LumiRank 2025 Summer | 1 - 10
Hello everyone! Welcome to LumiRank 2025 Summer, the premier Super Smash Bros. Ultimate ranking, this time covering the first half of 2025. Join us leading up to Supernova as we unveil the order of the best players of the last several months.
For information on LumiRank 2025.1, check out the landing page here.
BANG! That’s how Shuton’s year started off when he won the supermajor Seibugeki #18 right off the bat. After falling to the losers bracket at the start of top 8, the King of Kyushu used his trusty Olimar and Aegis to defeat Miya, Asimo, and Snow on his way to victory. It was a good reminder that even though Shuton is one of Ultimate’s longest-tenured competitors, he still has plenty of ways to surprise us.
The rest of Shuton’s season displayed a lot of the same unshakeable consistency we’ve always seen from him. While he didn’t win any other majors, he finished nearly every supermajor either in the top 8 or just outside of it, including a 4th-place performance at Genesis X2 and runner-up placements at Smash Awesome! and DELTA #10. As usual, there was nary a bad loss to be seen.
All that being said, I do think Shuton actually managed one feat this season that was more impressive than his supermajor win — he finally defeated Tweek, a player who previously held a commanding 7-0 record over him. There were times in the past when it seemed like Shuton would simply never beat Tweek, but at Genesis X2, he found a way to exorcise his biggest bracket demon in an out-of-nowhere 3-0 win.
Even when you think you’re at the top, there will always be more mountains to climb. It’s a testament to Shuton’s greatness that he’s always reaching for the next peak.
— Victor "AnonymousBadger" Mujat
Onin shocked the world in 2022, emerging from Michigan with back-to-back major wins and cementing themselves as a top-level threat. But as time went on, their competition became more and more prepared for their unique and innovative playstyle, leaving them with results that were still stellar but not quite at the level they once performed at.
Onin had enough of that this season. After a bit of a rocky start, they would turn on the gas at the biggest events of the season; 7th at Battle of BC 7, 2nd at LVL UP EXPO 2025, 13th at the world’s first superpremier tier event Kagaribi #13, and rounding out their hot streak with a long-awaited supermajor win at KOWLOON #16. Along the way, they would build a resume with premier wins such as Tweek, Shuton, MkLeo, Miya, Zomba, Glutonny, and Sonix.
Onin stands as the pride and joy of the Midwest, repping the underrepresented region as they travel the world, taking names and tournament wins along the way.
— Nathaniel Starr
The game’s fastest player returns to the top 10 in glorious fashion. The Dominican Demon farms Wi-Fi brackets and supermajors all the same, and still is just as capable of being the best player in any venue on any given day.
We’ve seen a dip in Sonix’s consistency this season, something that was his calling card for a long time. He missed three top 8s in open-bracket majors this season, which is shocking, considering he hadn’t finished outside the top 3 at an open-bracket major since Smash Con 2023 before then. But it’s impossible to fairly compare someone to impossibly high standards, and Sonix still tore through his competition this season with second place finishes at two S+ tier events. The wins speak for themselves, Tweek, Onin, Hurt, Shuton, and more and more and more; Sonix can beat, and has beaten, everyone.
There’s a reason that the Daily Sonix Clips X account has nearly 300 days of brutal Blue Blur beatdowns on it; his style is impetuous, his defense is impregnable, he’s ferocious and vicious, and if you step into the ring with him, he will eat you alive.
Sonix has been ranked in the top five in the past four LumiRanks, something only acola and Miya otherwise can boast. It behooves you to be ready for his return to his rightful place among Ultimate’s elite at the end of the year.
— Jack “Trash Day!” Clifton
With these 2025.1 rankings, Tweek now has the title of sole player to be ranked within the top 10 for every single ranking season of Smash Ultimate. But that accomplishment comes at a cost.
After his stunning performance at superpremier Kagaribi #13, Tweek announced his retirement from competitive Smash Ultimate. It was an announcement that shook the Smash community. Tweek has been such a key part of the competitive scene that it felt like he’d always be here. Lots of spectators considered his Diddy Kong the best part of many major top 8’s, and even more were inspired by both his gameplay and professionalism across these many years.
But Tweek gave us a phenomenal half year to end off on, making Top 8 at LMBM, (a tournament series forever linked to Tweek), as well as at supermajor KOWLOON #16 and Kagaribi #13, the hardest and most stacked tournament in modern smash history. Tweek’s final days competing in Smash Ultimate had him go out with bang after bang.
Instead of being sad that he’s gone, I prefer to be glad that he was here at all. Across every character, every major, every VERSION of Tweek, it’s been an absolute pleasure.
