Lurker > Mistaya

So Jesse aside how does the rest of this go? I do think destroying the bridge would be a huge detriment for Selvaria, but I also think that she can probably find a way to follow her Lord (and Savior) Zero up. There's a lot of floating debris and stuff in the Panopticon that Jesse uses to navigate before she can properly fly and while I'm not a huge Selvaria knower I think she can probably manage some anime-hero level jumping. Zero will do this even better. This is gonna be slow going for both of them compared to Kefka, who I think is likely to go ahead and 'just start blastin' as he doesn't really care about having backup. Why should he? He's a god!

So essentially early on we have Sora and Sephiroth engaging with Kefka in the air while Jesse snipes Selvaria and Zero trying to make their way up. Sora and Sephiroth have some HISTORY and while they were enemies before if there's anyone who's good at turning enemies into friends and fighting alongside them, it's the boye from Destiny Isles. So they should have a really decent idea of what each other can do. And of course what they can do is incredible. Sora's magic isn't on the same level as Kefka's but he's insanely mobile and the Panopticon will lend itself really well to whacking debris into Kefka, especially as the fight goes on and it becomes more and more damaged. Gravity is pretty fucked up here, remember. And also he can heal, and his heal will heal his allies! Plus he has a few strong buffs like Aero, I'll need some reminding on what they can all do though.

Sephiroth is, well, Sephiroth. I do think God Kefka could take him in a straight duel but with a pocket healer combo king who can come in whenever he needs to parry and back off? No way, Sora turns the tide there. So a lot of this comes down to if Kefka would retreat to help (pfffhahaha) or at least just save his own bacon and try to focus more on his ranged attacks. If he pulls back and drags Sephiroth and Sora down into range of Zero and Selvaria, things get a lot more even. Though I think if he does do that Jesse is gonna have no trouble continuing to rain hell down on them and Sora has good ranged magic as well. It's really an uphill climb for the attackers here.

Once Zero and Selvaria can close it goes a little better for them, Sephiroth and Zero start having a Cool Sword duel while Jesse may finally get out of her sniping position (sniping includes using the terrain lying around as large missiles) and start backing up the others more directly, leading Selvaria on a chase that Selvaria can't hope to win because she's been infuriated at all of Jesse's potshots at Zero. Kefka getting more breathing room is horribly dangerous, but I don't believe anyone on team Kefka can heal and Sora's heal is VERY strong. In the end I think it's going to be very back and forth until someone gets low enough for Jesse to Seize, my guess is either Zero or Selvaria, and once that happens the rest goes very quickly.

Team Take Control of Kingdom Hearts

Gonna give Jesse a writeup here cuz she's probably the one not everyone is familiar with. Though if you don't know Jesse, consider giving Control a play, it's very cheap nowadays and just got a whole HD remaster for free when the PS5 launched.

While she's probably the weakest one here, Jesse's a very very powerful Psychic and the Oldest House is her playground, literally. She is The Director, which gives her captial A-Authority over this space, not just because it's her terrain but on a plot level, it literally bends to her will. At first glance her writeup mentions she has her Service Weapon but the Service Weapon is a theoretical gun that she got from beings outside of time and space that can morph from a reasonably decent pistol into any of a number of extremely powerful guns, including a shotgun, sniper rifle, and grenade launcher, all of these loaded with Mind Bullets that regenerate, so Jesse can never actually run out of ammunition, though she may need a moment for the mind bullets to regenerate. Garrus Vakarian would drool over the Service Weapon, is what I'm saying.

Jesse's psychic powers also let her put up barriers, catch enemy projectiles (including missiles and grenades!) and fling them back, and when her enemies get low health MIND JACK THEM and set them against their friends. As a fully upgraded Jesse she can do this to pretty much anyone in the game. If Jesse's team can focus fire one of the enemy team, she can literally Take Control of them and turn it into a 4v2. Jesse's ability to navigate terrain is also crazy good, she can fly about as well as Sora can, make her own cover when she needs to, and she's a MASTER at grabbing debris, bodies, and exploding barrels and flinging them into enemies. She can even just rip up pieces of the ground if there's nothing else available for her to throw, so she's got options even when her weapon is cooling down. Altogether she's just a very slippery, very annoying character to deal with and home team advantage for her is incredible.

