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

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Career matches6,935

Career win rate62.2%

Round win rate56.2%

Peak rank43

Distinct opponents486

Period2026/03/26 – 2026/10/18

Elo rating

Overall, and on each character played 10+ times

1860 #212 of 3,686 on the Elo list →

Akira20411,666 matches
Jacky1880386 matches
Lau1858234 matches
Kage1847110 matches
Brad1842105 matches
Lion183093 matches
Goh185150 matches
Shun185940 matches
Jeffry185120 matches
Wolf185212 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	43	4,288	2,693	1,595	62.8%
Jacky	42	1,073	610	463	56.9%
Lau	42	599	371	228	61.9%
Kage	37	211	132	79	62.6%
Goh	38	203	129	74	63.5%
Brad	39	198	132	66	66.7%
Lion	37	166	111	55	66.9%
Shun	35	75	52	23	69.3%
Wolf	34	63	40	23	63.5%
Jeffry	34	42	31	11	73.8%
Pai	33	10	7	3	70.0%
Eileen	33	5	3	2	60.0%
Jean	33	1	1	0	100.0%
Taka	33	1	0	1	0.0%

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

8,650 of 11,037 rounds counted

9.1 inputs a second (543 a minute) this season. Faster than 87% of the 4,069 regulars with enough rounds counted to compare.

By character played


Akira	9.8	591	4,978
Jacky	8.3	501	1,577
Lau	7.5	450	585
Kage	7.5	449	386
Brad	7.7	461	429
Lion	8.1	485	360
Goh	7.5	448	9
Shun	8.8	529	159
Jeffry	6.5	391	77
Wolf	7.4	446	54
Pai	8.2	492	21
Eileen	7.8	470	12
Taka	8.6	514	3

By opponent's character


Jacky	9.3	558	1,065
Akira	9.9	594	836
Kage	8.9	534	766
Lion	9.2	550	685
Lau	9.4	562	614
Shun	8.4	502	639
Brad	9.2	554	583
Sarah	8.8	531	366
Pai	9.2	555	398
Vanessa	8.5	508	309
Goh	8.7	520	415
Jeffry	8.9	537	275
Lei Fei	8.8	527	253
Wolf	9.2	553	325
Aoi	8.8	528	254
Eileen	8.9	535	231
Taka	8.6	513	248
Jean	8.9	532	202
El Blaze	8.8	527	129
Dural	8.6	516	57

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


Jacky	317	190	127	59.9%	-1.3
Akira	252	162	90	64.3%	+3.6
Kage	250	153	97	61.2%	-0.2
Lion	205	122	83	59.5%	-2.0
Lau	201	108	93	53.7%	-5.9
Shun	195	115	80	59.0%	-1.2
Brad	166	92	74	55.4%	-2.2
Sarah	119	85	34	71.4%	+8.9
Pai	118	66	52	55.9%	-8.5
Vanessa	116	75	41	64.7%	+3.7
Goh	114	67	47	58.8%	-2.5
Jeffry	114	71	43	62.3%	-1.2
Lei Fei	101	60	41	59.4%	-1.1
Wolf	101	76	25	75.2%	+11.8
Aoi	79	58	21	73.4%	+12.3
Eileen	79	54	25	68.3%	+6.4
Taka	67	39	28	58.2%	-3.3
Jean	66	44	22	66.7%	+1.6
El Blaze	52	26	26	50.0%	-11.3
Dural	20	10	10	50.0%	-10.5

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


Half Fence	310	202	108	65.2%	+3.9
Breakable Half Fence	301	195	106	64.8%	+4.2
Octagon	284	189	95	66.5%	+4.6
Open	274	167	107	61.0%	+0.5
Full Fence	273	164	109	60.1%	-1.2
Single Wall	270	163	107	60.4%	-0.3
Rectangle	264	150	114	56.8%	-5.0
Breakable Full Fence	252	149	103	59.1%	-2.1
Low Fence	246	136	110	55.3%	-6.3
Full Fence and Open	117	69	48	59.0%	-0.9

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	1,684	62.3%	61.5%	+0.8
No walls	790	59.0%	60.7%	-1.7

Walls against open: +2.5 points (95% range -1.9 to +7.0), p 0.266 — 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


