(3)Tifa Lockheart vs (2)Mega Man X 2018

Ulti's Analysis
This was one hell of a match and quite possibly the best of the entire contest with all of the meltdowns this caused, but for most of it you would just think we had a great match on our hands. Tifa and Mega Man X have a long history of being in the near elite club, with even debates of Noble Nine breaker status and whether or not X was at or above Classic's level. Having these two plus Luigi decide a division when all of them are at the same strength level was all kinds of awesome.

When the match started, it lived up to the hype. It was a stone cold tie at the freeze. But then Mega Man X started taking off, relatively speaking for a close match anyways. 2 hours in the dude had a lead of 255, and despite some hiccups he trended up all the way until 11 and had a lead of almost 500 votes. This thing looked over, but the one trend Square still has is owning the dead zone. On top of that, Mega Man must have murdered a puppy and a firstborn son for every family in Europe or something, because everything related to that series collapses overnight and gets destroyed in Europe. I don't know if the games were never released there or what, and Tifa didn't exactly care.

That 500 vote lead? Gone in a few hours and Tifa kept going up before the morning vote even came. She got the lead all the way up to 200, and then it was time to decide the morning vote, aaaaaaaaand...

Mega Man X started taking it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Uw97lOOlk

On top of that, a topic popped up on a Mega Man subreddit that quickly got over 1000 views. Not to be outdone, a similar topic popped up on the FF sub. This match was turning into a rally war, and if you look at the morning vote it looked like Mega Man had more rally power. Tifa's 200 vote lead? Under 100 by breakfast, but then something funny started happening. Once the lead got under 50, these two stayed stalled around that level for hours. It was awesome to watch, but Mega Man X would eventually and finally take the lead with less than 6 hours to go. He then started slowly building a lead up to 100, but Tifa had one final push left. I'll let Black Turtle explain what happened during the poll's final three hours.

"As opposed to the wealth of personality that Tifa 'Tits McGee' Lockhart is known for? X has a pretty complicated struggle with pacifism versus the fact that the world needs him to fuck shit up every once and a while. Tifa has...... daddy issues?

Also, 1pm now, the stalling will stop and X will begin to take off. Again, these trends are set in stone and were never in question."

"I love how all the people that are supposedly 'anti-rally' have no problem harassing casual acquaintances on facebook to vote for their favourite jerk-off material on a 30 year old video game site"

"Any match any Mega Man character has been in has been the same, strong out the gate, die overnight, recover around noon, run away with the match"

"I mean, this post is one of the reasons MMX needs to win. The only way this supposed 'deep, well-endowed' character can win is by appealing to horny virgins on reddit. If that doesn't make ExTha think hard about why he's supporting Tifa, I don't know what will."

"To be fair, the Tifa neckbeards on this site are posting on literal hentai websites to push this win. How can noone else see how sad this is?"

"Unreal. MMX finally gets a decent draw, and he loses because of basement dwelling hentai fans."

"I love how everyone that is anti-rally immediately turns around and starts cheering because someone is successfully rallying on a hentai board. Literally any person who has complained about rallies in the past that is supporting this is a hypocrite."

"This contest is a fucking joke. Literal hentai perverts deciding a division final with Board 8's blessing. Guess rallying is okay if you can imagine having sex with the winner."

"Even though we had people in the stats topic literally admitting to votestuffing, I don't remember the last time Allen ever actually interfered with a fraudulent contest result."

"I'm not sure what the worst part of that match was:

- Bullshit rallies - People posting on hentai websites making a difference in the match - ExTha praising bullshit rallies after years of complaining about rallies - ExTha taking credit for the rallies that happened when he wasn't even actively on the board - People defending ExTha's bullshit

I think the one thing we can take away from that match, is that the board's biggest manchild is no longer Ulti."

"Won't matter, the Pokemon furry community would make any close match a wash. Unless you have a fanbase of disgusting perverts to draw from, you won't win a close match on this site."

"Let's be clear here, no matter your thoughts on rallies, or the characters in question, ExTha didn't do shit to affect the result. He didn't start posting here until well after the hentai rallies took effect"

"At this point who fucking cares, yet another contest has been ruined by the rally crew. Even with the registered voter bonus, these contests are impossible to run in 2018, with all the porno subreddits and shitty Twitch streamers that offer an endless pool of votes for the degenerates on Board 8 like ExTha and Leon."

"ExTha, literally the loudest pervert/Tifa fanboi in this topic 2 WEEKS AGO was jumping down Ulti's throat for rallying in the Pokemon Trainer match. And half this topic was siding with him.

For as big of an insufferable manchild Ulti is, at least his terrible opinions are somewhat consistant."

I'm hot and cold on Black Turtle. Recently he's been a pretty cool dude and I unblocked him for it, but this was the mother of all meltdowns and I'm only quoting the worst stuff from the stats topic. This guy was all over the board whining for two days straight about this match, even though rallying has been an allowed and accepted part of these contests forever.

For those who don't want to read that garbage (don't blame you), ExThaNemesis plus a few other people rallied hentai subreddits, of which there are a ton, and continued rallying the FF subreddit for Tifa. This got Tifa her final push and allowed Tifa to come back in the literal 23rd hour for the win. Both characters rallied, but Tifa had more pools to rally from. In a dead even match, that made the difference. Mega Man X probably wins this match otherwise, but that, as Chris Berman would say, is why they play the games.

I am pro rallying and I'm completely cool with what happened. Everyone knows my position on this. I will say though that Black Turtle halfway makes a fair point. If you're into hentai because you can't get women in real life, you are an indefensible pervert and will probably show up on an incel forum at some point. Thankfully, Tifa wasn't rallied for that reason. I know ExTha personally. Cool dude. He didn't rally because of hentai love. Far from it. He just wanted Tifa to win. Fair enough. I'm cool with it. Nothing was stopping Mega Man X from rallying everywhere either, you know. The issue is ExTha is famously anti-rallying and was quoted all over the contest when Undertale was running wild. To this day, him and MYC's bitching are credit for Undertale actually winning that contest, because nothing pisses off a fanbase more than people complaining about the thing they like without knowing anything about it.

I don't do double standards. You're either for rallying or against it. You don't get to only favor rallying when it benefits a character or game you like. Anyone who picks and chooses is a hypocrite and a punk. If you like rallying, cool. If not, cool. But you get ONE standard. Don't behave like a politician. Pick one standard and stick with it. Picking and choosing is dumb and doesn't fool anyone. There are a lot of people on this forum who pick and choose, and seeing grown men without the nuts to stick up for what they believe in is embarrassing as a man.

If you don't agree, go buy a pair of John Kerry/Mitt Romney flip-flops and buzz off: http://jonathon.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/john-kerry-flip-flops.jpg