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Sephiroth
Last Contest: 2013
Last Game: Dissidia Final Fantasy NT (2018)

When I was in high school I took a cooking class my senior year because I was super mentally checked out. I used to hang out with my good friend Josh, and we would read comics and talk about video games. In our cooking group we had this junior named Vinny. Dude was jacked and already had tribal tattoos. Spiky hair, orange skin, typical New Jersey guido.

He always thought Josh and I were huge nerds, but one day, near the end of the semester, he interrupted a conversation I was having with Josh about the best villains, to proudly proclaim:

"The best villains of all time... Are Venom, Carnage, and Sephiroth."

To this day I remember that feeling of shock. This is the power that Sephiroth commands. Even Guidos cannot be spared from the might of Sephiroth's long sword.

Remember when CJayC made a contest just for Sephiroth to win so that he could make an excuse to remove him from the real contest later that year?

Are we still at that level of Sephiroth dominance? Well, if you look at my Cloud write-up, you can probably guess that no, Sephiroth is not as ubiquitous and powerful as he once was. He's still got his appearances in Kingdom Hearts and Dissidia to keep him going but that's not exactly "new" content, and as we know, fanbases die if they aren't being consistently fed.

In 2013 Sephiroth got pretty roughed up by Mewtwo, but if you remove Draven from the equation, how does Sephiroth do then? The LoL rallies were bringing in tons of randos, and some of them could potentially have voted Mewtwo based on Pokemon brand loyalty.

It's hard to say where Sephiroth has gone since then. Clinkeroth was once seen as an unstoppable force. I would say Sephiroth could still have an easy path to the Semis no matter what his placement is, but assuming he isn't up against Link or Cloud, could he potentially get past Mario? Samus? Any other member of the Noble Nine? Could he beat Mewtwo in 2018?

I hate saying this, but I think Sephiroth's time in the sun is over. He'll always be an elite but no longer is he a god.

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I'm going out for a bit, it's my housemate's birthday and I forgot to get him something. I would rather spend the day writing about video game character popularity contests. I am a bad person and I should be punished. Please tell nanis23 to say bad things about me while I'm gone.
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