Leaderboard Stats

Authors:

Alpe (Head of Content at RoyaleAPI)

Tryso (BrawlStats bot developer)

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Stats Source

The following stats have been collected during the past 2 weeks (from 2024-07-09 to 2024-07-27), by tracking the top 1,000 players of the Global Leaderboard.

This means that only players who were listed in the Global Leaderboard from the start to the end of this period will be included in this blog for some stats. Most stats won't be affected by this limitation, only those that are based on changes over time, which will be labelled throughout the blog.

The Global Leaderboard is a ranking based on trophies, which is a score that is unlocked when you reach Squad League. Trophies are earned or lost based on the battle results in Squad League.

Methodology

The stats used in this blog are not available for everyone through the in-game UI, and were only possible to obtain thanks to the help of Tryso.

This more detailed source of data allows us to find unique and more reliable information, but it isn't perfect, mainly due to how Squad Busters aggregates and stores player stats. Some of the main limitations are:

• Party battle stats can't be separated from Squad League battles
• Troop use counts are based on chests openings, not battles
• There is no way to know how often a troop wins, just how much it is picked
• Stats for all game modes are aggregated together
• Pick counts from new troops can't be compared with older troops

By analysing the data in bulk, we can find relevant patterns, but it isn't possible to find these trends for each individual profile.

A good example to illustrate this is troop use counts. The data only reflects the amount of times a troop has been picked from a chest, but we can't tell in how many battles it has been used. This gives a disproportionate weight to troops that you want to get many of (e.g.: Archer Queen, Tank...), but less to troops you rarely pick more than once per battle (e.g.: Hog Rider, Greg...). Only by comparing stats from different players we can determine if picking a specific troop more often leads to more wins.

Over this blog we'll share some stats that we found to be relevant or interesting, but there are many more that we didn't include or even consider. If there's anything else that you'd like to see, let us know and we'll look into it.

• Leaderboard Demographics
• Player Collections
• Squad Grinders
• The Best Players
• Popular Troop Picks
  • Common Troops
  • Rare Troops
  • Epic Troops
  • All Troops
• Content Creators

Leaderboard Demographics

Assigned Locations

The location assigned to each player is based on where they created their account (by default); although it can sometimes be changed afterwards by contacting game support.

This means that some soft-launch regions probably have players from other parts of the world, who used VPNs to download the game early. Over time, we expect this initial boost for soft-launch regions to be diluted and lose relevance.

The soft-launch regions were: Canada, Mexico, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Singapore.

There are a total of 72 countries with at least 1 player in the top 1,000, but the players are not evenly distributed. Just the top 10 countries account for more than half of the whole leaderboard. United States is in a clear lead with 179 players.

Full leaderboard of countries

		Country	Players
1		United States	179
2		South Korea	82
3		Japan	75
4		Germany	63
5		Spain	53
6		France	53
7		Mexico	50
8		Canada	45
9		Brazil	41
10		Italy	35
11		Taiwan	34
12		Singapore	26
13		Hong Kong	18
14		Philippines	13
15		United Kingdom	13
16		Israel	12
17		Australia	12
18		China	11
19		Malaysia	11
20		Thailand	11
21		Netherlands	9
22		Peru	8
23		Saudi Arabia	8
24		Indonesia	8
25		Belgium	6
26		Chile	6
27		India	6
28		Argentina	5
29		Lebanon	5
30		Turkey	5
31		Costa Rica	5
32		Switzerland	5
33		Bolivia	4
34		Sweden	4
35		United Arab Emirates	4
36		Poland	3
37		Norway	3
38		Ukraine	3
39		New Zealand	3
40		Portugal	3
41		Ecuador	3
42		Venezuela	2
43		Kuwait	2
44		Bulgaria	2
45		Czech Republic	2
46		Austria	2
47		Panama	2
48		Colombia	2
49		Uruguay	2
50		Denmark	2
51		Vietnam	2
52		Nicaragua	2
53		Puerto Rico	2
54		Iraq	2
55		Jordan	1
56		Dominican Republic	1
57		Sudan	1
58		Guatemala	1
59		South Africa	1
60		Luxembourg	1
61		Romania	1
62		Montenegro	1
63		Greece	1
64		Bangladesh	1
65		Kazakhstan	1
66		Croatia	1
67		Belize	1
68		Hungary	1
69		Nepal	1
70		Macau	1
71		Uzbekistan	1
72		Senegal	1
-		Unknown	13

