Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 632 ft Guy Cecil, Barthandelus, Farmer

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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 631:

Asch the Bloody (Tales of the Abyss) is Low Fodder
Krabby (Pokemon) is Low Fodder
Kingler (Pokemon) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Guy Cecil (Tales of the Abyss)
Barthandelus (Final Fantasy XIII)
The Farmer (Stardew Valley)

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Guy Cecil - low fodder
Possibly the least controversial member of Abysss main cast but he doesnt have enough going for him to match up with Lukes protagonist role, Jades fan-favorite status, or Tears TJF. Does seem like him not being disliked should give him enough support to avoid really considering LAW though.

Barthandelus - Low fodder
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/4480-which-of-these-rivalries-would-you-most-like-to-see-in-the
If you take that seriously for his strength then hed almost have to be LAW with how much his presence weakened Lightning but thats clearly also a crappy rivalry dragging them down. Hes going to suck but Im a little reluctant to say hed be clearly outperformed by FFII and III characters, even if some of them are in Dissidia, so I went low and not LAW.

The Farmer - Low fodder
Their game wasnt terrible last contest but not good enough to make me think a customizable character like this would be worth much.

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agree with axem. The rivalry poll was from 10 years ago so I'm not surprised Lightning/Barthandelus finished below even Fenix/Skorge, the latter of which we ranked law. Barthandelus is far more likely to be remembered on Gfaqs than a random Gears antagonist, and FF13 seems to be far less hated today than it would have been in 2011.

People do like Guy but he's not as big of a fan favorite as Jade.

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Yeah, agree with Axem - there's a reason why we've waited until now to rank the main character of the possible strongest modern indie game here, and it's because they're such a non-entity as a character that most voters likely won't even associate a default design.

Nominate Enrique, Mankey, and Primeape.

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Day 633 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79361711

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