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okay, here goes:

Who has been in the most character battle matches? (Link | Cloud | Sephiroth | Solid Snake | Samus)

Here, have another race visualization: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/2461470/

2006 is kind of cheating for Snake as he got to be in 10 matches. Everyone talks about the Villain Contest but that was only 5 matches. I haven't run the numbers on Leonhart's request for who got the most votes in a contest but I'm almost definitely sure that it's Snake. The only other character with a run like that is 2018 Zelda and the vote totals were 1/5 what they were in 2006.

Sephiroth should be the guy here because he had not one, but two contests that he got in that the rest of the NN had to skip. Sephiroth mega-bombed the 2018 final bracket though. I was thinking yesterday about how Bowser/Sephiroth was such a crazy overperformance in the 2005 villains contest and how that's a legitimate tossup in 2020. What a bomb.

I'll talk about Sonic and Crono in a later post.

Link has the highest single match vote total in contest history (oddly enough, in a fourway match). Who is second? (L-Block | Cloud | Zelda | Draven | Samus)

I forget who, but somebody called me on this one: Draven and L-Block are complete bait. I had to come up with something to make Zelda look like she belonged, because if I put four NN characters and Zelda, it would have been a little more obvious.

Here are the top five:

1. Link - 103465, 2007 round 1 vs. Agent J, Bidoof and Miles Edgeworth
2. Zelda - 102509, 2006 round 1 vs. Carmen Sandiego
3. Yuna - 97716, 2006 round 1 vs. Roll
4. Tifa - 96118, 2006 round 1 vs. Ivy Valentine
5. Samus - 95533, 2006 round 1 vs. Nidoran F (imagine this match today)

So yeah, 2006 is a beast and the female bracket was the very opposite of that. It was like Game of the Decade 2 where maybe 5 or 6 characters were worth much and the rest were just junk.

For the record, here are L and Draven's best numbers. They're not close to the top 10.

L-Block - 65462 vs. Link/Cloud/Snake
Draven - 73396 vs. Snake/Samus

And finally, the top performance by contest:

2002 - 69544 - Link vs. Scorpion
2003 - 94086, Cloud vs. CATS
2004 - 77605, Sephiroth vs. Sly Cooper
2005 Villains - 70458, Sephiroth vs. Ramirez
2005 - 80185, Mario vs. Joanna Dark
2006 - 102509, Zelda
2007 - 103465, Link
2008 - 82662, Link vs. Zidane/Shadow/Luke fon Fabre
2010 - 69074, Link vs. Cloud (24 hour matches help!)
2013 - 73396, Draven
2018 - 25584, Amaterasu vs. Draven

Which non-Noble Nine member has received the most total votes in contest history? (Bowser | Squall | Ganondorf | Ryu | Kirby)

The viz I posted earlier more or less explains this one. Bowser has two major advantages: the villain contest, and the 2018 winners/losers bracket. 2018 had low vote totals but an extra 3 matches vs. Alucard/Crono/Crono means that Bowser was second only to Zelda in total votes that year. Not bad for a guy who should have lost to Kirby.

Bowser is actually in his own tier between the Noble Nine and everyone else. He's 130,000 votes above 11th place, Ganondorf, a guy who should honestly be in 10th because he was lucky enough to not have to face Sephiroth until the final in the villain contest. But Ganondorf has his own problems, things like dropping that Mario/Vivi match or the dreadful 2004 Link match where he got obliterated. If you want to take the villain contest factor out, Dante edges out Squall by a few thousand votes for the title. Ryu is in 18th.

Which franchise has been in the most character battle matches? (Sonic | Mega Man | Pokemon | Chrono)

This is actually extremely close, to the point that I almost didn't post it in case I missed some obscure Pokemon or Mega Man character.

Mega Man - 88 (57-31, 9 unique characters)
Pokemon - 86 (54-32, *15* unique characters)
Sonic - 85 (46-39, 7 unique characters)
Chrono - 72 (43-29, 6 unique characters)

These franchises are 4-7 in total matches. I'll let you guess the other 3 in order, and maybe even guess some numbers if you want. Here's a fun hint: #1 is more than all four of these combined.

this is getting kinda long so I'm going to pause here and post, and I'll get back to this in a couple of hours.


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