Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 395 ft Chocobo, Penelo, Ghost Rider

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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 394:

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

Re-Ranking Result:

Jeff Probst (Survivor) is now Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Chocobo (Final Fantasy series)
Penelo (Final Fantasy XII)
Ghost Rider (Marvel)


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Re-rank Callie & Marie

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High Fodder for the Chocobo. Chocobos are in just about every Final Fantasy game, as opposed to Boko who is tied to the unpopular FF5. Between FF7's Chocobo racing and multiple spinoff games (Chocobo Dungeon, etc), I think the Chocobo will be able to outdo most fodder.

I haven't played enough of FF12 to know for sure, but it seems like Penelo has some of the same issues that Vaan has - that is, having very little plot relevance. Penelo definitely doesn't get the vocal hate that Vaan does, but I don't see how she ends up doing much better herself. I'll saw Low Fodder.

I say Mid Fodder for Ghost Rider for 2 reasons: FLAMING SKELETON ON A BIKE, and Nick Cage. Aside from that he was in MvC3 and the Agents of Shield tv show too.


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pretty much agreed.

Ghost Rider would get pretty much all of his strength from his design, Nick Cage meme votes, and people who know Marvel characters from Marvel vs. Capcom. All that honestly almost adds up to low fodder honestly (I have no idea how popular Agents of Shield is around here, and I can't remember any prominent roles he's had in Marvel cartoons), but i'll be generous.

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I...guess Ill go with low fodder for Ghost Rider but maybe he could ride his design to do something. Give him an MCU appearance or a game of his own anyone cares about and Id up him to mid pretty easily.

Sweet Tooth vs Ghost Rider, who ya got?

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Oh, agreed with halfsilver on the other two.

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Agree with Axem, even though I would pretty easily take Ghost Rider over Sweet Tooth.

I'll also nominate Cynthia for reranking. High Fodder's about the cap for a Gen. 4 Pokmon character in the first place, so our current ranking's already treading on thin ice. On top of that, try telling N how much good being the fan favorite human character from a post-nostalgia Pokmon game does here.

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nominate Amicia de Rune (A Plague Tale: Innocence)

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AxemRedRanger posted...

maybe he could ride his design to do something.

Heh. That said I'll change my rating on Ghost Rider to Low Fodder. I could see him being not great since MvC is his only relevant game appearance and the Ghost Rider movies don't seem well-remembered for anything besides Nick Cage memes. His design probably won't get him too far with the current Gfaqs demographic either.

Day 396 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78844910

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