It's also relevant to look at how many of these players have fully maxed accounts. Of the 1,000 top players, only 52 have maxed their whole troop collection (31 troops). The US also wins in this category, and South Korea stands out as second over the rest. Interestingly, none of these countries were soft-launch regions.

Full list of maxed players

		Player	Trophies	Top 3
28		TTV SuperSalvo	12,105	83%
39		@Hgzin.7	11,013	91%
40		SomeJerk32	10,911	64%
44		Yë	10,821	92%
58		ig_xavierjoven	10,310	56%
68		thetjshow	9,664	63%
69		HeavensRoyalTea	9,652	69%
79		----	9,333	76%
85		鍾培生	9,112	85%
93		키위쨩	8,938	69%
99		GG | Serena	8,758	58%
116		客家毛毛	8,363	62%
126		Chisgule	8,196	82%
144		spark’s	7,700	42%
153		TheeFury	7,491	72%
154		☆★☆★☆	7,494	90%
166		BR GEFIN CAVALO	7,306	67%
180		BryceZheng	7,034	76%
195		✈️NemosTV✈️	6,814	72%
222		1988	6,573	52%
234		HADI	6,463	54%
235		★★SCARFACE★★	6,460	74%
239		xDieSahne	6,407	65%
276		ks	6,141	54%
290		ZT|Chrono	6,026	62%
298		SoySuru	5,981	67%
310		SirClaz	5,954	76%
372		iPsycooTV	5,622	70%
385		like bvtter	5,543	61%
393		⚫️〰️T〰️⚫️	5,485	57%
420		Iceman	5,334	61%
434		이대표	5,251	55%
449		Lalalalisa_m	5,211	74%
468		아놀드스텔론	5,119	49%
474		•K!ND3R•	5,108	62%
494		주님이놈도일단올립니다.	5,056	55%
544		Pat	4,896	69%
555		✨Sylveon✨	4,866	83%
558		Buster	4,861	52%
574		우영제	4,807	49%
579		agi	4,797	75%
670		THANK YOU!!	4,546	65%
708		Mikkilau	4,427	72%
763		볼빨간사춘기	4,344	86%
775		Bennyy	4,321	86%
795		小米团小芮酱	4,273	85%
854		なお35P	4,139	68%
881		むぎ	4,088	75%
935		凱爾	4,000	72%
948		Flar	4,000	85%
949		Sobek	4,000	80%

Player Collections

Due to the restraints in the progression system, maxing troops (Ultra Evolution) demands a lot of time and effort, and probably buying some IAPs.

At the time of writing, more than 40% of players in the leaderboard had 0 maxed troops.

The main irregularity in the distribution is caused by Common troops; you can clearly see that this is the first rarity to plateau. More than 400 players in the leaderboard have all their Common troops maxed, showing that once you start maxing some troops, you max all your commons soon after.

Squad Grinders

When playing in Squad League, trophies earned/lost aren't dependent on the strength of your opponents, just on your final placement. Additionally, battles give you a positive amount of trophies on average; even if we disregard bots, each battle creates a net positive of 13 trophies among the 10 players of a room.

This results in permanent trophy inflation, where playing more basically means earning more trophies; playing well will help you rise faster, but it isn't crucial.

The most active players have completed more than 7,000 battles, although the average is much lower, at around 3,000 battles.

