Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 236 ft Yoshimitsu, Bruce Lee, Q*Bert

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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 235:

Kobe Bryant (Kobe Bryant in NBA Courtside) is Mid Fodder
Wart (Super Mario Bros. 2) is Low Fodder
Fou-Lu (Breath of Fire IV) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Yoshimitsu (Tekken/Soul Calibur)
Bruce Lee (Bruce Lee Lives, etc)
Q*Bert (Q*Bert)

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Re-rank Waddle Dee

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Yoshimitsu. - mid fodder

Tekken isnt huge here but it was still a classic PS1 franchise and he did decent in 2013. Gilgamesh/Sora overlap shouldnt be big but means he was probably marginally weaker than he looked.

Bruce Lee - low fodder

people know who this is but I dont think gamefaqs cares about anything related to him. Im not positive he could even beat hitmonlee.

qbert - low fodder

didnt actually do too bad in 2002 but the pre-NES era has gone way down the memory hole since. I feel like a pretty respectable portion of voters will at least know who this is though.

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Lol qbert couldnt even beat Dante

Agree with Axem.

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Nomation Amy from soul calibur

Agree with Mid Fodder for Yoshimitsu. He is a memorable character from Soul Calibur, but he never had much of a narrative impact in that series or in Tekken. Plus I don't think his Tekken appearance matters much to Gfaqs.

Bruce Lee probably wouldn't beat Hitmonlee, but I will still say Mid Fodder for him. He has a legacy of many copycat characters in fighting games including Liu Kang and Fei Long and is a cultural icon despite how long he's been gone. Plus I think Bruce Lee's appearance in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood put him and his legacy back in the public eye recently.

Agree with Low Fodder for Q*bert. He's a classic character that has been forgotten in a way Pac-Man and a few select others haven't. The play rate for his games on the site is probably terrible too. And 29% on Dante in 2002 is not actually that good since only DMC1 was out at that point iirc.


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Nominate:
Jackie Chan (Jackie Chans Action Kung Fu)
Chuck Norris (uh. the title Chuck Norris: Bring on the Pain! amuses me. go with that I guess.)

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AxemRedRanger posted...

Chuck Norris

We already rated Chuck Norris at High Fodder. That being said, I will nominate him for re-ranking, as he has no video gaming legacy to speak of and no real reason for GameFAQs to care to vote for him.

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also nominate Jackie Chan

Day 237 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78376307

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