Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 480 ft Namine, Koffing, Skee-Ball

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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 479:

Kazuhira Miller (Metal Gear) is Mid Fodder
Cyborg (DC Comics) is Low Fodder
Onix (Pokemon) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Namine (Kingdom Hearts)
Koffing (Pokemon)
Skee-Ball (Skee-Ball)

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Low Fodder for Namine. I don't know how well-liked she isn't as important to the story as Kairi. She was in KH3 but it doesn't seem like her role was huge.

Mid Fodder for Koffing. It's another Team Rocket Pokemon with a lot of appearances in the early episodes of the anime.

I'm not sure WHAT exactly the Skee-Ball is supposed to be. Is it literally just a ball from a Skee-Ball arcade game or an actual character? I can't find anything pointing to the latter, so I assume this is just a ball. LAW Fodder.

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Agreed with halfsilver.

fear the power of smogon

The joke with Skee-Ball is that gamefaqs has allowed inanimate objects in games as characters, and gamefaqs also lists Skee Ball as a game in its database for some reason despite not being a video game, so therefore the ball itself must be eligible for character battles.

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Also agree with halfsilver.

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Day 481 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79028806

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