Top 20 grinders

		Player	Battles
1		МЕД	8,546
2		TikTok: Aang.SB	8,002
3		AndyCreati	7,811
4		twitch: gregsb_	7,772
5		YT VITAL SHARK	7,621
6		Ruben!!!	7,291
7		david00 ツ	7,136
8		桐子Kirito	7,029
9		Bulldogge	6,993
10		TTV dondaniel77	6,744
11		YT┃かなくん	6,742
12		White	6,662
13		lilmama71118	6,595
14		tw sxnnyy17	6,587
15		Lordi	6,472
16		Michi30	6,399
17		Garakuger	6,307
18		acapSPYDER	6,294
19		Sprinteruri4	6,266
20		Tiago	6,194

The Best Players

If trophies aren't a good way to find the best players, what are the alternatives?

One option is to look at the average placement of each player. These are the players who win battles the most often, meaning players with the best win rate:

Note: none of these players had more than 10% of friendly battles, so we can be fairly confident that these values weren't artificially inflated.

Top 20 players by Top 1 Rate

		Player	Top 1
1		Yë	77%
2		@Hgzin.7	76%
3		☆★☆★☆	72%
4		鍾培生	71%
5		PowerTechYT	69%
6		桐子Kirito	68%
7		Shaner	67%
8		XiakeYT	65%
9		Rubiini	64%
10		Mewtw0	61%
11		YT VITAL SHARK	61%
12		볼빨간사춘기	60%
13		Kenunites	60%
14		TTV | Alaskaoso	60%
15		THE ONE	59%
16		KST 엔젤유튜브	59%
17		小米团小芮酱	59%
18		杰夫不是姐夫	59%
19		⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	58%
20		Bennyy	58%

Top 20 players by Top 3 Rate

		Player	Top 3
1		PowerTechYT	95%
2		桐子Kirito	93%
3		Yë	92%
4		@Hgzin.7	91%
5		Shaner	91%
6		Kenunites	91%
7		Rex	90%
8		Rubiini	90%
9		☆★☆★☆	90%
10		XiakeYT	89%
11		ターゲット	89%
12		BRProMaster	88%
13		杰夫不是姐夫	88%
14		AndyCreati	87%
15		Andre R.G❤️	87%
16		TTV | luencraft	86%
17		Mewtw0	86%
18		THE ONE	86%
19		YT VITAL SHARK	86%
20		みや	86%

Another comparison that gives somewhat similar results is trophies earned per battle.

Top 20 players by Trophy Rate

This leaderboard requires players ranked since 2024-07-09 until 2024-07-27. This time period is used to be able to obtain the amount of ranked battles accurately. If a player was unranked in the first sample, we can't know if any of their battles were played outside of Squad League.

		Player	Trophies / Battle
1		@Hgzin.7	9.28
2		AndyCreati	8.68
3		Andre R.G❤️	8.64
4		THE ONE	8.33
5		北海道代表	8.33
6		Yë	8.33
7		----	8.14
8		PowerTechYT	8.13
9		☆★☆★☆	8.06
10		YT: zPaw7	8.04
11		TTV | luencraft	7.98
12		OCSir	7.97
13		TikTok: @Thz_SB	7.96
14		White	7.95
15		Squinkie	7.92
16		ターゲット	7.87
17		Dynastie	7.78
18		Sergio H	7.78
19		小米团小芮酱	7.70
20		Strong	7.69

Knowing which players win the most often is not only interesting by itself, but essential to find out what their most common picks are. Is it Chicken? Keep reading to find out!

Popular Troop Picks

In Squad League, every player competes with the same active roster, which changes every 12 minutes. This means that picking the right troops is key to gain an edge over your opponents.

If you scroll down to the stats section of your profile, you'll find something similar to this: your most picked characters.

Squad Busters keeps track of the troops you pick whenever you open a chest during a battle, and displays the top 3 troops for each rarity. But we don't just know the top 3; we have access to the pick values of all the troops, for all the players in the leaderboard. With that we can find out the most common picks overall.

