Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 171 ft Birdo, Ninten, Wander

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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 170:

Andross (Star Fox) is Mid Fodder
Metroid (Metroid) is High Fodder
Bender (Futurama) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Birdo (Mario series)
Ninten (Earthbound Beginnings/Mother)
Wander (Shadow of the Colossus)

Note that I will be traveling for the next 6 days and won't have reliable internet access, so I may only be able to put up a few new days during that time.
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Nomation Eve from Parasite eve if she wasnt nomationed

Birdo I will say is High Fodder due to her association with Yoshi and the well-known gender disparity between Japan and other regions. She is also a mainstay in Mario spinoff games. Also she just seems like the type of odd character that would get joke votes to me.

Ninten is Mid Fodder, mostly thanks to his resemblance to Ness. I don't see him being worth much on his own.

Low Fodder for Wander. He's been in several contests and got blown out every time.
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bump. I should be able to do updates now since I have (bad) internet access.
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Birdo: Mid Fodder
Ninten: Low Fodder
Wander: Low Fodder

I choose to err conservative on the latter two, even though they could be Mid Fodder.
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Birdo - High fodder
Ninten - Low fodder

nobody outside Japan cares about the cast of earthbound beginnings.

Wander - Low fodder

Some of his results arent completely abysmal but I cant believe he would maintain any strength long-term. Guy seems like a massive leech off his game and has zero actual fans and pretty poor general recognition.


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Day 172 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78189304
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i voted for eve