Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 458 ft Doctor Cid, Bubbles, Martin Walker

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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 457:

Agrias Oaks (Final Fantasy Tactics) is Low Fodder
Lubba (Super Mario Galaxy 2) is Low Fodder
Fighting Wire Frame (Super Smash Bros. Melee) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Doctor Cid (Final Fantasy XII)
Bubbles (Powerpuff Girls)
Cpt. Martin Walker (Spec Ops: The Line)

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Low Fodder for Cid and Martin Walker. He may have the iconic Cid name but I don't have confidence in non-main characters from FFXII being worth much. Walker is from a cult game from 2010 that missed GOTD2, but his characterization and voice acting get praised a lot so I think he can avoid law range despite being a Generic Mcdude.

Mid Fodder for Bubbles. I'm not sure how much Gfaqs cares about the Powerpuff Girls, but it was a 90s cartoon that most users will be familiar with. And I think Bubbles should be the most popular of the girls due to the juxtaposition of her innocence with being a superhero.

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Guess I agree with halfsilver.

Uncertain about Bubbles but I'd figure the Powerpuff Girls would be the strongest characters from that era of Cartoon Network original shows and if there's any strength difference between them I'd guess her for strongest Powerpuff Girl. It's also very possible every single Cartoon Network original character is awful. But a respectable portion of gamefaqs was probably watching Toonami back them; surely many of them stuck around Cartoon Network for the other content too?

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I'll say Low Fodder for all three, barely in Martin Walker's case.

half_silver28 posted...

I'm not sure how much Gfaqs cares about the Powerpuff Girls, but it was a 90s cartoon that most users will be familiar with.

The series premiered on November 18, 1998, and ended on March 25, 2005

Yeah, maybe not. That's largely too young for a kids-oriented anything on this site, but at least SpongeBob (along with the likes of Shrek and the early Pixar oeuvre) can skate by on its general pop-cultural prominence. PPG, not so much, even if it is relatively well-known.

I'll also nominate Tommy Pickles (Rugrats) for ranking, along with Carl Johnson for reranking. To put it simply, he's a GTA character, and a dying meme can't ameliorate that on GameFAQs of all places.

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Day 459 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78979988

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