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  • Terra

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  • Sabin

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  • Shadow

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  • Umaro

    1 5.26%
  • Cyan

    1 5.26%
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    Wait, are we doing a WWE kind of cage match, a WWE hell in a Cell, or a 'fight to the death' cage match?

    I don't know if we can accurately assess the situation until this is cleared up.

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    I've been going for the most obvious answer which is the former of your listed options. If it were the latter, I'd opt for Shadow. If it were hell in a cell, I'd still go for Sabin.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NeoCracker View Post
    Wait, are we doing a WWE kind of cage match, a WWE hell in a Cell, or a 'fight to the death' cage match?

    I don't know if we can accurately assess the situation until this is cleared up.
    I purposely did not specify what the rules are or how the fight is supposed to be interpreted. Half of the fun of these threads is reading how people assess the fight. Some view it like a WWE cage match. Others view it as a true Final Fantasy fight with turn based combat. Some like to view it as the characters with emotions, behaviors and such while others choose to look at equipment and stats.

    There is no wrong answer, just how you like to view the battles and your interpretation of how they would play out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying Mullet View Post
    There is no wrong answer
    Sure there is. Anyone but Sabin is the wrong answer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Flying Mullet View Post
    There is no wrong answer
    Sure there is. Anyone but Sabin is the wrong answer.
    Or in picture form:
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    Quote Originally Posted by theundeadhero View Post
    Okay then, I'm going to say that Shadow has the merit award, gem box, illumina and and a dirk equipped.
    Cyan has the offering and economizer equipped.
    Why? Simply so that Terra can't use them.

    Explain how Terra wins now.
    There is no smurfing reason anyone would use that troutty setup unless they were deliberately trying to game the match. I could de-equip everyone but Terra too, but there is no reason anyone would actually use that setup in actual gameplay.

    Under a setup players would actually be likely to use, Terra is by far the best suited of these characters to use either the Gem Box or the Offering+Genji combo, and with either setup she is pretty much guaranteed to win. I think some of you people are forgetting just how much of a difference equipment and statistics make in this game. The fact that Terra can equip the two best weapons in the game means wasting a Genji Glove or an Offering on a character who can't equip them is pointless, unless you're going to use her as a magic tank, which is also justified by her far more impressive magic statistics. Either gives her a huge advantage.

    But even without them, she can just cast Ultima twice with Quick and is pretty much guaranteed to kill everyone.

    Also what Wolf said.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Man View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by theundeadhero View Post
    Okay then, I'm going to say that Shadow has the merit award, gem box, illumina and and a dirk equipped.
    Cyan has the offering and economizer equipped.
    Why? Simply so that Terra can't use them.

    Explain how Terra wins now.
    There is no smurfing reason anyone would use that troutty setup unless they were deliberately trying to game the match. I could de-equip everyone but Terra too, but there is no reason anyone would actually use that setup in actual gameplay.

    Under a setup players would actually be likely to use, Terra is by far the best suited of these characters to use either the Gem Box or the Offering+Genji combo, and with either setup she is pretty much guaranteed to win. I think some of you people are forgetting just how much of a difference equipment and statistics make in this game. The fact that Terra can equip the two best weapons in the game means wasting a Genji Glove or an Offering on a character who can't equip them is pointless, unless you're going to use her as a magic tank, which is also justified by her far more impressive magic statistics. Either gives her a huge advantage.

    But even without them, she can just cast Ultima twice with Quick and is pretty much guaranteed to kill everyone.

    Also what Wolf said.
    Do you realize how easy it is to get Sabin to hit max damage with Bum Rush? If we argue mechanics, the only thing that matters is who goes first. Hitting max damage 8 times is basically the same as hitting it once in against a PC.

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    That's assuming he hits her first with it, which is an awful big assumption. If memory serves, Blitz selects a target at random, thus if Sabin is going first then there is only a one in four chance that he hits Terra with it. If he doesn't, he's dead. If he does, he might win.
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    Terra. 'Cause she's, like, the single most powerful FF protagonist like...ever.



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    No Celes and no Locke?

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    They were eliminated in the first round.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Man View Post
    They were eliminated in the first round.
    I know and I don't understand why

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    Blame Mulley for putting some of the strongest fighters against one another to begin with.
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    MULLEY

    Now I don't know who to vote for.

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    The reason is strategy. If they wear them she can't. Simple as that.
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