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 (504) [Winner of LA North #1 & #7, Mexico #1, LA South #2, #3, & #6, Euro East #3, #4, & #7, NA West #4, Brazil #6, NA East #6]

Bionic Bounce 494
Enhanced Air Blast 492
Grenade Launcher 484
Lethal Clinch 19
(Air) Ground Pound 18
Cybernetic Override 10
(Air) Dive Bomb 4
Hyper Knee 1

Cetrion (372) [Winner of Brazil #1, NA West #1 & #2, Brazil #3, LA North #5, and Oceania #6]

H2 P0rt 372
Deadly Winds 366
Earthquake 366
Geyser 6

Scorpion (364) [Winner of LA South #1, Euro West #3, Brazil #4, and North America West #6]

Hell Port Cancel 332
Burning Spear 213
(Air) Demon Slam 59
(Air) Sin Blade 48
Misery Blade 21
Demon Dash 18
Demon Breath 15
Death Spin 12
Death Spear Kombo 11
Hell Flame 8

Sub-Zero (341) [Winner of NA West #7 and Euro East #8]

Creeping Ice 283
Deep Freeze 253
(Air) Polar Axe 132
Rising Ice 90
Arctic Trap 8

Kung Lao (242) [Winner of Brazil #2 & #5]

Buzz Saw 125
Possessed Hat 123
Orbiting Hat 90
Omega Hat 62
Z-Hat 33
Spiritual Guidance 28
(Air) Teleport 16
Guided Hat 6

Kotal Kahn (186) [Winner of LA North #2, #3, #4, & #8, NA East #2, and NA West #8]

Huehhueyi 185
Grand Discus 133
Kahn-Cut 96
Amocualli Totem 73
Tecuani Maul 67

Jade (181) [Winner of Mexico #3]

Delia's Dance 164
(Air) Razor-Rang 153
Pole Vault 96
Deadly Assassin 48
Amplify Blazing Nitro Kick 32
Edenian Spark 23
Upward Razor-Rang 21
Pole Vault Cancel 5

Liu Kang (180) [Winner of Brazil #7 and Mexico #8]

Low Fireball 180
Dragon Fire 164
Kusari Slam 129
Dragon Parry 22
Dragon's Gifts 19
Shaolin Stance 12
Nunchuku Stance 8
Energy Parry 6

Kabal (174) [Winner of Mexico #5]

Hook Grab 169
(Air) Slight Gas 121
Dash Cancel 52
Low Hook Grab 36
Gas Blast 21
(Air) Straight Buzzin' 1
Extended Hook 1

Joker (170) [Winner of NA East #1 and Euro West #5 & #8]

KAPOW 148
Jumping Jester 98
Batsy Pew Pew 55
BOING 20
Jack In The Box 15
Getting Lit 5
Corpse Trot 3

Noob Saibot (162) [Winner of Mexico #2, LA South #7, and North America East #8]

Shadow Slide 161
Shadow Portals 120
Spirit Ball 84
(Air) Tele Slam 80
Sickle Snag 40

Fujin (161) [Winner of Oceania #2]

Sky Wakka 161
Airsenal 152
Warped Needle 102
Wind Push 59
(Air) Wind Barrier 7

Sindel (151) [Winner of Euro East #1 and Oceania #4]

Low Star Screamer 135
(Air) Banshee Dash 97
Whip & Flip 84
(Air) Deadly Echo 38
Hair Kut 30
(Air) Banshee Barrage 27
(Air) Bellowing Banshee 8

Geras (146)

Quick Sand 141
Shifting Sands 108
Bed Of Spikes 70
Sand Simulacrum 68
Gauntlet Of The Ages 25
Sand Pillar 13
Stepping It Back 8

Johnny Cage (142) [Winner of Mexico #4 & #7, Euro West #4, and Oceania #7]

Throwing Shades 134
Rising Star 132
Pissed Off 100
Low Forceball 39
Say Cheese 4
Stunt Double 3
High Forceball 2
Brass Knuckles 1

Shang Tsung (127) [Winner of Euro East #2 & #5]

Shake 94
Force Lift 73
Slide 68
Ground Eruption 49
Super Kick 32
Inferno Skull 10
Vile Sorcery 4
Soul Swap 3
Explosive Corpses 1

D'Vorah (114) [Winner of NA East #3]

Strepsipterra 111
Widow's Kiss 101
Deadly Swarm 14
Parasite 9
Flippin' Out 4

Erron Black (111) [Winner of Euro West #2 & #6, LA South #4, and LA North #6]

