Author Topic: Team Hair Color Tourney: Nominations! (Read 1517 times)

SnowFire · « **on:** June 12, 2014, 02:39:58 AM »

Been quiet on the team tournaments front lately. As a new tourney to pass the time while the Dungeon retools, SnowFire presents a very shallow idea for a tournament: hair color based teams. Yes. Thanks to the magic of anime, we know that any ol' color is perfectly legitimate for hair, but which shade produces the strongest fighters?

Tentatively, there'll be 10 teams. I'm going with teams of black, brown, blond, red, silver / gray, blue, teal / light blue, purple, pink, & green. If people want to nominate orange & bald-haired characters for a side bonus match, go ahead, just I suspect that there are not a lot of options there.

Teams will generally be ~4 characters. A few teams may end up as 3 or 5 characters. Nominations should only be for CKDL-ranked games and characters with a stat topic. Nominate as many characters as you like! Nominating the same character someone else did won't make them more likely to get in though.

Methodology: 3 characters will be rando-selected from all nominees for each team. I, SnowFire, will fill out the 4th character from among the nominees with an eye toward preserving a roughly equal power level among teams (OMG favoritism). Teams with an unusually strong 3 characters might stay at 3, and teams with an unusually weak 3 characters might go to 5 members. Basically, this means you shouldn't worry that nominating strong or weak characters will unbalance a team, Hatbot won't have the final say if it picks 3 Lights or 3 Godlikes.

Recommendations & things to avoid:

It'd be nice if nominees have some extra tie to their hair color - it's remarked upon in game, it's an interesting contrast or unusual, etc. For example, Micaiah is the "Silver-Haired Maiden" in-game; Rose is "The Black Monster" (and has the Shadow Dragoon Spirit and dark-elemental attacks); etc. But anybody's nominatable of course, this is just "extra credit."
Flip side, avoid generics. Sure, FFT rando-recruits have blond hair, but if you use Malak or others you can make an FFT Time Mage with black hair, which suggests that blond hair isn't really a defining characteristic of FFT Time Mage, or any FFT class.
No High Godlikes. This is a team tournament and High Godlikes can often just win all on their own which trivializes the rest of their team. I'm going to set Rika (PS4) as the absolute strongest Godlike that's still valid here. (And yes, Team Silver Hair curses at missing out on Sephiroth, Ghaleon, Lady, etc.)

SnowFire · « **Reply #1 on:** June 12, 2014, 02:41:01 AM »

Current nominations:

Black
Rose (LoD) (SF)
Hrist (VP2) (SF)
Vitali (SN) (Djinn)
Mario (SMRPG) (Reiska)
Tharja (FE13) (Reiska)
Wren, PS4 (NotMiki)
Viktor (Suikos) (Ciato)
Ness, EB (Neph)
Lyon (S5) (Elf)
Rafa (FFT) (DragonKnight Zero)
Cyan Garamonde (FF6) (DragonKnight Zero)

Brown
Labrynthia (WAXF) (SF)
Hugo (S3) (Djinn)
Delita (FFT) (Reiska)
Yosuke (Persona 4) (Reiska)
Virginia, WA3 (NotMiki)
Bernadette Egan (Suikoden V) (Ciato)
Lilka, WA2 (Neph)
Guv, DQ8 (Neph)
Anastasia, SH2 (Neph)
Vyse (SoA) (super)
Gilder (SoA) (super)
Percival (Suikoden 3) (Elf)
Aerith (FF7) (DragonKnight Zero)

Blond
Kornell (G3) (SF)
Isaac (GS1) (Djinn)
Princess Toadstool (Super Mario RPG) (Reiska)
Jerin (Lufia 1) (Reiska)
Ziggy, XS (NotMiki)
Borus, S3 (NotMiki)
Cliff, SO3 (NotMiki)
Edgar Roni Figaro, FF6 (Ciato)
Purim, SoM (Neph)
Marle, CT (Neph)
Natalia, TotA (Neph)
Celes (FF6) (Elf)
Flonne (Disgaea) (DragonKnight Zero)
Lemina Ausa (Lunar2) (DragonKnight Zero)

