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Virtua Fighter 5 REVO · v1.10

Pai

ramonth2022

  • El Blaze
  • Aoi
  • Brad
  • Sarah
Career matches332
Career win rate72.9%
Round win rate34.5%
Peak rank21
Distinct opponents10
Period2026/03/26 – 2026/10/18

Elo rating

Overall, and on each character played 10+ times

1176 Not ranked yet: the list needs 50 matches. See the Elo list →

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

Pai2186681879.1%
Brad1876581876.3%
Aoi1768412760.3%
Sarah2157471082.5%
Goh—25141156.0%
El Blaze112014670.0%

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

119 of 119 rounds counted

7.9 inputs a second (475 a minute) this season. Faster than 70% of the 4,069 regulars with enough rounds counted to compare.

By character played

Pai8.350050
El Blaze7.545125
Aoi7.645819
Brad7.243517
Sarah8.95358

By opponent's character

Jean7.745933
Aoi7.947428
Goh7.645819
Lau8.249416
Taka9.154713
Jacky7.44467
Kage7.34383

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

Jean94544.4%+19.9
Aoi73442.9%+15.8
Goh6060.0%-14.8
Lau4040.0%-41.3
Taka31233.3%-26.7
Jacky220100.0%+60.9
Kage1010.0%-40.7

No row has what it takes to be tested: 30 decided matches and 10 different opponents on each side.

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

Breakable Half Fence113827.3%-12.9
Low Fence4040.0%-26.8
Single Wall41325.0%+11.7
Octagon32166.7%+53.5
Rectangle31233.3%-7.3
Breakable Full Fence220100.0%+43.8
Full Fence2020.0%-24.3

No row has what it takes to be tested: 30 decided matches and 10 different opponents on each side.

With or without walls

StagesMatchesWin %Expectedvs expected
Walls2138.1%34.8%+3.3
No walls812.5%19.1%-6.6

Walls against open: not tested — fewer than 30 decided matches or 10 different opponents on one side.

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

Ultrassiro (Rank 17)72528.6%
RetroPlayer_BR(BRASIL) (Rank 26)6060.0%
GinkoBiloba (Rank 16)4040.0%
ÉderSwanHeart (Rank 18)41325.0%
Johnnybwai (Rank 24)32166.7%
GrandoBrando (Rank 21)220100.0%
JuninhoNash (Rank 11)220100.0%
abn (Rank 4)2020.0%
MonzMont (Rank 6)110100.0%
きつね (Rank 21)1010.0%

Most played opponents, most recent first

RetroPlayer_BR(BRASIL) (Rank 26)2026/10/186060.0%
ÉderSwanHeart (Rank 18)2026/10/1741325.0%
Johnnybwai (Rank 24)2026/10/1232166.7%
GrandoBrando (Rank 21)2026/10/08220100.0%
JuninhoNash (Rank 11)2026/10/02220100.0%
きつね (Rank 21)2026/10/021010.0%
MonzMont (Rank 6)2026/10/02110100.0%
GinkoBiloba (Rank 16)2026/09/254040.0%
Ultrassiro (Rank 17)2026/09/2472528.6%
abn (Rank 4)2026/09/162020.0%

Round openings

Every character

crouch into Low Kick1523.1%
crouch into Souka Raigekishou3PPP69.2%
guardG46.2%
punchP into RenshouPP46.2%
RenshouPP into RaigekishouPPP34.6%
Fade Roll Kick7K23.1%
Haitenkyaku7K23.1%
backward movement23.1%
crouch into Renka Sentai2KK23.1%
crouch into Senchutai3K23.1%
crouch into Shi'en Settai2K+G23.1%
punchP into RaigekishouPPP23.1%
punchP into RenkentaiPK23.1%
Backfire4P+K+G11.5%
Ensei KatanhekiP+K11.5%

15 further openings account for the other 15 rounds.

Counted from 17 of the 22 matches played. The rest were not pulled for openings.

Pai

Career
68–18 · 79.1%
This season
13 matches · 46.1%
Peak rank
21

Significant Tells

Too few rounds to test opener patterns.

How is this tested?

crouch into Souka Raigekishou3PPP618.8%
punchP into RenshouPP412.5%
RenshouPP into RaigekishouPPP39.4%
Haitenkyaku7K26.2%
crouch into Renka Sentai2KK26.2%
crouch into Senchutai3K26.2%
crouch into Shi'en Settai2K+G26.2%
punchP into RaigekishouPPP26.2%
punchP into RenkentaiPK26.2%
Ensei KatanhekiP+K13.1%
backward movement13.1%
crouch into Enbikyaku3K+G13.1%
down-back punch+kick1P+K13.1%
down-back, back punch+kick14P+K into down-back, back, down-back punch+kick141P+K13.1%
evade up into Haitenkyaku7K13.1%

1 further openings account for the other 1 rounds.

Counted from 8 of the 13 matches played. The rest were not pulled for openings.

El Blaze

Career
14–6 · 70.0%
This season
7 matches · 28.6%
Peak rank
11

Significant Tells

Too few rounds to test opener patterns.

How is this tested?

crouch into Low Kick2K1352.0%
Fade Roll Kick7K28.0%
guardG28.0%
Backfire4P+K+G14.0%
Midday HeatKK into Combo Twilight GlowKKK14.0%
backdash into backward movement14.0%
backward movement14.0%
crouch into Middle Kick3K14.0%
crouch into Sit Jab2P14.0%
kickK into Midday HeatKK14.0%
punchP into Outrage ComboPPK14.0%

Sarah

Career
47–10 · 82.5%
This season
2 matches · 50.0%
Peak rank
21

Significant Tells

Too few rounds to test opener patterns.

How is this tested?

crouch into Low Kick2K225.0%
guardG225.0%
Hide Side Kick (Deflect)P+K112.5%
evade down112.5%
evade down into Low Kick2K112.5%
evade up112.5%

Not counted here: Aoi, Brad. Their matches were not pulled for openings.

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 (0 here; about 0.0 would come up by chance alone before the correction).

Tests behind each character's list

  • Pai: not tested (too few rounds)
  • El Blaze: not tested (too few rounds)
  • Sarah: not tested (too few rounds)