LogFAQs > #906323289

By far the most common question I've seen thrown around since the contest announcement has been: "who is getting rallied?" Not 'if' - 'who'. Kind of seems like an inevitability these days, doesn't it? It's not really, but I'm still expecting a lot of people to roll the dice on a random rally to try and push their bracket to the top. Problem is, honestly speaking, I don't think most of B8 actually keeps up with a lot of popular trends in games or even understands why rallies happen in the first place. So here's my 100% foolproof guide on choosing between the big rally candidates this year! Feel free to follow my advice. You know, if you want free money.

Fortnite / PUBG Character
Rally Chance: Very Low
This is one I see thrown around a lot. Fortnite and PUBG are the two hottest things on the market right now, so they're going to steamroll our little corner of the internet, right? Well...not exactly. For a rally in a character battle to happen, there needs to be an actual character to get behind. L-Block was the closest an entrant can get to not having a character and still being rallied, but he got by on being a really funny entrant and literally everyone having played Tetris as some point. Fortnite and PUBG don't have characters, they have generic character avatars and classes with none of the personality of, say, the Team Fortress 2 cast. Despite what Link may have led you to believe, characters aren't automatic contest stand-ins for games. PUBG/Fortnite avatars don't have personalities, or names, or even defined visual appearances. Steve from Minecraft had it better than that and he still got demolished. I don't even know if it's possible for PUBG/Fortnite to get a valid entrance into the contest, let alone one that would get enough popular support to be rallied.

Any League of Legends Character
Rally Chance: Very Low
League is no longer the 'it' thing in game. It's still extremely popular and actually has a higher playrate than Fortnite, but it's not exciting anymore. It would be difficult to energize the base enough to get them to try and mess with yet another GameFAQs Contest. Draven was also a lightning-in-a-bottle character in that he was both universally loved and a huge LoL meme at the time. No one else could have gotten the universal support he did. His time has past, and no other character has been able to fill those shows. LoL simply has too many characters for people to choose from; you'll never get everyone to agree on just one anymore. The final nail in the coffin is that the League subreddit doesn't allow rallying anymore, which...I could've said from the start and saved you all some time. Oops!

Reinhardt (Fire Emblem Heroes)
Rally Chance: Low to Medium
Fire Emblem Heroes is a surprisingly popular game with a large & active subreddit, and Reinhardt is their poster boy. He's a Draven-type character in that almost everyone likes him...and he's a huge meme. Reinhardt is basically a Fire Emblem Heroes original character, coming from a previous FE game that no one played, allowing him to be molded by the community. He's extremely powerful and useful, is used on a ton of teams, and gets loooots of fanarts/memes/ect. of him made. It may seem silly to mention those, but they matter. A lot. If Reinhardt got in, I have zero doubt that the FEH Subreddit would immediately throw their support behind him. The saving grace is that the FEH subreddit isn't *that* big, so even if Reinhardt gets rallied it probably won't be enough to shut out the contest, but considering that votals decrease each contest...it's something to be wary of.
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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.