GameFAQ’s character battles almost need no introduction. Every few years, the famous website has gamers vote for their favorite characters in a series of rounds. The voters eventually crown the best video game character. So far, there have been 10 Character Battles, which means that a lot of characters have had the honor of being voted Best Video Game Character! Character Battle X did take place in 2018, but I felt like it was more interesting to take a look at the best characters according to GameFAQ’s Character📖 Battle IX from 2013. After all, its final outcome caused so much drama that the Character Battles were put on hiatus for a few years— so you know it’s going to make you stop and think.

Moreover, many of the Charact꧒er Battles often have similar (and predictable) winners, such as Link or Mario— with a few exceptions, like 2007’s Character Battle (I’ll talk about the winner of that battle a bit later!) These iconic characters didn’t rank as highly in Character Battle IX, however, and this prompted me to look at IX’s ranking for this article.

The inclusion of these characters make sense considering when the Battle took place; in other cases, the characters are iconic enough that their presence in the top twenty still makes sense today. And, finally, in a few other cases still, the ranking of some characters had us scratching our heads in confusion. Without further ado, here are some of the top 20 video g﷽ame characters according to GameFAQ— and 10 that they got completely wrong.

30 ꦜ Completely Wrong: Mario Should Have Been Higher

Mario won many of GameFAQ’s battles, but in this one, he didn’t even make it to the final ro🧸unds. Nintendo’s iconic Italian plumber is probably one of the most famous vid𓄧eo game characters there are, so it seems aberrant that the voters eliminated him early on.

He lost in the second round to Vivi from Final Fantasy IX, who then lost to Pokémon Trainer Red in the next round, much to people’s a🤪stonishm🔯ent. Mario really should have been higher up in the rankings!

29 Top 20: Draven ꦑ♍

Draven, the Glorious Executioner from League of Legends, came out on top of Character Battle IX. This reckoner from Noxus is a famed warrior with a flair for the dramatic and a thirst for glory i🌞s quite popular among fans—popular enough to beat Solid Snake and Samus Aran in the Character Battle final.

He’s League of Legends’ most popular AD carry and is typically played by the most skilled of players, as he’s very powerful when played right, but also very unfor꧂giving if you lose with him.

28 Completely Wrong: Draven’s Controversial Win 🌊

Draven may be a powerful character, but his win in Character Battle IX was controversial, to🐼 say the least. Voters were so unhappy with the results that they asked for a second poll…which Draven also won. After this, GameFAQ’s Character Battles were put on hiatus for a few years, which gives you an idea of exactly how unhappy people were with his win. Considering that he was against Solid Snake and that characters like Mario or S🐲onic didn’t make it to the final, that’s hardly surprising.

27 Top 20: So🌄lid Snake

Solid Snake is a fan-favorite Metal Gear character who unsurprisingly made it to the final round of the Character Battle along with Samus Aran and Draven. His real name is David, but he’s almost always known as Solid Snake— or sometimes “Old Snake” or just “Snake”. He’s a legendary character both within the game and among its fans and is known as “the Man Who Makes The Impossible Possible.” He makes appearances or is referenced to in many other games, such as Littlebigplanet or Super Bomberman R.

26 Top ಌ20: Samusꦰ Aran

Samus Aran is the main character of popular game series Metroid, but that’s only one of the reasons she’s a well-known video game character. She’s a fearsome fighter, is almost always represented wearing her impressive Power Suit, and is famous in her own right within the Metroid universe.

However, in the real world, she’s also known for being at the center of one of video game history most iconic 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:plot twists: early players didn’t find🎃 out Samus was a woman until the end of the first game.

25 🦩 Top 20: Mewtwo 🎐

Mewtwo is a genetically engineered clone of legendary Pokémon Mew, and perharps one of the most powerful early legendary Pokémon there are. He serves as the primary antagonist for Pokémon: The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back and is of the few Pokémon who possesses the ability to speak. He appears in many Pokémon games, but also makes guest appearances in other franchises such as Super Smash Bros. In short, this humanoid/cat hybrid is an incredibly powerful Pokémon, and one of the most iconic early Pokémon characters.

24 ꦍCompletely Wrong: Mewtwo Beating Bowser And Sonic 🎶

Still, all this doesn’t explain how Mewtwo beat so many other characters in Character Battle IX, including but definitely not limited to, Link, Mario (as I mentioned earlier), Bowser, and Sonic. It’s already odd to think that Bowser beat Mario in a Character Battle, but the fact th𓆉at Mewtwo beat all of them is astounding.

Not only that, but one of four Pokémon characters to make it to the final 9—the others being Pokémon Trainer Red, Pikach⭕u, and Squirtle. Pikachu’s high ranking makes sense, as he’s well known e🎃ven among non-Pokémon fans, but Mewtwo’s? Not so much.

23 🐲 Top 20: S𝔉ephiroth

Sephiroth is a main antagonist in the now cult game Final Fantasy VII, designed to be protagonist Cloud Strife’s archenemy. Well, in this Character Battle, he did beat Cloud, who only made it to the Division Final. He’s incredibly powerful (his full abilities are unknown) and is usually recognized as an amazing villain by fans of the series. Sephiroth also appears in Kingdom Hearts as an optional (but incredibly hard to beat) boss. In short, as far as vi𒈔llains go, he’s pretty iconicܫ.

22 💫 🉐 Top 20: Pikachu

As I mentioned when I was talking about Mewtwo, Pikachu also made it to Character Battle IX’ Final 9. This little electric mouse ♐is Ash’s companion throughout the series, and without any contest the most well-known Pokémon there is.

Within the Pokémon universe, Pikachu has quite a bit of a reputation, and Team Rock✅et is constantly attempting to take him. In the real world, however, he♛’s nothing short of an icon, recognizable even by those who have never watched the series or played the games.

21 Complet𒐪ely Wrong: Pika꧑chu Should Have Made It To The Final Round

Because of this, I believe it’s fair to say that Pikachu should have made it to the final round. After all, the fact that not one, but four Pokémon characters found their way to the Final 9 is a testament to the franchise's popularity, and if Mewtwo and Squirtle made it so high, you could hav💧e expected Pikachu to rank a little higher. However, I should probably mention that both Pikachu and Squirtle lost to Solid Snake, which does sort of explain why everyone’s favourite electric Pokémon didn’t make it any further in the Battle.