It’s been a couple of months since we’ve taken a close look at how the Street Fighter 6 ranked leaderboards are shaping up. Back in early November 2024, Ed led the pack of the top 100 Legend ranked players being represented 10 times, and for the top 500 we saw Cammy at the top of the heap with 43 players.
Here in early January, we’re having another look at the top ranked character usage in Street Fighter 6 to see how 2025 is kicking off. One of the largest takeaways we have gathered from looking over the numbers (and you’ll likely see it fairly quickly too) is that a certain Shoto, who some believe is the weakest Shoto in the game currently, probably isn’t the weakest of that playstyle…
As previously mentioned, we have gathered the character usage statistics for all of the top 500 and top 100 Legend ranks in Street Fighter 6 as they stand right now. For those unaware, Legend rank is the highest rank you can achieve in the game currently on the online ranked leaderboards, and it is reserved for only the top 500 players with the highest Master Rate (MR).
Though the data here isn’t the end all be all for what characters are the best in the game or anything of that nature, they definitely paint a better picture of which fighters tend to be stronger right now and which characters the highest level of players are flocking to at this moment in time.
We’re kicking things off by looking at which characters are represented most among the top 100 Legend ranked players in Street Fighter 6 in this phase. This narrows things down to the absolute best of the best right now.
As far as the top 100 goes, there is one character who is represented more than any other fighter. At the very top we have none other than Ken Masters with 8 Legend ranked players.
Ken stands alone in the top 100, and in the next rung down we have six other strong contenders this season all with 7 players apiece. Those characters are Akuma, Cammy, Chun-Li, Luke, JP, and Zangief.
What’s surprising, though, is that all 24 characters on the current Street Fighter 6 roster have some representation in the top 100, even the lowest tier fighters. On the lowest end of the spectrum, we see that only Dee Jay and Guile are represented by one player each.
• Ken – 8
• Akuma – 7
• Cammy – 7
• Chun-Li – 7
• Luke – 7
• JP – 7
• Zangief – 7
• Ed – 5
• Kimberly – 5
• M. Bison – 4
• Ryu – 4
• Blanka – 3
• Dhalsim – 3
• E. Honda – 3
• Jamie – 3
• Juri – 3
• Marisa – 3
• Rashid – 3
• A.K.I. – 2
• Lily – 2
• Manon – 2
• Terry – 2
• Dee Jay – 1
• Guile – 1
Moving on to the full scope of Legend players currently, we see another interesting bit of information. As luck would have it, Ken Masters is also at the top of this list with the most representation at 40 Legends.
Once again, Ken stands alone above everyone else, as the next highest placer is a tie between Akuma and JP with 33 players each. After them, the top 5 on this list is rounded out by Cammy and Zangief who both have 30 Legends.
Moving to the bottom of the top 500, we see that Lily was represented the least with only 7 players. Above her is A.K.I. with 10, then Manon with 11, and E. Honda with 12.
And as quick check in with Street Fighter 6’s latest DLC character and first guest, SNK’s own Terry Bogard, we see that there were two Terry players in the top 100 for Legend rank and 15 total in the top 500.
Be sure to check out all of the character usage stats for the top 500 Legend ranked players in Street Fighter 6 right now, as well as the chart that we put together that organizes all of these numbers into a quick and easy to read visual.
• Ken – 40
• Akuma – 33
• JP – 33
• Cammy – 30
• Zangief – 30
• Juri – 26
• Kimberly – 26
• Luke – 25
• M. Bison – 25
• Ed – 22
• Ryu – 21
• Jamie – 20
• Chun-Li – 19
• Blanka – 17
• Terry – 15
• Guile – 14
• Dhalsim – 13
• Dee Jay – 13
• Marisa – 13
• Rashid – 13
• E. Honda – 12
• Manon – 11
• A.K.I. – 10
• Lily – 7
