User blog comment:Nyanda Kamen/why cheap characters?/@comment-5759836-20140319144253

Most are for comedy/fun.

Some are for outwitting each other, in terms of coding skill. For example, I don't even know or want how to do complex code, but I used Super Hyper Ultra Mega Awesome WTF Pingu, my Pingu creation that is a cheap character, to kill the former cheapest character in mugen, Persephone's cheap palette(I forgot what that was), 3 wins to 1 win.

A few are for beating up a notorious individual called Josh Geary.

A few are for testing coding skills, but not competing.