TheSSBMRank 2022 lists the world's top 100Super Smash Bros. Melee players in 2022 as compiled byMelee It On Me andMelee Stats. The rankings were announced alongsideUltRank 2022 in a series ofstart.gg articles published from January 11th-20th, 2023.

Methodology[edit]

29 people, such as top players, community leaders, tournament seeders, and regional power rankers, were chosen to be panelists for this edition ofSSBMRank. The panelists were provided with the following prompt:
Based on the quality of results from March 1, 2022 to December 18, 2022 rate each player on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being best).
Exhibitions, online tournaments, and tournaments that did not complete are NOT to be counted.
You are able to rate players with high attendance well, but understand that due to Omicron and the cancellation of SWT and Panda Cup that some players may not have had the opportunity to attend as frequently as others.
You may consider results at locals and invitationals, but understand that the environment surrounding these events may not always be the most serious in nature.
If you as a panelist are a player who is on the ballot, you may give yourself a score as a placeholder, but any score you use for yourself will NOT be counted
Panelists could choose to abstain from rating a player if they felt the player was impossible to score, in which case their vote on that player would have no impact. Panelist scores were then normalized, following which a final rating would be calculated based on a point estimate of the votes, with outliers suppressed on a percentile basis.

Panelists[edit]

Alberta (1) -Zedreo
California (4) -The Crimson Blur,s-f,Jayde,Nathan Sandwich
Chile (2) -Jocha,Chape
Georgia (1) -Wills
Germany (1) -Nicki
Idaho (1) -Nickemwit
Illinois (1) -Seal
Maryland (1) -Ambisinister
Massachusetts (1) -EdwinBudding
Netherlands (2) -Noxxa,Nuckels
New Hampshire (2) -Kalvar,Gtown_Tom
New Jersey (1) -Chroma
New York (2) -DarkGenex,Melissa Blight
Ontario (2) -Faust,Zuppy
Oregon (1) -Contra
Pennsylvania (3) -GimmeDatWheat,Dawson,SluG
Quebec (1) -Sicca
Texas (1) -Tuesday
United Kingdom (1) -10QuidShoes

Rankings[edit]

Zain's player card

Ranking	Smasher	Previous rank	Movement	Character(s)	Rating
1	Zain	6	▲ 5		100.0
2	aMSa	7	▲ 5		99.0
3	Mang0	3	0		98.9
4	Cody Schwab	9	▲ 5		97.7
5	Hungrybox	1	▼ 4		96.8
6	Jmook	—	—		96.0
7	Leffen	2	▼ 5		95.1
8	Plup	8	0		94.2
9	SluG	—	—		92.7
10	Axe	4	▼ 6		92.4
11	lloD	25	▲ 14		91.8
12	KoDoRiN	70	▲ 58		90.9
13	moky	14	▲ 1		89.7
14	Fiction	12	▼ 2		89.6
15	S2J	11	▼ 4		88.4
16	Aklo	—	—		86.6
17	Wizzrobe	5	▼ 12		86.1
18	n0ne	15	▼ 3		86.0
19	Joshman	—	—		85.9
20	Pipsqueak	—	—		85.3
21	Ginger	21	0		84.3
22	Soonsay	98	▲ 76		84.1
23	Polish	63	▲ 40		81.9
24	Krudo	—	—		81.7
25	Magi	43	▲ 18		81.5
26	SFOP	—	—		80.1
27	SFAT	13	▼ 14		79.7
28	Lucky	20	▼ 8		78.0
29	Spark	22	▼ 7		77.8
30	null	—	—		76.9
31	Salt	—	—		76.2
32	Zamu	48	▲ 16		72.8
33	TheSWOOPER	99	▲ 66		72.7
34	bobby big ballz	80	▲ 46		72.4
35	Zuppy	—	—		71.8
36	Mekk	—	—		71.3
37	Jflex	—	—		71.1
38	Trif	16	▼ 22		70.6
39	Skerzo	—	—		70.1
40	Swift	—	—		70.0
41	2saint	35	▼ 6		70.0
42	Medz	32	▼ 10		69.8
43	Rishi	40	▼ 3		68.7
44	Smash Papi	—	—		67.0
45	Franz	82	▲ 37		65.4
46	Aura	60	▲ 14		65.0
47	Frenzy	76	▲ 29		63.8
48	Lunar Dusk	—	—		63.1
49	Professor Pro	34	▼ 15		61.0
50	Azel	—	—		59.8
51	FatGoku	39	▼ 12		59.6
52	Eddy Mexico	—	—		59.0
53	Kalamazhu	57	▲ 4		57.7
54	Panda	97	▲ 43		57.6
55	Ralph	—	—		57.0
56	Colbol	54	▼ 2		56.6
57	Kürv	75	▲ 18		56.5
58	Bbatts	—	—		56.3
59	Ben	—	—		55.5
60	Wally	—	—		54.8
61	Spud	38	▼ 23		54.5
62	SDJ	—	—		54.2
63	ChuDat	23	▼ 40		54.0
64	Raz	—	—		53.7
65	KJH	29	▼ 36		52.9
66	Chem	—	—		52.1
67	Grab	—	—		52.1
68	Mot$	—	—		51.2
69	Suf	—	—		50.8
70	DrLobster	—	—		49.2
71	Dawson	—	—		48.6
72	Khryke	—	—		48.3
73	Faceroll	17	▼ 56		48.2
74	Gahtzu	36	▼ 38		47.7
75	Panko	—	—		45.4
76	Drephen	49	▼ 27		45.0
77	Palpa	—	—		44.4
78	Chape	—	—		42.9
79	Sirmeris	—	—		41.9
80	Kalvar	62	▼ 18		41.3
81	JJM	—	—		38.8
82	essy	—	—		38.6
83	Mad Tyro	—	—		38.1
84	Nickemwit	58	▼ 26		37.0
85	Wevans	—	—		36.4
86	Khalid	—	—		35.9
87	TheRealThing	86	▼ 1		34.8
88	Umarth	87	▼ 1		33.6
89	404Cray	—	—		33.4
90	Slowking	—	—		32.8
91	Eggy	—	—		31.9
92	Kevin Maples	64	▼ 28		31.5
93	Voo	—	—		31.4
94	Free Palestine	72	▼ 22		29.6
95	Logos	—	—		29.6
96	JustJoe	—	—		29.4
97	Abbe	—	—		29.4
98	Rocket	—	—		29.2
99	nut	61	▼ 38		28.1
100	Matteo	—	—		27.9

Mr. 101^[1][edit]

Ranking	Smasher	Previous rank	Movement	Character(s)	Rating
101	shabo	—	—		—

Trivia[edit]

• Zain became the first non-god player to be ranked #1 on a year-long globalMelee ranking.
• Rocket became the first soloYoung Link player to be ranked on a globalMelee ranking.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Twitter Announcement
• SSBMRank 2022
• SSBMRank 2022 on start.gg:100-9190-8180-7170-6160-5150-4140-3130-2120-1110-1
• SSBMRank 2022 Top 10 on YouTube

• SSBMRank