Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 311 ft Quistis, Lt. Surge, Barry B. Bensen

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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 310:

Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat) is Low Fodder
Tiny Tina (Borderlands) is Low Fodder
Clementine (The Walking Dead) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Quistis Trepe (Final Fantasy VIII)
Lt. Surge (Pokemon)
Barry B. Benson (Bee Movie Game)

Today's Re-Ranking is:

Handsome Jack (Borderlands 2)


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Quistis I will say is Mid Fodder. I wouldn't really call her a fan favorite but she seems to be liked well enough out of the VIII cast.

Mid Fodder for Lt. Surge. Also not much of a fan favorite, but he's still a memorable gen 1 gym leader - reminder that this dude went to war with a Pikachu.

Low Fodder for Barry. As popular as Bee Movie memes are, the movie itself is too recent for Gfaqs to care about, and thus likely won't care much for the memes.

Handsome Jack is Low Fodder. Again Borderlands has decreased significantly in strength, and Jack was barely mid fodder at best in 2013.

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the bee movie came out 13 years ago what is wrong with this site
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Quisris - mid fodder.

FFVIII party members are probably still worth a little in general. I think Id take her over Irvine?

lt. Surge - mid fodder

hed probably beat Koga. Erika, and Blaine by a decent amount.

Barry - LAW fodder

dont have much confidence in memes at this point, especially non-gaming memes. Theres just nothing to respect here unless you like the meme or the movie.

Handsome Jack - low fodder

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Nominate Youngster Joey (Pokemon)

re-rank claptrap

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Agree with Axem, reluctantly in the case of Lt. Surge. It at least feels like the Bee Movie memes have died off compared to a year or so ago, and that's all it takes to knock such an otherwise irrelevant character down to LAW. That being said, Barry's still very possibly the fourth strongest major DreamWorks character here, after Shrek (obviously), Fiona, and Toothless.

Also nominate Youngster Joey.

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nominate Youngster Joey

Day 312 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78603380

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