Fast following onto our tier analysis series: K9999-ex wins 93.0% of fights in X-tier. Lord of the Rangs wins 11.3% in S-tier. This is the complete, data-ranked list of the best and worst SaltyBet characters in every tier — the top 10 and worst 5 in each — pulled from 623,652 matches. No fan votes, no vibes: just win rates.
The gap between the best and worst character 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 every fighter with a minimum of 50 matches in a tier (enough for the win rate to mean something) from our database. Here’s what the roster actually looks like at both ends of every tier.
X-tier is the top of SaltyBet, the crème de la crème. 948 fighters, the highest average pot ($10.3M), the highest crowd accuracy (72.4%), and the most well-known characters on the roster. But even at the top, the spread is massive, and we do mean massive.
| Fighter | Win Rate | Record |
|---|---|---|
| K9999-ex | 93.0% | 53-4 |
| Increase irisu | 88.2% | 45-6 |
| Momo-len-santa ver1.20 | 85.5% | 53-9 |
| Zero nightmare | 84.9% | 45-8 |
| M_hotaru | 84.2% | 48-9 |
| Ereshkigal-e | 83.6% | 56-11 |
| Gorilla warfare | 82.7% | 43-9 |
| Vatista | 78.0% | 39-11 |
| Crazy moon | 74.2% | 46-16 |
| Orochi nagamori | 74.2% | 46-16 |
K9999-ex is the closest thing SaltyBet has to a guaranteed win — 93.0% across 57 matches, losing only 4 fights total. Shout out to whoever created this machine. If you see K9999-ex on the screen, the data says bet that side and don’t think twice. All in, baby. No hesitation.
| Fighter | Win Rate | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Merciless elque EX7 | 22.0% | 11-39 |
| Saisyu_ex | 25.5% | 13-38 |
| Ultimate freeza | 26.9% | 14-38 |
| Unrock howard | 28.0% | 14-36 |
| Goa | 28.6% | 16-40 |
Merciless Elque EX7 wins just 22% of X-tier fights. Even in the top tier, someone has to lose. The spread from best to worst in X-tier is a staggering 71.0 percentage points (93.0% down to 22.0%). Ultimate Freeza — a Dragon Ball Z final boss — sits third-worst at 26.9%. Being an X-tier name doesn’t make you an X-tier fighter.
S-tier is the workhorse of SaltyBet’s upper ranks — 2,099 fighters, 32.1% of all matches. The best S-tier fighters are terrifyingly consistent. The worst are trapped in a tier they can’t compete in.
| Fighter | Win Rate | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Primeus | 89.7% | 183-21 |
| Shiva-hell | 89.1% | 221-27 |
| Element -a- | 88.7% | 188-24 |
| Bloodbane | 88.6% | 179-23 |
| Houou jmf | 87.4% | 202-29 |
| Flawless specter | 87.4% | 202-29 |
| Natural kain | 87.3% | 214-31 |
| Abyss EX | 87.3% | 158-23 |
| Mega weapon | 87.2% | 170-25 |
| Android 16 ub22 | 87.2% | 251-37 |
Primeus edges Shiva-hell for the top spot, 89.7% to 89.1% — but Shiva-hell owns the volume, winning 221 of 248 fights. These aren’t small samples. Ten S-tier fighters clear 87% over 150+ matches each. That’s dominance at scale.
| Fighter | Win Rate | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Lord of the rangs | 11.3% | 7-55 |
| Bad box art megaman | 11.5% | 6-46 |
| Taki EX3 | 12.5% | 9-63 |
| Trevor spacey | 12.5% | 8-56 |
| Kanon del geminis | 12.8% | 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. The worst X-tier fighter wins 22.0%. The floor of S-tier sits nearly 11 points lower than the floor of X-tier.
Why? X-tier is smaller and more curated (948 fighters, manually placed, we suspect). S-tier is larger (2,099 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 is where SaltyBet gets interesting. It’s the largest tier by volume (41.9% of all matches), the most chaotic (lowest crowd accuracy at 65.7%), and the most competitive — only 1.2% of A-tier fighters (minimum 50 matches) break an 80% win rate, the lowest share of any tier. This is where anything can happen.
| Fighter | Win Rate | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Tsu- | 90.6% | 87-9 |
| Hitsugaya | 89.9% | 62-7 |
| Mika returna | 88.6% | 62-8 |
| Nazuna_inuwaka | 88.4% | 61-8 |
| Blake belladonna | 87.3% | 62-9 |
| Deluxe lin | 87.0% | 47-7 |
| Class re | 86.7% | 72-11 |
| Saint-of-silver | 85.4% | 76-13 |
| Marie p4a | 85.0% | 91-16 |
| Asutorea EX3 | 84.7% | 83-15 |
Tsu- at 90.6% in A-tier is remarkable. In a tier where only 1.2% of fighters break 80%, a 90%+ win rate means you’re a class above — probably on the verge of an S-tier promotion if the streak holds.
| Fighter | Win Rate | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Binjyobrothers | 7.7% | 4-48 |
| Belmont trusdale | 10.7% | 6-50 |
| Jubei | 10.9% | 7-57 |
| Super gideon graves | 11.5% | 6-46 |
| Axel hawk special | 11.9% | 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 all of SaltyBet.
B-tier is where characters with less data or lower power levels compete. 3,379 fighters — more distinct characters than any other tier — with lower pots and a wider variety of quality than anywhere else on the roster.
| Fighter | Win Rate | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Hatsune miku mmd t | 90.7% | 49-5 |
| Remy | 88.2% | 45-6 |
| Beavis EX2 | 86.7% | 52-8 |
| Claudia | 86.1% | 68-11 |
| Zonu | 85.2% | 75-13 |
| Omanyte | 85.2% | 46-8 |
| Rei | 84.9% | 79-14 |
| Tanegashima yuri | 84.8% | 56-10 |
| Zoma | 84.6% | 44-8 |
| Top man | 84.4% | 54-10 |
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. Omanyte, a literal Pokémon fossil, cracks the top 6.
| Fighter | Win Rate | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Colossus | 7.8% | 4-47 |
| Yukari Tanizaki | 8.3% | 5-55 |
| Captain commando | 9.0% | 6-61 |
| Deltarune lancer | 9.4% | 5-48 |
| Sub-zero umk3 | 9.6% | 7-66 |
Colossus — an X-Man, an Avenger, a guy who turns into organic steel — wins 7.8% of B-tier fights. Captain Commando, the literal hero of Capcom’s own game and the company’s original mascot before Mega Man, wins 9.0% (6-61). 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 is different from every other tier. Fighters here average only 11 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 all the way 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. (Curious how fighters escape P? We tracked a batch of them in our P-to-B tier migration report.)
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 (22.0%). Getting promoted to S and then failing is more punishing than being a bottom-tier X fighter.
A-tier is genuinely competitive. Only 1.2% of A-tier fighters are above 80% — the lowest of any tier. Compare that to X-tier’s 9.5%. A-tier is where the fights are closest and the outcomes least certain, which is exactly why the crowd is wrong most often there (65.7% accuracy, the lowest of any tier).
B-tier has the best stories. Colossus at 7.8%, Captain Commando at 9.0%, Hatsune Miku at 90.7%. In the proving ground, anything goes — from Marvel heavyweights to vocaloids.
The tier staircase holds. When tiers are mixed, the higher tier wins the large majority of the time — regardless of which tiers are involved. It’s the most reliable pattern in our entire dataset. Our SaltyBet tier list explainer breaks down the cross-tier matchup data in detail, and you can watch the current standings update live on our tier breakdown tool.
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