Red
Justin (G1) (super)
Id (XG) (super)
Decus (SO2) (super)
Maxim (Lufia 2) (super)
Zelos (ToS) (Djinn)
Eliwood (FE7) (Reiska)
Mitsuru (Persona 3) (Reiska)
PC Heat, DDS (NotMiki)
Red XIII, FF7 (NotMiki)
Flay Gunnar, MK1(Ciato)
Karin Koenig (Shadow Hearts 2) (Elf)
Millenia (G2) (DragonKnight Zero)

Silver
Micaiah (FE10) (SF)
Chris Lightfellow (S3) (Djinn)
Setzer (FF6) (Reiska)
Akihiko (P3) (NotMiki)
Hope, FF13 (Ciato)
Pamela Ibis (Mana Khemia) (hinode)
Raquel Applegate (WA4) (hinode)
Athos (Fire Emblem 7) (Elf)

Blue
Ike (FEs) (SF)
Luna (Lunar) (SF)
MidBoss (Dis1) (Djinn)
Lucina (FE13) (Reiska)
Naoto (Persona 4) (Reiska)
Rudy, WA (NotMiki)
Yuki, G3 (Ciato)
Rena Lanford (SO2) (DragonKnight Zero)

Teal / light blue
KOS-MOS (XS) (SF)
Enna (MK2) (Djinn)
Eirika (FE8) (Reiska)
Ephraim (FE8) (Reiska)
Rune (PS4) (super)
Magus (Chrono Trigger) (Elf)
Lenneth Valkyrie (VP) (Elf)

Purple
Lucca (CT) (SF)
Liete (G2) (Djinn)
Liza (SaGa Frontier) (Reiska)
Ilyana (FEs) (Reiska)
Lyon, FE8 (Ciato)
Miang (XG) (CK)
Rei (Saga Frontier) (Elf)

Pink
Lightning (FF13) (SF)
Olivia (FEA) (SF)
Seraphitia (XG) (super)
Serra (FE7) (Djinn)
Noa (Legend of Legaia) (Reiska)
Presea (Tales of Symphonia) (Reiska)
Argilla, DDS (NotMiki)
Rika, PS4 (NotMiki)
Nel Zelpher, SO3 (Ciato)
Marcia (Fire Emblems) (Elf)

Green
Terra (FF6) (super)
Clive (WA3) (super)
Asellus (SaGaF) (Djinn)
Zed, WA (NotMiki)
Gale, DDS (NotMiki)
Nephenee, FE9 (Ciato)
Demi, PS4 (NotMiki)
Elincia (Fire Emblems) (Elf)

Write-in!

Orange
Elly (XG) (SnowFire)
Rhys (FEs) (SnowFire)
Aika (SoA) (Djinn)
Gaius (FE13) (CK)
Citrine (XS3) (C)
Momo (BoFIII) (CK)
Alena (DQ4) (hinode)
Bowser (SMRPG) (hinode)
Wakka (Final Fantasy X) (Elf)
Oerba dia Vanille (Final Fantasy XIII) (Elf)

Bald
Basilio (FE13) (Djinn)
Rude, FF7 (NotMiki)
Shakkahn (XG) (CK)
Hugo (RH) (CK)
Lenny Curtis (SH2) (CK)

Borderline:
Yangus (DQ8)
Raja (PS4) (DragonKnight Zero)
Do their hats ever come off?!

SnowFire · « **Reply #2 on:** June 12, 2014, 02:42:55 AM »

Anyway, some nominations to get the ball rolling. (I'll add more later perhaps, but this should be a decent start.)

Rose - Black monster, dark elemental, fun times. She's interesting and flavorful.
Hrist - Well she's part of a set of three differentiated by hair color, get some holy elemental in there to contrast with Rose?!
Labrynthia - Also not as terrible in a team match as in the DL, thanks to Revive being useful. Always down for Labby hype.
Kornell - Don't call him a peabrain. Has BOSS REVIVAL wat.
Micaiah - Per above. Silver-haired maiden Mary Sue, yup, gets to use her healing & status cleansing game too for once.
Ike - Authority-in-a-team-match hype.
Luna - One of the original blue-haired anime chars.
KOS-MOS - Slow but powerful MT damage.
Lucca - More slow-and-fragile but scary if they get a turn types.
Lightning - I hear she's returning or something.
Olivia - Dancer in a team match… that will totally explode to anything but hey there's a little evade at least.

