Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 336 ft Cave Johnson, Legolas, Basch

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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 335:

Vector the Crocodile (Sonic series) is Low Fodder
Ashley (WarioWare series) is Mid Fodder
Sulley (Monsters, Inc.) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Cave Johnson (Portal 2)
Legolas (Lord of the Rings)
Basch fon Ronsenburg (Final Fantasy XII)

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Mid Fodder for Cave Combustible Lemon Johnson. Might have been high years ago but Portal 2 isn't as big nowadays and Cave won't have the most compelling match pic.

I'm not certain on Legolas but I will say High Fodder for now. He has a lot of good action scenes in the LotR movies but he doesn't stand out in terms of personality next to Aragorn or Gimli.

I've only played a bit of the OG FFXII so I don't have a great idea on Basch, but he seems to be liked decently well and has plot relevance, so I will give him Mid Fodder.

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Low Fodder for Cave Johnson, because I don't trust anyone who isn't an outright Portal fan to recognize his picture or even necessarily the name itself.

Mid Fodder for the other two, I guess. FFXII is a mainline FF with some okay strength, so there's probably multiple characters besides Balthier who aren't completely worthless?

Nominate Booker DeWitt for re-ranking. Generic McDude from The Last of Us was bad enough in 2018; now imagine just how weak a Generic McDude from a game no one likes anymore will be.

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Cave Johnson - low fodder

gotta wait for quotes contest for his day to come, I guess.

Legatos - mid fodder

the elf

Basch - low fodder

people generally put him on the good half of the FFXII cast but not sure thats saying much. His game gets a lot of criticism for its story and characters and hea neither the main, a fan favorite, nor an attractive girl. Fran > Basch seems questionable but thats a pure character design thing so I can at least humor it.

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Re-rank Booker

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also nominate Booker for Re-ranking.

Day 337 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78689442

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