Re: (TFT) Best starting Melee character revisited

[Rick Smith <rsmith@lightspeed.ca>]

Hi all,
  Back when we first got Melee, a friend and I played
a lot of games trying to figure out the best figure.
When someone won, then the other guy got to make a 
figure who could beat the champion.  There was a 
meta - game where you tried to have a champion beat
so many people in a row, that his attributes were
so high he was sure to win against a 32 attribute
fighter.

My strategy was to take a fighter with a DX one higher
than my opponent.  If we ended up in a race for the 
highest DX, I would wait until the enemy had a very
light weapon, and then swap in a guy with heavy 
armor.

Sometimes if I knew the enemy was designing a figure
to beat my character, I would fool him by changing
my armor and shields in a big way.  (So he is 
expecting a DX 11 spearman, I would show up to the
fight with a shortsword, plate and large shield.)

The main thing I got from this was the 'best fighter'
is a function of the enemy and what situation he is
fighting in.

Warm regards, Rick.

On Tue, 2013-19-02 at 01:45 -0500, Cris Fuhrman wrote:
> Using the latest version of my Melee simulator I get results showing that *
> 077:ST13;DX11;MORNINGSTAR;NO_ARMOR;SMALL_SHIELD* is superior across the
> board. Not surprising you say, since many people arrived at that from
> playing in the old days. However, I realized that it could be good to think
> about rivalries, since "average" best isn't necessarily a character who
> dominates another individual.
> 
> So, using the statistics of 5000 fights per match-up of 108 possible
> starting characters, I programmed a way to display the top rivals for each
> character. According to my results, the best overall character has a top
> rival of *065:ST11;DX13;SPEAR;NO_ARMOR;NO_SHIELD* (my simulator allows pole
> weapon users to do charge attacks on the first round). It turns out that
> spear-man can kill morningstar-man roughly 3/4 times. That means the top
> (overall) character is fairly weak against his rival.
> 
> If you want to see the results of the stats (including rivals) with the
> newest version of the simulator, check them out at the blog entry
> http://snipurl.com/26f9gto
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