Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 196 ft Chiaki Nanami, Raptor, Mecha-Godzilla

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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 195:

William Birkin (Resident Evil) is Low Fodder
Crocomire (Super Metroid) is Mid Fodder
Roll (Mega Man) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Velociraptor (Jurassic Park)
Chiaki Nanami (Danganronpa)
Mecha-Godzilla (Godzilla)

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Velociraptor is Mid Fodder due to being a clever girl.

Chiaki is Low Fodder - there has to be a really good reason for a DR character to be more than that, and a gamer girl with a cat ears hoodie is not going to do it here.

Mecha-Godzilla will be Mid Fodder based on name recognition and design - he resembles his namesake and just looks cool in general. For the record I think Godzilla (who I nominated for re-ranking) is better than mid fodder. Mecha tends to be really good in the video games as well.

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Velociraptor: Low Fodder - Mid might have been a lowball for the T-Rex in retrospect. As strong as the nostalgia is, though, I'm still not convinced people care about the former, and the Velociraptor won't be on par with that.

Chiaki: Low Fodder - I actually think Chiaki's concept and design are very appealing to certain segments of GameFAQs, but it doesn't matter, since it's a Danganrompa character we're talking about.

Mecha-Godzilla: Low Fodder - Same verse as the Velociraptor, though Godzilla has quite a bit less nostalgia, in turn for more people still caring about the franchise here.

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nominate:

Bad Girl (No More Heroes)
Shinobu (No More Heroes)
Sylvia Christel (No More Heroes)
Issun (Okami)
Orochi (Okami)
Yami (Okami)

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Velociraptor (Jurassic Park) - Low fodder

They're cool but no other dinosaur compares to the rex.

Chiaki Nanami (Danganronpa) - Low fodder

nothing from danganronpa is better than that. Not many visual novel characters better than that in general!

Mecha-Godzilla (Godzilla) - Low fodder

Godzilla simply does not matter much to most of this demographic, I think. The 1998 movie bombed, I remember some animated series after that that was supposedly decent but nobody ever mentions or cares about it outside Godzilla-specific contexts, and by the time the newer stuff started getting big in the west with the 2014 movie and followups hit everyone was too old. The Godzilla name and the plethora of older stuff are worth a little but none of it was a cultural event for the gamefaqs demo - and any individual older work will only have been seen by a very small portion of users. I'd sooner guess Godzilla is low fodder too and has basically no fans here than that anything else from his franchise is better than low fodder.

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Putting Day 197 up a bit early since I'll be busy later: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78277410

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half_silver28 posted...

Chiaki is Low Fodder - there has to be a really good reason for a DR character to be more than that, and a gamer girl with a cat ears hoodie is not going to do it here.

being a gamer girl with a cat ears hoodie is basically the entire reason she's a fan favourite in the DR fanbase so