A PowerPoint about Rico

[@MythicalForce27]

Only 2 super rares left...

[@Beautiful_Twisted_Fantasy]

Stu PowerPoint soon hell yea

[@prodigymaster123]

Lesgoo

[@antoniosaraiva9263]

I think sprout needs his power point sooner

[@Gerton999]

The Bonnie video is close. I can feel it...

[@BigHead-yi7cc]

Bo powerpoint 🗣🔥

[@gigiobigio0002]

Man i just love it when the enemy rico starts hitting the maps edge and an entire lane gets completely disabled

[@MythicalForce27]

i do too

[@riggsvsoliver]

Meanwhile my randoms with Rico - Uses bounce starpower and tries to aim directly at the enemy 💀💀💀

[@sjdkdkrmdirkfkdm7683]

That is nothing compared to tick

[@oberonthemystic3752]

@@sjdkdkrmdirkfkdm7683 Tick's damage output is lower due to the amount of time it takes to hit the ground. Tick's more of a Zoner than Rico.

[@realguystinky6450]

@@sjdkdkrmdirkfkdm7683 tell me your 10k trophies without telling me your 10k trophies

[@Stop_This_Madness]

A brawler that can: Shoot you behind walls Completely block entire narrow lanes Erase assasins with a click of a panic button Melt tanks with an almost endless stream of supers Prevent you from healing more efficiently than a crows main attack due to random hypercharge bullets bouncing around like a game of asteroids. Yeah pretty balanced, nerf poco bro

[@MythicalForce27]

agreed nerf poco

[@muhammetserkanthegoofyrobot]

Seems balanced,Turn Lou into Eric Cartman

[@Anonymous-d3w]

Seems balanced, turn Ash into BMO

[@FIowersForMe]

Why is Rico only seen as op bow instead of back then

[@LDOTB]

One of the most frustrating things about Skillcos’ is how confident they are when they have gadget charges left. I hate it when I’m playing some kind of tank/assassin and the enemy Rico can reliably just run into my face and skill me…

[@MythicalForce27]

agreed

[@diba9281]

Edgar can body rico

[@MapleNephthys]

​@@diba9281 gadget:

[@Ruben99677]

@@diba9281 nah not if its a close place

[@bestdadoftheyear7181]

@@diba9281me just casually using my multiball launcher and obliterating edgar within split seconds :

[@didntaskplusratio3509]

I hate the balancing in this game. Rico has become the most fucking frustrating brawler I have ever faced. If he shoots down a lane it permanently becomes blocked off (very fast reload, reload gear, bounces etc). It is impossible to kill him, assassins get one shot by his gadget, tanks get melted or feed super and sharp shooters have it slightly better as some outrange him, but if theres walls… yeah. I hate him.

[@kenna5091]

@@didntaskplusratio3509 now it's rico, before it was frank, then it was larry & lawrie... yeah the balancing in this game sucks. it genuinely feel like they don't test any balance changes because how did they think that giving Darryl 2 supers wasn't crazy

[@hungarianmidget]

@@kenna5091Rico isn’t broken, he’s like mid a tier.

[@Director_Oompaloompa]

​@@kenna5091 Yep instead of reworking Darryls gadgets amd give him a hypercharge. NOPE. Just give him 2 supers and call it a day. This shit would not slide two years ago.

[@kenna5091]

@@Director_Oompaloompa yeah and you know now that you say it, this game has some problems with changing anything but the main issue with broken brawlers take for example Buster and Hank. Buster was really broken when he came out as we know, and they nerfed everything about him, his health, his super, his shield star power, his damage, but at the moment they didn't nerf his attraction gadget, probably the most op thing about him with his damage that in fact was buffed not so long ago. Hank was broken because some bugs with his damage when he had 8-Bit's and Ruffs buffs, besides that, he was strong on closed maps but you could counter him, but nah, let's nerf EVERYTHING about him and make him pretty much useless, oh and also we removed the bug, ain't that funny? other examples that I can think about are Nani (her buff to her damage maked her really strong but they nerfed her health), Fang (his buffed cycle with his super is what maked him insufferable and absurdly easy to kill teams, let's nerf anything but that), and Larry and Lawrie (nerf everything but his double basic attack that guarantees the double hit even when it shouldn't AND doesn't care about the range, unlike Grom or Sprout for example, meaning that you can defend yourself pretty good to aggresive plays. that's why even with the amount of nerfs they are still a top tier brawler)

[@kenna5091]

oops that's a long comment i'm sorry

[@miko_lost_it]

characters always end up either dying or becoming skilless :< mortis and dyna NEEDED those hypers yet theyre win %s are still among the lowest they genuinely need to take the hit on popularity and make characters retain their cool gimmicks instead of just watering them down to the point of no skill

[@MythicalForce27]

yea completely agreed!

[@justsplat]

They are the most popular and you already know about the bad randoms so of course their win rates are low. That being said I dont like how no skill they have become (I main dyna for a long time and mortis more recently, like 3-4 months before hypercharge)

[@GoticoArrombado]

to be fair, Mortis is one of hardest, if not, the hardest brawler to play and master. So i don't really think his winrate will ever be huge like other, more simple, brawlers.

