Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 617 ft Jedah Dohma, B.B. Hood, Hagrid

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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 616:

Bo Jackson (Tecmo Super Bowl) is Low Fodder
Golem (Pokemon) is Low Fodder
Phi (Virtues Last Reward) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Jedah Dohma (Darkstalkers)
B.B. Hood (Darkstalkers)
Rubeus Hagrid (Harry Potter)

Today's Re-Ranking is:

Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)

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Jedah Dohma (Darkstalkers) - Low fodder
B.B. Hood (Darkstalkers) - Low fodder
Darkstalkers and MvC characters that aren't in UMvC3 and don't have Morrigan and Felicia's iconic TJF appeal.

Rubeus Hagrid (Harry Potter) - Low fodder
He's generally likable and he shows up really early but he's not super-prominent or a big favorite.

Gandalf - Fodder line
You shall not pass...the fodder line.

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agree with axem on all except Hagrid. I will say Mid Fodder for Hagrid - I do see him as somewhat of a fan favorite and he is very prominent in the first 3 books/movies. Everyone also knows "Yer a Wizard Harry". Plus if he gets his amazing PS1 appearance in the match pic I can see him picking up joke votes.

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Agree with Axem on all except Gandalf, who I will rank at High Fodder due to LotR's overly diffuse cast, its singular source of real GameFAQs appeal, and because Gandalf's design would be a negative for a typical character.

Nominate Luke Skywalker for re-ranking on the basis that Star Wars' specific dynamic completely counters the normal main protagonist > fan favorite sidekick hierarchy here, and it makes more sense for Luke to be lower than for Han Solo to be higher at this point.

Also, nominate Maximillion Pegasus (Yu-Gi-Oh!) for ranking, and third Igor, Jin Kisaragi, and Pat Sajak.

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second Pegasus.

also I will change my ranking on Gandalf to High Fodder. He doesn't have a ton of playable game appearances, and most of the ones he has are part of an ensemble. Metal also made a good point of his design holding him back a bit in comparison to Aragorn or even Gimli.

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Nominate Pegasus

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second Re-Ranking Luke

Day 618 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79331234

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