2Butts

There's not really an arguments to make on my end here, and it's a straight duel with no abilties on a basic terrain so I just think she wins after a tough battle that further destroys most of the area. This kind of match is a Dragonball episode. Heaven or Hell, fight!

Cyberdemon home field advantage.

I think the BJ/Cybie/Zagreus squad just have an absolutely terrifying mess of ranged explosive aoe and no one can answer it. Leon/Kiryu/Rika just don't stand much of a chance in hell here. Megaman and Batman definitely can survive for longer, but not long enough.

Zag is probably the weakest link on his team with his HP Penalty and I can definitely see Batman in particular taking advantage. Heck, if he notices Zag is lifestealing Bats could even start taking out the lost souls before Zag can get to them. Maybe. I'm trying to see how this isn't just Rockets and Lightning Everywhere = GG and it's so hard. As fun as it is to speculate about V's allegiences, I'm not sure they actually win it for team Megaman even if they join him (which is about a 50/50 given Cybie's general demeanor.)

I'm gonna be the odd one out here and give this to Raiden and Pals.

Mario decloaking Zeratul is a very legitimate strategy that gets Zeratul killed early, Gordon can take out at least Vivi and possibly Maria, and Pamela has some time to work and do her thing here if Zeratul doesn't get to her. She doesn't need to be invincible to survive long enough to matter. A lot of it comes down to if Raiden can get to and take Cloud out early enough, because if he can then all those buffs and debuffs go away. It's true that Megaflare takes out most of Raiden's support, but this is where Pamela's re-raise effect matters, she can soak it and revive and make sure Raiden gets his lifesteal back up. And a Raiden with Lifesteal can take Ridley out (even a good Ridley), I'm pretty sure. Thing about Bahamut is you legit don't need to fight him at all he lasts a minute, you just need to dodge him as best you can and wait for him to time out. So yeah, I think if Raiden realizes that he needs to have a sword duel with Cloud (and the man does love sword duels, and as much as Cloud CAN decide to play buff bot he's also a big fan of sword fights and is probably not hanging back so far that he wouldn't be able to be engaged on...) Basically it's pretty plausible to me that Raiden takes Cloud on early while Ridley is brawling with Giant Mario, and if he does then I think he's got a very solid path to victory.

Eh, I don't think it's obvious that's the only place they could be. It's certainly a big easy target, but also RAY taking potshots at the Capitol building is probably destroying the dome first which leaves at least a little time for everyone to get out. It specifically says "near the west entrance" so at worst Aigis gets left behind in there. This fight is way too interesting for 'rocks fall everyone dies' at the start imo, if Sonic or Tails were scouting and confirmed they holed up in the Capitol building I'd buy that but they're rushing out to meet RAY so nawwww. Not enough time.

Having had time to sleep on it going with Team VATS, I think Goku is kind of hard carrying here.

Mewtwo is 100% dead, I do not buy a teleport out before Sypha can lay down some hard CC to let Goku unload on them, and Trevor can force a time stop if he has to seal the deal. No sneaky escapes for this legendary.

Sonic... I'm still thinking. Also if we're talking about Sonic and Tails remember that Tails has decided to idolize Metal Gear Kong instead of him and Sonic might be a little bit sore about that! So I'm not sure how much friendship power those two should maintain given the circumstances.

Eunie dies to DK punch, Crono can toss her a pity raise on his way out the door with the other guys and let Aigis heal her once she's shaken off her dizzy spell. They will both be slightly late to the party.

