Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 631 ft Asch the Bloody, Krabby, Kingler

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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 630:

Golduck (Pokemon) is Low Fodder
Staryu (Pokemon) is Mid Fodder
Zoey (Left 4 Dead) is Low Fodder

Re-Ranking Result:

Harley Quinn (DC Comics) is now Fodder Line

Here is today's trio to rank:

Asch the Bloody (Tales of the Abyss)
Krabby (Pokemon)
Kingler (Pokemon)

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Nominate:
John Madden
The Farmer

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Asch is probably in a similar place to Luke as far as being a divisive character in TotA, so I'll put him at Low Fodder. He's -kind of- the protagonist but not.

Mid Fodder for the crabby boys. Crab Rave is definitely something that benefits them, plus Ash used both in the Gen 1 anime. Plus they make memorably funny sounds - COOKIECOOKIE!

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Low for all.

Asch is obvious. REPLICAAAAAA

I dont buy memes helping the crabs that much (albeit Im generally not hip to whats with it these days) and they too easily fall into lategame water types that dont stand out much and only very rarely actually get put on someones team. Being caught by Ash and at least briefly used by him in battle probably takes them out of contention for the bottom 10 or whatever of Gen 1 but Im still thinking low fodder.

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Re-rank Robin

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Agree with Axem. The average voter is probably no more hip to modern memes than Axem (a variation on a sentiment I've expressed a dozen times by now), and neither Krabby nor Kingler made very many appearances as part of Ash's team.

Re-rank Eric Cartman, because Stick of Truth's low seed and especially lackluster result in GotD 2 suggest the South Park fanbase here is smaller than we thought.

Also, nominate Barthandelus, Kyle Broflovski (South Park), and Stan Marsh (South Park).

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second Kyle and Stan, and second re-ranking Cartman (fodder line is way too high for him - I think he was an early rating).

Day 632 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79360286

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