By request, I am setting up a survey to see what value we should assign each character as our perspective may differ from Japan's list (I wanted to setup a poll but it would only allow me to ask one question so we have to do it the old fashion way).
Per our conversation, ONLY the people that are participating should vote (which is the only way it makes sense). I'll tally up all the values and if there's discrepancy for any character, the majority vote will win. Here are the list of players that have voice that they want to be included and the rest need to get back to me ASAP: Reynald, Kane317, Metaphysics, Chris G, Yoshi, Romance, Duc, The Answer
EDIT3: Revised list for usage.
Here is my list (with 5 total points)
5 K', Raiden
4 Kyo, Elisabeth, Kula, Andy, Iori, Robert
3 Shen, Takuma, Yuri
2 Kim, Benimaru
1 Mai, Leona, Terry, Chin, Mature
0 Joe, Athena, Ralf, Ryo, Maxima, Hwa, Duolon, Clark, Vice, Kensou, Ash, Goro, King
Quick explanations: Reworked under mainly usage (objective) then any other reason like tier (subjective.) Raiden was really the only one that was higher than his "usage" due to obvious reasons. In terms of usage, I factored in how many players used it him or her mainly, BUT I also factored in how long they have used them (e.g Mai, a couple of us dab into her occasionally, but none of us her as our main except maybe Duc does, hence she's at 1) otherwise I've dabbed around with Goro, Hwa, Ash, Clark, Maxima a lot too and surely they can't be higher than 0.
Lastly, I re-looked over my list to factor teams in their permutations (5+0+0), (4+1+0, 4+0+0 and so forth), (3+2+1, 3+2+0, 3+0+0) etc... to make sure that, at least to me, they were still a solid team.
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I really struggled with that list, I was going to just make it 4 divisions and change to total points but I think it'll just confuse everyone. I chose 6 points 7 points as total since the 0pt section was so small and it wouldn't be fair for the K' and Raiden users. For the record, my team is either going to be 6pts but most likely 5pts (so you can't say I'm being bias here). Honestly, this system needs to revised a lot more but we're under time constraints. I am open to any opinions.
EDIT: The more I think about it, that's the problem with moving everyone up, the total needs to be higher. I might even change my vote to 8pts to make it interesting.
EDIT2: Hmm, something still feels off about it, the 0 category to should be much bigger and the total points can then be dropped. I'll sleep on it first.