Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 228 ft Luke fon Fabre, Siegfried, Dark Pit

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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 226:

Sheena Fujibayashi (Tales of Symphonia) is Mid Fodder
Dimitri (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) is High Fodder
Rex (Xenoblade Chronicles 2) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Luke fon Fabre (Tales of the Abyss)
Siegfried Schtauffen (Soul Calibur)
Dark Pit (Kid Icarus: Uprising)

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nominate Viridi (Kid Icarus: Uprising) and Enguarde the Swordfish (Donkey Kong Country)

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Votes judge doom

Luke fon Fabre (Tales of the Abyss) - Low fodder
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A lot of people don't really like Luke and he was pretty bad in the one match we saw from him.

Siegfried Schtauffen (Soul Calibur) - Low fodder

Nightmare looked really bad in 2013 but I can see some justifications for giving him benefit of the doubt there. Siegfried was notably weaker than Nightmare in the first place and deserves no mercy.

Dark Pit (Kid Icarus: Uprising) - Mid fodder

He probably kinda sucks but at least nobody's who's played Smash is going to be particularly confused as to what a Dark Pit is or what franchise he comes from.

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Low Fodder for all. I barely voted Mid Fodder for Rex, and not only is Xenoblade 2 probably ahead of TotA here, but Rex is also a name people who don't really remember his game might actually recognize. As for Dark Pit, no one really cares about Pit anymore, and that doppelganger status was the only thing Dark Pit would get any significant strength from.

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Votes zubat

Votes Tornadoman from mega man 9

Agree with Low Fodder for Luke - he's infamously polarizing as a protagonist. Mid Fodder for Siegfried since I think most people are aware of him being Nightmare and will vote accordingly.

Mid Fodder for Dark Pit for being recognizable to people who haven't played KI Uprising, and also being in Smash. He'd easily be low if not for smash though.

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Day 229 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78357960

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