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So Snake was turd of the round when he defeated Pikachu 55-45 with one of the worst picture ever? If anything, this makes Snake look real good, depending on what he gets on Squall, Steroid Snake vs Sephiroth looks like a potential good match(of course Sephiroth is still the slight favorite).
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Snake's Mission "To make it to the finals for the fourth consecutive times"

man what the hell Zard, you probably legit stronger than Missingno unless Sora's dropped from upper midcard to lower mid........that poops all over a lot of people.
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Shakes Fist!

Charizard is badass. I love that he's beating Bowser.

I think people can finally agree that Charizard is the strongest pokemon (stronger than Pikachu for sure).

Charizard would probably beat Crono, and have some tight matches with Vincent, Squall and co.
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I can't help but feel as though something about this match is slightly off though, doesn't this match make Kratos look pretty darn good?
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Shakes Fist!

Well they're both nintendo superstars -- I would assume there's some measure of SFF going Charizard's way.
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Curt - PSN - CPhoenixM
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Yep, Kratos looks quite good. But why not? It's been very difficult to get a read on him since GoW2 due to LFF.
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2010 Extrapolated Standings: Crono gets 46.85% on Sephiroth.
All you need now is KH3 or SSB4, Crono. Then your quest shall be fulfilled!

This makes Kratos = Bowser

something about that just feels totally way off, cuz I'd never have Kratos give Bowser a close match, let alone possibly beat him.
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Well they're both nintendo superstars -- I would assume there's some measure of SFF going Charizard's way.
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Curt - PSN - CPhoenixM
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

Kratos didn't look very good in 2007 or 2008, honestly. He struggled to get third place over Riku in 2007 and couldn't even beat SFF'd Auron in 2008, but I guess you could blame that on facing Snake and Sephiroth.
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Squall Leonhart is the worst Final Fantasy character ever created.

Results don't lie, and before the contest I heard a considerable amount of discussion putting Kratos near Kirby's level......

This doesn't mean Kratos = Bowser though. There exists a game known as HG/SS......not to mention SFF.
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2010 Extrapolated Standings: Crono gets 46.85% on Sephiroth.
All you need now is KH3 or SSB4, Crono. Then your quest shall be fulfilled!

Back for what is in all honesty an AWESOME match.

As voltch has undoubtedly said, the tears taste awesome, ON NOM NOM. I have actually played HG/SS at an event today, picked up a Lvl 100 Arceus that activates an event in HGSS.
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Too cool.

Results don't lie

They lie on many occasions!

and before the contest I heard a considerable amount of discussion putting Kratos near Kirby's level......

Silly people.

And how much SFF can there be on a 54/46 match anyway? I'd sooner blame this on HG/SS than SFF.
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Squall Leonhart is the worst Final Fantasy character ever created.

But thing is...we don't know how much SFF is involved, for all we know they're cancelling each other out.
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Shakes Fist!

From: red sox 777 | #460
This doesn't mean Kratos = Bowser though. There exists a game known as HG/SS......not to mention SFF.

Even so, this does make Kratos look way better then we originally thought. I'd say without a doubt he's the strongest Western character now
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I would blame it on HG/SS before SFF too. But I think Mario has demonstrated that getting a lot of SFF when you're not that much stronger is possible.

Nonetheless, this result shows that Kratos would indeed get fairly close to Bowser/Luigi/Yoshi/Kirby. Can't really argue against it.
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2010 Extrapolated Standings: Crono gets 46.85% on Sephiroth.
All you need now is KH3 or SSB4, Crono. Then your quest shall be fulfilled!

wut HG/SS is out in the UK now as welll? goddamnit, my monies, they can fly away, but I didn't teach them how to come back just as fast yet.
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Shakes Fist!

also...kratos, scary thought, but he could be stronger now that GoWIII is part of his resume, it may not have gotten the hype i expected, but the release is another matter.
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Shakes Fist!

