>>531495107
No, Capcom said it was at 24% during season 1 and some dude on reddit has been tracking Modern growth with detailed charts(see picrel) since then and stated that it has grown since s1 which surprised him and went against his predictions, hence why I think it's more likely than not that the Modern population is over 1/4 now, by what degree i'm not sure but it isn't impossible that switch 2 gave it a noticeable boost.

>>528401425
Maybe he was right... if SNK did implement a Modern mode as good as SF6 to attract newcomers than than maybe they would be doing a bit better than 200 on steam.

SF6 uses 10 placement matches to determine a player's starting rank. So a Classic player in Iron or Bronze is facing players, including the Modern ones, that lost to the same exact level of comp they did to get placed there.

And If a player improves at a faster rate than another this will also be taking into account with how points are accumulated in the game. As in rank is designed from the ground up in this game to fast track you up due to how they weigh wins & losses. I.e a player in bronze with even a 51% w/r will be quickly pushed out that rank.

Point is this claim that Classic players are being terrorized by Modern players at lower ranks is a conspiracy theory. It's not true based on the data on the buckler site for the pre plat ranks and it's not true based on the design of rank itself. Large instances of mismatch is just not possible without intentional smurfing.

why are there so many modern luke players