Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 433 ft Specter Knight, Omanyte, Amarant

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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 432:

Princess Ruto (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) is Mid Fodder
Bulma Brief (Dragon Ball) is Mid Fodder
FuSoYa (Final Fantasy IV) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Specter Knight (Shovel Knight)
Omanyte (Pokemon)
Amarant Coral (Final Fantasy IX)

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Specter Knight might be close to mid, but I will say Low Fodder for him since he's not as popular as Plague.

Mid Fodder for Omanyte. Praise Helix and Twitch Plays Pokemon in general doesn't really get brought up anymore, so Omanyte is mostly just left being a Gen 1 Pokemon notable for being a fossil and not much else.

Low Fodder for Amarant. He's in a strong enough game to not be in consideration for law, but Amarant has got to be one of the least popular FF party members out there.

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Nominate:
Erika (Pokemon)
Koga (Pokemon)
Blaine (Pokemon)
Jude Mathis (Tales of Xillia)
Colette (Tales of Symphonia)
Espeon (Pokemon)
Umbreon (Pokmon)

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actually, let's go all in on Symphonia,
Nominate:
Raine Sage (Tales of Symphonia)
Regal Bryant (Tales of Symphonia)
Genis Sage (Tales of Symphonia)

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Specter Knight (Shovel Knight) - Mid fodder

I feel like people actually liked Specter Knight and his campaign fairly well and his character design shouldn't hurt either.

Omanyte (Pokemon) - Mid fodder

I would have definitely considered low fodder before Twitch Plays Pokemon and I'm not sure TPP is worth much but at least that's SOMETHING and being from RBY and having SOMETHING notable seems like I should rank him as non-abysmal?

Amarant Coral (Final Fantasy IX) - Low fodder

He joins at the very end of Disc 2 of what's basically a three disc game (with a final dungeon and ending on Disc 4), never does a particularly good job of justifying his presence, and isn't particularly well-liked.

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Agree with Axem. Second Erika, Koga, Blaine, and Colette.

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Re-rank Shellder

I think the idea with Shellder was that it was a totally un-noteworthy Gen 1 Pokemon? Not necessarily the outright weakest but due to said un-notability, probably in that ballpark. I do think those can probably be low fodder and we rated Nidoran Female low fodder and I'd take Nidoran > Shellder?

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nominate Jude, Genis, Colette

I would not at all take Nidoran F over Shellder. Shellder may not be that notable but it does have this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUh5nq0-ZKE

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Day 434 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78926607

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