A fresh batch of Street Fighter 6 online character usage stats has come straight out of the oven. Capcom has shared their data for last month’s online play, showing who gets the most use across the game’s netplay landscape.
This time, the company has unveiled the monthly statistics for October 2023. In a fresh twist, however, Capcom has also revealed which characters have the most Modern players and which have the most Classic.
Starting with the character usage stats, from what we can see there wasn’t a lot of change between September and October 2023. Back in September, the top 5 in the Rookie rank consisted of Juri, Cammy, Ken, Luke, and Jamie in that order — witch Jamie having stolen Chun-Li’s spot at #5.
For October, the top 5 in this category remained exactly the same, meaning newer players are still really enjoying playing some of the top tiers and Jamie (who isn’t considered very good right now, but clearly remains popular).
Funny enough, in the other two categories the only changes we see involve Luke and Marisa. In the Iron through Gold ranks, Luke pushed out Marisa for the #5 spot while the rest of the top 5 remained the same.
Lastly, in the higher ranks (Platinum through Master), we only see Luke and Marisa switch places. Marisa now sits at 4th most-used in this category and Luke has gone up to #3.
Outside of that, the latest placements all seem logical and understandable. The Shoto characters (Ken, Ryu, and Luke) always remain popular, as well as Juri and Cammy — who aren’t just two of the most popular female fighters in the franchise, but also happen to be strong characters in this game.
Moving over to control type, though, we find some interesting facts. Starting with Modern, Capcom has shared who the top 3 characters are that players are most using Modern controls for.
At the top of the list (and probably the only time she’ll be at the top of any list) is Lily, who apparently has a 50/50 split of Classic and Modern control users. This isn’t surprising as Modern Lily has easier access to some of her better tools with Modern, and in the grand scheme of things she doesn’t lose too much in the way of normals or attacks.
After that we see Luke with 48% Modern and 52% Classic, and lastly Marisa at #3 with 47% Modern and 53% Classic. These placements are also understandable due to their strength, and personally, it feels like I run into Modern Luke pretty frequently.
As far as the Classic control users go, they seem to have taken the most liking to Ryu above everyone else. The Street Fighter poster boy
has 79% of his player base using Classic, while Guile has 76% and JP has 73% Classic users.
You can check out the latest Street Fighter 6 stats below.
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