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How to play Build a Character

2 to 6 players · online or one phone · about 5 minutes

You have $15 to build one fighter out of the best parts of others: somebody's speed, somebody else's strength, a third character's brains. The best option in each trait costs $5 and the worst costs $1. Everything you buy is gone for everyone else.

Play Build a Character

The rules

Pick an event. Each one uses its own traits from seven: Intelligence, Speed, Strength, Durability, Fighting Skill, Charisma and Luck. Win the Death Game, for example, uses Intelligence, Speed, Strength and Luck. The host can set 3 to 6 traits. 4 is the classic $15 game.
For each trait, five characters are offered at $5, $4, $3, $2 and $1, ranked by how good they are at that trait. The best one always costs the most. With more players, more characters are offered so the last picker still has a choice.
Players take turns buying one character per trait. Who picks first moves along by one seat every trait.
You must keep $1 for every trait still to come. If everything left is too expensive, you can take the cheapest one for whatever you have.
Each event has a twist revealed at the start, like "No weapons spawn. Fists only." or "Round 1 is glass stepping stones. Luck counts double." Then everyone votes for the build that wins.

The events

Trait events put characters up for each trait: Win the Death Game, Island Battle Royale, The Tournament Arc, Zombie Outbreak, Solo Raid Boss, Escape the Haunted School, Stranded for 30 Days, Prison Break, Become the Village Leader, Win at Mafia, Isekai Speedrun, Sports Festival MVP and Survive the Horror Movie.

Scenario events swap the traits for categories made for one situation, with five hand-picked options each, for up to 4 players. In Build Your Army you buy an army (the Allied Shinobi Forces at $5, the Survey Corps at $1), a special unit, a leader and a medic. The others: Take Out Your Best Friend, The Heist, Plan the Perfect Date, Break Out of Prison, Open a Ramen Shop, The Road Trip and Kaiju Attack.

Where the prices come from

Every character has seven ratings from 1 to 5, researched within their own anime from canon feats (how we do it is on how we rank characters). A $5 Speed pick really is one of the fastest. The full ratings for each anime are in the "Every rating" table on its tier list.

A game, step by step

Event: Win the Death Game (Intelligence, Speed, Strength, Luck). Twist: "Round 1 is glass stepping stones. Luck counts double."

Fay picks first and pays $5 for the smartest character on offer. Gus doesn't fight for Intelligence. He takes the $2 option and saves his money.

In Speed, Gus picks first. Fay now has $10 for three traits and has to keep $1 for each of the two after this one, so the most she can pay is $8.

Gus saved enough for the $5 Luck pick. At the vote he argues that with luck counting double, he survives round 1 and Fay doesn't. The table agrees.

Tips that actually help

Read the twist before you spend. "Luck counts double" makes the $5 Luck pick worth more than any other. "Fists only" makes a weapon user's skill worth less.
Let others overpay. If two people want the $5 option, the $4 one is often nearly as good.
Plan your money across the traits. $5 + $5 + $4 leaves $1 for the last trait. Fine if it's the one that matters least.

More guides

Strongest anime characters · Popular tier lists: JJK tier list · MHA tier list · Naruto tier list · One Piece tier list · Solo Leveling tier list · Edgerunners tier list

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