[@____________________________a]

dyna needs a hyper? his stun is already (one of) the best gadgets in the entire game, and his 1st star power has the highest skill cap in the game

[@justsplat]

@@____________________________a he used to be ass because his sticks took longer to explode and regular people dont use dyna jump to its maximum potential

[@The_unfettered_prisoner]

I’ve lived with rico as my main ever since gadgets weren’t even a thing, and i’ve watched many brawlers go in and out of the meta, and i’ve always viewed rico as a saving grace with how he was almost always on the S or A tier in terms of skill. Which is why he’ve always been my main. Ever since this year started, the skill-aspect of this game has plummeted beyond recognition, and my main was not spared with hypercharge, the mutations, and now even the spongebob collab, and now, even tho he was always my most fun brawler, he no longer feels different than any less skilled brawler, and so with how ridiculous every meta is from the last, and my main losing his shine in my eyes, I’ve decided to finally quit this game until supercell pays respect to the competitive side of it and actually acknowledges and maintains skillful brawlers, and stop focusing attention on the new comers who will soon become like us and find that the game’s balancing is horrible as of now.

[@MythicalForce27]

i feel ur pain as a darryl main

[@masonseminario7435]

As a Rico main, I never use his OP modifiers (mutation and SpongeBob) so that I can create the illusion that he still takes skill. I almost gave up on him when he got the hyper charge… he wasn’t the same brawler after that day

[@florantlover5554]

@@MythicalForce27 I feel like they weren't even trying to break darrel, giving him 2 supers was an honest to god good idea, and if a nerf came with him on the super update I feel like the community would've tweaked out.

[@adamdagoof]

Its exactly how i feel abt this rn (as a rico main)

[@segggplant8315]

not that serious just have fun Lol

[@madjester9844]

I think there's a serious talk to be had about all the gadget designed as panic buttons and the effect they have on the overall game and design of Brawl Stars Not only do they dumb down interactions since you now can just disengage out of a disadvantageous match up with just 1 click of a button, but it also forced future brawler design to take them into account, further dumbing down interactions Buzz and Cordelius work as well as they do and are so fundamentally strong because their entry tool also disables these panic buttons, and they're "fine" because it's what lets them fulfill their assasin role reliably, even though in a vacuum, Buzz's ability to stun while it takes multiple people out at once is broken to it's very design, for example. This is not to say that you can't have well made panic buttons. Tick's Last Hurrah I think is a good example: with it's 1 second delay, it prompts quick decision making on part of the assassin, of either disengage or brute force the shield (thing that with today's damage powercreep is wholly possible, but that's a talk for another time), and even in case you don't manage to get the kill, the damage from the explosion isn't a whole lot and the knockback isn't such that you can't just rush back at the Tick while the gadget is in cooldown. Last Hurrah's existence doesn't immediately end a given engagement, but it rather triggers a quick-time event where both sides have to take into account elements such as the place in the map it's being used,the presence of teammates on either side and the remainder of the kit of each brawler. It is infact wholly possible to just waste a gadget use of Last Hurrah by timing it wrong, using at low health, without teammates around to capitalize on the knockback, ecc. And this is without taking into account that to use Last Hurrah you are giving away the second gadget, which admittedly in Tick's case isn't _that_ amazing, but it definitely creates more back and forth in simply deciding to select the gadget. Most of the time though, the panic buttons work so well on the brawlers they're on that it's basically impossible for there to be a choice made between the two gadgets. Look at how Emz still uses the friendzoner gadget despite how limited its range is, it is simply a case of the fundamental idea of the gadget that will always work way better then her second gadget, which provides an arguably lower reward for an higher risk. Most panic buttons are so fundamentally low risk high reward that we even get cases such as Piper's first gadget that makes her absolutely unable to be approached, sometimes even outright countering close range, to the point that it manages to out shadow even something as strong as homemade recipe, which has about the same reward (guaranteeing a kill) but higher risk (walls getting in the way, the brawler healing just enough before you land, and others) TL:DR; most panic buttons just make interactions and matchups boring, and their existence forces assassin design to be extreme. The game (while it would also be less accessible due to needing an higher skill floor) would be infinitely more fun if many of these gadgets were either reworked or nerfed into oblivion

[@MythicalForce27]

Great analysis!!

[@averageslapbattlesplayer200]

And this, my friend, is why assassin powercreep will get worse and worse over time Currently we have kenji who can do everything betrer than 90% of assassins It's only a matter of time before we get another assassin thats complete cancer to play agaisnt with like 10k hp for god knows what reason It's also why edgar is always so ass

[@macansqk7822]

@@averageslapbattlesplayer200 allow me to introduce Shade...

