EzekielRaiden
Follower of the Way
Drunken Master 6
Kensei 5 + 1 = 6
Open Hand 13 - 2 = 11
Shadow 12
Sun Soul 6
Kensei 5 + 1 = 6
Open Hand 13 - 2 = 11
Shadow 12
Sun Soul 6
D&D 5E 5E Survivor - Subclasses (Part VII: Monks)
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Gammadoodler
Hero
Drunken Master 6
Kensei 6
Open Hand 9
Shadow 12 + 1 = 13 ..we need more well-designed subclasses
Sun Soul 7 - 2 = 5 ..we don't need walmart-brand Goku
Kensei 6
Open Hand 9
Shadow 12 + 1 = 13 ..we need more well-designed subclasses
Sun Soul 7 - 2 = 5 ..we don't need walmart-brand Goku
fluffybunbunkittens
Hero
Drunken Master 7 what the heck, have an upvote for being themeful, even if you need to burn your Ki
Kensei 6
Open Hand 7
Shadow 14
Sun Soul 3 it's funny that the sun class is the one class that cannot nova at all
Kensei 6
Open Hand 7
Shadow 14
Sun Soul 3 it's funny that the sun class is the one class that cannot nova at all
DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
What's funny is how people keep downvoting the short list and allowing Shadow to cruise to the end... I guess people are happy with it as a 2nd best choice. 
EzekielRaiden
Follower of the Way
I'm downvoting whatever's highest because at this point I don't much care who wins. All the actually interesting options got kicked out. Just trying to keep it interesting until the end.
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing (He/They)
No surprise there. The Way of Shadow has been the highest or second-highest option for nearly the entire contest.What's funny is how people keep downvoting the short list and allowing Shadow to cruise to the end... I guess people are happy with it as a 2nd best choice.
EzekielRaiden
Follower of the Way
Sadly, in a certain sense, these "survivor" threads tend to favor the lowest common denominator. The initial few days of votes clear out the things that are either not generally liked at all, or super controversial. Once these easy pickings are removed, you see consolidation around two camps: the effective, and the traditional, for highly subjective definitions of both of those things. And, generally speaking, tradition will win out. It's why PHB options--when there are PHB options--are almost universally favored over non-PHB options. It's rare for a PHB option to be a true stinker (looking at you, Beast Master), but a lot of them are very "safe."
Essentially, because dislikes are 2x as powerful as likes, anything that is even mildly disliked, no matter what the reason or even for no reason, will evaporate in a puff of smoke. Anything that is blandly inoffensive is much more likely to survive to the final round, at which point all the stuff people felt strongly about will already be gone. And don't get me wrong, I get why dislikes have to be stronger than likes, we need the voting to end eventually. But the format essentially guarantees that anything novel or distinctive will get ground into the dust.
DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
It is cruising now...
This was the last vote I saw this morning before heading off to work:
Since then it was downvoted once, but upvoted 3 times. Meanwhile, all the others are beating each other up and ignoring it. I'd call that cruising, yeah. If half the people since then had downvoted Shadow instead of Sun Soul, the scores would be almost even across the board.
The real battle has been people trying to get rid of Drunken Master and Open Hand, but there is so much love for those two that people are fighting for them tooth and nail (or should I say "hand and foot"?).
Basically this boils down to "Which of the one that I don't like would I be willing to accept as the winner?"
