Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 389 ft Serah Farron, Azala, Seymour Skinner

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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 388:

Barack Obama (Madden NFL) is Low Fodder
Cody Travers (Final Fight/Street Fighter) is Mid Fodder
Samurai Goroh (F-Zero) is Low Fodder

Re-Ranking Result:

Tom Nook (Animal Crossing) is now High Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Serah Farron (Final Fantasy XIII-2)
Azala (Chrono Trigger)
Seymour Skinner (The Simpsons)

Today's Re-Ranking is:

Inkling (Splatoon)

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Re-rank Jimi Hendrix

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I will barely give Serah Mid Fodder - she doesn't seem to be hated and probably gets compared favorably to her sis. She'll probably get some waifu points too. The game she starred in is not really talked about much, but I think it is the best-received of the XIII trilogy?

I will put Azala at Low Fodder. She is a somewhat memorable antagonist from CT, but she is stuck in the prehistory chapter of the game, and I expect her design will hold her back.

For Seymour I say Mid Fodder. Not just because of steamed hams, but because of another meme that speaks more strongly to Gfaqs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYAuR5bkIlQ

For Inkling I will say Mid Fodder. The first rating we did on Inkling vastly overestimated the strength of Splatoon. Splatoon 2 got pushed around in GOTD2 and I think site demographics did not shift favorably for multi-player games. There should still be somewhat of a fandom left on the site though, and the Inkling does have a distinctive design going for it as well as smash.

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nominate Sarah Bryant (Virtua Fighter) and Valkyrie (Gauntlet series)

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Serah Farron (Final Fantasy XIII-2) - mid fodder

A character with a general lack of popularity and hype and from games with this kind of reception would probably have been low fodder in general but cute girl people have probably heard of and dont hate sounds mid fodder-ish. Its kind of borderline though. People dont seem to care strongly about any of the XIII games.

Azala (Chrono Trigger) - low fodder

Probably worse than Dalton at that because of less screen time but Chrono Trigger is too much a force for her to be LAW. Maybe Red Beast or someone could be LAW though.

Seymour Skinner (The Simpsons) - mid foddet

he steams a good ham.

Inkling - mid fodder

they could be better than this, but I wouldnt count on it. An entrant probably carried hard by Smash either way.

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Sure, I'll agree with both of you.

I'll also nominate Flint for reranking. Yes, I know we ranked him comparatively recently, but I don't think we considered his game's surprising strength at the time. Frankly, I can't see any main cast member of any game capable of breaking 30% on MGS3 (and for which 'main cast member' is relevant) being among the 5 or so weakest characters we've ever seen in a contest, sub-20% playrate or no.

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second re-ranking Flint. Not sure where I rated him before, but I can definitely see him not being law based on the strength of Mother 3.

Day 390 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78832041

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