Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 628 ft Emil Castagnier, Louis (L4D), Kun Lan

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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 627:

Skorge (Gears of War) is LAW Fodder
Flynn Scifo (Tales of Vesperia) is Low Fodder
Henry Cooldown (No More Heroes) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Emil Castagnier (Tales of Symphonia: DOTNW)
Louis (Left 4 Dead)
Kun Lan (Killer7)

Today's Re-Ranking is:

Luke Skywalker (Star Wars)

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Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality
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Nominate:
Sandslash (Pokemon)
Oddish (Pokemon)
Gloom (Pokemon)
Vileplume (Pokemon)
Paras (Pokemon)
Parasect (Pokemon)
Mankey (Pokemon)
Primeape (Pokemon)
Poliwhirl (Pokemon)
Poliwrath (Pokemon)
Ponyta (Pokemon)
Rapidash (Pokemon)
Magnemite (Pokemon)
Magneton (Pokemon)
Doduo (Pokemon)
Dodrio (Pokemon)
Dewgong (Pokemon)
Krabby (Pokemon)
Kingler (Pokemon)
Staryu (Pokemon)
Seadra (Pokemon)

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Nominate:
Arc (Arc the Lad)
Speed Racer (Speed Racer arcade)

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OrangeCrush980 posted...

Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality

It most certainly is.

Unfortunately I have to go with LAW Fodder for Emil. I don't think that he's as hated as he was when his game was new, but even if he is merely divisive I still can't be too confident in his strength. DOTNW is not a well-liked game at all, and I expect Emil will suffer the most for that as the protagonist.

Low Fodder for Louis. Iirc he is the most popular character from Left 4 Dead, but I can't see him doing much since his franchise was. . . left for dead.

LAW Fodder for Kun Lan for the same reasons as other Killer7 characters - it's about as cult of a game as you can get.

For Luke's re-ranking I will saw Low Midcarder. As the main character of the OG Star Wars trilogy and a Jedi he should easily be able to clear the fodder line, but I don't think people like him enough for him to be a midcarder. Him being the same tier as fan favorite Han Solo seems correct.

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Ill go with low fodder for Emil simply because Id expect his game having a likely not-too-terrible playrate to be enough to bail its main character out even if neither him nor his game are that well-liked. It might be kinda close though.

agreed on the others.

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Agree with Axem I guess, though I'm skeptical about Louis. ToS: DotNW doesn't seem outright hated here if nothing else.

Nominate Poliwag.

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Day 629 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79354857

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