Round 2 - There can be only one

[LocoColt04]

I'm shocked there wasn't a little bit more Umaro love in this.

I mean, logically... you throw a giant beast in a cage with a bunch of things it doesn't trust? Not gonna end well. Umaro single-handedly wrecks the Cultists' Tower. I think he can handle four feeble humanoids in a cage.

[The Man]

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

As I said:

There is no smurfing reason anyone would use that troutty setup unless they were deliberately trying to game the match.

No one would use that setup in natural gameplay.

@Loco: Umaro may be pretty physically powerful, but he has troutty speed and defence. The other characters are likely to get a move in before he can respond, and as has been pointed out, several of them are powerful enough to wipe the others out before they have a chance to act.

[LocoColt04]

Psh. While my vote still goes for Umaro, Sabin is the only other logical choice in this situation. Coin Toss between them.

[The Man]

As I've pointed out repeatedly, Sabin has far worse magic power, and cannot equip the best weapons of the game (unless you waste a Relic slot with a Merit Award, of course), so regardless of whether Terra goes for magic or physical attacks, she still has a tremendous advantage. Unless he gets tremendously lucky, she can probably finish him off with one turn.

[Greatermaximus]

There's no way for Umaro to inflict 'Mute'. I see talking animation but if you don't need much to cast a a spell, a simple 'Stop' will beat Umaro. Or something else.

I will pick Terra not out of bias. If she starts morphed, she's twice as strong as the others at the same level.

[Loony BoB]

I genuinely don't understand how the words "cage match" can be interpreted as "standard FFVI turn based battle in which stats and all that kind of stuff come into play, characters are unable to know who they are going to attack because of game mechanics".

It's not a battle in a video game! It's a cage match!

[chionos]

I genuinely don't understand how the words "cage match" can be interpreted as "standard FFVI turn based battle in which stats and all that kind of stuff come into play, characters are unable to know who they are going to attack because of game mechanics".

It's not a battle in a video game! It's a cage match!

Thank you, Daniel, for being a superior nerd. The other nerds just don't get it.

[The Man]

"Cage match" or not, Terra still has vastly better magic stats than the others and can equip vastly better equipment. In FFVI, those are by far the most important factors.

[theundeadhero]

The Man will never understand. Just give up trying to show him.

[The Man]

I understand what a cage match is. It doesn't make a difference. Terra is still the strongest character. She has the power to wipe everyone else out immediately with a single Ultima. None of the others in this match have the power to do that; their Ultimas would just severely damage their opponents, not completely wipe them out.

[Loony BoB]

Cage match is a wrestling match, not a magic match. It involves physical combat, not magic. Terra would sooner teleport herself out of the match than hurt her friends with magic regardless. Sabin, Shadow and Umaro would have no such issues - Sabin would consider it a fun game (he would only knock them unconcious, not kill them), Shadow would have no qualms fighting anyone, and Umaro already throws his opponents around in the game so I don't think he'd have a problem throwing them into the side of a cage, either. Terra would never do anything like that, and wouldn't stand a chance in physical combat against any one of them anyway. They're simply better than she is.

If it were a magic fight, yes, Terra would win (although let's face it, if anyone who thinks that magic and all that were actually allowed would still be able to get past Celes in the earlier round has clearly forgotten something).

Cage. Match.

EDIT: Is this a first pin = win, or an elimination match, Mulley? Is this the last round?

[chionos]

I haven't watched wrestling since I was a wee lad of 5 but I seem to remember the people that won always having someone come in from outside and help them win right as they were about to lose. Which means one of two scenarios play out here:

Either a. Shadow wins when Interceptor surprise fang-rapes Sabin's neck after everyone else has been taken down.

or b. Umaro wins when his manager, Mog, breaks into the cage and starts hitting people with chairs n trout.

I think a is the likelier scenario, so I went with Shadow. Plus, Interceptor and Shadow would have a cool stage name together:

Shadogg

Sha-Dee-Oh-Double-Gee, bitches.

[Loony BoB]

I can actually see those scenarios happening, chionos. xD However, they don't always happen and when they do, it's generally a case of the 'bad guys' doing it, and none of these chaps are bad guys in that sense. Also, it doesn't always work... but it certainly helps spice things up.

[blackmage_nuke]

Sometimes I dont even understand why fake wrestling has a ref

[Flying Mullet]

Is this a first pin = win, or an elimination match, Mulley? Is this the last round?

It's up to you.

And with 30 minutes left on the poll, it looks like Terra is going to take the win unless on of chionos's scenario's play out and some outside assistance shows up...