Mushroom Round 1 --- Defeated (7) Wesker, 46373 [54.69%] - 38421 [45.31%]
Mushroom Semifinal --- Lost to (3) Zero, 23938 [26.75%] - 65557 [73.25%]
Extrapolated Strength --- 58th Place [15.73%]
Summer 2005 was the year in which Tales of Symphonia characters made their debut in the field, and the first to show their stuff was Lloyd himself.
And Lloyd tanked. Badly. He defeated Wesker with minimal effort, but given Wesker's performance in Spring 2005, Lloyd's match with Wesker suggested that Lloyd was barely stronger than
Mithos in a contest setting. And no one likes Mithos, which means that either something very odd happened with Mithos/Wesker/Kefka/Lloyd, or Lloyd is an absolute weakling.
It may be a little of both. Lloyd went on to lose to Zero, though the final stats may not show Lloyd's true strength. Zero was likely behind SFF in his match with Mario, and the stats don't make an SFF adjustment for Zero's loss. But even still, Lloyd went out and proved himself to be absolute fodder and that the TOS hierarchy doesn't work nearly as normally as other games with many characters do. Kratos is easily the strongest character in the game, and Zelos and Sheena may also be capable of outdoing Lloyd in a match.
Whatever the case is, Tales of Symphonia has proven that it has a very dedicated, but very small fanbase that can't make much of a difference in contests. Lloyd was so disappointing in fact that he may be lucky to ever see a contest again.
Summer 2007 Contest
Division 4 - Fourth Group
Division 4 Round 1 --- 3rd place, 25863 [20.22%] - Zero, 50230 [39.56%] - HK-47, 27044 [21.30%] - Jak, 24030 [18.92%]
After a very disappointing 2005 contest, Lloyd was placed in the midst of a weak fourpack. Even so, he seemed to be the weak link. But when the match started, he managed to jump out into second place. He eventually gave way to HK-47, but he stayed close the entire time. Although he didn't make it out of the first round, Lloyd managed to redeem himself a bit. Coupled with Wesker's surprising performance, perhaps it's possible that he was actually rather underrated in 2005.
-Ulti