[@gio4931]

Could not agree more. I never used to hate Piper, she as a great brawler and I usually felt like I was out skilled, but that gadget basically made it so she has no weaknesses and made it impossible to approach her

[@sebastianzarek7056]

Rico mains resisting the urge to tap their green button: (Mission impossible)

[@MythicalForce27]

literally impossible

[@Keith_idk]

Lol

[@Bartmaaan]

Only when Kit is nearby

[@masonseminario7435]

As a Rico main, I can almost go an entire game without pressing the green button

[@SpoonestGuyEver]

Back when I mained Rico, I never even knew what gadgets were

[@kenna5091]

I've been thinking this for a while but it's curious how brawlers like Rico, Colt, Dynamike or Piper used to be considered like really difficult brawlers to master, but now with these balance changes clearly appealing to the more casual players they are hated and no-skill brawlers. Been playing BS since global and I remember the days when Dyna had such a slow attack and Piper didn't deal that amount of dmg at short range, so everybody thought that these were the high-skill brawlers lol, and ofc Rico's gadget wasn't boosted so almost nobody played him. Things change a lot

[@MythicalForce27]

yeah they really do

[@drakejoshofficialyoutubech5569]

I think it was more so the devs tuning down these brawler's weaknesses rather than them trying to remove the skill from them. I know for a fact that this is what happened to Dynamike. They tried basically everything to make him a good brawler, from increasing his movement speed to giving him an unbelievably broken gadget. Since they couldn't make Dyna good from buffing his strengths they had to nullify his weaknesses which is exactly what happened. Also they never buffed Piper's minimum damage. In fact, it's only been nerfed since the time she's released, and both the times it's been nerfed was within 6 months ago. What happened was that people realized just how broken her Auto-Aimer gadget was, and how it nullifies her lower damage at closer range weakness. And lowkey I think Piper was never high skill to begin with. Piper just had well defined weaknesses which made it seem like it required tons of skill to play around them.

[@kenna5091]

@@drakejoshofficialyoutubech5569 oh that's an interesting point of view, makes sense tho, I guess it was kind of a coincidence that a lot of these brawlers that were buffed also were considered by a lot of players as "high-skill" before yk. Dynamike back then was reaaally bad and was too hard to do anything with him so makes sense that they just wanted to remove his weaknesses, and you know, Dyna isn't even broken (besides the stun gadget which idk why they haven't nerfed yet), so it kinda works for the balance and with Piper I do believe that her dmg was buffed but as a whole, and that maked her short range do more dmg until it was nerfed like you say, but I don't really remember too well how it was back then, maybe it was mostly job of her gadget as you say. also I agree, the only skill that Piper ever had was knowing how to aim and like, that's not really a special thing lol

[@drakejoshofficialyoutubech5569]

@@kenna5091 Ok, I wasn't considering the basic damage buffs to Piper as buffs to her minimum damage, but yeah you'd be correct in saying that's what those basically did for her (at least as a side effect of those changes). I still think Auto Aimer becoming the gadget of choice is the main thing that made people see Piper as less skillful though.

[@masterpere7777]

Colt no skill?????☠️☠️☠️☠️

[@SIothingAround]

I feel like a small problem with Rico is that some people just don’t know when to aim straight forward. Like the extra range and damage is nice, but the enemy is 600 hp and right in front of you, just shoot them.

[@MythicalForce27]

yep exactly!

[@samuelbarros1563]

you have to try REALLY hard to not auto attack a low hp enemy close to you

[@Gh0st-rm6sj]

Kinda sad when you see the most wholesome couple in the game (Rico and Piper) getting so much hate, even if they're so annoying to face nowadays.

[@giantlactismid5704]

Both of them became too good and too easy to use (compared to how it was before) Before they were good but hard to use effectively I think that's what got people mad at them

[@MythicalForce27]

well I mean Piper has committed war crimes in the past...

[@Gh0st-rm6sj]

@@MythicalForce27 Some say she was the one who killed JFK.

[@diaamooond]

@@Gh0st-rm6sjit was me

[@Mikprosuper]

​@@Gh0st-rm6sj Nah, she isn't that old

[@fernanbro09]

You could try adding some gifs or tiny videos to enhance visual explanaition and easier understanding, maybe with how some hypercharges work. Just an idea, still a very good video

[@MythicalForce27]

yea i'll keep that in mind!

[@aldenstromberg7273]

second comment i have another theory for why rico is noskill now his projectiles are too wide and they have too much innacuracy if you look carefully, his attack isnt really the same as colt, its more like thin pam. the projectiles come out at a bunch of different angles, so even if you mess up the trigonometry, the attack correct it for you and a few projectiles will still go where you want this makes it so the only skillful part of rico, isnt even skillful additionally, this makes rico much more frustrating to play against, because even if you do the angles to find EXACTLY where ricos projectiles would go, you physically cant dodge in the gaps because the projectiles are wide and the angle are varied in such a way that its impossible to not get hit the way he does damage right now is like colt level damage but easier to hit, which is why all the bad randoms seem to have suddenly picked up rico, hes just easy mode colt with even more possible damage output, less aiming, and better surivability tbh i dont get why supercell wants to give every brawler in the game an entirely self sufficient kit. whats the point of a team comp if everyone in the game is a damage dealer anti assassin with some way of securing kills? look at berry, why does a thrower have 2 escape options ON TOP of being really good? whats ricos weakness? hes weak to assassins and being outranged, and a lot of the time outranging isnt an option so giving rico an anti assassin gadget makes him just uncounterable look at larry too, hes a thrower whos main attack is STILL too good, but also has anti assassin capabilities too? like why? and there was charlie who was an anti tank, but on release she also had the range to handle snipers? like why? and darryl whos whole thing is 'dont let him near you or youre friggin dead' and then they gave him the ability to get all the way up to snipers with a 50% damage reduction while doing so. and then kit whos supposed to be an assassin, but has such a high super charge rate that he can even kill tanks in 1v1s and clancy who does a lot of damage, but they decided to also give movement speed so he could also counter snipers??? they got in a habit of just making everyone counter everything and its the real reason theres no skill anymore everyone does too much damage