Also at risk of pointing out the obvious, for the teal / blue distinction, compare the likes of Ephraim / Nils with Ike / Chrom. Considering how popular blue hair is, I doubt we'll have much trouble filling up both teams, but we'll see.

superaielman · « **Reply #3 on:** June 12, 2014, 03:22:30 AM »

Green:

Terra (FF6)
Clive (WA3)

Blue:

Melfice (G2)
Rune (PS4)

Red:

Justin (G1)
Id (XG)
Decus (SO2)
Maxim (Lufia 2)

Pink:

Serafitia (XG)

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #4 on:** June 12, 2014, 01:20:44 PM »

Blond:
Isaac (GS1) - Hey, he's from Golden Sun, that's color-related or something.

Green:
Asellus (SaGaF) - Her hair is magically transformed upon becoming a Half-Mystic, speshul!

Silver:
Chris Lightfellow (S3) - Well, SOMEONE was gonna nom that Silver Maiden.

Pink:
Serra (FE7) - I recall them mentioning her hair a lot

Black:
Vitali (SN) - Might be freakin' awesome in a Team Match?

Red:
Zelos (ToS) - His hair is just so pretty... seriously!

Blue:
MidBoss (Dis1) - His haircolor is a clue to his MYSTERIOUS IDENTITY!

Teal:
Enna (MK2) - I've always applauded the designers for not needing to make his hair Pink to match his sister's.

Brown:
Hugo (S3) - Because I dunno what else to call his funky hair.

Purple:
Liete (G2) - It's harder to think of characters with Purple hair than Orange or Bald....

Bonus Orange:
Aika (SoA) - Clearly she's the reason Orange was relegated to Bonus match material - so broken in a Team Match.

Bonus Bald:
Basilio (FE13) - They make notice of his lack of hair, too!

Reiska · « **Reply #5 on:** June 12, 2014, 11:16:39 PM »

I've gone and picked 2 for each color, and tried to keep it to a maximum of 2 from any single game as well. Feel free to ignore the second one listed for each color if you think this is too many noms.

Black
Mario (Super Mario RPG): Mario's hair color has oscillated between black and brown depending on the artist and the game, but it's unquestionably black in SMRPG.
Tharja (FE13): Ohohohoho.

Brown
Delita Hyral (FFT): Something I've always noticed about FFT character art is that the nobles are almost universally blond while the lowborn are almost universally brown-haired. The game never really makes a point of it, but I wonder if it was intentional.
Yosuke Hanamura (Persona 4): Have some support, brown-hair team.

Blond
Princess Toadstool (Super Mario RPG): Because this team needed more support.
Jerin (Lufia 1): No, really, it did.

Red
Eliwood (FE7): At least he's not Roy, I suppose.
Mitsuru Kirijo (Persona 3): This team actually DOES need more support.

Silver
Cecil Harvey (FF4): This is a slightly debatable color: his sprites have purpleish hair, but his portraits and his Dissidia design are more decidedly silver, so I classified him here. Anyway, Micaiah will appreciate Cover.
Setzer Gabbiani (FF6): Another debatable one, it's either platinum blond or silver. The sprite favors the latter, though.

Blue:
Lucina (FE13): Because I can't nom Marth.
Naoto Shirogane (Persona 4): Because she's cool, dammit.

Teal
Eirika (FE8), Ephraim (FE8): Fuck yeah brother-sister duo of awesome.

Purple
Liza (SaGa Frontier): You'd be surprised how hard it is to come up with purple-haired PCs.
Ilyana (FE9/10):

Super

Pink
Noa (Legend of Legaia): Pink is also surprisingly hard to come up with characters for in the ranked list.
Presea Combatir (Tales of Symphonia): See above.

Green
Selan (Lufia 2): Selan's hair color is kind of ambiguous. It's undebatably teal in her Lufia 1 appearance, kind of a pastel green in her Lufia 2 walk sprite, undebatably green in her L2 menu and battle sprites, undebatably *blue* in her L2 official artwork, and finally undebatably teal again in the L2 remake. In any case the ranked form of her is the one with all the green. So it goes.
Shaymin (Pokemon DPP): Well, the leafy "fur" on its back is most definitely green. I'm of the opinion this is close enough to count, and who says all the noms here have to be human?

