Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 187 ft Elena Fisher, Krystal, Nick Fury

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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 186:

Poison Ivy (DC Comics) is Mid Fodder
Clyde (Pac-Man) is Mid Fodder
Hayley Williams (Guitar Hero/Paramore) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Nick Fury (Marvel)
Elena Fisher (Uncharted series)
Krystal (Star Fox)

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Nick Fury is High Muthafodder for being a cool Sam Jackson character with a big part in the MCU, who deserves his own movie at this point.

Elena is Mid Fodder due to being the female version of Nathan, and will probably be equal with Chloe.

Krystal is Mid Fodder - I think the hate for her being a Mary Sue has died down since the main offender (Star Fox Assault) is an old and forgotten game now. I doubt she will get any boost from TJF on Gamefaqs of all places, so she'll likely just hit mid based on having a recognizable and distinctive design. And she was handled better in SF Command.

nominate Urbosa (Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) for re-ranking. I think that High Fodder seems more appropriate of a ranking for her, considering the limited role the Champions have in BotW. Sidon is the only one that makes sense being above that due to memes. And I don't think she's stronger than Mipha, who was put at high fodder.

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I nomations shyguy

ertyu0078 posted...

I nomations shyguy

Shy Guy is on the list, I nominated him too

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I'll agree with all three votes, and also support reranking Urbosa.

It's interesting to think about how large an impact design still has here, as for example, Chloe and Elena are probably both stronger than Sully even though the latter is comfortably the second most popular Uncharted character.

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Concurred for nick and Elena.

low fodder for Krystal. I dont think shes hated so much as faces apathy. In general I just dont think people ever liked her. None of the games shes in are well-liked either.

her being in the same tier as peppy also feels wrong. Slippy and andross are already in that tier too and while andross could conceivably bomb all the way to low fodder regardless of Krystal, I think slippy should both beat her and lose to peppy by non-trivial amounts. Feel like either shes low fodder or peppy is probably high fodder? Im inclined to think the former since fox did not do well even against Jill in 2018 and Star Fox in general has no good news to speak of. Peppy in the same tier as wolf would also be a little odd but I guess theres no doubt hed have been stronger if wolf wasnt in smash.

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Nominate Giselle (Enchanted)

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Day 188 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78254241

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