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6a) Tiro

Tirofog - Ride The Lightning (0-0, 20GP)
Low: Claire Redfield, Booker DeWitt, Chrom, Yuffie Kisaragi, Ryu3, Nilin
Mid: Cloud Strife, Terra Branford,
High: Archer, Lightning, Lilith
Supports: Professor Oak (Link: Nilin)
Recharges:
Notes: Cloud is Archer's master, Lilith is a Controller, Ryu3 has Pac-Man and Metal Man genes

Jeeze, ranking teams in Group 1 for spots 6 and up is hard. You guys did good work building your teams.

Tiro's team is pretty good. A solid 7 in Archer with the appropriate levels of ability defense for him (Cloud AND Chrom AND Terra? Good stuff). Nilin to multiply abilities. Lightning for cheese. The problem is...there's not enough cheap stuff. There's three strategies here ('hero defense', 'nilin team' and 'lightning team') and none of them have been developed fully. Nilin doesn't have so many abilities that are worth multiplying (Booker mostly doesn't care, Claire doesn't care, Cloud doesn't care, Chrom and Ryu3 don't care...), there aren't enough dumb ways to buff Archer, and of course there are no lightning saves (yet at least). This team could probably afford to drop Booker and Ryu3 because they don't add enough, and get like, IDK, Big the Cat and Golbez? Something Nilin can use to buy wins with at any rate. They don't reinforce any of the strats and that's bad - a bit more specialization would go a long way. Right now, this team's a jack of all trades, master of none.

6b) Johnbobb

Johnbobb - Pink Floyd's "The Kirb" (0-0, 20GP)
Low: Kirby, Booker, Ganondorf, Sonic
Mid: Akuma, Sora, The Prince, Potemkin
High: Vergil, Kratos, Arthas
Supports: CATS (Link: Akuma)
Recharges:
Notes:

The bad news first: I'm not convinced Ganondorf adds anything at all to this team in a world with paydowns (and Songbird, who SHOULD solo or near-solo lowbie matches, making big ganon kinda worthless since it gives the bird a target), Akuma would really really like a way to buff his upkeep and there ain't any in sight (why was Wario not acquired to go along with him, again?), and there isn't enough random bullshit on this team to make The Prince truly solid as a recaller, making him a kinda abilityless merc. The rest, however, is very good - two 7s in Vergil and Arthas, Kratos bringing value with his summon once he has the preselection upgrade for Soul Rip, Sora's summons p roviding a way to break lowbie if Akuma doesn't do it, and a very strong mid tier and low squad in general. Very curious to see if Super Sonic gets any respect - one would hope yes, but even if not, Sonic's base ability is so good he justifies himself amply. Week 1 is rough because Kirby gets no decent morphs out of it, but Tom is coming up in Week 2 and that's a good chance to get the Kirbwing train rolling again. We'll see how things work out for this team - if Johnbobb can handle his abilities is smartly, there's plenty of room to do well.
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Shine on, you crazy diamond.