[@sluggknight7130]

at first rico does need skill to use and especially so when trying to master him. The problem is precisely what you mentioned he has several haha button go brrr (skilless) options and like I said in a previus comment, supercell's care for gadget balance and now with hypercharge balance (seriusly, what were they thinking tith mortis???). Too many brawlers have a free kill/get out of jail free options (mainly with gadgets). I remember when I first saw rico's ability to fully recharge his super in 2018 if he hit his entire super, suddenly making him a damage demon. This though, required careful positioning and bouncing. After his 2nd star power came out this made it so that he could still do that without walls, out manouvering the opponent (aka good movement) was needed instead. This was part of his balance, rico can only sustain high damage through cicleing supers, one of the problems is that nowadays it is too easy to do so on maps that favor him on a different note, in a previus video of yours you briefly mentioned damage inflation wich got me thinking, that is absolutely true. With the two biggest examples gene and mortis gene before had VERY low damage, barely being able to 3-shot low hp brawlers. He was a brawler that practically required teamwork to be played at its best. Today, with his hypercharge, 2nd star power super and 3 ammo he is just barely not able to kill a full hp darryl. mortis, until recently, needed not high skill, but high gamesense and intuition. while playing mortis you had to keep in mind several things: 1. have at least 50% super at all times, 2. hit as many enemies as posible with the super to not only charge it faster but heal more, 3. only engage in a fight if you know you'll be able to confirm a kill or stay alive. Without super it was hard to get kills due to middleing damage and slow reload speed. Essentially, when fighting, mortis is carried by his super so to play him optimally you need to keep those things in mind. recently however, most of that has been thrown out the window. Now you equip the mythic gear, and your entire gameplan is to get the hypercharge. It doesn't matter if you die or not as long as you get some charge. Then, when i'ts ready, you click the purple button, then the yellow button and poof! you have "earned" yourself a teamwipe. a high skill, oportunistic brawler with middleing damage, turns into a teamwipe machine due to a button (with 3 ammo and super) from 7800 damage to 12000

[@MythicalForce27]

great analysis!

[@Sonque123]

They should make it so mortis cant heal again and make it so mortis heals less from the hypercharge effect, so mortis wouldn't be able to heal that effectively

[@KyryloMudrokha]

That feeling when you mained rico since season 4, then suddenly the brawler is considered more unskill overtime while getting nerfed.

[@notarobber5387]

Rico got the Piper treatment

[@MythicalForce27]

lovers truly

[@donanilao7724]

She gave him her sugar.

[@wigglytuffenjoyer]

Piper really is braindead easy to use nowadays it’s so jarring to see who was once praised as the pinnacle of skill being seen as the biggest noob crutch in the epic rarity

[@captainpancake8177]

​@@wigglytuffenjoyerwhat's crazy is how long she just hasn't been touched when she was already good pre hypercharge. Not to mention her auto aim gadget when she already 2 shots most weak brawlers

[@PoyoPowerPlant]

Man I love watching my enemies cower in fear as my Rico approaches them...before they realize I can't aim and make quick work of me

[@MythicalForce27]

Lmaoo

[@streer]

As a rico main, i couldnt agree more,even before his hyper he was already pretty good if you knew how to play with him which made him a really underrated brawler, but after all the attention he got with his own event and the hypercharge people started to realize that he is actually broken asf

[@BigHead-yi7cc]

never understood why so many brawlers nowadays have a green button for countering specific classes

[@MythicalForce27]

yeah fr

[@mickysaif]

if there were no counter gadgets to assasins then all of them would be hella broken and toxic, it's nice to have some form of counter but definitely not stupid ones like rico and Piper gadgets which make them untouchable

[@Sc5ch]

​@mickysaif Then just make assassins get Super slower and nerf/rework all anti-assassin gadgets. I legit cannot counter the brawler I'm supposed to counter because his funni green button is a counter to his counters. Like what? So now he counters his counters? What kinda balancing is that? Dude is invincible.

[@averageslapbattlesplayer200]

​@@mickysaifi do agree, but there are some brawlers who simply do not deserve those gadgets. Take berry for example, mf is a support brawler and has a way to push people back with a gadget, completely defying how support brawlers work in their core Support brawlers should be able to only really thrive in a 2v1 setting, while being less than spectacular in 1v1s So it doesnt really make sense that those brawlers just have some sort of asspull to easily get out of 1v1 situations like an assassin coming towards them, which they're supposed to be weak in. These pushback gadgets just ruin the gimmicks of alot of brawlers Their playstyle is disrupted because no matter what, you'll be able to push back any assassin coming towards you with 0 skill involved

[@BigHead-yi7cc]

@@mickysaif its not exactly rocket science to counter an assassin. all assassins can countered by high damage dealing brawlers. the problem is, too many brawlers have them now. just because one class isnt fun to fight against does not make it broken.