あむざん (Rank 43)	55	31	24	56.4%
manatsu_7 (Rank 43)	52	18	34	34.6%
デネ (Rank 41)	49	30	19	61.2%
かっこいいらう (Rank 44)	46	17	29	37.0%
たつや (Rank 40)	45	25	20	55.6%
こんにちわアキラ (Rank 42)	39	22	17	56.4%
愛蒔らぶり (Rank 42)	35	21	14	60.0%
おさげ (Rank 43)	32	12	20	37.5%
おろち　ぽっぽ (Rank 43)	32	12	20	37.5%
藪からＢＯＹ (Rank 42)	30	13	17	43.3%
『ρε』.α (Rank 41)	28	19	9	67.9%
おかし (Rank 41)	28	16	12	57.1%
めがじぇね (Rank 43)	27	14	13	51.9%
せろり☆ (Rank 44)	25	13	12	52.0%
灘琉豪/HSA (Rank 43)	24	12	12	50.0%
藤の花 (Rank 42)	24	16	8	66.7%
tu-kun0223 (Rank 39)	23	18	5	78.3%
PuzzG/ぱず爺 (Rank 36)	21	13	8	61.9%
カルティカ (Rank 40)	21	13	8	61.9%
ピーエス (Rank 39)	21	12	9	57.1%
自作マﾆア＠むめい (Rank 41)	21	13	8	61.9%
ikkyusaaan (Rank 39)	19	11	8	57.9%
panda_kage0 (Rank 40)	19	6	13	31.6%
ちび太☆らふぁ～る (Rank 42)	19	11	8	57.9%
堂島様 (Rank 42)	19	7	12	36.8%

Most played opponents, most recent first


カルティカ (Rank 40)	2026/10/17	21	13	8	61.9%
panda_kage0 (Rank 40)	2026/10/17	19	6	13	31.6%
せろり☆ (Rank 44)	2026/10/15	25	13	12	52.0%
めがじぇね (Rank 43)	2026/10/13	27	14	13	51.9%
こんにちわアキラ (Rank 42)	2026/10/13	39	22	17	56.4%
manatsu_7 (Rank 43)	2026/10/13	52	18	34	34.6%
ちび太☆らふぁ～る (Rank 42)	2026/10/13	19	11	8	57.9%
愛蒔らぶり (Rank 42)	2026/10/12	35	21	14	60.0%
たつや (Rank 40)	2026/10/11	45	25	20	55.6%
デネ (Rank 41)	2026/10/10	49	30	19	61.2%
自作マﾆア＠むめい (Rank 41)	2026/10/06	21	13	8	61.9%
藤の花 (Rank 42)	2026/10/05	24	16	8	66.7%
あむざん (Rank 43)	2026/09/28	55	31	24	56.4%
堂島様 (Rank 42)	2026/09/18	19	7	12	36.8%
藪からＢＯＹ (Rank 42)	2026/09/18	30	13	17	43.3%
おさげ (Rank 43)	2026/09/15	32	12	20	37.5%
『ρε』.α (Rank 41)	2026/09/15	28	19	9	67.9%
灘琉豪/HSA (Rank 43)	2026/09/03	24	12	12	50.0%
かっこいいらう (Rank 44)	2026/08/31	46	17	29	37.0%
ピーエス (Rank 39)	2026/08/24	21	12	9	57.1%
おろち　ぽっぽ (Rank 43)	2026/07/25	32	12	20	37.5%
おかし (Rank 41)	2026/06/27	28	16	12	57.1%
PuzzG/ぱず爺 (Rank 36)	2026/06/07	21	13	8	61.9%
ikkyusaaan (Rank 39)	2026/06/05	19	11	8	57.9%
tu-kun0223 (Rank 39)	2026/06/05	23	18	5	78.3%

Round openings

Every character


Rimon Chouchu66P	463	4.8%
forward dash into Jouho Touken6P	432	4.4%
punchP into forward dash	430	4.4%
punchP	427	4.4%
backdash into evade down	314	3.2%
Housui2P	310	3.2%
Housui2P into throwP+G	245	2.5%
forward movement into punchP	209	2.1%
Housui2P into backdash	171	1.8%
punchP into throwP+G	155	1.6%
backdash into evade up	152	1.6%
backdash into Rimon Chouchu66P	144	1.5%
forward dash into throwP+G	113	1.2%
Rimon Chouchu66P into Jouho Touken6P	112	1.1%
backdash into Jouho Touken6P	110	1.1%

900 further openings account for the other 5,968 rounds.

Counted from 2,409 of the 2,732 matches played. The rest were not pulled for openings.

