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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.