Chaos Round 1 --- Defeated (4) Kratos Aurion, 48783 [56.76%] - 37162 [43.24%]
Chaos Semifinal --- Lost to (1) Sonic the Hedgehog, 28954 [31.45%] - 63014 [68.55%]
Extrapolated Strength --- 35th Place [22.20%]
The Ruin Division was aptly named in Spring 2005, because Diablo certainly came along and ruined everyone's brackets. Most people figured that Diablo's match with Ridley would be a tossup, but very few people believed that Diablo would be able to use his match with Ridley as a stepping stone to winning the entire division before falling to Ganondorf in the Final Four of the contest. And oddly enough, all three characters that Diablo defeated in that contest had a lead on him when the poll began. At the end of the contest, only the three heavy-hitters of the field ranked ahead of Diablo in the Spring 2005 X-Stats.
Diablo's road was cut much shorter in Summer 2005, but this was because he was stuck facing Sonic in the second round. His first round match with Kratos would have been interesting on paper had the two never been in a contest before, but we had just seen Diablo tear through the Spring 2005 bracket and knew that Diablo would easily win the match.
It took a villain-only contest to get Diablo into one of these things, but he has since failed to disappoint and has proven himself to be a worthy mid-carder in the field. He's also the only PC-exclusive character to have ever done anything worth a damn in these contests, which goes to show how little GameFAQs cares about PC gaming these days.
Summer 2007 Contest
Division 1 - Second Group
Division 1 Round 1 --- 4th place, 21603 [15.42%] - Mega Man, 70743 [50.49%] - KOS-MOS, 25822 [18.43%] - Arthas Menethil, 21950 [15.67%]
Diablo continues to be the shining example of just how crappy the field was in the Villains Contest. He was thought to have a good shot of getting into the second round if he could avoid some sort of weird Blizzard LFF with Arthas. Instead, he laid an egg, which apparently even demons do. He didn't even compete with KOS-MOS. On the contrary, Diablo was bested by Arthas and came in dead last in a fourpack that was basically Mega Man and a load of cannon fodder. If that isn't a loud statement against any more gimmick contests, I don't know what is.
-Ulti
