LogFAQs > #910386940

Okay so here are the hot takes of Jim, the semi-casual who probably doesn't know shit, on rallies:

-Monika would have been my clear favorite to win the contest a year ago, but now it's been a year since Doki Doki Literature Club came out. I can't imagine Undertale having been as strong if the contest was 2016 instead of 2015 since by 2016 not as many people were talking abut that game. DDLC seems like it should be in the same category as a flavor of the year indie game that doesn't really have a lot of staying power. But apparently the Subreddit is fairly active and already talking about the contest so what do I know.

-D.Va seems prime to be basically Draven 2.0, which is probably fairly likely. That being said I have a gut reaction of doubt to her getting rallied and I don't know why. I guess she doesn't seem as uniformly liked in the Overwatch fanbase as some of these other characters, given how some people are incredibly attached to some other OW character? Idk. She might be the most likely and obvious candidate for a rally overall but idk if I'll pick her.

-Waluigi is my dark horse pick for a potential rally. He's probably not terrible unrallied anyways, but as a character he's a dangerous combination of people who like him for the meme and people who unironically love how dumb of a character he is. He's the kind of character people would be passionate enough about to vote in droves for, in a way I'm not sure any of the other rally characters would be. And Waluigi actually is a legit meme like, outside of gaming/Mario/Smash-specific spaces and communities like Polygon/GB where he seems to be well liked/memed, I've seen normie Waluigi memes before (I'm pretty sure I saw a "petition to add Waluigi to Fortnite" thing on a meme subreddit at some point which makes me a little mad but whatever). And people on Twitter specifically seem to love him. The problem is that there's not really a centralized Waluigi hub to start a rally, which is admittedly a decently big issue and makes him quite a bit less likely. I guess you could go to meme subreddits like me_irl, r/nintendo, Giant Bomb forums, maybe get some Twitter famous person with a bunch of followers to tweet "hey vote for Waluigi for GameFAQs character battle to make nerds mad" or some shit. But you'd have to be lucky to get something going.

-Geralt is not something I thought of but people bringing him up make a lot of sense. Though the thing is that if he gets rallied, basically anyone can also get rallied. He's just by far the most likely of the "normal" characters to get rallied due to CD Projekt Red.

-I think that a rallied character winning in general is pretty damn likely. That being said, after the Undertale contest I basically thought to myself that we'd never again have a contest of this nature that WOULDN'T get rallied, and now my gut reaction is to kind of doubt that. I think the contest is still very susceptible to rallies, but the thing is that GameFAQs in 2018 is so damn irrelevant to most people that they might not even bother to rally. Rallies might also not really take off on account of people trying too hard to "force" them this time. I don't think the double vote thing will be that big of a factor since a good chunk of people might create their own accounts to count for more points, and because I think vote totals from internal active GameFAQs users are gonna be hella low this year.

-Not related to anything, but if/when we get rallied, I'd bet money that some people are going to respond to Board 8 screencaps with "30 Year Old Boomer" memes (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/30-year-old-boomer)
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