Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 56 ft Doom Slayer, Kairi, Dick Gumshoe

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half_silver28
07/21/19 9:49:22 PM
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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 - 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 that if all posters for that day unanimously agree on the LAW Fodder rating. If any rating besides LAW Fodder is given, the character will not be eligible for the tier. All LAW Fodder ratings will then count as Low Fodder.

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 55:

Chewbacca (Star Wars) is Fodder Line
Meryl Silverburgh (Metal Gear Solid) is Mid Fodder
Dogmeat (Fallout) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Doom Slayer/Doomguy (Doom)
Kairi (Kingdom Hearts)
Dick Gumshoe (Ace Attorney)
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ZenOfThunder
07/21/19 10:02:11 PM
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Doom Slayer could be fodder line but specifically just right now with the circle jerk around Doom 2016 (which is well deserved) and the impending Doom Eternal. Doom 2016 has been played by a TON of people because it's super cheap on every platform. You also have all these people on this site that won't shut the fuck up about him being in Smash so that helps keep him relevant in some way. I don't think this ranking will hold forever though but having his game's title in his name def helps.

also I would never nominate Doom Slayer cuz you'd have a flood of people every match making topics titled "it's Doom GUY who's Doom Slayer???????"

Dick Gumshoe would be mid fodder because of the name alone, change my mind.

No opinion on Kairi, I haven't played KHIII or even II enough to have a real opinion on her.
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Underleveled
07/21/19 10:30:45 PM
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Doom Slayer - High fodder. Just a wild shot, we have very little reading on Doom as a whole in these things.

Gumshoe - mid fodder. A little stronger than Godot, who I still say is low fodder, despite what MetalMind called him when he tiered the CBX characters.

Kairi - High fodder. In 2006 she beat Claire and avoided SFF against Rikku. I would say fodder line but KH as a whole looked to have lost a step in CBX.
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MetalmindStats
07/21/19 11:10:14 PM
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Doom Slayer: Mid Fodder - I just don't have any confidence in any Western VG-originating character who hasn't already made a contest to perform, and Doom's lackluster results in things like past game contests and 2016 GotY polling don't help the cause. If he actually makes Smash, that will be a different story.

Dick Gumshoe: Mid Fodder. I agree that he should be a bit stronger than Godot. As for my placement when tiering the CBX characters, I'll admit that I probably should have called Godot Low Fodder, due to the nature of the project. Even from a personal perspective, Godot's result now looks to me like he's right on the borderline between Low and Mid Fodder.

Kairi: Mid Fodder, because quite simply, tell me why I should have any confidence in any KH characters that aren't Sora at this point. Riku is High Fodder at this point despite consistently making contests, and who actually cares about Kairi?

Nominations:
Agumon (Digimon)
Brock
Charmander
Cortana
Goombella (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)
John McClane (Die Hard)
Kain
Tharja
Viewtiful Joe
WarGreymon (Digimon)

Also, I will be on vacation from tomorrow until next Monday, so this will probably be the last day of this series I participate in until then.
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AxemRedRanger
07/22/19 12:15:50 AM
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Doom Slayer/Doomguy (Doom) - Mid Fodder

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7265-division-4-round-1-bowser-vs-gordon
He'd have to be significantly stronger than Gordon to escape Mid Fodder. I'm not buying it unless he actually gets into Smash.

Kairi (Kingdom Hearts) - Mid Fodder
The 2006 contest where Kairi beat Claire also featured such wacky results as Riku getting 45% on Yoshi and Sora getting 46% on Mega Man.

Dick Gumshoe (Ace Attorney) - Mid Fodder
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Underleveled
07/22/19 12:33:01 AM
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Just wanna point out that either Gordon fell off the face of the earth sometime between 2013 and 2018, or something really wonky happened in that Bowser/Gordon match, because every set of data going back to 2006 when Gordon finally pulled himself out of the doldrums has Bowser/Gordon pretty consistently being roughly a 60-40 match.
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MetalmindStats
07/22/19 12:45:38 AM
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Underleveled posted...
Just wanna point out that either Gordon fell off the face of the earth sometime between 2013 and 2018, or something really wonky happened in that Bowser/Gordon match, because every set of data going back to 2006 when Gordon finally pulled himself out of the doldrums has Bowser/Gordon pretty consistently being roughly a 60-40 match.

I think it was both. We all know what's happened to the Half-Life franchise in general and to Western games' fanbases on GameFAQs, so it makes sense that Gordon would be a lot weaker. At the same time, I feel like he only really gets icon/respect votes these days, so Bowser was a particularly bad matchup for him.
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half_silver28
07/22/19 6:10:36 PM
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Agree with Mid Fodder for Gumshoe and Kairi. Kairi isn't particularly well-liked and KH as a whole didn't look good in CBX.

Doom Slayer is difficult to judge, but I'm going to say Mid Fodder. The Doom name holds weight and both the classic Doom and the modern games are praised. But I can't help but think that his name being listed as Doom Slayer and not Doomguy will actually damage him here. The name factor is very important since his generic design will not do him any favors in a match. And I think a large portion of the modern games' audience is not present on Gfaqs.

nominations:

John McClane (Die Hard)
WarGreymon (Digimon)
9S (Nier: Automata)
Marle (Chrono Trigger)
Peppy Hare (Star Fox)
Saria (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
Makoto Yuki (Persona 3)
Faith Connors (Mirror's Edge)
Makoto Nanaya (Blazblue)
Chai Xianghua (Soul Calibur)
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half_silver28
07/22/19 8:56:58 PM
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