(9)Pokemon Trainer Red vs (4)Big Boss 2018

Ulti's Analysis
So after an entire contest where Big Boss, Ocelot, and Quiet all made the Metal Gear Solid series live up to the name Solid Shit, and after an entire contest where Pikachu was the only one in the Pokemon clan making that series look good, we get this hilarious match. You don't even need to go far back in history to see why this one is funny. You only need look at this contest. Big Boss flopped twice. Ocelot flopped twice. Quiet embarrassed herself. Mewtwo and Charizard proved they were frauds. Red may or may not have needed my reddit rally to hold off Sora. Only Pikachu was impressive.

That said, we didn't know before the match Red was included in the 'Pokemon looks like ass' pile and figured he was just pulling a close upset on Sora, and thus living up up some expectations. Whoops! This match was actually even early, which is highly unusual for a Pokemon character, and then it took a couple hours for Red to actually put this match away. Big Boss kept pulling these huge updates out of his ass, and it wasn't until later on in the evening where Red finally pulled away.

Normally this would be whatever, but this match was not too long ago: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3732-hyrule-division-round-1-red-vs-ocelot

As much as I'd love to just call the top half of this division all legit based on this match, there are too many contradicting data points here. First off, the Metal Gear Solid series is done. We've been over it enough now to where I don't need to have you guys relive the reasons (and I'm saving my Konami rant for later, fuck those people). For Red to struggle with Big Boss after recently struggling with Ocelot is just bad. This match all but confirms that the Pokemon clan overperform in 3/4ways and those results cannot even remotely be trusted. Red would end up verifying this one round later as The Plan™ came into fruition.