Scud Shot 90
Enhanced Locked and Loaded 87
Cattle Toss 58
Down Peacemaker 27
Enhanced Rattle Snake Slide 21
Acid Pour 21
Outworld Gunslinger 18
TNT Toss 11
Up Peacemaker 4
Netherbeast Trap 1

Sheeva (106) [Winner of NA West #3, NA East #4, and Euro East #6]

Queen's Punishment 96
Dragon Stance 66
Enhanced Dragon Drop 53
Spinning Dragon 34
Tremor 25
Death March 16
Dragon Charge 15
Battle Scars 14
Shokan Snag 3

Sonya Blade (105) [Winner of NA East #5]

Energy Rings Charge 102
K.A.T. Orbital Drop 95
(Air) Marching Orders 49
(Air) Downward Energy Rings 31
Krushing Kounters 19
(Air) Soaring General 11
(Air) Ops Drop 5

Spawn (100)

Charging Hellspawn 99
(Air) Leetha Glide 43
Soul Forfeit 35
Raising Hell 13
Blaze of Glory 6
Plasm Pool 3
Hell Chain 1
Lethal Leetha Stance 1

Kano (99)

Lumbar Check 94
Chemical Burn 69
Bio-Magnetic Pull 43
Manhandled 39
Vege-Mighty 21
Snake Bite 14
Molotov Cocktail 1
Optic Blast 1

Frost (97) [Winner of Oceania #1 & #5 and LA South #8]

Ice Auger 93
(Air) Ice Quake 71
Microburst 71
Cryogenic Crown 17
Glacier Calving 18
Arctic Barrage 3
Auger Lunge 1

Skarlet (77)

Bloodport 77
Boiling Point 61
Dagger Dance 55
Red Rain 17
Retch-Rebution 11
Blood Ritual 5
Cell Siphon 4
Blood Flow 1

Rain (75) [Winner of NA West #5 and Brazil #8]

Geyser Palm 49
Hydro Boost 42
Tidal Wave 45
Edenian Force 31
Quantum Rift 20
Quantum Slice 20
Hydroplane 12
Water Ball 2
Riptide 1

Cassie Cage (73)

Kneecappin' 70
Flippin' Out 62
Shoulder Charge 47
Flying Glow Kick 30
(Air) Bullet Barrage 7
BLB-118 Bullet Ricochet 3

Nightwolf (68) [Winner of Oceania #8]

Rising Tomahawk 63
Tomahawk Swing 36
Hanna's Wrath 28
Lightning Arrow 8
Moonfall 5

Kitana (53)

Low Fan Toss 42
Ground War 31
(Air) Fan Flutter 30
Half-Blood Stance 20
Upward Fan Toss 9
Edenian Twist 3
Retreating and Advancing Fan Flutter 3
Fan-nado 1

Terminator (53)

Running Man 50
T.D.E. 37
Albi Back Breaker 31
(Air) Death Grip 24
Cyber Rift 4
Ion Grenade 4
Incapacitator 3
Rolling Ion Grenade 3

Kollector (52)

Demonic Clutch 49
Fade Out 31
Relic Lure 19
Bag Bomb 16
Vial of Sorrow 13
Demonic Comet 3
Up Demonic Mace 2

Raiden (35)

Sparkport 30
Stormcell 30
Electric Current 5
Quick Charge 5
Electric Burst 4
Lightning Storm 1

Shao Kahn (32) [Winner of Euro West #1 and Mexico #6]

Skewered 25
Annihilation 19
Dark Priest 14
(Air) Wrath Hammer 10
Up Wrath Hammer 9
Spear Charge 8
Ground Shatter 7
Wrath Hammer 2

Mileena (30)

Play Time 30
Stabyscotch 29
Rolling Thunder 20
(Air) Tele-Drop 4
Vanish 3
(Air) Soaring Sai 2
Sai Slide 2

Baraka (29)

Spine Burst 16
Blade Charge 15
Gutted 14
Baraka Barrage 12
Leg Kabob 12
Blood Lunge 2

Jax (21) [Winner of LA South #5]

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

RoboCop (10) [Winner of Oceania #3]

Low Auto-9 10
Arm Crowd Control Cannon 9
Terminal Strip 6
Flamethrower 3
Cheval Trap 1
Electric Shield 1

Rambo (5)

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

Last edited: May 24, 2021

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Last edited: May 24, 2021

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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