Fast following onto our Tier analysis series: K9999-ex wins 92.7% of fights in X-tier. Lord of the Rangs wins 11.3% in S-tier. The gap between the best and worst fighter in every tier tells you everything about how SaltyBet’s ecosystem works — and why betting on name recognition alone will lose you Salty Bucks.

We pulled the top 5 and worst 5 fighters in every tier (minimum 50 matches for reliable data) from our database of over half a million SaltyBet matches. Here’s what the data looks like at both ends of every tier.


X-Tier: The Apex

X-tier is the top of SaltyBet. 940 fighters, the highest average pot ($10.4M), and the most well-known characters on the roster. But even at the top, the spread is massive, and we do mean massive.

Best of X-Tier

FighterWin RateRecord
K9999-ex92.7%51-4
Momo-len-santa ver1.2085.2%52-9
M_hotaru83.6%46-9
Ereshkigal-e83.3%55-11
Orochi nagamori76.3%45-14

K9999-ex is the closest thing SaltyBet has to a guaranteed win — 92.7% across 55 matches. That’s losing only 4 fights total. If you see K9999-ex on the screen, the data says bet that side and don’t think twice. All in, baby. No hesitation.

Worst of X-Tier

FighterWin RateRecord
Ultimate freeza26.0%13-37
Goa31.4%16-35
Dracula EX235.3%18-33
Ash zako36.8%21-36
Msz-010-b fa-zz-gundam41.2%21-30

Ultimate Freeza — a Dragon Ball Z final boss — wins just 26% of X-tier fights. Even in the top tier, someone has to lose. The spread from best to worst in X-tier is 66.7 percentage points (92.7% to 26.0%).


S-Tier: Where Dominance Lives

S-tier is the workhorse of SaltyBet’s upper ranks — 1,754 fighters, 32% of all matches. The best S-tier fighters are terrifyingly consistent. The worst are trapped in a tier they can’t compete in.

Best of S-Tier

FighterWin RateRecord
Primeus89.1%172-21
Shiva-hell89.1%205-25
Element -a-88.8%175-22
Flawless specter88.0%191-26
Mega weapon88.0%162-22

Primeus and Shiva-hell are tied at 89.1%, but Shiva-hell has the edge in volume — 230 matches vs 193. These aren’t small samples. Shiva-hell has won 205 fights. That’s dominance at scale.

Worst of S-Tier

FighterWin RateRecord
Lord of the rangs11.3%7-55
Bad box art megaman11.5%6-46
Trevor spacey11.8%6-45
Taki EX312.5%9-63
Kanon del geminis12.8%10-68

Here’s the number that should surprise you: the bottom of S-tier is worse than the bottom of X-tier. Lord of the Rangs wins 11.3% in S-tier. Ultimate Freeza wins 26.0% in X-tier. The floor of S-tier is 15 points lower than the floor of X-tier.

Why? X-tier is smaller and more curated (940 fighters, manually placed, we suspect). S-tier is larger (1,754 fighters) and governed by the automatic 15-win/15-loss promotion system. Fighters can get promoted into S-tier on a hot streak, then get absolutely destroyed once they’re there. Lord of the Rangs won 7 of 62 S-tier fights. That’s rough.


A-Tier: The Competitive Middle

A-tier is where SaltyBet gets interesting. It’s the largest tier (2,822 fighters), the most chaotic (lowest crowd accuracy at 65.7%), and the most competitive — 40% of A-tier fighters sit between 40-60% win rate. This is where anything can happen.

Best of A-Tier

FighterWin RateRecord
Tsu-90.6%87-9
Class re89.9%62-7
Hitsugaya89.9%62-7
Mika returna88.6%62-8
Nazuna_inuwaka88.4%61-8

Tsu- at 90.6% in A-tier is remarkable. In a tier where only 2.2% of fighters break 80%, having a 90%+ win rate means you’re a class above — probably on the verge of an S-tier promotion if the win streak holds.

Worst of A-Tier

FighterWin RateRecord
Binjyobrothers7.7%4-48
Belmont trusdale10.7%6-50
Jubei10.9%7-57
Super gideon graves11.5%6-46
Axel hawk special11.9%7-52

Binjyobrothers wins 7.7% — the lowest win rate of any fighter with 50+ matches in the entire dataset (outside P-tier, which doesn’t have enough matches to qualify). Among fighters with a meaningful sample size, this is the worst record in SaltyBet.


B-Tier: The Proving Ground

B-tier is where characters with less data or lower power levels compete. 2,397 fighters, lower pots, and a wider variety of character quality than any other tier.

Best of B-Tier

FighterWin RateRecord
Hatsune miku mmd t90.7%49-5
Beavis EX286.7%52-8
Claudia86.1%68-11
Rei85.9%73-12
Zonu85.2%75-13

Hatsune Miku at 90.7% in B-tier is a future tier climber — that kind of win rate should trigger a promotion soon if the streak continues. Beavis (yes, from Beavis and Butt-Head) at 86.7% is one of the more entertaining names on this list.

Worst of B-Tier

FighterWin RateRecord
Yukari Tanizaki8.3%5-55
Captain commando9.1%6-60
Deltarune lancer9.6%5-47
Sub-zero umk39.6%7-66
Gundam double zeta9.9%7-64

Captain Commando — the literal hero of Capcom’s own game, the company’s original mascot before Mega Man — wins 9.1% of B-tier fights. 6 wins, 60 losses. Sub-Zero UMK3, one of the most iconic fighting game characters ever created, wins 9.6%. Name recognition means nothing in MUGEN. Absolutely nothing.


P-Tier: Too New to Know

P-tier is different from every other tier. Fighters here average only 10 matches each, with a maximum of 24. No P-tier fighter has 50+ matches — the minimum threshold we use for the other tiers.

This means we can’t reliably rank P-tier fighters. A fighter with a 100% win rate after 5 matches hasn’t proven anything yet. A fighter with a 0% win rate after 3 matches might just need more time.

P-tier is the starting line. Some fighters will climb from here to S-tier. Most will stay or drop off the rotation entirely. The data will sort them out, it just needs more matches to work with.


The Numbers That Stand Out

Looking across all tiers, a few patterns emerge:

S-tier has the harshest bottom. The worst S-tier fighter (11.3%) performs worse than the worst X-tier fighter (26.0%). Getting promoted to S and then failing is more punishing than being a bottom-tier X fighter.

A-tier is genuinely competitive. Only 2.2% of A-tier fighters are above 80% — the lowest of any tier. Compare that to X-tier’s 12.0%. A-tier is where the fights are closest and the outcomes least certain.

B-tier has the best stories. Captain Commando at 9.1%, Hatsune Miku at 90.7%. In the proving ground, anything goes — from mascots to vocaloids.

The tier staircase holds. When tiers are mixed, the higher tier wins about 78% of the time — regardless of which tiers are involved. This is the most reliable pattern in our entire dataset. If you want to know more, our tier list article breaks down the cross-tier matchup data in detail.


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