Street Fighter 6 is well into its second competitive season, and it’s time to see who is going to make the final cut for Capcom Cup 11.
Most of the qualifying spots in the Capcom Pro Tour 2024 are coming through the World Warrior regional finals, which are now officially underway with the first week of action already complete and tickets punched to the main event.
As such, we’re going to track the character statistics of who players are using to try and reach Capcom Cup for a shot at the $1 million prize — along with the picks for those who are part of the last 48 qualifiers in the world.
This first week contained four regional finals throughout the Americas with each made up of 8-player brackets, so that’s 24 fighters we’ve gotten to see already with 20 more regions still to go.
From the initial round of finals tournaments, we can already see some patterns appear for character representation.
Some of them are what we’ve come to expect in Season 2, but others are a bit more out of the ordinary.
It probably comes as little surprise to see Ken up at the very top after the first week with 4 players maining him across the four brackets plus one more using the fiery Shoto as a secondary.
That’s followed up with some other strong picks from throughout the past few months like Cammy, Ed and M. Bison.
One interesting thing that stood out, however, was three out of the four regions featuring a Dhalsim, who has certainly been on the rarer side of picks, along with Guile, Dee Jay and Luke showing up as trios too. They’ve all certainly seen use this year, but not usually at the among to put them among the most popular choices.
Overall, we’ve seen 15 of SF6’s 24 characters in these top 8s with 8 repeats while some other strong fighters like Akuma and Rashid have been used more as sub picks so far.
That leaves Chun-Li, E. Honda, Jamie, JP, Ryu, Terry and Zangief currently sitting on the sidelines for the World Warrior finals.
You can see how the character breakdown sits after this first round of qualifier action below.
• Ken – 4 (1)
• Dee Jay – 3 (1)
• Cammy – 3
• Dhalsim – 3
• Ed – 3
• Guile – 3
• Luke – 3
• M. Bison – 3
• Juri – 1 (1)
• Marisa – 1 (1)
• A.K.I. – 1
• Blanka – 1
• Kimberly – 1
• Lily – 1
• Manon – 1
• Akuma – 0 (2)
• Rashid – 0 (1)
• Chun-Li – 0
• E. Honda – 0
• Jamie – 0
• JP – 0
• Ryu – 0
• Terry – 0
• Zangief – 0
As for Capcom Cup 11, it appears we’re now up to 21 of 48 slots confirmed between the World Warrior regional finals, super region auto-qualifiers and offline Premier qualifiers
There’s currently 12 characters mained by those going to the big finale judging by who they picked when winning their qualifying event or used in their most recent major — though that obviously doesn’t confirm those are the fighters they’ll stick with at the end.
It seems FLY|Punk may have kicked off a trend at Evo 2024 because Cammy’s at the top of the list in terms of usage so far.
Yes, Ken and Guile also have 3 players entered, but the Killer Bee also has a couple more that have pulled her out as a backup choice too this season.
We also have Luke, Zangief and Ed up there with multiple mains at this point too.
You can check out the Capcom Cup qualified players before the regional finals began as well as the World Warrior tournament schedule in our previous breakdown of the Capcom Pro Tour 2024.
• Cammy – 3 (2)
• Guile – 3
• Ken – 3
• Ed – 2
• Luke – 2
• Zangief – 2
• Akuma – 1 (1)
• Juri – 1 (1)
• Ryu – 1 (1)
• M. Bison – 1
• Manon – 1
• Rashid – 1
• Blanka – 0 (1)
• U.S. / Canada East
• South America East
• Central America West
• Central America East
Note: Numbers in parenthesis represent secondary / side character choices.