Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 609 ft Benjamin (FF MQ), Krile, Oxem

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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 608:

Luneth (Final Fantasy III) is Low Fodder
Exeggcute (Pokemon) is Low Fodder
Rhyhorn (Pokemon) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Benjamin (Final Fantasy Mystic Quest)
Krile (Final Fantasy V)
Oxen (Oregon Trail)

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Nominate Ornlu (Age of Empires II).

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Benjamin (Final Fantasy Mystic Quest) - LAW fodder

Some people sorta like Mystic Quest for various reasons but nobody cares about the plot or characters at all and with how you can rename the main character and the unlikelihood that he gets his in-game sprite for a Round 1 match, there's a chance of "who the hell is this?" further hurting him.

Krile (Final Fantasy V) - Low fodder

As much as I mocked Lenna for being bland and uninteresting, Krile...might actually be worse? But I haven't played FFV in over a dozen years and it's possible I'm just not remembering stuff. She's clearly low fodder at best, regardless.

Oxen (Oregon Trail) - Low fodder
They'll get some joke votes and might be decent in the U.S. but when your international appeal is so unprecedentedly abysmal that you could break 60% in the U.S. and still conceivably lose the match, I'm...skeptical of you.

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Agree with Axem. I doubt the Oxen would be worth much on a site that's largely over jokes and practically too irrelevant to launch a mass rally for, but they've clearly got some potential to rake in votes from Oregon Trail players against bottom-feeders.

Nominate Akihiko, Graveler, Golbat, Junpei, Lance Bean, Ninetales, and Ronald Mcdonald.

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agree with axem as well. Benjamin could get a decent pic, but I'd guess that a lot of Mystic Quest fans likely don't even know he has a canon name. I was thinking of going law for the Oxen, but the Oregon Trail playrate on Gfaqs is probably pretty high so I can see them beating some bad low fodder characters.

also second Ornlu (Age of Empires II)

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Day 610 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79315402

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