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The only Chris I care about is RE5 gorilla Chris

It's still a terrible pic that makes him look like a dork.

Phoenix would be winning anyway, but yeah.

Phoenix finally gained percentage.

I thought Ike was popular because of both Smash Bros. and Fire Emblem. Nowadays FE is pretty popular on its own, without Smash.

ZeldaTPLink posted...

Well maybe you are right and nobody cares about kos mos anymore!

I hope so!

xp1337 posted...

I don't see you denying that KOS-MOS is popular though and that's the point. Xenoblade 2 "made her relevant" again even if you want to argue her appearance in Xenoblade 2 was largely a cameo. It was something people got excited about.

You're right about this. The only thing that concerns me is that it could be a double-edged sword. Now she'll get anti-votes for being "that blade that took me 300 hours to get".

The Owner of FF9 posted...

I thought Ike was popular because of both Smash Bros. and Fire Emblem. Nowadays FE is pretty popular on its own, without Smash.

Other than the mobile game Fire Emblem Heroes, it's difficult to get a copy of the Fire Emblem games Ike is in.

Well, Ike is probably the strongest FE character because of a combination of Smash and FE.

Without Smash though, he'd probably just be high end fodder.

Did Leon post yesterday's trends yet?

Not yet. I just got home a little bit ago, so I was just putting the final touches on them. I'll post them here in a minute.

Team Rocket Elite posted...

The Owner of FF9 posted...

I thought Ike was popular because of both Smash Bros. and Fire Emblem. Nowadays FE is pretty popular on its own, without Smash.

Other than the mobile game Fire Emblem Heroes, it's difficult to get a copy of the Fire Emblem games Ike is in.

Heroes is fairly popular, and not just on the site, if I'm not mistaken.

Time | 2B | Cayde-6 | Votes | Demographic
EBV | 82.94% | 17.06% | 551 | (0:00-0:05)
PHV | 81.43% | 18.57% | 3812 | (0:00-1:00)
ENV | 78.52% | 21.48% | 9890 | (1:00-6:00)
DNV | 78.62% | 21.38% | 3485 | (6:00-10:00)
TMV | 75.40% | 24.60% | 6251 | (10:00-16:00)
TDV | 76.34% | 23.66% | 6087 | (16:00-24:00)

Wow, an honest-to-goodness noticeable day vs. night disparity! Don't see those too much anymore!

Time | Shadow | Ness | Votes | Demographic
EBV | 45.99% | 54.01% | 548 | (0:00-0:05)
PHV | 44.37% | 55.63% | 3816 | (0:00-1:00)
ENV | 46.08% | 53.92% | 9894 | (1:00-6:00)
DNV | 48.78% | 51.22% | 3485 | (6:00-10:00)
TMV | 47.14% | 52.86% | 6249 | (10:00-16:00)
TDV | 47.72% | 52.28% | 6083 | (16:00-24:00)

Ness does most of his damage right out of the gate, and Shadow mostly stalls him the rest of the day after that.

Time | Terra | Charizard | Votes | Demographic
EBV | 48.91% | 51.09% | 548 | (0:00-0:05)
PHV | 47.75% | 52.25% | 3816 | (0:00-1:00)
ENV | 46.57% | 53.43% | 9894 | (1:00-6:00)
DNV | 47.86% | 52.14% | 3485 | (6:00-10:00)
TMV | 47.57% | 52.43% | 6252 | (10:00-16:00)
TDV | 47.10% | 52.90% | 6079 | (16:00-24:00)

Charizard does a little better during the early part of the night vote, but there's not a lot of fluctuation after that.

Time | Bowser | Gordon | Votes | Demographic
EBV | 79.49% | 20.51% | 551 | (0:00-0:05)
PHV | 79.51% | 20.49% | 3816 | (0:00-1:00)
ENV | 78.12% | 21.88% | 9897 | (1:00-6:00)
DNV | 76.36% | 23.64% | 3485 | (6:00-10:00)
TMV | 76.32% | 23.68% | 6254 | (10:00-16:00)
TDV | 76.58% | 23.42% | 6080 | (16:00-24:00)

The new start time continues to dilute the day vote for many Nintendo characters.

While Heroes is popular, Ike, all 3 versions that are in the game, are only okay as units. He's not really going to win many new fans.

