Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 57 ft Giygas, Pyramid Head, Chuck Norris

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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 56:

Doom Slayer/Doomguy (Doom) is Mid Fodder
Kairi (Kingdom Hearts) is Mid Fodder
Dick Gumshoe (Ace Attorney) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Giygas (Earthbound)
Pyramid Head (Silent Hill)
Chuck Norris (Chuck Norris Superkicks)
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Giygas is Low Fodder. He amounts to little more than a meme to those who haven't actually experienced his boss fight in Earthbound, and I think a lot of people will just be confused by his match pic. He hardly looks like an identifiable character, which will make it hard for him to get votes.

Pyramid Head is Mid Fodder. He is one of the most iconic horror monsters of gaming and has an interesting design, and the fact that James Sunderland managed to make CBX is a promising sign. But with the Silent Hill series essentially dead, mid fodder is the best Pyramid Head can hope for.

Chuck Norris is. . . odd to consider. I will say High Fodder because I think he will get a decent number of joke votes. I think that Gfaqs will probably bring back the ancient memes for his match and generate a bit of interest for Chuck.
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I agree with you on all three. We also have readings on the first two and they aren't promising.
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Nom:
Abominable Snow Monster (SkiFree)
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nominations:

Agumon (Digimon)
Kyoko Kirigiri (Danganronpa)
Lando Calrissian (Star Wars)
Leisure Suit Larry
The President (Saints Row IV)
Seymour Guado (Final Fantasy X)
Inuyasha (Inuyasha games)
SHODAN (System Shock)
Gimli (Lord of the Rings)
The Traveler (Journey)

And I urge all followers to second the nomination of Joker. I've given him eligibility for this topic since he was officially entered in CBX as Ren Amamiya.
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bump for more ratings
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one more bump and then we go maybe I don't provide a sufficient strength tier to rate Chuck Norris. . .
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Metalmind messaged me on Discord, he's on vacation right now and can't get GameFAQs to load up right, so he asked me to rate Mid Fodder for all three

I somehow missed this thread so I'm going to go ahead and agree on mid fodder
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metalmind still lives

Day 58 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/77887599
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