Smash Bros. Ultimate Creator Says Every Character Has Roughly The Same Win Rate

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If you're not very good at playing a certain Super Smash Bros. Ultimate character, creator Masahiro Sakurai says it's a skill issue, as he recently revealed that every character in the game has roughly the same win rate globally.

One of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's biggest strengths is its variety, with almost 90 different characters to choose from, each with their own positive and negative attributes that players have to work with. Due to so many characters feeling so different, you do get the sense that some of them may be a little undercooked and competitively unviable, while others can be a little too overpowered and broken. Looking at you two, Steve and Sora.

However, Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai has explained that this isn't actually the case. In a new video uploaded to his personal YouTube channel (thanks Culture Crave), Sakurai reveals that every character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has a fairly close win rate, with a less than five percent difference between the game's entire roster.

Towards the end of Sakurai's video, he explains that the data collected across the entire globe from online Smash Bros. Ultimate matches puts the character with the highest win rate at 51.43 percent. On the other hand, the lowest win rate for a character is 47.18 percent, with the rest of the game's roster falling between those two statistics. Sakurai doesn't name which characters these are (which is probably for the best), but he does think the data proves that "any fighter has a shot at winning a match".

Of course, a character's official win rate doesn't paint the whole picture, but it is interesting to see that any character has the potential to beat pretty much any other character as long as your personal skills are up to snuff. It also speaks volumes as to how well-balanced Smash Bros. Ultimate actually is, as a less than five percent difference in win percentage across 89 different characters is no small feat.

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