Forget Improved Iron Will. You are better off with something you can get more milage to, like Weapon Focus.
Talking of which, you might not want to invest so heavily on tripping, just in case you fight too many fliers, quadrupeds and such. Get Improved Trip, leave Greater for MF until later.
Pummeling Bully is also sort of situational... And since it's not a requirement for Charge, you could choose to keep it on an MF basis.
You really want Greater Weapon Focus somewhere too.
if you dropped improved iron will as well as one of the improved maneuver feats you could take the new feats from Familiar Folio to give yourself a familiar, then take the Improved version to get all the abilities, doing that you could make it a mauler and have a combat buddy
Edit: assuming retiring at 12, if he goes longer yyou can just take the feats
Is this for the Brawler class or the Brawler Fighter Archetype?
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I like trip builds...A lot.
I do not like Felling smash however. When your pummeling Charging/Bully to get the free trip your not wasting the entire attack action on 1 attack and a free trip....your doing a Charge punch >Bully triggered trip>Vicious Stomp tiggered>Greater Trip Trigger> Attack as many times as you can on a prone target.
This is a post I made about a week and a half ago
Focus on Pummeling style/charge and dragon style/ferocity feats. Ignore difficult terrain and Friendlies on your charge of up to 60Ft (more with boots or haste).
I recommend a trip build. I am running This Guy in a campaign and he will Flexiblity in Pummeling Bully for a free Trip attempt when he hits with a strike of Pummeling charge. If successful he gets Viscous stomp and greater trip triggers on a proned target...If the first attack and the trip most likely you will land everything else on a proned target. At level 7 I am getting 5 attacks in on the Charge...6 if they stand up or I am hasted...or 7 if both. I also really like how a trip can be done as a AoO so even if they get up they can easily be knocked back to the ground or if they just trigger a AoO from me then they can end up getting hit a few times.
But what I can't simply cover is all the feat options you can just pick up on the fly. Stuff that is limited in its use or very conditional. I like elemental fist when I find a troll or something with a weakness to an element.
For ease of reading I put it in a spoiler with a link to what he looks like. His gold was a little low but I was given really good stats to play with.
Now about this:
Ability Scores: Str 18, Dex 16, Con 13, Int 10, Wis 12, Cha 10
Your point buy seems to be a 25....for PFS it is a 20 point buy.
perhaps : S18, D14, C14, I10, W12, C8 is typically a good layout in stats.Traits: Reactionary, Indomitable Faith.
These are fine Traits. And will serve you well.
Class: BrawlerFore PFS....naw I wouldn't I'd still dip 2 levels of Master of Many styles Monk. to be honest even in PFS and playing high end stuff your not going to see level 20. SOrry bub. But you gain so much from the dip that loosing out on your 20th level capstone is not a miss out. Your cap stone will be Awesome Blow.
Feat Progression:
1. Improved Unarmed Strike (Bonus), Combat Expertise, Power Attack
2. Pummeling Style (Bonus)
3. Improved Trip
4.
5. Improved Reposition, Pummeling Bully
6.
7. Iron Will
8. Pummeling Charge
9. Felling Smash
10.
11. Greater Trip, Combat Reflexes
Here is my suggestion for a Trip build:
Brawler 2/ Master of many style monk 2/ Brawler Finish1: Combat expertise
H:Improved Trip
2:Combat reflexes
(Master of many style Levels)
3:Dragon Style
3:Pummeling Style
4:Pummeling Charge
(back to brawler)
5:Vicious Stomp
7:Greater Trip
7:Dragon Ferocity
9:Pummeling Bully (because I'm sick of wasting MF on this feat)
10:Iron Will
11:Improved Critical (if even 1 of your pummeling strikes crit they ALL crit)
What you gain: STUNNING FIST, the Ability to use 2 styles at 1 time, +3 to all 3 saves, Stealth as a class skill, Full Unarmed Damage progression, Evasion or Toughness (Iron Mountain Archetype)((the archetypes stack allowing you to pick between toughness and Evasion))
What you loose: +1 BaB, Slower Brawlers Flurry (not a big deal cause it tends to miss the first few levels anyways), Improved awesome blow, maneuver training 5.
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There are a few really good dip classes out there. A majority of dips are for more martial characters that dont have caster levels that take a hit.
Most people here on the forums will agree MoMS monk is a great 2 level dip as a brawler. If you going for no armor monk gets even better of a dip.
Dont be afraid to dump cha to get a better con. B rawlers are not concerned about CHA as they are not faces and alot of there skills are not CHA based. But since your gonna be charging into melee that +1 con is gonna go far. Even for your fortitude.
If you want to be better at a specific thing as a Brawler, I recommend trading out Martial Flexibility with an archetype such as the Snakebite Striker or the Mutagenic Mauler.