Here's a full Grand Master breakdown by character

With Street Fighter 5's Arcade Edition update, we got an all new Grand Master rank to further delineate the most skilled and headstrong online grinders.

We thought it might be interesting to see which characters are most represented in this upper echelon of Street Fighter 5 ability, and so we went through the leaderboards and counted exactly how many times we found each character repped by a GM player.

It takes 35,000 LP to enter into the highest possible online ranking, and as of the writing of this story there are 265 total players that have achieved said rank.

If you look at the online leaderboards, the lowest ranked Grand Master is 263rd, and that disparity comes from two instances of ties.

Something else to take into account, each players' current "favorite character" is shown. It's certainly the case that some players reached this level with a different fighter, but have since switched to another. Most Blankas, for example, probably didn't accumulate 35k+ LP in the last two weeks.

Below you'll find the full breakdown of Grand Masters by character. If you enjoy statistics like these, let us know in the comments and we'll work on breaking down the Master ranks next.