Board 8 > ~*~Ranking the CBX Characters by Contest Strength: Day 8 - Fodder~*~

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the project where we rank all the CBX characters by contest strength! This time, well be ranking the Fodder tier, comprised of the following characters:

Aqua, Aya Brea, Cuphead, D.Va, Godot, Gordon Freeman, Guile, Isabelle, Joel, John Marston, Kazuma Kiryu, Metal Man, Monika, Neku Sakuraba, Noctis Lucis Caelum, Primrose, Ryo Hazuki, Shantae, and Yu Narukami

Before we get going, heres the Rules, as always:

1. If at all possible, please number your rankings (ex. 1 for the strongest character, etc.) - it makes your ranks much clearer, allowing me to tabulate them much easier.
2. Rankings of indirect strength are preferred, but direct rankings will be allowed, especially in tandem with indirect rankings.
3. Stick to one ranking per tier (or one ranking each of indirect and direct strength if you choose to separate them) - dont try to sway the standings with multiple accounts.
4. Youre always welcome to submit retroactive rankings if you missed one or more days, as well as change your existing rankings if so inclined, up until this project ends.
5. And most importantly, be nice to each other, even people you dont like! Discussion is welcomed and encouraged, but this isnt ultimately meant to be an overly serious project, so I dont want to see any knock-down, drag-out arguments developing in here about how someones not ranking by the stats or whatever else - use your discretion about this.

Our spreadsheet, where you can find all of this project's raw data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s6rNxUlXY3kpo9Ru-Pyw9CjtGBIRasJKiUv6a7cEgEw/edit?usp=sharing

And our Board 8 Wiki page, where you can find the list of tiers, among other things: http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Ranking_the_CBX_Characters_by_Contest_Strength

Heres the Fodder characters listed in an easy copy-paste format:

Aqua
Aya
Cuphead
D.Va
Godot
Gordon
Guile
Isabelle
Joel
John Marston
Kazuma
Metal Man
Monika
Neku
Noctis
Primrose
Ryo Hazuki
Shantae
Yu Narukami

As for yesterday's results, here's our current ranking of the High Fodder tier:

1. Shepard
2. Garrus
3. Ramza
4. Chris
5. Ezio
6. K. Rool
7. Shovel Knight
8. Riku
9. Claire
10. Richter (tie)
11. Shulk (tie)
12. Joker
13. Metal Sonic
14. Ellie
15. Geno
16. Lloyd
17. Velvet
18. Edgeworth
19. Dragonborn

Finally, Day 9, which will be the Low Fodder tier, will be going up in the evening of December 30th (PT).
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With the interest from last topic, I think I'll be going ahead with my idea of having bonus slates after our regular schedule is complete. That being said, we've got a few different ways we can approach this.

My first idea was to take lists of 30 pre-determined veterans who missed out on CBX, and 30 pre-determined newcomers who haven't been in a contest before (both selected to prioritize strength) and have you the rankers tackle those. My preliminary choices for those lists are the following:

Veteran Snubs: Banjo, Barret Wallace, CATS, Cid Highwind, Darth Revan, Diablo, Dracula, Epona, Falco Lombardi, Gilgamesh, Jecht, Ken Masters, Liquid Snake, Marth, M. Bison, Meta Knight, Midna, Missingno, Morrigan Aensland, Pit, Pokmon Trainer Blue, Proto Man, Raiden, Rikku, Rydia of Mist, Solaire of Astora, Squirtle, Strider Hiryu, Urdnot Wrex, Weighted Companion Cube, and Zack Fair

Newcomer Snubs: 9S, Bahamut, Black Mage, Blastoise, Bulbasaur, Chocobo, Dark Link, Dark Samus, Death, Ditto, Dogmeat, Johnny Cage, Left Pong Paddle, Linkle, Lulu, Majora, MegaMan.EXE, Misty, Paper Mario, Piranha Plant, Professor Oak, Psycho Mantis, Red XIII, Roy, Sheik, Sir Charles, Space Michael Jackson, TaliZorah nar Rayya, Venom Snake, and Yuffie Kisaragi

If you're wondering who some of those newcomers are, most of them have links to wiki pages explaining about them from this page, which also has a partial list of other potential newcomers: http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/New_Characters

I'm open to suggestions for any characters who deserve to be on either of those lists, or regarding any character on one of those lists who just doesn't belong.

