Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 145 ft Rocket Racoon, Gimli, C&C Kane

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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 144:

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

Here is today's trio to rank:

Kane (Command & Conquer)
Rocket Racoon (Marvel)
Gimli (Lord of the Rings)
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Votes Rinoa

Kane will be Low Fodder. There's probably still a C&C fanbase on the site, but it won't be that big. I do think that most people who are familiar with Kane will vote for him.

Rocket Raccoon I say is High Fodder. He is popular in the MCU but is more of a supporting character than a main. His game appearances include Marvel vs Capcom 3 and Infinite, but I think they will only give him a marginal boost - I don't think the Guardians Telltale game helps him much here. I'm also not sure whether or not he gets a "cute animal" boost.

Gimli I think is Fodder Line. I can see him being the second most popular LotR character thanks to the multitude of meme-able quotes he has in the movies and his axe! Plus people seem to fondly remember his aggressive but odd friendship with Legolas.
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Kane (Command & Conquer) - LAW Fodder

In 2002 he only got 21.89% on Bomberman, he had a pretty noncontroversial path in general (Link > Jill > Bomberman > Kane), and he ended up at 10.08% in the x-stats, 6th from the bottom in a year loaded with fodder. And that should have been when he was at or near his strongest. Around that time EA took over, shortly after there was a four year gap until the next game came out when releases had previously been annual, and when more new games arrived the series' reputation started declining until it hit rock bottom with Tiberium Twilight in 2010, and there's been nothing except a mobile and a browser game since then. This series was clearly never in gamefaqs' wheelhouse in the first place but given those events I have trouble believing he could hold up even to his 2002 performance. He'd beat Spring Breeze Dancin' of course (anyone who's not a board 8 rally would) but I'd take Caim over him. Also people that weren't me seemed to think Kerrigan was Low Fodder? Kane is not even going to come close to Kerrigan.

Rocket Racoon (Marvel) - High Fodder

I don't think he can maintain that if the MCU slacks but brief research indicates he's the most popular Guardians of the Galaxy member so sure why not.

Gimli (Lord of the Rings) - Mid Fodder

Tolkein being so influential might work against him, I think. He's fun for sure and Lord of the Rings is widely watched but at the end of the day, he's a pretty standard dwarf, we've seen that a hundred times, and I'm not sure more casual Rings watchers are going to remember him much. Reluctant to place him a tier above Frodo too.

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I agree with Axem about all three, unless Kane gets another TV picture.
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Day 146 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78109200
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