Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 178 ft Cosmic Mario, Krillin, Bidoof

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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 177:

Adam Malkovich (Metroid) is LAW Fodder
R.O.B. (Gyromite) is Mid Fodder
Peter Griffin (Family Guy) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Bidoof (Pokmon)
Krillin (Dragonball Z)
Cosmic Mario (Super Mario Galaxy)
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Peter should be Low Fodder, with two votes for that tier and only one for Mid Fodder.

Anyways,

Bidoof: Mid Fodder - It should retain a sufficient semblance of its late 2000s joke appeal.

Cosmic Mario: High Fodder - Even less of an independent character than Metal Mario, any votes he gets will be solely due to his doppelganger status.

I'm not sure about Krillin.
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I think it's about time to introduce a way to get characters up for a reranking, who may have been over or under-ranked in the past or have had new developments that would affect their contest strength. Users will be able to nominate one character per day for reranking, and I ask that they provide reasoning for why they should be reranked. Once a character has 3 votes, they will be eligible for a reranking. One character per day will be put up for a reranking.

Reranking Nomination List is here and will be on the topic OP moving forward: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V6dx-tu-FD1rCxbX69eQwEzE7x1F6nNRNFochYHu1dc/edit?usp=sharing

I will start off by nominating Jeff Probst for reranking, on the basis that he is actually pretty well-known among the demographic of Gfaqs. Also the LAW Fodder ranking was being thrown around lightly by voters that day, including myself.

MetalmindStats posted...

Peter should be Low Fodder, with two votes for that tier and only one for Mid Fodder.

I misinterpreted what shonen_bat said regarding Peter as a vote, this is fixed.
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Agree with Mid Fodder for Bidoof and High Fodder for Cosmic Mario.

High Fodder is my vote on Krillin. He is kind of the butt monkey of the DBZ series, but he is also oddly relatable and gets a lot of focus, in addition to being an iconic character in his own right. It helps that Yamcha is a bigger butt monkey than him as well. Krillin also has some popular DBZ Abridged memes.
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bidoof - mid fodder

Cosmic Mario - mid fodder

Not as fake as Metal Mario but totally irrelevant to anyone.

Krillin - mid fodder

if you were ever into dbz, you probably remember krillin pretty well. Someone with that much screen time that, while often pretty hapless he avoided being annoying, in a franchise we think gamefaqs remembers pretty fondly has gotta be mid fodder at worst. I considered high but at the end of the day, while recognizable, hes not someone most people care much about.

The other big dbz humans are probably pretty bad though. Id low fodder the lot of them.

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bump - need another ranking on Krillin
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Krillin: Mid Fodder

I will nominate Kuja for reranking, on the basis of his original ranking proclaiming him to be weaker than he was in the Villains contest, even though everything else FF9-related has improved (often by large margins) since then.
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Ill back re-ranking Kuja.

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Nominating:

Ring(Sonic series)

I will also nominate the Ring.

Day 179 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78220467
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