Another alternative for the veterans is to use darkx's idea of ranking all the veterans who have been in at least 3 character battles (but not CBX) in one ranking. If you have any other ideas you think might work for either the veteran or newcomer slates, please suggest them!
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1. Gordon
2. Aqua
3. Noctis
4. Cuphead
5. Guile
6. Joel
7. Yu
8. Metal Man
9. Shantae
10. Kazuma
11. Isabelle
12. Ryo
13. John Marston
14. Monika
15. Aya
16. D.Va
17. Neku
18. Primrose
19. Godot

Gordon was another fuck up this year. All jokes aside, this weak performance was a huge outlier for him.

Again, the bottom-ranked Ace Attorney character should be in the next tier down.
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1. Guile
2. Gordon
3. Aqua
4. John Marston
5. Cuphead
6. Yu Narukami
7. Shantae
8. Noctis
9. Metal Man
10. Kazuma
11. Joel
12. Ryo Hazuki
13. Isabelle
14. Monika
15. Aya
16. D.Va
17. Neku
18. Godot
19. Primrose
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My ranking:

1. Cuphead
2. Joel
3. Monika
4. Gordon
5. Guile
6. Shantae
7. Noctis
8. Aya
9. Yu Narukami
10. Ryo Hazuki
11. Kazuma
12. John Marston
13. Isabelle
14. Aqua
15. D.Va
16. Metal Man
17. Primrose
18. Neku
19. Godot

I feel like Gordon was placed in a poor position as an icon who no one really cares about versus an icon people do care about, resulting in his unusually bad performance. That being said, Gordon fared so badly that there's only so much slack I can give him for that. Also, I'm judging Monika based on her rallies, as I would say there's very few if any opponents they wouldn't have manifested against this year.
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Shovel Knight wasn't near the bottom? Good.

I'm going to rank these more based on how I think the matches would go one-on-one, as opposed to how well they'd do on Link or somebody strong.

1. Guile
2. Gordon
3. Aqua
4. Noctis
5. Joel
6. John Marston
7. Metal Man
8. Isabelle
9. Kazuma
10. Ryo Hazuki
11. Yu Narukami
12. Aya
13. Primrose
14. Shantae
15. Cuphead
16. Monika
17. Neku
18. D.Va
19. Godot
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Tag for tomorrow
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1. Gordon
2. Guile
3. Aya
4. Noctis
5. Shantae
6. Ryo Hazuki
7. Godot
8. Isabelle
9. Kazuma
10. Aqua
11. Metal Man
12. Primrose
13. Yu Narukami
14. Monika
15. Neku
16. Cuphead
17. D.Va
18. John Marston
19. Joel
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1. Aqua
2. Gordon
3. Yu Narukami
4. Aya
5. Joel
6. Guile
7. Shantae
8. Cuphead
9. Neku
10. John Marston
11. Noctis
12. Metal Man
13. Kazuma
14. Ryo Hazuki
15. Monika
16. Primrose
17. D.Va
18. Godot
19. Isabelle
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1. Gordon
2. Aqua
3. Guile
4. Cuphead
5. Shantae
6. Yu Narukami
7. Aya
8. Ryo Hazuki
9. Kazuma
10. Joel
11. John Marston
12. Isabelle
13. Metal Man
14. Monika
15. Primrose
16. D.Va
17. Noctis
18. Neku
19. Godot
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1. Guile
2. Noctis
3. D.Va
4. Gordon
5. Yu Narukami
6. Joel
7. John Marston
8. Aya
9. Godot
10. Aqua
11. Cuphead
12. Metal Man
13. Ryo Hazuki
14. Kazuma
15. Shantae
16. Isabelle
17. Monika
18. Neku
19. Primrose
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Blah. Sorry folks, but I'm going to delay the new topic until this evening (12/31).
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1. Gordon Freeman
2. Guile
3. John Marston
4. Metal Man
5. Aya Brea
6. Aqua
7. Neku
8. Cuphead
9. Godot
10. Shantae
11. Monika
12. Isabelle
13. Noctis
14. Ryo Hazuki
15. Yu Narukami
16. D'Va
17. Kazuma
18. Joel
19. Primrose
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