Due to posting the last one late, I have decided to leave flairs up for a couple more days before I change them. I will reflect the winners here, and update the flairs in a couple of days based on the results. In the meantime, I am posting this early for everyone to start on.

Rules Here: Total Points cannot exceed 17. Mastery is required. A synergy team (3-5 members, all with character synergy) gets (-2) points for their run (I.E., a 9 point synergy team only counts as 7). A synergy duo gets (-1) points, and a synergy solo gets (-0.5) points.

Your RW adds 1/4 of the character's points to your total based on tier list. If you used a BSB RW or USB RW with an EX mode, you add 1/2 instead.

Link to past thread (FFX)

First person to achieve the lowest score for the tier challenge gets a special flair.

Honorary Keeper flair will be given to participants who achieved the lowest point to (lowest point 2 points, rounded to nearest .5), or the lowest synergy point to (lowest point 1 point, rounded to nearest .5). If the lowest points happen to be a synergy team, the flair goes to lowest ~ lowest 2.

TC Veteran flair will be given to participants who achieve 10.5 points or less, but do not meet the requirements for Honorary Keeper.

Tier Challenge Winners (Dra Al Bhed)

5 points: Mediyu

5.5 points: Valomire, irismist*

6 points: soloblade, sleepslacksnooze, Lucas-714

6.75 points: Rillafane

7 points: TheSilverWolfie

7.5 points: killeak

8.25 points: GeemanSeven

8.5 points: bh8288

8.675 points: Spiffmanicus

9 points: Xarukas

10 points: roandres, Din_of_Win

* Asterisked names obtained lowest score~lowest score 1 for synergy team.

Note

The points will be tracked by /u/spiffmanicus over here, who has kindly chosen to take over for /u/angusmiranda after many months of service. Thank you both very much for all of your work!

Point Shift

• Celes (4.0) moved to 5.0 points

• Raines (5.0) moved to 4.0 points

• Rinoa (2.0), Seifer (2.0), Edge (2.5), Luneth (4.0) moved to 3.0 points

• Mustadio (2.0), Locke (2.0), Edgar (2.0), Kain (3.0) moved to 2.5 points

• Wol (1.5), Marach (2.5), Echo (2.5) moved to 2.0 points

• Shadow (1.0), Rufus (1.0), Amarant (1.0), Matoya (2.0) moved to 1.5 points

• Ricard (1.5) moved to 1.0 points

Patch Notes:

This covers the new relics from the VIII banner and the recent Sharpshooter-Availability buff. Squall gets a decent LMR, and a decent-but-not-as-good-as-his-BSB2 USB, so as a 4 he's not really going into the 5-point territory unless he got something brokenly good. Rinoa becomes the holder of the Ice Chain, which unfortunately does not suit her that well. Yes she can utilize witch spells to boost it, but cannot get the chain off easily without H&R or Dr. Mogs, and forces a hybrid team if you want to utilize the best Ice Damage currently, Squall. Regardless, chain-enabling pushes her value up substantially. Lastly, Seifer's USB is actually pretty powerful and very safe, allowing for some potentially crazy <40% HP burns.

Some people got point-increases if the Sharpshooter 5* availability was a much-welcome buff to them. Wol, Shadow, Rufus, Edge? Definitely! Give them some more 5* ability access...especially Wol. Amarant, Edgar, Locke, Mustadio? Increases their elemental availability and/or damage options, especially Locke who is supposed to be a fire-themed character but had to rely solely on SBs for that. Mages and many physical characters with alternative or better options did not got point increases for this.

As for everybody else...Raines is now dethroned. He is no longer the 1-stop RW shop for clearing stuff. His insta-cast is becoming less special, omni-resist is butchering his commands and SBs, and he has a very glaring weakness: No en-dark/holy on a good SB. Reaching the MAG cap is one thing he can do on his own, but the MAG cap is no longer a far-away scary place. He needs to do more. Luneth was pushed down simply because no PHY-Wind chars can compare to Cloud. Not even close. Kain, Matoya, Marach, Ricard, and Echo have gone a long time without new toys and are starting to suffer from power creep. Finally, Celes actually moves up into the 5-point tier, and probably should have a while ago. She and Exdeath have pretty much guaranteed spots in the 4-point tier due to being able to shutdown a good chunk of fights while still being solid characters, but it is clear that Celes is above and beyond Exdeath in 99% of situations, at least until his USB comes out.

Character Points

5: Celes, Cloud, Fujin, Onion Knight, Orlandeau, Terra, Tyro, Vaan

4: Alphinaud, Desch, Eiko, Exdeath, Lightning, Raines, Ramza, Rapha, Rikku, Rosa, Setzer, Squall, Tidus, Y'shtola, Yuna, Zell

3: Ace, Agrias, Arc, Beatrix, Cait Sith, Cid (VII), Edea, Edge, Faris, Fran, Golbez, Gordon, Irvine, Larsa, Lion, Luneth, Maria, Minfilia, Mog, Quina, Papalymo, Refia, Relm, Rinoa, Seifer, Shantotto, Vivi, Warrior of Light, Zack, Zidane

2.5: Aerith, Auron, Bartz, Ceodore, Deuce, Edgar, Edward, Firion, Garnet, Gilgamesh, Gogo (V), Hope, Jecht, Kain, Krile, Lenna, Locke, Lulu, Mustadio, Noctis, Penelo, Porom, Quistis, Sazh, Sephiroth, Serah, Snow, Strago, Thancred, Vanille, Vayne, Wakka, Yuffie

2: Ashe, Balthier, Basch, Braska, Cecil (PLD), Curilla, Cyan, Delita, Echo, Emperor, Fang, Galuf, Ingus, Kefka, Kimahri, Kuja, Laguna, Leo, Leon, Marach, Minwu, Noel, Nine, Ovelia, Paine, Palom, Raijin, Red XIII, Reks, Reynn, Sabin, Steiner, Tifa, Vincent, Wol, Yda

1.5: Amarant, Angeal, Barret, Cid (IV), Cid Garlond (XIV), Fusoya, Gabranth, Gaffgarion, Josef, Leila, Matoya, Nabaat, Prishe, Rufus, Rydia, Sarah, Selphie, Shadow, Tellah, Yang

1: Ayame, Cecil (DRK), Cloud of Darkness, Dorgann, Freya, Garland, Gau, Guy, Lann, Master, Reno, Ricard, Seymour

0.75: Black Mage, Dark Knight, Devout, Knight, Magus, Ninja, Red Mage, White Mage

0.5: Bard, Berserker, Dragoon, Gladiator, Monk, Ranger, Samurai, Spellblade, Summoner, Thief, Viking, Warrior

The Galuf Addendum: Players utilizing Galuf (either as a native member or Roaming Warrior) will be registered for a minimum of 9.0 points. This means even if your run totals 3.5, it'll be registered as 9.0. If it totals more, then it'll be registered as whatever you ran. This rule was created due to Galuf being able to solo almost any boss in the game.

The Same Effect Soul Break Addendum: When an RW is selected, if the effects of that SB can be replicated like for like with another RW, use the highest points that would be given by each. For example, if Ramza (Shout) was worth 4.0 and Cid (VII) (Pilot Steel) was worth 3.0, Shout RW would add 1.0 points, and Pilot Steel would add 0.875 points instead, so if you used Pilot Steel, you would add 1.0 points.

Submission Template:

 **Need Help/In Progress/Completed**

1. **Party:**  
2. **Kill picture:**
3. **Medal tally:**
4. **Total points:**
5. **Notes:**  
> Thoughts and advice here 

Please post each attempt in a separate reply. Info regarding this challenge can be found at the wiki links or here.