Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 247 ft MK Raiden, Lu Bu, Mr. Resetti

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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 246:

Papyrus (Undertale) is Low Fodder
Kanji Tatsumi (Persona 4) is Mid Fodder
Kitana (Mortal Kombat) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Raiden (Mortal Kombat)
Lu Bu (Dynasty Warriors)
Mr. Resetti (Animal Crossing)

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I'll take Low Fodder x3 again.

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Raiden has an iconic and instantly-recognizable design so I doubt he'd be low.

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Raiden mid

nomation Sun Shang Xiang

Raiden (Mortal Kombat) - Mid fodder

Possibly Mortal Kombat's #3 guy, but he's gonna be vastly closer to the rest of the field than he is to Scorpion. I was thinking maybe high fodder but I...can't really justify putting him above Guile and Zangief. And these polls:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1788-who-is-your-favorite-original-mortal-kombat-character
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6860-25-years-later-who-is-your-all-time-favorite-original-mortal

There's very clearly "the two we care about" and "everyone else."

Think we probably ranked Johnny Cage too high. Possibly Reptile as well but he's at least got the "palette swap ninja" thing going for him. Given Scorpion and Sub-Zero's performance there compared to everyone else, that's probably not gonna be a bad thing for him.

Lu Bu (Dynasty Warriors) - Low fodder

still better than groose though!

Mr. Resetti (Animal Crossing) - Low fodder

Clearly gonna be pretty weak but if you ever played original Animal Crossing, you're not gonna forget him. >_>

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Agree with Axem.

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We had Lu Bu in a contest you know.

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Ya and he lost sun shang Xiang would do better

I say High Fodder for Raiden. Even if Scorp and Sub-Zero are far more popular than him, Raiden is still very recognizable and was everywhere in the 90s (he was in NFL Blitz!). Also iirc he was the story lead in MK9. I think he should probably take Johnny's spot as high.

Agree with Low Fodder for the other 2. Lu Bu didn't do badly in CB9 but was also uncomfortably close to the weakling Groose. A lot of people know Mr. Resetti but -no one- likes him power surge turned off the game? too bad, here's a lecture :<

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Re-rank Johnny Cage

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Day 248 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78401462

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