Young Adult Fantasy Showdown

BOLD defines my picks, italics are my sentimental favourites.

1. Katsa	1. Katsa	1. Katsa	Katsa can do everything that Jace can do. She's also practically invincible by design, whereas Jace only got saved at the last moment by Clary.	How far does Katsa's grace extend? I'd pick her for being quick enough to incapacitate Howl. Who is likely out of shape.
1. Edward Cullen
2. Christopher Chant	1. Hermione
2. Hermione Granger
3. Jace	2. Jace	1. Jace
3. Daniel
4. Nobody Owens	2. Ai Ling
4. Ai Ling
5. Enna	3. Enna	2. Percy Jackson	Howl is slightly more powerful and Percy is limited to water based powers.
5. Gemma
6. Percy Jackson	3. Percy Jackson
6. Sam Templeton
7. Eragon	4. Sabriel	2. Howl Jenkins
7. Sabriel
8. Howl Jenkins	4. Howl Jenkins
8. Eona

9. Aerin	5. Astrid	3. Katniss	Eugenides has more experience, even if he was never in the Hunger Games.	Tricky. Eugenides is likely a better swordmaster than Alanna, but Alanna has magic. How much of an advantage would that be, exactly? Would Eugenides be clever enough to nullify its effects? Could either of them really take down Katsa? Eugenides, for one, has all her skills but relies on his brain instead of instincts. But if Howl's and Hermione's magic couldn't take out Katsa, then how could Alanna's? Especially with the armor? Eugenides is probably faster and might be able to doge Katsa long enough for her to slip up.
9. Astrid
10. Katniss Everdeen	5. Katniss
10. Tally Youngblood
11. Westley	6. Eugenides	3. Eugenides
11. Eugenides
12. Lessa	6. Lessa
12. Goranu
13. Thorgil	7. Thorgil	4. Aragorn	Aragorn is a better swordsman, but Alanna is a more powerful mage. Or at least, she has more practice with it. Sadly, Aragorn's talent and power comes from his leadership of others, where Alanna is the sort that "finds dark places and fights in them alone."
13. Kendra Sorenson
14. Valek	7. Aragorn
14. Aragorn
15. Alanna	8. Alanna	4. Alanna
15. Meliara
16. Ged	8. Ged
16. Edmund Pevensie

Notes:

Sabriel might have had a fair chance of taken Katsa down if she had enough time to draw her bells. Tally might actually have been fast enough to do the same, if Katniss weren't so good at hiding.