Based on this years results Kirby vs. Bowser who you got?
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Curt - PSN - CPhoenixM
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

SFF hardly matters here or the majority of the contest and HGSS only matters so much. Also, though Kratos didn't look all that hot in four-ways, neither did Bowser...and Bowser looked pretty bad in 2006 before four-ways kicked in, too. Throw in not only GoW3-hype but also the GoW-pack that featured GoW1/2 in HD for the PS3, and Kratos still had room to look fine. Really, the only damning thing against him this year was Tails, and anybody with hindsight can see that Sonic Team's no longer the embarrassment they were in four-ways so it's not such a bad thing.
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Picking Auron > Squall was dumb, but not as dumb as thinking I could beat Leonhart!
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though no matter how you put it, Sora just looks bad, not Master Chef bad, but still turdish.
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Shakes Fist!

Bowser, since he won last time and I like him more. Objectively, it's a toss-up for me.

Anyway, I don't think this Charizard win should be as surprising as it's been made out to be. Charizard's been showing impressive results for 3 rounds now- I remember last round I calculated a large number of projections for him, and the top end had him beating Squall and Auron 55-45, while the bottom end still had him getting 47%+ on Bowser. Obviously the top end projections were flawed, but in this case, overreacting would have been to actually think he would beat up Squall and Auron like that, not to take him over Bowser here.
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2010 Extrapolated Standings: Crono gets 46.85% on Sephiroth.
All you need now is KH3 or SSB4, Crono. Then your quest shall be fulfilled!

So you think Charizard would beat Sonic?
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Curt - PSN - CPhoenixM
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

No, actually. Charizard's getting about the same on Bowser as Sonic got on Kirby, but changing to a 24-hour match helps Sonic since he has a stronger night (especially Europe) vote. This is also probably the single best day for Charizard to have a match for a long time.
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2010 Extrapolated Standings: Crono gets 46.85% on Sephiroth.
All you need now is KH3 or SSB4, Crono. Then your quest shall be fulfilled!

Right, but I'm talking about a 12 hour match, and if Bowser beats Kirby that would, in theory, mean that Charizard is stronger.
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Well, in that case it's a toss-up if you hold that 12-hour day match today. Make it a night match, or move it 5 days into the future, and Sonic becomes a favorite to me.
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2010 Extrapolated Standings: Crono gets 46.85% on Sephiroth.
All you need now is KH3 or SSB4, Crono. Then your quest shall be fulfilled!

Samus vs. Zelda picture 3 is the best one of those four, all of the Cloud vs. Ryu pics are pretty horrible...but I like #3 on that one, too.
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Curt - PSN - CPhoenixM
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So you think Kirby gained enough of a boost from SSBB and Kirby DS to be on Luigi/Bowser's level now?
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gogo Ryu
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Where is this Cloud pic even from?
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From: voltch | #466
wut HG/SS is out in the UK now as welll? goddamnit, my monies, they can fly away, but I didn't teach them how to come back just as fast yet.

No, I was with a mate in Sheffield and they had a pre-release event and with DSes running them. Still about a week and a half to go.
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Where is this Cloud pic even from?


urrrgheeeeze


or ergheiz or whatever it is
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I think it's more that Bowser and Luigi fell down to Kirby's level, since Nintendo in general has been falling the past couple of years. The way I see it, Bowser and Luigi's strength comes primarily from Nintendo fans who started on the NES or SNES- that's why their trends are so balanced for Nintendo characters. Kirby's strength comes primarily from the Smash crowd- that's why he was able to go 50-50 with Bowser and Luigi in the ASV after falling behind by a few thousand votes earlier.

As time goes on, Kirby should rise relative to them. And indeed, the first few years of these contests, Kirby did rise a lot every year. The growth slowed after 2005, but it's probably still running in the background, moving Kirby slowly up the Nintendo ranks.
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2010 Extrapolated Standings: Crono gets 46.85% on Sephiroth.
All you need now is KH3 or SSB4, Crono. Then your quest shall be fulfilled!

Interesting. I still wish Sonic had been able to get about 58% on him. Now I'm not as confident that he could beat Mega Man even after the egg that Mega Man laid against Mario.

I know that people will attribute that to SFF -- but I have to be honest in saying that I predicted MM to collapse because he always looks way better than he really is when he is facing weaker competition.
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Good pics all around. I need to make more joke pics to balance out the good ones.
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Oh no, a ZSS picture. Run for the hills. Fortunately it's only 1 out of 4.

I'm glad most of Cloud's pictures are good- only 1 Advent Children picture.
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2010 Extrapolated Standings: Crono gets 46.85% on Sephiroth.
All you need now is KH3 or SSB4, Crono. Then your quest shall be fulfilled!

