RPGVO 2024 Round 9: Losers' Finals: No real comment to make here.

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Godlike:

Elyon (BoF5) vs. Shania (SH:FtNW)


Heavy:

Lady Elmina Harken (WA:ACF) vs. Geno (SMRPG)


Middle:

Jude Maverick (WA4) vs. Stocke (RH)


Light:

Zhuzhen Liu (SH1) vs. Hubert von Vestra (FE3H)


This is a lightning round.  Voting will be open until Thursday, 09/26/24.

[Random Consonant]

Middle:

Jude Maverick (WA4) vs. Stocke (RH) - Stocke of the 1.47 pdur is a wee bit too durable for Jude to blitz considering he isn't failing to 2HKO Jude's shoddy magic durability with G-Fire.


Light:

Zhuzhen Liu (SH1) vs. Hubert von Vestra (FE3H) - Thinking Hubert runs into largely the same problems as Annette as a kneejerk.  Maybe if Death's crit rate were actually any good but even then that'd be a stretch.

[PhantomRenegade]

I've been lurking these threads outta nostalgia for the old website and man the Jude run was the most interesting shenanigans (Tharja and Raticate runs were cool too). I apologize for any derailment.

[reyesryder]

I really hope Lady Elmina Harken wins this time.

[Magic Fanatic]

Heavy:

Lady Elmina Harken (WA:ACF) vs. Geno (SMRPG) - I know this is a rematch, and this is going to sound really stupid, but hear me out.  In the normal set-up, Geno loses no matter the situation.  However, if Geno goes Work Pants...  I'm assuming for sake of argument that Geno is taking 10% more damage for the drop in Defense for the extra Magic Attack.  Trying to figure out the turns, I'm thinking the actions look like this:
Since it's like...  Work Pants Geno goes Boost -> 1-Star Flash (deals 41.6%) -> Max Flash (deals 66.6%)
Assuming like...  10% more damage on Geno for going Work Pants, if he gets the first turn and pops Boost, then...  Geno (Boost) -> Azrael (Geno: 77%) -> Azrael (Geno: 54%) -> 1-Star Flash (Harken: 58%) -> Maximum Risk (Geno: 9%) -> Max-Star Flash (Harken: -9%, which is to say, less than 0 which is dead)

That said, if someone wants to check my math, I'd be all for that.

[Tide]

Heavy:
Lady Elmina Harken (WA:ACF) vs. Geno (SMRPG) - Rematch part 3. Long story short - Geno losing turn 1 is just too critical. He starts off essentially at a HP deficit and doesn't hit nearly as hard to avoid Harken's fatal Maximum Risk range.

Middle:
Jude Maverick (WA4) vs. Stocke (RH) - 1.47 PDur is indeed too much for Jude to bust past. Even in the best scenario where he does Attack - Attack - Assault Buster, his damage just caps out at a hair over average PCHP. His opponent needs to be bad at one of Assault Buster's listed traits for him to do more and Stocke is non-surprisingly average at the core 3 stats (maybe weaker evade, but that's compensated by good defenses). On the other hand, Stocke has no issue 2HKOing back with G-Fire because Jude M.Def plot.

[Cmdr_King]

Godlike:

Elyon (BoF5) vs. Shania (SH:FtNW)


Heavy:

Lady Elmina Harken (WA:ACF) vs. Geno (SMRPG)


Middle:

Jude Maverick (WA4) vs. Stocke (RH)


Light:

Zhuzhen Liu (SH1) vs. Hubert von Vestra (FE3H)

[SnowFire]

Jude Maverick (WA4) vs. Stocke (RH)

Zhuzhen Liu (SH1) vs. Hubert von Vestra (FE3H)
Yep, pretty much agree with all of the above.

[Dark Holy Elf]

Tentative:

Shania
Harken
Stocke
Zhuzhen

May look at these if I have time, but since voting closes tomorrow I'll put these up as a placeholder of my kneejerks.

To respond to Magic Fanatic, since that seems like the only debated match so far: my big disagreement is that Harken's speed actually does something on turns past the first, while Geno's does not. As such I'd absolutely see Harken getting her second turn (and beyond) before Geno gets his, which would tilt the match if I agree with all your other judgement calls.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Lady Elmina Harken (WA:ACF) vs. Geno (SMRPG) - Yeah, I think Elf's on the money here: Harken lands an effective 4-3 and this is just a bit too much for Geno even with Work Pants. Still, very solid match

Jude Maverick (WA4) vs. Stocke (RH) - Yeah, tanky mage slugger is not what Jude likes facing, that mdur be uguu.

Zhuzhen Liu (SH1) vs. Hubert von Vestra (FE3H) - sure

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Match Results:

Godlike:

Elyon (BoF5) vs. Shania (SH:FtNW) ||


Heavy:

Lady Elmina Harken (WA:ACF) |||| vs. Geno (SMRPG) |


Middle:

Jude Maverick (WA4) vs. Stocke (RH) |||||||


Light:

Zhuzhen Liu (SH1) |||||| vs. Hubert von Vestra (FE3H)


Apologies for the delay, real life issues are interfering.  Winners move on to the Grand Finals, losers are eliminated as the third-place entrant.