Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 524 ft Saturos, Punisher, Rena Lanford

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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 523:

Pidgey (Pokemon) is Low Fodder
Red Pikmin (Pikmin) is Low Fodder
Alex (Golden Sun) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Saturos (Golden Sun)
The Punisher (Marvel)
Rena Lanford (Star Ocean the Second Story)

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Nominate Zagreus.

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Mid Fodder for Saturos. He's the main antagonist of the first GS and is important in the second game as well, and has a distinctive design.

I will also say Mid Fodder for the Punisher. He's not in the MCU yet but he does have a lot of appearances in games and movies (none of them were good, but still). Plus he did have a Netflix series and even has some cartoon appearances.

Low Fodder for Rena. I can't find much of anything regarding Star Ocean 2 specifically on Gfaqs, but I think it is decently popular and it does have a remake as well. I will give Rena the benefit of the doubt as a cute anime girl.

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nominate Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls)

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Agreed with halfsilver. Somewhat reluctantly on both the mid fodder votes but it feels like The Punisher is someone youre supposed to know about even if you dont really read comics. Saturos is probably borderline mid at best and is lucky he has such a great battle theme: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uh1svF7sR68

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Agree with Axem I guess. Star Ocean 2 is probably no worse than Star Ocean 3 considering when each game was released, and the latter looked decent (certainly better than Berseria!) in GotD. Rena's clearly not going to be another Velvet, but I have no problem believing she's in the upper half of Low Fodder.

Nominate Zagreus and Mr. Do.

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Day 525 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79138032

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