Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 144 ft Agumon, Prof. Charles Xavier, Roxas

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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 143:

Spider-Gwen/Gwen Stacy (Marvel) is Low Fodder
Daruk (Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) is High Fodder
Aragorn (Lord of the Rings) is High Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Agumon (Digimon)
Professor Charles Xavier (X-Men)
Roxas (Kingdom Hearts)
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I don't know a whole lot about Digimon, but I will say High Fodder for Agumon. He is the best-known mon from the series and is in pretty much every one of the countless Digimon games out there. And as far as I can tell Gfaqs does like the Digimon series and likely has some nostalgia for the Digimon Adventure anime.

I will also say High Fodder for Xavier. He is one of the core X-Men characters in just about every adaptation of the series, and his portrayal in the movies by Patrick Stewart is well-received (it helps that he was seemingly born to play Xavier). The professor is also just a likable character in general - aside from that time he turned into Onslaught.

Mid Fodder for Roxas. Going back to 2010 he had an unconvincing win against The Heavy so he was likely high fodder at best back then. CBX showed that Kingdom Hearts isn't in the best place on the site right now, so I'm pretty sure Roxas will drop.
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Nominate Hawkeye
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Agumon (Digimon) - Mid Fodder

I don't have confidence that gamefaqs widely cares about Digimon games at all but there are a lot of them, a few of which (while clearly low fodder) aren't completely obscure. The anime was...maybe the 5th most popular of its era in the U.S.? It wasn't quite on the level with Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, or Yu-gi-oh, but I feel like most kids back then (particularly those nerdy enough to vote in gamefaqs polls 20 years later) at least knew what it was. I'll give Agumon just a slight amount of credit.

Professor Charles Xavier (X-Men) - High Fodder
Roxas (Kingdom Hearts) - Mid Fodder

Riku looked High Fodder-ish in 2018 so you'd think Roxas should probably be Mid; he generally hasn't been too far behind Riku. If you wanted to argue Roxas would have more of a Sora-ish drop rather than Riku's ridiculous bomb, I could see them both being high fodder but I don't have the knowledge of the games or fanbase to determine whether Roxas catching up or surpassing Riku is remotely reasonable and I'm not really that interested in drinking more Kingdom Hearts Kool-Aid regardless.

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I'm surprised it took Agumon this long to show up here, especially given that SBAllen has explicitly said that he would be allowed in.
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nominate Veemon (Digimon)
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I agree with Axem about all three.
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Day 145 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78106858
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