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

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Career matches14,237

Career win rate34.2%

Round win rate43.1%

Peak rank25

Distinct opponents518

Period2026/03/26 – 2026/10/18

Elo rating

Overall, and on each character played 10+ times

1072 #3,619 of 3,686 on the Elo list →

Akira1100916 matches
Lau1043377 matches
Aoi1004235 matches
Shun1006183 matches
Jeffry1125170 matches
Lei Fei1058106 matches
Taka106239 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


Akira	25	9,318	3,326	5,992	35.7%
Lau	23	1,746	610	1,136	34.9%
Aoi	21	1,137	289	848	25.4%
Shun	22	806	208	598	25.8%
Jeffry	23	784	287	497	36.6%
Taka	22	250	80	170	32.0%
Lei Fei	21	196	73	123	37.2%

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

4,548 of 8,810 rounds counted

7.7 inputs a second (464 a minute) this season. Faster than 66% of the 4,069 regulars with enough rounds counted to compare.

By character played


Akira	8.6	516	1,802
Lau	7.5	453	1,142
Aoi	6.9	412	501
Shun	6.8	407	355
Jeffry	6.7	399	234
Lei Fei	7.5	452	431
Taka	7.0	418	83

By opponent's character


Akira	7.6	458	666
Jacky	8.2	493	255
Lau	7.7	464	463
Aoi	7.4	443	272
Wolf	7.3	440	253
Pai	8.2	494	204
Lion	7.8	467	233
Sarah	8.0	478	365
Eileen	8.0	478	168
Jeffry	7.4	442	179
El Blaze	8.2	495	157
Vanessa	7.6	454	176
Goh	7.5	453	234
Shun	7.7	463	157
Kage	7.9	472	166
Brad	7.6	457	171
Taka	7.4	441	158
Jean	7.8	467	171
Lei Fei	8.4	507	89
Dural	7.3	440	11

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	290	93	197	32.1%	-3.9
Jacky	168	58	110	34.5%	-1.7
Lau	155	57	98	36.8%	+5.4
Aoi	154	57	97	37.0%	+3.9
Wolf	149	46	103	30.9%	-4.1
Pai	139	57	82	41.0%	+10.6
Lion	134	49	85	36.6%	+1.7
Sarah	127	34	93	26.8%	-6.4
Eileen	96	22	74	22.9%	-6.9
Jeffry	91	27	64	29.7%	-8.9
El Blaze	86	31	55	36.0%	-0.6
Vanessa	83	36	47	43.4%	+10.6
Goh	80	26	54	32.5%	-1.0
Shun	71	23	48	32.4%	-1.1
Kage	66	23	43	34.9%	+2.4
Brad	65	25	40	38.5%	+4.8
Taka	55	18	37	32.7%	-4.8
Jean	54	16	38	29.6%	-4.6
Lei Fei	53	19	34	35.9%	+6.3
Dural	12	6	6	50.0%	+11.5

0 of 19 rows differ from what this player's level and their opponents' ranks predict, once the test allows for asking 19 questions at once; about 1.0 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


Octagon	238	86	152	36.1%	+1.6
Breakable Full Fence	236	80	156	33.9%	-1.0
Breakable Half Fence	226	81	145	35.8%	+4.4
Rectangle	225	86	139	38.2%	+5.3
Half Fence	223	83	140	37.2%	+4.2
Full Fence	212	50	162	23.6%	-13.3
Single Wall	205	72	133	35.1%	+4.5
Open	197	67	130	34.0%	-2.8
Low Fence	161	51	110	31.7%	-4.8
Full Fence and Open	118	33	85	28.0%	-4.2

1 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	1,360	34.3%	34.0%	+0.3
No walls	563	33.7%	34.4%	-0.7

Walls against open: +0.9 points (95% range -4.3 to +6.2), p 0.727 — 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


