LumiRank 2025 Summer | 31 - 40
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.
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Every ranking, I try to add some variety in the players I write about, but I always decide to come back to Wrath. I always mention how he will only keep getting career-defining seasons and tournaments as he continues to play. This season was no different, and could be seen as the pinnacle of his placements.
Without a double digit placement across his 6 events; Wrath had his most consistent season yet, all while attending some of the most important events of the year at Kagaribi #13 and LVL UP EXPO 2025. Kagaribi in particular would garner a lot of attention as he was the lowest seed, 24, to make top 8, and he did it through winner’s side beating players that had pretty good track records against Sonic like Asimo and Riddles, on top of beating other great opponents like Yamanaction and Taikei in the ditto. While he did not win a set in top 8, closing out the biggest Smash Ultimate tournament of all time at fifth place as an underdog will go down as a career defining achievement.
While Wrath was able to beat some deeper top 50 players like Monte and omega, most of his wins seem to fall just outside that range. Not to say his season was bad by any means, as he also did not lose to a single player outside of the top 50 either, it just could make his ranking a bit confusing at the surface. Wrath’s consistent placements this season does secure his spot as a gatekeeper to the absolute top level of the game, but is just shy of that push to make it to the very top himself. Once he starts beating the players ranked above him, he might just become unstoppable.
— Benjamin “GOOMBA!” Schmid
Whenever a game has a ranking, some players will try to take advantage of the system. Maybe they’ll only attend the biggest events, or skip out on ones they don’t think they can do well at… and on the other hand you have Raflow, who has seemingly decided to enter as many ranked events as feasibly possible this season, clocking in 21 ranked events and showcasing their true grinder mindset to the world.
A quick glance at Raflow’s results for this 6 month period would have you see him as a picture of consistency. Not only has he secured multiple tournament wins in his home country — such as at Di’Spawn All Stars where he felled Susu and Glutonny twice — but he also found himself on the podium more often than Max Verstappen in 2025, with 10 top 3 placements at ranked events just within France! Raflow’s season also included an extended tour to Japan, placing 3rd at Cafeteria Cup and securing the big 1 at Shibuya BeeSmash BIG 6, taking sets over Lima, Reno, Umeki, Neo and Motsunabe during the excursion.
While many refer to the mantra “quality, not quantity” when it comes to performance, the Palutena prodigy has taken great strides to show you can have both at the same time. While — like any competitor — they’ll be gunning for higher than 39th place next season, there’s a certain je ne sais quoi to competing everywhere you can which you can’t help but respect.
— Tom “G-P” Scott
The bird and the bear have never climbed so high. Taking Banjo & Kazooie to heights never thought possible, Toriguri makes what some might call an outlandish dream seem like just another day in the office.
Last year, he shocked everyone with his game five victory over Sparg0 at Kagaribi #12.
Surely it wouldn’t happen again.
Toriguri makes the trip out to San Jose, California for Genesis X2. In the first round of Top 64, he faces Sparg0 in the Kagaribi rematch. In game five, Toriguri crushes any and all doubts. With a giant throw to launch Sparg0 into the blastzone, Toriguri defeats Sparg0 yet again.
He’d finish out at 17th. But it was as if that very number brought Toriguri fortune — at the following week’s Grand Slum 17, he would reach a new landmark.
Facing Rarikkusu’s Falco in Winners Semis, things seemed dire. Rarikkusu took a 2-0 lead. But Toriguri wasn’t shaken, and made an arduous reverse sweep to reach Winners Finals of a major for the first time.
He’d fall to Masha, but in the runback against Rarikkusu, something changed. This time, there was no going down 0-2. A clean 3-0 victory brought Toriguri to Grand Finals. Toriguri would finish at 2nd place, the highest placement Banjo has ever reached at a major tournament.
Far ahead of any other Banjo, Toriguri is the hero of a character that most searching for success would quickly write off. Perhaps he can even win a major tournament. It might seem unlikely, or even impossible. But the Banjo main won’t stop trying, and trying, and trying. Soon enough, the impossible will be a reality for Toriguri.
