Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 447 ft Karin Koenig, Cyndaquil, Sandman

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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 446:

Leon Powlaski (Star Fox) is Low Fodder
Lapras (Pokemon) is High Fodder
The Vulture (Marvel) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Karin Koenig (Shadow Hearts Covenant)
Cyndaquil (Pokemon)
Sandman (Marvel)

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I will (barely) give Karin Low Fodder. Shadow Hearts is a very niche RPG series, but Covenant receives a fair share of praise and Karin has TJF to help her too.

High Fodder for Cyndaquil. It's a very recognizable starter and its cute. And I don't see it being a tier weaker than Totodile.

Low Fodder for Sandman. He's mostly only known for his role in Spider-Man 3 and actually DOESN'T have memes from the movie. Some people do non-ironically praise his role in the movie, but that's mostly lost in the sea of memes.

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Agreed with halfsilver, although Karen is leaning a bit on characters with TJF probably arent LAW fodder if they have almost ANYTHING at all going for them. And Shadow Hearts Covenany being a pretty well regarded classic-era JRPG (if a very niche one) is indeed sorta something. I would probably go LAW fodder otherwise.

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Yeah, agree with halfsilver and Axem.

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Day 448 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78956960

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