Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 371 ft Steve Burnside, Sabretooth, Ultron

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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 370:

Galcian (Skies of Arcadia) is Low Fodder
Crazy Redd (Animal Crossing) is Low Fodder
Teemo (League of Legends) is LAW Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Steve Burnside (Resident Evil: Code Veronica)
Sabretooth (X-Men)
Ultron (Marvel)

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Steve Burnside (Resident Evil: Code Veronica) - Low fodder

He'd be lucky if his game even has a 25% playrate and I don't think even the people that played it care for him.

Sabretooth (X-Men) - Mid fodder

Pretty weak but I at least know who this is and being so connected with Wolverine might keep him out of the basement even if people don't really care about him.

Ultron (Marvel) - Low fodder

He's the big villain of an Avengers movie that his name is in the title of.
...It's not really enough and his movie wasn't that great.

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Nominate:

Mr. Krabs (Spongebob games)
Patrick Star (Spongebob games)
Sparkster (Rocket Knight Adventures)
Mothra (Godzilla)
Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier (Marvel)
Demitri Maximoff (Darkstalkers)
Slowpoke (Pokemon)
Gyarados (Pokemon)
Chansey (Pokemon)
Diglett (Pokemon)

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From a cursory Wikipedia glance, I see nothing that would cause any great amount of voters to remember or care about Sabretooth, so Low Fodder for all three.

Nominate Bucky Barnes, Demitri Maximoff, Mothra, and Sparkster.

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agree with axem. An X-Men character with Sabretooth's credentials usually wouldn't hit Mid Fodder, but he gets a ton of exposure simply being Wolverine's main rival so I think most people will know him at the very least. I think that along with his extensive video game history is enough to make up for his limited movie roles (only in X-Men 1 and Origins).

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nominate:

Chop Chop Master Onion
Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Don Paolo (Professor Layton)
Dr. Breen (Half-Life)
Dr. Fetus (Meat Boy)
Mid-Boss (Disgaea)
The Guy (I Wanna Be The Guy)

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Low fodder for all three.

Steve would probably end up being the worst performing RE character in a contest.

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Day 372 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78786515

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