— Rose “Rosebloom” Kermode
Out of everyone on these 2025.1 rankings, Dabuz is in contention for being the competitor with the longest legacy, whose competitive history goes back further than the vast majority of young prodigies filling up today’s rankings. And yet, despite how long he’s been here, I actually think Dabuz might have some of the MOST untapped potential.
Dabuz’s season was defined by his run at Luminosity Makes Big Moves 2025, a tournament that saw him return from an extended hiatus to go on what was perhaps the most explosive run of the entire tournament, defeating the likes of Riddles, Light, and Tweek en route to a 5th place finish. And while the rest of his majors wouldn’t quite live up to this one, it’s important to keep in mind that numbers don’t tell the whole story.
49ths and 33rds may not look great to the casual eye, but Dabuz went on quite the impressive loser’s run at superpremier Kagaribi #13 specifically. He also didn’t really have any bad losses this season at majors, his “worst” one probably being the set that kicked off the aforementioned loser’s bracket tear, defeating the likes of ApolloKage, Candle and Karaage.
Unfortunately, Team Liquid leaving Smash Ultimate altogether would somewhat hamper Dabuz’s ability to travel and compete in the latter part of the season. Will this old guard be able to once again show off his new tricks at the highest level of competition? Only time will tell, but I am certainly hoping that the world gets shaken by da buzz once more.
— Matthew “RisterMice” Rice
It’s hard to imagine a version of the French Smash scene in 2025 without the presence of crêpe salée filling out the bracket. If you were to take a glance at the events in the region over the past 6 months, you’d be hard pressed to find an event there without him in attendance, and with the ever-present threat of this Steve and Wario dual main around every corner… it’s shocking to remember he’s still just a youngster.
This season, crêpe has been somewhat of a workhorse in the region, attending and placing well at many events in his home country. The chief among these performances comes a thunderous losers run at 95 Kings of Fields #5, taking out Luugi, Tarik, Raflow, Mezcaul and Sisqui before finally falling to Sparg0 for 2nd out of 374 entrants. Their excursions elsewhere had strong performances too, taking 1st at gamescom LAN x CGN Open in Germany by felling Glutonny and Supahsemmie in top 8 without dropping a single game. crêpe salée left the continent just twice this season, but they put it to good use with victories over WaKa and Toriguri to outplace their seed at Kagaribi.
Looking at their circumstances, some may think crêpe salée could struggle to progress past 36th, due to their age and living outside of Japan or the USA, but this writer doesn't think so. With a wealth of experience, incredible passion for competition and the backing of one of the best teams in European Smash since day 1, there’s no telling how high this rising star can go.
— Tom “G-P” Scott
This season marked Akakikusu’s first as a full-time professional gamer, and he sure started it off with a bang — or, maybe kaboom would be a more apt term. Slicing through the competition at Tokyo’s year-opening supermajor Smash Awesome, the Hero main dispatched Gackt, Carmelo, Gachipi, Kaninabe, triumphed for the first time ever over young legend Miya, and brought both Hurt and acola, two of the strongest players in the country, to last hit game 5s, culminating in an incredible 4th place finish.
Though this would be the only major Akakikusu would manage to top 8 for the rest of the season, his remaining tournaments were nothing to snooze at. He came just a set away from the benchmark twice more, finishing 9th at both Seibugeki #18 and Sumabato SP 56, and scored victories over Shion, Mild na H.O, and Rarikkusu across his other events, adding just that little extra oomph to his results. In the first quarter of the year, he won back-to-back B-tiers, first taking Kurobra 45 over Ly, Eik, and RIMU, and then emerging victorious on his journey to Hawaii, defeating Lima and Tea at Kawaii Kon 2025.
With one more B-tier victory — Smash that Trash: The Last Dive — already in the books for the second half of the year, the message I get from Akakikusu is “I’m here to stay.” This ranking marks his third consecutive season in the global top 35, a rare feat in a game as volatile as Ultimate, and I reckon it’d take some real hocus pocus for this streak to end. Between the continued reliability of his Hero and his experiments with Sora to whack away at the ever-present danger of the R.O.B. matchup, Akakikusu seems poised and willing to brave the storm.
