Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 582 ft Iceman, Electabuzz, Sayori

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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 581:

X-23 (X-Men) is Low Fodder
Juggernaut (X-Men) is Mid Fodder
Super-Skrull (Marvel) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Iceman (X-Men)
Electabuzz (Pokemon)
Sayori (Doki Doki Literature Club)

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Iceman (X-Men) - Mid fodder

I'm not sure people will care that much (his presence in the cartoons was pretty spotty and I don't think he came out of the films as all that memorable) but he looks kind of cool and maybe people will mistake him for the Robot Master.

Electabuzz (Pokemon) - Mid fodder

Its prominence in RBY itself is near-zero but it seems mildly popular anyways?

Sayori (Doki Doki Literature Club) - Low fodder

This far off from release and with her less likely to get substantial rallies than in 2018, I figure even Monika is probably low fodder now. Bodes rather poorly for the other girls. Maybe they can still narrowly get low fodder though.

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On second though, no, thought myself out of it. Ice Man for low.

Nominate Simea (Crystalis)

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I'd say low fodder for Iceman, he doesn't seem very memorable in general. Agreed otherwise. Electabuzz is a gen 1 Pokemon with some popularity and even after dropping off so much DDLC has the small but dedicated fanbase to avoid its characters being LAW fodder. Sayori also makes for the game's first big twist, which got fairly well known even for people who didn't play the game.

Also ninja'd, oops. tl;dr agreed with Axem.

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agree with axem. Iceman is only really memorable for being in Marvel Vs Capcom games, despite appearing quite a bit in the X-Men movies. He was kind of forgettable in the movies due to rarely appearing in his actual ice form.

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Agree with Shonen.

Nominate Natsuki, Yuri, and Simea.

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third Natsuki, Yuri, and Simea

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Day 583 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79264211

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