Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 403 ft Nathan Spencer, Y'shtola, B.O.W.

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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 402:

Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) is Mid Fodder
Andy (Advance Wars) is Low Fodder
Jerry Mouse (Tom and Jerry games) is Low Fodder

Re-Ranking Result:

Mai Shiranui (King of Fighters) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Nathan "Rad" Spencer (Bionic Commando)
Yshtola (Final Fantasy XIV)
B.O.W. (Resident Evil Gaiden)

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Nathan "Rad" Spencer (Bionic Commando) - Low fodder

Bionic Commando is by most accounts a pretty cool NES game but I doubt people ever cared much about the playable character. It's like the Contra dudes except in a vastly less widely played franchise. MvC inclusion is enough to make me not consider LAW but that's about it.

Yshtola (Final Fantasy XIV) - Low fodder

I haven't played FFXIV but am reluctant to give characters from it much credit.

B.O.W. (Resident Evil Gaiden) - LAW fodder

nobody outside board 8 is going to be in on the joke and even here I don't think Resident Evil Gaiden has come up much over the past few years.

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Agree with Low Fodder for Nathan and LAW for the B.O.W.

I will say Mid Fodder for Y'shtola. She seems to be a pretty important featured character in many FF14 plotlines, and is a big fan favorite from that game. She was in Dissidia NT as well.

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Agree with Axem. Yes, FFXIV did look quite respectable in GotD 2, but I'd guess that was largely on the strength of its brand name and reputation as the only great modern FF and perhaps the biggest turnaround in gaming. It simply doesn't have the playrate here to support a character worth much, as evidenced by these two (admittedly pre-Shadowbringers) polls: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7193-are-you-currently-playing-an-mmorpg + https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6802-are-you-one-of-the-10-million-cumulative-players-of-final

I'll also nominate Rey for reranking, on the basis that she's a highly divisive character from an almost as divisive trilogy, and most voters probably don't fall firmly on the positive side about either. Plus, The Rise of Skywalker hadn't yet come out at the time we originally ranked her, and it seems to have accentuated both those characteristics.

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Speaking of ffxiv, Solus zos Galzus (upcoming in nominations) should probably be listed as Emet-Selch instead.

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second re-ranking Rey. After Rise of Skywalker ended the sequel trilogy on a bad note, I expect the main character Rey to take a decent amount of anti-voting.

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Day 404 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78862942

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