Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 587 ft Col. Sanders, Goldeen, Ash Williams

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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 586:

AFGNCAAP (Zork) is LAW Fodder
John Connor (Terminator series) is Low Fodder
Nova/Richard Rider (Marvel) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Colonel Sanders (I Love You, Colonel Sanders!)
Goldeen (Pokemon)
Ash Williams (Evil Dead)

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Colonel Sanders (I Love You, Colonel Sanders!) - Low fodder

People know who Sanders is and would probably "get the joke" but I wouldn't expected more.

Goldeen (Pokemon) - Low fodder

goldeen flops

Ash Williams (Evil Dead) - LAW fodder

Way too cult, and in the wrong medium and genre for this site. The percentage of gamefaqs that have seen an Evil Dead movie and gave the slightest damn is probably pretty bad.

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Agree with Low Fodder for Colonel Sanders and Goldeen. Funny Chicken Man will get some votes and while Goldeen is a gen 1 Pokemon its mostly just known for being the worst pokeball mon from Smash.

Low Fodder for Ash. I don't think he's that niche of a character and while Evil Dead's main relevance was in the 80s, the older members of the Gfaqs demographic should know him as a horror icon. Plus the man has a chainsaw for an arm.

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I think I'll agree with halfsilver, not that it really matters. It feels like the Evil Dead movies, and Ash in particular, maintain a fanbase all out of proportion with their cult status. That marginal recognizability means I can't really see him failing to beat someone like Caim even on GameFAQs.

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Day 588 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79273013

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