Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 351 ft Regina, Kingpin, Ramon Salazar

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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 350:

Mundus (Devil May Cry) is Low Fodder
Jareth (Labyrinth) is Low Fodder
Jessica Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) is Low Fodder

Re-Ranking Result:

Simba (The Lion King) is now Fodder Line

Here is today's trio to rank:

Regina (Dino Crisis)
Kingpin (Marvel)
Ramon Salazar (Resident Evil 4)

Today's Re-Ranking is:

Hollow Knight (Hollow Knight)

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Mid for all

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Low Fodder for Regina - it has been way too long since the last Dino Crisis release and I don't think the series was all that popular here to begin with. The series would have to be revived for her to have any strength.

Mid Fodder for Kingpin. He has made a large number of appearances in Spider-Man and Daredevil media and games, most recently Marvel's Spider-Man and the Daredevil Netflix series which featured him as a major villain. His portrayal in Daredevil was highly praised as well.

Low Fodder for Salazar. Pending an announcement of RE4 remake, the game looks to have lost a step judging by Leon's last contest, and I don't think Salazar is a big enough fan favorite to overcome that like the Merchant.

Low Fodder for Hollow Knight. Sure he is the namesake of the game, but he's not the protagonist and it doesn't seem like he has a large amount of character or a big role in the game to help him out. I'm also not sure that his design will go over well in a match.

nominate Hornet (Hollow Knight)

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Re-rank Lilith

Nominate Sebastian Castellanos (The Evil Within)

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Regina - low fodder

Kingpin - low fodder

Fat (I think actually muscle but he certainly looks fat) old bald villain guy
Im thinking his character design murders the strength he might otherwise get from marginal familiarity.

Ramon Salazar - low fodder

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Hollow Knight - low fodder

The game turned out to be like high fodder - less than 20% on a game at least indirectly a bit weaker than Ocarina. Name value for a game so low in strength is probably not worth all that much.

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Agree with Axem.

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Nomations the whammy from the press your luck videogame yes there is one I have it

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Day 352 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78733708

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I said nomations whammy

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ertyu0078 posted...

I said nomations whammy

it's on there

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