Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 394 ft Oerba Yun Fang, Tron Bonne, Bleck

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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 there is a compelling reason for both characters to be linked (either co-starring in a game ala Banjo & Kazooie, or always appearing together like Callie & Marie from Splatoon).

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

If you feel that a character has been over or under-ranked, or if a new development has come up that would affect their contest strength, you may nominate them for a re-ranking. You may nominate one character per day for this, and 3 votes are needed to get them on the slate. One character with 3 votes will come up for re-ranking today.

Re-ranking Nomination List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V6dx-tu-FD1rCxbX69eQwEzE7x1F6nNRNFochYHu1dc/edit?usp=sharing

Results from Day 393:

Cookie Masterson (Jackbox/You Don't Know Jack) is Low Fodder
Mr. X (Resident Evil 2) is Mid Fodder
Dimentio (Super Paper Mario) is Low Fodder

Re-Ranking Result:

Godzilla (Godzilla) is now High Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Oerba Yun Fang (Final Fantasy XIII)
Tron Bonne (Megaman Legends)
Count Bleck (Super Paper Mario)

Today's Re-Ranking is:

Jeff Probst (Survivor)

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Nominate:
Snow
Vanille
Hope

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I'll say Mid Fodder for Fang. She seems to be one of the better-liked characters in the FF13 trilogy, and yeah, she's pretty hot too.

Tron I will say Mid Fodder for as well. Gfaqs likely still has some nostalgia for the Mega Man Legends games, plus Tron has been a mainstay of the Marvel vs Capcom series since MvC2. Her design is also quite distinctive.

Low Fodder for Count Bleck, recycling the same reasoning we used yesterday for Dimentio.

I nominated Jeff for re-ranking hundreds of days ago, but I still think Low Fodder is more accurate. Most of Gfaqs will know who he is, as the first few seasons of Survivor in the early 2000s were a BIG deal. I'm sure that even 15 years later Gfaqs voters will still remember his name, and I think he'll get enough apathy votes compared to someone like Caim to not be among the worst potential characters for a contest.

Survivor is still running today, though I'm sure all of 3 people on Gfaqs are still actually watching.

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Oerba Yun Fang (Final Fantasy XIII) - mid fodder

I guess.

Tron Bonne (Megaman Legends) - low fodder

I think shed have probably made mid around 2013 when people were still mad about Legends 3 and UMvC3 was sort of relevant. Nowadays Id guess not.

Count Bleck (Super Paper Mario) - low fodder

Jeff Probst (Survivor) - LAW fodder

My issue with Jeff is that I watched the show pretty consistently up until around Vanuatu or so but without participating in any real discussion of it outside of commenting on it with family while we watched new episodes and...Not only did I not remember Jeffs name before it was brought up for this topic, Im not sure I ever previously knew it. Did recall his voice and appearance for what thats worth. Furthermore I didnt really remember anyone else very clearly other than Richard Hatch and Johnny Fairplay.

Maybe Im atypical but I dont think people on gamefaqs in 2020 are going to care at all outside the Survivor fanbase and I dont think the latter is gonna be that large. also I dont know if people would really wanna vote game show hosts much regardless. I dont see, say, Regis Philbin being worth much either and Id say he has better name recognition? on the other hand Id probably take Jeff to beat Cookie and other people voted him low fodder so theres that.

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Agree with Axem. I can concede that Jeff's a bigger name than Cookie even on GameFAQs, but the difference is that basically no one's even going to realize Jeff appeared in a video game, let alone think of him as worth voting for in a video game character contest. At least Cookie is actually a video game character, and maybe he'd get a few 'har har funny name/pic' votes too.

I'll also nominate Callie & Marie for reranking. They're the fan favorites of a series that's just not popular whatsoever here. I also don't see any reason for them to defy the fan favorite trend to be on the same level as said series' main playable character, especially not with Smash in mind.

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I'll second Callie & Marie for Re-ranking. Like Inkling, I think our previous ranking assumed Splatoon would have some strength but Splatoon 2's performance in GOTD2 proved otherwise.

Day 395 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78842758

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