We might need to talk about Raises in general for the game since they're incredibly strong, but I don't think we can suddenly no-sell them in just one topic. If DK's punch couldn't be raised off then it would specifically say so, like Vivi's bold text or a few other examples. Not gonna pretend it doesn't work when it's worked just fine in every other topic.

Tails is very squish. Very. Squish. He would absolutely get sniped out of the sky if he just flew around carelessly. If he wants to scout, he can try, but it's real risky and as his team's only healer that seems like a poor use of him. Sypha and Goku can both handle sniping him out of the sky if he's even a little bit exposed. Plus him being out front means RAY can't go completely ham, which it seems like RAY would be best off doing.

I'm not sure what this fight hinges on quite yet. Sonic being alive or not is a big part of it though. I think DK's behavior is also really important.

I do think the Aigis/Eunie/Goku squad has enough firepower to take Ray out, that's not a question. Do I think Sonic being alive swings it though...? Trevor and Sypha are free to go after Sonic if he IS alive- or at least stall him while the others take out RAY. Crono could handle Bowser, probably? Tails healing seems like he needs to use a robot which could be destroyed if it was found. Not prepared to give Tails healing credit without knowing more about it. If it's just a regen that's not super impressive when confronted with big bursts of damage, which his enemies are putting out loads of.

Hm. Need to think more about how Sonic and DK end up to know how I'm voting.

Spells in Trails aren't super instantaneous, you can't just have the whole buff/debuff suite up super quickly. One of the reasons a lot of them do double duty is because they're part of an ongoing fight and their damage is incredibly important, and not just something you precast/recast like Final Fantasy buffs. So while Josh and Estelle have access to the whole suite it's one of those things where I don't think it's fair to assume they have all their buffs all the time. Also they do wear off at medium time length and need to be reapplied. Josh was pretty good at this, iirc, especially with his time manip shit. But it's something to take into account.

As far as the actual battle goes, hm. I think a lot of it comes down to who Joshua tries to First Strike. (in caps, cuz he has a skill for it.) If it's Alucard I think they're gonna struggle a lot, if it's Link it's more advantageous... but both Alucard and Link have very strong defensives. I do think Josh has a solid chance of getting behind Link and if he does that would go really well for him. Estelle is gonna get up into melee and start thwacking people. I think she's a good match for Link in melee, Alucard is again a little bit trickier. I don't think she can take him straight up.

Can the Brights tag-team Alucard? maaaaaybe. Actually leaning towards a yes, but with Link there backing him up they have to split their attention into two duels, (and specifically a duel of Estelle v Link and Josh v Alucard) use their ambush perfectly (josh is good at this though) and it seems like it's just gonna be a lot harder for them than the other way around.

Going with Alucard after a real tough fight. The Brights get Link, but I think they don't got enough in the tank to slay the vampire man afterwards.

After way too much waffling I think Kamek's right about how this happens. Doomslayer's weapons are just better than Chief's and on this terrain... yeah. Sorry John, gonna have to go with Team Hellbuncle.

I'm still thinking but I agree with Lopen on a lot of points here, especially that I don't think the duos end up paring off. Tifa and Squall probably don't meet at all in the combat here. Tifa I think hides after her first death and rez with carbuncle, which is going to come fairly early and thus be on CD if Doomslayer ever needs it for the revive. She'd need to get close enough to Chief to breach him and that's... not really likely. I adore Tifa but this is a hellscape for her (literally, haw.) So if she's trying to stay alive and keep her buffs up, she's essentially a noncombatant, and if she doesn't, she's gonna die.

Squall is a bit better off with triple, if he hangs back out of Doomslayer's range... but i do think a stray rocket is gonna catch him at some point. It's arguable that if Slayer does close with chief and doomily slay him, Squall probably CAN get a full life off (and die for it) leaving doomy to have to re-fight chief in a secondary duel. Which, if Chief uses the time to book it back to range... gives him a really strong chance here. I watched the level video, this isn't a straight run for either team there's a lot of cover and walls and underground areas to hide behind. It's a case where i think Doomslayer has superior firepower, his guns are in fact BETTER than chief's. But can chief still do the job? I'm... not sure. leaning towards a 'i think so with squall's backup specifically'. But it's still a think so.

