Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 78 ft Kratos Aurion, Nick Wilde, Poison

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This is a topic to rate the contest strength of potential newcomers in the current contest environment.

I will pick the characters to rate and discuss for each day from user nominations - whoever the 3 most nominated characters are at that time. If there are more than 3 I will pick randomly. You can nominate any number of characters at any time, but you cannot nominate the same character twice.

All characters who were present in the 2018 Character Battle will NOT be eligible. Otherwise you can nominate any character that has appeared in video games; even comic book characters. This will exclude real-life athletes who have only appeared in long running sports series, however I will accept those who have their own games such as Shaq. I will accept nominations for iconic gaming duos too, if both members of said duo are named in the title of a game (Banjo-Kazooie, Sam & Max Hit the Road, etc).

Each day will have a separate topic, and nominations will carry over. As far as actually rating the character's contest strength; I ask that users rank a characters potential strength with one of the following qualifiers - LAW Fodder, Low Fodder, Mid Fodder, High Fodder, Fodder Line, Low Midcarder, Midcarder, High Midcarder, Near Elite, Elite, LAW Tier (capable of beating Link). I will average all the ratings given to a character to come up with their final ranking. I have included a highlighted entrant from Character Battle X on each tier of the strength rankings below, to provide a baseline for each.

Note that LAW Fodder is meant to be a tier reserved for the weakest possible characters to put into a contest. A character will only be placed there if at least 3/4ths of the voters for that day agree on the LAW Fodder rating, and no ratings above Low Fodder are given. If either of those conditions are not met, the character will not be eligible for the LAW Fodder tier.

Current Character Strength Rankings: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P1AIhHywBiLd6VAMZMNEGX-HW2td8u1D0Iw_tzHsORw/edit?usp=sharing

Nomination List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-KnSBDzppzPK5Ug1zmx8_x0bG4tqFDMPPH2k8J3s8sk/edit?usp=sharing

Results from Day 77:

Agent Smith (The Matrix) is Low Fodder
Bumblebee (Transformers) is Mid Fodder
Gruntilda (Banjo-Kazooie) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Kratos Aurion (Tales of Symphonia)
Nick Wilde (Zootopia)
Poison (Final Fight/Street Fighter)
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Poison is decently well known in most gaming circles because "lol she's a BOY"

That plus tits puts her at mid fodder imo

Not sure about kratos a anymore

Nick is low fodder
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Kratos is Mid Fodder - that seemed to be where he was in CB9 and I don't think he would have declined too much.

Agree with Mid Fodder for Poison. Most people know her and she obviously has TJF, but I don't see voters caring too much for her.

Agree with Low Fodder for Nick - I just don't see a reason for someone to vote him over a character with any semblance of popularity.
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Kratos - mid fodder. My gut instinct was that anyone from Tales other than Lloyd and Velvet should be low fodder by this point, but Kratos actually avoided looking like miserable crap back when he used to get in, and the fact that he made multiple contests without being the lead or being rallied says something. I do think he's weaker than Lloyd by this point though.

Poison - yeah mid fodder seems right.

Nick - low fodder. Despite the general popularity of Zootopia, I highly doubt it translates to GameFAQs.
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Agree with Mid Fodder for Kratos and Poison and Low Fodder for Nick.

Nominations:
Adol Christin (Ys)
Camilla (Fire Emblem)
Clank (Ratchet & Clank)
Daxter (Jak and Daxter)
Dr. Light (Mega Man)
Flannery (Pokmon)
Q*Bert
Roll
Skyla
Yuri Lowell
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Kratos aurion - high fodder. Think the boko match made him look weaker than he really is, the two jrpg characters probably hurt each other.
Poison - mid fodder
Nick wilde - low fodder

Nominate:
Majora
Sailor moon
Earthworm Jim
Ratchet
Bubsy
Duke nukem
Epona
Gilgamesh (ffv)
Jigglypuff
E.T.
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AxemRedRanger posted...

Think the boko match made him look weaker than he really is, the two jrpg characters probably hurt each other.

I agree with this, but Lloyd had a poor first-round exit against the weakest Ryu we've ever seen in 2018, and Kratos's general archetype is not one that has held up well on GameFAQs.
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Kratos Aurion: Mid Fodder. Symphonia has always been one of the more popular Tales games on this site so he's definitely capable of beating most of the Low Fodder folks. The remaster most definitely helps his case, since the whippersnappers might've played the game. Though sadly not many of them seem into JRPGs... we need to help them.

Nick Wilde: Low Fodder. Not the place. Next.

Poison: Mid Fodder. Would be Low, but the meme Zen mentioned is enough to elevate Him/Her/It a level.
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What whippersnappers? You're on gamefaqs. Go check out today's poll of the day.
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AxemRedRanger posted...

What whippersnappers? You're on gamefaqs. Go check out today's poll of the day.

The whippersnappers who flock in from Reddit and the like to vote in contests and/or troll us, then don't return to the site. Those whippersnappers.
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__LeiaRolando__ posted...

Poison: Mid Fodder. Would be Low, but the meme Zen mentioned is enough to elevate Him/Her/It a level.

Calling someone an it is dehumanizing. Don't do that.

MegaWentEvil posted...

__LeiaRolando__ posted...

Poison: Mid Fodder. Would be Low, but the meme Zen mentioned is enough to elevate Him/Her/It a level.

Calling someone an it is dehumanizing. Don't do that.

It's an in-joke of mine that you've clearly ignored for the last decade.

And posting without contributing to the topic? Don't do that.
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I am changing my vote on Poison to High Fodder. After looking back at Poison's CB9 match she actually looked pretty good, and she was very recently added to Street Fighter V for what it's worth.

nominations:

Adol Christin (Ys series)
Camilla (Fire Emblem Fates)
Dr. Light (Mega Man)
Flannery (Pokmon)
Triss Merigold (The Witcher)
Mona (WarioWare)
Frankenstein (Castlevania)
Travis Touchdown (No More Heroes)
Rainbow Mika (Street Fighter)
Warrior of Light (Final Fantasy I)
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Hmmm. Yeah, running the numbers poison looks better than I figured. Ill go with high fodder too.

Not sure SFV does much though. Ryus 2018 and the games miserable average rating here suggests people dont like the game!
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Day 79 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/77941964
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