User blog comment:DerpyandDawn/My Total Drama Rankings With Reasoning/@comment-31556666-20140815093733

Wow, first Ella and now Shawn. I get opinions and all, but your issues with Shawn make even less sense. Jashawn is one of the least generic, least normal relationships. Unlike other couples, these two are drawn to each other by my more than just looks. They value the skills the other has, they respect the other, and they'd happily save the other in any time of need. And once Shawn made the mistake of hurting Jasmine in A Blast From the Past, the relationship shown it wasn't normal. Jasmine remained rightfully angry while Shawn kept trying to reconcile.

Judging by your problems with Shawn, I can already predict that you'll say that he knocked Jasmine out of the challenge for stupid reasons because he believed she was a zombie. But the thing about Shawn is that this isn't being necessarily afraid of zombies. It's just that due to all of the survival skills he's had, he's very paranoid. And by the time of the end of the series, Shawn develops to no longer have this fear.

And most importantly of all,

He never played the game.

Really? Let's list off Shawn's usefulness then.

In Twinning Isn't Everything he manages to defeat Scarlett and Max using clever camouflage, and Shawn was also the last person remaining on his team.

Defeats Jasmine in A Blast from the Past, despite this having later repercussions on him.

Saved Jasmine's life in Hurl and Go Seek.

Helped everyone defeat the Chris robots by smashing them to pieces in Scarlett Fever.

He wins immunity in the challenge in Sky Fall.

He wins immunity in Pahk'd With Talent.

That's 6 times, which is pretty decent for a 13 episode season.