[@mickysaif]

I've been a rico main since i started back in 2019 and i hate to see him becoming an npc brawler especially due to the hypercharge and free skin, but personally i use him with the robo retreat star power which can be maintained permanently along with damage gear if you just keep attacking to prevent healing and i find that play style much more unique from hid intended wall biunce plah style, it's so fun to dodge every attack and be untouchable for the entire game

[@skyracerz5074]

I started playing Rico before global release, I always picked him over Colt because of his ability to bounce. I used him so much that I could not aim/hit anyone by normal shooting, instead I had to use the bouncing gimmick to even kill. I was so happy I got the bouncy star power from a brawl box. I don't see many Rico players back then, but now its so common that I don't feel like playing him as much.

[@MythicalForce27]

That’s a shame

[@aldenstromberg7273]

yess thumbnail alone i know that this is exactly my opinion on rico (therefore correct :) ) btw if you play griff with heal star power, you can actually reliably counter a rico whos already set up on split hotzone map since you heal you can tank more than most other rangers, griffs attack is easier to hit in an open area than ricos, and you can break open walls but the main reason i say griff can counter rico here is bc even without breaking walls, by timing the healing right you can literally just walk up through ricos projectiles. let them hit you before they bounce to take less damage this doesnt work with tanks bc they continue getting hit once theyre around the corner, so they get supered and die, but griff can start fighting back immediately once around the corner and with the regen you only need to dodge half decently to win the 1v1

[@MythicalForce27]

yay

[@SamSam-df4ow]

whenever i fight against rico, i lose whenever i am rico, this happens

[@kartikarora1]

I'll admit, I'm a Rico main, and I agree with your points. I didn't really know how to feel when Rico could counter assassins with the press of a green button.

[@hungarianmidget]

knock back gadget instead of multiball would be more balanced

[@Tondy3]

I was a Colt and Rico main until the mutations and power ups came, after those things all pride in maining them went away.

[@MythicalForce27]

agreed completely removed any skill that was left from them

[@bigshotrobi]

these events are temporary though, having these 2 at r30 all the time is still good since people who used them during these events will drop them

[@damlatorun6756]

Honestly your whole gameplan with rico is to spam at the nearest wall and pray it hits someone, not even talking about the “very skilled button” at this point

[@MythicalForce27]

Haha lol

[@LDOTB]

Center stage was one of my fav maps pre “skill Ricos”. Now I absolutely hate it.

[@flux3636]

Let’s not also forget the fact when a rico is coming out of spawn in brawl ball and an enemy is attempting to walk the ball in and with one press of the multiball launcher can instantly delete them and stopping an attempt at scoring

[@Bartmaaan]

It's kinda sad to see many of my favortie brawlers either becoming overpowered, underpowered or completely forgotten by the playerbase

[@MythicalForce27]

same

[@levonessOg.-Trampoposhka]

Darryl was ALL 3!!! Forgotten, underpowered and now overpowered😍🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[@Bartmaaan]

​@@levonessOg.-Trampoposhka yes and im all for it

[@etherealhatred]

THAT Rico's gadget is literally a panic button, so unskilled

[@albirdz3349]

I thought ruffs can also shoot behind walls and bounce of walls! Please make a video about him!

[@MythicalForce27]

i wont make a powerpoint on him for a while but i do have a video on why no one plays ruffs

[@Ichbineinschweinhund]

wonxerful video with all necessary and useful infos. btw i would like to see mr p being mentioned, since it seems like theyve forgot this thing. feel like im the only mr p main on this planet

[@MythicalForce27]

thank you so much!

[@TheImmortal2705]

They did nerf multiball launcher's damage but that hardly changed anything

[@MythicalForce27]

yep

[@TheImmortal2705]

@@MythicalForce27 Especially since he got his hypercharge that same update.

[@Niteshade_]

I do believe they handled Rico a bit better than Colt, he still has his charm and gameplay while colt is now a spam autoaim fest

[@hexorth3580]

Colt is only that because spaunch bawb as soon as the event ends the kids who got him to rank 30 will drop it back to 25

[@wolfmastergamer5559]

@@hexorth3580exactly. Colt is very skillful and hasn’t fallen in the same way. this is only temporary. Can’t call ruffs skillless because of mutations.

[@Hi-zf4bn]

3:43 So Rico is a centrist...new BS lore!

[@MythicalForce27]

devious

[@THECOLTISREAL]

Rico used to be balanced, he's very map dependent, but after they buffed the gadget and now a bunch of maps in rotation r in rico's favor, he became no skill, u can dodge the shots and super but then they will somehow ricochet into u, when u r playing rico, u can shoot in some walls and just pray that it will hit, and the spread really helps u with that, we all know about the damn gadget so yeah

[@MythicalForce27]

Yep exactly

[@michelemehelean17]

I haven't watched the whole video, but I agree that Rico can sometimes be annoying. However, he still requires skill to use, especially at higher ranks.

[@Alastor19876]

I think what's the biggest problem in brawl stars right now are the damage inflation and damage dealers in general. All of them can be versatile any mode any map because of their annoying amount of damage I mean why do we need skill when we can just spam buttons and supers to win? That's why I think damage dealers are by far more over powered than assasins

[@MythicalForce27]

Yep damage inflation is a very real problem with BS

[@joinha7169]

Rico was always strong, now he is popular too

[@ElDiosMashiar]

But he became stronger now because of the hypercharge

[@tacogodboomdogg]

Colt isnt left in the dust yet because of power meals.

