Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 615 ft Kaine (Nier), Jimmy Lee, Machoke

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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 614:

Ninetales (Pokemon) is Mid Fodder
Baraka (Mortal Kombat) is Low Fodder
Tentacruel (Pokemon) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Kaine (Nier)
Jimmy Lee (Double Dragon)
Machoke (Pokemon)

Today's Re-Ranking is:

George Washington (Assassin's Creed IIl / Civ)

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Kaine (Nier) - Low fodder
Character design helps despite her one game probably not having a particularly high playrate. Certainly not gonna even get close to mid unless the remaster is huge, though.

Jimmy Lee (Double Dragon) - Low fodder
Billy Lee but slightly worse.

Machoke (Pokemon) - Low fodder
Machamp but slightly worse.

Today's Re-Ranking is:
George Washington (Assassin's Creed IIl / Civ) - Mid fodder
Likely low international support plus the dubiousness of gamefaqs voting for a real person but I don't want to completely write him off. Think Abraham Lincoln would probably be stronger. Just feels like he's generally more prominent in the last few decades of pop culture and entertainment. Not entirely sure he deserves the high fodder we gave him but I can kinda consider that one.

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agree with Low Fodder for all for the main trio today but I will say High Fodder for George Washington. I am kind of on the fence with him though, since I'm not sure exactly how much of Gfaqs is from the US. I think it's a pretty high percentage.

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Agree with Axem except Low Fodder for George Washington - as revered as he might be in the US, he has zero association with video gaming and barely even constitutes a character. It's one thing to say someone like Michael Jackson will get lots of votes against your average middling piece of fodder - quite another for a real-life person the Americans of this site vaguely respect but honestly probably don't care about at this point.

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Day 616 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79327069

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