(3)Tifa Lockheart vs (11)Mewtwo 2018

Ulti's Analysis
MEWTWO.

IS.

A.

FRAUD.

I would go one step farther and call Pokemon itself a fraud, but I'll be nice. Pikachu did a good enough job this year of preventing that series from looking like a total flop.

@Leonhart4 is good for one balls-on-the-table prediction every contest that comes true, and this was his. Dude embarrassed himself hard for thinking Squall could beat Zelda after the results were showing what was coming, but this more than makes up for it and everybody was memeing the FRAUDULENCE line. To get how good this was, you need to understand how good Mewtwo has looked a couple times in the past.

In 2007 (the first lol 4way) and 2010 when he faced Ganon in round one, he lost in round one. In his other two appearances, he stomped. In 2008 he got through three fourpacks before going down to Cloud, Snake, and the Cube. 2013 is where he really shined however, where he legitimately came close to winning the contest. He beat Chester and Zero 999 in round one, he beat Phoenix and Vincent in round 2 in a match where no one was actually talking about him (everyone mentions the Vincent match pic and forgets who actually won that match), he beat Sonic and Bowser and somehow got revenge for the 2007 loss, and in the semifinal he was beating Draven and Sephiroth before reddit allowed the Draven rally again. Mewtwo was one topic away from making the final, and if that final was Mewtwo/Snake/Samus instead of Draven/Snake/Samus, it's highly possible Mewtwo would have won that year. The guy looked nuts.

But Leon knew. I don't know why or how, but he just knew. He convinced everyone to take Tifa here, and man he could not have been more right. My only thing there is this is a competition. If you see a bunch of people making a pick you think is dumb, let them. Helping someone beat you makes no sense to me, but whatever.

Tifa completely pasting Mewtwo right from the jump meant in five short years, Mewtwo went from potential contest champ to a total punk -- excuse me, a fraud. Between him and Charizard stinking up the place in round two and Red's moment to suck coming a little later, Pokemon was on a massive downswing this year for reasons that make no sense to me. It's not like Mewtwo didn't have Smash Bros and Nintendo behind him, which are usually good enough to win debated matches around here. Only getting 42% is such an embarrassing number, and this was arguably the performance of the contest were it not for Tifa doing something much cooler later on. You can't ask for much better from a debated match than Ulti-Style Destruction if you backed the winner, and in a way this reminded me of Vincent vs Kerrigan from back in the day. Kerrigan came into that contest with a bunch of hype, and sucked. Mewtwo came in hyped this year, same thing. But I could argue Mewtwo's performance was worse given the Nintendo/Smash connections.

This was only #2 in a long line of scalps Tifa was collecting this year. That girl was on a mission!