Pools time.
Caineghis (FE10), Xorn, False Althena, Lenus, Nel
Xorn and Lenus are both limit fighters, but Xorn holds the cards here... slightly more durability, way more offence at first, still more offence (due to speed) after hitting limit mode. Xorn/FA is much closer, kneejerk is Xorn but I could be argued there. Xorn has problems with Cain since he's a little short on magic, but he's got enough. Nel... no.
FA vs. Lenus depends on FA's chipping abilities somewhat. Gut says she'll manage to find a way to only give Lenus one turn, plus a counter, in her crazy limit mode, and she can tank those. Good fight though. She zaps Cain. Nel avoids a OHKO with Elemental Leather but she's still heal-locked.
Cain gives Lenus a limit turn which he is barely one-shotted by. He beats Nel though. I'm not sure how I feel about Berserk, but Cain has enough evade to drop the status away from turn 1 anyway, then he mangles.
Xorn 4-0
FA 3-1
Lenus 2-2
Caineghis 1-3
Nel 0-4
Yeesh, Caineghis downgrading. Ugly pool. It's a product of Lenus not being Heavy though!
Pamela (MK), Marivel, Delita, Rune, Ray (FE6), Guy (FE7)
Oh gee. Let's see.
Marivel > Pamela: She's faster, uses Status Lock first turn, then Guillotine twice. Pamela can't 2HKO her or status her out.
Pamela > Delita: Physical immunity.
Rune > Pamela: Faster, Negatis.
Ray > Pamela: Ray is faster with a 2HKO, and Pamela can't use ST attacks on him (including her draining) or she gets countered and dies, and her status isn't turn 1 against monstrous Ray res (-50% from magical status rates).
Pamela > Guy: Physical immunity.
Delita > Marivel: Faster, sleep isn't turn 1.
Rune > Marivel: Faster.
Ray > Marivel: 2HKOs her, her status isn't turn 1.
Marivel > Guy: Sleep. I don't take FE evade against status unless the status explicitly checks MEvade in its own game, so she gets to hit Guy res instead.
Delita > Rune: Is immune to ID and can tank two Rune turns thanks to HP/faith.
Ray > Delita: Draining, all the draining. I don't let Delita equip the Aegis Shield he needs here, and his status isn't fast enough seeing as he's being 3HKOed.
Delita > Guy: On the other hand, Delita gets around counters and 2HKOs here. I'm not sure if I see he or Guy faster; if Delita is faster he slaughters, if he goes second he may still win?
Rune > Ray: Sure, he needs two shots to land his status, but since he's faster, those are two shots he gets.
Rune > Guy: Negatis.
Ray > Guy: See this week.
Rune 4-1
Ray 4-1 (NOT A MIDDLE, SNOW)
Delita 3-2
Marivel 2-3
Pamela 2-3
Guy 0-5
Mmph. I guess you could squint and say Guy one-rounds Marivel which would downgrade Marivel instead of Pamela and that would be a much, much better idea. Not inclined to buy it personally though. This was a really bad pool for Pamela, Marivel spoiling her like that is weird, Rune uses magical status she doesn't block and Ray has stupid res and a counter to her drain game. Guy is very obviously outclassed and stays down regardless, Ray is Heavy.
Ox, Anise, Mallow, Raticate
Ox: 63% speed, does 48% damage, can initiative-heal 3 times, 1.12/1.08 durability.
Anise: Kinda slow, does 42% damage, or about 66% with a MA, 109% durability, 8% regen.
Mallow: 85% first turn then average, 0.9 pdur, 30% with physicals or 32% with Shocker, 4 uses of Shocker or 16 uses of healing or some combination.
Raticate: 34% damage, mHP/2, can raise damage by 50% of base, 117% speed, 0.67/0.59 durability of ew.
Mallow 4HKOs Ox, while Ox heal-locks Mallow. Speed difference is a thing, though. So we see lots of Mallow trading two heals and an attack. After three of these he has spent 6 FP, and Ox has to heal. Repeat the process, Ox runs out of MP first. Decent fight though.
Mallow hates Anise's regen a surprising amount, but not -that- much. Mallow does about 19.5% net on a turn he attacks, loses 8% whenever he stops to heal. Fortunately he can alternate forever. The problem is when Anise builds up to an MA she can heal-lock with the threat of that. Does that happen in time? Does Mallow doubleturn at a terrible point? How about his evade? I don't feel I have enough documentation to vote on this.
Mallow beats Raticate by 2HKOing him this week.
Anise 2HKOs Raticate, and he isn't killing her first.
Anise vs. Ox... um. Anise 3HKOs. This depends a lot on how fast she is, I'll kneejerk 84% (76% by run speed, but eh, that's slower than I'm comfortable with, pro-rating that to 2/3), so 4-3 on Ox, although him healing complicates things. She attacks twice, getting an attacked once, and forces him to heal. Repeat fight except Anise has lost 26% of her health? Yeah, figure Ox can take this, but a lot depends on Anise's speed and how much you respect initiative healing.
Ox has a 2HKO on Raticate, but the rat has a 3-2. Ox wants to slip a heal in there and hope Raticate doesn't 5-3 him, which seems reasonable? But he needs to heal at exactly the right point. Mmph. Abstain on this one too.
Mallow 2-0
Ox 1-1
Anise 1-1
Raticate 0-2
Mallow is upgrading, that much is clear. The rest could go in a lot of directions, especially compounded by the people I don't know. Either Anise or Ox could downgrade, or Lufia I imagine.
