LumiRank 2024.2 Release Schedule and Honorable Mentions
It’s that time of the year again. Welcome to LumiRank 2024.2, the definitive Super Smash Bros. Ultimate ranking for the second half of 2024. Join us in celebrating the 50 players who set themselves apart from the field as some of the strongest in the game right now.
From July 16th, 2024 to December 15th, 2024, the Smash Ultimate scene saw 32,371 players play 129,473 sets across 788 tournaments — and those are only the ones we tracked for LumiRank. Every day, around the world, countless hours of Smash are played, countless players are putting in the hours to grind and improve, countless viewers are tuning into their local stream or the big major of the weekend. We’ve brought everything together to present a snapshot of what competition looked like these past several months at the highest levels there are.
Please note that LumiRank 2024.2 does not consider tournaments from the first half of the year, and all competitors have been evaluated with a blank slate from LumiRank 2024.1.
LumiRank will be revealing 10 players a day, with accompanying video, over the following week. You can keep up to date with all things LumiRank, including supplementary materials such as the recently revealed top 150, at https://twitter.com/LumiRank.
#50 – 41: Tuesday, December 31st, 2024
#40 – 31: Wednesday, January 1st, 2025
#30 – 21: Thursday, January 2nd, 2025
#20 – 11: Friday, January 3rd, 2025
#10 – 1: Saturday, January 4th, 2025 live at Luminosity Makes BIG Moves 2025
Honorable Mentions
Every season, there are several players that impress despite limited attendance; while LumiRank is unable to evaluate these players to a proper rank number, we would still like to recognize those that put up results equal to or even sometimes surpassing the rest of the players on this list.
Tournament spectators that have been around for a while will remember when Lea was a top competitor in Smash Ultimate. Whether it was his iconic performance at the Frostbite 2019 crew battle, his miraculous loser’s run at 2GG: Kongo Saga, or his impressive performances when offline Smash returned in 2021, everyone was familiar with Lea’s numerous feats and his signature frog he used to achieve them.
This all came to a screeching halt after Double Down in the summer of 2022. After contracting Covid here, Lea experienced numbness in his hands that forced him to take an extended break from competition. Since 2023, he has returned to entering brackets occasionally, almost exclusively attending the P tiers, but none of his results were on his prior level. Luckily, this all finally changed this season with Lea’s incredible performance at Kowloon x Kagaribi.
After taking an early loss to Eik, Lea went on an extended loser’s run through the bracket, eliminating depth threats like Ezs, Rokki and Shinnnnnji before culminating in victories over Shirayuki and none other than Hurt. While he only attended two more brackets and failed to meet the attendance requirement for this season’s LumiRank, Lea made a loud and clear statement to never count him out. Noone knows what 2025 will look like for the Gekkouga enthusiast, but if a full return to competition is in the cards, a high ranking would be of little surprise to anyone. For now, loyal fans will enjoy Lea’s rare appearances as they remember different times.
— Alice “Alice” Len
There’s no question that Dabuz is one of Smash’s greatest players of all time. But lately, if you were to tune into his Twitch streams, you’re much more likely to see Rivals of Aether 2 or Street Fighter 6 than Smash Ultimate, and his attendance in 2024.2 was low. But this is only natural for such a seasoned veteran like Dabuz, a player who has given so much to a game that’s seven years old.
At Coinbox IRL 2, we saw Dabuz hop onto commentary and give it a serious swing. And I think I speak for most spectators when I say that he had quite the knack for it.
Dabuz will always have a place within Smash, as one of the game’s biggest personalities and fan favorite legacy players. And whether the following years in Dabuz’s journey sees him compete in DaBrackets, hop on DaComms, or produce DaContent, there’s one thing that will never change: DaCommunity will have his back.
— Matthew “RisterMice” Rice
zackray’s name is one that carries a certain amount of reverence in the scene. When talking about the greats of the game, his name is almost always talked about in the same breath as players like Tweek and MkLeo.
Now, there is no denying that his commitment isn't the same as it once was, back when he first burst onto the scene. But while he only went to 3 ranked tournaments this season, he managed to make an impact on each and every one of them. He opened up his season by getting 5th at Kowloon x Kagaribi, beating Shuton and Asimo in the process. He followed that up by beating Akakikusu and Hurt (among others) on a losers run en route to a 4th place finish at Umebura SP 11.
But perhaps his crowning achievement, or rather, his biggest personal achievement, came from The Throne. Although he “only” finished 7th, he managed to take down Sparg0. Not only was that important because he had defeated one of the frontrunners in the conversation for best in the world, but because Sparg0 had previously held a 6-0 game count on him, thoroughly dismantling him each time they had played.
Now, I won’t fall into delusions of grandeur and start daydreaming about zackray starting to regularly attend events again. Instead, I’ll look forward to and enjoy every time he does decide to grace us with his gameplay, as I’m confident he will always deliver when he does show up.
— Jonas “Fortuna” Stritzinger
51-150
Credits
LumiRank Staff
Joshua “Barnard’s Loop” Craig (@LoopBarnard)
Mathew “EazyFreezie” Aliotta (@EazyFreezie)
Stuart “Stuart98” Hepworth (@Stuart98SSB)
Kenny “kenniky” Wang (@kenniky1)
Production
Mathew “EazyFreezie” Aliotta (@EazyFreezie)
Vincent “SelfDestructGambit” Chow (@TheThiefOfLight)
Hugh-Jay “trade war” Yu (@tradewarhj)
Writers
Alice “AliceLen” Len (@AliceLen2711)
Victor “AnonymousBadger” Mujat (@AnonymousBadge1)
Joshua “Barnard’s Loop” Craig (@LoopBarnard)
Benny Schmid (@BennyTheDoc)
James “Doxazo” Rivers (@Doxazo2)
Jonas “Fortuna” Stritzinger (@Fortuna2_SSBU)
Nathaniel (@Nathaniel_Sheik)
Matthew “RisterMice” Rice (@RisterMice)
Ritual (@ritualcasts, @ritual.findcsrp.org)
Mira “Rosebloom” Kermode (@WeNeed2BanSonic)
Sean from somewhere (@SeanFromSchool)
Vincent “SelfDestructGambit” Chow (@TheThiefOfLight)
Hugh-Jay “trade war” Yu (@tradewarhj)
Jack “Trash Day!” Clifton (@TrashDaySSB)
Photographers
Browningtons (@Browningtons_)
Dawson Davis (@DomoNatorr)
emmy (@emmy1984_)
ふかせ / fukase (@yoroisan)
ふく / fuku (@fuku_mkw)
限界社会人ナナミ / Genshaka (@takatou0711)
Victoria Hamilton (@bluerosetori)
iRose (@2OXX_5)
Darrell McCready (@RellFGC)
Ellie Pinheiro (@EllieJellieeee)
Dylan Revezzo (@RedShirt__)
ろぜ / Rose (@Noguchi_Higuchi)
さきょう / sakyo (@sakyooooou)
SmashSV (@smashsv)
てい / Tei (@paint_ibs)
Bekah Wong (@alonelychime)
