A new Pro Kompetition is upon us and that means its time for me to once again count every time a character is used in one of the (many, many) online tour event top 8s (and occasionally top 4, depending on what is streamed) Also, remember that this is just for fun and I failed math several times in several different ways in college, if something doesn't add up completely or seems off...its because I am big dumb.

Jacqui Briggs (403) [Winner of Latin America North #1, Latin America South #2, #3, #6, Mexico #1, Brazil #6 Europe East #3 & #4, North America West #4, and North America East #6]

Bionic Bounce 392
Enhanced Air Blast 390
Grenade Launcher 382
Lethal Clinch 19
(Air) Ground Pound 18
Cybernetic Override 10
(Air) Dive Bomb 4
Hyper Knee 1

Scorpion (304) [Winner of Latin America South #1, Europe West #3, Brazil #4 and North America West #6]

Hell Port Cancel 278
Burning Spear 168
(Air) Demon Slam 49
(Air) Sin Blade 46
Misery Blade 21
Demon Dash 18
Demon Breath 15
Death Spin 7
Death Spear Kombo 6
Hell Flame 6

Cetrion (284) [Winner of Brazil #1 & #3, North America West #1 & #2, Latin America North #5, and Oceania #6]

Deadly Winds 284
Earthquake 284
H2 P0rt 284

Kung Lao (214) [Winner of Brazil #2 & #5]

Buzz Saw 103
Possessed Hat 103
Orbiting Hat 85
Omega Hat 57
Z-Hat 32
Spiritual Guidance 27
(Air) Teleport 14
Guided Hat 6

Sub-Zero (194)

Creeping Ice 155
Deep Freeze 147
(Air) Polar Axe 70
Rising Ice 49
Arctic Trap 8

Fujin (152) [Winner of Oceania #2]

Sky Wakka 152
Airsenal 143
Warped Needle 95
Wind Push 57
(Air) Wind Barrier 7

Jade (140) [Winner of Mexico #3]

Delia's Dance 123
(Air) Razor-Rang 117
Pole Vault 78
Deadly Assassin 33
Amplify Blazing Nitro Kick 27
Upward Razor-Rang 19
Edenian Spark 17
Pole Vault Cancel 5

Kabal (128) [Winner of Mexico #5]

Hook Grab 127
(Air) Slight Gas 89
Dash Cancel 38
Low Hook Grab 28
Gas Blast 12
(Air) Straight Buzzin' 1

Kotal Kahn (128) [Winner of Latin America North #2, #3, #4 & North America East #2]

Huehhueyi 128
Grand Discus 103
Amocualli Totem 67
Kahn-Cut 51
Tecuani Maul 34

Liu Kang (128)

Low Fireball 128
Dragon Fire 112
Kusari Slam 95
Dragon's Gifts 18
Dragon Parry 17
Nunchuku Stance 8
Energy Parry 6

Johnny Cage (120) [Winner of Mexico #4 & Winner of Europe West #4]

Throwing Shades 112
Rising Star 111
Pissed Off 84
Low Forceball 33
Say Cheese 4
Stunt Double 3
Brass Knuckles 1
High Forceball 1

Joker (120) [Winner of North America East #1 and Europe West #5]

KAPOW 98
Jumping Jester 78
Batsy Pew Pew 42
Jack In The Box 15
BOING 6
Getting Lit 5

Geras (119)

Quick Sand 117
Shifting Sands 81
Bed Of Spikes 60
Sand Simulacrum 51
Gauntlet Of The Ages 25
Sand Pillar 10
Stepping It Back 8

Shang Tsung (117) [Winner of Europe East #2 & #5]

Shake 88
Force Lift 70
Slide 67
Ground Eruption 45
Super Kick 29
Inferno Skull 8
Explosive Corpses 1

Noob Saibot (112) [Winner of Mexico #2]

Shadow Slide 111
Shadow Portals 82
Spirit Ball 63
(Air) Tele Slam 50
Sickle Snag 29

