Smash Ultimate April 2025 Global Rankings by Character
Every 3 months(in January, April, July and October), I show off the current top 100 best players of each character. It’s April, so that means another iteration and my second set of character-user rankings under Luminosity.
Note that these ratings are for the current point in time, not a season like LumiRank, so they represent how well a player would be expected to perform if they entered a tournament right now and so all results are considered, but with older and older results counting less and less. Also, every player gets one rating and they are put on the rankings of the characters that they main or co-main. There’s a lot more detailed information about how these rankings work here.
These rankings were released on twitter in groups of 4, but I also made a thread of all of them so they’re in one place here.
Here are the top representatives of each character:
Only 64 characters have the same top representative as in January. A whopping 11 characters’ top representative (King. K Rool, Roy, King Dedede, Shulk, Corrin, Isabelle, Mii Swordfighter, Ike, Zelda, Meta Knight and Palutena) was the previous #2 and 6 top representatives (Toon Link, The Belmonts, Sephiroth, Ness, Random, and Pokemon Trainer) just started maining/co-maining the character or picked them back up after a hiatus(either with the character or the game as a whole). Zero characters had their top spot claimed by the previous #3, but TWO (Pyra/Mythra and Sora) had their top spot claimed by the previous #4.
Here’s a breakdown of the number of characters that countries have the single top representative of, along with their change from January:
Japan: 38 (-4)
United States: 24 (+8)
Mexico: 6 (-3)
Canada: 4 (+0)
France: 4 (-2)
Dominican Republic: 2 (+0)
Guatemala: 1 (+0)
Netherlands: 1 (+0)
Finland: 1 (+0)
Germany: 1 (+0)
Australia: 1 (+1)
If we extended the country breakdown to the top 10 of each list, it looks like this:
United States: 343 (+10)
Japan: 265 (+4)
Mexico: 50 (-8)
France: 38 (-4)
Canada: 35 (+3)
Germany: 14 (-1)
Australia: 11 (-2)
United Kingdom: 11 (+1)
Spain: 10 (-2)
Chile: 6 (-2)
Netherlands: 5 (+1)
Dominican Republic: 4 (-1)
Finland: 4 (+1)
Switzerland: 4 (+1)
Venezuela: 3 (+0)
Puerto Rico: 3 (+0)
Scotland: 2 (+0)
Honduras: 2 (+0)
Italy: 2 (-1)
Colombia: 2 (+1)
Norway: 2 (+0)
Austria: 2 (+0)
Morocco: 2 (-1)
Egypt: 1 (+1)
Sweden: 1 (+0)
Guatemala: 1 (+0)
Denmark: 1 (+1)
Brazil: 1 (+0)
Belgium: 1 (+0)
Peru: 1 (+0)
China: 1 (+1)
Ireland: 1 (+0)
El Salvador: 1 (-1)
As before, Japan has a lot more top 1 representatives than the United States but this quarter, the United States has been making rapid gains on Japan in both categories! Although it wasn’t counted for this ranking, LVL Up Expo was a great showcase of the rapid improvement North America has been undergoing relative to Japan in the past year.
