Lady (Shadow Hearts: From the New World) vs Dragon Emperor (Seiken Densetsu 3) - I'm more amenable towards Lady Lost Progressing debuffs than Elfboy, but I'm not sure that matters. Dragon Emperor's durability is just openly gross and he shouldn't do worse than 3HKOing Lady.
Kary (Final Fantasy) vs Oerba Yun Fang (Final Fantasy XIII) - Pretty sure this works.
Roxis Rosenkrantz (Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al Revis) vs Aigis (Persona 3) - Well, first problem: Aigis goes first and, once Orgia Mode kicks in, she 2HKOs Roxis' ass. Second problem: under Orgia, she has roughly 2.5 effective PC HP and about 40% evade - which affects both physicals and magic. Third problem: Roxis needs at least two Chrona Drives to kill Orgia Mode Aigis. I really don't see how Roxis can make this work even if Aigis needs to spend a turn to go Orgia (and I don't remember that being the case). Aigis is kind of a low Heavy when she's not being foiled by her thunder weakness.
Cinnamon (Mega Man X: Command Mission) vs Piccolo (Suikoden III) - Lightning resist means Cinnamon doesn't get 2HKOed by Piccolo even before Iron Maiden and she 2HKOs him back under Iron Maiden. Feels fairly clean - and heck, she might be able to afford a heal here even if she doesn't 2HKO.
Rankings
For each of the following games, please indicate whether to Rank it or Reject it from further DL consideration.
Bravely Default (12/20) - Rank, sure.
Suikoden Tierkreis (12/20) - Abstain. I feel pretty much the same about this as super does.
Haven't played any of the new games, don't care.
Downgrade pools!
Celes Chere, Chris Lightfellow, Violetta, Oerba Yun Fang, Kary
Well, this is pretty straightforward. Violetta eats this pool for breakfast, being borderline High Godlike against a bunch of Heavy/Godlike borderliners. The rest of the pool... yeah, gets a bit dicier as the rest of the girls mostly trade wins and losses. Celes beats Fang (goes first, lol imp) and Kary (Berserk is turn one against Kary and I allow Vanish, which BARELY makes my threshold for overlevelled spells leniency. Kary -almost- OHKOs Celes with a berserked physical, but doesn't quite get there), loses to Chris (lol silent lake). Besides that, hm. Fang vs. Chris is interesting - Chris opens with Silent Lake and then... well, when she doesn't crit, her damage is low enough that Fang can try to stall it out with Mediguard in theory, but crits and Phoenix Rune put a crimp on that strategy and opening with Mediguard itself gives Chris and extra opening. Past that, Fang, bereft of Saboteur tricks, loses a straight slugfest with Chris of the obscene pdur and 40% evade. Chris also immunes Silence by default and can heal Pain with Kindness Rain, which... doesn't help Fang either. Yeah, I think Chris has the upper hand here. Chris also manhandles Kary: paralysis immunity and only being 3HKOed by her physical goes a long way. Finally, Kary already beat Fang, who beats nobody and stays down.
Violetta: 4-0
Celes: 2-2
Chris: 2-2
Kary: 1-3
Fang: 0-4
Cecil Harvey, Nel Zelpher, Wugui, Zero, Roxis Rosenkrantz, Aigis
Well, this is a lot easier. Zero smash puny field: even against Aigis, his closest match, he likely outslugs her in spite of Orgia mode, since she needs Tarukaja to win before overheating and that just lets him lap and two-round her ass. Going for Orgia gets her outslugged even so, since she doesn't 2HKO him even before Absolute Zero. The rest of the field is just trivial (ID immunity to handle Wugui and the rest slides easy). Nel handles the rest pretty easily - Cecil gets stalled out at worst, Aigis eats it to Lightning weakness, Roxis gets frozen or MP-slaughtered and Wugui eats it to ID-immune healer with physical damage. Wugui manhandles the ID-bait losers, Roxis beats Cecil pretty easily (Cecil doesn't even 3HKO Rosenkrantz!), Aigis already beat Roxis and ODDLY gets spoiled by Cecil with THUNDER ARROWS. Wow.
Zero: 5-0
Nel: 4-1
Wugui: 3-2
Aigis: 1-4
Roxis: 1-4
Cecil: 1-4
Lute, Garr, Lucca Ashtear, Karin Koenig, Cinnamon, Piccolo
Well, sigh. This is a pretty sorry pool outside Lute, who... yeah, I think he solos this. The one match I could be argued on is him vs. Piccolo, but I think I can buy him scraping the OHKO off roughly 61% PC HP physical damage. Cinnamon reams the remainders: she already beats Piccolo as is. Lucca gets 3HKOed (4HKOed post-Protect) and fails to 4HKO herself with FLARE, not to mention sleep strats are out with Iron Maiden immunities. Garr's speed and damage make him a terrible slugger, and even though he likely runs Cinnamon out of Iron Maiden turns, he's slow and undamaging enough to allow the healbot to actually -heal-. Karin... is the most interesting of these, but runs into fundamentally the same problems as the rest: Cinnamon is faster, scrapes the 4HKO even through the regen and doesn't get 3HKOed back. Piccolo doesn't do too badly himself: he loses to Lucca due to her gross mdur, but everybody else gets outsped and 2HKOed. This is, however, Lucca's only victory in the field, since Garr spoils her with Fire immunity and Karin outslugs (avoids a 2HKO, 2HKOs herself and is faster). Meanwhile, Karin also beats Garr (both effectively 5HKO and I'm pretty sure Karin lands a 5-4 to boot).
Lute: 5-0
Cinnamon: 4-1
Piccolo: 3-2
Karin: 2-3
Lucca: 1-4
Garr: 1-4
