Another month means another update to Kyosuke’s Ultra Street Fighter IV arcade rankings data, courtesy of the Japanese networking system that provides a regular look at the top players, character usage, and more. Many of the competitor placings continue to be no surprise, such as MCZ|Daigo Umehara’s continue occupation of the top spot with Evil Ryu, but there are a few new additions that are worth pointing out, so read along!
Right underneath The Beast, Nemo continues to dominate with Ultra addition Rolento, pushing the speedy soldier’s rolls and pokes to their limit in order to stand up against much stronger fighters. After those two, however, a new face has broken into the top three: -6’s Poison. The former Akuma player has taken quite a shine to the Final Fight veteran, which is further magnified by the fact that he didn’t even rank in the top 100 in past updates.
Furthermore, two Ibuki players have made huge jumps of their own. Shimauta and Ebi advanced 58 and 47 ranks to land at fifth and seventh, respectively. Sandwiched between them is CANTONA and his ever-impressive Zangief, who pushed through 27 competitors of his own to come in at sixth.
But -6 isn’t the only player to make an appearance in the top 100 after previously ranking outside this illustrious group. Kawaguchi broke into the upper echelon with Rose over the past few months, followed by other players like Sasaki (Cody), Michael-tan (Ken), Uryo (Decapre), Acqua (Poison), and Kubo (Rufus), among many others.
As for character usage, Poison has found herself alone at the top, a spot once occupied by fellow newcomer Rolento. Juri continues to be quite popular, remaining steady with five representatives alongside Ibuki, Ken, and Rufus. As time has gone on, character representation has only gotten more varied, and there are currently only four characters without any top 100 players: Akuma, Dan, Gouken, and Oni.
For a complete look at the current top players in Japanese players as well as additional statistics like win percentage and average character BP, be sure to visit Kyosuke’s website.
A full character usage breakdown can be found below.
| Number of Top 100 Players | Character(s) |
| 7 | Poison |
| 5 | Ibuki, Juri, Ken, Rufus |
| 4 | Elena, Rolento, Sakura, T. Hawk, Zangief |
| 3 | Cammy, Dhalsim, Evil Ryu, M. Bison, Rose, Sagat, Yang |
| 2 | Abel, Balrog, C. Viper, Cody, Decapre, E. Honda, El Fuerte, Fei Long, Seth |
| 1 | Adon, Blanka, Chun-Li, Dee Jay, Dudley, Gen, Guile, Guy, Hakan, Hugo, Makoto, Ryu, Vega, Yun |
| 0 | Akuma, Dan, Gouken, Oni |
Source: Kyosuke





