Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 369 ft Matt the Mii, Cirno, Commander Video

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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 368:

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

Here is today's trio to rank:

Matt the Mii (Wii Sports)
Cirno (Touhou)
Commander Video (Bit.Trip Runner)

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I'll say low fodder for all three. Commander Video still gets games regularly and they are now on more consoles than just the Wii, and had a (likely to do nothing for his strength) cameo in Smash. They aren't super popular though so he's probably not jumping up to mid fodder. Cirno about the same reasons as the other Touhou characters.

Though Miis and Wii Sports are beyond dead, Matt probably gets enough joke support to stay out of LAW, especially if given a non-Nintendo opponent.

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Just noticed Galcian is listed twice on the nomination list and should actually be at 4 nominations.

Nominate:
Peter Venkman (Ghostbusters)
Steve Burnside (Resident Evil: Code Veronica)
Starfire (DC Comics)
Taj (Diddy Kong Racing)
Sabretooth (X-Men)
Ultron (Marvel)
Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

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Matt the Mii (Wii Sports) - Low fodder
Cirno (Touhou) - Low fodder
Commander Video (Bit.Trip Runner) - LAW fodder

I think his franchise is pretty niche to the point I'm not sure being on more consoles helps much. The guy got 11% on Squall. That's really bad. And things ended up pretty muddled that contest but I think it's likely 2013 Squall is notably weaker than 2003-2010 Squall. I guess Rayman being there could have plausibly hurt him somehow, though.

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Agree with half_silver. Video's 2013 result against Squall, when taken at face value, puts him at ~6.5-7% on Base Link, which isn't quite among the worst we've ever seen in a character battle. Yes, Squall has an antivote complex, but Rayman probably hurt Video at least a bit to compensate.

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sure I'll go with Low Fodder for all (giving Video benefit of the doubt)

MetalmindStats posted...

Agree with half_silver.

lol (I assume you meant to agree with Randicoot)


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Ah yes, my bad. I did in fact mean to agree with Ranticoot, but I thought that post was yours for some reason.

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Day 370 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78780426

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Low fodder for all three.

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