Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 304 ft Entei, Vision, James Gordon

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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 303:

Barbie (Barbie, Toy Story, etc.) is Low Fodder
Daredevil (Marvel) is Mid Fodder
Inky (Pac-Man) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Entei (Pokemon)
Vision (Marvel)
Commissioner James Gordon (DC Comics)

Today's Re-Ranking is:

Incineroar (Pokemon)

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Nominate:
Stanley (The Stanley Parable)
The Traveler (Journey)
Ico (Ico)
Count Dooku (Star Wars).
Eliwood (Fire Emblem)

So, I think I'm about out of characters to nominate that I think would probably be above low fodder, or at least seem otherwise interesting/fun/worthwhile to do. There's always more Pokemon I guess? But yeah. There are a few games that made it into the current contest without a character we've done but I don't know much about them and some might not actually have halfway-worthwhile characters.

If there's a character people have already nominated but I haven't that they really want to see done, let me know.

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High Fodder for Entei. It's a very popular Gen 2 legendary who was the focus of the anime series' third movie (I believe it was the last one to be in mainstream US theaters).

Low Fodder for Vision. He didn't really have a big enough role in the MCU to move up a tier since he was mostly only known by actual comic readers before that. And then he died.

Low Fodder for James Gordon. He's had some decent portrayals over the years but hasn't really stood out enough in any incarnation to be popular. There was the Gotham tv series but Gordon was. . . rough in that (I've watched it, don't ask why).


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Entei - Mid fodder

It's definitely not gonna be on par with Suicune, Ho-Oh, or the gen 1 legendary birds but legendary from gen 2 is probably enough to avoid low fodder; the movie doesn't hurt. The Regis from Gen 3 would be pretty bad though.

Vision - Low fodder

James Gordon - Low fodder

Incineroar (Pokemon) - Mid fodder

Smash character with not totally obscure source material. People don't actually care about the latter or Incineroar but it's probably better than being from something people don't care about and haven't even heard of. Gonna be close to low though.

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forgot the reranking again. Agree with Mid Fodder for Incineroar.

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I think I voted High Fodder for Suicune, so I'll give Entei the benefit of the doubt and say Mid Fodder. A decent chunk of GameFAQs probably still remembers its movie.

Low Fodder for the others, including Incineroar, because it's basically Greninja except divisive even among Pokefans, and hardly anyone seemed/seems to care that it's in Smash.

Second Axem's nominations today.

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half_silver28 posted...

High Fodder for Entei. It's a very popular Gen 2 legendary who was the focus of the anime series' third movie (I believe it was the last one to be in mainstream US theaters).

The 4th one was, but that's besides the point. I agree with the rating. Any remotely popular Gen 1 or 2 Pokemon is going to be high fodder at the absolute worst.

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Day 305 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78576149

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