Griff is an Epic Brawler who could be unlocked early for a limited time by winning the Griff Challenge or can be unlocked from the Starr Road. Griff has moderate health but a high burst damage potential. He attacks by firing 3 waves of 3 coins that each spread out in a cone. His Super throws 5 banknotes that travel forward and return to him, deal more damage the farther they travel, and spread out in a cone. His first Gadget, Piggy Bank, drops a piggy bank that explodes after a delay, dealing area damage and knocking enemies back while also destroying obstacles. His second Gadget, Coin Shower, allows his next attack to fire 4 waves of coins. His first Star Power, Keep the Change, allows him to unload his attack faster. His second Star Power, Business Resilience, periodically and fractionally heals his missing health. His Hypercharge, Tax Rebate, allows his Super to pass through obstacles and pierce through enemies, which creates another wave of 5 banknotes when returning to him after a short delay.
Attack: Coin Toss
Griff fires 3 waves that each consist of 3 coins, with the coins spreading out in a cone formation. The attack deals a high amount of damage at close range, where most or all of the coins can hit an enemy. Because his attack fires 3 waves, the unload speed is slow, taking 1 second to complete.
Super: Cashback
Griff throws 5 piercing banknotes that travel forward, spin in place for 1 second, and then return to him, dealing damage when traveling and when returning. The Super deals high damage if multiple banknotes hit an enemy. The banknotes can't travel through obstacles when thrown, but can travel through obstacles when returning. The banknotes spread out in a wide cone and deal more damage the farther they travel, except they deal the full damage in the first 20% of their range when thrown.
Gadgets
Piggy Bank
Griff drops a piggy bank that explodes after a 2.5 second-delay, dealing 1400 damage and knocking enemies back while also destroying obstacles in a 2.67 tile radius.
Coin Shower
Activating this Gadget allows Griff's next attack to fire 4 waves of coins instead of 3. The attack will take slightly longer to execute than a normal attack. A Gadget symbol will glow above Griff's head signaling the Gadget's usage, as well as a glowing joystick. The Gadget's cooldown starts after using this attack.
Star Powers
Keep the Change
Griff reduces his attack’s unload time by 25%, reducing it from 1 seconds to 0.75 seconds. This will also affect the attack from his Coin Shower Gadget.
Business Resilience
This Star Power heals Griff for 15% of his missing health every 2 seconds, so the less health Griff has, the more he will heal. Unlike self-regeneration, this Star Power heals Griff even when attacking or taking damage. The amount of health Griff can heal can be affected by outside health buffs or healing debuffs.
Hypercharge: Tax Rebate
When activated, Griff's Super passes through enemies and walls. In addition, his Super creates another wave of 5 banknotes when returning after a 1-second delay, similarly passing through enemies and walls. Griff also gains a 25% speed boost, as well as a 15% damage and shield boost.
Tips
Game Modes and Maps
- Griff's attack and Super’s high damage output coupled with his reasonable reload speed make him viable in Heist. Griff's Keep The Change Star Power compensates for his slow unload speed, which allows him to consistently attack the safe, and his Piggy Bank Gadget is useful in defense and offense to knock enemies away from the team’s safe or to deal extra damage to the enemy safe.
Recommended Build
- Griff's Keep the Change Star Power offers him more protection against close-ranged Brawlers since he’s able to attack faster. Griff’s Super can be combined with his attack to defend against those Brawlers.
- In addition, Griff's Keep the Change Star Power also increases his burst damage, as well as making it easier to land successive projectiles.
- Griff’s Business Resilience Star Power will heal you even when you’re attacking or taking damage. You can use this to heal while fighting, which makes it more difficult for enemies to defeat you, or to heal while working towards a mode objective as enemies will be attacking you while doing so.
