Virtua Fighter 5 REVO · v1.10 · Region: Asia

カルティカ

Career matches12,960

Career win rate52.6%

Round win rate51.1%

Peak rank42

Distinct opponents366

Period2026/03/26 – 2026/10/18

Elo rating

Overall, and on each character played 10+ times

1776 #460 of 3,686 on the Elo list →

Sarah18102,099 matches
Brad1769195 matches
Vanessa1769141 matches
Goh177455 matches
El Blaze177232 matches

The overall rating moves on every match, whatever was picked; a character's rating adds this player's own adjustment on it. Both run from every recorded match since v1.10; how they are worked out is on the Elo list.

Characters played — VF5's own record


Sarah	42	8,450	4,381	4,069	51.9%
Vanessa	41	2,987	1,611	1,376	53.9%
Goh	38	1,026	545	481	53.1%
Brad	39	443	252	191	56.9%
El Blaze	33	54	34	20	63.0%

These are the totals VF5 keeps for each character, read from the newest replay stored for it. They cover the player's whole ranked career and take no period.

Inputs per second

7,705 of 10,270 rounds counted

9.0 inputs a second (539 a minute) this season. Faster than 86% of the 4,069 regulars with enough rounds counted to compare.

By character played


Sarah	9.0	538	6,858
Brad	9.0	540	285
Vanessa	8.9	534	455
Goh	9.6	576	107

By opponent's character


Akira	9.1	547	931
Jacky	9.0	541	892
Lau	8.9	534	527
Kage	8.7	524	551
El Blaze	9.1	546	492
Sarah	9.1	548	362
Lion	9.2	550	471
Brad	9.0	541	420
Jeffry	9.0	540	306
Lei Fei	8.8	531	354
Vanessa	8.8	527	305
Shun	9.0	543	325
Pai	8.9	537	361
Aoi	8.8	530	322
Goh	9.0	539	276
Wolf	8.9	533	250
Jean	8.9	537	239
Eileen	8.5	512	184
Taka	9.3	558	93
Dural	9.1	545	44

An input is any change on the controller (a new stick direction, a button pressed or released) from the bell to the moment a round is decided, over the live time of the round. Only rounds whose inputs have been decoded are counted. Who you face changes the pace too: see the inputs-per-second article under News.

Against each character


Akira	307	156	151	50.8%	+0.1
Jacky	264	140	124	53.0%	+1.1
Lau	186	98	88	52.7%	+2.7
Kage	179	80	99	44.7%	-5.8
El Blaze	171	99	72	57.9%	+10.3
Sarah	140	88	52	62.9%	+9.4
Lion	136	63	73	46.3%	-5.2
Brad	134	62	72	46.3%	-5.1
Jeffry	120	62	58	51.7%	-2.0
Lei Fei	116	55	61	47.4%	-3.0
Vanessa	114	70	44	61.4%	+7.2
Shun	107	72	35	67.3%	+16.2
Pai	106	50	56	47.2%	-5.4
Aoi	99	40	59	40.4%	-12.1
Goh	93	50	43	53.8%	+1.1
Wolf	83	35	48	42.2%	-11.0
Jean	66	36	30	54.5%	+0.6
Eileen	64	27	37	42.2%	-9.3
Taka	26	13	13	50.0%	-8.5
Dural	13	7	6	53.9%	-1.7

0 of 17 rows differ from what this player's level and their opponents' ranks predict, once the test allows for asking 17 questions at once; about 0.9 would by chance alone.

A matchup row is the particular people played on that character, not the character in general: one strong regular moves it as much as the matchup does.

By ring shape


Rectangle	309	148	161	47.9%	-3.6
Breakable Full Fence	291	151	140	51.9%	-0.6
Open	266	142	124	53.4%	+1.0
Single Wall	256	135	121	52.7%	+1.5
Full Fence	254	147	107	57.9%	+6.9
Low Fence	245	111	134	45.3%	-6.2
Breakable Half Fence	243	130	113	53.5%	+2.4
Half Fence	228	107	121	46.9%	-4.8
Octagon	199	108	91	54.3%	+2.5
Full Fence and Open	99	54	45	54.5%	+0.5

0 of 10 rows differ from what this player's level and their opponents' ranks predict, once the test allows for asking 10 questions at once; about 0.5 would by chance alone.

