Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 402 ft Buffy Summers, Andy, Jerry Mouse

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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 401:

Cid Pollendina (Final Fantasy IV) is Mid Fodder
Shadow Queen (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door) is Low Fodder
Edge (Final Fantasy IV) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Andy (Advance Wars)
Jerry Mouse (Tom and Jerry games)

Today's Re-Ranking is:

Mai Shiranui (King of Fighters)

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Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) - Mid fodder

It is an iconic nerd franchise, at least. But no notable gaming legacy, so few females on gamefaqs, and the show being so old are all problems. Maybe Buffy's got enough going for her to make it past low anyways though? I went with mid, your milage may vary.

Andy (Advance Wars) - Low fodder

Advance Wars has looked okay enough that if it had a particularly well-liked main character to represent the entire franchise, they might have plausibly been able to break into mid fodder.

Andy, of "What's an airport, again?" fame, is unfortunately probably not that guy.

Jerry Mouse (Tom and Jerry games) - low fodder

Almost everyone probably knows who this is but I doubt his appeal a lot. The lack of dialogue, notable games, relevance, and my gut says he just wouldn't appeal that strongly to the gamefaqs flavor of nerd?

Mai Shiranui (King of Fighters) - Mid Fodder

Mai Shiranui vs. Kasumi, who ya got?

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Nominate Daffy Duck (Looney Tunes)

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Agree with Axem's ratings.

Buffy could get a decent amount of nostalgia votes, and the series was likely relevant here once upon a time. Potentially supported by an ancient poll:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1131-best-of-2002-best-xbox-game

Advance Wars hasn't seen a new entry since 2008 and Andy is just one of many playable characters. Definitely couldn't see him being worth much.

Jerry will probably only get nostalgia votes from Gfaqs who grew up on reruns of the show, and some apathy votes. No one really likes the mute jerk anyway.

I'd take Mai over Kasumi easily. DoA doesn't seem to have much of a fanbase left on the site, while SNK at least has a small one. And Mai's are bigger.

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Buffy: Low Fodder - I'd actually argue that her show's just the right age for something that's not kids-oriented on GameFAQs, given that our voterbase's average birth date is at the start of 1987. I don't know, though - I somehow feel like even the people who had a crush on her as teenagers have stopped caring now. Also, that Xbox poll really doesn't support anything considering that Magus doubled Sam Fisher in the first contest after it, and more generally that the Xbox was an utterly hated, largely unplayed system back then.

Andy: Low Fodder

Jerry: Low Fodder - Jerry generally being the one who kids like and adults don't seems like a much bigger disadvantage in this case than it would be for something like SpongeBob that was strongly relevant when (a portion of) voters were kids. Tom might be better, though, or perhaps that's just wishful thinking.

Mai: Mid Fodder

I'll also third the Daffy Duck nomination.

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Day 403 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78860712

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