Ohio ARMS Power Ranking: Difference between revisions

The Power Ranking image took 11 days to create, being officially released on October 24th. Unlike most Power Ranking images, this image (and many later ones) was made with pixel art instead of with graphics. Frosty and LOSER collaborated to bring the cast of ARMS [[fighters]] to life even including [[Barq]] among the main characters. Season 1's image is inspired by Star Fox 2 and features [[Hedlok]] prominently who has [[Blorb|Blorbs]] for his [[ARMS (equipment)|ARMS]], a nod to LOSER only using double Blorb. Star Fox 2 was chosen as the main inspiration due to its official release on the SNES Classic Edition console on September 29, 2017. The image also shows what controller type each player used, something that has not been shown on any other Ohio ARMS Power Ranking image to date.

The Power Ranking image for Season 3 marked the return of LOSER and Frosty making the images. Work on the Ranking image began on June 30th, the same day that the deliberation for spots wrapped up. Due to improper planning and difficulty with the subject matter, the image took longer than other ones in the past, taking more than a month to finish. The image was officially released to the public on August 4th with The Biweekly Procrastination starting to run more events soon after. This Season's image was inspired by Super Punch-Out!!'s fighter portraits. It was the first to incorporate the actual font of the game who inspired the image. The background for the picture was also based on font from the game, with a similar font being utilized on later projects done by Frosty. Barq also makes an appearance in this image, marking his second appearance on one of the images with the first being on Season 1's. This marked the first time a player's preferred ARMS were featured on a Ranking image, albeit only one per player.

Ohio ARMS' seventh Season began with The Biweekly Procrastination 32 on August 25th, 2019. This Season was unique in terms of size as it was extended numerous times as to get more events to count toward the Ranking. The first extension was partially due to Nyancon 2019 not having an ARMS tournament and therefore there not being a Season closing event in Fall that year. Another extension occurred on October 20th as PineappleFreak did not have enough events to qualify for the Power Ranking at that time and the staff agreed that a two person Power Ranking would not work out. The Season was then planned to end sometime in Spring, with Frosty and LOSER attempting to get the game featured at the Lakeland Game Expo, to no avail. This event was also later cancelled in its entirety due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, but nonetheless Season 7 still ended on the very date in which said Expo was planned to occur on; April 19th, 2020.

Season 7 was the first Season to have the same exact Ranking including unique placements (HM or Inactive). Season 7 is also the longest of all Ohio ARMS Power Ranking Seasons due to the numerous extensions. Deliberation on placements took place over the course of mid-April with the image being teased on the 18th and released publicly on the 19th. The teaser image was the ranking image covered by a community meme known as ''M'', a poorly drawn variant of Mechanica with three arms initially created by [[Jean Marc]], but recreated by LOSER for this teaser specifically. This image was based on the NES light gun game Hogan's Alley with the targets being the fighters of the Ranked players. The image's background was based off of [[ARM Getter]] as well. This was the first image to have the start and end dates of the Season present and was also the first to only represent Inactive players with text. That also makes this image the first to show only three players visually instead of five. Ranked players were also permitted to have one of their preferred ARMS shown on the image, a concept that hadn't been featured since Season 5.

 

 

Season 8 saw the return of T.O.JOE's #2 placement after two Seasons of qualifying as Inactive. His performances against PineappleFreak resulted similarly to previous seasons where his bouts against Frosty and LOSER were successful in his favor, hence why he garnered the #2 spot once again. LOSER managed to make a massive upset in winning against MrPiedPiper in The Biweekly Procrastination 44 which would have put him above Frosty this Season, but Frosty managed to do the same feat in The Biweekly Procrastination 46. LOSER also had a very low win percentage in Season 8 which resulted in his placement at #4. Deliberation for the ranking was quick and occurred prior to The Biweekly Procrastination 51 with the ranking image for the Season being released on August 6th, 2020, the day after that event finished. This image was based on the podium ceremony from Super Mario Kart with each player's fighter being represented as a racer. T.O.JOE's heavy utilization of Dr. Coyle during this Season warranted a spot on the image, marking the first time a player had two fighters as their representation. Biff is featured in the image as a trophy cameo, [[HP Juice]] is held by PineappleFreak's [[Kid Cobra]], and the background of the image was inspired by [[Buster Beach]]. The display of Season start and end dates also returned from the Season 7 image.