The ranking system in Street Fighter 6 is a fair bit different from those in past titles, so it’s interesting to see how the players have spread out online now that the game has been out for over four months now.
That’s what AlietteFaye apparently decided to do by creating a handlful of charts / infographics showcasing some different aspects of player distribution in SF6.
Starting out from the widest overview, it appears that Platinum is currently the most populated rank in the game taking up 23.4% of everyone, which is almost double that of the people in Iron and Bronze combined.
Interestingly, the second highest isn’t gold but rather Silver while Rookie is the second lowest at only 6.29%.
Really glad that my graphic from yesterday helped a lot of people realize just how good they are in the grand scheme of things. In that same spirit, I’m posting a few more breakdowns. Here’s the percent of the player base within each tier. #SF6 #StreetFighter6 pic.twitter.com/vwwhZWPMxe
— AlietteFaye | Day -232 A.K.I. Main (@AlietteFaye) October 17, 2023
There’s unsurprisingly a big drop off too for the highest ranks in Diamond and Master with less than 4% total making it to the secondary rating system at all.
AlietteFaye broke this down further to look at the percentages for every singular ranking level to get to the real nitty gritty of where people are at.
The Platinum 1 wall is apparently very real considering it’s the most populated ranking level by almost double the second highest with slightly over 10% of players / characters there right now.
And here’s a more detailed breakdown of what the population looks like spread across every individual rank as well.#SF6 #StreetFighter6 pic.twitter.com/GnKK0ovZrY
— AlietteFaye | Day -232 A.K.I. Main (@AlietteFaye) October 17, 2023
It makes sense given the steeper climb in League Points needed to level up starting in Platinum along with how many people may have been put there from their placement matches and never really made it beyond.
The rarest rank in the whole game is actually Diamond 5, so it seems most players who reach that point have fought through to make Master, which is kinda cool to see.
If you need a bit of an ego boost, the streamer also calculated the rank percentiles as well.
Those who’ve managed to reach at least Gold 2 are higher than more than half of the players while Platinum 2 is in the top 25%.
This is the last infographic I’ll be posting today. If you were curious as to what percentile of the player base you were in, you can check your rank directly. Being in Diamond I nearly puts you in the top 10 percentile of the player base, for instance!#SF6 #StreetFighter6 pic.twitter.com/Zkojm9C7d1
— AlietteFaye | Day -232 A.K.I. Main (@AlietteFaye) October 17, 2023
Then you’ve got the crazy dedicated .13% of players who’ve reached at least 1,800 MR.
Speaking of, there’s another chart from AlietteFaye that shows the Master Rating Distribution as well that reveals most are within the 1400–1500 MR range.
And then you have the sole person to reach 2,300 MR thus far legitimately in Moke.
Been a little while since I did anything with the SF6 data. Here’s a quick look at the distribution of Master Rank players’ MR.#SF6 #StreetFighter6 pic.twitter.com/mpesgOx3Bp
— AlietteFaye | Day -232 A.K.I. Main (@AlietteFaye) October 15, 2023
It is important to note that these numbers aren’t going to be exact for player counts specifically because SF6 ranks users per character, so many people are going to be in the stats multiple times (though there’s little to do about that at the moment).
And don’t put too much stocks in these ranks personally, it’s not about how high you can reach quickly, but learning, growing and trying out new things on the endless path of a world warrior.
I’m not sure what it is, but I’ve also personally found SF6’s ranked mode to be noticeably less stressful than it was in Street Fighter 5, which has made it easier to keep grinding.
If you missed it, we also recently broke down the characters used by the top 100 Master ranked players in SF6 as well.