Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 41 ft Heihachi, Beatrix, King Kong

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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 both members of said duo are named in the title of a game (Banjo-Kazooie, Sam & Max Hit the Road, etc).

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 - 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.

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

Results from Day 40:

Mog (Final Fantasy VI) is High Fodder
SA-X (Metroid Fusion) is a Low Midcarder
Great Deku Tree (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) is High Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Beatrix (Final Fantasy IX)
Heihachi Mishima (Tekken)
King Kong (Peter Jackson's King Kong)
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Beatrix - high fodder. Only Vivi is strong. Zidane is a low midcarder at best and Kuja bombed.

Heihachi - mid fodder. Jin and Kazuya were both right around there, I see Heihachi being in the same boat.

King Kong - mid fodder. I know the game was well-received but i just seriously doubt the voters on GameFAQs care about King Kong as a character.

Nominate:
Kenny McCormick (South Park)
Irvine Kinneas (FF8)
Mumbo Jumbo (Banjo-Kazooie)
Belle (Beauty and the Beast)
Wii Fit Trainer (Wii Sports)
K.K. Slider (Animal Crossing)
Egon Spengler (Ghostbusters)
Freddy Fazbear (Five Nights at Freddy's)
Max Caulfield (Life is Strange)
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Agree with High Fodder for Beatrix and Mid Fodder for King Kong.

For Heihachi I will say High Fodder because he is a more recognized character than Jin and especially Kazuya. He also had a huge role in Tekken 7.

nominations:

Wii Fit Trainer
Kenny McCormick (South Park)
Mumbo Jumbo (Banjo-Kazooie)
Freddy Fazbear (Five Nights at Freddy's)
Celes Chere (Final Fantasy VI)
Kimahri Ronso (Final Fantasy X)
Laharl (Disgaea)
Entei (Pokemon)
Sam Fisher (Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell)
Juri Han (Street Fighter IV/V)
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Sorry WFT's game of origin should be Wii Fit of course, my bad.
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Second Wii fit trainer

Agree with half silver
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Beatrix (Final Fantasy IX) - Mid Fodder. Don't have any confidence in peripheral FF characters doing much. There's gotta be a notable drop in strength after Zidane, right? And then probably another one between, say, Steiner/Freya/Dagger and Beatrix? (could plausibly see people not giving a damn about Eiko/Quina/Amarant, though)
Heihachi Mishima (Tekken) - Mid Fodder. Never played Tekken and not particularly familiar but doubt he has much strength.
King Kong (Peter Jackson's King Kong) - Low Fodder. Not turbofodder perhaps but low. Godzilla has some relevance now and perhaps some nerd chic but I think King Kong is pretty much just a historical artifact people are aware of but don't care about in the slightest and the only point of interest I think he'll have win the gamefaqs demographic is (directly or indirectly) inspiring Donkey Kong's last name.
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Did we do Garfield yet?

Nominate Garfield
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I'll second Garfield.
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I agree with darkx about all three. For Beatrix, I feel like she's well-liked enough to have third-tier FF9 strength, along with Kuja and the three Axem mentioned, despite her lack of party membership and third-tier plot importance.
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Nominate:

Dalton (Chrono Trigger)
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Day 42 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/77847959
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