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'''Global Smash Power''', abbreviated '''GSP''', is the online ranking system found in ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]''. Announced during the [[Super Smash Bros. Direct]], the system ranks all players' [[score|scores]] on a numeric scale, with the number referencing how many players that player outranks. For instance, a player with a rank of 251,357 would have a better score than 251,~~357~~ other players. The system is unusual for being an inverse ranking system; whereas other games would feature 1 as the best player, the Global Smash Power would rank 0 as the worst player, with the rank meaning that the player is better than 0 players. While this means players cannot measure how far they are from the top-ranked player, and the top-ranked player doesn't even know that they are, the system is overall more friendly to players of lower skill, using "you're better than X" instead of "you're worse than X" as a metric.

'''Global Smash Power''', abbreviated '''GSP''', is the online ranking system found in ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]''. Announced during the [[Super Smash Bros. Direct]], the system ranks all players' [[score|scores]] on a numeric scale, with the number referencing how many players that player outranks. For instance, a player with a rank of 251,357 would have a better score than 251,356 other players. The system is unusual for being an inverse ranking system; whereas other games would feature 1 as the best player, the Global Smash Power would rank 0 as the worst player, with the rank meaning that the player is better than 0 players. While this means players cannot measure how far they are from the top-ranked player, and the top-ranked player doesn't even know that they are, the system is overall more friendly to players of lower skill, using "you're better than X" instead of "you're worse than X" as a metric.

Global Smash Power is used only for solo play modes (and separately for their co-op equivalents), and not for multiplayer matches. However, according to [[Masahiro Sakurai]], there is "some sort of matchmaking" during online play, though this matchmaking system is not visible to players.

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 [[File:Global Smash Power Screen.png|200px|thumb|In {{forwiiu}}]]
 [[File:GSP 3DS.jpg|200px|thumb|In {{for3ds}}]]
-'''Global Smash Power''', abbreviated '''GSP''', is the online ranking system found in ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]''. Announced during the [[Super Smash Bros. Direct]], the system ranks all players' [[score|scores]] on a numeric scale, with the number referencing how many players that player outranks. For instance, a player with a rank of 251,357 would have a better score than 251,357 other players. The system is unusual for being an inverse ranking system; whereas other games would feature 1 as the best player, the Global Smash Power would rank 0 as the worst player, with the rank meaning that the player is better than 0 players. While this means players cannot measure how far they are from the top-ranked player, and the top-ranked player doesn't even know that they are, the system is overall more friendly to players of lower skill, using "you're better than X" instead of "you're worse than X" as a metric.
+'''Global Smash Power''', abbreviated '''GSP''', is the online ranking system found in ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]''. Announced during the [[Super Smash Bros. Direct]], the system ranks all players' [[score|scores]] on a numeric scale, with the number referencing how many players that player outranks. For instance, a player with a rank of 251,357 would have a better score than 251,356 other players. The system is unusual for being an inverse ranking system; whereas other games would feature 1 as the best player, the Global Smash Power would rank 0 as the worst player, with the rank meaning that the player is better than 0 players. While this means players cannot measure how far they are from the top-ranked player, and the top-ranked player doesn't even know that they are, the system is overall more friendly to players of lower skill, using "you're better than X" instead of "you're worse than X" as a metric.
 Global Smash Power is used only for solo play modes (and separately for their co-op equivalents), and not for multiplayer matches. However, according to [[Masahiro Sakurai]], there is "some sort of matchmaking" during online play, though this matchmaking system is not visible to players.