(5)Amaterasu vs (4)Lara Croft 2018

Ulti's Analysis
I know this match was super predictable, but three things blow me away about it. One, 75% of people thought Amaterasu would lose to Draven, Lara Croft, or Metal Man. What the actual hell? Two, Lara Croft is a 4 seed. How did she pull that one off? Lara in general is weird on seeding. She's been a 1, a 7, a 15, she didn't make it in 2010, and here she is at 4 in her return. The only way to beat that range is to be a 1 and a 16 in separate contests. Good luck with that one. I think the only real chance we have to see that record happen is by Lara beating her own record or Pac-Man randomly being a 1 seed some year. No other 1 seed we've ever had is really something weak enough to be a 16.

And three, this match was actually close on percents. That isn't what blew me away though. If you throw out the Draven match (an outlier) and the Rivalry Rumble, did you know this is Amaterasu's biggest 1v1 win? Granted that's due to not showing up until 2007, but still. Amaterasu is wholly unimpressive in these contests outside of one match against the 2018 version of Tanner.

This could say a lot about Amaterasu, but it really doesn't. For all we know Lara's recent shift in tone helped her. I'm not a Tomb Raider guy outside of seeing Angeline Jolie in the shower so I don't frankly know or care. 55% on Lara is just a bad performance. As such, this actually proves how bad Draven was this year. Good hell. We're never again going to see a fall that hard.