(1)Geralt vs (4)Bayonetta 2018

Ulti's Analysis
I feel like this match would have been a lot more fun had we not seen the exact same trend with Geralt v Simon Belmont. creativename's site doesn't have working graphs for this contest yet, but I promise they're identical! Against Simon, Geralt struggled and didn't make his move until midnight.

Geralt struggled a little more with Bayonetta, but she has a little more Nintendo going for her. Simon has only Smash Bros and very old games that don't resonate here. Bayonetta has multiple Smash games and multiple games that this site cares for, so she was going to be stronger than him. How much stronger? About 800 votes :D

This poll was tied at the freeze, and then Bayonetta started slowly (very slowly) trying to build up a lead. Her early push peaked at only 140 before Geralt fought back, and her second push peaked at 213. From that point, this match was a big stallfest and would almost assuredly get decided by the night vote and the morning vote. Well around midnight, Bayonetta had a lead of only 150 and actually started going up during the time of Geralt's push one round ago. It actually looked like she was going to push for the win in this match when she built up her lead to 260 very quickly, but at 2 am Geralt started fighting back for good. It took him all night, but he got that lead under 100 by morning time.

This would come down to the morning vote, and like Geralt had done all contest, he swiped that morning vote and ran home with the poll. He took the lead at 8:30 in the morning and never looked back. He didn't even bother keeping it close enough for me to oogle over close wire to wire records :'(

This was Geralt's second close match in a row, and third match where the results were the result was close-ish. This was one of the contest's better matches, and while there is a very obvious joke to be made here with a witcher killing an actual witch, I have some limits to how cheesy I'll get. Some of the most fun contest runs you'll see are new characters proving they belong and winning close, and Geralt definitely qualifies for that list after this match.

There are people who credit Soul Calibur 6 for Geralt's performance in this contest, but I never cared for that series so I can't comment on whether this is accurate or not. 3D fighters are just not my thing.