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Charizard survived a surprisingly strong challenge from Terra after spending much of the early match looking vulnerable. The writeup treats the narrow win as a major warning that Charizard was far weaker than his earlier contest reputation suggested.

Kirby won, but Terra's performance was the surprise as she benefited from Peach draining Nintendo support from Kirby. The writeup treats Terra's Dissidia-era strength as increasingly legitimate.

LFF · Pic: The writeup says Peach LFFed Kirby, helping Terra look unusually strong against him. It also explicitly calls Kirby's simple spherical design a major picture advantage.

Squall won comfortably but looked surprisingly weak against Terra despite his history of crushing lesser Final Fantasy characters. The result reopened doubts about whether Squall was safely above Auron.

Terra reversed the pre-match consensus and beat Revan, with the writeup attributing her new strength primarily to Dissidia's exposure of older Final Fantasy characters. Revan is defended as reasonably strong despite the loss.

Zelda demolished Terra far more convincingly than the old projections suggested. The writeup says the performance transformed Zelda from an obvious division favorite into a serious threat to Samus's title hopes.

Terra beat Kerrigan in a match preceded by enough picture complaints that the official image was changed. The writeup says the altered picture did not rescue Kerrigan and instead treats the result as another example of weak PC-character strength.

Dante crushed Terra and quickly ended what little upset speculation had existed around the matchup. The writeup treats Terra's weakness as another example of an ensemble-cast Final Fantasy character failing to translate game popularity into contest strength.