Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 337 ft Melia Antiqua, Wooloo, Jade

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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 336:

Cave Johnson (Portal 2) is Low Fodder
Legolas (Lord of the Rings) is Mid Fodder
Basch fon Ronsenburg (Final Fantasy XII) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Melia Antiqua (Xenoblade Chronicles)
Wooloo (Pokemon Sword & Shield)
Jade (Beyond Good & Evil)

Today's Re-Ranking is:

Booker DeWitt (Bioshock Infinite)

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Mid Fodder for Melia - she's pretty well-liked and has the waifu princess thing going for her.

I'll say Low Fodder for Wooloo. Sure it might be the most popular Gen 8 Pokemon, but I don't think that counts for a whole lot on Gfaqs. And Wooloo really only has general cuteness going for it after that.

Low Fodder for Jade. Beyond Good and Evil 2 is not out yet and the HD release of BG&E was nearly 10 years ago. She was also very weak when she did appear in contests.

Booker is very close for me but I will say Low Fodder. He didn't do badly in 2013, but Bioshock Infinite was at its peak popularity at the time and massively hyped. I think he'll be much weaker nowadays but I don't think its hugely due to be a "generic mcdude". It's more that the series hasn't had a single release since then.

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Agree with half silver.

If Melia isnt there now, Definitive Edition is only a couple weeks away and it was already clear from the recent contest that Xenoblade is now stronger than we thought. Reyn and Duncan probably need to be re-ranked but Id wait to see just how Definitive Edition shakes out first.

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AxemRedRanger posted...

Agree with half silver.

If Melia isnt there now, Definitive Edition is only a couple weeks away and it was already clear from the recent contest that Xenoblade is now stronger than we thought. Reyn and Duncan probably need to be re-ranked but Id wait to see just how Definitive Edition shakes out first.

Fun fact: When the official Monolith Soft Twitter account was making tweets dedicated to the different characters, the tweet about Melia got the most likes and retweets, more than the one about Shulk:

https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/1254704338552881152
https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/1254666590026698752

And no, it wasn't just the Waifu factor at play, Fiora and Sharla were both well behind Melia. While Melia being more popular than Shulk may be pushing it, I definitely think she's more popular than Dunban at this point.

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Also agree with half_silver.

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Day 338 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78692580

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