[@MythicalForce27]

just another 15 days or so

[@dumbvillage9253]

I don't even play Brawl Stars anymore due to being promptly kicked out because War reasons. And just looking at brawlers like Kit I can tell that their options are closing in on them. In older Brawl Stars I don't remember there ever being a star power as niche as Kit's. It literally only works in showdown. Only showdown. The game seems to be doing better than ever, but I don't know if that high will be sustained.

[@MilkManXhost]

As a Rico main I do agree he has been easier to play but I do silly trick shots with him

[@Biyikliadam625]

İf colt is very high skill then rico is high skill in my opinion. But yea sometimes it feels like rico does not have a certain counter. When a character becomes popular players call him no skill and that is annoying.

[@MythicalForce27]

yea colt has a lost a bit of skill over time as well

[@Biyikliadam625]

@@MythicalForce27 Rico is just a easier version of Colt. But do not forget. When a character gets popular it doesnt make it no skill.

[@MaxymilianMapping]

@@Biyikliadam625Yea, i am skilled Rico (formerly Ricochet) main and it’s so sad that my main gain popularity after 5 years noobs started playing him and only miss shots and spamming gadget

[@end8978]

Rico used to be extremely respected, along with the same tier with colt in terms of skill but now he has truly fallen​@@Biyikliadam625

[@s.j5697]

I mean ever since Colt got his reload speed buffed I don't actually think he's that difficult to be good at consistently since you can spam more attacks and eventually charge up your hypercharge, which can be used to spam even more bullets that also hit harder (I do love Colt, I've always played and him my comment doesn't originate from hate towards the brawler)

[@deneuvethestupid8044]

Your videos are very well made. I like how simple yet effective your formula of powerpoints are. Id really enjoy some small clips to show what you mean at some moments, but thats not important😊

[@MythicalForce27]

thank you so much! i might start adding clips in the future cuz a lot of people seem to want them

[@AggroCEC]

I feel like Gus could be an interesting power point. I think a huge thing you should do is go into what made him so mediocre for a while and why he’s very strong right now

[@pipysnipy5929]

Rico just needs a super charge nerf. The map pool also favored him a lot in the last meta

[@ska187]

The brawl stars paradox is creating a character that’s really good while also being considered “skilled” to be liked by the player base. Every character that people like and call “skill” really sucks donkey balls because their kit or mechanics are horrible so people feel better about themselves when they use them like using ash or hank.

[@nerfjanetreal]

There is no paradox Adrian sucks ass He buffs brawlers in a way that makes brawlers completely braindead. Rico got his main weakness removed changing his playstyle to a braindead one Piper got a huge damage buff that made her take less skill to play than fucking jacky Chester got his main weakness/gimmick essentially removed from the game making everything about him absolutely braindead Brawlers like gray,angelo and melodie got away with being good and not being called 0 skill

[@PoorFinancialChoices]

I swear people will pick a booty brawler and then act like they’re more skilled than you

[@scopezzbro2458]

It’s not really a paradox, it’s just a case study of horrible game balancing because the devs dont actually play the game. Balance changes often dont address the parts of brawlers that actually need balancing so very often the changes the devs make will cause more problems than they fix. Its more fun to play “skilled” brawlers like Hank, Sam, Stu, Bonnie etc because they have dynamic kits. In the current meta the best brawlers also have incredibly boring kits and the optimal way to play them is incredibly boring. Winning with gale, piper, angelo, meg, etc is not fun because if you play them as intended it is just not fun for anyone involved.

[@ska187]

@@scopezzbro2458 winning is fun. Didn’t hank get nerfed so hard that it became a meme to say that a brawler getting shafted with nerfs is called getting hanked? It makes my point even clearer. The really bad brawlers like him getting crowd support because he is so awful that playing him and not shitting the bed is considered an achievement. With the patty power ups, he is actually useable instead of being a punching bag for peoples supers

[@sumanthmoole]

i just watched a TTS powerpoint presentation about brawl stars and loved it lmfao keep it up just subbed

[@MythicalForce27]

Haha thank you so much!

[@micheloyt666]

1:17 It's only 5 projectiles?! Feels like 10!

[@MythicalForce27]

truly does doesn't it

[@godofishsss]

As a Gold 3 Rico, I prefer being speedy instead of a wall camper, I love the speed from Robo Retreat, but yeah he can definitely be no skill sometimes

[@Lawnmate]

I used to main Colt and Rico due to the fact of how thrilling and engaging their gameplays were as you geniunely cared about your positioning, aim, movement, and matchups. But now that Colt has got all those buffs to reload speed and projectile speed, additional gadget gear, and hypercharge you could just run down and kill brawlers without aiming. Rico is now even worse - that hypercharge and nasty gadget left him with no weaknesses at all and the need for all those strategies that you used to make with him in the past to maximize the damage is long gone. Both of them used to be bold picks even on their strong maps because only those who knew what they were doing could pose a threat, you've had to "feel" the mechanics of brawler, become one with them. But now literally everyone uses them because the need for strategizing and smart plays disappeared... Edit: Grammar mistakes

[@MythicalForce27]

Great analysis!