Sheeva (94) [Winner of North America West #3, North America East #4, and Europe East #6]

Queen's Punishment 86
Dragon Stance 59
Enhanced Dragon Drop 46
Spinning Dragon 29
Tremor 23
Death March 16
Dragon Charge 15
Battle Scars 9
Shokan Snag 3

Erron Black (90) [Winner of Europe West #2 & #6, Latin America South #4, and Latin America North #6]

Enhanced Locked and Loaded 69
Scud Shot 69
Cattle Toss 52
Down Peacemaker 24
Enhanced Rattle Snake Slide 21
Outworld Gunslinger 18
TNT Toss 11
Acid Pour 6
Up Peacemaker 4
Netherbeast Trap 1

Sindel (86) [Winner of Europe East #1 and Oceania #4]

Low Star Screamer 74
(Air) Banshee Dash 52
Whip & Flip 48
Hair Kut 22
(Air) Deadly Echo 17
(Air) Banshee Barrage 11
(Air) Bellowing Banshee 8

D'Vorah (85) [Winner of North America East #3]

Strepsipterra 83
Widow's Kiss 77
Deadly Swarm 10
Parasite 5
Flippin' Out 4

Spawn (84)

Charging Hellspawn 83
(Air) Leetha Glide 42
Soul Forfeit 27
Blaze of Glory 6
Raising Hell 6
Plasm Pool 3
Hell Chain 1
Lethal Leetha Stance 1

Sonya Blade (82) [Winner of North America East #5]

Energy Rings Charge 79
K.A.T. Orbital Drop 72
(Air) Marching Orders 33
(Air) Downward Energy Rings 24
Krushing Kounters 19
(Air) Soaring General 11
(Air) Ops Drop 5

Cassie Cage (70)

Kneecappin' 70
Flippin' Out 62
Shoulder Charge 44
Flying Glow Kick 27
(Air) Bullet Barrage 7

Kano (66)

Lumbar Check 64
Chemical Burn 37
Manhandled 34
Bio-Magnetic Pull 21
Snake Bite 14
Vege-Mighty 11
Molotov Cocktail 1
Optic Blast 1

Frost (63) [Winner of Oceania #1 & #5]

Ice Auger 60
(Air) Ice Quake 44
Microburst 41
Glacier Calving 15
Cryogenic Crown 13
Arctic Barrage 3

Nightwolf (53)

Rising Tomahawk 48
Tomahawk Swing 35
Hanna's Wrath 16
Lightning Arrow 6
Moonfall 5

Skarlet (52)

Bloodport 52
Boiling Point 36
Dagger Dance 30
Red Rain 17
Retch-Rebution 11
Blood Ritual 5
Cell Siphon 4
Blood Flow 1

Rain (49) [Winner of North America West #5]

Geyser Palm 40
Hydro Boost 34
Tidal Wave 23
Edenian Force 15
Quantum Rift 15
Hydroplane 12
Quantum Slice 3
Water Ball 2
Riptide 1

Kitana (45)

Low Fan Toss 34
(Air) Fan Flutter 23
Ground War 23
Half-Blood Stance 20
Upward Fan Toss 9
Retreating and Advancing Fan Flutter 3
Edenian Twist 2
Fan-nado 1

Shao Kahn (29) [Winner of Europe West #1 and Mexico #6]

Skewered 22
Annihilation 17
Dark Priest 14
(Air) Wrath Hammer 10
Up Wrath Hammer 8
Spear Charge 7
Ground Shatter 5
Wrath Hammer 2

Jax (21) [Winner of Latin America South #5]

Quad Grab 20
Expert Grappler 18
Ripped 18
Enhanced Outranked 2
Lethal Clap 2

Baraka (20)

Gutted 11
Baraka Barrage 10
Spine Burst 10
Blade Charge 8
Leg Kabob 8
Blood Lunge 1

Terminator (20)

Running Man 17
Albi Back Breaker 15
T.D.E. 14
(Air) Death Grip 3
Incapacitator 3
Rolling Ion Grenade 3
Cyber Rift 2

