Even after crossing five years since the game first released, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is still pulling in extremely large amount of competitors for its tournaments with no real signs of slowing down.
The 2024 season is already underway with Luminosity Makes Big Moves this weekend of the first big major of the new year, and we’ve been seeing a ton of different characters throughout the event.
In fact between the top 64, there’s a whopping 43 unique mains present with only 16 repeats among them, which is great to see this far into a game’s meta.
That number grows even higher to 50 when we count in the secondary only characters as well with the tactic of rolling up with two or three fighters growing even more prevalent.
We technically saw a five-way tie for most popular main since Mr. Game & Watch, Mario, Roy, Ken and Palutena all had three competitors bringing them up to the upper brackets though the flat 2D hero had a back up on top of that.
What’s perhaps even more interesting, however, is Sephiroth was used just as much, but he was only used as a secondary at this event.
The character spread is also impressive when we just look at the finalists as well considering Cloud was the only repeat main among the whole top 16 and the top 8 is all unique.
It is worth pointing out too that Steve is banned from being picked here like other Luminosity events, so that’s why he’s not on the list at all.
With 891 players signed up to compete, the top 64 stats accounts for the top 7 percent of placers in the main tournament.
You can check out the full breakdown for top 64 below.
• Mr. Game & Watch – 3 (1)
• Mario – 3
• Roy – 3
• Ken – 3
• Palutena – 3
• Pac-Man – 2 (1)
• Kazuya – 2 (1)
• R.O.B. – 2 (1)
• Joker – 2
• Diddy Kong – 2
• Cloud – 2
• Peach – 2
• Hero – 2
• Ness – 2
• Zelda – 2
• Bayonetta – 2
• Sonic – 1 (1)
• Corrin – 1 (1)
• Greninja – 1 (1)
• Min Min – 1 (1)
• Lucina – 1 (1)
• Olimar – 1 (1)
• Incineroar – 1
• Fox – 1
• Falco – 1
• Sheik – 1
• Wii Fit Trainer – 1
• Donkey Kong – 1
• Mii Gunner – 1
• Samus – 1
• Luigi – 1
• Lucas – 1
• Pokemon Trainer – 1
• Young Link – 1
• Meta Knight – 1
• Mega Man – 1
• King K. Rool – 1
• Shulk – 1
• Zero Suit Samus – 1
• Pyra/Mythra – 1
• Snake – 1
• Rosalina – 1
• Kirby – 1
• Sephiroth – 0 (4)
• Sora – 0 (2)
• Terry – 0 (1)
• Mii Swordfighter – 0 (1)
• Ryu – 0 (1)
• Lucario – 0 (1)
• Wolf – 0 (1)
Note: Numbers in parenthesis represent secondary / side character choices.