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Wow.

Obvious Bacon wanted rally FAQs to happen again stacking the deck for Draven like that.
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Yeah Draven got a whole 1 less percent from registered users.
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Early good stuff I remember... Templar was pretty good for auto protect and Fire 2.

Rhodox's snare is useful once in a while. Cheap way to farm Intangirs.

The sea trench stuff was good for Aqua Rake (snake lookin thing I forget the name of) and Giga Volt (Aspik)

IIRC the Overmind's Elf Fire hit pretty hard too (from the phantom train)

Also think you're underrating Stray Cat a bit! It's the cliche but it's a good one.
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I'd rather sacrifice Shep to Ezio status and have Ryu 70-30 him. King K. Rool being strong I cannot accept this
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Stars
Bayonetta
Pac-Man
Mega Man X
Kefka

Turds
Ezio
Gourdon
Draven
Nathan Drake
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King Koopa >> Bowser
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Vanille (Final Fantasy XIII)
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Urdnot Wrex (Mass Effect)

Bowser (Super Mario Bros)
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Princess Peach (Super Mario Bros.)

I can't not vote for that second match pairing even if I like the first team better. The Lethal Lottery sketchiness continues.
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KamikazePotato posted...

So Richter breaks 40% if the registered votes didn't count double? Lopen redeemed

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I respect King Dedede as a choice for one of the best characters ever created over Ellie I can say that much.
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TLOU is a top tier choice for most overrated game.

I actually liked it decently enough and I'm inclined to agree. Awards, man.
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Yeah I've always found KOS-MOS's badass appeal to outweigh her sex appeal.

Either one alone would be better than our award winner here though.
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Wolverine
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I'm getting a bit bored of matches because they seem so formulaic. Like I said this King K. Rool match is basically done even though it still looks close.

I blame the match start time and the spread of smartphones. But I do think if matches still started at 2-3am EST they'd be more interesting-- of course you wouldn't be here for the start of them without putting effort in which would be a problem but you know.
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I would not have expected Ellie of all characters to have the most whiny fanbase of the contest but maybe I should have
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Have this feeling that this match is going to get not very close by the end. More of a Geralt vs Rosalina than a Dedede vs Ocelot
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"Award Winning" Ellie

Almost as good Victor "The Icon" Sullivan. Almost.
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Well I'm not going to say you have to be good at video games to get to King K. Rool in DKC but as far as being memorable or loved as a character/boss/whatever I wouldn't say he is.

DKC's appeal is mostly just in traversing environments with cool music. The bosses are whatever.
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DKC is a popular series!

King K. Rool is a mostly forgettable footnote from that series.
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The Falcon Punch's unbridled wrath registered as a 60.40 on the Richter scale
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Thanks for mentioning the Vote Gauntlet almost missed an easy 2 orbs (only have put 2 battles in this round so far)
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Yeah it's kinda sad that these Nintendo matches have become so formulaic that I'm more interested in "HELL YEAH GOBBLE UP THAT PERCENTAGE LLOYD IRVING" than King K. Rool vs Shepard.
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Yeah I'm not buying the narrative that King K. Rool has this untapped fanbase that was merely harvested by people coming here to discuss a Smash video. Let's be real here. How many people have you ever heard talk about King K. Rool before Smash.
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I accept Donkey Kong beating Vivi as good if he can hang a higher number than he did vs Tidus.
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Dante vs. Lightning - SuperNiceDog
Chun-Li vs. Ganondorf - Lopen
Vivi vs. Aya Brea - garetha200
Donkey Kong vs. Leon Kennedy - LinkMarioSamus

Zero vs. Knuckles the Echidna - Black Turtle
Master Hand vs. Wario - DoctorJimmy133
Yoshi vs. Velvet Crowe - SuperNiceDog
Pikachu vs. Kratos - spooky96

Sora vs. Pokemon Trainer Red - paulg235
Crash Bandicoot vs. Big Boss - Ranticoot
Alucard vs. Yuna - ctesjbuvf
Kefka vs. Bomberman - ZeldaTPLink

2B vs. Ness - RoseChevalier
Charizard vs. Bowser - Luster Soldier
Phoenix Wright vs. Ike - imthestuntman
Isaac vs. Kirby - TsunamiXXVIII

I'll take this just so SuperNiceDog doesn't take 3.
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I'm close to the point where I'm not sure whether Smashfear or Pokefear is going to be more annoying to see when the contest is all said and done.

