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| Topic | my 5 best and worst picks in contest history |
| LeonhartFour 03/17/20 10:13:33 PM #307: | #6 Painful Pick - Zelda > Charizard (2013) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/5251-character-battle-ix-division-9-round-2-zelda-vs-dk-vs Here's the one time I didn't underrate Zelda! Although really, this was a complete lack of faith in Charizard more than anything else. People had high expectations for Charizard based on his 2010 Cinderella run, but his last couple matches against Bowser and Mario were clear overperformances based on a building bandwagon and the fact that HeartGold/SoulSilver literally came out on the day of the Bowser match. Charizard got less than 55% on Kratos in round 2, which isn't an elite performance. He got 60% on L-Block, which seemed good at the time, but Kefka got that in 2018, so yeah. At any rate, I thought Charizard was ripe to get exposed in this contest. He was the overwhelming favorite to win in round 2, as nearly 87% of Gurus picked him. When the match started, Zelda jumped out to the lead and was able to build it up to around 300 or so. Charizard started to chip away in the second half of the match and managed to take the lead with about an hour to go. They went back and forth for that final hour, with Charizard holding on to win by a mere 15 votes. I do wonder if things would've played out differently if Donkey Kong hadn't been there. It's impossible to know which character he affected more by his presence. Maybe it would've swung the match Zelda's way, or maybe Charizard would've won by more with Lightning in the match because he would've stood out like a sore thumb in the match pic. Either way, it was tough knowing I was so close on exposing a Pokemon as a fraud, but my time would come...! --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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