Akira

Career: 2,693–1,595 · 62.8%
This season: 1,670 matches · 61.7%
Peak rank: 43

First hit in 59.8% of 6,256 rounds. Won 57.7% of the rounds they struck first, 53.8% of the rounds they were struck first.

Significant Tells

In round 1: attacks straight away in 70.5% of rounds, against 52.3% in their other rounds.
Against Brad: evades first in 15.4% of rounds, against 4.7% against everyone else.
On Full Fence stages: moves in first in 22.6% of rounds, against 16.6% on the other stages.
After opening the round before by evading: evades first in 15.2% of rounds, against 5.8% after anything else.
After losing a round: attacks straight away in 56.0% of rounds, against 49.2% after winning one.
When ahead: moves in first in 21.4% of rounds, against 16.6% when level or behind.
In round 1: opens with “P punch into forward dash” in 10.7% of rounds, against 4.8% in their other rounds.
Against Lei Fei: opens with “forward dash into 6P Jouho Touken” in 14.4% of rounds, against 6.6% against everyone else.
After losing a round: opens with “P punch into forward dash” in 6.4% of rounds, against 3.5% after winning one.
When ahead: opens with “66P Rimon Chouchu” in 9.8% of rounds, against 6.1% when level or behind.

How is this tested?


Rimon Chouchu66P	463	7.3%
forward dash into Jouho Touken6P	432	6.8%
punchP into forward dash	396	6.3%
Housui2P	310	4.9%
Housui2P into throwP+G	245	3.9%
punchP	222	3.5%
Housui2P into backdash	171	2.7%
backdash into evade down	168	2.6%
backdash into Rimon Chouchu66P	144	2.3%
Rimon Chouchu66P into Jouho Touken6P	112	1.8%
backdash into Jouho Touken6P	110	1.7%
Rimon Chouchu66P into backdash	91	1.4%
backdash into evade up	90	1.4%
evade down into forward dash	90	1.4%
Rimon Chouchu66P into forward dash	86	1.4%

284 further openings account for the other 3,198 rounds.

Counted from 1,569 of the 1,670 matches played. The rest were not pulled for openings.

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	79–43 · 65%	22–18 · 55%	+12.7
Jacky	66–46 · 59%	26–15 · 63%	-6.1
Kage	52–34 · 60%	32–19 · 63%	+0.5
Lau	51–40 · 56%	21–18 · 54%	-0.1
Lion	51–28 · 65%	17–13 · 57%	+9.0
Brad	30–24 · 56%	13–13 · 50%	too few to test
Shun	39–19 · 67%	15–12 · 56%	too few to test
Sarah	24–10 · 71%	26–2 · 93%	too few to test
Lei Fei	22–23 · 49%	12–4 · 75%	too few to test
Jeffry	23–15 · 61%	9–5 · 64%	too few to test
Vanessa	18–8 · 69%	15–10 · 60%	too few to test
Goh	17–15 · 53%	4–7 · 36%	too few to test
Wolf	31–10 · 76%	8–6 · 57%	too few to test
Pai	18–14 · 56%	9–9 · 50%	too few to test
Eileen	25–12 · 68%	9–2 · 82%	too few to test
Aoi	17–8 · 68%	13–5 · 72%	too few to test
Taka	11–5 · 69%	7–11 · 39%	too few to test
El Blaze	8–4 · 67%	5–7 · 42%	too few to test
Jean	13–6 · 68%	1–2 · 33%	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.

101 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?

Jacky

Career: 610–463 · 56.9%
This season: 386 matches · 57.2%
Peak rank: 42

First hit in 54.1% of 1,326 rounds. Won 57.1% of the rounds they struck first, 51.0% of the rounds they were struck first.

Significant Tells

In round 1: attacks straight away in 67.1% of rounds, against 41.8% in their other rounds.
Against Vanessa: attacks straight away in 65.5% of rounds, against 46.8% against everyone else.
In round 4 or later: opens with “backdash into evade down” in 7.2% of rounds, against 3.2% in their other rounds.
Against Jeffry: opens with “backdash into evade down” in 10.9% of rounds, against 3.7% against everyone else.

