Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 515 ft Lightning McQueen, Felyne, Prince

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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 514:

Vulpix (Pokemon) is Mid Fodder
Crobat (Pokemon) is Low Fodder
Tseng (Final Fantasy VII) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Lightning McQueen (Cars)
Felyne (Monster Hunter series)
Prince (Prince Interactive)

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Nominate:
Ramuh (Final Fantasy)
El Presidente (Tropico series)
Sun Wukong (Enslaved: Odyssey to the West)
Ryza (Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout)
Specimen 6 (Aliens vs. Predator 2010)

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All low fodder for today.
Cars was the consensus worst Pixar movie, until they made more Cars that usurped that position. I think they keep making more because the toys sold well? Not gonna help here at any rate. Would sooner go LAW than mid fodder.

Monster Hunter is popular and people like cats so I doubt Felyne is LAW but if it's from Monster Hunter and not literally named Monster Hunter, I doubt it's above low.

I'm not a music guy and don't have any real experience with Prince myself, but anecdotally I just don't really remember anyone in my peer groups (was born in 1989) ever really caring about or mentioning Prince much. Did his career and general prominence decline quickly around the 90s or so? And he's been dead long enough now that I don't see that giving him much of a bump either.

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Agree with Axem. Prince is an iconic musician but his peak popularity was in the 80s, and didn't have much mainstream relevance past 95 or so. So I don't think Gfaqs will give him much support.

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Also agree with Axem, and second Ramuh.

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Third El Presidente

Day 516 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79106239

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