(6)Victor Sullivan vs (11)Aya Brea 2018

Ulti's Analysis
Every contest has some matches where the board takes a giant dump on the casuals (and they give it right back sometimes too!), and this was one such example for Character Battle X. That said, this was a debated match on the board as well, with only two thirds of people supporting Aya Brea. The casuals clearly supported him far more than we did. The basic argument is Victor Sullivan is a huge casualbait character with being from Uncharted, while Aya Brea legitimately hasn't been relevant in gaming for 20 years. On top of that, her only contest highlight was going 50-50 with Donkey Kong all the way back in 2002 for over half the match before choking.

Let's not forget that Donkey Kong, one of the biggest choke artists in contest history, clutched on someone. That's Aya Brea's lone point of relevance in these things. Backing a newcomer over someone as unscrupulous as Aya isn't a bad bet, even if it didn't pay off.

When the match finally started, Aya ended things in seconds. This was a 60-40 beating for 24 straight hours, and when I say 24 straight hours I mean it. These percentages didn't budge one inch for the entire match, and a once debated match was a pretty boring undertaking within minutes. As we would learn later, this was not exactly a quality win for Aya Brea. Uncharted has just totally fallen off a cliff, as Nathan Drake would show us all later in hilarious fashion. Letting Victor Sullivan break 40% on you isn't exactly something to write home about. This was just a bracket with a lot of fodder in it, and some of them faced each other in round 1 before getting pasted is all.

What's sad is remember when Square was actually good? For the entire 90s, every single game they released was good. Even the Final Fantasy Legends, the Saga Frontiers, and the Parasite Eves. All of them. They could do no wrong. And now? Aya can't break 60% on a character no one on this site cares about.