Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 306 ft Count Dooku, Firion, Storm Eagle

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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 305:

Ra's Al Ghul (DC Comics) is Low Fodder
Boo (Baldur's Gate) is Low Fodder
Killmonger (Marvel) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Count Dooku (Star Wars)
Firion (Final Fantasy II)
Storm Eagle (Mega Man X)

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Storm eagle gets low

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I will (barely) give Dooku Mid Fodder. He had a major role in the prequel movies and Clone Wars and will get a lightsaber in his match pic.

Mid Fodder for Firion. He's a Final Fantasy main protagonist and was in all the Dissidia games. I see him being very close to Warrior of Light in strength.

Low Fodder for Storm Eagle - there are so many Mavericks in the X series that they would REALLY need to stand out to be better than low.

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Low Fodder for all three. Who actually cares about any of these three? The prequel movies are at best ironically well-liked, FFII isn't popular at all, and Storm Eagle is just a boss, and not one of the most iconic 'just a boss' characters.

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Count Dooku - Low fodder

I think Darth Mauls design helps him stand out a lot and that without that Dooku isnt worth much.

Firion - Low fodder

Think Warrior of Light may actually be overranked. Been a long time since Dissidia was big and I cant see him and Firion contending with the decently-liked but unimportant party members of the strong-but-not-ffvii games which is generally what mid fodder suggests.

Storm Eagle - low fodder

MMX is the strongest Mega Man game and Storm Eagle is its most popular maverick. Good stage theme, fight isnt enclosed in a room. Actually caring is probably pretty low though.

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Day 307 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78584315

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