Might小麥豆漿 (Rank 18)	48	18	30	37.5%
a39611619 (Rank 22)	41	18	23	43.9%
toyboy17 (Rank 23)	34	8	26	23.5%
たかティン (Rank 21)	30	6	24	20.0%
鳶飛戾天，魚躍於淵 (Rank 26)	30	11	19	36.7%
Jyuryoku_Eileen (Rank 26)	27	13	14	48.1%
偷桃 (Rank 24)	24	4	20	16.7%
★★★★★ (Rank 31)	23	8	15	34.8%
HOSOGl_KAZUKO (Rank 24)	22	2	20	9.1%
いけおじ (Rank 21)	22	11	11	50.0%
格雷希欧 (Rank 24)	22	9	13	40.9%
我的名字叫顺溜 (Rank 21)	19	6	13	31.6%
suke072st (Rank 23)	17	8	9	47.1%
真 (Rank 24)	17	6	11	35.3%
Fuji_Atsuka (Rank 13)	15	4	11	26.7%
PRIMA_DENMA (Rank 19)	15	5	10	33.3%
TakuAnn (Rank 24)	15	5	10	33.3%
manman (Rank 24)	15	8	7	53.3%
破軍恩 (Rank 22)	15	7	8	46.7%
AiokometeZ (Rank 24)	14	8	6	57.1%
BloodyHera (Rank 24)	14	0	14	0.0%
flush-server3 (Rank 21)	14	4	10	28.6%
kota_mofumofu (Rank 22)	14	4	10	28.6%
potimaru1059 (Rank 22)	14	6	8	42.9%
しおのさばやき (Rank 21)	14	7	7	50.0%

Most played opponents, most recent first


Might小麥豆漿 (Rank 18)	2026/08/30	48	18	30	37.5%
Jyuryoku_Eileen (Rank 26)	2026/08/30	27	13	14	48.1%
破軍恩 (Rank 22)	2026/08/24	15	7	8	46.7%
a39611619 (Rank 22)	2026/08/24	41	18	23	43.9%
AiokometeZ (Rank 24)	2026/08/24	14	8	6	57.1%
suke072st (Rank 23)	2026/08/03	17	8	9	47.1%
たかティン (Rank 21)	2026/08/03	30	6	24	20.0%
kota_mofumofu (Rank 22)	2026/08/02	14	4	10	28.6%
しおのさばやき (Rank 21)	2026/07/20	14	7	7	50.0%
偷桃 (Rank 24)	2026/07/20	24	4	20	16.7%
HOSOGl_KAZUKO (Rank 24)	2026/07/02	22	2	20	9.1%
★★★★★ (Rank 31)	2026/06/30	23	8	15	34.8%
真 (Rank 24)	2026/06/29	17	6	11	35.3%
potimaru1059 (Rank 22)	2026/06/22	14	6	8	42.9%
格雷希欧 (Rank 24)	2026/06/20	22	9	13	40.9%
我的名字叫顺溜 (Rank 21)	2026/05/25	19	6	13	31.6%
toyboy17 (Rank 23)	2026/05/24	34	8	26	23.5%
TakuAnn (Rank 24)	2026/05/24	15	5	10	33.3%
鳶飛戾天，魚躍於淵 (Rank 26)	2026/05/20	30	11	19	36.7%
PRIMA_DENMA (Rank 19)	2026/05/20	15	5	10	33.3%
flush-server3 (Rank 21)	2026/05/11	14	4	10	28.6%
manman (Rank 24)	2026/05/07	15	8	7	53.3%
BloodyHera (Rank 24)	2026/05/07	14	0	14	0.0%
Fuji_Atsuka (Rank 13)	2026/04/24	15	4	11	26.7%
いけおじ (Rank 21)	2026/04/06	22	11	11	50.0%

Round openings

Every character


guardG into evade up	478	5.4%
Rimon Chouchu66P	373	4.2%
evade up	365	4.1%
evade up into crouch dash forward	338	3.8%
evade up into throw escape	293	3.3%
forward movement into punchP	293	3.3%
guardG into throw escape	262	3.0%
backward movement into Kaiko6P+K+G	230	2.6%
guardG	208	2.4%
backdash into evade up	175	2.0%
evade up into backdash	161	1.8%
offensive move	126	1.4%
evade up into Geimon Tessen46P+K+G	104	1.2%
Geimon Tessen46P+K+G into forward movement	96	1.1%
evade down into evade up	96	1.1%

1,042 further openings account for the other 5,244 rounds.

Akira

Career: 3,326–5,992 · 35.7%
This season: 932 matches · 38.8%
Peak rank: 25

First hit in 49.0% of 3,840 rounds. Won 49.2% of the rounds they struck first, 42.4% of the rounds they were struck first.