[@Guy_Noob]

Glad ur getting famous bro, been here since the trailer secret videos ♥️♥️♥️

[@MythicalForce27]

Yeah I remember u lol ur a real OG

[@decy3]

Hey, im a Rico main and ive been one for like 2 years. I still enjoy using him but it isnt as fun as it was before. He just feels so shallow and unskillful. Sometimes I even opt out of using multiball launcher just to have some fun. I cant believe im saying this but I want the gadget to be nerfed. Ive been maining him even before he lost his skill, so it hurts to see my boy so skilless.

[@funkymonkey980]

I love rico he's my favorite brawler, design and gameplay wise

[@MythicalForce27]

nice!

[@Soninhoh]

make a powerpoint about kit and how supercell loves buffing assassins

[@masonseminario7435]

Bro kit is a support brawler 😂😂😂

[@koshkafloppa7102]

Being able to hit through walls is just extremely op and giving it a damage buff for doing it so is not okay i mean shooting through walls is so op that its a gadget for some brawlers the brawlers can hit through walls except rico are really balanced and proably needs a buff

[@MaxymilianMapping]

It’s so sad that my main since I started playing (January 2019) it’s now a lot used by noobs that only click gadget, if you are skilled Rico you probably don’t use gadget on the game

[@masonseminario7435]

I second this

[@ViketAnnYuumi]

i miss when you could tell "watchout is a rico main" because those mf could lend the most unexpected bounces around the map and now is " ohhh a rico main just wait he waste his auto aims"

[@MythicalForce27]

yeah fr

[@dark_paladan7164]

Bro, what about pipers gadget? Or Angelos jump? Rico’s not the only one who had this “get out of jail free card”. I can understand your point if you also agree to removing the other gadgets like this. On the note of the hyper charge, it is supposed to be a burst of crazy strength that IS A BUFF TO THEIR CURRENT ABILITIES,NOT COVERING THEIR WEAKNESS. And the strength of rico is bouncing shots off of walls. Overall I think you missed the idea of hyper-charges. The opinion on the gadget is valid tho.

[@masonseminario7435]

As a Rico main, I will admit I hated Rico after his hyper charge released. I almost considered changing my main. Almost.

[@MythicalForce27]

almost.

[@revalone3944]

i kinda stopped taking this game serious when they added the auto aim feature. you used to have to tap shoot when someone was close to you and it was harder to just one tap someone

[@fellfrosch]

bro rico is my favorite brawler since 2018

[@Goinmach8]

rico has been my main for a few years now so its frustrating playing against sovereign rico players who just spam attacks while barely aiming

[@Ferukin7575]

My favorite brawler! The SHARPSHOOTER REVOLVER (ULTRAKILL REFERENCE)

[@muhammetserkanthegoofyrobot]

This video was made by one of the assassins in the game(probably Edgar)

[@Sluggirl1]

Hey big guy where's the colette power point

[@MythicalForce27]

not soon likely

[@Sluggirl1]

@@MythicalForce27 :(

[@andrepurpleheart]

I think that when you were explaining why Rico was good on Split you could have made the map a bit bigger and maybe use some arrow or indications about how Rico aims just to make the explanation more clear. Still an awesome vid.

[@MythicalForce27]

Yea that was my bad I realized I could’ve done a better job after downloading 😭😭

[@xerjacob7824]

I'm pushing 8-bit to rank 30, can't wait to see him get op right after Im done pushing (:

[@MythicalForce27]

Lmaoo

[@thebutler4471]

Keep up the great videos! 🔥

[@MythicalForce27]

thank you!!

[@someone_1115]

colt,rico and spike used to all be my favourite brawles until they were ruined buy no skill gadgets or hypercharges

[@AdiDoddy]

The power point goat back at it again

[@MythicalForce27]

thank you thank you

[@ThePencilWizard]

Rico’s Launcher is another piss easy gadget to bait out and take minimal damage, but it is still really annoying. Especially annoying when you HAVE to pick him on certain maps.

[@MythicalForce27]

agreed

[@Ich_liebe_brezeln]

Yeah, just 1.5 or 2 tiles away from Rico and you're fine, most melees can still make good damage from that range, still annoying because it's another thing you should keep in mind when being in a situation that would be completely at your favor otherwise. Unrelated, but I like your pfp.

[@NotHimSlimJim]

great video

[@MythicalForce27]

thanks!

[@maxminer090]

actually spike could also hit players behind walls who wasn't a thrower

[@MythicalForce27]

true

[@xialonshaow2811]

jus commenting to support ur channel

[@MythicalForce27]

Big dubs

[@matteo7940]

rico in split is like a brain tumor

[@MythicalForce27]

lmaoo

[@Sonque123]

Easy rework: just make it so the more Rico's projectiles bounce get their damage decreased by 5%

[@wiistereman]

That would literally kill the brawler. His entire POINT is to bounce his projectiles around

[@Sonque123]

@@wiistereman i dont care you see the damage they do in gameplay!?

