Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 378 ft Black Shadow, Dr. Breen, Red

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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 377:

Commander Keen (Commander Keen) is Low Fodder
Squidward Tentacles (Spongebob) is Mid Fodder
Dr. Fetus (Super Meat Boy) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Black Shadow (F-Zero)
Dr. Breen (Half-Life)
Red (Transistor)

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nominate Dennis Rodman (NBA Hangtime)

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Black Shadow (F-Zero) - low fodder

That one great video clip from the anime that got memed hard like a dozen years ago probably does more for him than any games. Still isn't much!

Dr. Breen (Half-Life) - Low fodder

He caused Gordon to tank in Rivalry Rumble even back when Gordon was good!

Red (Transistor) - Low fodder

Transistor didn't seem to have nearly the same impact on the gaming community that Bastion did and basically nobody except those who played it are going to know who this is. Would be tempted for LAW if her design was worse.

Re-rank Madeline.

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Low Fodder for Black Shadow. Literally all he has going for him at this point is the anime meme (which IS a pretty good one to be fair). He significantly tanked Falcon in the Rival battle too.

Low Fodder for Dr. Breen, and barely low fodder at that. Off topic, but I never really looked far into Rivals until the characters exclusive to that contest started coming up for rating. I now get why that contest was so terrible seeing the amount of blowout match wins. It didn't help that probably like a third of the entrants were joke nominees. And even strong entrants ended up getting completely wrecked by the likes of Mario/Bowser or Link/Ganon.

Low Fodder for Red - Transistor is at least a somewhat-known game and Red herself is hot.

I will also back re-ranking Madeline.

nominate Samurai Goroh (F-Zero)

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Low fodder for all three, and Red and Breen are borderline at that.

No one from F-Zero will ever be worth anything without getting support elsewhere (How many votes does Captain Falcon get from F-Zero? Maybe 10?), but a few of them, like the rest of the original four and Jody Summer, are kinda known Nintendo characters, and Black Shadow is in that group. He has that meme at least.

Dr. Breen just barely avoids LAW because he is at least in a recognizable game.

Red mostly avoids LAW because she would look good in a match pic.

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Low for all three

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Yeah, Low Fodder for all three. I don't think Red's particularly close to LAW with Bastion's GotD results in mind, though.

Second reranking Meat Boy, I guess.

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Day 379 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78806253

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