Super Bot Brawl Beginner Guide: How to Survive Your First Waves

On spawn there are three portals that send you into different public servers. Rox, reviewing the game on its release day, called the map "huge" and specifically suggested grinding in a private server rather than picking a portal at random (Rox, 25 August 2026, video m8RxOQnF2Xc). The developer's own description repeats the same advice almost verbatim: "Playing in private servers is highly recommended."

Completing the new-player tutorial hands you the Sword Brute automatically, on top of the Sword Soldier you start with. DigitizedPixels called this out directly while touring the character menu two days after launch: "we got the sword brute which essentially you get after doing the tutorial which is amazing" (DigitizedPixels, 27 August 2026, video _TB3VEL9bwI). It costs a few minutes and is the cheapest upgrade in the entire game, so there is no reason to skip it to rush into waves.

Race levels, not individual characters, carry your progress. A separate video touring the golden-skin system put it plainly: each race has its own level, and "each character is base, it's just flat — there's no levels for each character, it is for the whole group" (DigitizedPixels, 29 August 2026, video kEkZIlKwcnQ). Playing a given character more does not make that character stronger on its own; only levelling the race unlocks the next, stronger character in line. Treat that as one player's reading of the system rather than a confirmed rule, since it comes from a single recording.

At launch there were exactly two races to choose between, Sword and Bomb, confirmed independently by both Rox's day-one video and DigitizedPixels's tour two days later (Rox, 25 August 2026, video m8RxOQnF2Xc; DigitizedPixels, 27 August 2026, video _TB3VEL9bwI). Sword is the race you start closer to finishing: the tutorial reward above is a Sword character, and its early tiers ask for level alone rather than crafting materials.

Bomb is different: one video shows it has to be bought open with a specific combination of in-game money and boss-drop materials rather than simply levelled into, and the presenter himself was not certain which bosses reliably drop the material needed (DigitizedPixels, 29 August 2026, video aqRUQ0GGZLI). A new player without any boss-drop materials yet has no such gate on Sword, which is the practical reason to start there.

Money earned from fighting bots buys lucky blocks in the in-game shop; opening them is the only way to get most artifacts, aside from a handful given as quest rewards. DigitizedPixels's tour lists the pool from a normal lucky block by name: regenerative coil, speed coil, boss cola, cheeseburger, sword artifact, bomb artifact, zombie staff, and a rarer bazooka artifact — distinct from the Bazooka race of the same name (DigitizedPixels, 27 August 2026, video _TB3VEL9bwI).

Whatever you pull, you can only have three artifacts equipped at once, and rainbow-tier versions of any artifact are locked behind quests rather than being purchasable, a rule stated the same way in both the day-one video and the tutorial tour (Rox, 25 August 2026, video m8RxOQnF2Xc; DigitizedPixels, 27 August 2026, video _TB3VEL9bwI). Removing an artifact from your loadout deletes it permanently rather than refunding any material, according to a single account that also flagged the missing recycle option as a complaint, so decide before you equip rather than after. For what each named artifact actually does where that has been shown on camera, see the artifacts page on this site.

Super Bot Brawl only lets you swap between unlocked characters while standing at full HP, the same restriction the developer's earlier game, Super Toilet Brawl, used (DigitizedPixels, 27 August 2026, video _TB3VEL9bwI). In practice that means you cannot panic-swap into a tankier character mid-fight once you are already low; the swap has to happen before a fight gets rough, or after you have retreated and healed.

The practical habit this creates: check your health bar before you open the character menu, not after. If you are running potions, use a healing option or fall back to a safer spot first, then switch — trying to switch while under fire and below full health will simply fail to change anything.