{"id":3548,"date":"2023-02-13T03:08:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T11:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2023-02-13T03:09:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T11:09:05","slug":"a-hero-rises-voting-gauntlet-pair-ups-fire-emblem-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/13\/a-hero-rises-voting-gauntlet-pair-ups-fire-emblem-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hero Rises Voting Gauntlet Pair-Ups &#8211; Fire Emblem: Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the A Hero Rises 2023 top-voted heroes are right around the corner, I wanted to see if there was a way we can see which heroes are going to compete in the voting gauntlet.<\/p>\n<p>Using past history as a guide, I&#8217;ve learned that Intelligent Systems have used multiple different strategies to pair up heroes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fireemblemwiki.org\/wiki\/A_Hero_Rises\">Here<\/a> is a link to the Fire Emblem Wiki page containing the past voting gauntlets.<\/p>\n<h4>Top 4 vs. Bottom 4<\/h4>\n<p>For example, here&#8217;s 2020&#8217;s top-voted heroes, in order:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Altina<\/li>\n<li>Duo Alfonse<\/li>\n<li>Sothis<\/li>\n<li>Legendary Leif<\/li>\n<li>Winter Sothis<\/li>\n<li>Legendary Azura<\/li>\n<li>Legendary Alm<\/li>\n<li>Edelgard<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And, here are the match-ups:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Altina vs Winter Sothis<\/li>\n<li>Legendary Leif vs Edelgard<\/li>\n<li>Duo Alfonse vs Legendary Azura<\/li>\n<li>Sothis vs Legendary Alm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, they are doing the top 4 heroes vs their respective bottom 4.<\/p>\n<h4>Top 4 vs. Bottom 4 Reversed<\/h4>\n<p>This is the pattern we see in the 2021 and 2022 AHR events. To give an example of this pattern, we&#8217;ll use the 2021 AHR event. The top 8 are as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Seiros<\/li>\n<li>Lyn<\/li>\n<li>Legendary Dimitri<\/li>\n<li>Freyja<\/li>\n<li>Legendary F!Corrin<\/li>\n<li>Brave Edelgard<\/li>\n<li>Summer Byleth<\/li>\n<li>Duo Micaiah<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And here are the matchups:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seiros vs Duo Micaiah<\/li>\n<li>Freyja vs Legendary F!Corrin<\/li>\n<li>Duo Lyn vs Byleth<\/li>\n<li>Legendary Dimitri vs Brave Edelgard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, this pattern still puts the top 4 vs the bottom 4, except the bottom 4 got reversed.<\/p>\n<h3>Round 1<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure Intelligent Systems has some logic about why they went with what they did in the 2020 event.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>AHR Event<\/td>\n<td>Matchups<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2020<\/td>\n<td>1 vs 5, 2 vs 6, 3 vs 7, 4 vs 8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2021<\/td>\n<td>1 vs 8, 2 vs 7, 3 vs 6, 4 vs 5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2022<\/td>\n<td>1 vs 8, 2 vs 7, 3 vs 6, 4 vs 5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2023<\/td>\n<td>?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It seems that Intelligent Systems doesn&#8217;t use the &#8220;going in order&#8221; pattern where they do 1 vs 2, 3 vs 4, etc. One reason that pattern may not be preferable is because we<\/p>\n<h3>Round 2<\/h3>\n<p>Less-importantly, there&#8217;s also the semi-finals round of the voting gauntlet. Anyone who made it onto this round would be on the banner, which is why this round is less-important than the first one. Doesn&#8217;t really affect the voting gauntlet that much, but still might be interesting to know.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>AHR Event<\/td>\n<td>Matchups<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2020<\/td>\n<td>1\/8 vs 4\/8, 2\/6 vs 3\/6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2021<\/td>\n<td>1\/8 vs 4\/8, 2\/6 vs 3\/6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2022<\/td>\n<td>1\/8 vs 4\/8, 2\/6 vs 3\/6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2023<\/td>\n<td>?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the A Hero Rises 2023 top-voted heroes are right around the corner, I wanted to see if there was a way we can see which heroes are going to compete in the voting gauntlet. Using past history as a guide, I&#8217;ve learned that Intelligent Systems have used multiple different strategies to pair up heroes. &#8230; <a title=\"A Hero Rises Voting Gauntlet Pair-Ups &#8211; Fire Emblem: Heroes\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/13\/a-hero-rises-voting-gauntlet-pair-ups-fire-emblem-heroes\/\" aria-label=\"More on A Hero Rises Voting Gauntlet Pair-Ups &#8211; Fire Emblem: Heroes\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3549,"href":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}