Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 221 ft Soap MacTavish, Farfetch'd, I-Block

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half_silver28
01/16/20 9:56:53 PM
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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 220:

Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones) is Mid Fodder
Captain John Price (Call of Duty) is Low Fodder
Byleth (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Soap MacTavish (Call of Duty 4)
Farfetch'd (Pokemon)
I-Block (Tetris)

Today's Re-Ranking is:

Edelgard (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

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half_silver28
01/16/20 9:59:34 PM
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nominate Siegfried Schtauffen (Soul Calibur)

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AxemRedRanger
01/16/20 10:18:23 PM
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Nominate
Kain (legacy of kain)
raziel (legacy of kain)

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AxemRedRanger
01/16/20 10:29:06 PM
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Nominate Chester (Chester)

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half_silver28
01/17/20 4:15:05 PM
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Soap is Low Fodder - he's a CoD character who was barely Mid Fodder when he was new.

Farfetch'd is High Fodder for being such a joke of a Pokemon that it's a meme. The leek-wielder is incredibly memorable despite being useless in battle, and the introduction of SirFetch'd made its prevo relevant again.

High Fodder for I-Block, barely. Based on the strength nosedive L-Block took in CBX, I can't see a new block doing that well. However I think it will end up pretty close to L, since it is the "best" block in Tetris.

Edelgard I will put at High Fodder. Her reception in Three Houses seems to be pretty mixed, but she has the benefit of being a "main" waifu with an appealing design from a recent game Gfaqs really likes. I do think she will fall to mid fodder over time though.

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MetalmindStats
01/17/20 4:33:19 PM
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Soap: LAW Fodder

39% on Big Daddy circa 2010, on GameFAQs which has never taken to CoD like the rest of the gaming community, was quite a healthy result, and definitely not a Mid Fodder showing. I'm also obligated to mention this hilarious result, which I remember firsthand because I actually had the book in question:

An online poll on the Guinness World Records 2011 Gamers' Edition which involved over 13,000 gamers voting placed John "Soap" MacTavish in 12th place out of a list of 50 fictional game characters.

Nowadays, though, Soap has regressed to the very definition of the Generic McDude. Even mainstream gaming websites don't really care about him anymore, much less GameFAQs which tends to outright hate CoD.

Farfetch'd: Mid Fodder - JokeFAQs is dead.

I-Block: Mid Fodder - JokeFAQs is dead, and I would guess L-Block draws a notable chunk of its strength from its previous contest exploits anyways. I-Block should have some strength, particularly due to being the "best" Tetris block as half_silver mentioned, but probably not too much.

Edelgard: Mid Fodder - Not as well-liked as Claude or Dimitri, but she has waifuism to stay at the same level.

Also, nominate Chester and Siegfried.

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AxemRedRanger
01/17/20 5:17:00 PM
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Soap MacTavish (Call of Duty 4) - Low fodder

Awful as he no doubt would be at this point, I'm real reluctant to go for LAW, especially when Modern Warfare itself only looked to be around Mid Fodder levels of bad last time we saw it.

Farfetch'd (Pokemon) - Mid fodder

If Sword/Shield weren't hated I might be inclined to give it a little more credit for Sirfetch'd but...

I-Block (Tetris) - High fodder

L-block seemed around the fodder line in 2018 and I-block lacks L's history so a tier lower. While the situations aren't entirely the same, with just how vanishingly little his notoriety did for Draven I'm not inclined to give L-block's history enough importance for more than tier's difference.

Edelgard (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) - High fodder

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AxemRedRanger
01/17/20 5:19:34 PM
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nominate:
Red Bird (Angry Birds)
Tabuu (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Crazy Hand (Super Smash Bros. Melee)

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NFUN
01/17/20 6:06:51 PM
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Soap on a Rope - Low fodder
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half_silver28
01/17/20 6:31:42 PM
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nominate Chester

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half_silver28
01/17/20 9:06:03 PM
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