Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 368 ft Rodrigo Borgia, LeChuck, Ellis

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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 367:

Manny Calavera (Grim Fandango) is Low Fodder
Reimu Hakurei (Touhou) is Low Fodder
Marisa Kirisami (Touhou) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Rodrigo Borgia (Assassin's Creed)
LeChuck (Monkey Island)
Ellis (Left 4 Dead 2)

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Rodrigo and Ellis are low fodder

LeChuck is LAW fodder

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LeChuck is definitely LAW Fodder but I feel Ellis is pushing it. He was awful when he first appeared (and is even somehow inflated in 2010's stats, because his value goes through Pikachu) and of course is a Left 4 Dead character in 2020 going to be worth anything? Valve's reputation has marginally improved this year because of Alyx but not by a whole lot. I'll say just being in a game people have actually played barely barely barely keeps him at Low instead of LAW.

Rodrigo could also be LAW Fodder, or Low Fodder. I don't really know or care.

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agree with swirl's ratings. Rodrigo is only above law because "physically beating the crap out of the pope" is a pretty memorable fight in AC. Left 4 Dead is kind of a forgotten series, but it should have enough of a fanbase left to get Ellis above law.

Monkey Island in general has always been insanely weak, and there isn't much of a fanbase left on the site judging by Guybrush missing CBX. Guybrush himself only avoids law due to being a legendary meme character on Gfaqs. Lechuck doesn't have that.

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Rodrigo - Low fodder

but like. Maybe kinda bad low fodder.

LeChuck - LAW fodder

Ellis - LAW fodder

Online multiplayer FPS zombie game character we havent seen since 2010, a few months after his game came out?

Nope.

outside of a Best valve character contest I kinda doubt this guy could get into any reasonable character bracket regardless of site preferences.

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Agree with Axem. Left 4 Dead was at the absolute peak of its relevance in 2010, a time when GameFAQs actually played non-Nintendo multiplayer-centric games, and Ellis still sucked it up.

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Day 369 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78777627

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