How is this tested?


punchP	67	5.0%
Squat Straight2P	65	4.9%
crouch into Low Spin Kick1K+G	65	4.9%
backdash into evade down	57	4.3%
Squat Straight2P into throwP+G	40	3.0%
punchP into throwP+G	37	2.8%
forward movement into punchP	35	2.6%
Low Spin Kick1K+G	31	2.3%
backdash into evade up	29	2.2%
Middle Smash6P	28	2.1%
Slant Back Knuckle1P	26	1.9%
Squat Straight2P into backdash	26	1.9%
Dash Hammer Kick66K into High Angle Upper Kick6K	25	1.9%
backdash into Dash Hammer Kick66K	25	1.9%
evade down into guardG	21	1.6%

228 further openings account for the other 757 rounds.

Counted from 325 of the 386 matches played. The rest were not pulled for openings.

By stage type

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

Opponent	Walls	No walls	Walls vs open, rank-adjusted, pts
Jacky	12–8 · 60%	4–10 · 29%	too few to test
Kage	16–7 · 70%	2–2 · 50%	too few to test
Shun	5–4 · 56%	11–8 · 58%	too few to test
Akira	8–5 · 62%	6–7 · 46%	too few to test
Lau	10–5 · 67%	3–6 · 33%	too few to test
Jeffry	8–9 · 47%	2–1 · 67%	too few to test
Vanessa	8–7 · 53%	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.

61 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?

Lau

Career: 371–228 · 61.9%
This season: 235 matches · 58.3%
Peak rank: 42

First hit in 51.3% of 716 rounds. Won 56.4% of the rounds they struck first, 52.1% of the rounds they were struck first.

Significant Tells

In round 1: attacks straight away in 78.5% of rounds, against 57.4% in their other rounds.
In round 1: opens with “P punch” in 13.8% of rounds, against 6.4% in their other rounds.
Against Vanessa: opens with “forward movement into P punch” in 18.2% of rounds, against 4.0% against everyone else.

How is this tested?


Souko Sensou66P+K into Rouko Tankai6P+K	61	8.4%
punchP	60	8.2%
Souchuken2P	51	7.0%
forward movement into punchP	37	5.1%
Souchuken2P into throwP+G	26	3.6%
backdash into Junho Chushou33P	26	3.6%
Souko Sensou66P+K into Tenshin EngekishouP+K	25	3.4%
backdash into evade down	24	3.3%
Souchuken2P into backdash	21	2.9%
punchP into throwP+G	21	2.9%
guardG	18	2.5%
Tenshin EngekishouP+K	17	2.3%
Souko Sensou66P+K into Rouko Shukkai6P+KP	15	2.0%
Senchutai3K	14	1.9%
backdash into Kosoushou46P	11	1.5%

112 further openings account for the other 303 rounds.

Counted from 181 of the 235 matches played. The rest were not pulled for openings.

By stage type

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

Opponent	Walls	No walls	Walls vs open, rank-adjusted, pts
Jacky	11–8 · 58%	4–3 · 57%	too few to test
Shun	7–2 · 78%	6–7 · 46%	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.

54 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: 132–66 · 66.7%
This season: 105 matches · 64.8%
Peak rank: 39

First hit in 49.9% of 423 rounds. Won 60.7% of the rounds they struck first, 54.7% of the rounds they were struck first.

Significant Tells

In round 1: attacks straight away in 65.7% of rounds, against 43.5% in their other rounds.

How is this tested?


forward movement into punchP	20	4.7%
punchP	20	4.7%
Sit Jab2P	17	4.0%
punchP into Jab StraightPP	17	4.0%
Sit Jab2P into throwP+G	16	3.7%
backdash into evade down	15	3.5%
Sit Jab2P into forward dash	14	3.3%
punchP into throwP+G	14	3.3%
evade down into guardG	10	2.3%
backdash into Middle Spin Kick66K	7	1.6%
backdash into Sway Back4P+K+G	7	1.6%
guardG	7	1.6%
Dtee Sawk Dtrohng4P+K	6	1.4%
Jolt Upper3P into Jolt Upper~Spin Kick3PK	6	1.4%
Middle Spin Kick66K into Ten Kao6K	6	1.4%

130 further openings account for the other 247 rounds.

Kage

Career: 132–79 · 62.6%
This season: 110 matches · 66.4%
Peak rank: 37

First hit in 56.5% of 354 rounds. Won 61.0% of the rounds they struck first, 54.5% of the rounds they were struck first.

Significant Tells

In round 4 or later: backs off first in 32.7% of rounds, against 14.5% in their other rounds.

