Board 8 > Poll: Who is the biggest "star" of Round 1?

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Oh, yeah, and you can mention any characters that did not make it into the poll.
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King K. Rool
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Kefka or Bayonetta

Amaterasu in 3rd place. Even with Anti-RallyFAQs almost nothing gets 88% anymore. Ever.
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Pikachu made the poll? He didn't do too good...

Voted Amaterasu
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SuperNiceDog posted...

Pikachu made the poll? He didn't do too good...

Voted Amaterasu

I did too, for CRUSHING Draven. That was awesome
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KING KUH ROOL, I say

Bowser about put an entire division on lock by wrecking Gordon Freeman, one that was fairly debated going in.

Bayonetta did the same with her slot in the division finals against Auron.
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WarThaNemesis2 posted...

King K. Rool

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Kefka doing well was a surprise.
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1. Bowser
2. Bayonetta
3. Amaterasu

I dont care how good Amaterasu did against Draven, it's impressive sure, but Ammy's not beating Sephiroth. Bowser and Bayo showed that they're actually going to do shit in their divisions. Bowser's at number 1 because he might just flat out take the division.
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_SecretSquirrel posted...

Bowser about put an entire division on lock by wrecking Gordon Freeman, one that was fairly debated going in.

After everything we've seen so far, why do people still think Gordon Freeman is worth anything at all? To me, Kirby was actually more impressive for just about tripling a fairly popular and notable Street Fighter character.

(Edit to not double-post): My picks for the biggest star of Round 1 by division, with honorable mentions ordered from best to 'worst':

- Donkey Kong (HM: Ganondorf)
- Knuckles the Echidna
- Ridley (HMs: Kefka, Crash Bandicoot)
- Terra Branford (HM: Kirby)
- Zelda
- Bayonetta [also my pick for biggest star of Round 1 overall] (HMs: Simon Belmont, Magus)
- Miles 'Tails' Prower (HM: King Dedede)
- King K. Rool (HM: Amaterasu)

Those are pretty bad choices in the poll

Amaterasu - Draven is just super, super weak and got anti-voted bad
Bayonetta - Smash Boost + I am pretty sure Riku is suffering for no KH game for years, as opposed to people thinking KH3 hype is worth something
Crash Bandicoot - I dunno, I took this in my bracket. Cecil was never amazing and Crash got a HD Trilogy release
Kefka - We don't know how much the L-Block has fallen
Mega Man X - Isabelle is pure trash
Pac-man - Sans is pure trash
Pikachu - He did amazing at the beginning but then started to bleed % so no
Terra - More like Charizard is a fraud than anything

Zelda is a good choice, but we don't know how much Ezio has fallen
Now I am pretty sure you can say the same about Gordon, but to me Bowser looked the most respectable and I consider him the star of round 1

Another good choices-
Donkey Kong
Kratos
Ridley
King K Rool (even if he loses)
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MetalmindStats posted...

After everything we've seen so far, why do people still think Gordon Freeman is worth anything at all? To me, Kirby was actually more impressive for just about tripling a fairly popular and notable Street Fighter character.

Seeing GLaDOS in action has me wondering how much of a decline Gordon has actually seen. No doubt Gordon's reputation has taken a hit with Half-Life 3 becoming the new Duke Nukem Forever, but I don't think we get to this much of a discrepancy without Bowser also taking an increase, especially since Gladdy didn't crash and burn to that extent with even the most pessimistic outlook on Mewtwo's strength
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_SecretSquirrel posted...

Bowser about put an entire division on lock by wrecking Gordon Freeman, one that was fairly debated going in.

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_SecretSquirrel posted...

MetalmindStats posted...

After everything we've seen so far, why do people still think Gordon Freeman is worth anything at all? To me, Kirby was actually more impressive for just about tripling a fairly popular and notable Street Fighter character.

Seeing GLaDOS in action has me wondering how much of a decline Gordon has actually seen. No doubt Gordon's reputation has taken a hit with Half-Life 3 becoming the new Duke Nukem Forever, but I don't think we get to this much of a discrepancy without Bowser also taking an increase, especially since Gladdy didn't crash and burn to that extent with even the most pessimistic outlook on Mewtwo's strength

I guess you have a point, but GLaDOS took a pretty big hit from 2013 in her own right. You might forget that GLaDOS managed about the same percentage on Snake back in 2013 as she did on Mewtwo now. That puts GLaDOS at sub-2010 levels if you're like me and have a pessimistic view of Mewtwo's strength. I do think Bowser's strength has increased, though, but only by the standard margin we've seen from other well-established Nintendo characters so far.

MetalmindStats posted...

_SecretSquirrel posted...

MetalmindStats posted...

After everything we've seen so far, why do people still think Gordon Freeman is worth anything at all? To me, Kirby was actually more impressive for just about tripling a fairly popular and notable Street Fighter character.

Seeing GLaDOS in action has me wondering how much of a decline Gordon has actually seen. No doubt Gordon's reputation has taken a hit with Half-Life 3 becoming the new Duke Nukem Forever, but I don't think we get to this much of a discrepancy without Bowser also taking an increase, especially since Gladdy didn't crash and burn to that extent with even the most pessimistic outlook on Mewtwo's strength

I guess you have a point, but GLaDOS took a pretty big hit from 2013 in her own right. You might forget that GLaDOS managed about the same percentage on Snake back in 2013 as she did on Mewtwo now. That puts GLaDOS at sub-2010 levels if you're like me and have a pessimistic view of Mewtwo's strength. I do think Bowser's strength has increased, though, but only by the standard margin we've seen from other well-established Nintendo characters so far.

Honestly, I expected GLaDOS to fade a decent amount more than Gordon. HL3 was already being memed into being another DNF a decent amount of time before DNF happened, and the confirmation regarding it may have helped people keep it on their minds, if anything. Just look at how Konami characters have been handling this contest, in light of their respective series being dead in the water (outside of the arcades in bastardised form...)*. No doubt about it to me, that Bowser performance is something pretty damn impressive as far as I'm concerned. Possibly something that won't last for long either, as I suspect a non-negligable amount of that strength only came from a far less long-lasting meme.

*sure, some of them have smash boosts and stuff, but smash boosts have also amounted to very little in other cases, and potentially even deboosted some

Anyway yeah my pick is actually to Kratos, for similarly exceeding expectations, and against someone who definitely can't be accused of being any weaker than usual. A shame he's up against a monster next. Maybe he has a chance if the tepid prerelease reception to Let's Go can play a part.

Now to go back to not pretending I know jack about jack in this contest.

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I would be unsurprised if Bowser still loses to Charizard.
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Up one last time.
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