1. Worker 8 (FFT)- I gave him a 4.8, so I would hope he'd be at the top of the list. 1.7 Pdur+Magic Immunity+Nulls most Elements+Nulls most status. Can't deal with a lot of Godlike physicals, but a very good spoiler
2. Tidus (FFX)- Slow is turn 1, but only 53% hit rate. Not like it matters much!
3. Ness (EB)- 1.72 PC HP, Can Halve Physicals (and Reflect part back), 31% Magic Damage (only usable 5 times, but still leaves enough for 6 Heals) or 19% Physical. Turn 2 Sleep/Paralysis, Turn 6 or something ID. Often needs to be statused out, but he certainly gives non Paralysis users shots at it. I suspect that if I had full status numbers for him he'd be worse his the turn 2 Sleep/Paralysis does cover him a little against some status
4. Golbez (TAY)- 112% PC HP damage that goes off around 70% speed (can boost in trade for evasion or speed), ~110% Durability, Extremely nasty evasion game, Can mess with Thunder/Ice/Thunder, Subtracts about 10% off status (which at least helps with edge cases which exist more to me since that means that 60% status is turn 2). 4.35
5. Saki Inugami (SH2)- 1.34 Physical Damage off 63% Speed, 1 PC HPish, 100% Silence, Immunes most Statuses. Her v Golbez is tough since they really have similar games, with different spoiling but his trumps a bit.
6. Fayt (SO3)- 75% Physical Damage or around 40% Physical Damage + Turn 2 Paralysis + 25% MP Damage, Good Evasion (avoids on the second turn and covers a chunk of magic), 110% HP and his 2nd turn isn't realistically coming before 105% Speed. 4.25
7. Razelux Metzen (MK2)- 110% Durability but needs to be killed twice. Averagish damage, but all Holy. Turn 4 ID which looks a lot better with that durability. Options to foil those fully reliant on Dark, Fire, Water, Ice or ID (but not any of the two)...which in fairness doesn't necessarily feel super important. I think the anti status options get him above Ike.
8. Ike (FEs)- 67% Phys Damage or 48/56% Damage that allows counters against the short ranged/projectile weapons. I'm okay with Pavise (it's very borderline, but I feel like it's a good balance for how good Nihil is in game since it's so pointless in the DL). Middling status improves against him, which does hold him down a little (also people above him tend to either have better damage, notably better status protection or more options)
9. Serge (CC)- Okay, counting the double damage from Masamune actually does give Serge an OHKO (barely. 1.04!) but almost half of it is Holy. Durability is relatively average. Complete status bait
10. Seed (S2)- Double Acts around 115% Speed, 43.5% Phys Damage (x2), Silent Lake, but probably around 50% HP. Deals with the frail and pure mages very well
11. Yulie (WA4)- 88% Speed + 66% PDur + Solves any enemies accuracy woes (if relevant). On the flip, can deal with mages (although a barrage of status may get her) pretty well. Could be an overrate, but trying not to underrate solely on the number of fights in the field that she runs from
12. Chie (Pers4)- I'm always a little sure on where I fall on Persona averages. If the evasion game is taken seriously, then she might only barely kill on turn 2, which comes around 107% speed to me. Endure isn't really useful since it means she won't have the HP for an unload
13. Kuja (FF9)- 0.8 PC HP, 125% Speed, 46.5% Damage (but 85% hit rate), Reflect, Counters...sometimes at below 50% HP. Has a lot of holes, will sometimes grab the quicker 2HKO against the frail and non-evasive.
14. Blue Mage (FF5)- What is turn 1: The Paralysis that lasts slightly more than 1 Turn, Blind, Old. The evasion is good, so Blue Mage can try and spoil with Blind (still likely taking the first hit though). That Speed really hurts since Blue Mage can't really play a defensive game giving up the first turn and doesn't have anything to the turn the tide.
15. Jean (EBC)- Lackluster damage and turn 2 Paralysis (for this purpose, I'm going to assume that her magic damage is not sufficient to chain a Sleep into a win without the opponent getting another turn. This is to say that the damage is less than 65). There is also the unknown Charm. I'm putting her here partially because there are number of question marks that are needed for her potentially to get any higher.
16. Fei (XG)- Yep, no Yamikei anymore
