SSBMRank 2023
Period active December 19th, 2022 - December 17th, 2023
Region Global
Game(s) supported Super Smash Bros. Melee
Producer(s) Melee Stats

The SSBMRank 2023 lists the world's top 100 Super Smash Bros. Melee players in 2023 as compiled by Melee Stats. The rankings were announced in a series of articles published by start.gg from January 15th-26th, 2024.

For the first time in Smash history, the #1 player was not decided by the panelists, but instead was decided by a special exhibition between Zain and Cody Schwab, with Cody ultimately winning.

Methodology

29 people, such as top players, tournament organizers, writers, and analysts were chosen to be panelists for this edition of SSBMRank. The panelists were asked to rank each ballot-eligible player based on their quality of results from December 19th, 2022 to December 17th, 2023 with a value between 1 and 120, and then each player’s rating was aggregated to a single value based on their distribution of votes.

Panelists

Alberta (1) - Zedreo
California (4) - Ambisinister, Jackzilla, s-f, salami
Florida (2) - Equilateral, Quadae
Georgia (1) - Wills
Germany (1) - Nicki
Illinois (1) - Unsure
Indiana (2) - meleesadposts, Seal
Massachusetts (1) - EdwinBudding
Missouri (1) - Gaz!
Netherlands (2) - Noxxa, Nuckels
New England (1) - Gtown_Tom
New York (1) - DarkGenex
North Carolina (1) - Dilly-Jo
Nova Scotia (1) - NSFrog
Oklahoma (1) - JCloud
Pennsylvania (2) - Dawson, GimmeDatWheat
Texas (1) - Tuesday
United Kingdom (1) - 10QuidShoes
Virginia (2) - Jorge, Redd
Washington (2) - Hufff, Silvi

