Having surveyed all fifty super smash bros. While the list looks mostly like youd expect there.
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Pgr tournament tier list. Ultimate players as determined by panda globals stats team pg stats and a panel of community figureheads. First ever tier list ive made with my own point system. This list contains all pgr majors s tier a tier and a tier events from the release of smash. List with full stats. The panda global rankings pgr are smash 4 player rankings created by panda globals pg stats teamclick on any player profile below to learn more about the top ranked ssb4 players who are currently on the pgr. S tier has been added as an extra tier for events such as genesis evo and ceo which were accumulating much higher points than other tournaments near the same category.
Pgru is a ranking of the top 50 super smash bros. The only difference between the two scales are that each entrant in the international tournaments is worth 125 points instead of 1. This is a big change that will impact ultimate quite a bit. Finally the b tier threshold had been lowered to 600 points or 300 entrants. Pgr ranking system for super smash bros. The x factor is the difference between a players panda global rank and their spot on the list that the panellists rated them.
Beginning with the third edition of the pgr tournaments were grouped into one of four tiers s a b and c based on the number of competitors with s being the most prestigious tier and c the least. My attempts had characters winning tournaments receiving far too many points than what is actually representative of the meta. Basically each character used on the pgr will earn points for their character all secondaries will only be counted as 05 points because secondaries arent as important as a main and is only used at certain times. Based off the pgru v2. Ultimate players on the pgr rankings panda globals chief of staff josh jaaahsh marcotte recently presented an aggregated tier list for the game. Tiers sabc will replace the old existing numbered tiers from past pgr seasons.
And finally for s tier tournaments 2400 points are needed. Obviously in the pro score tier list getting 1st at an s tier should award more points than top 8 at an a tier but i wasnt able to conceive a good scaling method for this. Panda global rankings pgr smash 4 player rankings. The players scored each character on a one to ten scale and the pgr staff averaged the results. For example a canadian tournament with 160 entrants will barely meet the requirement for a c tier tournament while an american tournament with 199 entrants despite having more entrants than the canadian tournament will just be short for a c tier ranking. The international multiplier returns this time also including pgr ranked players and each player counts as 2 points for continental tournaments or 25 points for international tournaments.
The pgru includes a separate and subjective metric voted upon by the panellists referred to as x factor. Ultimate will use voter panel feature 100 players. In the fifth pgr s was replaced with a.
Gallery of Pgr Tournament Tier List
