Yay new List!
Godlike:
1. Yuna (FFX) - Instant pool champ. Wins when she gets a turn, hard to stop from doing so.
2. Ryu (BoF3) - He's very similar to Yuna in the "get a turn, win" sense. Thing is... he's slower. By a fair amount. And lacks the evade. As such... well. He's a bit worse.
*PLUMMET.*
3. Sora (KH) - He's an evil little PC killer, pretty damaging and crushes slugfesting bosses slower than him like bugs (Aero+Second Chance+infinite healing? Yes please). Also has elemental resistances, which is never bad. Just... status whoring owns him so badly.
4. Zio (PS4) - Slugfesting boss. Looks good in this kind of pool, really.
5. Seymour (FFX) - Walls physicals, can take magic. Elementally reliant and not fast, however, and dear god is the HP pathetic. In all honesty, the 4-7 spots on this pool are hard for me to place.
6. Virgil (XS) - PC killer, mostly. Spoils very well, but the HP holds him back so much.
7. Miguel (CC) - Methodical buffing-to-slugfesting game. Elementally reliant, but has the speed and durability to make due, I think.
8. Aya Brea (PE) - Initiative overkill! Nothing else.
9. Rashidi (OB) - Rashidi is honestly sorta like a mage Jeremy. More accurate and not as easy to OHKO (although the difference is honestly not far from negligible against physicals), but his damage is also more spread out and he has that pesky Holy weakness to boot, so enemies tend to see a turn against him more often anyway. Not a good combo.
10. Kuja (FF9) - Just too frail and not damaging enough. The Reflect and counters are sorta neat, but no dice when you're sub-PC HP.
Heavy:
1. Fei Wong Fong (XG) - Spammable OHKO off solid speed and good statusblocking options in Heavy! Smash.
2. Lenus (LoD) - Elemental resists, solid durability and overkill. The overkill is a limit, but it's so accessible, and she even has further HP triggers for applied evil.
3. Decus (SO2) - Hm. The HP is so-so, and fire is wallable... but it's still OHKO-level damage off boss immunities and great elemental resistances.
4. Rayquaza (PKMN) - Buff, smash. Elemental weaknesses keep Quaza in check, but he's good.
5. Alakazam (PKMN) - Mmmmm, high 2HKO, healing and defensive buffs off that speed.
6. Rose (LoD) - Mmmm, I guess it works. Needs to get going to really work, but she has good statusblockers, solid speed and is really dangerous when she -does- get started.
7. Arnaud G. Vasquez (WA4) - As Rose, takes time to get going, and isn't as reliable when he does (poorer damage as well). But he's generally more annoying to stop as well.
8. Edge Eblan (FF4) - Similar to Arnaud in a sense, but more easily walled in spite of being faster. Decent spoiler.
9. Angela (SD3) - She... is sorta like Strago, methinks. But Strago is faster and has better statusblockers. She is honestly not that good, although she's a competent status whore.
10. Auron (FFX) - First Strike solves so many issues it's not even funny. Plenty spoilable, slow and poor at slugfesting, but he spoils well too.
11. Keith Valentine (SH1) - ID and statusblockers. Past that, he has essentially nothing.
12. Poo (EB) - He is fast! And has healing! Off a sucky resource pool, and his status sucks balls. His status baitness also hurts, and expensive 3HKO damage gets in the way of his healing something fierce. Tends to lose resource wars all the time because of that, he's Frog without status immunity when he's facing healers.
13. Adelbert Steiner (FF9) - Sorta sucks. Nothing but a crappy 2HKO and FF9 elemental nonsense.
14. Maxim (Lufia 2) - Um. He's just a mehish limit fighter in Heavy, and this doesn't work well. The status immunities are nice, but he has no options until he gets hurt, and he's certainly not terribly hard to just dick around with before going for the kill in the division. Below average speed and a meh physical ain't putting pressure.
Middle:
1. Geomancer (FFT) - Hm. I... am assuming Geomancer can hit a 2HKO with his physical using Attack UP. Combined with the strong combination of overall solid stats and FFT equipment cheese, this should get him on top of this list, since it makes him an overall strong slugger that spoils well.
2. Aggron (PKMN) - Holy shit, the anti-physical game is -nuts-. And backed up by solid damage. Speed isn't good, but could be worse, and he's not entirely hopeless against mages.
3. Lexis Shaia (Lufia 2) - Tons of healing and limits that benefit from the healing. Good against stallers because of that, really.
4. Argilla (DDS) - Another good healer who is in her element in long fights. Being more spoilable and physically frailer than Lexis puts her below him, though. She honestly feels like Angelo - by a pretty notable degree.
5. Miakis (S5) - Fairly speedy, damage is okay and the element cheese S5 equips provide work nicely. Too bad the healing is sorta poor, but she isn't badly off for durability, so it works.
6. Jeane (Suikos) - OHKO damage! Off Lightning elemental and Rule of Tim stats. Yeah.
7. Seifer Almasy (FF8) - Eh, I guess the limit game is okay.
8. Zidane Tribal (FF9) - Elemental walling nonsense and one status that doesn't truly suck. Underwhelms me, honestly.
9. Cecile (S3) - Tanking! Not much else, but the tanking is sorta nuts!
10. Arche Klein (ToP) - Damage is meh, durability is meh, speed is poor, what she has going for her is turn two ID and elemental nonsense. She's like a poor man's Zidane who trades status variety (for all that the variety often doesn't matter) and accuracy (-this matters-, now) and more resists for double the damage - but off bad speed. Ends up a losing trade.
11. Barret Wallace (FF7) - Problematic limits and hopeless damage. All he has is... FF7 statusblockers.
12. Vaynard (Brig) - Um. Low 3HKO damage of both types, an elemental weakness, high wallability factor and nothing else? Yeah, that's more of a bad Middle than a good one.
Light:
1. Cleo (S1) - Boom.
2. Lunn (Lunar:EBC) - Uh, I guess he -does- 3HKO. Hard to peg, though, since I have poor memories of him. Not very different from EBC in EBO, from what I know.
3. Reis Dular (FFT) - 3HKOs, magically tanky. Works.
4. Ace (S3) - Less solid than Reis, but still solid.
5. Rinoa (FF8) - Not -too- bad, honestly. I guess she 3HKOs.
6. Malak Galthana (FFT) - Spoils actually pretty well. Just is Malak.
7. Jayle (VP1) - Middling, but actually okay at it.
8. Zappa (CC) - Sorta like Jayle, but lacking in statusblocking options and more elemental reliance.
9. Miklotov (S2) - Slow. Durable! But just slow and lacks damage, and he's not durable enough to make up for that.
9. Dominia (XG) - Okay, she's fast and 3HKOs and spoils elements! Just... uuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrgh Nara-level durability.
10. Suzu Fujibayashi (ToP) - Hi, I'm Suzu and I'm pretty much ToD Chelsea, so I get 2HKOed by average damage and 5HKO back. No.
11. Nicolus (SO2) - Hi, I'm Nicolus and I fail at everything.