With or without walls

Stages	Matches	Win %	Expected	vs expected
Walls	1,524	51.9%	51.6%	+0.3
No walls	767	50.6%	51.6%	-1.0

Walls against open: +1.3 points (95% range -3.3 to +5.9), p 0.580 — no measurable difference.

The fence-and-open stages and Training Room are on neither side, as on the stage report.

How these are tested

Each match gets an expected result from the two players' ranks, read off the ladder's rank-against-rank win rates, and shifted by one number per player so the expected wins add up to the actual ones. A row's gap is how far above that expectation it sits, against the same measure over the player's other matches.
Matches against the same opponent are not independent, so each test is widened by how unevenly this player's results fall across the people they played. Rows under 30 decided matches or 10 different opponents on either side carry no test, and each table is corrected for the number of rows tested in it.
Not adjusted for: how strong an opponent is for their rank. Rank carries most of it; the rest needs a rating model.

Most played opponents


いくお (Rank 42)	75	30	45	40.0%
自作マﾆア＠むめい (Rank 42)	61	39	22	63.9%
ビルちゃん (Rank 40)	49	25	24	51.0%
めがじぇね (Rank 43)	48	20	28	41.7%
manatsu_7 (Rank 44)	45	16	29	35.6%
シエロJ (Rank 43)	40	15	25	37.5%
愛蒔らぶり (Rank 42)	37	19	18	51.4%
ﾗｰﾒｿﾏｿ (Rank 45)	37	16	21	43.2%
かんしゅ (Rank 42)	36	17	19	47.2%
堂島様 (Rank 43)	36	12	24	33.3%
jean (Rank 42)	35	11	24	31.4%
『ρε』.α (Rank 41)	35	12	23	34.3%
こんにちわアキラ (Rank 43)	34	13	21	38.2%
expensive-sand (Rank 40)	32	21	11	65.6%
ス～パ～オヤツマ～ン (Rank 42)	32	7	25	21.9%
drumsk (Rank 38)	29	8	21	27.6%
かめやま (Rank 42)	28	12	16	42.9%
ikkyusaaan (Rank 40)	26	19	7	73.1%
ジュリエッタ紗羅 (Rank 43)	26	9	17	34.6%
ハマラウ (Rank 43)	25	14	11	56.0%
あむざん (Rank 43)	24	12	12	50.0%
再戦感謝です (Rank 39)	23	10	13	43.5%
藪からＢＯＹ (Rank 43)	23	10	13	43.5%
こば次狼/covajiro (Rank 44)	21	6	15	28.6%
ゆ～やん３ (Rank 42)	21	11	10	52.4%

Most played opponents, most recent first


愛蒔らぶり (Rank 42)	2026/10/17	37	19	18	51.4%
ikkyusaaan (Rank 40)	2026/10/17	26	19	7	73.1%
こんにちわアキラ (Rank 43)	2026/10/17	34	13	21	38.2%
藪からＢＯＹ (Rank 43)	2026/10/16	23	10	13	43.5%
めがじぇね (Rank 43)	2026/10/16	48	20	28	41.7%
あむざん (Rank 43)	2026/10/15	24	12	12	50.0%
ス～パ～オヤツマ～ン (Rank 42)	2026/10/15	32	7	25	21.9%
堂島様 (Rank 43)	2026/10/10	36	12	24	33.3%
ハマラウ (Rank 43)	2026/10/10	25	14	11	56.0%
『ρε』.α (Rank 41)	2026/10/10	35	12	23	34.3%
自作マﾆア＠むめい (Rank 42)	2026/10/06	61	39	22	63.9%
再戦感謝です (Rank 39)	2026/09/30	23	10	13	43.5%
かめやま (Rank 42)	2026/09/24	28	12	16	42.9%
ビルちゃん (Rank 40)	2026/09/22	49	25	24	51.0%
expensive-sand (Rank 40)	2026/09/22	32	21	11	65.6%
manatsu_7 (Rank 44)	2026/09/22	45	16	29	35.6%
jean (Rank 42)	2026/09/22	35	11	24	31.4%
かんしゅ (Rank 42)	2026/09/10	36	17	19	47.2%
ﾗｰﾒｿﾏｿ (Rank 45)	2026/09/10	37	16	21	43.2%
いくお (Rank 42)	2026/09/02	75	30	45	40.0%
ゆ～やん３ (Rank 42)	2026/09/02	21	11	10	52.4%
こば次狼/covajiro (Rank 44)	2026/08/29	21	6	15	28.6%
drumsk (Rank 38)	2026/08/18	29	8	21	27.6%
シエロJ (Rank 43)	2026/07/31	40	15	25	37.5%
ジュリエッタ紗羅 (Rank 43)	2026/07/10	26	9	17	34.6%

