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Very nice! How is looking the project so far? :D

Just a small correction, Roland is the Durandal guy, Hartmut is the dual wielder, and yeah, I can see it happening, in fact, I want to see it happen

I changed my vote for Emperor Arvis then. Wow, I just noticed I haven't posted in months xD

Custom models! Nice job! :D

I voted for Michalis because I'm expecting him to be the next Macedonian, but I would love if Lena also appeared.

Ganondorf is lacking results, and despite all his buffs, he still has some of the obvious problems of his archetype and the fact that Namco still wanted his recovery to be meme. But at least using him isn't instantly losing like in the days of Brawl where using Ganondorf was like using a maze that you can barely move. He's the worst character in the game for results but in many cases you can get away with using a lot of stuff in tournaments even if it's considered "bad" in comparison just because Smash Ultimate is a lot more balanced compared with other Smash games.

Yeah, it takes a while for a meta game to solidified, so I can understand that with COVID messing with events. About the tiers themselves, I fully agree with the Top Top and the Bottom Bottom. The Top Tier has two characters with a ridiculously high skill ceiling, but also a lot of good tools even in the mid level competition. And Pyra/Mythra, well, they have great tools, and tons of them, they basically have two movesets, and unlike the other characters that are like that, both characters are actually High Tier by themselves, and they also have some other traits, but I'm not so familiar with them. And the Bottom Tier has the two characters that need to be weak for the newbies' sake (also K. Rool applies to this design philosophy, but to a lesser extent because he's definitely better than this two).

Well, makes sense, the highest of highest class from Crimea (the Royal Family and probably some close families) were friendly with the Laguz from even before Crimea was a thing, it was basically the reason of Crimea's existence as far as I'm aware, like how Daein was created by some nobles that developed a completely antagonistic view of the Laguz instead of the more "loose" one that Begnion has. I imagine the lower classes in the other hand, have barely changed from the times when their lords were the Senate, they just changed boss.

Engage is already preparing us for that possibility; I didn't think I could see discussions about Ike's sexuality becoming something again in 2023.

Oh yeah, I know, I just mentioned it because "Monica" actually was around the lower middle, instead of being like in the bottom like most of characters in Rising Heroes, while her case is a bit special, it shows that is possible for a character in the middle to appear here.

Yeah, we still don't know if the Rising Heroes stuff is gonna do anything in particular, but I like it's existence, because it can be used to get rally for people in the lower end of CYL, some characters in the middle can actually get up many places as well (like Monica)

To be fair, Archanea's character is filled with well... filler. Characters that you only consider their existence because of a gameplay role they fit (like Caesar and Radd). The remaining Archanea's cast isn't just filled with characters that aren't plot relevant, but they also only exist as replacements for the actual characters. Besides the characters you and Othin mentioned, the only characters that I see appearing that are actually remarkable enough to well, be characters, are like Midia (she is still one of the female characters from Archanea and well, she's kinda relevant for one of the big names), and Malliesia (also one of the only women). There are a few other characters that could stand out (the other remake characters, Ryan and Samuel), but I'm not so sure with them. Archanea is in such a bizarre dilemma that besides the very next banner (that at least has several women to choose from), as you implied, Archanea needs to be part of the months with OCs, in order to make sure half of the banner is marketable characters (an OC and a Ascended/Remared) and getting to do two demotes.

I hope Desaix winning the Rising Heroes thing allows him to appear as the CYL7's GHB, it could alleviate some of the pressure from the remaining Echoes' cast when it comes time to make a banner, which unironically has more villains available than playable characters now.

Well, at the beginning of the game there are actually like 3 named bosses that appear before the Four Hounds are properly introduced which are definitely minor bosses (the armored girl from Chapter 3, Waluigi and Mitan), and we, of course have Morion and Hyacinth, but I guess they classify as non-so-minor bosses.

Nah, I feel this time isn't Edelgard stans, they managed to get Summer Edie to the top very easily, the biggest gap between position (4k from Top 2) No, I believe this was the job of trolls.

That could be a good thing in retrospective, depending how the Rising Heroes stuff ended up working out.

I imagine things are very clear cut out with Radiant Dawn and Three Houses anyway; considering in the case of Radiant Dawn the two main characters can each represent a game on their own, and with Three Houses there is a clear neutral option (Byleth). About the other characters, I feel like prioritizing the women makes sense depending the idea of the game, like in Engage feels appropiate considering the fact the game is very serious in having a near 50/50 distribution of playable characters and the games have to deal with the fact 4 of the chosen characters are gonna be guys by default regardless of how you stretch things (Marth, Sigurd/Seliph, Leif and Roy). So I overall like the approach that Engage took in the context of the game, but besides the cases where is the logical choices for other reasons (Micaiah, Female Corrin), I want to highlight Eirika as the character that needs to represent Sacred Stones, not only is she the first character that you get in Sacred Stones, she also has the distinction of being the only female lord that is playable the whole main game that isn't an Avatar. She is a better figure to represent Sacred Stones than Ephraim for anything besides weapon type (though, she being the swordie of the two also connects her even more with even the main lord of the two).

Don't worry, is quite obvious that the CYL votes had to be made early to avoid conflicting with Engage's release, this had been basically the only year where the votation didn't start around the 20th.

I feel like how major a villain is can be a bit of spectrum unless they're very obviously the main villain. For example, with Petrine she feels like a minor villain because she is below Black Knight and Ashnard (which are The Dragon and the Big Bad respectively), but considering her presence in the story is actually quite noticeable, I feel like calling her a minor villain could make a bit of a disservice to her role? Personally I feel like the term "Secondary villains" feels more appropiate, specially when we're in a context where we have villains that only appear in a chapter or two like Shiharam and all the bandit bosses. Also I agree, Thales was VERY convincing in his role as Tomas, he only did like one or two that could be considered mildly suspicious, but he did his job really well in revealing that this old man was actually a heretic sorcerer this whole time!

A very engaging choice to end. We end where we started.

Fascinating

Sem looks nice, personally not my type but I'm happy she is here xD Vandad is very handsome.

She is very cute!

Fascinating, this makes me wonder how classes ended up affecting growths, mostly how Clanne's magic appears to be surprisingly low considering he's at base a mage xD.