Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 404 ft Amicia de Rune, Fox Mulder, Trini K.

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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 403:

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

Here is today's trio to rank:

Amicia de Rune (A Plague Tale: Innocence)
Fox Mulder (The X-Files Game)
Trini Kwan/Yellow Ranger (Power Rangers)

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LAW Fodder for Amicia de Rune. As far as I can tell, A Plague Tale made zero impact on Gfaqs so I don't know how its characters would be worth anything even if the game is "relevant" right now.

Low Fodder for Mulder. He'll get some nostalgia votes and is somewhat recognizable, but he's no Buffy.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7703-which-of-the-original-mighty-morphin-power-rangers-was-your

Low Fodder for Trini. The Yellow Ranger coming dead last in the favorite Ranger poll is not at all a good look. The actress that played Trini tragically died young in 2001, but I think is too long ago to have a big impact on voters.

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Agreed with halfsilver.

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I guess I'll also agree with half_silver.

Amicia has it tough here as the protagonist of a double-A Western game that had zero impact upon release here. Aloy looked terrible last contest even though she's the very well-liked protagonist of what turned out to be quite a strong game (though that's admittedly not a perfect comparison), and Amicia will be infinitely worse than that.

Fox continues our streak of first rating the clearly weaker member of an intertwined duo after Jerry. At any rate, The X-Files hit its prime in 1997-1998, which is probably just a bit too early for most voters to care much about something that's not video game-related and was completely unappealing to kids (unlike Godzilla '98 for example).

Meanwhile, Yellow was last in said Power Rangers poll by no small margin, and whatever childhood crush appeal Trini might have can't compensate for that lack of intrinsic popularity and memorability.

I'll also nominate Raikou (Pokmon), Tyranitar (Pokmon), and Wile E. Coyote (Looney Tunes). Additionally, while I know there's an Avatar video game, I can't find any evidence that Jake Sully was actually in it.

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second nominations for Raikou, Tyranitar and Wile E.

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Day 405 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78865174

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Nomation planteny the trinity from blaz blue

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