Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 234 ft Strong Bad, B. Waddle Dee, Judge Doom

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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 233:

Ashley Graham (Resident Evil 4) is Low Fodder
9S (Nier: Automata) is Mid Fodder
Rambi the Rhino (Donkey Kong Country) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Strong Bad (Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People)
Bandana Waddle Dee (Kirby)
Judge Doom (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)


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Strong Bad - Mid Fodder for being an icon of early internet culture that plenty of people will remember fondly. I'm not sure how much his game adds to this but I don't think it will be enough to move him a tier.

I don't see Banana Waddle Dee having a significant departure in strength from the vanilla Dee, so I say Mid Fodder.

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Low Fodder for Judge Doom. Memorable enough, but like Hans Gruber, he only has the one movie from the 80s so he won't be too strong.

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Strong Bad (Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People) - Low fodder

basically I don't believe in him or 00s-era internet nostalgia at all.

Bandana Waddle Dee (Kirby) - Low fodder

I'd forgotten we'd already done vanilla Waddle Dee. I'd kind of expect him to get the "Captain Toad" treatment if he actually made into a contest so he probably deserves the same ranking. "The Goomba of the Kirby series" is a pretty bad place to be though, given how much Kirby himself outperforms his series. I haven't played much of the past decade of Kirby stuff but those games are all probably really weak and I'm struggling to believe people actually care about any version of Waddle Dee at all. Think we probably ranked vanilla Dee too high.

Judge Doom (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) - Low fodder

Another movie I should probably watch at some point but lack of any relevance or icon status kills him.

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I concur with Axem. Just as I felt Waddle Dee was Low Fodder, so too I would say the same about Bandana Dee.

Nominate Waddle Dee for reranking.

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Judge doom mid

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I will second re-ranking Waddle Dee.

Day 235 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78371732

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