Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 400 ft Paul Mccartney, Sharla, Bioshock Jack

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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 399:

Chosen Undead (Dark Souls) is Mid Fodder
Bianca Whitaker (Dragon Quest V) is Low Fodder
Tarzan (Disneys Tarzan) is Low Fodder

Re-Ranking Result:

Cynthia (Pokemon) is now Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Paul Mccartney (The Beatles Rock Band)
Sharla (Xenoblade Chronicles)
Jack (BioShock)


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Paul I will put at Mid Fodder. He generally gets credit for a lot of The Beatles' most popular songs, and had a long solo career after they broke up. I would say he is still active to this day, but of course no sane musician has been "active" since this March. Most of the Gfaqs demographic should know Paul and many of the popular songs he wrote, considering that their parents likely lived through Beatlemania. Plus the "Paul McCartney is dead" meme is still a thing.

I'll put Sharla at Mid Fodder. I don't think she'd beat out Melia, but she is a main party member from game the site really cares about. Plus she's got TJF.

Low Fodder for Jack. Based on the performance of Bioshock Infinite in GOTD2, I don't think Gfaqs cares enough about this series to vote for the first game's faceless protagonist.

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I'm going to side with Low Fodder for Paul McCartney. John Lennon's likely the stronger of The Beatles' two primary songwriters here due to the extra mystique from his untimely death, and at any rate, I'm generally skeptical about the likelihood of voters considering unfictionalized real-life people equivalent to video game characters.

Mid Fodder does seem fair for Sharla, even if she's no fan favorite - being the only healing-focused Xenoblade party member presumably makes her rather valuable in battle, plus waifu appeal ought to make a difference when paired with other reasons for voters to care.

I'll also agree with Low Fodder for Jack, but it has nothing to do with what BioShock Infinite showed in GotD 2, which I strongly suspect was due to time not treating that game in particular kindly. On the other hand, the core of the original BioShock has aged gracefully; the problem is that Jack has never seemed to stick out whatsoever within the confines of his game.

Finally, I'll nominate Mai Shiranui for reranking. Her main claim to fame is having TJF for days, and she became quite the big name for it, but we're 20+ years removed from her prime and left with a pair of interconnected series GameFAQs hardly cares about. Blaze is the clear comparison here despite their somewhat different genres, and while Mai absolutely has more going for her, I don't buy the notion of it being enough to justify a two-tier gap.

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McCartney - low fodder

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd4bSfxsrFk

McCartney one of the best fire emblem characters

Sharla - mid fodder

Jack - low fodder

Would you kindly go to low fodder

Re-rank Mai Shiranui

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Day 401 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78856301

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