Kollector (17)

Demonic Clutch 14
Relic Lure 10
Vial of Sorrow 4
Bag Bomb 4
Demonic Comet 3
Fade Out 4
Up Demonic Mace 2

Raiden (17)

Sparkport 12
Stormcell 12
Electric Current 5
Quick Charge 5
Electric Burst 4
Lightning Storm 1

Mileena (13)

Play Time 13
Stabyscotch 12
(Air) Tele-Drop 4
Rolling Thunder 4
Vanish 3
(Air) Soaring Sai 2
Sai Slide 1

RoboCop (9) [Winner of Oceania #3]

Arm Crowd Control Cannon 9
Low Auto-9 9
Terminal Strip 5
Flamethrower 3
Electric Shield 1

Rambo (5)

Snare Trap 4
Leopard Krawl 3
Shoulder Roll 2
Claymore 1
FUBAR 1

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Alright, so day one of the 2020/2021 Pro Kompetition is in the books. This first post represents the first weekend of Liga Latina which was four events total. We saw the Top 8 of Brazil #1 and Mexico #1 and the top 4 of Latin America North and South #1. Hot take so far, Jacqui is still really dangerous.

I will see ya'll next weekend for Oceania, Europe East, and Europe West #1!

Good writeup, these kinda stats always very interesting to me

Love these stats, thx

Just saw a comment in another treat and it says "there are not that jacqui players" lol

Great job man.

Fujin (11)

(Air) Wind Barrier (4)

Is this for real though?

One of the interesting things to me was that the number of Reborn Scorpions almost directly correlated with the number of Goo-graded Jacqui's. Reborn seemed to be THE Latin American counter pick to Jacqui. Just about everyone in the four top 8s had a Reborn they would switch to when fighting Jacqui.

Aside from more variety due to customs, nothing's really changed. Same old top tier

John_NX said:
Aside from more variety due to customs, nothing's really changed. Same old top tier

While true in a general sense for tier placements (yay Jacqui and Cetrion), you cant deny the huge uptick in Scorpion, Jade, Kotal, and Kano usage is a pretty big deal. Also, Johnny has been almost nowhere to be seen.

For day 1, this is rather interesting so far (aside from all the Jacqui/Cetrion usage). I'm curious to see how things shake out with the other nations' days.

One thing with the Jacqui craziness is that nearly half of those came from Latin America North where there were two Jacqui's in top 4 and a mirror grand finals bracket reset.

There were definitely a shit load of Jacqui's but I think that if the full top eight of both Latin America North and South had been streamed, the numbers would have looked a bit less crazily Jacqui heavy.

Last edited: Dec 15, 2020

Updated to include Oceania, East, and West Europe #1

Shao Kahn wins a tournament and still 0 appearances from Raiden :'(

Wow would you look at that

Noob consistently in every big brain top 10 tier list, yet absolutely nowhere to be found in pro komp.

Also, Jade consistently low S high A on every list, yet here she is being used effectively in pro komp. Funny stuff

Definitely not enough Jacqui, Jacqui hasn't won anything :DOGE

Zer0_h0ur said:
Wow would you look at that

Noob consistently in every big brain top 10 tier list, yet absolutely nowhere to be found in pro komp.

Also, Jade consistently low S high A on every list, yet here she is being used effectively in pro komp. Funny stuff

So whats the point your trying to make? Shao khan is at the bottom of every tierlist, and he just won a tourney.
This game is alot more about playerskill instead of how good your character is.

Damn no Kabal

Now that I've slept and I'm not formatting this list at 1am here are a few quick thoughts and one note from the second weekend of the Pro Komp.

This weekend we saw a mad lad land Johnny's sunglasses KB as the first hit of a round. We saw a bracket with more Shao Kahn than Jacqui, Cetrion, or Liu combined. We saw our first player DQ'd for an "offensive" variation name. Kung Lao and Scorpion dominating the numbers game was not exactly on my bingo sheet. And another madlad finally picked something other than Goo-Graded Jacqui (just regular ol' Upgraded lol).

