(6)Sonic the Hedgehog vs (3)Solid Snake (Losers Bracket) 2018

Ulti's Analysis
LOL, X STATS

Well would you look at what we have here.... https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7372-finals-bracket-2-zelda-vs-sonic

And yet despite Snake doing better than Zelda did on Sonic, Zelda beat Snake! https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7362-finals-bracket-round-1-snake-vs-zelda

How is such a thing even possible? It's possible because as I have said for years and years, stats are a very loose guide and each match takes on a life of its own. Solid Snake was not going to go out of this contest like a bitch and not win even one match in the double elimination, so this was his time to shine. It unfortunately had to come at Sonic's expense, but what can you do. At least Sonic won a match in this thing, too, against Auron. In fact, Snake winning this match meant that all of the Noble Nine won at least one match in this contest. Sephiroth was the only one not to win anything in the double elimination, but he won matches in the main bracket. I guess Allen knew what he was doing with leaving Seph out, because he's probably the weakest Noble Nine guy at this point.

This match was good for Snake, but it sucked for Board 8 because of him outdoing Zelda's number. This caused some dumb arguments about whether adjustments needed to be made, which I promise you I gave absolutely zero cares about. I look at these matches at face value and have fun with them. That's it. Arguing over percentage micro adjustments is just not my thing.

With Sonic out of it as of this match, I really have to wonder how he was seemingly the only Sonic character to look bad this year. I get the others all faced garbage competition, but man. Sonic's only win was getting 54% on Auron. Brutal. That will happen when 8 of 9 members all get thrown into a bonus bracket immediately though!