Did you know?

Leaderboard players pick an average of 15.3 troops per battle. This average is very homogeneous across the leaderboard.

Breakdown by rarity

The horizontal axis is player rank for both ranks. Pick rates are very consistent across the leaderboard for all rarities.

Common Troops

Usually the chests that you open during the first 2 minutes of a battle will just contain Common troops (61% of the time).

Barbarian and Shelly are the most popular picks of this rarity.

Correlation with Top 3 rate

By giving additional weight to a success metric, we can see which picks are unusually popular among the best players. For example, if we optimise for Top 3 results, the best troops are:

Trader seems to be the most underrated Common troop, but its Pick Rate isn't high, so it may become more popular over time.

TST3 Score Algorithm

The aim of this score is simply to highlight which troops are the most common among good players. If the TST3 value is higher, picks are skewed towards better players; if it's negative, it's usually a pick by the players with worse performance.

If a TST3 value is close to 0, it means the troop isn't correlated with more Top 3s. A way to interpret this is that good and bad players pick it equally often, or that picking it more often doesn't strictly lead to more wins.

We like to use this stat paired with Pick Rate. A positive value of TST3 tells you that players should pick it more often, the troop is underrated; a negative value tells you that it's picked too much, the troop is overrated. Keep in mind that picks can be counted several times within a battle, so picking less can just mean having a single pick, and not pushing for a Fusion.

$$\mathsf{TST}\mathsf{3}=\sum \frac{\mathsf{TP}\times (\mathsf{T}\mathsf{3}\mathsf{R}-\mathsf{AT}\mathsf{3}\mathsf{R})\times 100}{\mathsf{TTP}}$$

• TST3: Troop Score for Top 3
• TP: Troop Picks (by the player for this troop)
• TTP: Total Troop Picks (by the player)
• T3R: Top 3 Rate (of the player)
• AT3R: Average Top 3 Rate in the leaderboard

We can compare the general Pick Rates across the leaderboard with the Pick Rates of the top 10% of players:

What is the top 10% of players?

It's simply a filter that we have chosen to narrow down this analysis and see how the best players in the leaderboard compare to average Pick Rates across the leaderboard. This ~10% subset is based on the following:

• 0.85 percentile in Top 3 rate, as a metric of player strength
• 0.25 percentile in battles played, to discard not very active players who may have less reliable Top 3 rates

Rare Troops

Given that several of the new troops have Rare rarity, these pick rate stats are only based on the last few days.

As you can see from the total pick numbers, Bandit and Ice World characters are still far behind in this stat. That's why we think Pick Rate in recent days is more relevant.

Correlation with Top 3 rate

This is how Pick Rates change for the best 10% players:

Epic Troops

Epics are the last category, and although it has a fairly new troop (Dr. T), he didn't change much when added to the game.

Comparing last-3-days stats with lifetime stats, only Witch seems to have a significant change. Our guess is that this could be related to the nerf it received some time ago, which limited the amount of Skeleton spawns.

As you can see from the total pick numbers, Bandit and Ice World characters are still far behind in this stat. That's why we think Pick Rate in recent days is more relevant.

Correlation with Top 3 rate

This is how Pick Rates change for the best 10% players:

All Troops

Given that troop picks are very dependent on rarity, we don't believe that mixing them together is particularly useful; but if you are interested, you can find them below:

Most picked troops of any rarity

These troops are sorted by their Pick Rate during the last 3 days.

