Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 625 ft Heracross, Seel, T-Block

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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 624:

J-Block (Tetris) is Mid Fodder
Horsea (Pokemon) is Low Fodder
Grimer (Pokemon) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Heracross (Pokemon)
Seel (Pokemon)
T-Block (Tetris)

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Nominate:

Tawna (Crash Bandicoot)
Ripper Roo (Crash Bandicoot)
Pinstripe Potoroo (Crash Bandicoot)
Dr. Nitrus Brio (Crash Bandicoot)
Tiny Tiger (Crash Bandicoot)
Dr. N. Gin (Crash Bandicoot)
Coco Bandicoot (Crash Bandicoot)
Aku Aku (Crash Bandicoot)
Uka Uka (Crash Bandicoot)
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger
Boss Cass (Ty the Tasmanian Tiger)

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Heracross (Pokemon) - Low fodder
Probably one of the fan-favorites of GSC? Relatively low notability in the actual games though. I remember catching this thing to be a huge pain.

Seel (Pokemon) - Low fodder
Another low notability late-game RBY water-type.

T-Block (Tetris) - Mid fodder
Possibly slightly better than the other blocks we've ranked mid fodder but probably closer to them than to I-block?

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We already did Coco Bandicoot.
I'll second Aku Aku (Crash Bandicoot), though.

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Seel might be the single worst Gen. 1 Pokemon in these contests. Agree with Axem, and nominate Arc (Arc the Lad) and Speed Racer.

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nominate:

Ripper Roo (Crash Bandicoot)
Dr. Nitrus Brio (Crash Bandicoot)
Tiny Tiger (Crash Bandicoot)
Dr. N. Gin (Crash Bandicoot)
Aku Aku (Crash Bandicoot)
Uka Uka (Crash Bandicoot)
Ty (Ty the Tasmanian Tiger)
Arc (Arc the Lad)

Agree with axem's ratings. I think Heracross is very close to mid, but it is just too easy to miss in the Gen 2 games. It is only in Headbutt trees and I don't recall any trainers having it. Ash did have one in the Gen 2 anime, but that probably doesn't help much.

And for the record I don't think Seel is in the running for weakest Gen 1 Pokemon. It's cute and I could see it getting joke votes due to literally just being a seal and named Seel.

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Day 626 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79346142

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