Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 574 ft Metal Slug, Wigglytuff, Voldo

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half_silver28
01/18/21 2:19:06 AM
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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 573:

Sansa Stark (Game of Thrones) is Low Fodder
Drowzee (Pokemon) is Low Fodder
Luke Triton (Professor Layton) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Metal Slug/SV-001 (Metal Slug)
Wigglytuff (Pokemon)
Voldo (Soul Calibur)

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AxemRedRanger
01/18/21 5:19:00 PM
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Metal Slug/SV-001 (Metal Slug) - LAW fodder
Meaningful name for a really weak but sort of recognizable franchise but it's also a not-really-a-joke object. Also unless you really devote yourself to the game the tank is generally not gonna last that long. I could see Caim beating this thing.
Wigglytuff (Pokemon) - Mid fodder
Jigglypuff is notable enough that its evolution might not be too bad.
Voldo (Soul Calibur) - Low fodder
Really weird but probably not liked enough for mid.

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MetalmindStats
01/18/21 6:10:13 PM
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I'm going to say Low Fodder for all three.

Metal Slug probably isn't completely terrible based on its one relevant poll appearance, so I assume something named identically to the franchise can harness enough of that strength to avoid LAW Fodder.

I can't see Wigglytuff weighing in only one tier under the Smasher and early anime mainstay it evolves from. Perhaps we've just underranked Jigglypuff on the presumption that MMX didn't meaningfully SFF it, in which case I'm not even sure about two tiers. This would probably be different if I had any reason to believe this site truly cares about Mystery Dungeon.

Nominate Fio, Heero Yuy, and Taskmaster.

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half_silver28
01/18/21 6:18:26 PM
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agree with metalmind. Wigglytuff is no Jiggly, who has anime relevance and was in Smash since the first game. Wigglytuff doesn't have any of that.

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half_silver28
01/19/21 12:25:34 AM
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