Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 494 ft Rean Schwarzer, Sami, Garchomp

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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 493:

Doc Louis (Punch-Out) is Low Fodder
Persian (Pokemon) is Mid Fodder
Bonk (Bonk's Adventure) is LAW Fodder

Re-Ranking Results:

Francis York Morgan (Deadly Premonition) is now Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Rean Schwarzer (Trails of Cold Steel)
Sami (Advance Wars)
Garchomp (Pokmon)

Today's Re-Ranking is:

Carl "C.J." Johnson (GTA: San Andreas)

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Low Fodder for all today.

Rean is probably above law range considering he is the protagonist of multiple Cold Steel games, and is part of a series this board really likes.

Sami is the waifu of the Advance Wars series and shouldn't do too bad since the AW games seem like a Gfaqs type of thing and came out in the right era to start hitting nostalgia range.

Garchomp could be close, but it is another Pokemon that was kind of tough to actually obtain in its generation. It is known for being Cynthia's ace monster, but also might suffer some anti-votes for how busted it was in competitive battles.

CJ I think is close to mid, but his generic design and an overreliance on memes to be remembered will drag him down on this site.

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Agreed, low for all.

CJ could conceivably prove us wrong and be half-decent but Vercettis long-term decline suggests bad things for him and if CJ was really worth more its strange how only 3 years out from his GoTY games release he couldnt even make a 128-character bracket.

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Also agree with Low Fodder for all - Garchomp was quite accessible by pseudo-legend standards, and it might be the strongest post-Hoenn Pokmon without Smash exposure, but that's probably not quite enough.

Nominate the following:

• Celebi
• Chain Chomp
• Chaos
• Dark Queen
• Death Star
• Diglett
• Don Corneo
• Dr. Ian Malcolm
• Fi
• Goro
• Hammer Bro.
• Hitmonchan
• Hitmonlee
• Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk
• Joseph Stalin
• Micaiah
• Moai
• Palmer
• Patches the Hyena
• Rude
• Sarah Bryant
• Seaking
• Sinistar
• Smoke
• Sudowoodo
• Tseng
• Xenomorph Queen

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nominate Hammer Bro

Day 495 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79056970

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not even the people who like Trails like Rean

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