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== Role Playing Games ==
* A big thing in the ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' fandom, where the participants don't stop simply at unit performance. They also take into account joining time, joining requirements, joining level, starting stats, stat growths, weapon options, support options, elemental affinity, promotion requirements, and other, additional abilities in their quest to accurately rank the characters. Due to [[Cap|the way]] [[Random Number God|the system works]] in ''[[Fire Emblem]]'', the vast majority of characters are at least usable (and most of the ones that aren't are because they join super-late in the game) if you really want to play them, and so the tier lists are mostly arranged by merit of which characters are most helpful for Ranked or low-turn playthroughs. The ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' community's mantra in these debates is "personal experience means nothing"; just because a character worked out for you does not make that character good; you may have simply gotten lucky with the [[Random Number God]]dess. The community judges a character's stats based on averages for their level progression.
* ''[[Chrono Cross]]'', despite being an RPG, has over 40 characters to choose from, so tiers were bound to arise, especially since some characters are worse than others.
* [[Radiata Stories]] proudly boasts over 150 characters you can collect and use in battle, and the quests to obtain them have a wide range of difficulty which doesn't always correspond to each character's strength. There are characters you'd have to be crazy not to go into the final battle with, characters that are only there for the lulz, and inevitably you'll find a character that you just plain like. They're all pretty interesting.
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* ''[[Disgaea]]'' has some degree of tiers; other then the in-game tiers (unlocked by levelling up their "lower tier" units), some classes have definite advantages over other; until you realise that [[Game Breaker|Divine Majins]] beat ''everything'' except ''maybe'' Flonne in a ''single'' stat. They are very time-consuming, though.
** Later games balanced this out a little, to the point where in Disgaea 3, Majins are considered the worst class in the game.
== Tabletop Games ==
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