Spike - Complete Brawler Guide for Brawl Stars (Overview, Tips & Tricks)

Spike is considered one of the best brawlers in Brawl Stars. The character is known for his epic damage and high durability. He is a Legendary dealer who deals with grouped-up enemies much better. His powerful attacks can decimate groups of enemies and deal massive amounts of single target damage. Moreover, he belongs in the Sharp Shooter class, so he deals with an immensely high DPS amount. Spike also has an adequate amount of movement speed but has quite a slow reload speed.

 

 

An Overview Of Spike:

 

As mentioned earlier, Spike deals a high amount of damage due to his Legendary status. His super attack has him throw a thorny projectile that slows down and damages enemies caught in its area of effect. Secondly, popping pincushion, his primary Gadget, allows him to fire waves of spikes around all Spike directions.

 

His Star Power lets him heal himself over a long course of time, especially in the radius of his Super. His Second Star power has spikes come out from his attack that revolves around in a circular motion. However, understanding all of these abilities and supers in detail is integral so that you can play this Brawler well.

 

Basic Attack:

 

Spike's basic attack throws a cactus which either goes till impact or until it reaches its maximum range. As soon as it does, six spikes are sent that deal damage circularly. The pattern itself is fixed, which has a 60-degree difference between each Spike. It does not rotate, but the initial projectile deals a higher amount of damage than the spikes.

 

Spike’s Super – Stick Around!

 

 

Spike initially throws a grenade that goes over walls in a circular pattern, instantly increasing the spikes. Enemies within that particular area of effect take a lot of damage over time, where a significant margin will reduce their movement speed.

 

Gadget – Popping Pincushion:

 

Spike's Gadget shoots three needles that go in all directions, which deal about 500 damage per hit. These spikes are not affected by Curveballs and travel for about six tiles which is the same range as his basic attack.

 

Spike’s Star Powers:

 

Spike's first Super allows him to regenerate 900 health per second by creating a cactus patch. He can cast all his abilities and attack during the entire duration. His second Super turns his basic attack into projectiles that move in a clockwise motion. This Star Power allows him to cover a much larger area and lets him hit more Brawlers with your attack.

 

Moreover, since your attack goes in curves, the spikes' range increases to about 8-10 tiles. So you can hit Brawlers from a much further range.

 

How to Play Spike with LDPlayer:

 

 

Brawl Stars is a game that requires a lot of innate mechanics—as such, having a comfortable grip on your controls can make all the difference in making those clutch split-second decisions.

 

Thankfully, LDPlayer offers dedicated key binds for the game with the ability to completely re-map them. When playing a Brawler like Spike, who relies on his utility and abilities, comfortably re-mapping the keys to suit your needs alongside knowing where each particular skill's bind is, this feature ultimately can help you cast spells much more quickly and in a heavily efficient manner. LDPlayer has also optimized Brawl Stars. The skill control direction is 100% accurate, and the operation is smoother than before.

 

Gameplay Tips For Spike:

 

Spike is a brawler with extremely low amounts of health; you should shoot around walls and try to predict how enemies will be moving around to know of particular points in your strafing points and animation you are the most vulnerable.

 

Generally, the Brawler makes up for his long cast times and hard animation speeds by being one of the highest damage dealers in the entire game.

 

Spikes Ahoy!

 

Once you perform a basic attack, your spikes will spread out in the same pattern every time. You can use this particular piece of information to your knowledge by knowing exactly where spikes are going to be landing. This particular mechanic lets you hit enemies from corners and walls much better. These particular spikes will go at a 60-degree angle.

 

Since his needles can spread out quite far, some of these needles can be used to find out enemies hidden within bushes. Moreover, with his basic attack, he can deal a very high amount of damage since the spikes spread out and deal tons of damage to clumped-up enemies.

 

Using Your Utilities To The Max:

 

 

Spike’s first Super is amazing for controlling an area. If an enemy is trying to escape with Gems in the Gem Grab Game Mode, you can slow down your enemies by a significant margin. Fertilize is an excellent tool, especially if your team has no healing or support patterns.

 

If you charge your Super a lot, do not worry about using it yourself so that you can heal up while you attack enemies, which makes you quite tanky. You can also use Fertilize to deny a particular area from your enemy when defending a site. By slowing down enemies trying to attack you while healing yourself, you can capture a site quite quickly. This particular tactic is useful in-game modes like Showdown when you can get ambushed. Spike is an amazing brawler and belongs in the best Spike Stars pro tips.

 

Conclusion:

 

Spike is perhaps one of the best Brawlers in Brawl Stars on PC. With his ability to take down Brawlers groups at once, he has risen in popularity in the current meta. While his basic attack is quite devastating, his reload speed and move speed are quite slow compared to other characters.

 

However, we feel that he more than makes up for it in terms of damage. With his ability to heal himself and cast spells from a range that makes him hard to catch, he deserves the top spot as a player who knows how to play the Brawler can carry matches with his skill set.