Significant Tells

In round 3: attacks straight away in 33.9% of rounds, against 25.8% in their other rounds.
Against Akira: moves in first in 26.8% of rounds, against 13.5% against everyone else.
On Rectangle stages: waits first in 18.0% of rounds, against 11.7% on the other stages.
After opening the round before by moving in: moves in first in 27.9% of rounds, against 12.5% after anything else.
After the opponent opened the round before by backing off: moves in first in 18.0% of rounds, against 13.7% after anything else.
After losing a round: moves in first in 19.1% of rounds, against 10.1% after winning one.
When behind: moves in first in 20.4% of rounds, against 11.0% when ahead or level.
In round 1: opens with “evade up into throw escape” in 6.4% of rounds, against 2.2% in their other rounds.
Against Taka: opens with “backward movement into 6P+K+G Kaiko” in 18.5% of rounds, against 5.6% against everyone else.
On Breakable Half Fence stages: opens with “66P Rimon Chouchu” in 14.2% of rounds, against 9.1% on the other stages.
After opening the round before with “evade up into crouch dash forward”: opens with “evade up into crouch dash forward” in 14.2% of rounds, against 2.5% after anything else.
When ahead: opens with “evade up into 46P+K+G Geimon Tessen” in 4.6% of rounds, against 1.8% when level or behind.

How is this tested?


Rimon Chouchu66P	373	9.6%
backward movement into Kaiko6P+K+G	230	5.9%
evade up into crouch dash forward	138	3.5%
evade up into throw escape	124	3.2%
evade up into Geimon Tessen46P+K+G	104	2.7%
forward movement into punchP	103	2.6%
Geimon Tessen46P+K+G into forward movement	96	2.5%
guardG into evade up	91	2.3%
guardG	87	2.2%
guardG into throw escape	87	2.2%
forward dash into Jouho Touken6P	82	2.1%
evade up	79	2.0%
evade up into punchP	72	1.9%
Geimon Tessen46P+K+G into backdash	71	1.8%
Geimon Tessen46P+K+G into backward movement	66	1.7%

323 further openings account for the other 2,079 rounds.

By stage type

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

Opponent	Walls	No walls	Walls vs open, rank-adjusted, pts
Akira	21–44 · 32%	17–30 · 36%	-9.7
Jacky	13–23 · 36%	13–20 · 39%	+1.0
Pai	17–18 · 49%	17–13 · 57%	-9.6
Wolf	14–27 · 34%	7–11 · 39%	too few to test
Aoi	20–21 · 49%	8–9 · 47%	too few to test
Eileen	12–30 · 29%	1–9 · 10%	too few to test
Lion	16–26 · 38%	6–8 · 43%	too few to test
Sarah	13–19 · 41%	5–15 · 25%	too few to test
Jeffry	5–16 · 24%	5–7 · 42%	too few to test
Lau	14–11 · 56%	5–7 · 42%	too few to test
El Blaze	11–19 · 37%	4–1 · 80%	too few to test
Goh	7–19 · 27%	4–2 · 67%	too few to test
Lei Fei	8–14 · 36%	3–6 · 33%	too few to test
Vanessa	11–13 · 46%	5–4 · 56%	too few to test
Jean	6–9 · 40%	2–9 · 18%	too few to test
Kage	11–13 · 46%	1–3 · 25%	too few to test
Shun	5–9 · 36%	6–4 · 60%	too few to test
Brad	7–7 · 50%	0–3 · 0%	too few to test
Taka	7–8 · 47%	2–1 · 67%	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.

How is this tested?

Lau

Career: 610–1,136 · 34.9%
This season: 388 matches · 32.2%
Peak rank: 23

First hit in 38.0% of 1,609 rounds. Won 47.0% of the rounds they struck first, 40.2% of the rounds they were struck first.

Significant Tells

In round 1: backs off first in 12.1% of rounds, against 6.2% in their other rounds.
Against Akira: moves in first in 30.8% of rounds, against 9.8% against everyone else.
After opening the round before by moving in: moves in first in 24.7% of rounds, against 10.8% after anything else.
After losing a round: attacks straight away in 21.8% of rounds, against 10.7% after winning one.
When behind: attacks straight away in 25.6% of rounds, against 11.3% when ahead or level.
In round 2: opens with “G guard into evade up” in 13.1% of rounds, against 7.9% in their other rounds.
Against Jeffry: opens with “G guard into evade up” in 22.1% of rounds, against 8.3% against everyone else.
After opening the round before with “evade up”: opens with “evade up” in 19.0% of rounds, against 7.3% after anything else.
After losing a round: opens with “PP Renshou into 3PPK Renshou Senputai” in 7.8% of rounds, against 3.7% after winning one.
When ahead: opens with “G guard into throw escape” in 5.9% of rounds, against 2.0% when level or behind.

