Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 332 ft JC Denton, Stanley, Flint

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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 331:

Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts) is Mid Fodder
Rawk Hawk (Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door) is Low Fodder
Nemo (Finding Nemo) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

JC Denton (Deus Ex)
Stanley (The Stanley Parable)
Flint (Mother 3)

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Nominate Harle and re-rank cortana

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I all ready nomations Harley

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JC Denton I will say is Low Fodder, though he might be close to mid. Deus Ex has some popularity on the site yet and JC does have the "A bomb!" meme going for him.

I honestly don't know what Stanley's match pic will end up being. His likeness is only shown in two instances in the game, and his back is turned for one. From what I can see he looks very generic, to the point where I'm not sure a lot of people who have played the game will even recognize him. That combined with TSP looking very weak in GOTD - I say LAW Fodder for him.

Flint however is an easy LAW Fodder vote from me. His game wasn't released outside of Japan and he doesn't have Smash to fall back on like Lucas.


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JC Denton - low fodder

Possibly half decent low fodder. Apparently declining from 16% on Mario to 17% on Squirtle doesn't bode well though.

Stanley - LAW fodder

Flint - LAW fodder

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7671-over-the-last-30-years-how-many-of-the-games-in-the

Mother 3's playrate was somewhere between 7.02% and 18.96%. Split evenly between it and Earthbound Beginnings and you get 12.99%. I'd expect people to care more about Mother 3 based on how much more highly regarded it is so call it ~15%.

That's imo not disqualifying from low fodder for a main character even if they had nothing else going for them but a side character? Yeah, probably LAW.

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Agree with half_silver and Axem. Mother 3 actually has decent strength despite its awful playrate, and I'm not convinced it has much to do with Smash. That being said, I agree that a random side character probably isn't going to go anywhere - Boney, Claus, or even Kumatora, sure, but not Flint.

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Day 333 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78677386

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