Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 484 ft Crewmate, Joshua Bright, Dragonair

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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 483:

Steve (Minecraft) is Mid Fodder
Alex (Street Fighter III) is Low Fodder
Undyne (Undertale) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Crewmate (Among Us)
Joshua Bright (Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky)
Dragonair (Pokemon)

Today's Re-Ranking is:

Bidoof (Pokmon)

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Crewmate is LAW Fodder. Among Us is merely another game that's popular for a few weeks because a couple popular streamers played it. It will be completely forgotten about in a few months.

Dragonair is High Fodder. Just another Pokemon, nothing to see here.

Bidoof is High Fodder. See the last line.

Nominate:
Zitz (Battletoads)
Pimple (Battletoads)
Dark Queen (Battletoads)
Doc Louis (Punch-Out)
Lucifer (Shin Megami Tensei)
Garchomp (Pokmon)
Jeane (Suikoden)
Johnny (The Room)
Jowy Atreides (Suikoden)
Scizor (Pokmon)
Riou (Suikoden)
Steven Universe (Steven Universe)
James Hetfield (Guitar Hero: Metallica)
Gomez Addams (The Addams Family)

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Crewmate (Among Us) - Low fodder
Whether it's forgotten in a few months or not, it seems to be big now. Maybe not necessarily with the gamefaqs crowd, though. If something has any buzz to it, low is probably safer than LAW.

Joshua Bright (Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky) - Low fodder
Estelle is barely mid fodder at best, therefore Joshua is low.

Dragonair (Pokemon) - Mid fodder
Sleek and gets some mileage out of its connections to Dragonite but ultimately not one of the Gen 1 pokemon people feel that strongly about.

Bidoof - Low fodder
Do the crusty old folks at gamefaqs care about this one non-starter, non-legendary Gen 4 Pokemon that had memes a decade ago, when they don't really care abiut Gen 4 itself? Probably not.

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second nominations on Dark Queen (Battletoads), Doc Louis (Punch-Out), Lucifer (Shin Megami Tensei), Steven Universe (Steven Universe), Riou (Suikoden)

Low Fodder for Crewmate. It's popular enough now that I think the recognizable avatar from the game wouldn't be one of the worst characters ever to appear in a contest? If Among Us loses a significant amount of popularity Crewmate would drop to law range, but I think the devs are putting further support into the game so it could stick around for a while.

Low Fodder for Bidoof. Joke characters don't really do well on Gfaqs anymore, and Bidoof really only popular as a joke. Without that it's notable for. . . being a frequent HM slave? That's not enough I think.

Mid Fodder for Dragonair. It has a good design and will be recognized from the teams of Lance and Clair, but it was notably pretty tough to obtain in Gen 1 (you have to fish in the Safari Zone), so I don't think a lot of people had it on their teams. Plus it isn't that good in battle until it evolves into Dragonite at a stupidly high level.

Low Fodder for Joshua, barely. I'd assume he's decently popular judging by Gfaqs adoring Estelle.

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Also agree with Axem. Among Us has turned into a bit more than a few weeks' fling, but this just isn't the site for it (only #81 on the top 100 most wanted FAQs, for example), and it's safe to say the Crewmate will be down to LAW by this time next year. Oh, and also I don't believe in the Crewmate's chances of pulling off a contest-winning rally right now, as there needs to be a more personal spark than simple internet popularity. Meanwhile, Estelle definitely has design appeal of a sort here, but just based on there being a passable argument for her being Mid Fodder, Joshua should be quite comfortably above LAW.

I'll nominate Aquaman for reranking, because his history is absolutely bare of media appearances that GameFAQs might care about. I think many legitimately perceived him as a sort of joke character all the way up until the 2018 movie, which might be the biggest thing he has going for him here, as I argued when we first ranked him. One problem with that: said movie (while very successful) wasn't terribly well-received, which means it probably came and went on such an insular site.

Plus, I'll third Doc Louis and Lucifer.

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Crewmate is LAW Fodder BUT because Among Us is currently the biggest meme on the internet right now, it would be the rally target to win the entire contest if it were in one right now, and only right now.

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Day 485 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79036793

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Crewmate Low Fodder

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