@CharaRose
I'm a fan of Lucy's but that doesn't mean I consider her the 12th strongest character. This wasn't about popularity but about who'd beat who in a battle. And Lucy ain't beating Irene.
I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt on beating a Spriggan because she "might" be able to. Like, if she uses 3 of her strongest spirits (Leo + Gemini turned into Marin + another one) + her stardress she might give a Spriggan a hard time but me, personally, I don't think she's gonna defeat a single one. I'm still giving her a big benefit of the doubt due to a clear lack of feats.
The thing with Lucy is that Gemini cannot (unfortunately) copy anyone stronger than her. If she could copy Erza, Mirajane, Gray or Natsu I'd have to put her very high on my list but she unfortunately cannot. And that'd be too haxy, for the record, so I prefer it this way.
If the list gathered the opinion of 100+ people it'd definetely be accurate. I don't get what you mean... there are people who are going to use hype and people who are going to be against its use, I don't like hype much, this is why as much as I'm a fan of Glidartz I don't like for him to be that high because he hasn't shown anything that puts him there, but still, it's what the opinion of 20 people (you and me included) said so I'm going to just refrain from comments and accept that if Glidartz is there is because there's a reason that people believe he must be there.
You say you're not biased and you do not abide by hype but if you allow my personal opinion to come into place here:
According to your ranking:
- How is Shaila the 6th strongest character in the FTverse? She was around Kyoka's equal or slightly inferior yet Kyoka was defeated by Erza (who you placed 28th). She was massively inferior to Mard Geer but you rank her higher. Heck, even Mirajane has got Shaila now but Shaila is 6th and Mirajane is 8th, why not the other way round? If Shaila is there because of Macro, then Mirajane also has macro, and Mirajane also has Alegria, so she's definetely above Shaila.
- Don't you abide by hype when you place Kagura 15th when she hasn't shown any remarkable feat that puts her Spriggan level or above? You've literally put her above Spriggan characters.
- Similarly, why is Minerva higher than Spriggan characters when all Sabertooth was defeated by a spriggan?
- Why is Glidartz so high in your list when you claim you don't listen to hype?
- The worst part, why are August and Irene on the 33rd and 34th position, below all spriggans and some mid-tier characters, when they're clearly top10 characters?
You said you're not biased but you clearly are one of the most biased people that were included in the communal ranking. You favor female characters over other characters, specially female characters that you clearly like (Lucy, Kagura or Minerva). I also like female characters and in a popularity ranking I'd rank them high, but in a power ranking they shouldn't be up there.
PS: Don't apologize about your English, it is fine and I'm not an English native speaker either.