Cookie Run: OvenSmash: How to Build Brie Cheese Cookie

Brie Cheese Cookie punishes you for playing her wrong. She is fragile, she rewards spacing, and if you build her like a bruiser she dies before her second skill cycle. The build below treats her as what she actually is: an Epic Marksman who wins by repositioning, not by trading.

The short version

• Role / rarity: Epic Marksman in Cookie Run: OvenSmash — semi-long-range, mobile, fragile.
• Special: Power Kick (grants movement speed and charges 2 Basic Attack stacks).
• Ultimate: Cruel Curtain Call (summons bodyguards that block projectiles and makes hit enemies take more damage).
• Passive priority: Special Skill cooldown reduction first, then one survivability passive (HP Boost or Battle Blessing).
• Win condition: survive the first collapse, then win the second exchange from a safer angle.

Role and build identity

Brie Cheese Cookie is an Epic Marksman who survives by spacing and repositioning, not by soaking damage. Her Basic attack, Brie Shot, is a semi-long-range revolver burst. That tells you exactly how she is meant to win fights: land repeated safe shots, use a well-timed special to reset spacing or open a burst window, then drop the ultimate when enemies are clumped or distracted.

Build her like a tank and you blunt the strongest part of her kit. Build pure damage and ignore survival and she dies before her second cycle. The correct middle ground is damage tempo plus just enough durability to survive one dive or one misread. If you are also leveling her teammates, the same logic applies to her common backline partner — see our Blueberry Pie Cookie best build guide for the ranged-mage half of that pairing.

Best Brie Cheese Cookie build

For most players — especially in solo queue or inconsistent teams — this is the loadout to start from.

• Role: Epic Marksman / skirmisher
• Special: Power Kick
• Ultimate: Cruel Curtain Call
• Passive slot 1: Special Skill cooldown reduction
• Passive slot 2: HP Boost or Battle Blessing
• Goal: maintain pressure through safer rotations, not one all-in burst

This works because Brie Cheese Cookie gets far more value from repeated access to her special than from marginal stat greed. Her special is not just extra damage — it is her spacing button, her escape, her chase correction, and her combo starter. Cut its downtime and you raise both her damage and her survival.

Special variants compared

All three of her special variants charge Basic Attack stacks and grant movement speed; they differ in the control they bring.

• Power Kick: grants movement speed and charges 2 Basic Attack stacks. The default — pure tempo, no control attached, so it is the cleanest “reposition and resume firing” tool.
• Stunt Kick: stuns for 0.5 seconds and grants movement speed. Pick it when you need a guaranteed interrupt against a diver.
• Counter Kick: knocks the enemy back, slows them, and grants movement speed. Strongest for peeling someone off you or buying disengage distance.

Power Kick is the default because it best fits her rhythm: create separation, then resume firing Basics from a safer angle. The simplest use pattern is to wait for the enemy to commit, kick to break their approach, then immediately return to Basic attacks. That is more reliable than opening every exchange with the special, which leaves you without a correction tool when the real threat arrives.

Why Cruel Curtain Call is the default ultimate

Cruel Curtain Call summons bodyguards that block incoming projectiles and makes enemies caught in it take increased damage — a swing tool, not a panic button. It is strongest when the fight is already structured in your favor: enemies grouped, vision limited, or their attention pulled elsewhere.

Other ultimate variants exist — Grand Curtain Call and Ruthless Finale — but Cruel Curtain Call’s mix of projectile cover and amplified damage is the most flexible for the spacing-first playstyle. Use it when at least one of these is true:

• The enemy team is stacked around an objective or choke.
• Your frontline or controller has already pinned targets in place.
• You are firing from a side angle or from vision denial.
• The enemy backline has already spent its movement or defensive skills.

Hold it when the fight is still scattered, when targets are retreating out of range, or when you would only be casting it because it is up. The ultimate can decide a clean engagement, but it is noticeably weaker fired into open space with no setup.

Power Biscuits and passive choices

On Brie Cheese Cookie, your biscuit and passive choices should support three priorities in order:

• Special uptime so you can reposition and re-enter fights more often.
• Burst conversion so your safe windows actually matter.
• Basic survivability so a single dive does not end your rotation.

When a choice comes down to a small damage increase versus cooldown utility, take cooldown utility first. A live Brie Cheese Cookie with her special ready is far more dangerous than a greed-built one caught without mobility. For passive slots, the cleanest split is Special Skill cooldown reduction in one slot almost by default, and HP Boost or Battle Blessing in the other when your matches are chaotic or dive-heavy. If your team reliably protects you, lean slightly more offensive; with random teammates, the defensive slot is rarely negotiable. She never needs to be durable — only to survive long enough to take another firing position.

Positioning: the part that matters more than gear

Brie Cheese Cookie is skill-expression heavy, so positioning errors erase build advantages fast. The correct default position is behind your sturdier teammate line, but not directly centered behind them. A slight angle gives you cleaner shots, makes incoming skillshots less predictable, and opens an easier escape route with your special.

Three rules improve results immediately:

• Do not open from the very front edge of your range. Start one step safer than feels necessary.
• Do not mirror your tank’s movement. Offset to the side so one enemy engage cannot hit both of you cleanly.
• After your special, return to Basics instead of overchasing. Her value is extended pressure after the reset.

This is also why she performs better around terrain, corners, and shrubs than in wide open lanes. Terrain gives her more ways to hide the start of an ultimate and more routes to break line of sight after a special.

Ultimate timing and fight sequencing

Good ultimate timing with Brie Cheese Cookie is about sequencing, not reaction speed. Her strongest fights follow this order:

• Use Basics to test spacing and force movement.
• Wait for the enemy engage or overextension.
• Use the special to reset, disrupt, or create room.
• Resume Basics immediately to capitalize on the opening.
• Commit Cruel Curtain Call only when multiple targets are vulnerable or vision is compromised.

Reverse that order and open with the ultimate in neutral space, and the enemy gets full freedom to spread out, dodge, or collapse on you. The ultimate is strongest once the fight has already become awkward for the opponent.

Common mistakes

• Building pure HP: it does not fix her real weakness, which is bad spacing and lost tempo.
• Treating her as a frontline duelist: semi-long range is an instruction, not a suggestion.
• Using the special only as engage: it is often better as a defensive correction or spacing tool.
• Panic-casting Cruel Curtain Call on one target: its value rises sharply when enemies are grouped or surprised.
• Standing still after the special: the right follow-up is reposition plus Basics, not stationary greed.

This is also why tier-list swings can mislead. Even if she shifts up or down a notch, her identity holds: a mobile ranged damage dealer, not a stat-check bruiser. Balance changes can move her numbers, but they will not reverse that role unless her kit is fundamentally reworked.

Practical takeaway

Run Power Kick + Cruel Curtain Call + Special Skill cooldown reduction + one survivability passive, and play every fight assuming your job is to survive the first collapse and win the second exchange. Optimize her as a mobile Epic Marksman, not a tank, and the rest gets simpler: safer angles, later ultimates, and more value out of every special cycle.