Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 359 ft Officer Tenpenny, Axel Steel, Hades

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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 358:

Cream the Rabbit (Sonic) is Low Fodder
Barbara Gordon/Batgirl (DC Comics) is Low Fodder
Ralph (Rampage) is LAW Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Officer Tenpenny (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
Axel Steel (Guitar Hero)
Hades (Kid Icarus)

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Poor Ralph indeed.

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I'll go with Low Fodder for Tenpenny and Hades, and LAW Fodder for Axel Steel.

Axel Steel lost badly to Edgeworth when Guitar Hero was actually popular. Yeah.

Kid Icarus Uprising is a well liked enough game and Hades a well liked character from it and Tenpenny...actually Tenpenny himself borders on LAW Fodder since I forgot just how bad he was in the Villains Contest. Maybe he has some nostalgia as San Andreas in general has now on a lot of places (though probably not here), and in general I can't see him being as bad as Axel would be now at least just because his game is more our thing. Whatever that means.

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Hades also has a contest appearance that involved him getting murdered by Gordon Freeman and pre-Smash Simon Belmont.

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Agree with Randicoot's rankings. Tenpenny and Hades are close to law but come from decently popular games, but no one cares about Guitar Hero in 2020 and that should apply double for the game's "protagonist".

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Tenpenny might actually be LAW. No one gives a shit about GTA villains except maybe Catalina, and that's being awfully generous. (Also far more because of her San Andreas missions than anything she did as the villain in 3.) Tenpenny probably only made the villains contest by being voiced by Samuel L. Jackson, but now it's such a distant memory that even that probably doesn't help him.
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I'll also agree with Ranticoot. Tenpenny might indeed be LAW, and is very close regardless, but that would mean we've overrated Carl Johnson, and I'm not quite ready to say that yet.

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Hades - low fodder

He was bad in 2013 and Nintendo neither putting him playable in Smash nor following up Kid Icarus Uprising seals him as really bad.

officer Tenpenny - LAW fodder

he was already really bad in 2005 and is probably miserable now. GTAs leads famously have not held up. Just imagine how bad GTA villains will get!

Axel steel - LAW fodder

a guitar hero character
gamefaqs why did you do this

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Day 360 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78754135

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