Thank you, Gavin.
— Matthew “RisterMice” Rice
Zomba is one of the most feared and dangerous active criminals in the United States. He has been regularly known to usher innocent local Tristate smash players into attending all the ranked events that he goes to so that he can curbstomp them in bracket for their LumiRank points and money, in what can only be described as a senseless act of violence. Just this season, Zomba has utilized this method to win 16 ranked events out of the 29 that he has entered, the majority of which were stacked Tristate regionals.
Zomba has attempted to replicate this method in other parts of North America at national scale events, remaining partially successful with 5th at BoBC7 and 3rd at both LVL UP EXPO and Genesis X2, all events where he was successfully detained by a different Steve player every time. We thank you for your service.
Despite Zomba's known criminal record, he has somehow successfully flown out of the country on two separate occasions, suggesting a heavy revision on national airport security. The first case involved a flight to Qatar, where Zomba would successfully claim victory at Virtuosity Battleground over victims Neo and Cosmos, in what can only be described as a senseless act of violence.
However, at some point during his second overseas expedition to Japan over Golden Week, Zomba was enlightened by his own miscalculations, realizing that there are in fact no prize pools at Japanese events. This led to him purposefully throwing his bracket and underperforming at Kagaribi 13 knowing that there was no financial gain in winning anyway, in what can only be described as a humiliating act of mercy towards his opponents.
Zomba is still currently thought to be residing within the United States and on the loose. Any information leading to his arrest will be matched with a reward from the U.S. Department of Defense.
— Sean from somewhere
Whenever someone reaches the pinnacle of their field, the absolute peak of the mountain, the question becomes inescapable: what next? After finally being crowned the #1 Smash Ultimate player in the world last season, an event that seemed just around the corner since 2021, we saw Sparg0 struggle with this question this year, as self-admitted motivational issues led to a handful of underperformances early in the season. But by the mid-year’s end, it seems that Sparg0 has found his answer, and that answer is… Piranha Plant?
Breaking out his legendary Wi-Fi secondary at Kowloon 16, Sparg0 three-stocked Light and didn’t look back. Taking the character on a tour de force in Europe, Sparg0 would pilot the potted pugilist to its first ever major victory at French event 95 Kings of Fields #5, overcoming the Wario matchup that stopped Brood cold at 2nd place all the way back in 2019. And though it won’t be considered for these rankings, Sparg0’s subsequent triumph at BLINK RESPAWN 2025, where his Plant defeated MkLeo and Sonix, marks another huge milestone in the character’s competitive history.
But though Sparg0’s Plant is what’s got everyone talking, I think the real story of Sparg0’s season is how gracefully he’s tackled the listlessness or ennui that comes after finally achieving a long-held goal. Be it by forcefully convincing the whole community that a bottom tier is viable, or by picking up an entirely new game and making a smashing impact there, as Sparg0 has done with Rivals of Aether II, he’s taken the opportunity to reinvent himself as a competitor, to unbelievable results. And, just to prove the Cloud’s still got it, Sparg0 also won GOML: Forever through losers, beating Syrup, Onin, MkLeo, Zomba, BeastModePaul and blazing through both sets of Grands against Sonix with Roy. Though he may no longer be Smash Ultimate’s no.1, Sparg0 remains one of its most impressive and engaging talents, and for as long as he actively competes, I doubt that will ever change.
— Vincent “SelfDestructGambit” Chow
Known for playing at a blistering pace, his fellow top players have described Miya as “what people think Kazuya is”. With his nigh inescapable advantage state consisting of endless juggles and suffocating ledgetraps, Miya has turned a character that lacks the explosiveness of Kazuya or Luigi into a bona fide zero-to-death machine.
While this season saw Miya go without a P tier victory for the first time in a while, his list of accolades is nonetheless once again more than most players could ever dream of. Whether it’s his incredible loser’s run at Kagaribi #13 or his twin victories at dual S tiers DELTA #10 and #11, time after time again Miya made beating the greatest competitors 2025 had to offer look easy.
But even a titan has his demons in a game as competitive as Smash Ultimate, and for Miya that demon was Glutonny. Like every challenge that ever stood before him, Miya once again did not back away and faced the King of Europe in his home country. At Uzes Symphonic Gaming Festival, Miya ended his three set losing streak to Glutonny to take home the gold and become Smash Ultimate’s 4th ever Triple Crown winner, adding yet another major victory to one of the biggest trophy cases in Smash history.