From: ZenOfThunder | #487
Good pics all around. I need to make more joke pics to balance out the good ones.

My lesbian pic doesn't count? rofl
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I can't help but feel as though something about this match is slightly off though, doesn't this match make Kratos look pretty darn good?

Charizard may not be joke character, but that doesn't mean he can't build up a bandwagon.
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A bandwagon almost always results in an insane early vote. See: Missingno, L-Block.

Charizard lost the early vote.

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Before the Megaman match, I thought Charizard might be able to do pretty well against Mario, but now, I get the feeling he's going to get stomped with SFF. Still think there's a chance he resists SFF completely though.
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2010 Extrapolated Standings: Crono gets 46.85% on Sephiroth.
All you need now is KH3 or SSB4, Crono. Then your quest shall be fulfilled!

That depends on who is bandwagoning. It's not exclusive to the early vote.
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From: red sox 777 | Posted: 3/14/2010 5:45:15 PM | #492
Before the Megaman match, I thought Charizard might be able to do pretty well against Mario, but now, I get the feeling he's going to get stomped with SFF. Still think there's a chance he resists SFF completely though.

Even if he did, though, that just means it's Charizard's intrinsic strength vs. Mario's, and HG/SS or no, I don't think anybody would take the 'Zard over Mr. Nintendo there.
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Before the Megaman match, I thought Charizard might be able to do pretty well against Mario, but now, I get the feeling he's going to get stomped with SFF. Still think there's a chance he resists SFF completely though.

I don't know how warranted this fear is, considering how little SFF we've seen all contest. The biggest case of traditional SFF we've seen is probably Mario > Falco, but since Falco did .28% better on Mario in a night-match than Fox in a full match against him, that says a lot. It doesn't help Mario than he didn't/barely SFF'd Ike, too. Mega Man looks to be SFF'd pretty notably, but that's hardly traditional SFF...and besides that, we already saw MMX stand up to Link so I wonder how much Mario really could have SFF'd Mega Man. Vincent hold up very well against Sephiroth (and probably Tifa in two days, too), Luigi perform 10.61% better than Yoshi on Link...those are other big examples.

The standard of SFF'ing in this contest aside, Pokemon's never proven to be easily SFF'd since Fox killed Pikachu in 2003. The series contest had Pokemon surprise us when it stood up to Metroid. In 2006, Nidoran F statistically beats over a quarter of the rest of the Female Bracket despite facing Samus. In 2007, Luigi got ~55% on Pikachu after it killed Isaac in the first round, plus Mewtwo got pretty close to Bowser-with-Toad. In 2008, Pikachu beat Ike comfortably enough, beat Alucard despite CF, and got ~42% on Crono despite Samus...plus Mewtwo killed Ness and won a tough battle with Midna before his LFF-upset over Squall/Sora to reach R4...

...and yeah, Lucario sucked by barely beating Isaac and losing hard to Marth, but he was more of a SSBB-character and DP's one of the least popular Pokemon-generations as I understand it...

...in 2009, BGE2 showed us RBY was a contender for the #3 game here; it embarrassed LoZ:MM, beat its sequel despite being in black and white (that's such a weird thing to me), did better against LoZ:OoT than most non-Nintendo games can dream of, and in one of those matches it easily outdid SSBM. GS didn't stand a chance against RBY, but its fanbase seems to think it did respectably so I'll trust them since GS still got surprisingly close to MGS the round before; besides that, it didn't lose to LoZ:MM by very much despite RBY. DP was rather unimpressive since it lost to SMG and we know how strong SMG is here now, but it'd be hard to argue DP was SFF'd...

...and then there's this year. Ganon probably didn't SFF Mewtwo, Missingno beat Yoshi, and Charizard's inching toward 55% on Bowser as we speak. Mario didn't even SFF Bowser all that bad in 2004, so take a stronger character from a different series with a new big release and an apparent protective shield from Nintendo-SFF during a year when SFF has been pretty minimal.


Charizard will look fine. He may be SFF'd to some degree, but there's no way Mario's buttstomping him with it and I almost want to bet what Charizard gets on him will be pretty accurate; it's a day-match which could off-set a little SFF anyway.
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Whew, my first big wall-of-text in awhile, and I just realized the topic's about to close.
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