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I'd go Persona => Street Fighter > Tales.

Street Fighter in general isn't very impressive on gamefaqs game-for-game barring maybe Street Fighter II being decent but the legacy of how it popularized and carried fighting games gives it considerable strength beyond that - and after all, it did rise to the occasion and give RE a fight back in the day. Even if RE's part of the match picture sucked and all!

What might be a problem is whether Street Fighter V has soured people on the franchise. And more generally, whether typical gamefaqs users still actively follow or care about non-Smash fighting game series - some of the issue might have been bad choices by nominators who just picked whatever entry they were playing currently but non-Smash fighting games in general suffered several embarrassing blowouts in 2020. And I guess people probably split their noms among the different versions or something but Street Fighter II not making it into 2015 isn't a great look for it either.

Persona has two reasonable strength midcarders that both probably beat Tales' one. Tales has the bigger backbench admittedly. And while gamefaqs is typically slow in embracing newer trends even in stuff it likes and probably never fully converges, it has shown to not be totally immune. It's hard to ignore how much more popular and beloved Persona is on the internet in general than Tales of, whether in explicitly JRPGish spaces or more mainstream ones. Since Persona 5's launch, that franchise has escaped the JRPG ghetto.