Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 498 ft Dark Queen, Chain Chomp, Kano

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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 497:

Sarah Bryant (Virtua Fighter) is Low Fodder
Celebi (Pokemon) is Mid Fodder
Smoke (Mortal Kombat) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Dark Queen (Battletoads)
Chain Chomp (Mario series)
Kano (Mortal Kombat)

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Low Fodder for all today.

Dark Queen might hit mid based on TJF, but she was never an overly active character in the OG Battletoads games nor was she a memorable boss in any of them. Plus there's a chance she'll get a pic of her 2020 reboot appearance which would strip her of TJF.

Chain Chomp is memorable and kind of funny (it's a DOG!), but I don't think people care that much for it. It hasn't been playable in anything, and I think it could be an anti-vote target due to how difficult of an enemy it is to deal with in some Mario games.

Kano is easily the weakest OG Mortal Kombat character, but people do remember him and his stereotype aussie accent.

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agreed on Kano and Dark Queen. The latter might be close to LAW without TJF, nobody cares about Battletoads story and nobody ever actually gets far enough into the old games to fight her anyways.

Chain Chomp could potentially surprise us. Its general minor presence in the Mario franchise probably shouldnt be enough for mid on its own but it guarding a star in Super Mario 64 pretty close to the starting point of the first level could give it some pretty good nostalgic appeal. Im going mid fodder but low is still reasonable.

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Agree with halfsilver. I think I'd take Hammer Bro over Chain Chomp even if the former does appear later in its major games, so yeah.

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The thing is chain chomp could get cross pollination with bow wow in link's awakening.

Day 499 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79065823

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