Welcome, one and all, to the next tournament I have started!
After going through God Of War: Ragnarok and the Valhalla DLC, I had the amazing impulse to make a tournament based on the events of the DLC. Unlike my last tournament, I will not abandon this one, hopefully.
Ritual Of Selection
Instead of giving stat ranges, arbitrarily listing hax that isn't allowed, or trying to eyeball which profiles to disqualify, matches are made fair by listing a character which each submission has to have a chance of losing to. If a character is initially argued as risking a loss to the tiersetter, but is later reasoned to be stronger in a way that'd have them consistently beat the tiersetter, they will be disqualified from the tournament.
How does he fight?
Týr is a master-of-arms, who is capable of using 4 weapons interchangeably in combat. These include:
- A spear and shield, which he uses to pierce through his opponents and guard their attacks. He'll also typically imbue his energy into his spear to create shockwaves or wall his opponents off and damage them.
- A Macuahuitl, which he usually swings wide and big against his opponents. He can also utilise fire by igniting his weapon and slamming it down to create exploding shockwaves, where fireballs will spew out of the attack as a result. Blood orbs can also be summoned to surround himself by sacrificing some of his blood to the blade.
- Dual Khopesh Blades, used for overwhelming opponents with a flurry of slashes. Energy can also be imbued to boost damage.
- A Katana, used similarly to his Khopesh Blades, only difference is that he imbues his slashes with ice and shoots out ice projectiles.
Criteria
Your selected character will be matched against Týr in a stat-equal match (so don't be afraid of his big ass stats). The criteria where your selected character will be accepted, among others not concerning the tiersetter is:
- Your character should not stomp or be stomped by Týr under any circumstances
- Your character must have at least a small chance of losing to Týr under Standard Battle Assumptions (SBA) (Minimum 5% chance of losing to him btw)
- The chance of losing must be legitimate; this would include valid wincons outlined (death, incapacitation), and should not be reliant on obscure interpretations or random mechanics (e.g., coin flips, wildly variable probability effects)
- Your character must be permitted by le Versus Thread Rules.
- Your character should not be undergoing revisions or soon to be revised in a CRT, as that makes debating a doozy in general
- Priority will be given to characters from differing users and verses to promote variety in participants
- Maximum one submission per user. Backups are not subject to this rule, but selection is.
- Only 16 characters that fit the criteria are chosen. Any further submissions will be backup instead (unless requested to be placed in backup while 16 slots aren't filled yet).
- Characters who have died and resurrected at least once are considered. Anyone not fitting these criterias below in addition to the ones above are shown the door out.
- Examples include Kratos himself, who has died multiple times in his story, or any characters resurrected by the Dragon Balls
- Characters who have reincarnated into another character entirely do not count, even if said character retains their original memories. Characters who were also isekaied into another character do not count.
- Special mention goes to characters like Subaru, who does not fit the criteria since he technically returns to a point before he died (unless y'all argue about it or something)
- EDIT: If your submission is canonically dead in the story and remains dead (not revived, resurrected, what have you), it doesn't count
Match Information
Note: The information disclosed also applies to the initial tiersetter match against Týr.
Arena
- The Olympus Section Of Valhalla, particularly the arena where you face Týr in the game.
- Starting Distance will be around where Kratos and Týr are situated.
- The arena is spacious enough for a good amount of manoeuvrability, but due to its openness, stealth tactics don't work as much.
- The arena is technically roofless, but a height limit is implemented to encourage fair and honourable combat, which will be around the height of the door. For perspective, Týr has to put some effort to jumping to that door, despite his height. So there is still ample room to fly while not having it be overwhelmingly advantageous for the character with flight and some ranged weaponry to cheese the fights.
- The arena will be impervious to any battle damage (directed, environmental, or anything else), and won't allow any combatants to be out of bounds, sending them back to the arena should that happen for any reason.
- The character's stats, other than range, stamina, and intelligence, will be set to the strongest character in the bracket. Summons that outstat their owners are now considered in the equalisation to promote fair combat
- Matches will use SBA unless specified otherwise.
- All stat amps will be limited to a maximum multiplier of 3x. (i.e If Goku went SSJ he'd only be 3x stronger instead of 50x)
- All characters will be able to perceive, interact with and damage one another naturally (i.e Cursed Spirits can now be seen and damaged normally)
- Wincon is via incapacitation or death
- For additional interesting factor, every hax that can be layered are now baseline, including resistances
- Every source of healing or regeneration is limited to a maximum limit of High-Low
- Characters with combat-applicable Resurrection can only resurrect once
- Rules are subject to changes on a per-match basis to make them fairer or more interesting
- Combatants are allowed to magically view the other previous matches in-universe, except for the initial tiersetter match (hence, this only becomes effective from the quarter-finals onwards)
- 2 days are given to both participating users to debate. Regardless of circumstances, I will decree the outcome of the match after the 2 days for the sake of the tourney's pacing.
- An exception can be made should the participating user notify everyone in this thread that they'd be inactive for a bit or some other situation. A further 1 day will be given for such exception
- If you no longer have any reason or motivation to continue participating in this tournament, notify in the thread to have your combatant removed (and depending on the tourney time, a replacement can be issued)
- Unlike regular vsbw matches, grace starts by 4 votes, with a maximum of 2 votes difference still considered as grace (i.e 4-2-0 counts for grace, while 4-3-0 does not. 7-5-0 counts, while 5-6-0 does not)
- Inconclusive matches are also subject to the above rule, but I will issue a coin flip to decide who advances (unless the votes have a 2 vote difference, at which it is completely subject to the first rule instead)
Submissions
- Settra - @DaReaperMan
- Acheron - @MysticBrawler
- Future Warrior - @koopa3144
- The Overlord (Possessing Garmadon) - @VladimirMakarov317
- Sonic (Archie Pre-Genesis Wave) - @Thunderman101
- Marx - @Poketmonsrs
- Deathwing - @DaReaperMan
- Sasha Necron (Great Spirit Arc) - @Thermor
- The Auditor - @Comiphorous
- Natsu - @Zackra1799
- Dark Surfer - @Oliver_de_jesus
- Macaque - @CasperSenar
Backup Submissions
Bracket
Matches
Round 1
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I'm not participating I'm working on other verses etc.
