Tourney of Interest Season 9 Week 1

[Cmdr_King]

Now with SPECIAL MEANINGLESS THEMES.

Godlike

THE Emperor, Mateus Palamecia (Final Fantasy II) vs Ultimecia (Final Fantasy VIII)
Levin Brenton (Wild ARMs XF) vs Exdeath (Final Fantasy V)
Dheginsea (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Kekfa Palazzo (Final Fantasy VI)
Sora (Kingdom Hearts Series) vs Tidus (Final Fanasy X)

Heavy

Hero (Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride) vs Cecil Harvey (Final Fantasy IV)
Almaz von Almandine Adamant (Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice) vs Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy VII)
Chrodechild (Suikoden Tierkreis) vs Squall Leonhart (Final Fantasy VIII)
Homard (La Pucelle: Tactics) vs Marcello (Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King)

Middle

Marth (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) vs Frog (Chrono Trigger)
Liu (Suikoden Tierkreis) vs Flare (Suikoden Series)
Lieselotte (Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume) vs Gallows Caradine (Wild ARMs 3)
Marie (Eternal Poison) vs Alma Beoulve (Final Fantasy Tactics)

Light

Noah "Gabranth" fon Rosenburg (Final Fantasy XII) vs Garland (Final Fantasy)
Sanaki (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Algus Sadalfas (Final Fantasy Tactics)
Jagen (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) vs Flonne (Disgaea: Hour of Darkness)
Ronyx J. Kenny (Star Ocean: First Departure) vs Cinnamon (Mega Man X: Command Mission)

Closes next Sunday AD

[Dhyerwolf]

Godlike
Levin Brenton (Wild ARMs XF) vs Exdeath (Final Fantasy V)- Oh god, Exdeath form headache.

Middle
Lieselotte (Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume) vs Gallows Caradine (Wild ARMs 3)- I think
Marie (Eternal Poison) vs Alma Beoulve (Final Fantasy Tactics)- Gut is that Marie doesn't have the damage.

Light
Ronyx J. Kenny (Star Ocean: First Departure) vs Cinnamon (Mega Man X: Command Mission)- Faster, HP boost means that she's not

[Yoshiken]

Godlike

Mateus Palmecia (Final Fantasy II) vs Ultimecia (Final Fantasy VIII) - Any boss with form-chaining beats Emperor's puny HP. >.>
Deghinsea (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Kefka Palazzo (Final Fantasy VI) - HP->1 -> poke.
Sora (Kingdom Hearts Series) vs Tidus (Final Fanasy X) - Seems FFX has no Stop protection. Tough luck for Tidus.

Light

Noah "Gabranth" fon Rosenburg (Final Fantasy XII) vs Garland (Final Fantasy) - Garland really sucks.

[OblivionKnight]

Godlike

Mateus Palmecia (Final Fantasy II) vs Ultimecia (Final Fantasy VIII) - Ultimecia.  The durability trounces it.
Levin Brenton (Wild ARMs XF) vs Exdeath (Final Fantasy V) - Exdeath.
Dheginsea (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Kefka Palazzo (Final Fantasy VI) - Dheginsea
Sora (Kingdom Hearts Series) vs Tidus (Final Fanasy X) - Sora

Heavy

Hero (Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride) vs Cecil Harvey (Final Fantasy IV) - Hero
Almaz von Almandine Adamant (Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice) vs Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy VII) - No one!
Chrodechild (Suikoden Tierkreis) vs Squall Leonhart (Final Fantasy VIII) - No one!
Homard (La Pucelle: Tactics) vs Marcello (Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King) - Marcello.

Middle

Marth (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) vs Frog (Chrono Trigger) - Frog
Liu (Suikoden Tierkreis) vs Flare (Suikoden Series) - FUCKING GAMES
Lieselotte (Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume) vs Gallows Caradine (Wild ARMs 3) - Gallows
Marie (Eternal Poison) vs Alma Beoulve (Final Fantasy Tactics) - Need to play Eternal Poison

Light

Noah "Gabranth" fon Rosenburg (Final Fantasy XII) vs Garland (Final Fantasy) - ...wait, Gabranth in Light?  He's...not a Light at all.  He loses to true Garland's Chaos form, but beats the Garland of Garlandness.
Sanaki (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Algus Sadalfas (Final Fantasy Tactics) - Sanaki
Jagen (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) vs Flonne (Disgaea: Hour of Darkness) - Flonne
Ronyx J. Kenny (Star Ocean: First Departure) vs Cinnamon (Mega Man X: Command Mission) - Cinnamon

[Pyro]

Godlike

Levin Brenton (Wild ARMs XF) vs Exdeath (Final Fantasy V): No turns for you? No turns for you.
Dheginsea (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Kekfa Palazzo (Final Fantasy VI): One thunder spell doesn't kill? Yeah, and Dheggy counters + regular attack hurts things dead.
Sora (Kingdom Hearts Series) vs Tidus (Final Fanasy X): Um. Stop. Next.

