Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 525 ft Zagreus, Lickitung, Mr. Do

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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 524:

Saturos (Golden Sun) is Mid Fodder
The Punisher (Marvel) is Mid Fodder
Rena Lanford (Star Ocean the Second Story) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Zagreus (Hades)
Lickitung (Pokemon)
Mr. Do (Mr. Do)

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I know next to nothing about Hades except that it's pretty new and on the Switch. It is on the top 10 message boards for Switch right now so I will give Zagreus the benefit of the doubt and say Low Fodder.

Low Fodder for Lickitung. I don't think many people really like Lickitung, and its Gen 4 evo is widely hated. It has a good amount of season 1 anime exposure but I don't think that's enough to move up to Mid by itself.

Easy LAW Fodder vote for Mr. Do. I didn't even know this series until its namesake character was nominated for ranking, and was at peak popularity from 1982 to 84. So yeah, I think Tanner would easily double Mr. Do.

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Agree with halfsilver. I gather Hades has become quite a big deal in mainstream Western gaming circles since its full release, but I don't think GameFAQs is among those circles. The game's nowhere to be seen on our top 100 trending games even when combining separate platform listings, and it ranks behind multiple games I hadn't even heard of (including a PSP game!) on our most wanted FAQs listing. Obviously such metrics are far from fully indicative, as Rockstar games and recent Pokmon generations clearly indicate, among others. From what I understand, though, Hades is dense and persistent enough in nature to give me reason to expect better if this site had actually taken to an indie roguelite for once.

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Agreed with halfsilver.

Wikipedia claims Mr. Do's arcade game sold really well back in the day. Weird how completely that game seems to have gone completely down the memory hole.

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Day 526 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79139854

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