Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 189 ft Irvine, Jason Mars, Kane (WWE)

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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 188:

Sherry Birkin (Resident Evil) is Mid Fodder
Helmaroc King (Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker) is Mid Fodder
Seto Kaiba (Yugioh) is High Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Jason Mars (Heavy Rain)
Kane (WWF/WWE games)
Irvine Kinneas (Final Fantasy VIII)

Today's Re-ranking is:

Manfred von Karma (Ace Attorney)

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Jason Mars - LAW Fodder. The Press X to JASON meme is more associated with his dad Ethan than the kid himself. Plus Jason has a pretty small role in the game that is memorable for the wrong reasons. Basically this suicidal idiot runs away from his own birthday party for no reason and charges directly into oncoming traffic. Ethan gets hit trying to save him, but the dumbass kid dies anyway and Ethan falls into depression. So I can be reasonably sure that the few remaining fans of Heavy Rain hate this kid.

Kane - as someone who knows next to nothing about wrestling, I guess Mid Fodder? Gfaqs likes wrestling well enough and Kane's onstage persona seems popular. He's also an actual mayor. . . can we get Kane vs Haggar in a contest?

Irvine - Mid Fodder. He strikes me as the most obscure and forgotten playable character from FF8, and the casanova archetype he embodies is well played-out at this point. He's had some playable appearances in spinoffs but not enough to really matter.

Low Fodder for Von Karma. I think I might have said mid the first time, but low definitely seems correct based on the placement of Godot and Edgeworth. He was only a major character in Ace Attorney 1, and I can't see him having much of a fanbase on the site as an antagonistic old man, despite his importance to the series.

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Jason Mars (Heavy Rain) - LAW fodder

never played a second of this game and nominated the character solely because press x to Jason

I don't think a flashback child character from a marginal game (by gamefaqs standards anyways) is worth much. And even then, while Heavy Rain was relatively high-profile and well-received at the time, I have the impression that neither its reputation or that of David Cage made it to the end of this decade completely intact.

Kane (WWF/WWE games) - LAW fodder. Wrestling is almost worthless here. A few of the absolute biggest names might be low but I don't think Kane quite makes it. I say that as someone who's never watched any wrestling though. also:

Glenn Thomas Jacobs (born April 26, 1967) is an American professional wrestler, actor, author, businessman, and politician. As a Republican, he is the Mayor of Knox County, Tennessee.

huh

Irvine Kinneas (Final Fantasy VIII) - Mid fodder

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Jason: LAW Fodder
Kane: Low Fodder
Irvine: Low Fodder - I'm assuming he would really be the weakest FF8 party member, and after 2018, I'm not convinced that's enough for Mid Fodder.
Manfred: Low Fodder

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oh right
Manfred - Low fodder

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Nominate:
Megatron (Transformers)
Starscream (Transformers)

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i hope mayor kane rallies knox county

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I'll also nominate Megatron and Starscream.

Day 190 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78260848

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