Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 500 ft Hitmonlee, Chaos (FF1), Palmer

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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 499:

Sam & Max (Sam & Max Hit the Road) is Low Fodder
Sinistar (Sinistar) is Low Fodder
Rude (Final Fantasy VII) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Hitmonlee (Pokemon)
Chaos (Final Fantasy I)
Palmer (Final Fantasy VII)

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Hitmonlee (Pokemon) - Mid fodder

I could at least humor an argument about Jackie Chan vs. Hitmonchan but Bruce Lee ain't beating Hitmonlee.

Chaos (Final Fantasy I) - Low fodder

He's got some appearances in spinoffs outside FFI, notably Dissidia, but unlike Garland he's not playable there, he doesn't have Garland's dumb meme line in the original, and I just don't think anyone cares at all. I'm not even sure people care about Garland this long after Dissidia was relevant, actually.

Palmer (Final Fantasy VII) - Low fodder

Palmer Fun Entry.
Do not do this at home, kids.

Most characters like Palmer would probably be LAW, but Palmer is in FFVII and even in the remake which (although Palmer's still definitely not a looker) should give him acceptable match pics, too.

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agree with axem. Palmer should be well above law range as an FF7 character with a boss fight, and Hitmonlee should get some support, but probably not that much since it isn't (easily) available outside of RBY and its remakes. However it's pretty likely that players used it in Gen 1 thanks to being a Karate Dojo prize (and a stronger option than Hitmonchan).

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Yeah, agree with Axem.

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Day 501 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79070239

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