SF6 Master Rating — Torimeshi Cracks the Top 10 on Dhalsim in a New-Master Wave

Torimeshi is now #9 on the SF6 ranked leaderboard at 2,245 MR — on Dhalsim, a character with just 433 tracked players, the lowest total of any character in the Parry Portal database.

Dhalsim's Population Paradox

The numbers around Dhalsim's elite presence are genuinely strange. With 433 players overall, Dhalsim is the least-played character on the tracked ladder; the next closest is Lily at 468. In the top 500 there are 13 Dhalsim players — a thin slice. Yet in a single two-day window, two Dhalsim players landed inside the top 30: Torimeshi at #9 and マーノ/ギコギコはしません at #29, arriving at 2,165 MR.

For a character that represents under 1% of the tracked ladder (433 out of 52,468 ranked players), two top-30 seats is a remarkable concentration. Ingrid, the most-played character at 4,642 players, also has 2 representatives in the top 30 this window. Dhalsim is matching Ingrid's top-30 count at roughly one-tenth the population. The character selects for a specific style of player — long-range zoning, keep-away, patience — and when those players commit, they commit at a high level.

The Wider New-Master Wave

Torimeshi's #9 landing is the headline number from a two-day window that produced new Masters up and down the leaderboard. Also entering the top 20: 2G Brayan_Job on Alex at #17 with 2,203 MR. Alex has only 2 players in the top 30 and 3 in the top 100 — an elite footprint almost as thin as Dhalsim's in relative terms — so a top-20 Alex placement in a single window is notable on its own.

Among all the new Masters this window, LinkNova stands out for an additional reason: the Ingrid player arrived at #79 (2,052 MR) carrying an active 15-game win streak across 93 games — the longest winning run among any new Master in the window. yama at #31 on A.K.I. (2,156 MR) is another name worth tracking; A.K.I. has only 3 players in the top 100 despite 16 in the top 500, and yama's promotion edges the character within one position of the top 30.

The volume of promotions across two days signals a moment of real leaderboard churn. Check the full standings and your own position at the SF6 ranked leaderboard, and follow Torimeshi to see whether a #9 Dhalsim hold survives the week.