		Troop	Picks	PR	TST3
1		Barbarian	3,922,393	8.7%	12.4
2		Shelly	3,584,414	7.1%	-28.9
3		Colt	3,222,212	5.2%	-33.5
4		Hog Rider	2,254,476	5.0%	58.6
5		Chicken	1,881,392	5.0%	70.1
6		Greg	2,344,848	4.6%	-7.1
7		Trader	2,184,291	4.5%	74.5
8		Max	1,693,371	4.4%	63.6
9		Barbarian King	1,864,337	4.4%	39.4
10		Archer Queen	2,113,603	4.3%	55.5
11		Jessie	846,465	3.8%	-5.4
12		Mavis	1,690,774	3.7%	-9.1
13		Tank Girl	1,631,123	3.7%	5.8
14		Bo	2,138,038	3.0%	-39.1
15		Battle Healer	1,054,779	2.9%	35.2
16		Heavy	1,375,371	2.6%	-57.0
17		Penny	1,035,685	2.6%	12.2
18		Bandit	75,053	2.6%	20.0
19		Goblin	1,481,597	2.3%	3.4
20		Mortis	870,231	2.2%	-51.0
21		Ice Wizard	453,849	2.1%	28.4
22		Pam	964,989	2.0%	-6.5
23		El Primo	1,045,482	1.9%	-34.7
24		Wizard	909,068	1.8%	-2.5
25		Medic	1,121,756	1.8%	-53.6
26		Bea	733,478	1.7%	1.4
27		Nita	1,160,832	1.5%	-20.6
28		Royale King	661,089	1.5%	-10.3
29		Witch	1,152,787	1.3%	-14.7
30		Dynamike	599,066	1.0%	2.9
31		Dr. T	202,765	0.9%	-12.4

Most picked troops by the top 10% of players

		Troop	T10PR	PR	Diff
1		Barbarian	9.3%	8.7%	+0.6%
2		Shelly	6.4%	7.1%	-0.7%
3		Chicken	5.6%	5.0%	+0.6%
4		Trader	5.5%	4.5%	+1.0%
5		Barbarian King	5.4%	4.4%	+1.0%
6		Hog Rider	5.3%	5.0%	+0.3%
7		Max	4.9%	4.4%	+0.5%
8		Archer Queen	4.8%	4.3%	+0.5%
9		Colt	4.5%	5.2%	-0.7%
10		Greg	4.3%	4.6%	-0.3%
11		Mavis	3.7%	3.7%	0.0%
12		Tank Girl	3.6%	3.7%	-0.1%
13		Battle Healer	3.4%	2.9%	+0.5%
14		Jessie	3.4%	3.8%	-0.4%
15		Bandit	3.1%	2.6%	+0.5%
16		Goblin	2.6%	2.3%	+0.3%
17		Penny	2.5%	2.6%	-0.1%
18		Ice Wizard	2.4%	2.1%	+0.3%
19		Mortis	2.1%	2.2%	-0.1%
20		Bo	2.0%	3.0%	-1.0%
21		Pam	1.8%	2.0%	-0.2%
22		Bea	1.8%	1.7%	+0.1%
23		El Primo	1.8%	1.9%	-0.1%
24		Wizard	1.7%	1.8%	-0.1%
25		Heavy	1.5%	2.6%	-1.1%
26		Medic	1.4%	1.8%	-0.4%
27		Nita	1.2%	1.5%	-0.3%
28		Royale King	1.2%	1.5%	-0.3%
29		Dynamike	1.1%	1.0%	+0.1%
30		Witch	1.0%	1.3%	–0.3%
31		Dr. T	0.8%	0.9%	–0.1%

Content Creators

There are many creators in the Supercell Creator Program covering Squad Busters, but only a few have reached the global leaderboard:

Official Creator links

	Creator	X	YT	TTV	TT
	AndyCreati
	TW MAPACHE430
	YT:By_Alexis17
	Code: YTstormi
	Chisgule
	✈️NemosTV✈️
	SirClaz
	Code Dark
	code: eoongsb

Above the tier of Official Creators, Supercreators have access to the developer build and early access to update content.

Supercreator links

	Creator	X	YT	TTV	TT
	KST 엔젤유튜브
	iPsycooTV
	Trebor
	PowerTechYT
	XiakeYT
	JuicyJ
	Alpe

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