Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 352 ft Rick Deckard, Sir Dan, Sebastian C.

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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 351:

Regina (Dino Crisis)
Kingpin (Marvel)
Ramon Salazar (Resident Evil 4)

Re-Ranking Result:

Hollow Knight (Hollow Knight) is now Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Rick Deckard (Blade Runner)
Sir Daniel Fortesque (MediEvil)
Sebastian Castellanos (The Evil Within)

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Sabastain gets low

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Low Fodder for Rick Deckard - I'd say law if not for the recent Blade Runner movie

Low Fodder for Sir Dan. I honestly didn't even remember that there was a MediEvil game released last year - seems like it received a very clear "meh" for reception.

Sebastian is very much in the "generic mcdude from a series Gfaqs doesn't care about" realm, so he gets LAW Fodder.

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Agree with half_silver, though I don't think Rick's in any particular danger of slipping to LAW on a site whose demographics are ideally suited to his movie's fanbase.

As for Sebastian, I think his placement is best contextualized by a comparison with Yuri Hyuga. I know the two series at hand are very different, but bear with me here. Shadow Hearts is a more popular and well-remembered series than The Evil Within on JRPGFAQs, and Yuri is pretty much universally beloved by series players. Despite that, there's still not much breathing room between Yuri's previously exhibited strength and the LAW bound, and I don't think Sebastian has enough going for him to slip into that margin.

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Nominate: Shazam
Ethan Mars
Nightmare

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Re-rank Reyn

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agreed with halfsilver.

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Day 353 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78736124

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