2025 so far has not seen Miya contending for that world #1 spot like he was at the end of last year, but nothing’s to say that can’t change at the drop of a hat. Miya has reached the highest peaks many times before, and doing it again would surprise no one. With Supernova right around the corner, a victory at North America’s biggest tournament would be exactly what he needs to put him back in the race, so many eyes will be on Miya this weekend!
— Alice “Alice” Len
For the first few months of the season, there seemed to be 3 frontrunners in the race to number 1. After Genesis, the consensus appeared to be that the winner, Hurt, was now ahead in the race. At this point in the season, he seemed unstoppable. He won Smash Awesome!, was the runner-up at Luminosity Makes Big Moves, and won Genesis X2, all while beating four of the previously ranked top 10 players.
When Kagaribi was announced, people quickly pointed at Hurt to be the favorite to win it all, given his head-to-head against the other players in Japan. This sentiment was very short lived though, as on March 28, Hurt’s sponsor would announce a two-month suspension from competition. This time period included Kagaribi #13, the largest and most important event in the game’s history.
Upon his return at Battle of BC 7, things were a bit rocky. Hurt would miss top 8 for the first time this season with this performance. This was followed a month later by getting upset twice at DELTA #11. This did not deter Hurt, as a few weeks later he would finally come back to form, making top 8 at another supermajor at Get On My Level: Forever.
Hurt’s season was a very unique case, but he thankfully was not deterred by the ban and continues to attend any major he can. While his push for number 1 may have fallen short, it is very clear that he is capable of going even further than third.
— Benjamin “GOOMBA!” Schmid
From the way he won his very first major to his streak of 31 consecutive top 8s that spanned several years, acola truly has no equal in this game. However, in 2025, for the first time ever we saw a crack in his untouchable armor. After losing his #1 title to Sparg0 last year, acola was determined to take it back stronger than ever. But on an April afternoon in Las Vegas, something unprecedented happened: acola got upset not once, but twice, and exited the bracket at 33rd. This was not only the first time he missed the final day of an event, but only the second time he missed a top 8 ever. His consecutive top 8 streak ended at 31, one tournament away from overtaking MkLeo’s streak of 32 to become the longest ever.
But this isn’t a story about defeat. This is the story of a man who, mere days after his greatest defeat, rose to the challenge and achieved his greatest victory. After life knocked him down, acola got up and showed that on the biggest stage, and under the brightest spotlights, no one outshines him.
At the biggest tournament of all time, acola proved that no army is enough to stop him when he truly wants something, even with almost every top player in the world lined up to try their hardest. He ran through countless top 10 players, current and former both, and competitors from not only Japan but also North America and Europe. Set after set, crêpe salée, TamaPDaifuku, Tweek, Miya, even Raru gave it their all to take down the titan. But at the end of the day, he was once again the last man standing. For what feels like the millionth time, acola had done the unthinkable. He had weathered the storm that struck down everyone else, and established himself as the inevitable once more.
When you’re reading this, you’ll have noticed despite every hurdle he overcame, acola fell just short of #1 for the season. An even newer, even younger prodigy has overtaken him, and became the second ever Japanese player to rank #1 in Smash Ultimate.
Of course, this road was paved for him by none other than acola — the face of a country that’s ever growing stronger, emblematic of a scene that keeps challenging itself to reach new heights. While acola has only been attending Smash Ultimate tournaments for a mere 3 years, his legacy is already entrenched deep in this community. And while he did not reclaim his #1 title this season, his victory at Kagaribi sent a clear message: acola is not going anywhere.
— Alice “Alice” Len
This is it. This is something unprecedented.
Already one of Smash’s youngest ever major winners, already someone on the map, Doramigi simply couldn’t have enough by skating by as merely a “historically incredible” player. Like many people that seek greatness, Doramigo pushed even farther.
On some level. It started with Battle of BC 7. Historically one of Japan’s strongest North American events, they struggled and fell at the supermajor at every turn. By LVL UP EXPO — the Las Vegas P-Tier — it seemed, partway into the event, we were seeing much the same.
There, something cracked. Japan as a whole ultimately underperformed, but Doramigi became the torchbearer to end all torchbearers, ruthlessly destroying Sparg0 in a 3-0 blowout and holding off NA talent to make grand finals. Onin, as strong as they are, couldn’t stand a chance — Doramigi up smashed their anvil so hard that he became the best player in the world.
Ending skepticism on Japan and making Steve look simplistic, Doramigi is the half year’s best player. His instincts are unmatched and his consistency — including a lack of any sub top 6 placements this season — show a kid deserving of the season’s best award. While it may surprise some, Doramigi — Kansai’s Min Min champion — is currently the best player in the world at just the age of 15.
— Joshua “Barnard’s Loop” Craig