Also as cool as Icon of Sin is as a giant demony death boss, it is still a giant, slow ass, boss monster. So yeeaaaah I don't think Chief would job to it as long as his guns weren't worthless against it.

Sonic and Mario at the Olympic Games- i mean mercs.

This is a real Smash-bros battle, it's kinda neat. But I don't think anyone on DK's side can stop Pamela and Nu-Sonic is too much for 'em even if they could.

Alright, time's low, and I wasn't able to find anything to convince me that Claude makes a difference here so I am gonna have to go with Team Pikazeus.

So I think Zag is probably limited to shield lobbing here but that's still going to, as stated, drop lightning everywhere and Gangplank Galleon is small enough that this is a massive issue. Rika may not even get more than one loop off if she gets one at all, given how the lightning bounces work, which is extremely unfortunate. I would like to see some clips of Claude doing things in 3 Hopes... Like I think if Zag runs up to Kiryu ready to fight, then Kiryu will obviously step up and fight him. Especially if Zag manages to KO Rika accidentally (which he probably will) so Kiryu will join Leon and Claude here if on a slight delay. I don't think Kiryu dies to Zag instantly or anything, though he will eventually, so I consider the pair of them doing manly fighting off to one side.

Given that we have Leon S. Kennedy vs. King K. Rool and I don't care if he has a (frankly amazing) gun, Leon's an agile dude and K.Rool is sort of Hunter-shaped, if you gave a Hunter a (frankly amazing) gun so he could potentially dodge it and fire back with the Typewriter, plus there's no reason NOT to lob grenades into the enemy team here, since Claude and Leon are both ranged, Kiryu is off to one side, and Rika is dead. Unfortunately, BJ is there and BJ with K.Rool both having (frankly amazing) guns makes this a very very unfair fight for Leon. The only thing I just don't know about is Claude here. Someone tell me why Claude is a cool dude. I'm a fremblem fan but I only played Dmitri's route and didn't play the musou.

All those times Vivi told people they would die in five minutes have finally caught up to him.

Team Playground Bullies.

Oof, I haven't got time to do an entire breakdown cuz of work, (weekend voting sucks for me) but I'm going with Team Zeratul-Shuts-Down-Batwarp here.

fwiw i believe in shroedinger's sneak attack I just don't think it's gonna do enough to swing the fight. I did have a funny thought about Batman convincing Rock to suicide a minute into the match so that the Sneak Attack happens more cleanly and no arguments about bouncing corpses can be made though.

I don't see DK surviving the journey across the ravine. Not with Zag, BJ, and Samus free to shoot him, and he is completely unmissable at that size. I'm assuming he's just jumping from cable tower to cable tower since the wires won't support him. But its still too far for him to make it before he's shot to death. MiniKongs aren't doing a whole lot here either. Bowser WONT cross the ravine because of BJ. CybieD is... probably gonna take out diddy and dixie? Probably? DK could just pick him up and huck him off the cliff but if he did that Cybie could free fire from below so that's not a great answer. If they stick around and try to pummel Cybie to death then that's even more time for the snipers to shoot at DK because I don't think he fits behind the cover that's available at the bottom of the Cable Car station.

Sonic is going to get across the ravine after his team finishes killing CybieD, I absolutely believe that. However I think he ends up alone. No one else can make it. And the second he gets in range Zagreus slams him with a massive slow and then the Aphrodite call. And while he's charmed, Samus, BJ, and Zag can just unload on him.

Team Zagreus is Too Damn Sexy

I slept on it and I think I'm going with Team Belmont and Belnades.

I just don't buy Pamela surviving a pair of Castlevania heroes who get a cheap shot and have time to wait out her reraise.

