RPGDL 2013 Season 2 Noms

[Cmdr_King]

After poking a few topics and thinking, we'll be running our seconds DL season of the year now rather than another intermediate tourney.  I know, sad times.

Be sure to check the Ranking List to make sure what you're about to nom is still ranked.  And also because we did rank like four games last time.

Lessee.  This season, let's get 4-5 characters in each division (Godlike, Heavy, Middle, Light).  Please try to keep your noms even.

Sa-Lews (Phantasy Star IV: End of the Millenium), White Rose (SaGa Frontier), and Zegai (Suikoden V) are our returning champions and have automatic berths in Godlike, Heavy, and Middle respectively.

Last season's nom topic for people who lazy their way to victory: http://www.rpgdl.com/forums/index.php/topic,6281.0.html

[Cmdr_King]

And last season's full bracket, so Snow doesn't gnaw me about it.  You are discouraged from nomming people seen here.

Godlike

Lady (Shadow Hearts: From the New World) vs Kyogre (Pokémon)
Alicia (Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria) vs Bloodbane (Valkyrie Profile)
TimeLord (SaGa Frontier) vs Elincia (Fire Emblem Series)
ZEKE (SaGa Frontier) vs Elidibs (Final Fantasy Tactics)

Diva (SaGa Frontier) vs Indalecio (Star Ocean: The Second Story)
Emelious (Grandia III) vs Katrina Liane Elesius (Wild ARMs XF)
Tanzer (SaGa Frontier) vs Lenneth Valkyrie (Valkyrie Profile Series)
Belial (Wild ARMs 4) vs X (Mega Man X: Command Mission)

Heavy

Hector (Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword) vs Auron (Final Fantasy X)
Billy Lee Black (Xenogears) vs Kika (Suikoden IV)
Ephraim (Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones) vs Limstella (Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword)
Umi (Cthulhu Saves the World) vs Palom (Final Fantasy IV)

Sa-Lews (Phantasy Star IV: End of the Millenium) vs Vayne Aurelius (Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis)
Ryu (Breath of Fire) vs Rose (Legend of Dragoon)
Tohru Adachi (Persona 4) vs Freyjadour Falenas (Suikoden V)
Sync (Tales of the Abyss) vs Ziggurat 8 (Xenosaga Series)

Middle

Canas (Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword) vs Kesaran Pasaran (Wild ARMs 4)
White Rose (SaGa Frontier) vs Eiko  Carol (Final Fantasy IX)
Rinoa Heartlily (Final Fantasy VIII) vs Jill (Fire Emblem: Series)
Odessa (Suikoden) vs Jean (Lunar: Eternal Blue Complete)

chaos (Xenosaga Series) vs Gardevoir (Pokémon)
Raynie (Radiant Historia) vs Cray (Breath of Fire IV)
Isabel (Suikoden V) vs Leehalt Alcester (Wild ARMs 3)
Caellach (Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones) vs Kyle (Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete)

Light

Estella (Suikoden III) vs Aeris Gainsborough (Final Fantasy VII)
Solt (Chrono Cross) vs Baigan (Final Fantasy IV)
Zegai (Suikoden V) vs Laguna Liore (Final Fantasy VIII)
Ramus Farmain (Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete) vs Guido (Grandia)


Riddel (Chrono Cross) vs Pierre (Chrono Cross)
Palmer (Final Fantasy VII) vs Cinnamon (Mega Man X: Command Mission)
Thomas (Suikoden III) vs Doll (SaGa Frontier)
Shady Thousand (Wild ARMs 3) vs Lucius (Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword)

[superaielman]

Godlike: Psaro (DQ4), Melfice (G2), Wugui (SH1), Cidolfas Orlandu (FFT), Rashidi (OB)
Heavy: Justin (G1), Fujin (FF8), Daos (Lufias), Rune Walsh (PS4), Fogel (OB)
Middle: Lich (FF1), Dekar (Lufia 2), Guy (FE7), Nergal (FE7), Seifer Almasy (FF8)
Light: Melville (S3), Raijin (FF8), Doll (SaGa), Alonso (G3), Garcia (FE8)

[Lance]

Godlike
Shania (SH3)
Culex (SMRPG)
False Althena (Lunar2)
Ameno-sagiri (Pers4)
Ashera (FE10)

