Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 222 ft Sekiro, Frank West, Red Bird

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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 221:

Soap MacTavish (Call of Duty 4) is Low Fodder
Farfetch'd (Pokemon) is Mid Fodder
I-Block (Tetris) is High Fodder

Re-Ranking Result:

Edelgard (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) is now High Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Frank West (Dead Rising)
Sekiro (Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice)
Red Bird (Angry Birds)

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Unfortunately Frank is going to be Low Fodder. He looked pathetic in 2013, and it doesn't seem like Dead Rising 4 will have helped him at all since then.

Mid Fodder for Sekiro. Going by the end of year polls Sekiro was the 3rd most popular game of 2019 on the site. However I don't think too many people care for Sekiro as a character, as opposed to liking his game. He does look cool at least.

Red Bird was probably low fodder back in 2013, and honestly, who will care about Angry Birds in 2020? LAW Fodder.

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frank high

Frank West (Dead Rising) - Low fodder

He frankly did poorly enough in 2013 that you could just maybe consider LAW fodder if you don't think he got Last Place Factored and especially if you figure he'd have gotten even weaker since. I'm not gonna go there but it's not totally unreasonable.

Sekiro (Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice) - Mid fodder

Game did enough in GOTY to make me give its lead marginal credit.

Will revise this to Low if (...when?) the game bombs in the upcoming contest.

Red Bird (Angry Birds) - LAW fodder

I can't see gamefaqs voting this over any other character they've ever heard of. Frank West did terrible too but he's covered wars, ya know?

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Nominate:
Dan (Street Fighter)
Atreus (God of War)
Grue (Zork)
Kris (Pokemon Crystal)
Vayne Solidor (Final Fantasy XII)
Ashe (Final Fantasy XII)
Bandana Waddle Dee (Kirby)

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I'll concur with both complete slates of votes. Frank might be bad here, but he does have an actual fanbase; Red Bird can't say the same, and will have to deal with antivotes on top of that.

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Nominate Q*Bert (Q*Bert)

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Lol qbert cant even beat Dante

nominate Dan Hibiki (Street Fighter)

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Day 223 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78342865

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