I give Eunie enough credit that she'll make the attempt to tank Raiden with her Ouroborus and he will definitely get a bunch of debuffs for killing clones the first time. He's Raiden, he is gonna scythe right through all those clones like butter, which is unfortunate for him since they're all traps. Given the debuffs, I think Eunie can hold out while Sypha and (pick one of Trevor/Aigis/Crono) tag team Gordon down. (I personally think Sypha could solo Gordon given enough time but she's much too useful against Raiden to leave her on Gordon for long.)

Then we get into the real raid boss fight which is everyone vs. Raiden. And I think they can do it. It's not an infinite number of raises, and again, Raiden can definitey take probably any three of these fighters solo without too much fuss. But between Sypha freezing him and shoving ice shards into his everything, Trevor using his holy magic and time stop, Luminaire, and Aigis just staying out of range and providing massive amounts of team support with buffs and heals and some raises if needed, and Eunie forcing Raiden to deal with her Ouroborus at least twice... Raiden eventually goes down. I can see each of these characters managing to slow him down or distract him for just long enough that the others get some hits in before he kills them, and they can keep doing it for a long time.

I don't really think Mario would have been a better choice than Gordon fwiw, Gordon is fine here and probably gets 1 or 2 kills early on his own. But the auto-life means they don't stick. (And one of them is Tingle.)

So if we consider it to be "Limitless Ressurection" then either it's limitless as in, you get autoraise several times or it's limitless as in, it affects many targets. I'm going with the latter in this case.

Pam Pam is dead dead, if Belmont and Belnades can't put her down when given this much of a free start vs. a ghost, then I dunno who could. She will get up again, true, and she does know the place, but Trevor's used to respawning enemies so idk if that's gonna help.

Also if there's anyone who's really good at fighting in a giant magic library... Belmonts are high on that list. Real high.

Honestly this feels like a lot for Raiden to handle. It's not that he can't kill any of these mercs individually, he definitely can, but given the teamwork, the massive amount of 1-ups, and the location... It's just a lot. Gonna think some more. I'll say that this is a fight Aigis is going to massively shine in. She's fast and mobile and does not have to tank anymore, which lets her be ridiculously annoying with her ranged attacks, healing, buffs, debuffs, even MORE raising... a lot of my issue with Aigis in earlier arguments had to do with her trying to tank people she really couldn't, and I think Raiden is going to have a lot of trouble getting to her here given the crowded field so she's going to be a lot more useful than in previous fights.

"Not in a hurry to engage" doesn't mean Samus and BJ will sit there for a whole day and wait. All samus has to do is show herself and start running down the cable car wire and this group is going to have to jump into some kind of action because they're terrified of her and I can't see her not trying to goad them into it if they're spawn camped. Rika is not getting 2000 retries.

I'm exhausted from hashing my thoughts out in discord but in summary, I just don't see a way for Team Megaman to pull it out here. The cable cars are never gonna make it to the castle, and they aren't quiet enough to get down into the water without alerting BJ or Samus, and if they do then Samus can probably kill them in the water while they're trying to swim for the secret entrance via either screw attack (lmao) or her lightning shield electrifying them. Rika's going to do her best, and her team will listen to her, but resets don't matter when the chance to succeed is a flat 0. This was won on terrain bids.

Castle CableCars Wins.

Raiden duos with the Crowbar King.

Gorden plays with Mewtwo while Raiden cleans up Kong Crew and Bowser, and then comes in for the finish. I thought about it a lot and the only way I think DK can win this is by grabbing Raiden and throwing both himself and Raiden into the lava, and the odds of that aren't great. It's possible, given DK's current form, but... hm. no I just can't. I've argued Raiden down when he deserved it but here Gorden protected him from anything that could slow him down so Jack is gonna Rip.

Pokemon psychic has never been shown to do anything besides temporarily confuse enemies, it's not like mewtwo is actually getting inside his head. Which I believe Raiden would be weak to! But yeah, not how it works.

