LogFAQs > #975725190

The 2003 X-Stats projected a 53.98% victory for Samus against Sonic, and she got 57.51% a year later. If that ratio held in 2003, that means Samus should've gotten 41.09% against Link. It's kind of a shame we rarely get to see how strong Samus really is. She got stuck against Mario twice in 2018, which muddled her true strength. She was the third person in the final with Snake and Draven, so she got pulverized there.

We've probably only gotten a legitimate reading on Samus twice, both times in which she ultimately lost to Cloud (2004 and 2010). Every other time, she's gotten SFF'd or LFF'd by Link and/or Mario (or hidden behind it, in the case of 2002), other than the weird case in 2013.