Season 4 Character Rankings

Character rankings for Trevivor Season 4: Wukong's Wrath!

## **18:** Zach (18th)

This was, uh, the most obvious placement for any player on any season. The man did not post a single message in the server after marooning. Very annoying. I hope he steps on a piece of LEGO in exchange for taking up a spot on the season. Also, this is the first time the last-place player has also been the lowest-placing on the character ranking. Kind of a fun fact.

## **17:** Dan (14th)

Dan started out with a funny moment when he proposed an alliance with Orange on his very first DM, but then like a couple hours into the game he said he was gonna have to be less active than expected, and that while he was gonna keep playing he wouldn’t mind if his tribemates decided to vote him out. This meant he rarely talked to anyone before later actually deciding to quit the game after the swap.

## **16:** Travys (17th)

Travys had the best start of anyone on the Jade tribe, in the centre of everything and looking like he was going to be one of the biggest characters on the season. Helping with the challenge, part of the majority alliance and well-liked by his tribemates, he sadly shocked everyone by deciding to quit the game after just the first cycle. He made a big impact in his one cycle, but his exit means he can’t go any higher than this.

## **15:** James (16th)

James unfortunately wasn’t that active in terms of DMs or confessionals, though he was gamely a part of challenges and had a notable role in the scavenger hunt both for an early argument over the first item and also scoring a good number of points in a losing effort for Kunlun. However, the fact that he was the least talkative overall led to him being a unanimous boot.

## **14:** Sickle (12th)

When the game began Sickle looked like he would be an easy boot on Jade and really didn’t do too much. However, surviving to the swap breathed life into him as he then unexpectedly became a much better character both in confessionals and gameplay, playing a key role in swinging the F13 vote on Gumball. Sadly, right as he was becoming a bigger part of the season he was taken out the very next cycle as his time zone led to him being offline when the joint tribal started and he was offered up as an easy vote. He took his exit with grace despite this, showing a good attitude.

## **13:** Andrew (15th)

The person robbed by Kunlun being a walking disaster in challenges, Andrew seemed to be in a solid position with his alliance with Cece and Jordy, but was taken out by them despite some hesitations in a bid to keep the tribe strong (and as we know, all the Kunluns remained tight forever after). Andrew wasn’t necessarily the most active confessionalist but he had a series of short, engaging vid confs and if the swap had come a cycle sooner he definitely could have made it a lot further.

## **12:** Orange (10th)

Orange was one of the three active players on Buzhou, but the bar was extremely low and he was still pretty lowkey. He laid low again post-swap, but right at the start of the merge he had his biggest impact at the auction when his strategy of bidding on virtually every item landed him three, including a Vote Steal. His shining moment came at F10, though unfortunately for all the wrong reasons as the poorly unorganized Black Tortoise group did not think their strategy through and he ended up pinning the target on himself rather than causing a tie. Sadly, outside of that blunder he did not have the biggest impact on the season from a character perspective.

## **11:** Gumball (13th)

The highest ranking premerger, Gumball came in as a total ORG newbie and leapt right into things, forming a good bonds on Kunlun and initially looking like he was set to make merge. However, he overthought things at F13 and ended up putting himself in one too many alliances, giving off the impression that he was playing too hard and being shady. The reason he’s this high on these rankings is mainly because of his confessionals! They were incredibly well-written for anyone, much less a newbie, with insightful and endearing musings on the game accompanied by some non-game entries like a long list of how good each of the characters from Loud House would be at Survivor. Everyone watching was sad when he went out as early as he did.

## **10:** Jordy (11th)

The merge boot and most robbed juror on the season, Jordy’s elimination was a bit confusing because it seemed like it was kind of out of nowhere. Up until that point it seemed like he was playing a solid game, from his beginnings on Kunlun where he formed a tight bond with Cece to Black Tortoise where he spearheaded the creation of a somewhat unexpected trio with Ben and Marco. He wasn’t always at the vocal forefront of the action but Jordy seemed to be in the loop on most of what was going on premerge, but his openness with Cece at the merge led to her throwing him under the bus and a potential stealth contender became the first juror.

## **9:** Marco (8th)

a bit of an unlucky hand. First they were on the inactive tribe in Buzhou, then when they got to a more active group on Black Tortoise and rose to one of the power players on it they were shunted into the minority right when the merge hit. They fought to stay in and staved off elimination at F9, but were idoled out at F8 trying to help lead a charge against Cece. It was during that tribal that they showed the attitude and stubbornness that made them an engaging character, refusing to play their Safety Without Power on themselves even when told that they were a target, wanting to take a full shot at a power player. It didn’t work, but the attempt was admirable.

