The SSBMRank 2023 lists the world's top 100 Super Smash Bros. Melee players in 2023 as compiled by Melee Stats. The rankings were announced in a series of articles published by start.gg from January 15th-26th, 2024.

For the first time in Smash history, the #1 player was not decided by the panelists, but instead was decided by a special exhibition between Zain and Cody Schwab, with Cody ultimately winning.

Methodology

29 people, such as top players, tournament organizers, writers, and analysts were chosen to be panelists for this edition of SSBMRank. The panelists were asked to rank each ballot-eligible player based on their quality of results from December 19th, 2022 to December 17th, 2023 with a value between 1 and 120, and then each player’s rating was aggregated to a single value based on their distribution of votes.

Panelists

Alberta (1) - Zedreo
California (4) - Ambisinister, Jackzilla, s-f, salami
Florida (2) - Equilateral, Quadae
Georgia (1) - Wills
Germany (1) - Nicki
Illinois (1) - Unsure
Indiana (2) - meleesadposts, Seal
Massachusetts (1) - EdwinBudding
Missouri (1) - Gaz!
Netherlands (2) - Noxxa, Nuckels
New England (1) - Gtown_Tom
New York (1) - DarkGenex
North Carolina (1) - Dilly-Jo
Nova Scotia (1) - NSFrog
Oklahoma (1) - JCloud
Pennsylvania (2) - Dawson, GimmeDatWheat
Texas (1) - Tuesday
United Kingdom (1) - 10QuidShoes
Virginia (2) - Jorge, Redd
Washington (2) - Hufff, Silvi

Rankings

Cody Schwab's player card

Ranking	Smasher	Previous rank	Movement	Character(s)	Rating
1	Cody Schwab	4	▲ 3		100.00
2	Zain	1	▼ 1		99.31
3	Jmook	6	▲ 3		98.54
4	moky	13	▲ 9		97.73
5	Plup	8	▲ 3		96.68
6	aMSa	2	▼ 4		95.60
7	Hungrybox	5	▼ 2		94.96
8	Mang0	3	▼ 5		94.44
9	Wizzrobe	17	▲ 8		93.43
10	Aklo	16	▲ 6		92.88
11	KoDoRiN	12	▲ 1		92.09
12	lloD	11	▼ 1		91.39
13	Trif	38	▲ 25		89.88
14	Salt	31	▲ 17		89.74
15	Zuppy	35	▲ 20		89.05
16	S2J	15	▼ 1		88.50
17	Magi	25	▲ 8		87.45
18	Morsecode762	—	—		86.87
19	Joshman	19	0		86.82
20	Polish	23	▲ 3		85.40
21	Axe	10	▼ 11		84.90
22	Zamu	32	▲ 10		84.01
23	Soonsay	22	▼ 1		83.26
24	Spark	29	▲ 5		82.38
25	Chem	66	▲ 41		81.66
26	Ginger	21	▼ 5		81.10
27	SFOP	26	▼ 1		80.40
28	Fiction	14	▼ 14		80.11
29	SDJ	62	▲ 33		77.48
30	Ben	59	▲ 29		77.37
31	Krudo	24	▼ 7		76.96
32	Panda	54	▲ 22		76.55
33	Swift	40	▲ 7		75.14
34	KJH	65	▲ 31		74.28
35	Ossify	—	—		74.23
36	Bbatts	58	▲ 22		74.03
37	n0ne	18	▼ 19		72.10
38	Faust	—	—		71.76
39	Khalid	86	▲ 47		71.73
40	Junebug	—	—		71.50
41	Skerzo	39	▼ 2		70.02
42	MOF	—	—		68.38
43	Flash	—	—		68.29
44	Mekk	36	▼ 8		66.63
45	Shroomed	—	—		65.77
46	CPU0	—	—		65.18
47	Frenzy	47	0		64.83
48	Sirmeris	79	▲ 31		63.42
49	Khryke	72	▲ 23		63.07
50	Gahtzu	74	▲ 24		62.83
51	Matteo	100	▲ 49		61.58
52	Colbol	56	▲ 4		61.18
53	Drephen	76	▲ 23		59.82
54	Eddy Mexico	52	▼ 2		59.56
55	TheRealThing	87	▲ 32		59.35
56	Azel	50	▼ 6		59.20
57	billybopeep	—	—		58.94
58	KoopaTroopa895	—	—		56.79
59	Lunar Dusk	48	▼ 11		56.51
60	Smash Papi	44	▼ 16		55.78
61	Palpa	77	▲ 16		55.23
62	Jflex	37	▼ 25		54.68
63	Lucky	28	▼ 35		53.07
64	Grab	67	▲ 3		51.95
65	Kevin Maples	92	▲ 27		51.75
66	shabo	101	▲ 35		51.60
67	LAVITZ-01	—	—		50.49
68	Panko	75	▲ 7		50.07
69	Kürv	57	▼ 12		49.16
70	Free Palestine	94	▲ 24		48.77
71	TheSWOOPER	33	▼ 38		48.34
72	Professor Pro	49	▼ 23		46.74
73	mvlvchi	—	—		46.31
74	Kalvar	80	▲ 6		45.92
75	Mot$	68	▼ 7		45.26
76	Voo	93	▲ 17		44.48
77	ckyulmiqnudaetr	—	—		44.13
78	null	30	▼ 48		43.90
79	essy	82	▲ 3		42.97
80	Asashi	—	—		42.15
81	Preeminent	—	—		40.41
82	Dawson	71	▼ 11		39.17
83	Stiv	—	—		39.14
84	Chango	—	—		37.89
85	prof	—	—		37.19
86	Wevans	85	▼ 1		35.70
87	Lowercase hero	—	—		35.39
88	Slowking	90	▲ 2		35.11
89	Fishbait	—	—		33.94
90	Akir	—	—		33.29
91	Squid	—	—		31.80
92	404Cray	89	▼ 3		31.47
93	Franz	45	▼ 48		30.99
94	Jah Ridin'	—	—		30.81
95	Egg$	—	—		30.56
96	nut	99	▲ 3		29.90
97	Zeo	—	—		28.13
98	Umarth	88	▼ 10		27.89
99	Ralph	55	▼ 44		26.49
100	K8A	—	—		26.08