Also a note on the characters 'winning' a tournament. Oceania made me feel like I almost need to put a 'Most Valuable Character' tag as well as what character won. Frost may have won Oceania in the literal sense that the player used her to win the final game of Grand Finals, but there is no arguing that his Cetrion got him through the backend of losers and the first five games of grand finals.

Thanks for looking upon and discussing all of my numbers! See y'all next weekend for NA West and NA East!!!!

Amazing work... this is a real asset to the community, thank you!

If you happen to be keeping track of this as well, it would be fascinating to see player numbers alongside match usage numbers. That is, how many unique players used each character?

Just an added layer that would help to distinguish between match usage due to (A) a lot of players picking up a character (popularity) vs. (B) a few players taking that character on a long run (character loyalty). For instance, I'm assuming the 9 matches with Shao Kahn is primarily (exclusively?) by VideoGamezYo, who's a known Shao character loyalist. That's a lot different than if, say, 3 players used Shao for 3 matches each.

Hellbringer said:
So whats the point your trying to make? Shao khan is at the bottom of every tierlist, and he just won a tourney.
This game is alot more about playerskill instead of how good your character is.

Just the observation how the tier lists don't always jive with results. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.

Obly said:
Amazing work... this is a real asset to the community, thank you!

If you happen to be keeping track of this as well, it would be fascinating to see player numbers alongside match usage numbers. That is, how many unique players used each character?

Just an added layer that would help to distinguish between match usage due to (A) a lot of players picking up a character (popularity) vs. (B) a few players taking that character on a long run (character loyalty). For instance, I'm assuming the 9 matches with Shao Kahn is primarily (exclusively?) by VideoGamezYo, who's a known Shao character loyalist. That's a lot different than if, say, 3 players used Shao for 3 matches each.

I actually have thought about doing this! If I don't end up running into a character limit on the OP, I'll probably toss a player guide in the reserved comment right under it!

TheJaxLife said:
Now that I've slept and I'm not formatting this list at 1am here are a few quick thoughts and one note from the second weekend of the Pro Komp.

This weekend we saw a mad lad land Johnny's sunglasses KB as the first hit of a round. We saw a bracket with more Shao Kahn than Jacqui, Cetrion, or Liu combined. We saw our first player DQ'd for an "offensive" variation name. Kung Lao and Scorpion dominating the numbers game was not exactly on my bingo sheet. And another madlad finally picked something other than Goo-Graded Jacqui (just regular ol' Upgraded lol).

Also a note on the characters 'winning' a tournament. Oceania made me feel like I almost need to put a 'Most Valuable Character' tag as well as what character won. Frost may have won Oceania in the literal sense that the player used her to win the final game of Grand Finals, but there is no arguing that his Cetrion got him through the backend of losers and the first five games of grand finals.

Thanks for looking upon and discussing all of my numbers! See y'all next weekend for NA West and NA East!!!!

Loool was the DQ streamed?

Trini_Bwoi said:
Loool was the DQ streamed?

Yeah it was right in the middle of top eight lol. I believe it was VideoGamezYo's brother...he had an Erron with a variation name accusing some Youtuber (I think) of being a sex offender/pedophile

This is great data. The thing that jumps out at me initially is the relatively poor ability diversity among most of the cast. Notable standouts here include are Jacqui and Cetrion where 99% of the players played exactly the same builds. Kustoms are great but it's clear NRS still has a lot of work to do.

Jowabunga said:
This is great data. The thing that jumps out at me initially is the relatively poor ability diversity among most of the cast. Notable standouts here include are Jacqui and Cetrion where 99% of the players played exactly the same builds. Kustoms are great but it's clear NRS still has a lot of work to do.

This is pretty much what some of us predicted to happen from the start, though — that people would just find the strongest combinations early and use those most of the time.

I still think that having the flexibility is good, though; and I think that people will flesh out more MU-specific tweaks as time goes on.

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