How is this tested?


guardG into evade up	149	9.2%
evade up	116	7.1%
RenshouPP into Renshou Senputai3PPK	88	5.4%
evade up into crouch dash forward	71	4.4%
guardG into throw escape	71	4.4%
evade up into throw escape	68	4.2%
forward movement into punchP	60	3.7%
backdash into evade up	51	3.1%
evade up into backdash	37	2.3%
guardG	35	2.1%
guardG into Renshou Senputai3PPK	34	2.1%
evade up into Renshou Senputai3PPK	30	1.9%
evade up into Sako Soushou4P+K	30	1.9%
evade down into evade up	27	1.7%
crouch dash forward into throw escape	25	1.5%

221 further openings account for the other 733 rounds.

By stage type

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

Opponent	Walls	No walls	Walls vs open, rank-adjusted, pts
Akira	11–35 · 24%	2–7 · 22%	too few to test
Lau	6–16 · 27%	3–7 · 30%	too few to test
Pai	7–12 · 37%	1–9 · 10%	too few to test
Sarah	6–13 · 32%	1–4 · 20%	too few to test
Aoi	4–12 · 25%	1–5 · 17%	too few to test
Jeffry	6–12 · 33%	1–5 · 17%	too few to test
Wolf	4–13 · 24%	0–4 · 0%	too few to test
Brad	3–7 · 30%	6–4 · 60%	too few to test
Jacky	6–8 · 43%	2–2 · 50%	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?

Aoi

Career: 289–848 · 25.4%
This season: 245 matches · 25.7%
Peak rank: 21

First hit in 40.1% of 985 rounds. Won 39.5% of the rounds they struck first, 36.1% of the rounds they were struck first.

Significant Tells

Against Sarah: backs off first in 15.6% of rounds, against 4.1% against everyone else.
After opening the round before by waiting: waits first in 28.6% of rounds, against 12.0% after anything else.
After losing a round: moves in first in 28.5% of rounds, against 17.1% after winning one.
In round 1: opens with “offensive move” in 15.9% of rounds, against 6.2% in their other rounds.
Against Wolf: opens with “forward movement into P punch” in 20.0% of rounds, against 3.5% against everyone else.
After winning a round: opens with “offensive move” in 11.3% of rounds, against 2.8% after losing one.
When ahead: opens with “offensive move” in 14.2% of rounds, against 2.8% when level or behind.

How is this tested?


offensive move	86	8.6%
Ouda6P+K into Oushu Hiji'ate6P+KP	51	5.1%
forward movement into punchP	50	5.0%
evade up	44	4.4%
guardG	32	3.2%
Tenchi In'youP+K+G	29	2.9%
evade up into crouch dash forward	26	2.6%
evade up into Koromoguruma66P	19	1.9%
guardG into evade up	19	1.9%
crouch into Kusanagi2K+G	16	1.6%
evade up into throw escape	16	1.6%
backdash into evade up	14	1.4%
Raijinha6K	13	1.3%
crouch dash forward into Tenchi In'youP+K+G	13	1.3%
forward dash into forward, down-forward, down, down-forward, forward punch+kick+guard63236P+K+G	13	1.3%

204 further openings account for the other 557 rounds.

By stage type

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

Opponent	Walls	No walls	Walls vs open, rank-adjusted, pts
Akira	7–14 · 33%	2–8 · 20%	too few to test
Jacky	2–16 · 11%	1–4 · 20%	too few to test
Aoi	6–11 · 35%	3–2 · 60%	too few to test
Wolf	5–10 · 33%	1–3 · 25%	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?

Shun

Career: 208–598 · 25.8%
This season: 238 matches · 22.7%
Peak rank: 22

First hit in 40.5% of 970 rounds. Won 42.5% of the rounds they struck first, 33.8% of the rounds they were struck first.

Significant Tells

In round 1: moves in first in 16.0% of rounds, against 9.7% in their other rounds.
After opening the round before by moving in: moves in first in 27.1% of rounds, against 7.4% after anything else.
After losing a round: moves in first in 14.3% of rounds, against 3.2% after winning one.
When behind: moves in first in 16.8% of rounds, against 4.9% when ahead or level.
In round 1: opens with “G guard into throw escape” in 8.8% of rounds, against 3.3% in their other rounds.
After winning a round: opens with “G guard into throw escape” in 5.1% of rounds, against 2.1% after losing one.

How is this tested?


guardG into evade up	124	12.6%
evade up	63	6.4%
guardG into throw escape	46	4.7%
evade up into crouch dash forward	41	4.2%
evade up into throw escape	30	3.0%
Haisenchu1P into backdash	28	2.8%
offensive move	23	2.3%
crouch into Haisenchu1P	20	2.0%
evade up into backward movement	20	2.0%
Haisenchu1P	18	1.8%
guardG	18	1.8%
evade up into Shinho Suikoushu43P+K	17	1.7%
Haisenchu1P into guardG	16	1.6%
guardG into Haisenchu1P	16	1.6%
evade up into backdash	15	1.5%

189 further openings account for the other 492 rounds.