- Griff's Piggy Bank Gadget can be very useful at breaking walls in maps, making him a great supportive option alongside long-range Brawlers such as Brock, Colt, 8-Bit, Nani, Pearl, and Rico. This is especially useful in Brawl Ball, where opening the opposing side's walls can allow for the ball to be scored easier.
- Griff is one of the few Brawlers that is able to equip the Reload Gear. Among the Brawlers that can equip it and follow standard ammo rules, Griff has the highest damage per ammo, allowing him to make up for the weakness of his below average reload speed outside of the Reload Gear, by being able to spam his attacks more effectively, and discourage enemies from engaging him.
Strategies
- If enemies are hiding and taking cover behind obstacles, you can use his Piggy Bank Gadget to destroy the obstacles and burst them down afterwards.
- Up close, Griff's Super can do 7200 damage, and 8280 if he is Hypercharged, which can one-shot a large amount of Brawlers.
- If you have a charged Super, you can use this to bait Assassins into attacking you, where you can then use Griff's Super to quickly defeat them in a single shot.
Other
- Although Griff can hit more banknotes with his Super at close range, the Super deals less damage at close range which results in less Super charge. Prioritize his Super on farther enemies to deal more damage, recharge more of his Super, and give a sufficient amount of time to reposition himself so that the banknotes hit enemies while they’re returning.
- Griff struggles in long-ranged combat due to his slow unload speed. His attack does deal high damage, but its full potential requires Griff to be at close range. However, Griff can still be effective at long-ranged combat if he attacks enemies at the tip of his range, where he can hit most of or all of the coins.
- Griff's Super can force enemies out of where it travelled. You can use this for area denial such as blocking off the zones in Hot Zone, the Gem mine in Gem Grab, or the Bolt spawns in Siege.
- Griff’s Super has high burst damage regardless of range. Because of this, his Super can be used in a lot of situations such as using it to devastate enemies directly, keeping close-ranged enemies away from you, or to quickly defeat enemy Gem carriers in Gem Grab. Griff's Super is still active even if he is defeated, dealing a little more damage and allowing for some Super recharge after being defeated.
- Try to hit at least 2 or more opponents with his Super, as this will give Griff back more of his Super, and put most Brawlers into a range in which they can be finished off with Griff's main attack or another Super. This is rather easy to do due to the long range and wide spread of Griff's Super.
Voice Lines
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"Open for business."
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"Sweet smell of success!"
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"That's coming out of your paycheck!"
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"Should have read the terms and conditions!"
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"We are closed! Huh..."
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Griff laughs
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"You break it! You bought it..."
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"I knew I could do it. Tuh-hee."
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"Don't touch the merchandise!"
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"No. Refunds!"
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"Tell the bank I'm busy..."
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"Money money money! Money money money!"
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"Another day? Another dollar!"
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"Everyone gets a 2% discount!"
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"Ooh, you cost me a sale!"
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"Ah-ah-ah-ahem. Are you browsing or buying?"
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"I'll be right with you. Aha-ha-ha."
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"Ding ding ding ding!"
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"All sales are final!"
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"Huh-ho! Ka-ching!"
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"Oh! I-I have the money. Don't worry!"
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"You just had to refuse my final offer!"
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"Only a minor setback."
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"Winner winner winner winner!"
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"Ooh! 5% discount on selected items."
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"Uh-huh. It's a bling thing."
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"Uh— you know, just take it up with my accountant... please?"
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"Cash. Only!"
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"I can't take it anymore! Bah-h-h-h..."
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"Free coins!"
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"Oh. Another customer!"
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"Cash is king!"
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"Uh-heh-heh! Everything is fine!"
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"Warranty expired!"
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"I! Owe! You!"
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"Ho-ho, have a refund!"
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"Ooh! I have just what you need!"
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"You can't spell refund! Without fu-un!"
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"Get outta my shop!"
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"Huh-heh-hey! Ka-ching!"
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"Here is your refund!"
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"Only the best deals!"
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"Refunds for everyone!"
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"How may I help you?"