I'm a little tired today so I'm gonna put it this way: Even if Sahalanthropus can't get downstairs, it can still release rust and Vivi can aeroga that rust throughout the temple and then Aigis does her best impression of the baddie from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Honestly I think crono's sword and the buster sword go with it but then you have a weaponless Crono trying to tusk-the-barbarian into sahalanthropus and vivi, at worst.

Cloud dying or not is irrelevant and Sahalanthropus getting downstairs is also irrelevant.

Even if my ranged death scenario doesn't work, I still think it's very hard to buy Aigis and Crono taking on Vivi and Sahalanthropus (even in a low ceiling temple, without Cloud) so I'm gonna call it here.

Team Vocal Cord Parasites and Final Fantasies

I think I buy Samus being temporarily distracted by Liquid enough to lose a minute or two. I also think if she waits for BJ and K Rool she's gonna die before she gets a hit in, so she would run (or roll, or spin jump) ahead. Unfortunately that puts her into a 1v4 that's... not great for her. Cloud with Vivi's sword magic is a real threat to her even without counting METAL GEAR's offensive abilities or Lu Bu. And they don't actually have to kill her, just stall, which is their entire plan to win and something they're hyperfocused on.

I'm a really big fan of BJ Viator Galvus in this situation, mostly because I think the in-fight banter when he sees Cloud, his very own Warrior of Light, would be phenomenal. But I think this fight is very slanted by Samus' timer. Vivi on a big map like this with Liquid's antics to buy time is a really powerful combo.

Going with Team Vivi's Gonna Keep Doing This Shit

I'm pretty sure that Leon, Luigi, and probably Kiryu (luv ya buddy) get slice n diced by Raiden, but Megaman, Zeratul, and V can fight him 3v1. I don't even need to buy 'V solos via hacking' to think that either. Megaman's got legitimate ways to temporarily blind/disable Raiden (even in Ripper mode) and V is very good at fighting ninja cyborgs- he does it for a living. Even if Raiden can't be fully hacked V's skills will have some effect. And then you have Zeratul- this guy hits like a truck if he can get a sneak attack in, and while Raiden is blindly stumbling around because of Megaman seems like a really good time to do that.

I think it could go either way if Raiden wasn't starting at half HP, (I dont think the battle lasts long enough for him to die of the dot damage) but the HP lead is pretty damn relevant here. Can he heal off of V if he rips his spine out? Ehhhh. Maybe. Would have to able to get to it first though.

Team Flashbang into Sneak A-hack.

I just don't think there's a significant difference between Dual Tech X-Smites so if I said Mewtwo survived last time he survives this time. And if Mewtwo survives Aigis is doomed.

Can Aigis take just DK and Bowser in the dorms is a more fun question, but I think the answer is probably not. Aigis has her machine guns but DK has his coconut guns and grenades and him and Bowser can pull a RAMPAGE (the game) on the building the longer it goes. Retreating to the rooftop doesn't help because Bowser has his copter, and again, both have ranged options. I am not a person with a lot of Bowser respect but I think now that his arch nemesis is off the field he's going to be a lot more valuable, and if Aigis goes to the roof as leader-argued, that's where the fastball special DK can pull with Bowser absolutely murders her.

Honestly I think that would be my favorite way for it to go down.

I agree Aigis has more sustain and will do a lot of damage to DK, but he really only has to get ahold of her once, and he has backup. Also I do think she's going to struggle to do much damage to Bower, he's very well armored, and DK can actually use him as mobile cover. Even if Bowser is slow, DK and Aigis can run circles around him.

So even if Mewtwo dies, (which I still don't think he does!) my vote goes to Big Monke and Big Tortle.

Ok so first off... This is somewhat of a foregone conclusion. Team Kiryu Won This By Scaring Cloud Back to Sector Nine.

That said every mental image accompanying this fight is hilarious and I would like to draw your attention to as many of mine as I can think of.

