Would you really be shocked if Snake beat Cloud though?
I think that Samus match is really messing up peoples views of Snake. Especially as Samus might just be that damn strong, and only gets messed up by Mario.
I think Mario thrashing Samus in 2K5 caused people to underrate Samus in terms of the perception of her strength, since it was such an embarrassing and notorious defeat. I think you can see this in how continually surprised we are when Samus stomps other elites.
I think getting beat down by Samus is causing people to underrate Snake.
Maybe, but Samus only did 59% on Tifa, who is barely stronger than Luigi. If we assume that Snake actually beats Cloud, then Luigi is beating Crono/Mega Man and is much stronger than Yoshi/Bowser.
Yes, and based on their matches with Tifa this contest it looks like X > Luigi, meaning by extension X > MM. That would make very little sense, especially since MM is in Smash and X is not. ---
Advokaiser made an above average bracket, I'd say.