After a year’s worth of grinding and competing, a new champion is about to be crowned for The King of Fighters 15.
With the SNK World Championship 2023 Grand Final> entering its last day now, we’ve gone back and gathered up all of the character usage statistics for the last chance qualifier and finalists for the main event.
For the qualifier event, there ended up being 32 different main characters in top 16 and only eight of them were repeats, which is pretty good even for a 3v3 game like KOF15.
Chizuru ended up being the standout with 5 competitors maining her, and all of them managed to reach the top 18 though Ryo was up there too.
Pako took the whole thing and was the only one to use Duo Lon and Luong in this upper bracket, but unfortunately he wouldn’t quite make the top 8 of the final event.
With 128 competitors signed up for the LCQ, this top 16 represents the best 12% of players who tried to make that final cut.
• Chizuru – 5
• Ryo – 4
• Iori – 3
• Rock – 3
• Isla – 3
• Benimaru – 3
• Heidern – 2 (1)
• Yuri – 2
• Duo Lon – 1
• Luong – 1
• Meitenkun – 1
• Blue Mary – 1
• Angel – 1
• Hinako – 1
• Kukri – 1
• Clark – 1
• Ralf – 1
• Kyo – 1
• Terry – 1
• Mai – 1
• Athena – 1
• Shermie – 1
• Shun’ei – 1
• Orochi Yashiro – 1
• Andy – 1
• Joe – 1
• Leona – 1
• Geese – 1
• Dolores – 1
• Kula – 1
• Maxima – 1
• K’ – 1
• Goenitz – 0 (1)
As for the main event, we saw at least 37 different mains in the top 32 and quite a few secondaries used across the board too.
There was a total of 20 repeats seen in the final bracket, which is just over half of the representatives, though only seven had more than three each.
Although she was decently used in the LCQ, Isla was by far the overwhelming favorite among the finalists with 12 players taking her to the big stage, and that’s over 30% of the competitors.
Interestingly, however, Benimaru and Geese were not that far behind either with Chizuru and Ryo being up there too.
As for the new additions, Sylvie also saw some decent usage plus one Najd in the main slot though Kim and Shingo were totally left out. Duo Lon and Hinako showed up a bit too.
You can check out a breakdown of the final bracket character usage at the SNK World Championship for KOF15 this year below.
• Isla – 12
• Benimaru – 9 (3)
• Geese – 8 (2)
• Chizuru – 7
• Ryo – 6
• Sylvie – 4 (2)
• Heidern – 4
• Rock – 3 (1)
• Iori – 3 (1)
• Blue Mary – 3
• Shermie – 3
• Orochi Yashiro – 3
• Clark – 2 (2)
• Shun’ei – 2 (1)
• Duo Lon – 2
• Kukri – 2
• Kyo – 2
• Yashiro – 2
• Yamazaki – 2
• King of Dinosaurs – 2
• Athena – 1 (1)
• Kula – 1 (1)
• Ash – 1 (1)
• Yuri – 1
• Luong – 1
• Meitenkun – 1
• Mai – 1
• Dolores – 1
• K’ – 1
• Goenitz – 1
• Orochi Chris – 1
• Omega Rugal – 1
• Antonov – 1
• Chris – 1
• Vanessa – 1
• Nakoruru – 1
• Najd – 1
• Joe – 0 (1)
• Ramón – 0 (1)
• Maxima – 0 (1)
Note: Numbers in parenthesis represent side or secondary character choices.