Round openings

Every character


backdash into evade down	577	6.2%
forward movement into punchP	486	5.2%
backdash into Crescent Heel4K+G	452	4.8%
kickK into punchP	380	4.1%
backdash into Stiletto66K	355	3.8%
backdash into evade up	337	3.6%
forward dash into throwP+G	297	3.2%
crouch dash back into Storm Combination6P+KPK	277	3.0%
Stiletto66K	260	2.8%
backdash into Rising Elbow6P	216	2.3%
backdash into punchP	215	2.3%
backdash into throw escape	193	2.1%
Wind Knuckle6P+KP into Storm Combination6P+KPK	179	1.9%
backdash into Serpent Toe Kick2P+K	170	1.8%
Rising Elbow6P	161	1.7%

618 further openings account for the other 4,813 rounds.

Counted from 2,298 of the 2,524 matches played. The rest were not pulled for openings.

Sarah

Career: 4,381–4,069 · 51.9%
This season: 2,101 matches · 51.2%
Peak rank: 42

First hit in 55.9% of 7,600 rounds. Won 54.2% of the rounds they struck first, 47.1% of the rounds they were struck first.

Significant Tells

In round 2: attacks straight away in 29.0% of rounds, against 23.3% in their other rounds.
Against Lau: evades first in 14.6% of rounds, against 2.6% against everyone else.
On Rectangle stages: moves in first in 25.3% of rounds, against 17.0% on the other stages.
After opening the round before by moving in: moves in first in 22.2% of rounds, against 16.1% after anything else.
After the opponent opened the round before by backing off: evades first in 4.5% of rounds, against 3.0% after anything else.
After losing a round: backs off first in 51.5% of rounds, against 46.4% after winning one.
In round 1: opens with “forward movement into P punch” in 6.9% of rounds, against 4.9% in their other rounds.
Against Jacky: opens with “backdash into 4K+G Crescent Heel” in 15.0% of rounds, against 4.6% against everyone else.
After opening the round before with “forward movement into P punch”: opens with “forward movement into P punch” in 12.1% of rounds, against 4.5% after anything else.
After losing a round: opens with “backdash into evade down” in 7.8% of rounds, against 5.7% after winning one.
When behind: opens with “forward movement into P punch” in 6.2% of rounds, against 4.7% when ahead or level.
Against a Shun on no drinks: opens with “backdash into evade down” in 22.3% of rounds, against 4.9% against a Shun on other counts.

How is this tested?


backdash into evade down	519	6.8%
backdash into Crescent Heel4K+G	452	5.9%
forward movement into punchP	415	5.4%
kickK into punchP	380	5.0%
backdash into Stiletto66K	355	4.6%
backdash into evade up	309	4.0%
crouch dash back into Storm Combination6P+KPK	277	3.6%
forward dash into throwP+G	276	3.6%
Stiletto66K	260	3.4%
backdash into Rising Elbow6P	216	2.8%
Wind Knuckle6P+KP into Storm Combination6P+KPK	179	2.3%
backdash into Serpent Toe Kick2P+K	170	2.2%
backdash into throw escape	166	2.2%
backdash into punchP	164	2.1%
Rising Elbow6P	161	2.1%

320 further openings account for the other 3,356 rounds.

Counted from 1,875 of the 2,101 matches played. The rest were not pulled for openings.

By stage type

Record against each character on walled and open stages, as Sarah

Opponent	Walls	No walls	Walls vs open, rank-adjusted, pts
Akira	68–79 · 46%	35–34 · 51%	-4.0
Jacky	83–57 · 59%	29–35 · 45%	+10.3
El Blaze	54–24 · 69%	21–33 · 39%	+33.1
Lau	27–34 · 44%	31–23 · 57%	-7.3
Kage	41–39 · 51%	15–18 · 45%	+3.3
Lion	36–35 · 51%	16–23 · 41%	+8.9
Sarah	45–26 · 63%	27–12 · 69%	-2.5
Brad	26–35 · 43%	16–13 · 55%	too few to test
Jeffry	31–24 · 56%	6–13 · 32%	too few to test
Vanessa	34–25 · 58%	17–5 · 77%	too few to test
Lei Fei	27–22 · 55%	10–15 · 40%	too few to test
Shun	26–15 · 63%	16–6 · 73%	too few to test
Aoi	13–23 · 36%	11–10 · 52%	too few to test
Goh	19–20 · 49%	7–9 · 44%	too few to test
Pai	15–17 · 47%	6–9 · 40%	too few to test
Wolf	15–24 · 38%	6–6 · 50%	too few to test
Eileen	13–21 · 38%	4–5 · 44%	too few to test
Jean	16–11 · 59%	4–6 · 40%	too few to test
Taka	7–6 · 54%	1–5 · 17%	too few to test

