Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 585 ft Ashley Riot, Tira, Dr. John Hammond

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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 584:

Nidorina (Pokemon) is Low Fodder
Dazzler (X-Men) is Low Fodder
Simea (Crystalis) is LAW Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Ashley Riot (Vagrant Story)
Tira (Soul Calibur)
Dr. John Hammond (Jurassic Park)

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Low fodder for all three, and contemplating LAW for Ashley Riot, whose only claim to fame is being in a game released 21 years ago and not been referenced since.

Hammond might get enough votes to be low fodder from those who've watched the Jurassic films.

Most Soul Calibur characters would be low fodder, with the exception of Nightmare who might be mid fodder.

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Agree with ZSig's ratings. Hammond is presumably not meaningfully worse off than Grant, and the original Jurassic Park's place in this site's collective memory seems too great for any of its important characters to slip to LAW Fodder anyways.

I don't think Ashley only appearing in one 21-year-old game is too much of an issue here, though, considering said game is a Square Golden Age JRPG. Any equivalency with Caim of pre-Nier Drakengard seems suspect.

Nominate Lezard Valeth and Nova/Richard Rider.

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Nominate:
Magmar (Pokemon)
Omastar (Pokemon)
Aerodactyl (Pokemon)
Goldeen Pokemon)
Weedle (Pokemon)

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And agreed for todays trio.

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agree with Zsig and second axem's nominations

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Day 586 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79269431

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