Best Video Game Character of All Time | Round 2

Best Video Game Character of All Time | Round 2

Welcome to Power Ranking, a show where YOU the fans get to vote on your favorite things in video games, movies, TV and whatever the hell else the internet can get excited for.

This is round 2 of the special IGN tournament event, Power Ranking Face-Off! Here’s how it works: Through our Face-Off voting on IGN.com, YOU, the fans chose your favorite video game characters from over 300 entrants. These Face-Off votes provided a win-loss record for each character which determined the overall ranking. The top 64 of that ranked list have been seeded into our tournament bracket.

From here, we polled across multiple IGN platforms to scientifically determine which video game characters should move on to the next round. The top two from each group of four will move on for a chance to be crowned the best video game character of ALL TIME! Find out who made it through into round 3!

00:18 – Tournament Breakdown
01:14 – Fan Predictions
02:27 – Round 2 Winners (Red Side)
05:47 – Round 2 Winners (Blue Side)
08:49 – Characters Eliminated from the Tourney
09:12 – New Bracket

Check out the Round 1 results here from the top 64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlUDHPnmwcw

Vote for your Round 3 favorites here: https://www.ign.com/articles/power-ranking-face-off-who-is-the-best-video-game-character-of-all-time

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50 Comments

  1. Dan Wong on November 11, 2020 at 1:11 am

    That shirt is exhausting

  2. Blackened on November 11, 2020 at 1:13 am

    Scorpion>Subzero

  3. Robert Pfeifer on November 11, 2020 at 1:15 am

    I hope Pikachu makes it to the top! Thunderbolt for the win

  4. Craig Ingram on November 11, 2020 at 1:17 am

    WHERE IS CJ?

  5. JohnnyLeven on November 11, 2020 at 1:18 am

    Best of luck to Geralt Geralt Geralt in the next round

  6. POLFLIET 23 on November 11, 2020 at 1:19 am

    Yoshi😭

  7. Rafael Philip Hernandez Laqui on November 11, 2020 at 1:20 am

    Requiescat in pace to all characters ezio and the brotherhood will leave the title maybe might lose to kratos though

  8. Veexius on November 11, 2020 at 1:24 am

    dante should have made it hes so cool and fun

  9. Ragnarok End on November 11, 2020 at 1:25 am

    No cap authur Morgan is the best character and he has one of the best stories

  10. Arthur Morgan on November 11, 2020 at 1:28 am

    If you are a Nintendo fanboy you don’t understand how real life works

  11. Literally Polio on November 11, 2020 at 1:29 am

    Capcom BTFO

  12. genesisjkc on November 11, 2020 at 1:30 am

    It’s tough to make a choice because some protagonists are more of a character while others serve as more of an avatar. For example, Doom Guy/Slayer has almost no spoken lines and we rarely see him so he is more of an avatar. While Nathan Drake has his own characteristics and personality so he is more of a character. Even though I love the new Doom games, if you ask me to choose the best CHARACTER I would have to pick Nathan Drake out of those two simply because he is clearly a more fleshed out actual character. Another way to tell might be to see if the character you are choosing has a character arc. Meaning are they the same person/thing at the end as they are at the beginning of the game. If the answer is no, like with Kratos, they are probably a stronger character, whereas Luigi has the same consistent motivations and personality from beginning to end so he is more of a player avatar.

  13. Yaboyarde E on November 11, 2020 at 1:36 am

    Where was jak of jak n daxter

  14. Dangelo Rivera on November 11, 2020 at 1:36 am

    Why the hell are you not letting me borrow for a Master Chief? I’m literally going to your website and you’re only letting me vote for either Mario or link !

  15. Sync Ly on November 11, 2020 at 1:37 am

    Whyyyyy ?!?! Arthur Morgan should’ve won.

  16. westernspy on November 11, 2020 at 1:39 am

    damn, Nintendo has the damn upper hand in this one

  17. Eloise Reid on November 11, 2020 at 1:39 am

    🤩🐶

  18. keniel francis on November 11, 2020 at 1:40 am

    Arthur Morgan lost to Luigi?! Y’all are buggin fr

  19. max moore on November 11, 2020 at 1:40 am

    Luigi is better than Arthur Morgan !?
    are 10 year olds are voting for this ?

