Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 566 ft SBAllen, President Eden, Martin Riggs

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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 565:

Cid Orlandeau (Final Fantasy Tactics) is Low Fodder
Martian Manhunter (DC Comics) is Low Fodder
Pidgeotto (Pokemon) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

SBAllen (Smurfgame)
President John Henry Eden (Fallout 3)
Martin Riggs (Lethal Weapon)

Today's Re-Ranking is:

Trevor Philips (Grand Theft Auto V)

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I'll go with Low Fodder for all, and probably each (except Trevor) around the same area of the tier:

Allen being the admin of this site gets him some basic name value, but hardly anyone will have any zeal to vote for him against video game characters they actually know. Lethal Weapon is probably too old for this site, except the not-so-well-liked fourth movie, but I think the franchise has at least oscillated down to younger generations a bit. Meanwhile, I'd have to assume that any important NPC with a design that's not entirely generic from a game as strong as Fallout 3 can avoid LAW Fodder here.

I already discussed Trevor with my re-ranking nomination, to which I'll also add that he probably should have made CBX if he were to have any real strength here.

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agree with metalmind

as a side note the name of the game SBAllen is in is Rising Stream which I will update when I add him to the rankings

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Agreed

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nominate Amber (Genshin Impact)

Day 567 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79231806

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