Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 179 ft Pokey Minch, Trunks, Dalton

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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

If you feel that a character has been over or under-ranked, or if a new development has come up that would affect their contest strength, you may nominate them for a re-ranking. You may nominate one character per day for this, and 3 votes are needed to get them on the slate. One character with 3 votes will come up for re-ranking today.

Re-ranking Nomination List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V6dx-tu-FD1rCxbX69eQwEzE7x1F6nNRNFochYHu1dc/edit?usp=sharing

Results from Day 178:

Bidoof (Pokmon) is Mid Fodder
Krillin (Dragonball Z) is Mid Fodder
Cosmic Mario (Super Mario Galaxy) is High Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Trunks (Dragonball Z)
Dalton (Chrono Trigger)
Porky/Pokey Minch (EarthBound/Mother 3)
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Trunks: High fodder
Dalton: Low fodder
Pokey: Low fodder

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LordoftheMorons posted...

Trunks: High fodder
Dalton: Low fodder
Pokey: Low fodder

Agree with these rankings. Trunks is one of the more popular DBZ characters, and had an extremely memorable debut in the series effortlessly destroying a revived Frieza. And he's a cool purple-haired guy with a fucking sword.

I'm not convinced that people care about Dalton despite him being from CT. He doesn't have that big of a role in the game and he's a gigantic jerk too. I don't think his design will be enough to make him mid fodder either.

I'm definitely not convinced that Pokey has a fanbase. His design is unappealing, and acts like an immature and utterly vile person in Earthbound. Mother 3 won't really matter due to being JP-only.

I will also nominate Kuja for re-ranking.
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also agreed with those rankings.

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Nominate Meta-Knight for re-ranking.

We put him fodder-line. Admittedly, it's very rare that we've gotten a good read on him thanks to SFF and general weirdness, but I think he's probably better than that. And with the Brawl era well buried at this point, I guess you could argue he might be past his prime? But Meta Knight ~ Dedede (and if anyone disagrees Dedede is fodder-line, we probably shouldn't be using Ocelot as a go-to example for the tier) just doesn't match my instincts on how those two rank up.

Nominate:

Cell (Dragonball Z)
Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter)
Alec Trevelyan (Goldeneye 007)

Uh, remove my nomination for Shion Yorigami (Touhou).

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Day 180 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78223879
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