Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 507 ft Nina Williams, Kenshiro, Cubone

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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 506:

Growlithe (Pokmon) is High Fodder
Zitz (Battletoads) is Low Fodder
Mike Ehrmantraut (Breaking Bad) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Nina Williams (Tekken)
Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star)
Cubone (Pokemon)

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Nina Williams (Tekken) - Low fodder
Long-time Tekken character plus TJF.

Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star) - LAW fodder
Outside of communities specifically open to old anime, the masses in the English-speaking world simply aren't going to know who this is. He looks cool but that's about all he has going for him and even it's theoretically possible he could get a good enough pic to potentially boot him out of LAW, I don't trust him to get it.

Cubone (Pokemon) - Mid fodder
The mother's skull thing was noted as kind of freaky but that's about it; I don't think Cubone in general is cared about too much. RBY plus something positive is still probably enough for mid, though.

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Nominate:
Traveler (Genshin Impact)
Red Pikmin (Pikmin)
Splinter (TMNT)
Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)
Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto games)
Bridget (Guilty Gear)
Lan Di (Shenmue)
Elincia Ridell Crimea (Fire Emblem)
Purple Tentacle (Day of the Tentacle)
Lightning McQueen (Cars)
Felyne (Monster Hunter series)
Crobat (Pokemon)
King (Tekken)
Nala (The Lion King)
Prince (Prince Interactive)
Kyoko Kirigiri (Danganronpa)
Mephiles (Sonic The Hedgehog 2006)

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might as well
re-rank Jar Jar Binks

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Agree with Low Fodder for Nina. She's a well-known character and has TJF, but isn't a huge fan favorite and Gfaqs doesn't care a whole lot for Tekken.

For Kenshiro I will say Low Fodder. Fist of the North Star is an old anime, but it is an iconic one that has gotten several OVA movies since its original run in the 80s, plus a ton of video games. Most of the games were not released in the west, but the 2005 fighting game and the Ken's Rage series are notable ones that were. If all else fails Ken still has Omae wa Mou Shindeiru.

nani?!

Agree with Mid Fodder for Cubone.

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Agree with halfsilver I guess. Nominate Traveler, Splinter, Flanders, and Sasuke, and rerank Jar Jar.

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second Red Pikmin and Traveler, third Lan Di

also third Splinter

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Day 508 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79086489

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