Heavy

Homard (La Pucelle: Tactics) vs Marcello (Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King): Burning Soul overkill wasn't so insane as to OHKO Marcello and other than that Marcello 2HKOs and goes first.

Middle

Marie (Eternal Poison) vs Alma Beoulve (Final Fantasy Tactics): Healing and mdurability: The way you beat Alma

Light

Noah "Gabranth" fon Rosenburg (Final Fantasy XII) vs Garland (Final Fantasy): Not. Thinking. About. This.
Sanaki (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Algus Sadalfas (Final Fantasy Tactics): Haven't we seen this before? Anyways, BURN TRAITOR.

[dude789]

Godlike
Mateus Palmecia (Final Fantasy II) vs Ultimecia (Final Fantasy VIII) Draining physicals
Levin Brenton (Wild ARMs XF) vs Exdeath (Final Fantasy V) Multiple targets
Dheginsea (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Kekfa Palazzo (Final Fantasy VI) OHKOs
Sora (Kingdom Hearts Series) vs Tidus (Final Fanasy X)

Heavy
Hero (Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride) vs Cecil Harvey (Final Fantasy IV) Has healing that actually keeps up with damage.
Almaz von Almandine Adamant (Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice) vs Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy VII) This one is close, but I think Almaz's tankiness tips it in his favor. I could be argued here.

Middle
Marth (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) vs Frog (Chrono Trigger) Gets a critical before frog can kill him.
Lieselotte (Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume) vs Gallows Caradine (Wild ARMs 3) Status.

Light
Sanaki (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Algus Sadalfas (Final Fantasy Tactics)
Jagen (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) vs Flonne (Disgaea: Hour of Darkness)

[Taishyr]

Godlike

Mateus Palmecia (Final Fantasy II) vs Ultimecia (Final Fantasy VIII) - ...ohgod doublefail.
Levin Brenton (Wild ARMs XF) vs Exdeath (Final Fantasy V) - Low Exdeath respect, kicking in. Levin should be able to manage a blitz, I think?

[Random Consonant]

Marth (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) vs Frog (Chrono Trigger) - Meh, failoff.

Jagen (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) vs Flonne (Disgaea: Hour of Darkness) - Kneejerking that she has enough shots of her non-fail damage to handle Jagen's epic durability.

[SnowFire]

Mateus Palmecia (Final Fantasy II) vs Ultimecia (Final Fantasy VIII) - Ultimecia is immune to draining anyway IIRC.

Homard (La Pucelle: Tactics) vs Marcello (Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King) - Homard is kind of a one-trick pony.

Marth (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) vs Frog (Chrono Trigger) - Frog's cruddy water magic comes in handy for once?!  I don't think endgame Marth is quite fast enough to double here, which swings the match.  Not to mention that if Marth 3HKOs verging on a 2HKO - which sounds right - Frog has a very strong Frog Drop handy as well to close things out.

Noah "Gabranth" fon Rosenburg (Final Fantasy XII) vs Garland (Final Fantasy) - Gabranth has absurdly awful HP....   for an FF12 boss.  Which menas he's still more durable than most bosses in other games!  Meanwhile Garland has trouble even hitting - he's inaccurate in FF1, and I think Gabranth has a good parry rate IIRC.
Jagen (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) vs Flonne (Disgaea: Hour of Darkness) - Jagen dies to a stiff breeze.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Sora (Kingdom Hearts Series) vs Tidus (Final Fanasy X) - Sora against a PC who lets him get a turn and is entirely helpless against Stop.

Hero (Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride) vs Cecil Harvey (Final Fantasy IV) - Outheals after piling up the defense buff. This fight fails.

Lieselotte (Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume) vs Gallows Carradine (Wild ARMs 3) - Gallows offense is rather lacking and he triggers counters along with being slower. Odds are Liese either paralyzes or Soul Crushes first.

Ronyx J. Kenny (Star Ocean: First Departure) vs Cinnamon (Mega Man X: Command Mission) - Slow spellcasting means Ronyx has issues. I guess he may 2HKO before AT, but Cinnamon goes first and isn't 2HKOed after that, and she should 3HKO.

