The love for the Super Smash Bros. series cannot be stopped, and the competitive scene just seems to keep growing year after year.
Genesis X is going down this weekend as the largest event ever for the super major in terms of attendance, and we’ve gone back and put together the top character stats for both Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Melee.
Starting out with the older brother, Melee ended up seeing 12 mains in top 64 with 8 of them being repeats, so we also saw 4 character specialists make it far in the bracket with fighters like Yoshi, Pikachu, Luigi and even Donkey Kong.
That may not sound as good next to its successor, but that’s still pretty decent for Melee even if Fox continues to dominate the charts.
For the finalists, we saw 6 characters in top 8 between Fox, Yoshi, Sheik, Captain Falcon, Marth and Jigglypuff with Fox unsurprisingly being the only repeat.
With 1,544 players signed up to compete, these top 64 stats represent the best 4% of competitors at this massive event.
• Fox – 17
• Sheik – 9
• Marth – 8 (1)
• Falco – 8
• Captain Falcon – 5
• Jigglypuff – 5
• Peach – 5
• Ice Climbers – 2
• Yoshi – 1
• Pikachu – 1
• Donkey Kong – 1
• Luigi – 1
• Link – 0 (1)
• Unknown – 1
Moving on to Smash Ultimate, we continue to see a lot of different characters in terms of diversity, and Steve didn’t end up having much of an impact this time around on the bracket either.
We ended up seeing a whopping 40 different mains in top 64 with only 17 of them being repeats along with more secondaries / side choices where Pyra/Mythra seems to be living in the back pocket for multiple top competitors.
There were also 7 different mains in top 8 for Ultimate, and the only repeat was interestingly Corrin of all characters while FaZe|Sparg0 used them as a side choice too. And they were also the only Corrins in the whole top 64 too.
Similarly to Melee, this top 64 shows the around the top 4% of players considering 1,506 people signed up for Ultimate too.
You can check out the full breakdown below.
• R.O.B. – 4
• Kazuya – 4
• Sonic – 3
• Mr. Game & Watch – 3
• Palutena – 3
• Corrin – 2 (1)
• Steve – 2 (1)
• Cloud – 2
• Diddy Kong – 2
• Fox – 2
• Wario – 2
• Snake – 2
• Wolf – 2
• Roy – 2
• Joker – 2
• Bayonetta – 2
• Falco – 2
• Pac-Man – 1 (1)
• Toon Link – 1 (1)
• Min Min – 1 (1)
• Olimar – 1
• Dark Pit – 1
• Ness – 1
• Hero – 1
• Ryu – 1
• Peach – 1
• Rosalina – 1
• Inkling – 1
• Jigglypuff – 1
• Terry – 1
• Pokémon Trainer – 1
• Dark Samus – 1
• Greninja – 1
• Sheik – 1
• Luigi – 1
• Zero Suit Samus – 1
• Bowser – 1
• Pichu – 1
• Piranha Plant – 1
• Ice Climbers – 1
• Pyra/Mythra – 0 (3)
• Pit – 0 (1)
• Byleth – 0 (1)
• Mario – 0 (1)
Note: Numbers in Parenthesis represent secondary / side character choices