Many players actively grind in Street Fighter 6’s online ranked mode in hopes of reaching the sought after Legend rank. While a player’s personal goal often focuses mainly on getting a higher Master Rate, those who make it into the top 500 for MR are awarded Legend status and are then immortalized on the leaderboard if they maintain it through the end of the latest MR phase.
Throughout every phase, placements and rankings are constantly changing both for players and for specific characters. AlietteFaye, who specializes in creating infographics for various fighting game data and statistics, recently released a new animated graph that details the character representation for Legend ranks in Street Fighter 6 since its launch last year.
Street Fighter 6 first dropped back in June 2023, and though we’re all very used to the current MR system now, it didn’t exist right out of the gate. Capcom would go on to later add Master Rate points, then Legend rank, however, AlietteFaye’s new graph charts that pre-season before MR was added all the way up to what seems to be now with Terry on the playable roster.
This animated bar graph charts every character that was playable during each phase and shows what portion of the top 500 on the leaderboards was occupied by every character. In the early days of the game, the big three for Season 1 — JP, Ken, and Luke — sat comfortably in the top three for representation with JP being at the very top closely followed by Ken.
When MR was eventually implemented, things settled in that first phase with Luke at the top of the heap and JP just barely behind him in second place. Ken would take third here for most used in the top 500 at the time, followed by other powerful fighters in Dee Jay and Cammy.
Fast forwarding to the most recently concluded MR phase, we see that things have shifted quite a bit — and not only due to several DLC characters being added to the game.
As far as the character most highly represented in Legend rank for this past phase goes, Cammy leads by a solid margin. Below her we see JP rising back to prominence after being hit hard with nerfs, then given a handful of buffs to even him back out.
Some of the latest DLC fighters in Akuma and M. Bison sit at third and fourth, respectively, which should come as no surprise as they’re both very strong and used frequently by competitive-level players.
And finally, we see Ken at fifth and DLC character Ed as the sixth most represented. Ken has remained strong throughout the several balance patches we’ve seen added to the game over the last year, and though Ed started out as not being all that great, time and discovery evolved this fighter into one of the strongest characters in the entire game right now.
You can check out the full, animated graph below to see how things have moved and changed over this first year of Street Fighter 6.
Visualization of the Legend Rank character representation over the first 4 MR Seasons (1 year) for Street Fighter 6. I also included the top 500 characters from the pre-season before they implemented MR.#SF6 #StreetFighter6 #スト6 pic.twitter.com/vtdtWRUg1j
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