Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 253 ft Athena Asamiya, Mimikyu, Lizzie

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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 252:

Triss Merigold (The Witcher) is Mid Fodder
Megaman Volnutt (Megaman Legends) is Fodder Line
R2-D2 (Star Wars) is High Fodder

Re-Ranking Result:

Mickey Mouse is now Fodder Line

Here is today's trio to rank:

Athena Asamiya (King of Fighters)
Mimikyu (Pokemon)
Lizzie (Rampage)

Today's Re-Ranking is:

Donald Duck (Disney/Kingdom Hearts)

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Nominate:

Jenova (FFVII)
Jaws (Jaws NES)
Cole MacGrath (inFamous)

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Athena Asamiya (King of Fighters) - Low fodder

Big 2D fighting game fans will know who this is. They're a small minority of the site.

Mimikyu (Pokemon) - Mid fodder

A later gen pokemon that avoids being a generic pokemon by...well, look at the thing.

Lizzie (Rampage) - Low fodder

I don't think the Rampage name means much here. The series had a neat idea behind it and probably achieved the popularity it did because of it but the games never seemed to actually execute it that well. I remember this series being fairly heavily advertised in Nintendo Power back in the day? I'd assume Rampage has half-decent recognition here on nostalgiafaqs but an exceptionally low proportion who actually care. If not for the recent-ish movie I might have gone LAW and even now that might not be unreasonable.

Donald Duck (Disney/Kingdom Hearts) - High fodder

wait did we really rank Balthier fodder line? I was pretty sure he got high fodder and that I had voted mid.

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Re-rank Tina Armstrong.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/952-east-division-round-1-kasumi-vs-aeris
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/978-east-division-round-2-aeris-vs-tina-armstrong

Tina Armstrong was already mid fodder in 2002. If Kasumi is going to decline from low-midcarder to mid fodder, Tina's not gonna stay stable. Sure, TJF helps and might even provide a floor - I'd probably never put an appealing TJF character at LAW fodder. I don't see any reason to assume that floor is gonna be above low fodder though and Tina has very little else.

other than beating gordon anyways. That's still funny.

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Nominate:
Zapdos (Pokemon)
Storm Eagle (Mega Man X)
Vile (Mega Man X)
The Arbiter (Halo)
Tear Grants (Tales of the Abyss)
Sonya Blade (Mortal Kombat)
Scott Shelby (Heavy Rain)
Roger Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
Jeff (Earthbound)
John Rambo (Rambo)

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I agree with Low Fodder for Athena. She's been in a lot of games and is really popular in Japan, but I don't think magical schoolgirl idols are really Gfaqs' thing. Plus I think she'll have pic issues, since her design changes in basically every KoF game.

Agree with Mid Fodder for Meme-achu and Low Fodder for Lizzie.

Agree with High Fodder for Donald. He isn't an all-encompassing icon like Mickey, but he does have the advantage of being a main party character in most Kingdom Hearts games. And his voice is almost as funny as Mickey's.

Second re-ranking Tina. I didn't realize just how much stronger Kasumi looked than Tina in that contest. Obviously DoA was much more relevant back then, but now I'm thinking Tina may be the weakest of the original DoA girls.

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Agree with the previous votes, and third reranking Tina.

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Day 254 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78416415

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