Huh, Phoenix is holding pretty steady at 60%. Should be interesting to see how this plays out because both of these series have pretty bad day votes.

Also real talk: Estelle has the worst match pic today. Her appeal isn't in being a cutesy moe character.

LeonhartFour posted...

Also real talk: Estelle has the worst match pic today. Her appeal isn't in being a cutesy moe character.

I can't believe she got it worse than Chris, who looks like some high school kid with a gun in his hand.

LeonhartFour posted...

Also real talk: Estelle has the worst match pic today. Her appeal isn't in being a cutesy moe character.

I believe that's the art from the Evolution version of SC.

Which, yeah, is one of the most heavily criticized parts of it.

Well, Chris's is bad, too. As someone who's never played an RE game, his RE5 look is pretty cool.

This dude on the match pic looks like Connie from Attack on Titan.

Anyway, fun with numbers!

If Phoenix = Ike, Chris beats Joel with 56.63%

If Guile = Scorpion, Kirby beats Pikachu with 65.50%

I'm starting to feel bad about my Crono > Kirby pick.

Eh, I wouldn't take too much out of this performance quite yet. Guile is likely noticeably weaker than any SF character we've seen before (aside from Dan Hibiki anyway). It's hard to say how much weaker quite yet, but probably a decent bit.

Team Rocket Elite posted...

Other than the mobile game Fire Emblem Heroes, it's difficult to get a copy of the Fire Emblem games Ike is in.

Easier than getting a copy of the Fire Emblem with Roy, and while it may be easier to get Marth's that's just because nobody likes Marth's.

Ike is probably the best intersection of popularity for FE and Smash. Lucina might be bigger just based off FE but she's only in Smash 4, Marth has an extra game Smash-wise but his presence for the FE fanbase is weaker (even in Heroes!).

GameFAQs doesn't like fighting characters anymore, it seems. I wonder how Ryu is going to do.

I expected Guile to be weaker than Scorpion, but not this much weaker. Pikachu should be close to Kirby in strength.

Ryu at least has Smash to buoy him up even if all the other fighting game characters have cratered. Plus, he's the most iconic fighting game character out there.

No love for Colonel William Guile. Very upsetting.

Fighting games are kind of dead right now, not as dead as they were in the era between Third Strike and SFIV, but pretty much on the downswing

you had this fighting game resurgence around the time Marvel 3 came out. tons of new fighting games were coming out and there was a lot of new blood in the scene and interest in tournaments and streaming

that's still there, it's just lost steam. Capcom has slowed its releases and re-releases and SFV and MvCI had some really bad reception. Injustice 2 was good but pretty polarizing with all the microtransactions. a lot of smaller fighting games have dedicated scenes but they're still small. Evo didn't feel as hype this year but that's just my opinion

the genre definitely needs a shot in the arm. soulcalibur vi is doing well but it's not bringing a lot of people deep into the scene, just bringing back old fans partially on the promise of nostalgia, although the game being good helps. we needed SFV to be huge and it wasn't. it's gotten better over time but it's hard overcoming such a lukewarm initial response.

LeonhartFour posted...

If Guile = Scorpion, Kirby beats Pikachu with 65.50%

this sounds like a good timeline

There is a reddit rally for Estelle

https://www.reddit.com/r/Falcom/comments/9rfrk5/vote_for_estelle_in_the_gamefaqs_character_battle/

It's been up for 2 hours and has 17 upvotes. Fear the strength of the Falcom fanbase.

I predicted a Street Fighter deboost from SF5 and MvCI, but figured MK9 and MKX winning back a lot of people would ensure the MK guys are fine

There goes that prediction

pyresword posted...

There is a reddit rally for Estelle

https://www.reddit.com/r/Falcom/comments/9rfrk5/vote_for_estelle_in_the_gamefaqs_character_battle/

It's been up for 2 hours and has 17 upvotes. Fear the strength of the Falcom fanbase.

I did the math before I put it up and determined that even if every follower of that subreddit voted, it wouldn't even make up half the vote difference.

But dangit, I love Estelle so I gotta do what I can

The only one that really threw me off was James vs Velvet. She's from a Tales game and both have tragic backstories but Silent Hill 2 is more popular than any Tales of game.

