Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 364 ft Sol Badguy, Sandal, Recette

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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 363:

Saren Arterius (Mass Effect) is Low Fodder
Queen Slug-for-a-Butt (Earthworm Jim) is Low Fodder
Ghaleon (Lunar) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Sol Badguy (Guilty Gear)
Sandal (Dragon Age)
Recette (Recettear)

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Three Low Fodders. Two of them have already proven such in a contest.

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Agree with Low Fodder for Sol (GG is a bit more mainstream now but still has almost no presence on the site) and Recette (Irrelevant now but still the main character of a very Gfaq-ish game).

I almost want to go law for Sandal, but I'll give him Low Fodder too - he at least has multiple game appearances.

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LAW Fodder for Sandal. He almost got quadrupled - by a fellow joke character, no less - when his meme was actually relevant. Just like Face, he has no reason to hold up the way his source game has, but unlike Face, he started off completely and utterly pathetic.

I will agree with Low Fodder for Recette and Sol, though.

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Sol Badguy (Guilty Gear) - Low fodder
Sandal (Dragon Age) - LAW fodder

Never played Dragon Age but isn't this an incredibly minor character who only got into 2010 thanks to a stupid meme? He then proceeded to get dead last in the x-stats. Which still probably wasn't bad enough for LAW by itself but after how Inquisition flopped last contest, I'm thinking "related to Dragon Age but not actually cared about" is worth very little. And meme characters often don't age well.

Recette (Recettear) - Low fodder

I think her one result actually suggests mid fodder or so if taken seriously (she beat Travis and avoided the doubling from Kratos) but she got rallied then and probably wouldn't get rallied again so yeah.

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I'll switch my Sandal rating to LAW Fodder.

Day 365!! is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78767689

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