Nothing reliable: no gap here is bigger than stage luck alone produces.

Walls: every fence, rectangle and octagon stage. No walls: open, low fence and single-wall stages. Snow Mountain and Training Room are left out.

226 of this character's decided matches could not be matched to the round-openings pull, which is what says the character was played, and are left out of this table.

How is this tested?

Brad

Career: 252–191 · 56.9%
This season: 195 matches · 57.4%
Peak rank: 39

First hit in 54.0% of 789 rounds. Won 59.4% of the rounds they struck first, 47.4% of the rounds they were struck first.

Significant Tells

Against Pai: attacks straight away in 60.7% of rounds, against 36.7% against everyone else.
Against Shun: opens with “backdash into evade down” in 15.3% of rounds, against 3.7% against everyone else.
On Single Wall stages: opens with “backdash into evade down” in 15.2% of rounds, against 3.7% on the other stages.

How is this tested?


Ducking6P+K+G into Crush Knee KickK+G	73	9.2%
forward movement into punchP	61	7.7%
backdash into punchP	42	5.3%
backdash into Destruction Body3P+K	36	4.5%
backdash into evade down	36	4.5%
Middle Spin Kick66K	32	4.0%
Dtee Sawk Dtrohng4P+K	27	3.4%
backdash into Dtee Sawk Lang3P+KP	23	2.9%
backdash into evade up	23	2.9%
backdash into Elbow Hook6P	21	2.6%
backdash into Jackal Straight46P+K	21	2.6%
backdash into Sway Back4P+K+G	21	2.6%
backdash into Stop Kick4K	20	2.5%
backdash into throw escape	20	2.5%
Sharp Shoot1P into crouch	19	2.4%

108 further openings account for the other 316 rounds.

By stage type

Record against each character on walled and open stages, as Brad

Opponent	Walls	No walls	Walls vs open, rank-adjusted, pts
Jacky	6–8 · 43%	0–2 · 0%	too few to test

Walls: every fence, rectangle and octagon stage. No walls: open, low fence and single-wall stages. Snow Mountain and Training Room are left out.

How is this tested?

Vanessa

Career: 1,611–1,376 · 53.9%
This season: 141 matches · 50.4%
Peak rank: 41

First hit in 28.5% of 575 rounds. Won 55.5% of the rounds they struck first, 50.1% of the rounds they were struck first.

Significant Tells

Against Jacky: moves in first in 27.3% of rounds, against 12.2% against everyone else.
Against Akira: opens with “Offensive Style: Stopping Toe” in 15.3% of rounds, against 4.3% against everyone else.

How is this tested?


Defensive Style: Bone Crush Middle	40	7.0%
Offensive Style: Stopping Toe	31	5.4%
Offensive Style: forward movement into One TwoPP	21	3.6%
Defensive Style: Shadow Slicer	18	3.1%
Defensive Style: backdash into Stinger Low Blow1P+K	16	2.8%
Defensive Style: Stinger Low Blow into crouch	15	2.6%
Defensive Style: Wind Elbow	15	2.6%
Defensive Style: forward movement into punchP	15	2.6%
Offensive Style: forward movement into punchP	14	2.4%
Defensive Style: backdash into Bone Crush Middle3K	13	2.3%
Offensive Style: Clobbering Straight	12	2.1%
Offensive Style: Landing Knee Kick	12	2.1%
Defensive Style: backdash into evade down	11	1.9%
Defensive Style: backdash into evade up	10	1.7%
Defensive Style: forward movement into Jab~BodyPP	9	1.6%

138 further openings account for the other 323 rounds.

Goh

Career: 545–481 · 53.1%
This season: 55 matches · 50.9%
Peak rank: 38

First hit in 46.5% of 215 rounds. Won 53.0% of the rounds they struck first, 47.8% of the rounds they were struck first.

