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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.

Super Smash Bros.

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.

Global

  • 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.

USA United States

Canada Canada

Australia Australia

Europe Europe

Melee

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

Global

  • MPGR - rank based on a group of panelists gaving smashers a ranking of 1 to 10. Created in 2018 to replace SSBMRank and updated bianually
  • RetroSSBMRank - created in 2016, unofficially ranking the top 10 players of each year prior to SSBMRank in retro perspective

Discontinued

  • SSBMRank - rank based on a group of panelists gaving smashers a ranking of 1 to 10. Was active from 2013 to 2017.
  • SSBPD - rank based on an Elo rating system. Discontinued as of summer 2012

United States

discontinued

  • 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

Canada

current

discontinued

Europe

Japan

Australia

Other

Brawl

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.

Global

United States

-

Canada

Europe

  • Germany Germany - last updated: September 2014
  • Iceland Iceland - last updated: July 2014
  • Spain Spain - last updated: June 2014

Japan

-

Other

-

Project M

Global

United States

Canada

Europe

Smash 4

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.

Global

United States

Canada

Japan

Europe

  • Austria Austria - last updated: January 2017
  • Belgium Belgium - last updated: December 2018
  • Denmark Denmark - last updated: January 2018
  • England England - last updated: May 2017
  • Finland Finland - last updated: June 2018
  • France France - last updated: May 2018
  • Germany Germany - last updated: October 2017
  • Iceland Iceland - last updated: February 2018
  • Ireland Ireland - last updated: April 2018
  • Italy Italy - last updated: Spring 2018
  • Luxembourg Luxembourg - last updated: 2017
  • Netherlands Netherlands - last updated: January 2017
  • Portugal Portugal - last updated: Winter 2016/2017
  • Scotland Scotland - last updated: Fall 2017
  • Spain Spain - last updated: March 2018
  • Sweden Sweden - last updated: August 2017
  • Wales Wales - last updated: Summer 2017

Other

Online

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Global

United States

Canada

Japan

Europe

Asia-Pacific

Latin America

Africa

Online

External links

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