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My thinking is that Mario vs Bowser is fast largely because of the shrink + grow combo. Bowser is used to getting outsped by Mario. He's not used to being severely outmuscled. In fact, he's liable to be very confused because, well...think back to NSMB Wii for example. He's always been the Goliath, not the David, if that makes any sense. That plus the dazing effect of the lightning bolt is a lot to deal with.

Here's how I see the match so far:

-Mewtwo survives. I came in thinking he was turbo dead but good arguing from Chris, Eddv and Kamek in discord has sold me on Pokemon having good scaling feats, and Mewtwo is one of the strongest pokemon around. He lives by a thread, but since he can heal himself that's all he needs. This isn't a demerit to the Burst Smite to be clear -- put say, Cloud Strife here and he's just fuckin donezo, he does not live thru it. But Mewtwo is much tankier than I thought.

-Mario is an absolute menace. I am the absolute biggest Mario stan on the planet, but it's not even his value directly that I think is so important here. It's DK. Look at the stuff he can do in the game his baseline comes from now: https://youtu.be/10qXU4DVED8?t=1709

Does that look familiar? Because I think that is precisely what Mario does to Bowser before his time runs out. Just mauls him really badly. Then tack on the lightning into mega shroom and yeah, Bowser's done and Mario and Crono can tag team DK before fighting the raidboss.

-I think I buy Mewtwo disabling the lifeloop. However, I think it's not needed beyond that. One try to find out Mewtwo is psy heavy is what really matters.

-Buffs will be minimal on both sides. Mewtwo gets off a couple probably, but Aigis' persona can act independently off her to Marakunda and disable his defensive boosts quickly. Offensive boosts stay, turning him into a menace, but one that has to legitimately 1v3 because of how nasty the counter matchup of the low tier mercs ends up being.

-The big question thus becomes, can Mewtwo kill off Aigis' lowbie support without exposing itself to her so that it can win the long game, before Mario powers up enough to drop a Mario Finale boosted dual tech with Crono on Mewtwo to help Aigis finish the match?

This is what I'm pondering right now. I'm leaning Team Aigis, overall, but I want to watch Detective Pikachu first just to make sure my vote is correct. This is an excellent match though, no two ways about it.