Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 376 ft Sho Minamimoto, Sissel, Taj

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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 375:

Mid-Boss (Disgaea) is Low Fodder
The Great Mighty Poo (Conker's Bad Fur Day) is Low Fodder
The Guy (I Wanna Be The Guy) is LAW Fodder

Re-Ranking Result:

Big the Cat (Sonic series) is now Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Sho Minamimoto (The World Ends With You)
Sissel (Ghost Trick)
Taj (Diddy Kong Racing)

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Low Fodder for all today, though Sissel is probably the only one who isn't borderline law.

SO ZETTA SLOW is basically the only thing Sho is known for and he did terrible in his only contest appearance (even taking Square SSF with Roxas into account). Gfaqs does like TWEWY though, so I think he sticks above law.

Sissel won't be very strong, but there is definitely a small Ghost Trick fanbase on the site who would vote for him.

Taj is just barely above law for me, mostly due to his recognizable design. He was an unplayable boss character in the original DKR and was only playable in the DS version, which significantly hurts his potential here.

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Someone else nominate Akira Yuki too. Unless I missed someone hes the last eligible character to have made a bracket thats not at least at three noms.

Sho Minamimoto (The World Ends With You) - low fodder

Neku was barely mid fodder as of 2018 so Sho is definitely low and the one match he had back in the day also suggests this.

Sissel (Ghost Trick) - Low fodder

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/5213-character-battle-ix-division-8-round-1-red-vs-corvo-vs

im gonna be lenient here just because my general read and Ghost Tricks recent contest performance suggest its main character shouldnt be quite that dreadful and assume either theres some SFF (for some reason) or last place factor there but 12% on Red isnt a huge amount better than Dravens 12% on Amaterasu.

Taj (Diddy Kong Racing) - Low fodder

Blue elephant from a game most people who had an N64 (or a good friend with one) probably played at some point. I guess he scraps past LAW but hes probably really bad.

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Agree with half_silver and Axem. 12% on Red isn't quite on the level of the weakest characters we've ever seen, and in theory, the site shifts since 2013 should have benefited Sissel a bit too.

Also nominate Akira Yuki, who I apparently missed among the contest veterans before.

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Day 377 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78800662

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