Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 131 ft Mr. Incredible, Max Payne, Nina

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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

Results from Day 130:

Jar Jar Binks (Star Wars) is Low Fodder
Incineroar (Pokemon) is High Fodder
Boko (Final Fantasy V) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Nina (Breath of Fire)
Max Payne (Max Payne series)
Mr. Incredible (The Incredibles)
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Nina I will say Low Fodder on, but I would consider mid as well. She has been in every BoF game and is nearly as important as Ryu, but lacks the name recognition.

Max Payne is Low Fodder. The man lost to Guybrush Threepwood, so there's really no other choice here.

Mid Fodder for Mr. Incredible. I don't think I'd call The Incredibles a movie with top tier popularity on Gfaqs, and the most relevant game appearance for any of the characters was in Disney Infinity. Even though Incredibles 2 was last year, I don't think a lot of voters will have seen it.

edit - you know what, I will move Mr. Incredible to High Fodder. Because a good portion of Gfaqs likely relates strongly to him nowadays.
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half_silver28 posted...

Nina I will say Low Fodder on, but I would consider mid as well. She has been in every BoF game and is nearly as important as Ryu, but lacks the name recognition.

Max Payne is Low Fodder. The man lost to Guybrush Threepwood, so there's really no other choice here.

I agree with all this.

As for Mr. Incredible, my vote is Mid Fodder. I'm not convinced that GameFAQs cares about Pixar entrants other than Buzz and Woody and will vote for them in any significant numbers, especially since The Incredibles came out too recently for nostalgia to be a real factor. Given his starring role in what's almost certainly the most well-liked non-Toy Story Pixar movie on GameFAQs, though, he shouldn't be completely awful.

Nominations:
CD-i Link (Link: The Faces of Evil)
Claus (Mother 3)
Ghirahim
Mii (Wii Sports, etc.)
Porky (EarthBound)
R.O.B.
Suicune
Venusaur (Pokmon)
Young Link (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Super Smash Bros. Melee)
Zant
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Nina - Low Fodder (who?)
Max Payne - Low Fodder
Mr. Incredible - High Fodder
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Nominate Sniper Wolf

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Okay, the guy from Roger Rabbit is Eddie Valiant. Eddie Valentine is a crime boss from The Rocketeer. I meant to nominate the former.

Nominate:

King Ghidorah (Godzilla)
Mothra (Godzilla)
Mecha-Godzilla (Godzilla)
Zilla (Godzilla)
Gigan (Godzilla)
Ebirah (Godzilla)
Megalon (Godzilla)
Biollante (Godzilla)
Chaos (Sonic Adventure)
Michael "Goob" Yagoobian/Bowler Hat Guy (Meet the Robinsons)
Gamera (Gamera)
Chicken Little (Chicken Little/Kingdom Hearts II)
Chex Warrior (Chex Quest)
Eleven (Stranger Things)
Mystique (Marvel)
Magneto (Marvel)
Storm (Marvel)
Nightcrawler (Marvel)
Kitty Pryde (Marvel)
Rogue (Marvel)
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Nina (Breath of Fire) - Mid fodder

A low fodder vote could be justified pretty easily but I'm a little confused as to why she would be low while Ryu is mid, unless we think "Ryu (Breath of Fire)" would get extra votes because people like his name more thanks to Hayabusa and The Other Capcom Ryu? Feel like if you know about one of Ryu/Nina, you almost certainly know the other and I'd be skeptical that Ryu is cared about more.

Max Payne (Max Payne series) - Low fodder

He lost to Guybrush despite Guybrush getting like 100 votes removed for stuffing, too. Shameful.

Mr. Incredible (The Incredibles) - Mid Fodder

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I think it's because Ryu is the main character?
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Nina: Low Fodder. No explanation required.

Max Payne: Low Fodder, but a higher low fodder than Nina.

Mr. Incredible: High Fodder. Don't people around here love his movie? That will give him more of a boost.
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nominations:

CD-i Link (Link: The Faces of Evil)
Claus (Mother 3)
Mii (Wii Sports, etc.)
Porky (EarthBound)
R.O.B. (Gyromite)
Venusaur (Pokmon)
Young Link (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time /Smash Bros series)
King Ghidorah (Godzilla)
Mothra (Godzilla)
Mecha-Godzilla (Godzilla)
Gigan (Godzilla)
Chaos (Sonic Adventure)
Bowler Hat Guy/Michael "Goob" Yagoobian (Meet the Robinsons)
Gamera (Gamera)
Chicken Little (Chicken Little/Kingdom Hearts II)
Chex Warrior (Chex Quest)
Eleven (Stranger Things)
Mystique (Marvel)
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Day 132 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78077841
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