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A power ranking, often shortened to PR, is a list that ranks the professional and competitive smashers in a particular region in order of perceived skill level. It can be for a state, country, or even the world. They are designed to showcase and honour skilled players, and to encourage competitors to improve. The judgement and presentation of each area's power rankings is usually determined by panels of active players in the region's community, who are familiar with each person's abilities. However, the accuracy of the rankings is limited to the knowledge and understanding of the people in these panels. Many factors go into determining how players are ranked such as tournament results and head to head records with other players from the region. Separate sets of Power Rankings exist for separate games in the Smash Bros. series; rarely do the same players ever appear on multiple lists.

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Not many places in the world used to hold a power ranking panel similar to that of other Smash games. In recent years with the popularity of Smash 64 growing this has changed however and most regions in the US and Canada now have their own Power Rankings.

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  • 64 League Rankings is a global ranking, but only lists players who attended a tournament in North America, omitting lots of Japanese and South American top players.

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A number of Power Rankings exist for Super Smash Bros. Melee.

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  • SSBMRank - rank based on a group of panelists gaving smashers a ranking of 1 to 10. Was active from 2013 to 2017, with the branding being revived in 2022.
  • RetroSSBMRank - created in 2016, unofficially ranking the top 10 players of each year prior to SSBMRank in retro perspective

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  • MPGR - rank based on a group of panelists giving smashers a ranking of 1 to 10, sponsored by Panda. Created in 2018 to replace SSBMRank and updated bianually until being discontinued in 2022 following that year's controversy involving Panda.
  • SSBPD - rank based on an Elo rating system. Discontinued as of summer 2012

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  • Florida - last updated Spring 2015, split into South Florida and Central Florida
  • Smash Panel - discontinued, ranked players according to their performance in U.S. tournaments, last updated 2006
  • Mid-South - for Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi & Tennessee, split into lists for each state now, last updated May 27th, 2007
  • Midwest - last updated January 14th, 2007
  • North Atlantic - split into New England (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island & Connecticut), Tri-State (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania) and MD/VA (Maryland, Virginia & Washington D.C.), last updated July 4th, 2007
  • Tristate - split into New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, last updated Winter 2019

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BrawlEdit

Since Brawl's release, a lot of separate power rankings have been released for Melee and Brawl. Since 2014, however, mostly due to the release of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Brawl's tournament scene has drastically decreased, and most rankings have been discontinued. However, the SSBBRank remains active, but covers periods of two or three years instead of one.

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Smash 4Edit

A vast array of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U power rankings have been created since its release. Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS does not have separate rankings, as it is not played in most competitive communities worldwide. Since Super Smash Bros. Ultimate release, most Smash 4 power rankings have been discontinued as its competitive scene has moved onto the most recent entry in the series.

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Global Power Rankings
64 64 League Rankings: 2016 · 2017 · 2018
SSB64UPR: 2019-2020 · 2020 · 2021-2022 · 2023
Melee SSBMRank: 2013 · Summer 2014 · 2014 · Summer 2015 · 2015 · 2016 · Summer 2017 · 2017 · 2022 · Summer 2023 · 2023 · Summer 2024
MPGR: Summer 2018 · 2018 · Summer 2019 · 2019 · MPGRContenders · Summer 2022
Brawl SSBBRank: 2014 · 2016-2017 · 2018-2019 · 2020-2022 · 2023
Smash 4 PGR: v1 · v2 · v3 · v4 · v5 · 100
Ultimate PGRU: Spring 2019 · Fall 2019 · Spring 2020 · PGRUContenders · v3
LumiRank: 2022 · Mid-Year 2023 · 2023 · 2024.1 · 2024.2
Project M PMRank: 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · Quarantine's Rising Stars · 2021-22 Mid-Season · 2022 · 2023 · 2024
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Alternate Global Power Rankings
Melee RetroSSBMRank · SSBPD · EventHubs · Top 100
Brawl RetroSSBBRank
Smash 4 OrionRank: 2016 · 2017 · Mid-Spring 2018 · 2018
Other: EventHubs · Cloudhead
Ultimate OrionRank: Six Months In · 2019 · Pre-Quarantine · Ultimate: Eclipse · Mid-Year 2022 · 2022
Project M 3.6Rank

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