From: creativename | #274
Perhaps there's something to be said for this. Though I still find FF7 going from blowing the doors off at what should be a more or less neutral time frame, to suddenly going 50/50 the instant the lead was about to change, in a match that had the highest vote totals of the contest, which included an entrant known to be the biggest rallying force...and an entrant known to be the biggest magnet for anti-rallying...to be suspect to say the least. In terms of linearity, this match is not going to be reliable.
Again, I agree with the "suddenly going 50/50 the second the lead was about to change" sentiment but... you're going to be hard pressed to find any lead change that doesn't have this. Dante/Vergil vs Sora/Riku for instance, Dante is going 57% updates for almost two hours, then right when he hits 0 Sora stonewalls him for like an hour... Dante eventually breaks through, gets 100 up, then Sora comes back.
It happens in every close match. It looks worse when it bridges into trends like the Pokemon match did, but that's just coincidence. I just think that making an adjustment there is a double standard, because yeah, unless one guy rolls over the 0 point like a mack truck during the ASV the stall always happens. Rally, stuffing, whatever, it's always there. Shouldn't affect the x-stats.
Further Pokemon has always stood up very well against SFF, so the idea of Mario not SFFing it to a significant degree certainly isn't that strange.
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