[Ultradude]

Godlike

Dheginsea (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Kekfa Palazzo (Final Fantasy VI)
Sora (Kingdom Hearts Series) vs Tidus (Final Fanasy X)

Light

Sanaki (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Algus Sadalfas (Final Fantasy Tactics)

[ThePiggyman]

Godlike

Mateus Palmecia (Final Fantasy II) vs Ultimecia (Final Fantasy VIII) - Durability.
Dheginsea (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Kekfa Palazzo (Final Fantasy VI) - The counters hurt a little too much.
Sora (Kingdom Hearts Series) vs Tidus (Final Fanasy X) - Stop.

Middle

Marth (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) vs Frog (Chrono Trigger) - lol @ Frog using his magic.

Light

Noah "Gabranth" fon Rosenburg (Final Fantasy XII) vs Garland (Final Fantasy) - Gabranth could honestly probably kill Garland twice over.
Sanaki (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Algus Sadalfas (Final Fantasy Tactics) - ...sure.
Jagen (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) vs Flonne (Disgaea: Hour of Darkness) - I'm done thinking for now.

[alanna82]

Godlike

Mateus Palmecia (Final Fantasy II) vs Ultimecia (Final Fantasy VIII)
Dheginsea (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Kekfa Palazzo (Final Fantasy VI)
Sora (Kingdom Hearts Series) vs Tidus (Final Fanasy X)

Heavy

Hero (Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride) vs Cecil Harvey (Final Fantasy IV)
Chrodechild (Suikoden Tierkreis) vs Squall Leonhart (Final Fantasy VIII)- I'm sure she can avoid a limit
Homard (La Pucelle: Tactics) vs Marcello (Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King)

Middle

Marth (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) vs Frog (Chrono Trigger)
Liu (Suikoden Tierkreis) vs Flare (Suikoden Series)
Lieselotte (Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume) vs Gallows Caradine (Wild ARMs 3)


Light

Noah "Gabranth" fon Rosenburg (Final Fantasy XII) vs Garland (Final Fantasy)
Sanaki (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Algus Sadalfas (Final Fantasy Tactics)
Jagen (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) vs Flonne (Disgaea: Hour of Darkness)- LOL Flonne gets a win.

[Talaysen]

Godlike

Mateus Palmecia (Final Fantasy II) vs Ultimecia (Final Fantasy VIII) - Immunes gravity and draining?  Mismatch.
Levin Brenton (Wild ARMs XF) vs Exdeath (Final Fantasy V) - Easy.
Dheginsea (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Kekfa Palazzo (Final Fantasy VI) - Bolt3 probably OHKOs.
Sora (Kingdom Hearts Series) vs Tidus (Final Fanasy X) - Giving Sora free wins, CK?  You could at least be subtle~

Heavy

Hero (Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride) vs Cecil Harvey (Final Fantasy IV)
Almaz von Almandine Adamant (Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice) vs Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy VII) - Can chip if needed, should outslug.
Chrodechild (Suikoden Tierkreis) vs Squall Leonhart (Final Fantasy VIII) - Can chip past a limit.
Homard (La Pucelle: Tactics) vs Marcello (Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King) - Apparently he only has one MT attack and he can't spam it.

Middle

Marth (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) vs Frog (Chrono Trigger)
Liu (Suikoden Tierkreis) vs Flare (Suikoden Series) - Depends on how good Sleep is.  If it's not good enough, silence screws Flare over.
Lieselotte (Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume) vs Gallows Caradine (Wild ARMs 3) - Probably.
Marie (Eternal Poison) vs Alma Beoulve (Final Fantasy Tactics) - No equipment changing, so Marie confuses Alma and then burns her.  EDIT: Ribbon blocks status, but Marie just 2HKOs her.

Light

Noah "Gabranth" fon Rosenburg (Final Fantasy XII) vs Garland (Final Fantasy) - Failoff.
Sanaki (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Algus Sadalfas (Final Fantasy Tactics) - Burn, traitor!
Jagen (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) vs Flonne (Disgaea: Hour of Darkness)
Ronyx J. Kenny (Star Ocean: First Departure) vs Cinnamon (Mega Man X: Command Mission) - Kneejerk.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Godlike

THE Emperor, Mateus Palamecia (Final Fantasy II) vs Ultimecia (Final Fantasy VIII) - beats her in Dissidia, clearly.
Levin Brenton (Wild ARMs XF) vs Exdeath (Final Fantasy V) - Faster, Turn H4X.
Dheginsea (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Kekfa Palazzo (Final Fantasy VI) - Don't think I'd see Dheggie as immune to Fallen One. That's probably enough here.
Sora (Kingdom Hearts Series) vs Tidus (Final Fanasy X) - Beats him in Kingdom Hearts!

