Big changes have hit Street Fighter 6 in the last few weeks as Terry Bogard was released for the final week in September and a patch update has altered overall balance. With all this moving and shaking, we turn an especially interested eye toward the updated character usage stats as Capcom has posted the numbers for September.
Though he only had the final few days to perform, Terry has made something of a splash, but perhaps not to the degree one might have suspected. We’ve rounded up the stats from Buckler’s Bootcamp to share and discuss with you below.
Launch month is tricky when it comes to stats for DLC characters as they get bonus momentum for being new, and Terry’s case is extra special since his introduction marks the first official instance of a guest character from outside Capcom properties to join a mainline Street Fighter roster.
Mr. Bogard also happens to be one of the most beloved fighting game characters in history, and serves as the face of not only SNK’s Fatal Fury and King of Fighters franchises, but of the company itself. As such, we naturally have some high expectations for him when it comes to initial popularity.
As take a look at the actual results, we find that Terry’s debut was not as big as Akuma’s was back in May. That’s a relatively high bar, though, as Akuma has easily been SF6’s most popular DLC character, immediately shooting to the top of most rank classes and staying there by a good margin over second placers.
Terry clocks in at 4th overall with 6.94% total usage in September despite being available for about 25% of the time everyone else was. He ranked 10th among lower level players in both Rookie and Iron ranks, and creeps up to ninth in Bronze, fourth in Silver, and eighth in Gold.
Terry reaches 7th in Platinum and then shoots up to eclipse even Akuma for a first place finish in Diamond. When it comes to the Master ranked players, however, Terry falls all the way down to just outside of the bottom 5 at 19th; perhaps the surprisingly low Terry tier rankings by players like Mago are warranted.
Though he pales in comparison to Akuma’s popularity, that’s true of everyone else in SF6 thus far. M. Bison had an even less impressive first week, but rose substantially when the numbers for his first full month rolled in.
We suspect Terry will continue to climb here in October, and though he may not have quite enough juice to dethrone Akuma anytime soon, we would be surprised not to see him amid a few more top five placings at the very least.
We’ve snapped the top 8 characters in all nine categories, which you can quickly view via the gallery below. You can see the full stats for all characters across all ranks (as well as cycle through previous month stats) over on the Buckler Bootcamp page, linked above.
Click images for larger versions