  20. IGN on November 11, 2020 at 1:42 am

    The Power Ranking Face-Off tournament continues! Check out the bracket so far here and vote for your favorites to keep them in the game: https://www.ign.com/articles/power-ranking-face-off-who-is-the-best-video-game-character-of-all-time

  21. Anand Choubey on November 11, 2020 at 1:44 am

    Who are we kidding
    It’s going to be doomguy vs master chief at the end

  22. Cole Davis on November 11, 2020 at 1:44 am

    Link? Really? Wtf….. against master chief? Who’s voting on this the princess?

  23. Valentina Moretti on November 11, 2020 at 1:46 am

    this is trash how can dragonborn who is a nobody can beat out megaman! one of the most iconic characters in video game history, this competition is so dumb and unfair, please dont act like u have the ultimate word in the videogame industry

  24. Sehajdeep Singh on November 11, 2020 at 1:49 am

    He was sucking every single Sony character off and look what happened 😂

  25. Docdocgoose on November 11, 2020 at 1:49 am

    We all know Mario is the one winning…as it should be, no character more iconic

  26. Milhouse on November 11, 2020 at 1:50 am

    Where’s PACMAN? Didn’t he win in the first round?

  27. Anurag Deshpande on November 11, 2020 at 1:50 am

    Ezio is awesome

  28. Sathwik K on November 11, 2020 at 1:50 am

    I cannot choose between Geralt of Rivia and Doom guy😢

  29. soul zz on November 11, 2020 at 1:51 am

    Disappointed no shadow of the colossus wasn’t in this vote

  30. Piston King Enterprises on November 11, 2020 at 1:52 am

    Wtf! Arthur shoulda made it, all these characters are just little animated playdough dudes and Arthur was a hero that whoever played rd got attached to him and came along the journey with him as he developed. Damn

  31. ReconZero on November 11, 2020 at 1:53 am

    Snaaaaaaaaaaaaake is the winner.

  32. J Jonah Jameson on November 11, 2020 at 1:54 am

    I believe Arthur Morgan is the best character in video game history

  33. Jordan Dwiggins on November 11, 2020 at 1:54 am

    I feel like the Democrats dropping out to support Biden. Nathan Drake and Kirby are two of my favorites in this whole bracket but Solid Snake actually has a chance to move on, so he gets my vote because I definitely want him to win over Pikachu

  34. lovanshu Gusain on November 11, 2020 at 1:55 am

    I mean yeah he’s more of a recent guy but comeon it’s Arthur Morgan

  35. Kirbo on November 11, 2020 at 1:57 am

    YAY I ReAlLy HOpE ZelDA WInS

  36. Greens roger on November 11, 2020 at 1:58 am

    We got a plan author

  37. beanz_777 on November 11, 2020 at 2:00 am

    Scorpion is going to get rolled by mario

  38. Ian Gerhart on November 11, 2020 at 2:00 am

    Master chief because shut up

  39. Mr. Apex on November 11, 2020 at 2:02 am

    MASTER CHIEF!

  40. FRACISS on November 11, 2020 at 2:04 am

    Bet Kratos Will Win I mean C’mon…He Kills Gods…

  41. Anand Choubey on November 11, 2020 at 2:05 am

    Dooooooom

  42. Bhagwant Shergill on November 11, 2020 at 2:05 am

    Guys for the sake of my sanity make DONT put kratos against Ezio I can’t they both literally made my childhood…

  43. Siraj Ali on November 11, 2020 at 2:06 am

    No joke thought the announcer was Alan Resnick

  44. Beefy Ramen Boy on November 11, 2020 at 2:06 am

    Arthur died from TB in the middle of the match.

  45. Wallah Allah on November 11, 2020 at 2:06 am

    Arthur should really just win the whole thing smh

  46. M Frusciante on November 11, 2020 at 2:06 am

    Link, Mario, Snake. HM: Bruce Lee guy from Tekkan

  47. DJTWILIGHT007 HD on November 11, 2020 at 2:07 am

    aruther should of won

  48. JRH on November 11, 2020 at 2:07 am

    I have played games for 15 years now and I have never been so emotionally invested in a character before, as I was to Arthur Morgan.

    Luigi for example has been one of the most iconic video game characters for decades now, but for me, iconic doesnt instantly mean well written.

    Opinions are opinions though…

  49. Emil S on November 11, 2020 at 2:08 am

    It’s not Luigi

  50. Ari Mir on November 11, 2020 at 2:08 am

    jak & daxter?

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