[@Arabicsilver]

9:24 ah yes, fong

[@HaydenIsEpicYt]

I’ve never actually had a good random with Rico in brawl ball 😢

[@lucerodelalba1851]

Yeah,Rico is such a no skill brawler. (Says someone like me who ranked in competitive mode from Bronze 1 to Diamond 2 in one evening with that handsome robot)

[@AJ_._._]

In ranked Rico is way less annoying but yeah in some maps on ladder he is almost unstoppable

[@MythicalForce27]

yep

[@diba9281]

In my experience Edgar counters Rico well, as long as you don't jump right on top of him so all the balls from his gadget don't hit

[@coolmike1539]

I started playing Rico when the sovereign skins came out, and he is skilled and also no skill. If and Edgar or el primo super into you, your gadget (from my experience) has a 50/50 chance of saving you, due to el primo having much more hp than Rico, and Edgar being able to heal himself. The gadget can also be used to get extra damage in when trying to kill someone. For example, your opponent is to Rico’s top right, and begins trying to run behind a wall. Popping the gadget can do the extra bit of damage that Rico’s main attack couldn’t dish out to finish the opponent, however, this is VERY situational and I’ve done it like twice. Rico requires a lot of understanding of each map to play properly, as some maps don’t have an insane amount of wall for him to bounce his shots off of, forcing Rico to be able to attack like colt and ricochet his shots when he gets the chance. Rico also depends on the team comps, which many other brawlers also depend on. If Rico is going against a surge, el primo, and Edgar, and his teammates are Brock and piper, you will probably get slammed. But if Rico is playing against brock, piper, and a tank like el primo or frank, Rico has a lot more leniency in his playstyle, because the Brock and piper HAVE to hit their shots or else Rico can easily melt them, and the el primo or frank, as long as they don’t get on top of Rico, and be slowly pieced up from a safe distance. In conclusion, if a rico understands maps, can hit opponents with most of his attack, and knows how to not run into his death, then he can be insanely overpowered and a massive threat to any team, unless his teammates have the brain power of an Edgar main.

[@el_perro2436]

I ain’t reading allat

[@donanilao7724]

TL;DR You can be really good at the game with both mechanical (aim and dodging) skills and map knowledge. But your Edgar teammate(s) at Power 9 with a gadget gear with no gadget nor starr power can throw the game and make you lose.

[@masonseminario7435]

Get out you fake Rico main

[@wiistereman]

The only person I fully agree with in this entire comment section

[@kikerchanell5372]

Great vid

[@MythicalForce27]

thanks!

[@JustAr0bl0xPlayer2Bruh]

Rico is easy to pick up and play but hard to master

[@HurricaneKXZ]

The only brawler that is more annoying that Rico is Gale, I’m not even joking both of them surpassed tick in how annoying they are 💀

[@AquazzBS]

Hey! Big fan of your content.

[@MythicalForce27]

Hey! Not a big fan of your content.

[@JohnnyCage12]

i hate the fact that there's so manyyy gadget nowadays with "get out of jail" card and it's mostly on the high skilled brawlers like rico and piper, i know amber is too but she's easy to play but from the buff she got on dancing flames couple of updates ago made her counter her counters literally. (not to mention it had a bug that is still in the game today where you can easily trigger 3x of its damage to enemy on top of you). it's nerfed twice now but is still pretty viable to the point where it's still ambers better gadget, i'd even debate that if she doesn't have the super reload star power the first gadget will literally never recover because it will be outclassed by dancing flames even if they nerfed it's damage close to original like 1500. my point is that this game is getting plagued with no skill changes and more and more get out of jail things had been added recently, i mean look at draco's broken gadget and berry's copy of genes gadget that already has a 50 variants from other brawlers like emz. it's annoying because if high skill brawlers continues to get these things they will literally just be op on competitive because high skill players already know how to play them or competitive players will lose their incentive to play the brawler because the high skill aspect of the brawler us what making them challenging and fun for them or be average or even be no skill to the point where people start calling them no skill just like what has happened to piper recently.

[@MythicalForce27]

exactly!

[@adamdagoof]

as a rico main, im sad that he has become low skill even though back in 2019 he was skilled

[@LeaderofAlMadrid]

Gadgets killed the game balance. Instead of people being forced to play into their brawlers strengths and weaknesses they can just use some gadgets that completely removes the weaknesses of a brawler

[@ddanipea]

this is great...

[@MythicalForce27]

thanks!

[@end8978]

As a rico main since about 4 years, almost everything was facts

[@MythicalForce27]

thanks!

[@AggroCEC]

If you ever get to doing edgar, PLEASE insult anyone who finds him a good brawler to main.

[@MythicalForce27]

dw i will

[@ender_BS_]

new fav youtuber

[@MythicalForce27]

thank you!!!

[@OrdinaryStarver]

Can you do a powerpoint about surge? I think he's just like Rico, where he took skill at one point but now he's no skill. Worse part is everybody likes playing him so nobody notices he's op

[@MythicalForce27]

one day but not soon

[@Browny_Animations]

I hope Carl is safe…

[@Wsnoaker]

Atp the game give everyone too much or they just left them to void, just look Frank, darryl, meg and then look penny, hank, doug

[@MythicalForce27]

yep thats true

[@gregger_mcgregger]

Dont worry, they’re just trying to find ways to make as much money as possible on them before reworking/buffing them

[@AckyAcky-i5l]

Awesome vid

[@MythicalForce27]

thank you!

[@joinha7169]

Rico buffs slowly put him in A/S tier, and he wasnt a brawler like darryl or frank even

[@MythicalForce27]

Yep

[@prodigymaster123]

Amazing quality

[@MythicalForce27]

thanks!