Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 600 ft Raven (DC), Skullomania, Headcrab

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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 599:

Captain Commando (Captain Commando) is Low Fodder
Blasternaut (Math Blaster) is LAW Fodder
Kabuto (Pokemon) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Raven (DC Comics)
Skullomania (Fighting EX Layer/Street Fighter EX)
Headcrab (Half-Life)

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Mid Fodder for Raven. She's definitely the most popular of the Teen Titans and was the focus of many iconic episodes of the cartoon, not to mention the praised Trigon arc. While she was changed a bit in Teen Titans Go she did not go full-on silly like the rest of the team from what I've seen, so that shouldn't negatively affect her. Aside from that she was in the first Injustice game and is in an ongoing live-action series, though I'm not sure how good it is.

Low Fodder for Skullomania and Headcrab. Skullo is from a somewhat obscure series of games, but they do have the Street Fighter name and he is the runaway fan favorite of the series. Plus Fighting EX gives him some recent relevance.

Headcrab is an iconic enemy and I think will pick up some joke votes too, but I don't think it would be worth much even in Half-Life's prime.

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I'll say Low Fodder for Raven. This site is simply too old for a cartoon that premiered in 2003 and had fairly limited pop-cultural penetration to matter much, and Raven lacks any really relevant video game or other media appearances to compensate.

I'll agree with Low Fodder for Skullomania and Headcrab.

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Agreed with Metalmind.

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Nominate Beast Boy (Teen Titans)

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second Beast Boy

Day 601 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79295963

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