How is this tested?


punchP	30	8.3%
Jizuridan2P	22	6.1%
forward movement into punchP	22	6.1%
backdash into evade down	18	5.0%
backdash into evade up	14	3.9%
Hiji'uchi6P	10	2.8%
evade down into guardG	10	2.8%
Hagakure-ryu In Raijingeki46P+K into Hagakure-ryu In Fujingeki46P+KP	8	2.2%
Rasen4P	8	2.2%
punchP into throwP+G	8	2.2%
Jizuridan2P into throwP+G	7	1.9%
Rasen4P into backdash	7	1.9%
punchP into Hiji'uchi6P	7	1.9%
Gen'you4K+G	6	1.7%
guardG	6	1.7%

100 further openings account for the other 177 rounds.

Counted from 88 of the 110 matches played. The rest were not pulled for openings.

Goh

Career: 129–74 · 63.5%
This season: 50 matches · 56.0%
Peak rank: 38

First hit in 54.5% of 198 rounds. Won 48.1% of the rounds they struck first, 57.8% of the rounds they were struck first.

Significant Tells

Too few rounds to test opener patterns.

How is this tested?


Karura4P+K	18	9.1%
backdash into evade down	13	6.6%
forward movement into punchP	13	6.6%
Sune'uchi2P	11	5.6%
backdash into Sune Kudaki43P	11	5.6%
backdash into Soukyu46P	10	5.0%
Ni'oudaoshi3K+G	8	4.0%
backdash into Karura4P+K	8	4.0%
guardG	7	3.5%
backdash into evade up	6	3.0%
punchP into throwP+G	5	2.5%
Garyu66K into Tsukikage6K	4	2.0%
Sune'uchi2P into throwP+G	4	2.0%
evade down into forward dash	4	2.0%
Sune'uchi2P into backdash	3	1.5%

52 further openings account for the other 73 rounds.

Shun

Career: 52–23 · 69.3%
This season: 40 matches · 70.0%
Peak rank: 35

First hit in 49.7% of 159 rounds. Won 62.0% of the rounds they struck first, 57.5% of the rounds they were struck first.

Significant Tells

Too few rounds to test opener patterns.

How is this tested?


backdash into evade down	11	6.9%
punchP	11	6.9%
forward movement into punchP	10	6.3%
Fukuchougeki2P	9	5.7%
Tenshin Benshu4P+K into throwP+G	9	5.7%
crouch into Gyousentai2K	8	5.0%
Rensai Gakushu46PP into Rengeki Gakushu46PPP	6	3.8%
backdash into Chubu Soutenkyaku66K	6	3.8%
Fukuchougeki2P into forward dash	5	3.1%
Ryubikyaku8K+G into Tanhi ChougekiK+G	4	2.5%
Gyou'in Haishu3P	3	1.9%
Haisenchu1P	3	1.9%
evade down into Chubu Soutenkyaku66K	3	1.9%
punchP into evade down	3	1.9%
punchP into forward dash	3	1.9%

52 further openings account for the other 65 rounds.

Jeffry

Career: 31–11 · 73.8%
This season: 20 matches · 65.0%
Peak rank: 34

Significant Tells

Too few rounds to test opener patterns.

How is this tested?


Low Knuckle2P	8	9.3%
Low Knuckle2P into forward dash	4	4.7%
Low Knuckle2P into throwP+G	4	4.7%
backdash into evade down	4	4.7%
forward movement into Double KnucklePP	4	4.7%
punchP	4	4.7%
Low Knuckle2P into backdash	3	3.5%
Toe Kick2K	3	3.5%
backdash into Dash Elbow66P	3	3.5%
backward movement into Toe Kick2K	3	3.5%
punchP into Double KnucklePP	3	3.5%
backdash into Dash Elbow Upper66PP	2	2.3%
backdash into Full Swing Upper33P	2	2.3%
backdash into Rising Hammer43PP	2	2.3%
crouch dash back into Knee Attack6K	2	2.3%

32 further openings account for the other 35 rounds.

Wolf

Career: 40–23 · 63.5%
This season: 12 matches · 58.3%
Peak rank: 34

Significant Tells

Too few rounds to test opener patterns.

How is this tested?


Low Hammer2P	10	18.5%
backdash into Short Shoulder46P+K	3	5.6%
crouch into down-back kick1K	3	5.6%
punchP into Arrow Knuckle3P	3	5.6%
punchP into Jab StraightPP	3	5.6%
Low Hammer2P into backward movement	2	3.7%
Low Hammer2P into forward dash	2	3.7%
Low Hammer2P into throwP+G	2	3.7%
Quick Shoulder66P+K	2	3.7%
backdash into Quick Shoulder66P+K	2	3.7%
backdash into evade down	2	3.7%
forward movement into punchP	2	3.7%
punchP	2	3.7%
Knee Lift6K into Low Drop Kick62K	1	1.9%
Low Hammer2P into evade down	1	1.9%

14 further openings account for the other 14 rounds.