Leon S. Kennedy has been convinced he's a (really cool) zombie.
Liquid Snake's arm has come off and he's trying to drive his jeep with his other hand. (Sadly he cannot live on through it.)
Liquid Snake is also trying to convince Kiryu to act against his team via one-word phrases over codec. There is no way this doesn't sound unhinged, and yet Kiryu is certain the advice is sound. If he could only interpret it!
I'm fairly certain Liquid is also trying to teach Vivi to drive using his one-word phrases because how else is he going to shoot his gun? And Vivi, being a team player, is doing his best. God bless him.

There is literally no way this doesn't end in Lea and Amaterasu sending this jeep and its unfortunate passengers straight to hell in a comically large fireball, but I have to reiterate, this only happened because Kiryu Kazuma was such a badass that Cloud Strife took one look at him and decided he wasn't getting paid enough for this shit. He was only in it for the money, or so he said, much like the intro to his game. And frankly he was getting paid a LOT in this round! So while poor Mewtwo is only here to not get fined, I thoroughly enjoyed thinking about this one anyways. Cheers.

Okay so here's my thoughts. The first fifteen seconds are really important here because Aigis starts off out of commission for 15 seconds. I think Mewtwo survives the dual-tech (barely) and would be put in a very bad position because of it, since Recover would take multiple casts to get him back up to full health. Having used Mewtwo a lot in Colliseum... a Mewtwo who's stuck spamming Recover tends to be on the ropes and on his way out, because while he's tanky enough to survive one big nasty combo, he can't spam heal fast enough to get out of danger without a missed turn or two on his enemy's side.

Aigis also survives the initial onslaught, (probably in better condition than Mewtwo) but cannot patch herself up right away. She'll need Mario and Crono to cover for her. Which they will, because Mewtwo is stuck healing off the damage from the dual tech so as we kick things off it's Chrono and Mario Kong vs Bowser for a short stint. Not a fight Bowser is going to win, really. I think Bowser probably just straight up gets KO'd during the Cappy duration, that matchup is just doomed for him.

So then the heavies come back online, DK shakes the hat off, and it's Mewtwo and DK vs Aigis, Chrono, and it's-a-me, Mario! Aigis is programmed to go after DK... which does leave Mewtwo time to pick his shots.

I think given this, I gotta give it to Team 'Could Have Been Divine Judgement', aka Chrono/Aigis/Mario.

Mario and DK are basically equal-yet-opposing forces, but if Aigis is helping out then DK goes down. Either Chrono helps them or he tries to duel Mewtwo. In either case, Mewtwo can probably take out Chrono (or Mario) but not both, and since Aigis can heal... yeah. After that, I think Mewtwo and Aigis are fairly evenly matched across the board in terms of heals, shields, and offensive power... Whichever one has more allies is likely to prevail at the end. Close match, but those first 15 seconds tipped the scales towards Team Aigis and Mewtwo just can't make up the numbers disadvantage in the end.

Yeah Mewtwo has never been a pokemon who solely relied on its own typing. If psychic attacks don't work he'll use something else, and most of his best options are midrange, not melee. I'm thinking about this one. There are persuasive arguments on both sides here.

I think Jinx probably takes out the gunship with her artillery and her and Sagat can definitely knock out K.Rool while Gordon duels Samus. I think Samus wins that duel (though she takes some damage because Gordon isn't a slouch) in the meantime and then comes hunting Jinx and Sagat and... well, that probably goes to Samus though it isn't at all free. Even if Jinx managed to pull of the miracle ADC run and win the 2v1, she'll have to burn basically everything to do it. Sagat is definitely not alive at the end of this, and then Kredits kicks in and Jinx gets a quick trip back to the fountain.

Samus and K.Rengar

I'm still learning how the economy stuff works but i feel like there is some serious 'i refuse to lose match one, all future matches be damned' going on here....

I'd prefer to spectate since I haven't played before and I'd like to see the whole peacetime thing in action at least once before I commit to the bit, was only offering in the case of a 7/8 to round it up. So if Lopen and Tiro are good with it, let's gooooo~