(3)Phoenix Wright vs (2)Kirby 2018

Ulti's Analysis
Given how big a fan of Ike I am and how tired I am of seeing that dude come up short, this was a good measure of revenge for me. I like Phoenix, but I don't love him and his fanbase has become increasingly annoying with each new contest. They're not to a level of causing me to rant or anything, but they're getting there. Phoenix is a hilariously overrated character with a terrible Marvel vs Capcom 3 appearance, so seeing the guy get worked was nice. It's like when the Bears lost to the Eagles last night; Chicago is a gutter run by heroin dealers and routinely ruins people's lives over things that mean nothing in the grand scheme, and that place deserves to get smacked once in awhile. Look at what those losers did to Steve Bartman, or what they're trying to do to Cody Parkey right now, or their murder rate. Sometimes you get a group of people in need of humbling, and Phoenix Wright fans? You're getting there. Knock it off. I like the dude and he has some good games, but you're making me want to not like him. Stop that. Phoenix's fanbase pretends everyone loves him, but Kirby is a character everyone actually does love. Put Phoenix against actual competition and watch the blowouts commence. He didn't even get his usual board vote here, because Kirby is a character no one can actually hate unless they have severe issues.

My biggest issue with Phoenix outside of his fanbase is the bad writing in parts of his games, specifically the constant deus ex machina bailouts. Visual novels in general seem to have this problem and have not caught up as a literary art form despite being literal novels, but these dopey main characters always get help from paranormal beings or random AHA moments. It's a terrible writing style and should be used very very sparingly. I felt like Phoenix was getting bailed out by otherworldly stuff in every single case, and it got so ridiculous by the time I was done reading the trilogy. Then Apollo Justice, those awful Ace Attorney Investigation games, and the MvC3 garbage happened and I was just out on that series.

Phoenix is a good character, but he is not a great character. He suffers too much from deus ex machina, a genre no one really cares about, and 'everyone around me is cooler' syndrome. That's not a recipe to compete with the big boys on this site.

This would set up a match between Kirby and Bowser that would blow my mind, but not for the reasons you guys might think.