles, recovered from the stored pick rates (which share the battle count as denominator): exact only when the rounded rates allow no other number, "≈" when they leave a small range, left out otherwise. "Brawler appearances" counts each of the six brawlers in a battle separately.

Matchups and teammates:

counted from battles in which all six brawlers were identified: a matchup is a game where the two brawlers were on opposite teams, a teammate pair a game on the same team. The "expected" figure combines both brawlers' usual win rates in those battles, so a large difference points to the pairing itself rather than to one brawler being strong overall.

Small samples:

win rates are only shown from 30 games (100 for matchups and teammates); the 95% range shows the remaining uncertainty, and lists are ordered by its low end. That reduces, but does not remove, the chance of a small sample ranking high.

What it cannot tell you:

the range only covers sampling noise. It does not correct for who played a brawler, the drafts it was picked into, the same players appearing in many battles, or balance changes during the collection period.

Game version:

not recorded per battle. If a balance update landed during the collection period, the numbers mix battles from before and after it.

Full methodology: how BrawlPick works.

Related

• Rico stats, best maps and teammates
• Wendy stats
• Willow stats
• Shade stats
• How counter-picking works
• All brawlers