Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 360 ft Eddie Riggs, Kyo Kusanagi, Face

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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 359:

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

Here is today's trio to rank:

Eddie Riggs (Brutal Legend)
Kyo Kusanagi (King of Fighters)
Face McShooty (Borderlands)

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I'd say Low Fodder for all three. Eddie and Face both start to enter LAW territory though.

Kyo is the only one who is clearly above LAW territory. The small SNK fanbase this site does have, like with Iori, should be enough for him to have some strength.

Brutal Legend does have a hardcore fanbase, but it is guaranteed to be one of the smallest this site would have to offer, and Face McShooty is...man I don't know man. Borderlands 2 still has some strength so maybe he's not that bad? He probably is.

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Wasnt kyo in a contest

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All three have been in contests before, yes.

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I'm actually going to err towards LAW Fodder for Eddie Riggs. It's not exactly impossible for characters with hardcore fanbases that are actually in GameFAQs' wheelhouse to be piss-weak anyways (see also Yuri Hyuga, a character I've referenced quite a bit lately). Brutal Legend doesn't have that crucial element, and on top of that, it doesn't strike me as very well-remembered over ten years after its release.

I would very much like to also say the same about Face McShooty. Unfortunately, there's a few key points of evidence suggesting against it, regardless of how poorly Borderlands 2's humor has aged. For one, Face's original result was 24% on Ryu, which was practically Mid Fodder-level. For another, and against all odds, Borderlands 2 appears to have possibly improved from 2015, and certainly not declined much if at all. Now, that doesn't exclude the possibility of a decrease from 2013 to 2015, and Face in particular certainly hasn't aged well, but I'm not quite seeing the path to LAW based on those points of evidence.

As Ranticoot said, Kyo is a pretty obvious Low Fodder vote. Clearly he won't have any real strength, but nostalgia and the limited SNK fanbase probably put him around 10% on Base Link, well above the LAW border.

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I say Low Fodder for all. Eddie is pretty close to being law, but Brutal Legend is very much the type of game that would have support on Gfaqs, and it is still talked about to the point where the devs want to make a sequel. Plus Eddie does have a resemblance to Jack Black which should help some.

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Kyo - low fodder
Face McShooty - low fodder
Eddie Riggs - LAW fodder

Im not sure Brtal Legend actually has much of a fanbase anymore. It was neither a huge commercial success nor a critical daring, its average score here is very mediocre, and its old now.

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Day 361 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78756463

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