Yeah, SFV's slow start really hurt it. I bailed on it pretty early into it and haven't really had a desire to get back into it, even as they're doing stuff I like and adding characters I'd be interested in using.

more random fun with numbers

assuming 2010 Chris = 2018 Chris, Phoenix Wright would now be worth 34.94% on 2010 Cloud

also if 2013 Isaac = 2018 Isaac, Estelle is currently at 14.33% on 2013 Link. Fawful was at 14.31% on 2010 Link, for the record

It's a decently clean read since Isaac faced Snake in 2013.

also Chris finally got a cut

im317 posted...

am i wrong or did the detailed map used to give more info? i thought it went beyond just state by state and that there was at least info on number of votes by country. im sure some of that info is still there, i just dont know where to find it.

I think that's how it worked in 2010 but things changed sometime at or before the 2013 contest.

Bah, I'm disappointed Phoenix couldn't even break 60%. He dropped .65% in the last hour, so who knows how much farther he'll fall. I shouldn't have expected much from Phoenix, though... it's just my fanboyism.

Terra Branford vs. Fox McCloud... who wins?

Terra. I don't think Fox is on the same level as Charizard, fraudulent though he may be.

Chris might not be amazing but he's not weak. This is Phoenix Wright taking a decisive Round 1 against an opponent who isn't a joke. That's a gigantic improvement from how he used to be. Remember when this dude broke GFNW and inched past Bomberman?

Phoenix might be a bit of a three way wonder. Like I'm wondering if he would have beat Marth 1v1, and that merely the presence of a third character regardless of who it was leeched Marth more than Phoenix.

_SecretSquirrel posted...

Like I'm wondering if he would have beat Marth 1v1

He absolutely would have.

As you'll see when he beats Ike next round.

like are we really going to try to say Nightmare flipped that result?

give Phoenix more credit than that because he's earned it

Definitely possible; I'm guessing Phoenix has a pretty high floor relative to his overall strength since a ton of the people who love him really love him.

(The effect existing, that is; it's not gonna cause an 8 point swing and make him lose to Marth).

given how fast he has bleed his %s, will this really end as a decisive victory for Phoenix?

im317 posted...

given how fast he has bleed his %s, will this really end as a decisive victory for Phoenix?

he probably won't drop below 57% I'd guess which is a pretty good result

LeonhartFour posted...

_SecretSquirrel posted...

Like I'm wondering if he would have beat Marth 1v1

He absolutely would have.

As you'll see when he beats Ike next round.

like are we really going to try to say Nightmare flipped that result?

give Phoenix more credit than that because he's earned it

Well, I admit I underestimated how well Wrighto crushed that match (I thought it was a bit closer for some reason), but at the same time, I think Ike or even Marth getting 58% or better on CHRRRIIIISSSS is a definite possibility too. Maybe I'm just underestimating Chris Redfield here.

Chris Redfield only did a little worse on Cloud in 2010 than Captain Falcon did (For the record, Marth got almost exactly the same percentage on Sephiroth that year, so yeah, at least in 2010, Chris > Marth).

He's probably not that strong anymore, mind you, but he's not awful either.

Phoenix isn't an intransitive joke character. He's got legit strength now.

If Marth could get 58% on Chris, he wouldn't have lost to Phoenix.

c'mon Phoenix, I need you to stay above 58% for my spread bet!

also Kirby has been dropping in percentage, maybe Guile can avoid the tripling >_>

I imagine Kirby will drop a decent bit from here, yeah. Nintendo characters have been absurdly frontloaded with this new start time.

Bowser looks like the clear favorite over Kirby after their Round 1 performances, but I'm going to need to see what Bowser does in Round 2/3 first because what happened to Gordon was so vicious that it feels like an outlier (or maybe Gordon just being that bad these days). Then again, the last time I thought that was when Chrono Trigger started doing its thing in Round 1 and 2.

Yeah, it's hard to chalk all of that up to a Gordon drop because it's such a massive drop if so. Bowser was only supposed to get a little over 61% based on the 2013 X-Stats.

If Mewtwo beats GlaDOS harder than he should later on, I'd feel a little more comfortable just saying Valve characters suck now (because Mewtwo is still a fraud).

Thankfully, the only MAX bet I have today is Isaac, and that match seems really constant right now with a lot of slack just in case Estelle were to magically grow a killer day vote.