Squall vs Nightmare
yoblazer and I took some heat for overreacting to Squall's atrocious start last around, and deservedly so (had no idea he was so B8-hated, or capable of Cloudish percentage comebacks, but apparently this has been going on for a while). That being said, 74% on Laharl is still pretty bad; in a world where Kefka can put up 79 on fodder that shares an RPG base and Cloud can somehow hang 77 on Kratos just because they share a Sony base, it's a little telling that Squall couldn't capitalize on someone sharing both bases. (Plus isn't Laharl's rivalry a total joke? Must be since AKJ told me so, and he hasn't been wrong all season!)
Of course with Cloud residing in the division next door, all that really matters is if either of Squall's next two opponents will be able to take advantage of this apparent weak point. After 60% on Hitler and 56% on Ramza, I'd say we can safely respond with a resounding "No". Squall ought to come out of this one looking a little better (he'll have a full 24 hours to recover from the bad start we get him off to), but I can't see him going all "Cloud" on our backsides and improving on his R1 percentage. Fighting game rivalries have held up decently this year and the Soul Calibur duo won't have any fanbase overlap for Squall to exploit. Also doesn't SC4 come out in like a month or something? Yeah, that should be enough to get them to the 30s.
Squall - 68.87%
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