As an aside, SF, I think Lucca's pink, not purple (feel free to correct me, though). Also, Liete is G1, not G2, Djinn >_>

Excal · « **Reply #6 on:** June 12, 2014, 11:39:46 PM »

I dunno, since this game is all about which hair colour produces the strongest fighters, it almost feels like teams should get some sort of bonus or points for highly thematic folks who should be on their team, but are DQed for being over powerful. I mean, there is a reason why one of the Rules of RPGs is that most problems can be solved by finding the right silver haired Bishie and killing them.

SnowFire · « **Reply #7 on:** June 12, 2014, 11:54:51 PM »

Excal: Well, that's where I come in. While the primary concern for the "4th" character will be power level, if I have several options for red hair and one character just kinda randomly has red hair, and the other one is a Irish orphan with freckles and fire magic and a hot temper, I'm going to pick the most stereotypical & flavorful one possible. As for Team Silver Hair being OP, well, I want some semblance of balance, so this secretly isn't about finding the most powerful hair shade. (Sounds like an interesting idea for a follow-up tourney though - just grab the most powerful dudes possible for each hair color... so all Godlikes all the time. What hair color is Saga Frontier Blue, anyway?!)

super: Melfice is a little too good for this - under the harshest interps he's still at the absolute top of the desired power level, and the interps that let Melfice champ Godlike back in the day clearly make him a bit too good. Really fast MT 2HKO, lots of evade to let him get a 2nd turn, etc.

Reiska: Cecil & Selan I'm going to look the other way on for the reasons you stated. Someone like Id who *explicitly changes hair color in game* is great, but where a character has multiple hair colors because the artists plain aren't consistent, it makes them a less good "representative" of that hair color. Cecil can work on Purple-Silver haired diplomacy perhaps. Shaymin... nice try, but no.

NotMiki · « **Reply #8 on:** June 13, 2014, 12:56:47 AM »

Blond:
Ziggy, XS
Borus, S3
Cliff, SO3
Myriam, RSMS

Green:
Zed, WA
Gale, DDS

Silver:
Akihiko, PS3

Pink:
Argilla, DDS
Rika, PS4

Black:
Wren, PS4

Red:
Heat, DDS
Red, Adol the
Red XIII, FF7
boy, red is a breeze

Blue:
Rudy, WA. Nommed because he's the most you-gotta-have-blue-hair character I can think of.

Teal:
Rune, PS4. Yeah I don't care if super nommed him for blue.

Brown:
Virginia, WA3
Claudia, RSMS

Purple:
um

Bonus Orange:
Aisha, RSMS

Bonus Bald:
Rude, FF7
Yangus, I think?

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #9 on:** June 13, 2014, 01:22:57 AM »

Black
Viktor (Suikos)

Brown
Bernadette Egan (Suikoden V)

Blond
Edgar Roni Figaro, FF6

Red
Flay Gunnar, MK1

Silver
Hope, FF13

Blue
Yuki, G3

Purple
Lyon, FE8

Pink
Nel Zelpher, SO3

Green
Nephenee, FE9

Nephrite · « **Reply #10 on:** June 13, 2014, 01:28:22 AM »

Black:
Ness, EB

Blonde:
Purim, SoM
Marle, CT
Natalia, ToA
Stocke, RH

Brown:
Lilka, WA2
Guv, DQ8
Anastasia, SH2
Aht, RH

Green:
Demi, PS4

SnowFire · « **Reply #11 on:** June 13, 2014, 01:36:06 AM »

P1/P2 & RSMS aren't ranked at the moment. Also Adol is definitely thematically qualifiable, and even has 2 different stat topics with him in it, but yeah no.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #12 on:** June 13, 2014, 01:47:11 AM »

Correction for super's nom:

Tolone is the greenish haired cyborg

He's thinking of Seraphita, the bunny-girl.

superaielman · « **Reply #13 on:** June 13, 2014, 05:54:41 AM »

Quick edit for brown: Vyse (SoA) and Gilder (SoA). Fight the status whoring power, man!

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #14 on:** June 13, 2014, 07:54:17 AM »

Mostly gonna fill in ones that seem less nommed.