Lion

Career: 111–55 · 66.9%
This season: 93 matches · 65.6%
Peak rank: 37

Significant Tells

Too few rounds to test opener patterns.

How is this tested?


forward movement into punchP	5	15.6%
punchP	4	12.5%
Juchou Senshou8P+K	2	6.2%
Juchou Senshou8P+K into Souji SenpuP+K	2	6.2%
Senkyutai1K into kickK	2	6.2%
punchP into Banchu6P	2	6.2%
Fujinkyaku66K	1	3.1%
Katousui2P	1	3.1%
Katousui2P into forward movement	1	3.1%
Senputai8K into Katoutai8KK	1	3.1%
Senshippo66P into punchP	1	3.1%
backdash into Fujinkyaku66K	1	3.1%
backdash into evade down	1	3.1%
crouch into Zensoutai2KK	1	3.1%
forward punch+kick6P+K into Renkan SenshouPPP	1	3.1%

6 further openings account for the other 6 rounds.

Counted from 8 of the 93 matches played. The rest were not pulled for openings.

Pai

Career: 7–3 · 70.0%
This season: 5 matches · 40.0%
Peak rank: 33

Significant Tells

Too few rounds to test opener patterns.

How is this tested?


forward movement into punchP	4	19.1%
punchP into Senchuken6P	4	19.1%
crouch into Honshin Soukyaku1K+G	3	14.3%
Souchuken2P into backdash	2	9.5%
Honshin Soukyaku1K+G into Shi'en Settai2K+G	1	4.8%
Senchuken6P	1	4.8%
Souchuken2P	1	4.8%
backdash into Enshi Soushou66P	1	4.8%
backdash into evade down	1	4.8%
forward dash into crouch dash forward	1	4.8%
punchP	1	4.8%
punchP into RenshouPP	1	4.8%

Eileen

Career: 3–2 · 60.0%
This season: 3 matches · 66.7%
Peak rank: 33

Significant Tells

Too few rounds to test opener patterns.

How is this tested?


punchP	2	16.7%
Douchu6P into Jouho Chu'un6PP	1	8.3%
Goku Senshin (Deflect)4P+K+G into Enkou Kenka46P	1	8.3%
Hikou Niki6K	1	8.3%
Jinraishou6P+K into Sayu Gekishou6P+KP	1	8.3%
backdash into Honshin Senputai6K+G	1	8.3%
backdash into evade up	1	8.3%
evade down into throw escape	1	8.3%
forward movement into punchP	1	8.3%
punchP into Douchu6P	1	8.3%
punchP into forward dash	1	8.3%

Jean

Career: 1–0 · 100.0%
This season: 2 matches · 100.0%
Peak rank: 33

Significant Tells

Too few rounds to test opener patterns.

How is this tested?


Shitamaeken2P into backdash	2	22.2%
Shitamaeken2P into backward movement	1	11.1%
Shitamaeken2P into forward dash	1	11.1%
backdash into Doumawashi Kaitengeri46K+G	1	11.1%
backdash into Tate'enpi~Tenkai Hizageri33PK	1	11.1%
backdash into evade up	1	11.1%
evade up into Gyaku Seikenzuki66P	1	11.1%
guardG into Yamakuzushi6K	1	11.1%

Taka

Career: 0–1 · 0.0%
This season: 1 matches · 100.0%
Peak rank: 33

Significant Tells

Too few rounds to test opener patterns.

How is this tested?


punchP	1	33.3%
punchP into Kumoyaburi4P+K	1	33.3%
punchP into throwP+G	1	33.3%

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 (71 here; about 3.6 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: 10 of 18 tests hold up
Jacky: 4 of 15 tests hold up
Lau: 3 of 15 tests hold up
Brad: 1 of 11 tests hold up
Kage: 1 of 12 tests hold up
Goh: not tested (too few rounds)
Shun: not tested (too few rounds)
Jeffry: not tested (too few rounds)
Wolf: not tested (too few rounds)
Lion: not tested (too few rounds)
Pai: not tested (too few rounds)
Eileen: not tested (too few rounds)
Jean: not tested (too few rounds)
Taka: not tested (too few rounds)