Heavy
Phunbaba (FF6)
Jinx (SMRPG)
Angela (SD3)
Lassic (PSs)
Asellus (SaGa)

Middle
Rudy (WA1)
Maya (DQ4)
Vormav (FFT)
Lani (FF9)
Anise (TotA)

Light
Sheena (ToS)
Gato (CT)
Magikarp (Pokemon RBY)
Steena (CC)
Relm (FF6)

[Pyro]

Godlike:

Zophar (Gotta have The Voice)
Gadgeteer [Wild Arms XF]: Battle Aprons can be sexy, right?
Caineghis [Fire Emblem X]: The lion sleeps tonight? Or smashes your face in. One or the other.
Ryu2: (Because sometimes you just need to level a playing field, so to speak)
Chris Lightfellow: Because pretty.

Heavy:

Hiro: Haven't seen him in a while
Ashley Winchester: Kinda curious to see what people honestly think...
Noa [Legaia]: ^_^
Raquel Applegate: Because She Moves in Mysterious Ways Without End. Well, less mystery and more violence.
Geddoe : Electromasters are awesome.

Middle:
Bowie [ShF2]: To pair him with
Sarah [ShF2]: Just because it's funny.
Stocke : Time travelling agent
Crono: Time travelling hero.
Guy Cecil [TotA]: It's like Flynne without the armor! Or the epic bromance.

Light:

Flonne: Because the power of Heart
Melville : Because Super
Kiwi (ShF2): Because he's soooooo frail to magic.
Raja : Because he's sooooo frail to... everything.
Sheena (ToS): Because she has Judy cosplay.

[Dark Holy Elf]

Godlike: Celes (FF6), Xorn (G3), False Althena (Lunar 2), Shania (SH3), Yaridovich (SMRPG)
Heavy: Vanille (FF13), Delita (FFT), Tana (FE8), Renée (MK), Hugo (S3)
Middle: Dalton (CT), Mystic Knight (FF5), Tifa (FF7), Sceptile (PKMN), Aelia (VP1)
Light: Raja (PS4), Raticate (PKMN), Cotton (Saga), Kiwi (SF2), Krin (S1)

[Dhyerwolf]

Godlike
Charlton (59), Violetta, False Althena,  Orgulla, Zophar
1. New…uh, not strong, but may have a chance against the sluggish PD? Obviously not relevant now.
2. Replace Emelious, Lots of Fun!
3-5: No longer have any basis of how long they have been out, whatever

Heavy
Levin (60), Decus, Pamela, Lenus, Chie


Middle
Odie, Warlock (59), Flay, Tio, Albel

1.Is Very Cool
2. Wind stormed Middle! Now Earth
3. Never needs a reason
4. Force me to finish the G2 redo?
5. Shit, ATL 2 isn't ranked anymore? Didn't realize that (Now I wait again for Futurama...). Bye Shante. . Oh well, Albel is cool.

Light
Piccolo, Cinnamon, Mallow, Mao, Vitali
Removed Melody and Ernest since they were just in a similar if not identical tournament.

1. Smash
2. 4hKO and healings
3. 3HKOs and healingz
4. Finally makes it back on my nom list
5. Awesome healer

[Luther Lansfeld]

Godlike: Xorn (G3), Odd Eye (SF2), Chris Lightfellow, Ultimecia (FF8), Luther Lansfeld (SO3)

1. Because all love must perish.
2. Because wearing a toga is more fun than being evil.
3. Because pimpin' ain't easy.
4. Because TIME KOMPRESSION.
5. Because data shall behave as such.

Heavy: Gale (DDS), Clive Winslett (WA3), Oerba dia Vanille(FF13), Delita Hyral(FFT), Rune Walsh(PS4)

1. Because even robots need love.
2. Because of giant shotguns.
3. Because of lesbianism.
4. Because impaling is both fun and good exercise.
5. Because his theme music overrides the death of a city.

Middle: Lavitz(LoD), Dalton(CT), Lyon(FE8), Micaiah(FE10), Stocke(RH)

1. Because he was a great 'guy'.
2. Because eternal life is within his grasp.
3. Because all he wants to do is revive a dark god.
4. Because not all silver-haired people are evil.
5. Because of time travelling hotties.

