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Piplup would be low fodder. Pokmon from beyond Gen 1 aren't worth much, and Chimchar was the most popular Sinnoh starter. Playing a prominent role in the anime wouldn't even help imo; if anything, it might hurt since Dawn's Piplup was kind of annoying.

E-123 Omega would be...mid fodder, I think? Yeah, looking at the examples given, I'd say Mid Fodder. Sonic characters beyond the main trio aren't terribly strong, though Shadow did okay for awhile. Even Shadow's older than Omega, though, not to mention Omega's a kind of one-dimensional character. Put it this way: Omega's best appearance in a game came when Sega Team loaned its characters out to Bioware to make an RPG, and he was an optional party member in that and joined after all but one of the non-optional characters. They basically gave him HK-47's personality, which I guess wasn't really that big a stretch given Omega's usual personality but HK-47 was a more interesting character. Anyway, Omega's debut was in Sonic Heroes, where I think he was the only character making his debut. Heroes was generally considered the point where the series really jumped the shark (though my personal ranking for the first three 3D games is A2 > Heroes > A1), but it's still older than stuff like Shadow's eponymous game (which I also liked, but I felt that they made a huge misstep by trying to fit it into the Sonic continuity as a main series game. Donkey Kong started as a Mario character and he's pretty much independent of him; Wario was basically supposed to be Bizarro Mario and he's had two series of his own. Yoshi's not quite as independent of Mario but he's got his own series, too. Sega should've followed Nintendo's lead and just spun Shadow off into his own thing!) and the hated Sonic '06. So he'll at least be marginally better than some other fodder.

I've never heard of Dragon's Crown, but I'd have to assume that a generically named character from a game I've never heard of would be the fodderiest of fodder.

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