A Breakdown of RR's Player Stats by Year
Showcasing the best of the best from each year
Most of Roulette Rivals’ primary statistics don’t change much over time. It’s likely that even in three years, the same players will be the most experienced, the most successful, or have the best winrate. At the same time, these general stats hide the players who showed excellence over a shorter period, those strong years and breakout tournaments usually go unnoticed by most.
In today’s post, we’ll be taking a look at the most popular player rankings, broken down for each year. The only general rule was to only count players who played at least five matches and ten maps in a year, so as to not skew the winrate rankings too much.
Everything below is accurate as of the end of Roulette Rivals 14.
Year One: 2020
One would expect the best player of Roulette Rivals’ first year to be three-time champion Frote7 or two-time champion Ducker. However, they aren’t found in first place anywhere, for the following two reasons.
Yannini and MrMike are leading the participation rankings, because they participated in two brackets at the same time, making deep runs in both. Though they’re primarily PC players, Yannini is the RR3 Console champion and MrMike has a third place from all the way back in RR1’s PS4 bracket.
The first world championship at the end of 2020 shook up the standings even more. Frote7 and Ducker were considered the favorites for the title, but In4Fun beat Yannini at the end of a grueling LB and Grand Final, boosting their winrates in the process. Ibbe’s six wins and only one loss put him as the player with the best match winrate, while the other three rankings are topped by the RRWC finalists.
Year Two: 2021
In the first tournaments on Hitman 3, many new players entered the scene. Even though only one of them won a title in 2021, these fresh faces are considered the second generation of roulette players and a good part of them would remain competitive to this day.
With 3 and 2 titles respectively, the 2021 stats cannot be led by anyone but Ducker and Yannini. Ducker has achieved the best-ever full-year performance, with 29 wins and three losses, 23 of which happened consecutively. His 90.6% match winrate may be beaten by Scruffy this year but the 78.7% map winrate seems difficult to be matched by anyone over 12 months.
2021 was also the year of ChrisX3, who participated only in this year’s four tournaments. Even though the title ultimately eluded him, he still achieved the second most matches played, third most matches won, and fourth-best winrate of 2021. T_Nort23’s best results were also from this year, his 72% map winrate being most notable apart from third-place finishes in RR4 and RR6.
With his rookie world championship title, DaniButa jumped to second place on the winrate stats. Notably, 2021 was already a breakout year for RR7 champion Blithe, and Rommel of the Far East also produced a very impressive year, including an almost 70% winrate.
Year Three: 2022
2022 saw three new winners in just the first two tournaments as momentum was finally shifting from the original Big Four1 toward newer players with quicker thinking and better execution.
No one’s played or won more matches in 2022 than RR8-RR9 Console champion Phanium, mainly thanks to his killer LB runs. On the other hand, the winrate rankings were won by GKPunk and k-kaneta, fourth and fifth-place finishers of RRWC 2022 respectively, both known to be playing fewer events but grinding them harder than most.
Naturally, all other 2022 winners and finalists also appear on these lists. Blithe is closest to the Top 3 in map winrate, while RR8 champ Pigiero enjoyed winning the fourth most matches in his title year. Three-time runner-up The_Buff_Guy fittingly finished second in the matches played and matches won statistics, but most interestingly of all, DaniButa hasn’t picked up any first places either. The two-time world champion wasn’t known for sweeps or long LB runs, but not seeing him dominate the 2022 charts is the most puzzling part of today’s post.
RR8 runners-up Papierfresse and Jokerj also produced their best-ever season, with players like Ebramehdi, 420 and linux_penguin rounding off the yearly top 15.
Year Four: 2023
Apart from a single 13th place, the 2023 standings were missing the name dominating the previous two years. After the brackets were combined and DaniButa retired from roulette, Phanium emerged as the favorite, winning RR10 against Moo and RR11 against TheTimeCube. For the second year in a row, he was the player with the most wins, but this time he hasn’t played the most matches: that went to The Rieper 47, who finished fourth twice, then seventh and ninth in the four 2023 events.
After a strong rookie RRWC, TheTimeCube has improved even more, confirmed by his winrates, his 22 matches won, and of course his RRWC 2023 title. IlikeHitman, courtesy of four Top 10 finishes, including a bronze from RR12, is rightly in third-fourth place, averaged over all statistics.
RR12 champion Scruffy doesn’t appear as high on the list as he probably should, his rookie tournament weighs him down somewhat, despite scoring Top 3 finishes in his other three tournaments in 2023.
Phanium’s winrate is only matched by two players, both of whom participated in just two events, but ran deep in both of them: rookie Dein Nomos and to a lesser extent veteran In4Fun. Dein stormed into the scene with a Grand Final and a narrow loss against Scruffy, which he followed up with another nine wins in RRWC 2023.
According to the numbers, 2023 was the best full year for RR2 runner-up davidredsox, as well as Sparkles and Meekah, with newer names like Moo and ThatObserver moving up the rankings.
Year Five: 2024
So far we only have data from the first two tournaments, but some players have already completed 16 matches across RR13 and RR14. Even though Scruffy is the only player to have made both finals, because he hasn’t played a Losers Bracket match, there are only 13 matches to his name, as well as an astonishing 92% winrate.
In4Fun’s 81% winrate is his best since 2020, ahead of RR14 finalist The Rieper 47 and returning k-kaneta. Players like Moo, Dein Nomos, and quatilyti ran deep in both tournaments this year, becoming consistent threats for a deep run, even a Grand Final or a championship. And no matter how it may age, there are some rising stars already climbing the rankings, so expect to hear more from Music Inc, lukedotpng, or Lord Munk in the future.
Further Comparisons
It isn’t easy to show five years’ worth of data in a way that’s not overwhelming. I’ve chosen an arbitrary line to compare the yearly peaks: 68% winrate in two separate years.2 Though it’s a partial season, Scruffy’s 92.3% winrate is the highest by anyone in a year, currently leading ahead of Ducker and DaniButa’s 2021.
Ducker is already off to a win in RR15 so his winrate is expected to climb higher, hopefully closer to last year’s 55%. As far as the other OGs are concerned, In4Fun is the only one of them that stayed above 70% in all five years, Frote7 has dipped to around 70% which he can still achieve with a strong RR15, and Yannini is on the rise again after a quiet 2023.
Dani showcased the highest excellence for two years, then retired after the first 2023 event, while Phanium’s path has been the opposite: a slower but impressive rookie season, and not looking back since.
It’s too early to tell about the longevity of the newer players’ results, but Dein Nomos, TheTimeCube, and The Rieper 47 (as well as k-kaneta, who debuted in 2021) are all players who have never taken their foot off the pedal and are part of an increasing list of all-time contenders.
Which performance (over a year or an entire career) surprised you most? Let me know in the comments, along with what would you like to read about next!
Apart from the first two PS4 brackets, every title between RR1 and RR6 was won by Ducker, Frote7, Yannini, or In4Fun.
Initially, 70% was the threshold, which gave only eight players to compare.