Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 423 ft Ruby Rose, Finn, Carlos Oliveira

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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 422:

Wile E. Coyote (Looney Tunes) is Low Fodder
Moltres (Pokemon) is High Fodder
Riki (Xenoblade Chronicles) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Ruby Rose (RWBY/Blazblue: Cross Tag Battle)
Finn (Star Wars)
Carlos Oliveira (Resident Evil 3)

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Ruby would probably get hentai rallies.

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Part of me wants to ask why Captain Marvel stays at mid fodder while Rey slides down to Low Fodder, but to be fair: Captain Marvel is a more marketable character and we're just starting to see her in the MCU, while Rey's story is done for all intents and purposes. I just associate both of those characters closely because of dumb people complaining about them being overpowered (which is fine in and of itself, but then don't act like it's somehow an affront to men!).

Nominate Sgt. Rex "Power" Colt (Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon).

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Low Fodder for all today.

Ruby may very well get hentai rallies, but I don't think there's much of an RWBY fanbase on Gfaqs for that to jump off from. I see her being a respectable low fodder at best.

Finn was a perfectly fine character in The Force Awakens, but then ended up in a relationship with the massively hated Rose in the 2nd movie. Rise of Skywalker overreacted to that backlash and diminished his role significantly - I can't see him getting a lot of voter support after that.

Carlos I can't see being worth a lot as a one-game wonder character in RE3, and the lukewarm response RE3R got on the site won't help matters.

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Yeah, low for all.

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LinkMarioSamus posted...

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The key difference is that a significant amount of normal people don't like Rey as a character or her (last two) movies in general, whereas the Captain Marvel backlash is largely limited to trolls behind a keyboard, to steal a quote from a certain legendarily bad movie's marketing. That's not to say the latter wouldn't affect her strength here at all, since this is GameFAQs we're talking about after all, but (particularly when extended to their respective franchises in general) it's the major distinction between the two.

Anyways, I'll also agree with Low Fodder for all.

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Day 424 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78904737

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