Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 58 ft Blastoise, Ayla, Tanner

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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 - 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 that if all posters for that day unanimously agree on the LAW Fodder rating. If any rating besides LAW Fodder is given, the character will not be eligible for the tier. All LAW Fodder ratings will then count as Low Fodder.

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 57:

Giygas (Earthbound) is Mid Fodder
Pyramid Head (Silent Hill) is Mid Fodder
Chuck Norris (Chuck Norris Superkicks) is High Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Blastoise (Pokemon)
Ayla (Chrono Trigger)
John Tanner (Driver)
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Blastoise - Low midcarder. A few years ago people were talking about him like he was a Noble 9 breaker, and for good reason. Squirtle > Cloud happened. But after seeing Charizard tango just a little too close to Terra of all people, I'm not taking my chances here. Especially since he'd be weaker than Char'd as it is.

Ayla - Mid fodder. Maybe TJF bumps her up to high fodder, but I really don't think she'd be high at all on the CT pecking order. Maybe even Marle could outdo her.

Tanner - Low fodder. I'm going with just regular low fodder and not LAW fodder. I still would take literally everybody in CBX over him (including no-rally Draven), but the Chloe's and Cayde-6's would probably just do like 55-45 on him. I really don't think he's the insane anomaly that the CB3 stats show him to be.
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I second darkx's motion.
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Agree with dark
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Agree with Low Midcarder for Blastoise and Low Fodder for Tanner. Ironically I think Tanner's CB3 infamy helps him here.

For Ayla I say High Fodder. She doesn't really stand out among the cast, but she does look good and has some funny lines.

nominations:

Abominable Snow Monster (SkiFree)
Egon Spengler (Ghostbusters)
Keeby (Kirby's Dream Course)
Mimic (Dragon Quest)
Thor (Marvel)
Ashe (Final Fantasy XII)
Magneto (X-Men)
Alyx Vance (Half-Life 2)
Absol (Pokemon)
Alice Liddell (American McGee's Alice)
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Based on stats, there is a very small handful of characters in contest history that I think Tanner could conceivably beat...

Chester
Spring Breeze Dancin'
Caim
Welkin Gunther
Nathan Hale
Haseo
Jade

The last one is actually quite a stretch, but the only other one I could fathom to put on the list.
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Underleveled posted...

Based on stats, there is a very small handful of characters in contest history that I think Tanner could conceivably beat...

Chester
Spring Breeze Dancin'
Caim
Welkin Gunther
Nathan Hale
Haseo
Jade

The last one is actually quite a stretch, but the only other one I could fathom to put on the list.

I don't think that Welkin or even Jade or Haseo are weak enough to lose to Tanner.

However we do have Tim, Agent J (the other one), Commander Video and Adol Christian potentially. And don't forget the iconic CB1 duo of Mr. Driller and Serious Sam.

I think Draven could very well have lost to Tanner too - that would've been a great meme tbh.
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Tanner is the real deal and should be whatever the lowest fodder is. 2004 was no fluke and 2004 infamy should have people voting against him if anything, cause a tanner that only mostly sucks is kinda forgetting the point.

The name, the completely nondescript look, the game no one cares about. It all conflates to the perfect storm of garbage.

Ayla is high fodder with the Lloyd Irvings of the world. Sheer recognizability will carry her that far.

Blastoise is probably a midcarder. Squirtle is stronger no doubt but any gen 1 Pokemon with any decent popularity should have a decent floor.
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Blastoise (Pokemon) - Midcarder
Ayla (Chrono Trigger) - High fodder
John Tanner (Driver) - Low fodder
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Day 59 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/77890068
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