Rankings

 
Cody Schwab's player card
Ranking Smasher Previous rank Movement Character(s) Rating
1   Cody Schwab 4 ▲ 3   100.00
2   Zain 1 ▼ 1    99.31
3   Jmook 6 ▲ 3   98.54
4   moky 13 ▲ 9   97.73
5   Plup 8 ▲ 3    96.68
6   aMSa 2 ▼ 4   95.60
7   Hungrybox 5 ▼ 2   94.96
8   Mang0 3 ▼ 5      94.44
9   Wizzrobe 17 ▲ 8   93.43
10   Aklo 16 ▲ 6    92.88
11   KoDoRiN 12 ▲ 1   92.09
12   lloD 11 ▼ 1   91.39
13   Trif 38 ▲ 25   89.88
14   Salt 31 ▲ 17   89.74
15   Zuppy 35 ▲ 20   89.05
16   S2J 15 ▼ 1   88.50
17   Magi 25 ▲ 8   87.45
18   Morsecode762   86.87
19   Joshman 19 0   86.82
20   Polish 23 ▲ 3    85.40
21   Axe 10 ▼ 11     84.90
22   Zamu 32 ▲ 10   84.01
23   Soonsay 22 ▼ 1   83.26
24   Spark 29 ▲ 5    82.38
25   Chem 66 ▲ 41   81.66
26   Ginger 21 ▼ 5   81.10
27   SFOP 26 ▼ 1   80.40
28   Fiction 14 ▼ 14     80.11
29   SDJ 62 ▲ 33   77.48
30   Ben 59 ▲ 29    77.37
31   Krudo 24 ▼ 7   76.96
32   Panda 54 ▲ 22   76.55
33   Swift 40 ▲ 7    75.14
34   KJH 65 ▲ 31    74.28
35   Ossify   74.23
36   Bbatts 58 ▲ 22   74.03
37   n0ne 18 ▼ 19   72.10
38   Faust   71.76
39   Khalid 86 ▲ 47   71.73
40   Junebug   71.50
41   Skerzo 39 ▼ 2   70.02
42   MOF   68.38
43   Flash   68.29
44   Mekk 36 ▼ 8   66.63
45   Shroomed   65.77
46   CPU0   65.18
47   Frenzy 47 0   64.83
48   Sirmeris 79 ▲ 31   63.42
49   Khryke 72 ▲ 23    63.07
50   Gahtzu 74 ▲ 24   62.83
51   Matteo 100 ▲ 49    61.58
52   Colbol 56 ▲ 4   61.18
53   Drephen 76 ▲ 23   59.82
54   Eddy Mexico 52 ▼ 2   59.56
55   TheRealThing 87 ▲ 32   59.35
56   Azel 50 ▼ 6     59.20
57   billybopeep    58.94
58   KoopaTroopa895   56.79
59   Lunar Dusk 48 ▼ 11     56.51
60   Smash Papi 44 ▼ 16   55.78
61   Palpa 77 ▲ 16   55.23
62   Jflex 37 ▼ 25   54.68
63   Lucky 28 ▼ 35   53.07
64   Grab 67 ▲ 3   51.95
65   Kevin Maples 92 ▲ 27   51.75
66   shabo 101 ▲ 35   51.60
67   LAVITZ-01   50.49
68   Panko 75 ▲ 7   50.07
69   Kürv 57 ▼ 12    49.16
70   Free Palestine 94 ▲ 24     48.77
71   TheSWOOPER 33 ▼ 38   48.34
72   Professor Pro 49 ▼ 23   46.74
73   mvlvchi   46.31
74   Kalvar 80 ▲ 6   45.92
75   Mot$ 68 ▼ 7    45.26
76   Voo 93 ▲ 17   44.48
77   ckyulmiqnudaetr   44.13
78   null 30 ▼ 48   43.90
79   essy 82 ▲ 3     42.97
80   Asashi     42.15
81   Preeminent   40.41
82   Dawson 71 ▼ 11   39.17
83   Stiv   39.14
84   Chango   37.89
85   prof    37.19
86   Wevans 85 ▼ 1   35.70
87   Lowercase hero   35.39
88   Slowking 90 ▲ 2   35.11
89   Fishbait   33.94
90   Akir    33.29
91   Squid   31.80
92   404Cray 89 ▼ 3   31.47
93   Franz 45 ▼ 48   30.99
94   Jah Ridin'   30.81
95   Egg$    30.56
96   nut 99 ▲ 3   29.90
97   Zeo   28.13
98   Umarth 88 ▼ 10   27.89
99   Ralph 55 ▼ 44    26.49
100   K8A   26.08

Mr. 101

Ranking Smasher Previous rank Movement Character(s) Rating
101   Justus  

Honorable Mentions

The following player had the attendance requirements to be ranked but was abstained on by most panelists, with the panelists that did vote for him putting him in top 10.

Trivia

  • This year-long global Melee ranking featured a number of character-specific firsts:
    • Egg$ became the first Yoshi player other than aMSa to be ranked on a year-long global Melee ranking since nebbii on the 2018 MPGR, as well as the first Yoshi player from North America to do so.
    • Morsecode762 became the first solo Samus player to be ranked within the Top 20 on a year-long global Melee ranking since Duck on the 2018 MPGR.
    • This is the first year-long global Melee ranking to feature not only one, but three Donkey Kong players (Junebug, ckyulmiqnudaetr, and Akir).
    • This is the first year-long global Melee ranking to feature two Link players (Aklo and Egg$), as well as Link player within the Top 10 (Aklo).
    • Mekk became the first solo Ganondorf player to be ranked within the Top 50 since Kage on the SSBMRank 2017.
    • Cody Schwab became the first number 1-ranked player on a year-long global Melee ranking to be ranked with solo Fox.
  • This is the first year where ChuDat, SFAT, and Leffen did not appear on a year-long global Melee ranking. The first two did not meet activity requirements to be listed on the ballot, and the majority of panelists abstained on ranking Leffen due to him not attending any events in the latter half of 2023.
    • This also makes Leffen the first player to win a major without receiving an end-of-year ranking in the same ranking period.
  • Jah Ridin' became the first Swiss player to be ranked on a year-long global Melee ranking.
  • Cody Schwab became the first rank 1 player without a sponsor since Mango on the SSBMRank 2013.

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