It’s the last day of the countdown! Big surprises are normal for this ranking, but things simmer down late into the top 10. Until then, we’re seeing the great expanse of players who managed to be the truly elite during one the game’s hardest years.
Without further ado, for for the last time…
On the third day, we ramp things up, with surprisingly low & high placements based on the legacy of Smash 4 ‘s metagame. Here, we’ll see some of Japan’s depth shine, and see familiar names that have stuck around for years in this area of the ranking.
Without further ado…
We saw a few surprises in Day 1, but here, we’ll get into players with increasingly definitive records. Superregional players, people with positive Top 20 records, people with multiple big wins – all of that!
Without further ado…
Hi! I’m Barnard’s Loop. For the last time, I’m here to present OrionRank. For 2018, I did the numbers work, while freeziebeatz did the graphic work, this time with a Persona-inspired template.
The methodology is more or less what it was in prior years and will be published on Day 5 with other closing bits of material.
Anyways…
This ranking may be the most chaotic of them all. It’s a year where Japan has their own near-equivalent metagame due to the increase in value their events got after 2017, it’s a year where many long-loved titans retired or fell off due to a lack of activity, and it’s a year often defined by smaller regional events, as majors started to rapidly take a backseat as the year neared its end.
Without further ado…
In The Loop 