But Happy Chaos…
The first month of 2024 is closing out with a great and huge offline event for fighting game fans of basically every series, and it’s been a fun ride.
Now that the action has all but completed at Frosty Faustings XVI, we’ve gone back and collected the full character statistics for use in the two biggest tournaments there between Street Fighter 6 and Guilty Gear Strive.
Although FF wasn’t part of the Capcom Pro Tour, SF6 still managed to pull in over 725 players including many of the best from all across North America, so the top 64 here represents the strongest 9% of finishers at the event.
We may have seen repeats of Juri and Luke in top 8, but things were overall fairly diverse considering we saw everyone but Lily in the upper bracket action here.
Interestingly, Kimberly was technically the most popular choice among the top 64 though none of her main players managed to make the top 16 with her, which we can’t say for Luke, Ken and Marisa who all had big numbers too.
Everyone but Chun-Li, Manon, A.K.I., Guile and E. Honda all had at least two main users in contention, which was nice to see as well.
You can check out the SF6 character usage below and continue further down for Guilty Gear.
• Kimberly – 8
• Luke – 7 (1)
• Ken – 7
• Marisa – 7
• JP – 5
• Cammy – 4
• Juri – 4
• Dee Jay – 3 (1)
• Blanka – 3
• Dhalsim – 3
• Rashid – 2 (1)
• Zangief – 2
• Ryu – 2
• Jamie – 2
• Chun-Li – 1 (2)
• Manon – 1
• A.K.I. – 1
• Guile – 1
• E. Honda – 1
• Lily – 0
Guilty Gear Strive also pulled in a whopping 715 entrants as an Arc World Tour qualifier event, so the top 64 here represents around the best 9% of finishers too.
Impressively, we saw 23 different mains in the upper brackets where only Testament and Zato-1 were completely left on the sidelines — and though Sin wasn’t mained, he was still used by the winner MR|Umisho in grand finals.
Despite questions about the character’s strength in Season 3, Happy Chaos was still by far the most popular pick among the top 64 with 8 total reps including Evo 2023 champion TSM|Leffen and ONi|TigerPop reaching top 8 with the gunslinging demon.
Funnily enough, Anji Mito was technically second on the list with 5 mains plus one secondary, but just like Kimberly in SF6, none managed to crack the top 16.
The only fighters who didn’t have at least two main representatives were Elphelt, Sol, Jack-O, Axl, and Bedman?, so there was a pretty good spread all around.
You can check out the full Guilty Gear stat breakdown below.
• Happy Chaos – 8
• Anji – 5 (1)
• I-No – 5
• Giovanna – 4
• Leo – 3
• Baiken – 3
• Faust – 3
• Goldlewis – 3
• Chipp – 3
• Potemkin – 3
• Nagoriyuki – 3
• Ramletal – 3
• Bridget – 2 (1)
• May – 2
• Millia – 2
• Ky – 2
• Johnny – 2
• Asuka – 2
• Elphelt – 1 (1)
• Sol – 1
• Jack-O – 1
• Axl – 1
• Bedman? – 1
• Sin – 0 (2)
• Testament – 0
• Zato-1 – 0
• Unknown – 1
Numbers in parenthesis represent secondary / side character choices.