I guess we'll see how it pans out. Wait till Master Hand wins his 8 pack or something stupid as hell.
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I kinda like the idea of rewarding the player for not killing units in that you can choke an area with enemy bodies. But if said choking depends on the enemy AI being stupid with its attacks (ie this one) it loops back around to bad. And obviously "don't kill this guy to stop these arbitrarily chosen adds from showing" is never going to be good

But yeah that map was pretty much a collection of things you shouldn't do on a Fire Emblem map
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I think the most depressing thing about this is thinking about Ramza vs K. Rool
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Cindy
Laharl
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Jecht
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Lloyd
Shep
KOS-MOS
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Quiet is probably being anti-voted for that pic. That's one of the worst of round 1 considering it's not even her fault as much as you can just see particles sticking to her hair.
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Probably around 51%
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Holy crap that Quiet picture is awful you can see the poor editing hackjob on her hair jeez

Probably would've chickened out had I actually looked at it.
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Well Diddy Kong has been in these and was kinda... not good. I can't imagine K. Rool gets much strength whatsoever from Donkey Kong Country. I'd take Master Hand to 60-40 him probably.
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Turns out I had Quiet in my bracket. Huh. You'd think I'd have more faith in her with that in mind and thinking the contest so far has favored MGS over KH, but I don't!
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I don't like today, but I'll toss a random bet anyway.

$5000 on parlay of Lloyd, KOS-MOS, Shepard, and Quiet
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No because they actually have Smash releases and K. Rool has only hype.
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Lopen's Unofficial Analysisx4

Ryu vs Lloyd

I'm expecting Ryu to be about as weak as he's ever been with SFV kinda damaging the brand (would argue we've already seen it with Chun Li and Guile) and Lloyd Irving to be... relatively constant. That doesn't mean Lloyd wins, mind you, even if he does outnumber Ryu in number of swords 2-0, but he should look respectable.

Ryu with 62.19%

K Rool vs Shepard

King K. Rool is going to be the absolute rock bottom of what Smash can do for you. No character backbone, entirely hype at this point. Shepard unfortunately does not pass the "you must be this old to not drop" test and we saw Garrus kinda disappoint.

But it's King K. Rool. Shep probably still walks all over him.

Commander Shepard with 65.02%

Ellie vs KOS-MOS

We saw Joel. Joel got stomped vs Ike. Ellie should fare no better, though Ike is probably a bit stronger than KOS-MOS. Strangely I think KOS-MOS might do better anyway due to a combination of superior photogenics and Ellie being a bit weaker than Joel.

KOS-MOS with 62.62%

Aqua vs Quiet

We saw Riku get wrecked. Aqua's probably at least 2 tiers below Riku and MGS has shown good signs of holding up well enough, even with Ocelot getting a MGS5 pic. This'll be a close one but I'm liking Quiet despite having Aqua in the bracket (I think?)

Quiet with 51.03%
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Guilty Gear
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LeonhartFour posted...

Lopen watching Falcon/Richter intensely to see if Richter can finish with 40.01% so his stance will be validated

Yes I am. DId you know he made some cuts last night.

Related: Damn you Richter.
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Cayde-6 with around 70%
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Oerba Dia Vanille
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Ramza
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Seymour Guado
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Yeah I've already got a PS4 controller setup working for the PC since it's technically specced as a gaming PC and all. I probably will get this I guess. My gaming PC could stand to actually play some more games and I have a decent chunk of pubg steam funbux to spend anyway.
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So any real pros vs cons to playing Beseria on PC vs the PS4? I've been thinking I wanted it on the PS4 but I still haven't bothered to get a PS4 just yet and this deal has me tempted (my PC can easily run it)
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Dedede probably 60-40s tool
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Beat Infernal Eirika. Kinda weird map. I needed to abuse that certain units spawn only upon killing other units. Matthew and Serra hard walled the one panel that leads into the start area while VIRION and Kagero picked off many units before they could build up too much. Then I abused stupid AI on the horses that spawn when you kill the so only the troubadour did anything for a while as I cleaned up Eirika and her goons.

Probably couldn't do it again without a few tries. The horse AI abuse was complex.

Thinking this was not a particularly well designed map. I don't think the stupid stuff I was doing to abuse AI should be a good strategy.
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Richter will cut the percent overnight

Get it below sixty please
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Least interesting tiers:

Link
Draven
All Pokemon
Sans
The rest of the rally picks
L-Block
Cloud (he isn't the second strongest but we've seen him before)
The rest of the noble nine
Mega Man X
All Nintendo Characters

Anyone else would be totally cool and shocking. I'd probably be happy seeing anything Cloud or lower though.
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134th is probably a multiway tie between every Pokemon entrant in the bracket at this point.
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