Significant Tells

Too few rounds to test opener patterns.

How is this tested?


Karura4P+K	43	19.8%
backdash into kickK	17	7.8%
Ni'oudaoshi3K+G	16	7.4%
crouch into Ni'oudaoshi3K+G	15	6.9%
backdash into evade down	12	5.5%
backdash into Karura4P+K	9	4.2%
backdash into KiribaraiK+G	7	3.2%
forward dash into throwP+G	7	3.2%
backdash into Kirin33P	5	2.3%
backdash into Ni'oudaoshi3K+G	5	2.3%
backdash into Tsukikage6K	5	2.3%
backdash into punchP	5	2.3%
forward movement into punchP	5	2.3%
backdash into Kurogane Kudaki66P	4	1.8%
backdash into evade up	4	1.8%

40 further openings account for the other 58 rounds.

El Blaze

Career: 34–20 · 63.0%
This season: 32 matches · 50.0%
Peak rank: 33

First hit in 59.7% of 129 rounds. Won 48.0% of the rounds they struck first, 51.9% of the rounds they were struck first.

Significant Tells

Too few rounds to test opener patterns.

How is this tested?


backdash into Darkness Sword43K+G	10	7.7%
backdash into evade down	10	7.7%
backward movement into Shadow Strike6P	9	6.9%
Shouda46PP into Rising Back Spin Kick46PPK	8	6.2%
crouch dash back into Straight6P+K	8	6.2%
backdash into throw escape	6	4.6%
High-Speed Jab46P into Shouda46PP	5	3.9%
backdash into Middle Kick3K	5	3.9%
backward movement into backdash	5	3.9%
forward movement into punchP	5	3.9%
Volcano Upper4P+K	4	3.1%
backdash into Shadow Strike6P	4	3.1%
backdash into backward movement	4	3.1%
backdash into punchP	4	3.1%
backdash into Shadow Fang6PK	3	2.3%

32 further openings account for the other 40 rounds.

How these are tested

A tell is a habit in how this player starts a round: something they do clearly more often in one situation than in the others — backing off more in round 2, say, or opening with one move more against one character. Each situation is compared with how they actually opened their rounds, and a tell is listed only if it is too strong to be a fluke even after allowing for how many situations were checked on this page. Anything weaker is left out, so a character with no tells listed may still have habits, just none the data can show for certain.

An opener is filed by what the player did first: attack (a named move or any button), move in (forward dash, forward movement or crouch dash forward), wait (guard, crouch or no input), back off (backdash, crouch dash back or backward movement) or evade. Each is also tested as the exact opener: the character's five most used, and the rest together.
Up to ten things known before a round starts are tested against the opener: which round it is, the opponent's character, the ring shape, how the player opened the round before and how the opponent did, whether they won or lost the round before, who landed the first hit of the round before, whether they go into it ahead, level or behind, and -- where a Shun is playing -- the drink points he starts it on: the player's own if they are Shun, the opponent's if they face one. Each is a chi-square test, divided by how much more alike the rounds of one match are than separate rounds would be, and never made more generous by it. Checked by shuffling the data so that nothing is there: the tests then find something no more often than chance allows.
Round results and drink points come from each match's round record, matched to its openers by the two players and the date. A match whose record is missing, lacks rounds the openers have, or does not add up to the match's result sits out of those four tests only. These four are compared only between rounds of the same number -- the score and the drinks follow from which round it is (every match starts level and on no drinks), so a pattern that is only “the first round is different” is not counted as one of theirs. Drawn rounds count toward neither side of the score, and the round after one has no previous result. Drink points are grouped as on the Shun report (none, 1–4, 5–9 and so on), with neighbouring groups joined where they are thin.
A character is tested with at least 300 rounds from 30 matches. Rare cases are pooled before testing, and a pattern is only named where it holds up after correcting for every test on this page (47 here; about 2.4 would come up by chance alone before the correction).
Walls against open is tested per opponent with 30+ matches and 10+ different players on each side, allowing for both players' ranks, and corrected across every player page at once: 0 of 2,552 hold up. With stages shuffled at random: 0 of 2,651–2,673.

Tests behind each character's list

Sarah: 12 of 18 tests hold up
Brad: 3 of 15 tests hold up
Vanessa: 2 of 14 tests hold up
Goh: not tested (too few rounds)
El Blaze: not tested (too few rounds)