Heavy
Homard (La Pucelle: Tactics) vs Marcello (Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King) - LPT counters are brutal.

Middle

Marth (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) vs Frog (Chrono Trigger) - Marth suffers from an accute case of 'sucky leader syndrome'.
Lieselotte (Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume) vs Gallows Caradine (Wild ARMs 3) - I could get behind Lieselotte hype.

Light

Noah "Gabranth" fon Rosenburg (Final Fantasy XII) vs Garland (Final Fantasy) - Gabranth vs. full FF12 twinking potential is pretty tame.
Sanaki (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Algus Sadalfas (Final Fantasy Tactics) - Die in obscurity.
Jagen (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) vs Flonne (Disgaea: Hour of Darkness) - Even Flonne can get a win against Jagen!
Ronyx J. Kenny (Star Ocean: First Departure) vs Cinnamon (Mega Man X: Command Mission) - Kneejerk, mostly. Voting on the overall better Light.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Marie (Eternal Poison) vs Alma Beoulve (Final Fantasy Tactics) - No equipment changing, so Marie confuses Alma and then burns her.

Alma's status immunity is her default.

[Dark Holy Elf]

Godlike

THE Emperor, Mateus Palamecia (Final Fantasy II) vs Ultimecia (Final Fantasy VIII): Bit of a fail-off. Not sure how I see Ulti. Immuning Drain makes Emperor damage emo, but Ulti's already is. Then again, she has the right damage type most of the time, so I'll vote her for that. I guess.
Levin Brenton (Wild ARMs XF) vs Exdeath (Final Fantasy V): Lower respect for Levin than some (I'm debating between +5 or +6 for DL weapons, rather than +8, so that hurts Levin's hit a bit). Still, uh, it's X-Death. He's kinda fragile, has no evade, and no counters. Levin can manage.
Dheginsea (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Kekfa Palazzo (Final Fantasy VI): Kefka really wants ITD... though lightning does become partially ITD against Dheggy? Double Bolt 3 does hurt a lot. Doubt I see Dheg surviving that.

Middle

Lieselotte (Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume) vs Gallows Caradine (Wild ARMs 3): Gallows can't heal his way out of this one and I can't see him winning a damage race. I may also vote on the boss form (every path), which... moves, so goes first and does overkill damage.

Light

Sanaki (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Algus Sadalfas (Final Fantasy Tactics): Probably.

[Cmdr_King]

d'oh.  Got too busy playing games, forgot about this.  Will update early this evening.

Godlike

THE Emperor, Mateus Palamecia (Final Fantasy II) vs Ultimecia (Final Fantasy VIII)
Levin Brenton (Wild ARMs XF) vs Exdeath (Final Fantasy V)
Dheginsea (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Kekfa Palazzo (Final Fantasy VI)
Sora (Kingdom Hearts Series) vs Tidus (Final Fanasy X)- Right, Stop.  Pity.

Heavy

Hero (Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride) vs Cecil Harvey (Final Fantasy IV)- Kneejerk.  I want to say his resources are deeper, mostly?
Almaz von Almandine Adamant (Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice) vs Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy VII)- Hm.  Chipping doesn't reallly get him ahead, since he's still gonna trigger a cross slash before killing whatever happens...
Chrodechild (Suikoden Tierkreis) vs Squall Leonhart (Final Fantasy VIII)- Yeah, probably.
Homard (La Pucelle: Tactics) vs Marcello (Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King)- Kneejerk.

Middle

Marth (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) vs Frog (Chrono Trigger)- I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that even nerfed Falchion's healing keeps up with Frog's damage.
Liu (Suikoden Tierkreis) vs Flare (Suikoden Series)- Kneejerk.
Lieselotte (Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume) vs Gallows Caradine (Wild ARMs 3)
Marie (Eternal Poison) vs Alma Beoulve (Final Fantasy Tactics)- No vote.

Light

Noah "Gabranth" fon Rosenburg (Final Fantasy XII) vs Garland (Final Fantasy)- No vote.
Sanaki (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Algus Sadalfas (Final Fantasy Tactics)
Jagen (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) vs Flonne (Disgaea: Hour of Darkness)- Sure.
Ronyx J. Kenny (Star Ocean: First Departure) vs Cinnamon (Mega Man X: Command Mission)- Very much a kneejerk.  I'm wondering if Ronyx can't just keep her off balance and... I dunno.