Light: Rufus Shinra (FF7), Algus Sadalfas(FFT), Miranda (G3), Rahal(S5), Zieg Feld(LoD)

1. Because he has house pets that are better bosses than him.
2. Because animals have no God.
3. Because of teenage pregnancy.
4. Because being this beautiful is a man's job.
5. Because why not.

[SnowFire]

Godlike
Shania (SH3), Exdeath (FF5), Naesala (FEs), Rhapthorne (DQ8), Terra (FF6)

Heavy
Nash (S3), Kary (FF1), Kornell (G3), Mithos (ToS), Alex (Lunar)

Middle
Natalia (TotA), Astrid (FEs), Red XIII (FF7), Fina (SoA), Rikku (FFX)

Light
Mist (FEs), Noel (SO2), Sazh (FF13), Dancer (FFT), Viki (Suikoden series)

Edited out Raynie per Jo'ou.

[Random Consonant]

Godlike: Xorn (G3), Yuna (FFX), Yaridovich (SMRPG), Prototype Gear (WA4), Isolde (MK1)

1. Because all love must perish.
2. Because Nama loves her so.
3. Because spear fear.
4. Because he interrupts your tearful reunion.
5. Because pile bunker bullshit is best bullshit.

Heavy: Kornell (G3), Rune (PS4), Ershin (BoF4), Sephiran (FE10), Sinspawn Gui (FFX)

1. Because he's a musclebound peabrain.
2. Because sarcasm.
3. Because Ershin will assist!
4. Because he is completely trustworthy.
5. Because Sin always returns for its shit.

Middle: Flay (MK1), Odie (SN), Aelia (VP1), Tengaar (Suikos), Micaiah (FE10)

1. Because it's fun being the Flayvor of Evil.
2. Because he's pretty awesome for an eternal buttmonkey.
3. Because randomly RAR I'M A DRAGON
4. Because Snow fanservice.
5. Because she needed to be snarkier.

Light: Mao (SH3), Nina (Suiko2), Zieg Feld (LoD), Kiwi (ShF2), Krin (Suiko1)

1. Because the power of cat compells me.
2. Because she's an unbalanced schoolgirl in love.
3. Because he fails so much.
4. Because turtle or something.
5. Because hurr hurr here is rope.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Snowfire: Raynie was in last season.

Godlike: Prototype Gear (WA4), Yaridovich (SMRPG), Rabbit (SaGa), Ameno-Sagiri (P4), Zweis Monde (MK)

1. get wrecked starts the DL-unranked Godlike magic.
2. Is Elfboy's secret hivemind collective.
3. BUNNY KICK wait no
4. Disco Inferno.
5. Wheel of Morality, turn turn turn, tell us the lesson that we should learn~ *TIMED CARDS OVERKILL*

Heavy: Summoner (FF5), Oerba Dia Vanille (FF13), Queen Phyress (VP2), Rune Walsh (PS4), Angelo (DQ8)

1. #ff5dl
2. #grefterdl
3. #psychosomadl
4. #elfboydl
5. #ciatodl

Middle: Tengaar (Suikos), Caina (WA2), Ray (FE6), Sceptile (PKMN), JUZA (PS4)

1. You know me.
2. Gates of Mana Khemingdom Hearts.
3. Because everybody's nomming Nosferatu and I dun wanna feel left out.
4. LEAF BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADE
5. JUZA

Light: Mao (SH3), Nina (Suiko2), Alfred Schroedinger (WA3), Cathedral (XS2), Saul (FE6)

1. Animals have no god.
2. Random.jpg
3. Zen fire.
4. CATHEDRAL
5. Judgin' you.

[Cmdr_King]

So, rolling noms.  My schedule is such that if we do it Sunday, it'd be late, like 2-3 am EDT.  If we do monday, it'd be closer to 11 or midnight.  Tuesday could be just about whenever in the evening.  Thoughts or preferences?

[Nephrite]

Godlike: Orphan (FF13), Orgulla (XS2), Virgil (XS3), Viola (RH), T260G (Saga)
Heavy:  Asellus (SF), Cloud (FFT), Alex (Lunar), Kyra (PS4), Vanille
Middle: Bowie (SF2), Gordon (Disgaea), Lightning (FF13), Stocke (RH), Albel (SO3)
Light: Mime (FFT), Mime (FF5), Mallow, Bard (FF5), Gares (OB)

I believe I have everything in order.

