User blog comment:Leolab/Juuni Taisen Special: 12-Way Battle Royale/@comment-5078776-20171221042701

ON THE TWELTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS MY HATRED DID RECALL... ​​Yeah, Panne's going down and incredibly quickly. She's going to get drawn into a fight very quickly, and her being a giant rabbit with no real additional abiltiies makes her a very lackluster competitor. She has no noteworthy abilities or skills that give a chance at survival, either by attrition like Parcel or sheer combat like Angela. Simiarly to Panne, Diarmuid is very much out of his element in this kind of battle. It requires guile, craftiness, and over the top combat prowess- all of which he lacks. While he certainly has the skill, with his spears capable of inflicting very dangerous wounds should he have lasted longer, he simply can't comepte against the caliber of foes he's going against. ​Goldof is another weak link in this match, but he can certainly hold his own against the other lower tier like the Tiger and Ox. However, while he's certainly skilled with his weapon and has the powers he'd need to survive, his honorable approach and lack of active powers make him a hardfought but simple target. ​Enishi is probably one of the better and more aggressive fighters, as well as intelligent enough to potentially play the long game. However, neither aspect of his personality is strong enough to compete with the remaining fighters. In a straight up fight, everyone honorable has teamed up with someone to make him fight on two fronts, and everyone as ruthless as him sees him as a liability or is playing the long game. He's probably capable of taking down weaker individuals like Hol Horse or Ayaka, but they've got partners at this point that will either save them or avenge them- both cases leading to Enishi's death. ​As I said above, Ayaka is definitely weaker than Enishi in terms of pure combat, but she might be able to survive thanks to aid from possible allies in Angela (more likely) or Hol Horse (less likely). Despite that, even if she survives Enishi unscathed, she can't compete against the remaining combatants due to those sustained injuries as well as her lack of other noteworthy abilities outside hitting things super hard. ​Similar to above, Hol Horse is only as strong as his allies. Considering this is likely to be Gabranth and/or Roa, they're both ruthless enough to consider him a weak link. Hol Horse also knows this as well, so he'll have to play survivor, but he is neither smart nor strong enough to compete against the remaining combatants here. Roa is an interesting case here- he's got the potential to play the long game but not the time for it. He'll definitely be able to stick to the sidelines for a long time, rivalled only by Saruhiko and Parcel in that regard, but he doesn't have enough combat ability to survive against those who remain. Gabranth is literally invincible against him, while the others will either be better at hiding like Parcel or can easily outfight him like Angela or Morrigan. Even his dead zombies aren't very helpful- the corpses he has to use don't have exceptional, gamebreaking abilities. Overall, Roa would be a threat to win if he just had the time to formulate more of a plan, but that's just not the case anymore. ​At last, the only remaining warrior goes down. Gabranth is certainly capable of holding his own in a fight, especially against all the people against him until now. However, his remaining foes have by now been playing the long game and are well-prepared to kill him. And the only person who wouldn't play the long game is Angela, who can outfight him in sheer terms of power. He'll be a hard person to take out, but he's gotten enough battle scars at this point that he's next. ​This one hurts- but Morrigan's next out. While she's probably got the most sheer power of all the combatants at this point, with her hexes, blizzards, firestorms, and a metric fuck ton of other magical possibilities, she's also a bit of a glass cannon now. While Fushimi can definitely kill her too, it's Angela who seems more likely to land a killing blow. Both are better pure combatants than Morrigan, who can't really compete against a foe who's remained in the background like Fushimi or is an unbreakable wall like Angela. ​In a close fought battle, the winner of the actual fight itself will probably be Fushimi. His Blue Auras and agility will let him keep up against Angela's furious attacks, while he can dish out consistent, medium damage over a long period of time. Angela's been fighting and killing the entire time- she's going to be exhausted by this point, and Fushimi can easily use that to his advantage. Angela's fought hard, but she's ultimately worn herself too thin. ​And standing as runner-up, is Fushimi. He's by far one of the most versatile combatants in this game- he's a skilled fighter and strategist, easily capable of forming loose alliances with anybody and surviving when he breaks them off. He's also very intelligent, letting him analyze and prepare for all his foes and their various weaknesses. He should be standing tall, basking in his victory, except for one little problem. ​Big winners come in small packages. Left forgotten in the heat of the moment battles and studying from afar, Parcel's effort to play the long game is going to pay off immensely. Everyone that has the ability to counter her biggest attack - Angela and Morrigan- will be dead by now, and she can easily kill off the weaker combatants herself up until the final seven or six. At that point, she holds back, waiting for the exact moment to strike- against a very human, very suspectible to gravity, exhausted and adrenaline blinded Fushimi. Playing the part of thief to perfection, ​Parcel, Warrior of the Rat​, scavenges herself a victory.
 * 12th Place: The Rabbit, AKA Cfp's year. Yay. 
 * 11th Place: The Boar
 * ​10th Place: The Ram
 * ​9th Place: The Tiger
 * ​8th Place: The Ox
 * ​7th Place: The Horse
 * ​6th Place: The Snake
 * ​5th Place: The Dog
 * ​4th Place: The Rooster
 * ​3rd Place: The Dragon 
 * ​2nd Place: The Monkey
 * ​WINNER: Parcel, the Rat