Best 100 Super Smash Bros. Melee players in the world, ranked (2023)
Since 2013, panelists from within the Super Smash Bros. Melee community have come together to rank the best Melee players in the world. Following the dissolution of Panda’s MPGR, which became the de facto official ranking in 2018, the SSBMRank returned in 2022.
Through the joint efforts of Melee It On Me, Melee Stats, and more, there is now a formal list of the best competitors the Melee scene currently has to offer. After a hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the SSBMRank 2022 became the first global ranking of the top 100 best Melee players since 2019.
The final #SSBMRank top 3 is here!
🥇 @ZainNaghmi
🥈 @aMSaRedyoshi
🥉 @C9Mang0
Check out the full list and articles at https://t.co/04q7ILkbBa pic.twitter.com/5bSsAak0D0— start.gg (@StartGG) January 21, 2023
Best Melee players in the world
Here are the best Melee players in the world according to the SSBMRank 2022:
- Zain “Zain” Naghmi
- Masaya “aMSa” Chikamoto
- Joseph “Mang0” Marquez
- Cody Schwab
- Juan “Hungrybox” DeBiedma
- Jake “Jmook” DiRado
- William “Leffen” Hjelte
- Justin “Plup” McGrath
- Hugh “SluG” Hegarty
- Jeffrey “Axe” Williamson
- Arjun “lloD” Malhotra
- John “KoDoRiN” Ko
- Kurtis “moky” Pratt
- Shephard “Fiction” Lima
- Johnny “S2J” Kim
- Dawud “Aklo” Rahman
- Justin “Wizzrobe” Hallett
- Edgard “n0ne” Sheleby
- Josh “Joshman” Lyras
- Linus “Pipsqueak” Nordin
- Avery “Ginger” Wilson
- Miles “Soonsay” Foster
- Matt “Polish” Warshaw
- Kyle “Krudo” Krudo
- Sasha “Magi” Sullivan
- Ben “SFOP” Duren
- Zac “SFAT” Cordoni
- Joey “Lucky” Aldama
- Zaid “Spark” Ali
- Gio “null” Rossi
- Alexandra “Salt” Rennie
- Daniel “Zamu” Bernstein
- Luis “TheSWOOPER” Olivo
- Isaac “bobby big ballz” P.
- Blake “Zuppy” Burnham
- Yasin “Mekk” Mekki
- Jacob “Jflex” Pinto
- Álvaro “Trif” García Moral
- Adrian “Skerzo” Chavez
- Dan “Swift” Petruso
- Toussaint “2saint” Turnier
- Juan “Medz” Garcia
- Rishi “Rishi” Malhotra
- Luis “Smash Papi” Rangel
- Aljon “Franz” Apilado
- Derek “Aura” Olsen
- Elliot “Frenzy” Grossman
- Jean-Christophe “Lunar Dusk” Léger-Héroux
- Aaron “Professor Pro” Thomas
- Joseph “Azel” Resplandor
- Steven “FatGoku” Callopy
- Eduardo “Eddy Mexico” Lucatero Rincón
- Kyle “Kalamazhu” Zhu
- Brandon “Panda” Orooji
- Ralph “Ralph” Arroyo
- Colin “Colbol” Green
- Christian “Kürv” Melendez
- Billy “Bbatts” Batista
- Ben “Ben” Strandmark
- Ryan “Wally” Metwally
- Te Tuhi “Spud” Kelly
- Duncan “SDJ” Meara
- Daniel “ChuDat” Rodriguez
- Logan “Logan” Dunn
- Kalindi “KJH” Henderson
- Andrew “Chem” Khalili
- Dillon “Grab” Draper
- Matt “Mot$” Gaydos
- Sufyan “Suf” Hassan
- Taylor “DrLobster” Baldwin
- Dylan “Dawson” Dougherty
- Jacob “Khryke” Gilbert
- Griffin “Faceroll” Williams
- Jason “Gahtzu” Diehl
- Jordan “Panko” Kiser
- Drew “Drephen” Scoles
- Davis “Palpa” Scherer
- Vicente “Chape” Sánchez
- Daniel “Simeris” Dolin
- David “Kalvar” Coyne
- John “JJM” McCarthy
- Claire “essy” Daughtery
- Kaleo “Mad Tyro” Chase
- Nicholas “Nickemwit” Whittier
- William “Wevans” Evans
- Khalid “Khalid” Serdah
- Jonathan “TheRealThing” Clinton
- Umar “Umarth” Sohi
- Arthur “404Cray” Hernandez
- David “Slowking” Fuentes
- Ruben “Eggy” Morin
- Kevin Maples
- Vaughn “Voo” Brown
- Anees “Free Palestine” Assaf
- Micah “Logos” Weight
- Joe “JustJoe” Dattalo
- Albin “Abbe” Arvidson
- Mauricio “Rocket” Araneda
- Michael “nut” Silver
- Matteo “Matteo” Caglioti
- Lucas “shabo” Pena
More about the SSBMRank 2022 top 100
After years dominating Melee’s online scene, Zain finally emerged on top of a formal ranking of the best Melee players. Meanwhile, aMSa and Mang0 bounced back from slow starts to the year to round out the top three. With only a .1 difference in their ratings, aMSa and Mang0 effectively tied for second place.
I got 2nd cuz my name starts from A. and Mang0 starts M so that’s why.
Anyway I did my best last year then I’ll grab the top on this year!! pic.twitter.com/GloXEGZyVo
— VGBC | aMSa🎮🇨🇦 1/20-22 Genesis 9 (@aMSaRedyoshi) January 21, 2023
While Ice Climbers mains like Robert “Wobbles” Wright, Jeremy “Fly Amanita” Westfahl, and ChuDat have cracked the top 10 on official Melee rankings before, the character has performed worse since their infinite combo, known as wobbling, was banned. In spite of this, SluG saw the best year of his career by far, securing a spot in the top 10 even without wobbling.