Purple

Miang Hawwa (XG)

Orange

Gaius (FE13)
Citrine (XS3)
Momo (BoFIII)

Bald

Shakkahn (XG)
Hugo (RH) (I actually don't remember if we have his stat topic or not, or if he falls below the power levels required. But hey.)
Lenny Curtis (SH2)

hinode · « **Reply #15 on:** June 14, 2014, 02:48:48 AM »

Blonde
Praline A La Mode (BD)

Silver
Pamela Ibis (Mana Khemia)
Raquel Applegate (WA4)

Orange
Alena (DQ4)
Bowser (SMRPG)

SnowFire · « **Reply #16 on:** June 14, 2014, 03:56:09 AM »

I'll probably roll up the teams either Saturday night or Sunday afternoon.

I added Elly & Rhys for Orange, as they were the only two I could think of before, but seems like there are more orange-haired types out there than I gave credit for.

Bravely Default isn't ranked yet, sadly for Praline & her team-fight inspiring abilities.

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #17 on:** June 14, 2014, 04:53:34 AM »

Throwing a nom at Light Blue for not having a lot of options:

Mia (Golden Sun) - thematically-appropriate hair color is one of Golden Sun's -things-. And the team wants a healer, even a slow one.

Dark Holy Elf · « **Reply #18 on:** June 14, 2014, 07:42:22 AM »

Hugo has a stat topic entry and is certainly fine power-wise.

Also for what it's worth I think there are absolutely enough people for an orange team.

Black:
Lyon (Suikoden 5)

Brown:
Percival (Suikoden 3)

Blond:
Celes Chere (Final Fantasy 6)

Red:
Karin Koenig (Shadow Hearts 2)

Grey/Silver:
Athos (Fire Emblem 7)

Blue:
Magus (Chrono Trigger) - though it's kind of pale and you can argue it's purple. I've always thought of it as blue, though.

Teal/Pale blue:
Lenneth Valkyrie (VP)

Purple:
Rei (Saga Frontier)

Pink:
Marcia (Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn)

Green:
Elincia (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn)

Orange / Strawberry blond / whatever:
Wakka (Final Fantasy X)
Oerba dia Vanille (Final Fantasy XIII)
Princess Toadstool (Super Mario RPG)

DragonKnight Zero · « **Reply #19 on:** June 14, 2014, 09:20:22 AM »

Got a few

Black

Cyan Garamonde (FF6) At least he won't keep his teammates from acting while charging. Will it be enough?

Brown

Rafa (FFT) More targets means more chances to hit something with Truth. Or she might end up damaging her teammates more. Chaos ensues.
Aerith (FF7) Great Gospel is so overpowered, if she lives to get it off.

Blonde
Flonne (Disgaea) Having teammates might raise her out of Puny.
Lemina Ausa (Lunar2) Female attack magic user. Wears black. Frail durability. First name has 6 letters. Who could I possibly be referring to?

Blue
Rena Lanford (SO2) Another possessive blue-haired love interest for male lead. Her hair color is referenced in game (once in a PA but still...)

Red:
Amy Sage (PS2) Deban halves damage from everything. Of course, being slow and frail means she's easy to KO.
Millenia (Grandia 2) Random pick

Bald:
Raja (PS4) Ataraxia is so broken.

SnowFire · « **Reply #20 on:** June 15, 2014, 03:11:03 AM »

Right, the first 3 for each team have been rolled up, nominations are officially locked. NotMiki bot detected, he got 8 picks in while the nearest competition got a mere 4 picks in. I'll post the first set of matches shortly, once I can get reliable reads on how good Enna & Rei are and figure out the 4th (and possibly 5th) characters for each team...

Clear Tranquil · « **Reply #21 on:** June 15, 2014, 09:12:44 AM »

Nobody nommed Estelle, I'm quite surprised~

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #22 on:** June 15, 2014, 11:46:29 AM »

She's not ranked in CKDL unfortunately. I'd have nommed Arche, Estelle, and Cheria for a kickass Tales Pink team (ID + Elemental walling, Magic Immunity+Tankiness, and Infinite Healing is awesome!). I guess you would want a damage dealer in there, too... Presea's fine though inspires apathy.

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