Proving Grounds suggestions & ideas?

[SnowFire]

It's that time of year again.  With no CKDL active, might be fun to throw some of the characters from obscura stat topics around for not-safe-for-even-Futurama fun.  Partially inspired by Pyro's awesome CTON topic, of course.  (Nothing like getting the actual devs to answer your questions, the same ones who cruelly ignored Elf...)

Anyway, plenty of recent stuff added, but are there any suggestions for "DL control" noms that are more easily votable?  Kind of nice to have them in so that the topics aren't just SHEER obscura, and we've got some really obscure obscura to pick from.  Especially well-votable characters who are somehow "interesting" due to interp changes, new stat topics, whatever.  Suggestions from some of the wider "new" stat topics wouldn't hurt, either (e.g. Pokemon Gen 6).

Notable stuff from the past year or so:

Old games with new topics: FF5a, Suiko1, Arc the Lad 2, FE8, EB, BoF2 & BoF3, L2 & XG bosses, ToS
Pyro obscura: Celestian Tales, Dragon Age, Crimson Gem Saga, Paladin's Quest, The Last Story
SnowFire obscura: Trails in the Sky SC, SMT Devil Survivor 2, TO neutral path (no), SMT4
Other obscura: Pokemon Gen 6 (& 5?), LISA, Child of Light, Rondo of Swords, Xenoblade

[superaielman]

Swiping from my own half finished PG list:

L/M


Yam Koo- S1 with some speed and offense.

Blissey- Magically tanky mage!

Umaro- Good stats, but so random.


M:

Alen- Solid stats and damage but fire defense is a problem.

Cecil- Wishes he had access to his Dark Knight form ala Dissidia so bad. >_<

Oengus- Child of light idea.

[Dark Holy Elf]

I am, needless to say, always down for some PG.

I'd like to see Star Ocean 4 if we're throwing around semi-obscura. And I imagine there will be a Fates topic pretty soon! Too early to esimate rankings closely enough for noms, though.

For DL control, I suggest just looking up the rankings and trying to find well-known duellers who are at about the right listed ranking.

[Pyro]

Lesee here...

Tosh, AtL2. Heavy.
Great damage and stat hurting but a big issue with magic. ITE kinda sorta!

Reynard, cTON. Heavy.
Immortality with a few big flaws.

Chezni, paladin's Quest. Godlike.
Meh vote draw is horrid but someone has to toot my horn on stat topics.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Hmm... I'd be down to see some Celestian Tales, Xenoblade, and Trails SC stuff myself. (And Rondo of Swords of course, but that might be too obscure?)

[Dhyerwolf]

Proving Grounds is so voting heavy that I really wouldn't advise characters who are very obscure (for example, Trails SC might only have like 2 potential voters?)

Are you looking at trying to get people along the borderline of divisions like classic Proving Grounds or just anywhere in a division?

[SnowFire]

Elf: Yeah, the fact that at least half of the Fates topic sounds like it'll be done soon was the other obvious inspiration to throw this out there.  Speaking of unfinished stat topics, I wonder if Jo'ou will ever rouse himself from Record Keeper to post his Codename STEAM topic.

Dhyer: Well, the whole point of Proving Grounds (to me at least) is to let obscure characters have matches somewhere, anywhere.  Hyper-obscure games aren't even really safe for Futurama (which aims more for 5-10 voters?), but in PG, you can just ignore 'em.  I wouldn't be surprised if Pyro was literally the only voter for some of his topics, but hey, the alternative is characters will never ever be voted on ever?

Since votership is going to be *dire* for some of these characters, it might make sense to do 4 rather than 3 on the assumption that nobody is ever going to be able to vote all 4.

I'll take suggestions from anywhere in the standings, but I'm especially interested in the ranked control noms, since they make it so there's at least one character easily votable in a topic, even if the rest are all Zzzathorp McBing from Commodore64 RPGs or whatever.  No point in picking a DL-control that's boring or there's no interest in.