When tournaments are hosted on smash.gg, organizers have the ability to save data such as characters and stages for sets. Over 6000 games were reported with character data in 2016. We have previously analyzed the data for Captain Falcon, Marth, Sheik, Samus, and Peach. The next character in this series is Falco!

For Falco, we looked at 1211 games out of his total 1589 reported. We are closing out the series with the two most reported characters, which means there is more data for us to look at.

It’s interesting that overall Falco doesn’t have any “winning” match-ups. Even Falco’s best match-up (Fox) is just a few percentage points over even at 52%. Falco is considered to be one of the best characters in the game, but this data seems to paint a different picture.

I asked NorCal native and Falco master Zhu his thoughts on the data.