By stage type

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

Opponent	Walls	No walls	Walls vs open, rank-adjusted, pts
Lau	5–13 · 28%	2–10 · 17%	too few to test
Jacky	3–10 · 23%	0–8 · 0%	too few to test
Lion	5–11 · 31%	1–6 · 14%	too few to test
Akira	5–10 · 33%	2–4 · 33%	too few to test
Sarah	2–11 · 15%	0–6 · 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?

Jeffry

Career: 287–497 · 36.6%
This season: 173 matches · 41.0%
Peak rank: 23

First hit in 50.7% of 722 rounds. Won 50.3% of the rounds they struck first, 43.3% of the rounds they were struck first.

Significant Tells

Against Wolf: attacks straight away in 17.9% of rounds, against 5.9% against everyone else.
After opening the round before by backing off: backs off first in 35.5% of rounds, against 10.8% after anything else.
After losing a round: moves in first in 31.8% of rounds, against 15.7% after winning one.
When the score is level: moves in first in 32.1% of rounds, against 23.1% when ahead or behind.

How is this tested?


forward movement into punchP	52	7.2%
guardG into evade up	40	5.5%
evade up into crouch dash forward	36	5.0%
evade up	27	3.7%
evade up into backdash	22	3.0%
evade up into throw escape	21	2.9%
crouch dash back into evade down	19	2.6%
guardG	18	2.5%
evade down into evade up	16	2.2%
crouch dash back into Full Swing Upper33P	14	1.9%
forward movement into Body CrushP+K	14	1.9%
backdash into evade up	13	1.8%
forward movement into Double KnucklePP	13	1.8%
crouch dash forward into Full Swing Upper33P	12	1.7%
guardG into throw escape	12	1.7%

176 further openings account for the other 395 rounds.

By stage type

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

Opponent	Walls	No walls	Walls vs open, rank-adjusted, pts
Akira	7–8 · 47%	3–6 · 33%	too few to test
Wolf	5–9 · 36%	1–0 · 100%	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?

Lei Fei

Career: 73–123 · 37.2%
This season: 107 matches · 33.6%
Peak rank: 21

First hit in 40.6% of 431 rounds. Won 38.3% of the rounds they struck first, 43.4% of the rounds they were struck first.

Significant Tells

After winning a round: opens with “G guard into throw escape” in 14.1% of rounds, against 2.2% after losing one.

How is this tested?


guardG into evade up	41	9.5%
guardG into throw escape	30	7.0%
evade up	23	5.3%
guardG	16	3.7%
evade up into backdash	15	3.5%
evade up into crouch dash forward	14	3.2%
evade up into throw escape	14	3.2%
forward movement into punchP	12	2.8%
evade up into backward movement	11	2.5%
punchP into Sayu ShoukenPP	11	2.5%
backdash into evade up	10	2.3%
offensive move	9	2.1%
evade up into Rousou Senka43P	8	1.9%
punchP	7	1.6%
crouch into Bunkyaku3K	6	1.4%

126 further openings account for the other 204 rounds.

Taka

Career: 80–170 · 32.0%
This season: 45 matches · 26.7%
Peak rank: 22

First hit in 40.7% of 194 rounds. Won 51.9% of the rounds they struck first, 34.8% of the rounds they were struck first.

Significant Tells

Too few rounds to test opener patterns.

How is this tested?


evade up into throw escape	20	10.3%
guardG into evade up	14	7.2%
evade up	13	6.7%
evade up into crouch dash forward	12	6.2%
backdash into evade up	10	5.1%
forward movement into punchP	6	3.1%
guardG into throw escape	6	3.1%
Gozougeri4K	4	2.0%
evade down into Kachi'age33P+K	4	2.0%
Chu Tsuppari 26P+KP into Chu Tsuppari 36P+KPP	3	1.5%
Yoko Harite4P into Honda Harite4PP	3	1.5%
evade up into Gozougeri4K	3	1.5%
evade up into Kachi'age33P+K	3	1.5%
evade up into Takatsumehashi3P+K	3	1.5%
evade up into Zangeki33P	3	1.5%

71 further openings account for the other 88 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 (90 here; about 4.5 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

Akira: 12 of 16 tests hold up
Lau: 10 of 15 tests hold up
Aoi: 7 of 15 tests hold up
Shun: 6 of 17 tests hold up
Jeffry: 4 of 15 tests hold up
Lei Fei: 1 of 12 tests hold up
Taka: not tested (too few rounds)