Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 190 ft Joanna Dark, RE4 Merchant, Snape

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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 189:

Jason Mars (Heavy Rain) is LAW Fodder
Kane (WWF/WWE games) is Low Fodder
Irvine Kinneas (Final Fantasy VIII) is Mid Fodder

Re-Ranking Result:

Manfred von Karma (Ace Attorney) is now Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Joanna Dark (Perfect Dark)
The Merchant (Resident Evil 4)
Severus Snape (Harry Potter)

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Nominate:
Kermit the Frog
Travis Touchdown (No More Heroes)
Soma Cruz (Castlevania)
Shy Guy (Mario series)
Roll (Mega Man)
Nero (Devil May Cry series)
Mordin Solus (Mass Effect)

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Joanna Dark (Perfect Dark) - Low fodder
The Merchant (Resident Evil 4) - Mid fodder
Severus Snape (Harry Potter) - High fodder

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Mid Fodder for Joanna and Merchant, and I will (barely) give Snape High Fodder.

Looking back at Joanna's contest history, she wasn't completely terrible - she beat Cortana pretty convincingly so I don't think she'd be low fodder. With how highly the site regards Goldeneye, I would believe that there are still some fans of Perfect Dark lurking around who would vote for Joanna. Not sure if she gets TJF boost though.

Merchant I think would have hit high fodder years ago, but with the decline of RE4, the "watchu buyin? watchu sellin?" meme will not get him nearly as far.

Snape I think only gets high fodder due to Alan Rickman's incredibly memorable portrayal of him in the HP movies. He might also benefit from some mid-2000s meme videos like The Mysterious Ticking Noise. As a character, Snape is very polarizing and may get some anti-votes due to having "weak" motives for his mistreatment of students at Hogwarts.

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Joanna: Mid Fodder
Merchant: Low Fodder
Severus: Mid Fodder

Nominate Bruce Lee, Captain John Price (Call of Duty), Chiaki Nanami, Mecha-Godzilla, Megatron, Michael Jordan, Starscream, Togepi, V, and WALL-E.

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I will also nominate John Price.

Day 191 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78263379

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