Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 553 ft Marina Liteyears, Trico, Muk

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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 552:

Paya (Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) is Mid Fodder
Nidoqueen (Pokemon) is Mid Fodder
Alduin (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim) is Low Fodder

Re-Ranking Result:

Birdo (Mario series) is now Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Marina Liteyears (Mischief Makers)
Trico (The Last Guardian)
Muk (Pokemon)

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Nominate The Player

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Nominate:

Zeratul (StarCraft)
Tassadar (StarCraft)
Artanis (StarCraft)

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LAW Fodder for Marina. As far as I can tell Mischief Makers is pretty obscure for a N64 game from 1998, and has never had a rerelease, so I can't have much confidence in its protagonist.

Low Fodder for Trico. It's a. . . kind of cute Griffin thing? Regardless I think The Last Guardian is remembered well enough for the odd animal to do ok.

Mid Fodder for Muk. It is pretty much just a pile of sludge, but Ash owned one in the Gen 1 anime that would memorably "hug" Professor Oak, so I'm willing to give it some credit.

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Agreed with halfsilver.

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AxemRedRanger posted...

Agreed with halfsilver.

This I guess, though I personally don't get the sense The Last Guardian is remotely remembered well.

Nominate Hades (Hades).

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second Hades

Day 554 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79203511

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