— Vincent “SelfDestructGambit” Chow
An interesting phenomenon that’s become increasingly relevant as of late is that of the teenaged top player; though Smash is fun, a stable future is often more reliable, and we’ve seen a multitude of talents, like SHADIC, TamaPDaifuku, and even acola, scale back or put a hiatus on competition in order to focus on their studies. Snow is no exception; despite a historically dense attendance record, this season he was decidedly more picky, exclusively attending majors and not even dropping below S tier in 2025. Yet he made the most of these scattered opportunities, consistently progressing far into bracket even against ever more dangerous competition.
Snow continued to be a strong force in Japan, holding undefeated records against the likes of Asimo, Akakikusu, and Mild na H.O. But the storyline with Mario has never been about beating some top players — it’s about the coveted major win. Despite years of meta relevance and numerous top players, no Mario main has been able to join this exclusive club; both Kurama and Dark Wizzy have found themselves just one set, a few games away, and at Seibugeki #18, Snow entered the same position. Defeating Mark, Akakikusu, Fui, and Asimo to make grand finals winners side, Snow found himself facing down Shuton to claim the supermajor. Though Snow ended up bowing out at second, he came ever so close — last stock, game 5 in the reset. It’s clear that Snow has the ability to take home the prestigious title. But what will it take to string it all together and actually get it done?
— Kenny “kenniky” Wang
Raki once referred to himself as “the best player in the world that likes to win.” Using both Steve and Kazuya, Raki went from the internationally unknown player who took a Sumabato victory to a real bracket threat for your favorite player, and for their favorite player.
His long resume includes titans from around the North American tournament Battle of BC 7, MkLeo and omega at KOWLOON #16, and two wins on Tea at Smash That Trash: The Last Dive in the Philippines. Many of these wins are paired with his signature, explosive pop offs that highlight his energetic and confident personality.
Bringing his talents outside of Japan, Raki proves that no level of player can stop him from the thing he loves most: victory.
— Nathaniel Starr
Rarikkusu moving up only one spot perhaps truly showcases how competitive this season was — despite not only winning a major, but finishing on the podium at A tier events a grand total of four times, he ranks outside of the top 30.
As one of the faces of both the Falco and Donkey Kong revolutions that have been gaining ground over the past few years, Rarikkusu has become a staple of many Sumabato top 8s in recent memory. He truly embodies the hot and cold player archetype though, as he’s also no stranger to placing 65th at those events. No amount of cold days could hold Rarikkusu back this season though, as when he was playing hot, he was truly blazing.
Representing the new age meta, the peak of Rarikkusu’s season was his first ever major victory at Sumabato SP 58. Here, he used his new age lineup of Falco, Donkey Kong and Steve to each take a set in top 8, rewarding two of the trio with their first major victory as well.
The rest of the season saw Rarikkusu consistently reach the highest highs and take sets off top competitors like Asimo, TamaPDaifuku and even Doramigi. If the rest of the 2025 season shows us more of the flaming hot Rarikkusu we’re all coming to know and love, expect him to move way more than one spot next time!
— Alice “Alice” Len
Yaura made an explosive return to Smash Ultimate after having been on an extended hiatus, and on his return, it was like he had never left at all. Yaura’s season was characterized by two things: the DELTA series of tournaments, and losers runs.
Yaura’s first return to Smash Ultimate was the S+ Tier tournament, DELTA #10. Now normally, a competitor returning after a break from competition would have a slump period. They have to shake the rust off, and warm back up, right? Well, not Yaura, who proceeded to tear his way to a 3rd place finish at his FIRST tournament back, defeating the likes of Asimo and Rarikkusu along the way.
If that wasn’t impressive enough, Yaura’s last two tournaments of the season had a similar, equally impressive, story. Sumabato SP 59 and DELTA #11 saw Yaura get upset early on in pools, and then make a run to top 8 anyways. If Yaura had accomplished even just 1 of these runs, it would still be one of the best of the year. But the fact that Yaura did it at BOTH events, winning a combined total of 20 losers sets across only 2 tournaments, will forever cement Yaura as a losers bracket demon that you don’t want to summon into your path.
— Matthew “RisterMice” Rice
