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BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

garetha200 posted...

If Tifa is legitimately stronger than Sephiroth, then Samus had a stronger round 1 of the Legends Bracket than Mario did. And since that's the only round where you can compare them and they seemed pretty even directly, saying Samus is stronger indirectly makes a lot of sense.

Only problem with that is I don't buy for a second that Tifa beat Seph. I trust Tifa/Samus as most of the weirdness this contest has been hentai rallies and the general SJWFF we saw in a few matches. If you trust Tifa/Samus and Tifa/Seph, that puts Ryu at a really really weak level which makes zero sense. The only explanation that makes sense across the board is the following:

- Sephiroth is around Mega Man/Crono level
- Zelda is also naturally around that level and benefitted greatly from her bandwagon and hentai rallies
- Samus/Mario 1 is an accurate representation of Samus
- Snake is the only real outlier here as Snake/Samus and Snake/Sonic can't both be accurate and still make sense in the grand scheme of things

I'm not sure hentai ralllies really made THAT much of a difference, but I see your point. Sephiroth looked stronger than Tifa in the main bracket, for sure. That would then imply that Mario is above Samus, which is actually what I thought was the case for a while, even after Tifa beat Seph. Until Samus stomped Snake and Mario lost to Zelda and Cloud. (to be fair, Mario is slightly above Zelda based on the Cloud matches)

If Sephiroth really is stronger than Tifa, I would believe that TIfa overperformed on Samus (she's done it before, albeit not the exact same circumstances) before believing that Mario is stronger than Samus. Or maybe that would mean Mario just overperformed on Sephiroth for whatever reason.
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