Leonie’s Choose Your Legends Performance

The results of CYL5 were released a few hours ago, and I put together some of the key information on Leonie’s performance compared to last year.

CYL4 - 73rd place - 2503 votes CYL5 - 55th place - 1899 votes

The biggest news here is that Leonie climbed nearly 20 spots in the ranking. As with last year, her war phase design was the more popular of the two. The fact that she scored ~600 less votes than last year is unsurprising given the general decrease in votes this year.

CYL4 had 1,097,340 votes total, while CYL5 only received 692,387 by my count, representing only a 63% turnout. In light of that Leonie received 75% of her 2020 total, whereas more popular golden girl Hilda received a much more on trend 63% of her 2020 total (though still more than 3 times the raw votes Leonie received this year)

Leonie also no longer holds the title of “Least Popular Female Student”. Mercedes managed to climb to 57 this year, up from 62 in 2020, but Leonie now has her beat by 2 places. She’s also now more popular than Flayn, whose popularity plummeted by nearly 100 places this year.

In terms of popularity among TH characters not yet in Heroes, she now ranks 8th, largely due to this years inclusion of the Ashen Wolves. The list of “most wanted” Three Houses units is now:

Yuri Dedue Ashe Constance Linhardt Hapi Caspar Leonie

This isn’t a huge accomplishment, because pretty much every student not on this list is in the game in some form. She outranks Ignatz and Balthus, Church members like Cyril and Alois, and a bunch of NPC’s.

Given her general standing in the community I’m personally pretty pleased with the results of this year. As a player, I’m optimistic for her release this year, and for those who don’t care, you can at least look forward to the possibility of getting some new official art.