Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 497 ft Sarah Bryant, Celebi, Smoke

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half_silver28
10/24/20 8:33:30 PM
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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 496:

Don Corneo (Final Fantasy VII) is Low Fodder
Furret (Pokmon) is Low Fodder
Goro (Mortal Kombat) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Sarah Bryant (Virtua Fighter)
Celebi (Pokemon)
Smoke (Mortal Kombat)

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half_silver28
10/25/20 11:58:20 AM
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I'll (barely) give Sarah Low Fodder because she's hot, and since she does have a fair amount of crossover fighter appearances (Fighters Megamix, DoA5).

Mid Fodder for Celebi and Smoke. Celebi has the Mew issue where it is not normally available within its generation, but it is iconic enough and stars in a Pokemon movie (I think said movie Pokemon 4ever did have a theatrical release). Not sure how much people care for Smoke in general, but he's a classic MK ninja so I think he'll be worth something based on design.

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half_silver28
10/25/20 8:36:31 PM
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nominate Mike Ehrmantraut (Breaking Bad)

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AxemRedRanger
10/25/20 10:00:50 PM
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low fodder for Sarah. TJF plus almost anything is probably above LAW.

mid for Celebi. Celebi is gonna be fairly weak for an early gen legendary, not being on a box or from rby, but probably still has enough to get mid.

Not sure I trust Smoke to necessarily get a pic where hes a palette swap or very close to it of Sub-Zero/Scorpion and hed probably needs one to have a shot at being decent so low fodder for him.

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AxemRedRanger
10/25/20 10:01:33 PM
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Nominate Kano (Mortal Kombat) (could have sworn he was already done?)

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half_silver28
10/25/20 10:06:33 PM
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second Kano

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MetalmindStats
10/25/20 10:06:56 PM
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Agree with Axem I guess and third Kano.

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half_silver28
10/25/20 10:17:14 PM
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