[Cmdr_King]

And now, the winamp noms.

Godlike

Izanami (P4), Layna (SN), Cecilia Lynn Adlehyde (WA1), Miguel (Chrono Cross)

1. The Genesis
2. Cradle of the Ivory Moon
3. To the End of the Wilderness
4. Prisoner of Fate

Heavy

Zidane Tribal (FFIX), Margulis (XS2), Emeralda Kasim (XG), Beatrix (FFIX)

1. You Are Not Alone!
2. Margulis
3. June Mermaid
4. Assault of the Silver Dragons

Middle

Yukiko Amagi (P4), Brad Evans (WA2), Virginia Maxwell (WA3), Karin Koenig (SH2)

1. Face Yourself -Battle-
2. 8 arranged tracks
3. Flying in the Midst of the Storm
4. ICARO (Piano Arrange)


Light

Luke fon Fabre (TotA), Jane Maxwell (WA: ACF), Algus Sadalfas (FFT), Gordon (Dis1)

1. Meaning of Birth
2. The Prologue Beginning from Here
3. Trisection
4. Galaxy Wars

[SnowFire]

CK: Garnet's way too good for Middle (checking the records, she was there in uh Season 4 whereupon she immediately upgraded), but Brad is probably safe for Middle (Brad-for-Heavy hype apparently involved giving him an uber Medium that makes his speed good and he's 0-2 in Heavy where he started, whereafter he downgraded).  Swap 'em?  (Garnet has healing, status, good damage of various elements that's also MT if that ever matters, elemental spoiling, above-average speed on turn 1, isn't as frail as you might think, and interp-dependent status blocking.  Not a bad package for Heavy, although insert usual "lol FF9 buffs" note of unfortunateness for her.)

Izanami I can't comment on directly due to no P4, but I know that she was considered too good for Godlike back in the day off Proving Grounds.  (Then again, CKDL has let in duelers like Katrina, so who knows.)

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Izanami is pretty overrated and how good she is dependa a lot on how much clout you give her durability. She's also somewhat reliant on limit phases.

[SnowFire]

Well, even if her first form is seen as having literally 1 HP, 3 free extra actions, which includes a 1.52 PCHP nonelemental MT nuke and another .61 PCHP blast, are a pretty big middle finger to Godlike PCs without a defend command or Godlike bosses who aren't tanky.  Then there's a second form afterward.

I'm not saying that she's totally unrankable of course, CKDL has definitely let in some scary Godlike-Bluelike border types, but she's clearly a top-class Godlike off just the above 1st-form only hype alone.  EBC Zophar certainly dies to 2.13 PCHP damage certainly and never even makes it to form 2!  (I guess BoF1 Jade can take Izanami at least given sufficient HP respect?)

[074]

Alright.  Just going four per division this time, so...

Godlike: Tir(Suikos), Rika(PS4), Reclaimer Dragon(WA4), Heat (DDS)

Heavy: Gale(DDS), Hrist Valkyrie(VP2), Nel Zelpher(SO3), Rofel Wodring(FFT)

Middle: Albel Nox(SO3), Yosuke Hanamura(P4), Balk Fenzol(FFT), Lucca Ashtear(CT)

Light: Big Joe(XG), Jogurt(ShF), Rufus Shinra(FF7), Igglanova(PS4)

[SnowFire]

Namagomi: Hrist & Nel both ended the old DL in Godlike, for whatever it's worth.  They aren't much there, but they do earn the occasional win vs. Low Godlikes and are certainly borderline Heavy-Godlikes themselves at worst.  (So...  it's not the end of the world to nom 'em in Heavy, to be clear, but they're kinda uber there.)

Reclaimer Dragon is listed as Godlike in Tide's stat topic, and I'm inclined to agree from the description.   237% average speed uber damage, not total fail durability?  Reclaimer Dragon has an argument against freakin' EBC Zophar if Dragon is seen as tanking Zophar's faster damage.  Even if his durability IS seen as total fail, that's a lot of damage real fast - he should only lose to evadey types with a counterattack, e.g. Eirika or the like (and she's borderline Heavy-Godlike anyway, and she's probably doubled in both senses of the word, so even she isn't totally out of the woods!).