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"Everything's for sale!"
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"Oh yeah. Just keep buying."
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"You try! You buy!"
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History
- 23/07/21:
Griff became available in the Griff Challenge.
- 27/07/21:
- Griff became available to play in the Training Cave.
- 29/07/21:
- Griff became available in Brawl Boxes.
- 09/08/21:
- Griff's Business Resilience Star Power was added.
- 27/10/21:
- Griff's Business Resilience Star Power healing was increased to 10% of missing health (from 7%).
- His class was changed to Damage Dealer (from Fighter).
- 22/12/21:
- The Sleigher Griff skin was added. It was featured as a Brawlidays 2021 skin.
- 01/03/22:
- Griff's main attack damage was increased to 260 (from 220) per coin.
- 27/04/22:
- Griff's main attack unload time was decreased to 1 second (from 1.05).
- His Business Resilience Star Power healing was increased to 15% of missing health (from 10%).
- His Keep the Change Star Power unload speed decrease was decreased to 25% (from 35%).
- 29/06/22:
- Griff's main attack visual effects were slightly reworked.
- 31/08/22:
- Griff's Coin Shower Gadget was added.
- Griff's True Silver and True Gold skins were added.
- 12/12/22:
- The number of hits necessary to charge Griff's Super was increased to 16 hits (from 12).
- Griff's Super recharge rate was decreased by 10%.
- 18/01/23:
- The High Score Griff skin was added. It was featured as a Lunar New Year 2023 skin.
- 26/01/23:
- Fixed a bug where Griff's Super would glitch when traveling around the edge of the map.
- 28/02/23:
- Griff's class was changed to Controller (from Damage Dealer).
- 14/08/23:
- The Sunken Chest Griff skin was added. It was featured as a Cursed Pirates skin.
- 05/09/23:
- All Brawlers' health and damage were increased from 5% to 10% with each Power Level.
- 24/10/23:
- Griff's Piggy Bank Gadget damage was increased to 1040 (from 1000) and now scales with Power Levels.
- Griff's flavor text was changed from "Griff is the proprietor of Starr Park's gift shop. Business is bad, but he still throws coins away - from his employees' tip jar!" to "Griff acts like a rich, successful entrepreneur, but his only business is the failing Starr Park Gift Shop. Oddly, he's never around when the bank calls."
- 27/02/24:
- Griff's main attack damage was increased to 280 (from 260) per coin.
- The number of hits necessary to charge Griff's Super was decreased to 15 hits (from 16).
- Griff's Piggy Bank Gadget damage was increased to 1120 (from 1040).
- 23/04/24:
- Griff's Super now deals full damage at close range when travelling away from him.
- 10/12/24:
- Griff's Super damage was increased to 720 (from 660) per banknote at max range.
- 25/02/25:
- All Gadgets no longer have 3 charges and now have cooldowns.
- All True Gold skins were slightly remodeled.
- 12/05/25:
- Griff's Tax Rebate Hypercharge was added.
- 14/06/25:
- The Intergalactic Griff skin was added. It was featured as a Kaiju Invasion skin.
- 24/06/25
- The Jackpot Griff skin was added. It was featured as a Summer of Brawl skin.
Cosmetics
Skins (7)
Pins
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Free |
 Happy
Common |
 Sad
Common |
 Angry
Common |
 GG
Rare |
 Clap
Rare |
 Thanks
Epic |
 Phew
Epic |
 Special
Epic |
 Facepalm
Exclusive |
 Hypercharge
Exclusive |
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 Neutral
Exclusive |
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 Happy
Exclusive |
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 Neutral
Exclusive |
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 Special
Exclusive |
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Sprays
 Griff
Common |
 Griff Hypercharge
Exclusive |
 Sunken Chest Griff
Common |
Profile Icons
Griff
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Record
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Hypercharge
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Sunken Chest Griff
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Sleigher Griff
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Intergalactic Griff
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