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| LeonhartFour 03/17/20 2:52:27 PM #292: | #7 Good Pick - Big Daddy > Ness (2010) & 2B > Ness (2018) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3824-jenova-division-round-2-big-daddy-vs-ness https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7314-division-4-round-2-2b-vs-ness Ness has basically been our barometer for "average" since 2004. Anyone who has ever finished below him in a contest match has mostly been relegated to a history of contest mediocrity. The only characters who have lost to Ness and still managed to ever win anything else are Shadow and Zidane. Everyone else (Jak, CJ, Travis Touchdown, Geno, CATS, Locke) has either been a perennial loser or someone who vanished from the contests after losing to Ness, never to be seen again. Even Shadow and Zidane haven't exactly done a lot of winning. So in my opinion, if I believe you have a chance to be good, I'm picking you to beat Ness. I'm not even sure what motivated me to pick Big Daddy to beat Ness. He wasn't very impressive in his 2008 appearance, where he finished dead last behind Gordon Freeman, Scorpion, and Balthier. Maybe it was the vote-in before the contest started where he managed to quality despite some pretty impressive competition and Andrew Ryan from his own game sharing the poll with him, finishing only slightly behind Frog, Rikku, and Liquid Snake. Plus, Ness had kinda sucked in the two 4-way contests. Either way, it was a pick I felt fairly good about. When the match started, Ness jumped out to a 100 vote lead in the first 15 minutes. On the next update, Big Daddy cut it down to 25, and then the update after that, he was leading by 60. From there, he pretty much climbed the rest of the match for an easy win. Now with 2B, I definitely believed she had the potential to be strong. Automata had been released to outstanding reception, and 2B herself had done surprisingly well in a poll asking what dream character you'd like to see added to Smash Ultimate. I thought the potential was there, especially once you put a prominent picture of her on the front page. To be honest (see what I did there), 2B was also kind of a hedge bet since she was guaranteed to be there and I wasn't even sold that Ness was going to beat Shadow. I'm kind of doing that with some of my picks here and hoping it pays off! Anyway, when the match started, 2B jumped out comfortably ahead and never looked back. Ness brought the percentage down over the course of the day, but he was never in the match. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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