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creativename posted...

red sox 777 posted...

Ive also said before that I think SFF is wonky, sensitive and unpredictable. I think this match and Link/Ganon more or less confirm that.

I think the other side to this is the idea that SFF is extremely stable (i.e. Mario will gain 10 points from SFF against Samus regardless of whether he's starting from 52% or 44%). Although I don't think that's what Lopen is arguing either.

I don't know that these matches have shown much regarding which is more stable - SFF relationships or ordinary strength. We are talking about matches 13 years apart. The Sephiroth/Tifa spread moving 20 points in that same span is more surprising (and it's a change in their ordinary strength by all appearances, there was no SFF in either of their paths in 2005).

But the Mario will gain 10 points is clearly false. Unless you think Sephiroth rSFFed Tifa or had a massive pic advantage or something.

I mean theres no way in hell Mario indirectly gets 58-42d by Samus. So clearly SFF is not stable in that way.

Yeah, I could see it being more stable than overall strength though. I do agree that SFF should respond to the overall strength gap changing, but I never thought it made sense for it to "pivot" at 50/50. Like the event horizon of a black hole, we shouldn't notice any major change in the SFF relationship by crossing that line other than calling it rSFF. It's just that normally, SFF dynamics are so strongly correlated with overall strength that it's really rare to see SFF in favor of a character who is at 50% or worse indirectly.
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