Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 185 ft Slippy Toad, Mythra, Snake

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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 184:

James McCloud (Star Fox) is Mid Fodder
Schala (Chrono Trigger) is Mid Fodder
Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter) is Mid Fodder

Re-Ranking result:

Mother Brain (Metroid) is now High Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Mythra (Xenoblade Chronicles 2)
Slippy Toad (Star Fox)
Snake (Snake)

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Mythra - Mid Fodder because TJF.

Slippy - Mid Fodder for FOX GET THIS GUY OFF MEmeability.

Snake - LAW Fodder for being ancient and not having much potential for joke support. And Snake (the game) has had so many different names that voters might not make the association upon seeing the pic and character name.

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Mythra (Xenoblade Chronicles 2) - Mid fodder

I guess. Never played the game but between cute girl, character from a Nintendo JRPG with pretty good sales, and the possibility that she's actually a good character people care about, I can see her making mid fodder. Primrose looked to be around that tier and without good reason to think nobody cares about Mythra I'm inclined to put her there too.

Slippy Toad (Star Fox) - Mid fodder

stick to the pond, froggy

Snake (Snake) - LAW Fodder
would solid snake get snake sff on snake
would liquid

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I'll nominate Donkey Kong Jr. for Re-ranking. Even with the Donkey Kong name, I don't think he has enough to get to High Fodder. He doesn't have that many major game appearances, and overall is just not a character I see voters caring about. I also don't see him being stronger than Dixie, who we ranked Mid Fodder.

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I agree with both votes on all three characters. Fun fact: Slippy was among the most hated video game characters ~15 years ago, in GameFAQs' halcyon days. Nowadays, though, he's already completed the Jar Jar transition.

I'll also support Catwoman for reranking.

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Day 186 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78247077

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