Lurker > Jman_maximum

also Persona 5 is probably coming to switch honestly. Joker being in there will help sell it. (on top of it already being a pretty big seller on PS4 at 2+ million)

there was a leak that mentioned Crono a while back though. it was the same leak that had Joker. said the next Squeenix rep was either Crono or the guy from the world ends with you.

people blow that stuff way out of proportion

FFXV still sold like 8 million copies and reviewed fairly well.

the initial FFVII remake reveal trailer also got arguably the biggest crowd / internet reaction of anything in E3 history.

if Cloud can get like 45% that would already be amazing

Samus performance on Tifa isn't any better than what Cloud did on Crono.

what might suggest her being far above is the Snake match. but that could also easily just be Snake being on par with Crono / Megaman and Sonic being reeeeeeeally weak

well, Cloud is also the closest thing to being the face of FF as a franchise if it had to be represented by one character

he probably gains some strength from that.

without rallies Cloud doesn't even need any significant lead

Cloud tends to get progressively stronger as the match goes. look at the Mario match, he just kept going up the whole day little by little.

yeah this is over

seems Zelda (even this juiced up bandwagoned version) is still weaker than mario indirectly. she relied on a bit of SFF to beat him.

she's not getting to Link

she's over 2x behind where Mario was right now on Cloud

SlugSh0t posted...

transience posted...

anyway, I think this is your conservative ranking this year:

Link
Zelda
Cloud
Mario
Samus
Snake
Crono
Mega Man
Pikachu
Sonic
Tifa
Sephiroth
X
Luigi
Bowser
Yoshi
Ganondorf
Kirby

and then, if you're feeling a little more frisky

Link
Samus
Zelda
Cloud
Snake
Mario
Crono
Mega Man
Pikachu
Kirby
Tifa
Sephiroth
X
Luigi
Yoshi
Bowser
Sonic
Ganondorf

Sonic is > Crono and MM based off today, or at least =ish..stop underestimating him.

the only way you'd get that is if you base him off his loss to Zelda and ignore everything else. but the Zelda he faced was clearly way weaker, as that same Zelda went even with Snake who later lost to Samus 57 - 43. its pretty obvious Zelda got stronger as the legend bracket went on.

the better way to look at it is, Sonic lost to Snake 57-43. Snake then lost to Samus 57-43

Snake's performance on Samus suggests pretty strongly that he is somewhere in the ballpark of Crono and Megaman. it can't be Samus being an absolute monster since Samus herself failed to even get 60% on Tifa. Crono is a bit stronger than Tifa so he should be able to match Snake's performance on Samus.

Sonic is just really weak. Crono and Megaman could probably beat him as bad (or almost) as Snake did.

Mario's lead was bigger by 8 votes right now

next update was a big Mario spike

i dont think cloud got rallied significantly at all

there were a few posts on reddit that never gained traction, and a donation on twitch that was more an experiment than anything, and ended up giving cloud a net gain of maybe 50 votes.

Sonic vs Sephiroth and Crono or Megaman vs Snake are the ones with most potential to be close.

57% is only better because we're assuming Snake is significantly stronger than Crono due to his result on Sonic

but its also a possibility that Sonic is just reeeeally weak

Waluigi was set to be a powerhouse but then the guy from Persona 5 stole his smash invitation.

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Depending on how the next match goes Cloud could absolutely be a contender for winning a Linkless bracket.

why a contender?

if Cloud wins the next match he already won the linkless bracket.

Mario gained less than 100 votes on Sephiroth last hour

these would need to be some really insane trend breaking shenaningans

Zelda has a Sheik and a toon Zelda picture?

rip Zelda.

this match has been mostly following Megaman vs Crono trends

right now Cloud's lead on Mario is almost the same as Crono's lead was, Crono had also just taken the lead an hour or two ago

this result kinda sets it in stone that Samus is stronger right?

if Mario > Samus is legit, that'd put Snake behind Crono and Megaman

Mario wasn't doing very well against seph at the end of the match

who knows

4kids is part of Konami now. Konami bought it and changed it into 4kmedia

who's projected to win the day vote based on Mario / Sephiroth trends?

if nothing else it'd be fascinating to see what sort of effect a twitch shoutout from a big streamer would have in these contests since this has never been tried before. this is also a fairly rare opportunity since the day of a particular match has to coincide with a big streamer that really likes that game being on

he streams a variety of games. mainly fighting games and rpgs i think. but his audience knows FF7 is his all time favorite game.

you have to donate 5 bucks for the message to show on stream by the way, just a heads up.

if anyone cares and doesnt mind spending 5 bucks to make a donation, maximillian is streaming right now to 10k people. FF7 is his favorite game of all time. (you have to donate at least 5 to appear on stream)

https://www.twitch.tv/maximilian_dood

if you make a donation with a simple "hey, give a shout out to cloud on gamefaqs character battle" or something i'm pretty sure that'd guarantee he wins.

i can remember some notable comebacks

Pikachu on Megaman

Crono on Megaman

Tifa on Megaman X

......wait a minute

we're all voting Cloud

depends how strong Auron is

if he's still on Bowser's level that makes Sonic almost on par with Crono and Megaman

but that seems unlikely given the rather apparent nintendo boost all around

character of the generation

only characters that first appeared on games released this gen allowed.

this match is giving Cloud a lot of hope.

Mario's gonna get anti voted just enough to lose to Cloud

Zelda's bandwagon dies and reverses upon getting stomped by Link so she also loses.

Link vs Cloud finals once again, all is right with the world.

never mind this might not end too far from predictions

Link will probably rise above 60% by the end

Zelda isn't beating Link, but it'll end ridiculously closer than anyone ever expected.

Link's also getting a pretty bad case of picture sabotage here too

Crono is straight up beating Cloud this hour by the way

really weird. he never came even close to winning an hour in the first Cloud match

this 55-45 result might be the closest Crono and Megaman have ever been to Cloud in these contests

Mario / Shadow happened and Shadow got 45% on him

i think he acted as a proxy for Sonic in that match. Sonic himself might have done better but not by much

the real question now is if Crono and Megaman are stronger than Sephiroth and Sonic

Arch tempered palico

sadly they chose Jhoker instead

do these results give Cloud any chance at beating Mario or Samus next round?

Crono is also now performing slightly better than in the first cloud match. probably will just end the same though

i think people are overrating the effect of Zelda's "role" on BotW

BotW itself made Link and Zelda much stronger, just by existing and being one of the most critically acclaimed games of all time. it doesn't really matter what they do in the story. most of it is fully optional anyways. do you think most players got all the memories?

that depends

melee is still probably gonna be the primary smash games for the huge competitive events like evo.

some people were saying Crono is defying his trends this match

he isnt really all that much. Crono is no longer significantly weaker in the day. just look at his two matches against Bowser, he held his percentage almost entirely. in 2010 (i think that was the year he faced Bowser before this?) he fell like a rock from 62% all the way down to 57%

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/s3E4ebPOE-s/maxresdefault.jpg

vs

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/001/515/what_am_i_fighting_for.jpg

match of the contest right there

you're right, but the rest of the match has basically followed suit despite the fact Crono's trends for europe vote, night vote and the start of the match should all have been different from Pikachu's

Konami tried to kill Kojima but just killed Metal Gear instead

Edit; scratch that, i looked wrong...Megaman was ahead by 37 votes by this point against Pikachu in their first match

this is still mostly following those trends.

its gonna end very close. right now Crono is projected to win by like 40 votes if it keeps going according to those trends

those updates were megaman spiking insanely btw, not crono dropping

started happening when Crono was about to take the lead too..pretty weird.