Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 18 ft Shrek, Ignis, Darth Revan

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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 both members of said duo are named in the title of a game (Banjo-Kazooie, Sam & Max Hit the Road, etc).

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 - 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.

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

Results from Day 17:

Erdrick/Hero (Dragon Quest) is Fodder Line
Marth (Fire Emblem) is a Low Midcarder
Sophitia Alexandra (Soul Calibur) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Shrek (Shrek games)
Ignis (Final Fantasy XV)
Darth Revan (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic)
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Shrek: High Fodder?

Ignis: Low Fodder - Noctis looked so pathetic, despite being FF15's main character, that I'm not convinced any other FF15 character without TJF is worth anything at all.

Darth Revan: Fodder Line - I don't think he's declined much, if at all, from 2010, not to mention that KotOR looked fine in 2015.
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High Fodder seems good for Shrek. It's been almost 10 years since the last main Shrek movie, but he is still fairly popular, and has an endless amount of memes associated with him. However he doesn't have much in terms of good game appearances, which limits his appeal on Gfaqs.

I agree that Ignis is Low Fodder. He might be liked more than Noctis, but he's not the main character and doesn't stand out much design-wise. And Gfaqs seems to have soured on FF15 too.

I agree with Fodder Line for Revan as well, but I think he did decline from 2010. He looked like a low midcarder there.

nominations:

Bill Rizer (Contra)
Bahamut (Final Fantasy)
Linkle (Hyrule Warriors)
Simba (The Lion King)
Rush (Mega Man)
Sailor Moon/Usagi Tsukino (Sailor Moon)
Chell (Portal)
Lu Bu (Dynasty Warriors)
Yuri Lowell (Tales of Vesperia)
Cody Travers (Final Fight/Street Fighter)
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MetalmindStats posted...

Shrek: High Fodder?

Ignis: Low Fodder - Noctis looked so pathetic, despite being FF15's main character, that I'm not convinced any other FF15 character without TJF is worth anything at all.

Darth Revan: Fodder Line - I don't think he's declined much, if at all, from 2010, not to mention that KotOR looked fine in 2015.

Seconded.

Also re-nominating Sakura Oogami because TC pulled her in when I went out
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Shrek - Fodder line. Has enough serious AND joke support to avoid being fodder outright.

Ignis- low fodder

Revan - high fodder
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Nominate:

Link's Grandma (Wind Waker)
Bowser Jr
Pablo Sanchez (Backyard Sports)
Jimi Hendrix (Guitar Hero)
Hayley Williams (Guitar Hero)
Scrooge McDuck (DuckTales)
Mei Ling (MGS)
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Also nominate

Angry Video Game Nerd
Fred Fucks

Both from AVGN Adventures.
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Underleveled posted...

Scrooge McDuck (DuckTales)

I'll second this one.
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Day 19 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/77791559
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