It’s a bit odd to think that Terry Bogard has already been in Street Fighter 6 as the game’s first guest character for over a month now where many players have been trying to make the Fatal Fury star work at the highest level.
We just dug through all of the character data in SF6 to see how many players have taken Terry and the rest of the fighters to Legend-ranked status now that the first month has passed from his arrival and the balance update — and the results were not quite what we were expecting.
Since the new ranking phase just began at the start of November, we’re pulling all of our data from the end of the previous phase that lasted through the end of October to see where everyone ended up now that they can’t go back and get more points for said period.
As such we looked through the entire Legend pool of characters that is comprised of the top 500 players with the highest Master Rate points as well as those who made the top 100 and top 10.
Going into this, we were expecting to see the likes of Ken, Akuma and M. Bison dominate the charts overall like what’s been going on with character usage at SF6 major tournaments lately (including the Japan Super Premier), though that’s not quite what happened.
They all certainly performed well but didn’t quite top either main category besides the top 10, which was comprised of two Akumas, three Bisons, Cammy, Ed, Manon, Terry, and A.K.I. at the end of the phase.
For the top 100, Ed actually came out on top with 10 players grinding the boxer up that high, which means he made up a whole 10% of the combatants himself, though was the only one to crack double digits here.
He was followed up by Ken and M. Bison, unsurprisingly, but Cammy outpaced Akuma and then Chun-Li, JP, Juri, Luke and Zangief as the fighters who had at least five representatives make it to the peak of the mountain.
All 24 characters did have at least one player in the top 100, but Jamie, E. Honda, and shockingly, Dee Jay only had one each.
Terry didn’t fare much better either at two, however, as mentioned above, Mr. Bogard did have one player reach the top 10, who also previously made a match up chart for the SNK crossover character too.
• Ed – 10
• Ken – 9
• M. Bison – 9
• Cammy – 8
• Akuma – 7
• Chun-Li – 6
• JP – 5
• Juri – 5
• Luke – 5
• Zangief – 5
• Dhalsim – 4
• A.K.I. – 3
• Manon – 3
• Marisa – 3
• Ryu – 3
• Blanka – 2
• Guile – 2
• Kimberly – 2
• Lily – 2
• Rashid – 2
• Terry – 2
• Dee Jay – 1
• E. Honda – 1
• Jamie – 1
As for the complete top 500, we had a different character take up the top slot with Cammy as the only one to have over 40 players up that high at 43, which makes the Killer Bee take up 8.6% of Legend.
Another surprise to us was seeing JP right behind her in second place at 38 when he hasn’t been doing nearly as much on the competitive front as the villain did last year — so it seems he can still do a lot of damange in the game’s online setting at least.
M. Bison, Akuma and Ken do round out the top 5 as the only other fighters to get higher than 30 players each, so combined, said top 5 made up over 35% of the entirety of Legend ranks.
Some other things of note we saw was Rashid only having 2 players in the top 100 even though he’s been showing up in a lot of tournament top 8s lately though he did fare a bit better overall with 20 in Legend rank all together.
The likes of Zangief, Juri and Blanka shot up quite a bit too with the full results though Luke was still surprisingly low around the middle of the pack.
There were only two fighters who didn’t reach double digits in Legend ranked reps being Marisa and Lily.
Terry himself was still just 5th from the bottom with 12 though he still beat out Dee Jay interestingly.
While it appears things are a bit top-heavy with the rankings, there was a mostly decent spread of characters showing up among the top players overall considering there’s been a few times we’ve done this where some were totally excluded.
It’s certainly going to be quite interesting to see how Capcom is going to rebalance SF6 whenever the next massive update drops (probably sometime after Capcom Cup 11), but we do already know they don’t just look at the data at the very top to make those decisions.
You can check out the full Legend character breakdown at the end of the latest phase below, and we’ve also included a graph up above containing both figures to better visualize the makeup of the highest rankings.
• Cammy – 43
• JP – 38
• M. Bison – 33
• Akuma – 32
• Ken – 31
• Ed – 30
• Zangief – 27
• Juri – 24
• Chun-Li – 23
• Blanka – 20
• Rashid – 20
• Manon – 19
• Luke – 17
• Jamie – 17
• A.K.I. – 16
• Ryu – 16
• Guile – 15
• Dhalsim – 13
• Kimberly – 13
• Terry – 12
• Dee Jay – 11
• E. Honda – 11
• Marisa – 9
• Lily – 9