Despite Street Fighter 6’s strong roster of characters almost across the board, we typically see a pretty high percentage of JP and Ken players at big events, but that wasn’t so much the case this past weekend.
East Coast Throwdown 2023 brought in almost 500 competitors for SF6, and now that the action has wrapped, we can see that the usual top tiers didn’t quite dominate the way they usually do as of late.
That’s right, it was actually Kimberly that was the most popular pick of the top 64 with 10 players maining her in the upper brackets, which is extra fitting since Shine won with her (and his pocket Chun-Li for grand finals).
Juri and Dee Jay made up the rest of the top three in the popularity to edge out Ken and Cammy from reaching those top spots.
JP did not have as good of a weekend in Connecticut considering even E. Honda and Manon beat him out in picks with his highest placing mains only cracking the top 32.
That’s a pretty massive change up from the Capcom Pro Tour Singapore Premier that was going down at the same time where Ken, JP and Luke dominated the overall numbers.
Like that event, however, we did get another Rashid in the top 8, and there was even an A.K.I. secondary getting second in ONi|Naji with her highest placing main being Prophet at 13th.
The top 8 itself almost couldn’t get more diverse with Kimberly, Juri, Rashid, Luke, Cammy, Manon and Marisa making up the primaries and only the winning pick repeated, which was great to see.
We saw 18 mains overall in the top 64, so the only ones who didn’t get picked first were once again Ryu and Jamie though the dancer did show up as a back-up.
You can check out the full breakdown for the top 64 for Street Fighter 6 at ECT 2023 below, and if you missed it, we also did character stats for Mortal Kombat 1 at the event too for the first Pro Kompetition event.
• Kimberly – 10
• Juri – 6
• Dee Jay – 6
• Ken – 5 (1)
• Cammy – 5
• Manon – 4
• Marisa – 4
• E. Honda – 4
• Luke – 3 (1)
• JP – 3 (1)
• Blanka – 3
• A.K.I. – 2 (1)
• Rashid – 2
• Chun-Li – 1 (2)
• Guile – 1
• Zangief – 1
• Lily – 1
• Dhalsim – 1
• Jamie – 0 (1)
• Ryu – 0
• Unknown – 2