## **8:** Jake (5th)

Winner of the Hero award, through the first cycle it looked like Jake was destined to be one of the first boots on the season, as he didn’t talk to anyone at all the first couple days. But Buzhou scraping by in challenges gave him the chance to grow into the game, beginning with his duo with Aria which lasted the entire game and was probably the most stable and wholesome alliance of the whole season. He continued to have spots of inactivity due to a busy IRL schedule but completed his transition from amusing non-entity to rootable UTR threat postmerge when he was part of the game’s top alliance, a vocal leader in the VC that led to the Allen blindside and taken out by a single vote in the F5 idol play. He definitely had one of the more unique arcs we’ve seen in Trevivor.

## **7:** Ben (7th)

Ben came into this game with a chip on his shoulder, and came out the gate guns blazing, filling the power vacuum left by Travys’ departure from Jade and serving as a top contender for the entire premerge, giving awesome confessional updates including lots of strategic thinking. However, what hurts him in these rankings is that he did slow down in this regard postmerge, and he sadly just wasn’t able to impact the game in the same way after he was immediately zeroed in on by the White Tiger group as a threat and figurehead of the Black Tortoise group. He also had a slight tendency to underestimate his opponents, a fact he realized only when he was close to his own elimination and too late to change things up and save himself.

## **6:** Brodie (6th)

This feels pretty low considering how massive of a character Brodie was during the endgame speedrun day and FTC. From posting in tribal council chat instead of his conf, openly telling Cece he wouldn’t take her if he won FIC then DQing himself anyway, and general energetic attitude, if we had more of that over the full season he could have been at the very top of these rankings. But sadly, for a lot of the game we just didn’t get nearly as much, whether in confessionals or elsewhere. He was usually involved in what was going on but just didn’t have as much of a noticeable impact as others, though he was always good for some funny moments throughout and closed well with a strong finale and FTC performance.

## **5:** Aria (6th)

The POTG, Aria was one of the steadiest forces throughout the whole season. Level-headed, well-liked and just about always in the loop, she went from the top of Buzhou to a key cog in White Tiger and one of the three major contenders postmerge. She might not have played the flashiest game but it was effective and she was rootable the whole way through. Her duo with Jake was a highlight, and she had similarly strong bonds with both Cece and Campbell, though they both saw her as a big threat that needed to be taken out. She went for her biggest move at F6 but was outmaneuvered for the first time at that tribal, leading to her elimination as the first big domino to fall leading into the endgame.

## **4:** Dawn (4th)

The second of the three newbies that had a big impact on the season, Dawn had quite the unexpected journey in this game. He began as an OTT villain-type, looking to immediately establish control on Kunlun and was one of the biggest characters in the entire game in the first couple cycles. He then faded into more of a background player at the swap and beginning of the merge, before then evolving again into an underdog anti-hero, radiating a lot of angry energy as his planned moves were blocked time and again. He had a voice and presence that was unmistakably his own, and the one thing holding him back from being even higher here was his inconsistency in conf-writing. His confs, especially near the end, were hilarious in their sound and fury, but he would sometimes go for a bit without much at all. Besides that, a great character.

## **3:** Allen (9th)

There was no one who commanded attention in the middle stage of the game like Allen. From the scavenger hunt to Greed to camp chat drill sergeant-type organization to looking to command the whole White Tiger alliance, he was often the most talked about player in his tribemates confs, for better or for worse. Like Dawn, he evolved as the game took shape, initially the “happy to be here” newbie who grew into power and tried to dictate how the whole game would play out. This led directly to the most chaotic single cycle at F9 where his blindside stood as the biggest move in the game to that point, and even in Ponderosa he still was a big character. While some of his convictions - like being unforgiving of Cece for betraying him when he’d tried to do the same to her - were puzzling, overall he provided a quite unique energy to the game.

## **2:** Campbell (3rd)

Coming into the game, Campbell’s villainous history and bravado might not have made him a preseason pick to be a fallen angel Fan Favourite. But that’s exactly what happened, as after a somewhat slow beginning (where his confessional was mostly small rants about how much he hated Jade tribe) he flourished postswap and especially postmerge where he became one of the most dominant figures in the game. So much of everything seemed to flow through him strategically, and his social chops shone as well as he was not hated by anyone despite riding in the middle for much of the merge. His rise from somewhat UTR kind of floater to odds-on favourite to win was a fascinating arc to watch, and the fact that he came so close yet fell short after controlling votes, playing an idol and going on an unprecedented immunity streak only added to that.

## **1:** Cece (1st)

For the first time, our winner also tops the character rankings (in fact, it’s the first time the winner has been in the top three). And it’s deserved, as Cece held herself like a main character from the beginning of the game. The self-proclaimed “UTR Goddess” was anything but that, as she flashed between OTT outbursts and (often bloodthirsty) ranting in her conf. She controlled Kunlun, was at the top of White Tiger, might have conceded pole position in the game for a period in the merge but she claimed her crown with the most crucial of immunity wins at the death, pulling out an unexpected performance when she needed it the most. Targeted at what seemed like every tribal in the second half of the merge, nearly breaking the Trevivor record for votes cast against, self-voting only to be saved as the only player from any season to have two idols played on them, Cece was impossible to not watch and had an energy that made her both a villain and quite rootable at the same time.