Brawl Stars: A Competitive Guide to Every Brawler in Solo Showdown

Chromatic: Cordelius (9/10)

User-friendly: 9/10
Damage: 9/10
Survivability: 7/10 (not tanky, but hard to kill)
Likelihood of defeating Edgar: 5/5
Gadget 😁
Box-breaking abilities: 3.5/5
3 shots at first, 2 after 2 cubes collected. No pierce, but ok reload

Solo Showdown: 9/10

I've only been playing him since I got him, he's fun af and ik he's getting nerf soon. I'm doing rank 30 push (only 850 rn though).

It's honestly ridiculous...it took me less than 3 hrs total to push to 850 💀

Best build:
Gadget: knockoff Otis super
Next attack mutes enemy for 1.5s.
His next attack becomes a single projectile that mutes and deals regular dmg. Best gadget. 1.5s is enough to unload all three ammo on helpless opponent (and his high damage ensures that you will take out most of the brawlers). It is an excellent weapon for backstabbing.
G-A-A-A-dead enemy

If you do end up getting backstabbed by Cordelius using his gadget, the best way to survive it is to juke. His attack is fairly thin so if you can predict where auto aim is going and try to rotate and be unpredictable, you can survive it.
However, cordelius has low hp, meaning he is also vulnerable to himself. Other cordelius players will very likely want to kill you off to prevent future threats. Therefore, the best solution is to kill them first! The best defence is offence :)

Guide to backstabbing very easily
Star power: comboshrooms
Second projectile deals 30% more damage if both projectiles hit the same target.
MORE DPS (as if he didn't have enough of it)
This is the better starpower to kill tanks. The other one is also ok though, so you can get instant healing in shadow realm. (Mushroom kingdom is better in 3v3)

Gears: damage and shield/speed
Because he is new and I'm seeing him everywhere, speed on maps like cavern churn. But in general, his best build is damage shield.

Main Attack
Short- medium range (his range is a little bit longer than his circle) and deals 1090 per projectiles at max lvl. 2180 per ammo in total, 2507 with starpower.
Projectile is thin (like rts) and therefore prone to miss if not at point blank.

Super
Charges in 2 hits. Also charges if enemies are in the circle (similar to buzz).

It is decently long ranged and very easy to hit. Auto-aim will work most of the time.

Target and Cordelius are brought to the shadow realm, where they stay for 8 secs until one of them dies. (Keep in mind all cordelius players in the match share a single shadow realm). During the realm, Cordelius gains movement and reload speed (and he's already very fast to begin with). And targets can't use their super or gadget (although they can if they activate it before the super hits, and Cordelius can't use poison mushroom too)
(and cordelius can use their super inside the shadow realm even if they aren't the one who opened it, and I believe all cordelius players will get the buffs even if they weren't the person who supered)
So this is basically a free kill. (new brawler FAIR and BALANCED!)

Usage for this super is insane. Not only can you use it to kill people extremely easily, you can

-use it to escape by randomly supering a person and retreating to a safe area (can escape from pinches this way
-ambush people when you return from the shadow realm (predicting their position and landing on top of them)
-CYCLE SUPER THE ENTIRE MATCH WHILE EVERYONE ELSE IS KILLING EACH OTHER 💀💀💀💀💀 (fair and balanced)
To do this, there needs to be less than 3 ppl playing cordelius. Pick a partner, preferably a tanky one without much backstab potential (if there's 2 Cordelius, you must team with the other one) and cycle supers. Due to super charging when enemies are in the circle, you'll only need to hit the other person once every 8 secs. Cycle the super so you can get easy too 3 while everyone else dies! 😁

-however, you do need to be careful of where you land after supering, as if you land on a Shelly with super, you will die :/

Special skills: decent predictions, auto-aim💀, quick reaction time.

Counters:
Cordelius.
(And maybe Shelly)

Always remember that even though you are broken asf, you are still very squishy ;)

How to team:
Tank

BTW SHOWDOWN IS INFESTED WITH MUSHROOM GUY RN LIKE AT LEAST 5 CORDELIUS EVERY MATCH WTF

Best maps:

ALL MAPS VIABLE RN, MINUS CAVERN CHURN CUZ EVERYONE HATES CAVERN CHURN

Cordelius build has been given 😁 BUY THE BRAWL PASS YALL, HES DEFINITELY GETTING A NERF. Push him while you can

Even if you suck it's still a very free rank 25/30

I'm also pushing shelly 1000 btw cuz I'm scared she'll get nerfed too (949)

And also, friendly reminder to play colt in takedown, also free r25! Bye bye :)