Mr. 101

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

Honorable Mentions

The following player had the attendance requirements to be ranked, but was abstained on by most panelists, with the panelists who did vote for him putting him in top 10.

•  Leffen 

Trivia

• This year-long global Melee ranking featured a number of character-specific firsts:
  • Egg$ became the first Yoshi player other than aMSa to be ranked on a year-long global Melee ranking since nebbii on the 2018 MPGR, as well as the first Yoshi player from North America to do so.
    • Egg$ is also the third Link secondary to make a yearly Top 100 SSBMRank since its inception, after Lord HDL in 2014 and Aklo in 2022.
  • Morsecode762 became the first solo Samus player to be ranked within the Top 20 on a year-long global Melee ranking since Duck on the 2018 MPGR.
  • This is the first year-long global Melee ranking to feature not only one, but three Donkey Kong players (Junebug, ckyulmiqnudaetr, and Akir).
  • This is the first year-long global Melee ranking to feature two Link players (Aklo and Egg$), as well as Link player within the Top 10 (Aklo).
  • Mekk became the first solo Ganondorf player to be ranked within the Top 50 since Kage on the SSBMRank 2017.
  • Cody Schwab became the first number 1-ranked player on a year-long global Melee ranking to be ranked with solo Fox.
• This is the first year where ChuDat, SFAT, and Leffen did not appear on a year-long global Melee ranking. The first two did not meet activity requirements to be listed on the ballot, and the majority of panelists abstained on ranking Leffen due to him not attending any events in the latter half of 2023.
  • This also makes Leffen the first player to win a major without receiving an end-of-year ranking in the same ranking period.
• Jah Ridin' became the first Swiss player to be ranked on a year-long global Melee ranking.
• Cody Schwab became the first rank 1 player without a sponsor since Mango on the SSBMRank 2013.

External links

• Twitter Announcement
• SSBMRank 2023
• Mr. 101
• SSBMRank 2023 on start.gg: 100-91, 90-81, 80-71, 70-61, 60-51, 50-41, 40-31, 30-21, 20-11, 10-1
• SSBMRank 2023 Top 10 on YouTube

• SSBMRank