Written by Glenn | 28 June 2011

For my next act, I'll analyze the win ratio when someone eats pizza prior to a match as opposed to not. OK I'm kidding. I woke up this morning wondering whether getting more combos actually mattered. This is coming off of Poongko's win at Shadowloo Showdown because he uses Seth. While Seth can get in with multiple combos, sometimes it takes just two big smashes to even things up.

So let's look at the numbers, shall we? Based off of those that made the Top 4 at an Evolution 2011 circuit event.

If you had a combo advantage of:

Total	Amount	Win pct.
1	134	.432
2	102	.745
3	65	.908
4	23	.913
+5	4	.750

  
Overall, those that had a combo advantage had a win percentage of .650.

Seems as though things really don't seem to pick up unless someone has two more combos than his or her opponent. And if it gets to a three-combo advantage, then you can fairly much lock up the round to whomever has it.

Full disclosure, there were two incidents of a five-combo advantage and two incidents of a six-combo advantage. Someone actually lost a round after posting five more combos than his opponent, the winner of that distinction is Ricky Ortiz; he fell victim to 801 Strider in that situation in the finals of West Coast Warzone 3.

One more for the combo fiends. Those that shut out their opponent in combos and posted at least one themselves had a win percentage of .720.