(TFT) Re: TFT Digest V4 #293

[David Bofinger <bofinger.david@gmail.com>]

It's interesting spear does so well, because it isn't usually regarded as
one of the overrated weapons for player characters. As I recall those are
naginata (especially), halberd, pikeaxe for more experienced characters and
maybe pike.

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David



On 19 February 2013 17:46, TFT Digest <tft-owner@brainiac.com> wrote:

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> TFT Digest         Tuesday, February 19 2013         Volume 04 : Number 293
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> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 01:45:44 -0500
> From: Cris Fuhrman <fuhrmanator@gmail.com>
> Subject: (TFT) Best starting Melee character revisited
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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