Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 44 ft Solaire, Agent J, Lucca Ashtear

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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 43:

Garfield (Garfield games) is High Fodder
Iron Man (Marvel) is a Low Midcarder
Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Solaire of Astora (Dark Souls)
Lucca Ashtear (Chrono Trigger)
Agent J (Men in Black)
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Solaire would be Low Fodder and only because we're not allowed to say Turbo Fodder.

Agent J would also be Low Fodder. It's way too late to even be thinking about a Men in Black character for one of these contests.

Lucca is the tough one. The upper part of Mid Fodder but I could be convinced that she could be the lower end of High Fodder if someone made a good case for it.
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I say Solaire is High Fodder. He fared fine against Yoshi in 2013 (https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Solaire_of_Astora's_Contest_History), and the Dark Souls series, of which he's the informal mascot, as I understand, has only gotten more popular and mainstream since then. I could at least respect Mid Fodder, but I absolutely can't see how you would go any lower with that match and his series trajectory in mind.

For Lucca, I will also go with High Fodder. Marle looked like High Fodder despite being saddled with an SFF match in 2006, when Chrono Trigger was near its low point. CT-related entrants have since largely rebounded; even though Lucca is probably a bit weaker than Marle, I still say she can reach the latter's 2006 strength as such.

Finally, I agree with LazyKenny's Agent J vote and reasoning.

Nominations:
Felix
Gooigi
Kratos Aurion (Tales of Symphonia)
Lucas (Mother 3)
Ludwig von Koopa (Mario)
Mother Brain (Metroid)
Mysterio (Marvel Comics)
The Hunter (Bloodborne)
The Merchant (Resident Evil 4)
Venom (Marvel Comics)
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Agree with High Fodder for both Lucca and Solaire.

And I agree with Low Fodder for Agent J. Will Smith or not, Gfaqs doesn't care about the MIB series. In fact he might even lose to Elite Beat Agent J.

nominations:
Kratos Aurion
Gooigi
Mother Brain
Venom
Dalton (Chrono Trigger)
Q*Bert (Q*Bert)
Joseph Joestar (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)
Aiai (Super Monkey Ball)
Zero (Drakengard 3)
Skullomania (Fighting EX Layer/Street Fighter EX)
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Day 45 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/77855025
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