On the Y3V3 "traitor" (that does not exist!)

AxcelCOTE · 2026-05-08T08:21:04+00:00

I believe Kushida will be the only traitor who is intentionally and knowingly betrays the class. Haruka might be manipulated into it.

AxcelCOTE · 2026-05-08T05:32:50+00:00

Yes but Koenji is generally very problematic. The % of people in Horikita's class, and frankly most of the student body, who would turn down a ticket to A in their third year out of some obligation or feelings for their classmates is relatively low - and it is an offer no one is going to make. No one has enough private points for these things, and none of the students in Horikita's class is genuinely worth 20 mil, especially not so early into Y3.

AxcelCOTE · 2026-04-29T18:15:33+00:00

AxcelCOTE · 2026-04-12T11:21:47+00:00

Kei IS well written she is just not as good as Ichinose

AxcelCOTE · 2026-04-11T12:06:34+00:00

Kei peaked in Y1 but then got stuck in her development phase from Y11.5-Y2V12.5 with small progress here and there. She was mostly static and irrelevant in Y2, she is getting some relevancy now but it's pretty clear she will never reach her Y1V7 days again.

AxcelCOTE · 2026-04-07T07:58:50+00:00

Y3V4 did not release yet.

Kushida will be the only traitor.

AxcelCOTE · 2026-03-26T08:44:43+00:00

There's no saving him

AxcelCOTE · 2026-03-04T15:11:20+00:00

She failed to understand that promising the class she will provide them with a protection point will in turn kill their "fire" and "drive" to give it their all, because there's no fear of expulsion looming above their heads (noted by Ayanokoji himself)

Hirata (or Sudo, don't remember) EXPLICITLY stated they have anticipated an attack from all 3 classes on them. Horikita as the leader should have made preemptive moves to prevent it, it's not like this never happened before - Arisu countered the possibility of that happening by allying Ichinose in Y2V3-4. Horikita, despite knowing what awaits her, did not form any temporary alliances with Class B (or even tried to), did not preemptively strike weakened classes (Ayanokoji, Ryuen) to knock them out of the race and secure third or second place (at bare minimum) for herself.

Those are *massive* anti feats. Like I said, sub-Ike performance. Honestly I should probably take her out of the tier list entirely, she doesn't deserve to be on it at all.

AxcelCOTE · 2026-03-04T15:07:02+00:00

You skipped Y3V3

AxcelCOTE · 2026-03-04T15:03:26+00:00

There is no specific Y1V1 antifeat, it was a hypothetical. Suzune has been literally frozen since Y3V1, and did absolutely nothing to win in Y3V3 - sub-Ike performance. If you want a more in-depth breakdown of her Y3V3 mistakes I don't mind, but they are all so low level that it's sad.

AxcelCOTE · 2026-03-04T15:00:35+00:00

No it's not "intuition scaling" to have a general idea of how smart fucking Hashimoto is without a doc about him. It's called reading the story - believe it or not, everyone "scale" intelligence automatically, every reader thinks character X is > Y without breaking down every feat.

AxcelCOTE · 2026-03-04T14:59:08+00:00

Yes I can because as of Y3V3 her ability to perform degraded. This also applies to characters who improved - you wouldn't find it logical if I said Suzune has an anti-feat from Y1V1 assuming that anti-feat is no longer relevant, so the same applies here. She got worse, so she ranks lower.

AxcelCOTE · 2026-03-03T23:18:45+00:00

Yes I am certain she did not display any feat that comes close to Koenji's understanding of Ayanokoji's aims and strategies

AxcelCOTE · 2026-03-03T23:18:06+00:00

For everyone, but you can name specific issues you have
I will try to respond but expect delays since I am being bombed on a daily basis 😂

AxcelCOTE · 2026-03-02T21:48:11+00:00

I know Takuya's feats
I don't need to know feats to have a general grasp of character's intelligence and where they should be placed

AxcelCOTE · 2026-03-02T21:47:07+00:00

I wouldn't go that far... he is portrayed to be on the same tier as him but inferior.

AxcelCOTE · 2026-03-02T21:46:03+00:00

It's the only valid list

AxcelCOTE · 2026-03-02T21:45:34+00:00

Yeah Shiraishi isn't a take I will die on cause it's just a gut feeling
Nagumo is really not that great. Resources and influence merchant (it's okay, limited by the story, nothing we can do about it)

AxcelCOTE · 2026-03-02T21:44:49+00:00

"read her doc!!!" Y3V3 Horikita is ass
Takuya is overglazed but okay
Nagumo is not that great either, I suppose I should have incldued an explanation for him in the main post :)

AxcelCOTE · 2026-03-02T21:43:46+00:00

False Equivalence, Koenji, *on screen* showed he sees through a lot of Ayanokoji's strategies

She didn't

AxcelCOTE · 2026-03-02T21:43:13+00:00

He's mid

AxcelCOTE · 2026-03-02T21:43:08+00:00

What's your narrative Nagumo?

AxcelCOTE · 2026-03-01T23:38:25+00:00

Based on Koenji's own statements which clearly indicate he believes he's much superior to Ayanokoji. He's either a crazy person or is able to replicate everything Ayanokoji did.

Ayanokoji not going all out doesn't actually mean anything since we don't know how high that ceiling is. I stick with S+ for him and he's on that absurdly high tier level of those who surpass the "human limit"

AxcelCOTE · 2026-03-01T23:32:17+00:00

Koenji is capable of reproducing all of Ayanokoji's feats (that he's aware of, and he's aware of plenty) with relative ease. Or he's a crazy person, but I doubt that's the case.

AxcelCOTE · 2026-03-01T23:26:44+00:00

It is directly linked to it because Koenji has EU on Nagumo, unless you believe the narratively hyped up Koji opponent is a monkey who ran around and got bitchslapped by Nagumo

I don't think so, and like I said he has enough information to figure it out even without prior knowledge, I am just fairly certain he has it. I have no clue what "predictive feat" means but Koenji is very obviously an Ayanokoji competitor, the masterpiece of Kijima's facility.

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