Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 629 ft Speed Racer, Giratina, Judith (ToV)

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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 628:

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

Re-Ranking Result:

Luke Skywalker (Star Wars) is now a Low Midcarder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Speed Racer (Speed Racer arcade)
Giratina (Pokemon)
Judith (Tales of Vesperia)

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Low Fodder for all today.

Speed Racer doesn't have much relevance to gaming but everyone on Gfaqs should at least know who he is. I'm sure some people on the site either grew up watching reruns of Speed Racer on CN in the 90s, or are fans of the late 00s live-action movie (which I do see brought up as one of the better anime adaptations out there).

Giratina is the box legendary of Platinum, but I don't think that matters too much to Gfaqs. It's definitely got a unique design though.

Judith definitely has TJF going for her but iirc her character is kind of divisive among fans for plot-related reasons.

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Sure, agree with halfsilver. Nominate Harley Quinn for re-ranking, because the lack of success ascribable to her recent ventures doesn't do a great job of demonstrating how much more popular she supposedly is than other non-Joker members of Batman's rogues' gallery. Plus, she's sorely lacking in GameFAQs-indelible roles relative to our current ranking, given which being only one tier under the Joker seems incongruous.

Also, nominate Kingler, Krabby, and Staryu for ranking.

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Agreed though if Speed was LAW I wouldnt be surprised either.

re-rank Harley Quinn

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sure, re-rank Harley. She does have the Arkham games for gaming relevance, but the relevant ones are kind of old now. Harley is still a very popular character with mainstream relevance thanks to the DCU and Harley show though.

Day 630 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79356722

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