Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 195 ft William Birkin, Roll, Crocomire

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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 194:

Travis Touchdown (No More Heroes) is Mid Fodder
Starscream (Transformers) is Mid Fodder
Togepi (Pokemon) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

William Birkin (Resident Evil)
Crocomire (Super Metroid)
Roll (Mega Man)

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Birkin is interesting because I'm not sure if his contest pic will show him in a mutated form or fully human. I think the latter is a bit more likely, so I will go with Low Fodder for him. Mutated form might be worth something, but William Birkin as a human doesn't have much besides lore importance.

Mid Fodder for Crocomire, since he's a pretty memorable boss from Super Metroid.

Despite Roll bombing in her only contest appearance, I will give her Mid Fodder. I think that the OG Megaman series was largely dormant in 2006 when she appeared, and she had had little more than a glorified cameo in most games up to that point. Roll has had a much larger presence in the series since MM9, and probably gets more respect as a classic character now than she did back then.

Plus I think Yuna was a particularly bad matchup for her, as Yuna is a "cute" character that Gfaqs cares way more about. Cuteness is like 90% of Roll's appeal, so I'm not surprised she got blown out there.

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Birkin: Low Fodder
Crocomire: Mid Fodder
Roll: Low Fodder - In theory, she could be better than this, but who actually cares about Roll?

Nominate Sekiro (Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice).

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Birkin: low fodder
crocmore: mid fodder

i dont really feel good about a just-a-boss with nothing else going for him being even this high though even if he was neat

roll: mid fodder
classic roll isnt worth much but then she also shows up in legends and mmbn and the cartoon and mvc2 and I figure she might cobble together being worth something from all that, if only because gamefaqs is ridiculously old and at least knows who this is.

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I nominated Sekiro a while back under the name Wolf - I wasn't sure what his accepted name was at the time. I updated that entry.

Day 196 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78275561

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