[Clear Tranquil]

Hmm. Not sure Nel rides Godlike myself. Remember Ice Daggers has high fury costs (i.e the skill can only be used once without Berserk and three times for an Ice Daggers > Ice Daggers > Ice Daggers chain) and her healing's not great unless proficiency is assumed. Well if she rides it's not based on her freeze I would imagine~

[Dark Holy Elf]

Nel gets healing at the very start of the game so assuming good proficiency is reasonable, and freeze does help. That said I'd definitely see her as more of a Heavy myself, she was only 6-3 there (and 0-2 in Godlike), and none of those losses were against Royce/Ted-style "Heavies". Below average HP + speed only somewhat above average = easy enough to heal lock or outslug, though she's obviously good.

edit: And not that it matters due to no P3 voting here, but I'd see Zophar tanking 2.13 PCHP very very easily, and it should only barely kill him to the lowest HP scalings I'm aware of (no support credit + scaling by party rounds).

edit: Thirding super's comments below re Reclaimer Dragon.

[superaielman]

Hrist I'd call a Godlike as well. PC form's a good heavy at the least, boss belongs in low godlike.  Nel's a Heavy; she's certainly not a borderliner like Asellus who is generating heavy noms.

Also I'll second the dropkicking for the reclaimer dragon. He seems like he should be on the G side of the border; in cases like this it's best to err on the side of caution.

Izanami is pretty overrated and how good she is dependa a lot on how much clout you give her durability. She's also somewhat reliant on limit phases.

What Snowfire said. PC's almost never beat her, bosses have to deal with all the form chain and limity stuff.  If she's a rankable godlike, she is at the very upper end of the scale.

[MalcolmMasher]

Godlike: Ness (EB), Kefka (FF6), Rika (PS4), False Althena (Lunar 2), Athos (FE7)
Heavy: Hiro (Lunar2), Ershin (BOFIV), Marivel Armitage (WA2), Roy (FE6), Cait Sith (FF7)
Middle: Brad Evans (WA2), Albert Serdio (LoD), Gryz (PS4), Rampardos (PKMN), Bowman (SO2)
Light: Cid (FF4), Raja (PS4), Blank (FF9), Kraken(EB), Bartre (FEs)

[Twilkitri]

Godlike: Albedo (XS), Deamoned (BoF5), Jecht (FF10), Kuja (FF9), Lavos (CT)
Heavy: Isaac (GS1), Kanon (WA2), Naoto Shirogane (P4), Takaya Sakaki (P3), Vyse (SoA)
Middle: Jessica De'Alkirk (Lunar1), Lufia (Lufia1), Ox (BoF1), Raine Sage (ToS1), Thursday (D1)
Light: Kiros Seagil (FF8), Kongol (LoD), Nanami (S2), Nanami (VP1), Rafa Galthana (FFT)

[SnowFire]

While we're hijacking the thread...  yeah, if you make Zophar have 1 part but give him support credit for the hands, he actually ends up better vs. Izanami (if worse vs. everyone else).  (I'm pretty much on the side of "I don't know why people even ever denied multipart bosses parts, why is multiacting off 1 part fine but the same multiacting off 2 parts not fine now.").  And we all know that you don't scale in # of party members, I do, no need to rehash that debate.  Anyway, the stat topic indicates Zophar's head is 16500 with an average PC damage of 680, 16500 / (680*5) = 4.85 PC rounds, 4.85 / 2.5 = 1.94 PCHP.  As far as general respect penalties, you have White Dragon Protect & random Lucia stuff, so I'd be inclined to see that at around ~1.8 PCHP (flip side, it's possible to fight him without Triple Sword or Catastrophe, but meh, I was running a lot when I did that, seems too nice.).  His hands get owned by Izanami's nuke being MT, not that it matters, because she's invincible and doesn't care about the hands anyway, and yeah, 1.8 is far enough away from 2.1 that I don't see it as that close, assuming OK's PC averages for P4 are accurate.  (But sure, if Zophar is scaled vs. 3.5 party members...  although I might be tempted to boot Ronfar from the average then....  he can probably tank Izanami form 1.  And then form 2 probably wins anyway if it lives for a single turn, which it should.)