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Ok, so some days ago Screw Attack released a new death battle between Shadow and Mewtwo wich you can watch here www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4czQ1… (I'll recomend watching it before reading this)...and oh boy, it's the first battle of this show that managed to dissapoint me a lot.
Before an unnecesary rant starts, im not here to discuss why I think Shadow should have won since overall none of this is cannon and my problem doesn't involve the result, so, if you wanna discuss the outcome I recommend you to close this window since I won't talk too much about it, my main focus will be the fight itself.
So, when this battle was announced to be honest I was really hyped, it was a promising idea and the fact that these two characters had a lot to offer most people though this clash was going to be epic, but, in a nutshell the fight was lame. Shadow was out of character, they mixed 3 Mewtwo's into one wich doesn't make sense (it's confirmed that the first movie Mewtwo and the Genesect movie one are not the same character and taking traits from the manga was not valid due to being a different version of the character) and overall, it seems it focused more on keeping up the ''edgy'' jokes about Shadow and it was lazy and one-sided and it's inconclusive, since they didn't really answer who's stronger, they straight up used the cheap way saying that the Pokemon could win against the black hedgehog by simply erasing his memories...something that doesn't quite fit with muscle memory.
One of the reasons I follow this show is simply because of the fights, since they always find a way to make them epic, entertaining and unpredictable (heck, I enjoyed Knuckles vs DK, Megaman vs Astro Boy and Goku vs Superman and in all of them the characters I support died) but, since the Hypergauge team leaved, the 2D battles suffered a quality drop and this battle is the greatest example of that. I know the animator is a human being like anyone of us and that job is not easy (animation can be really time consuming and I know that because I tried it and it wasn't really succesfull) but, sprite animation is known for it's great diversity, practical and easy use for those who can't draw in order to animate, and it can be twice as fast than traditional animation since it's not necessary to draw anything in these ones. The animator could have done a lot on this fight and he could have asked for more time instead of rushing the project, for example, Mewtwo could have used Disable instead of mind control, Shadow Ball, Aura Sphere, Telekinesis on rocks or other objects, etc. Shadow fighting style consists on aggresive assaults, thus he regulary tends to not give his opponents a chance to attack via spamming Chaos Control powers and teleportation to have a huge advantage. Overall both their transformations were also wasted since we barely saw anything between Super Shadow and Mega Mewtwo, it literally was ''Omg im glowing!. Why am I glowing!?'', so yeah...a lot was missing here.
Overall it's kinda sad seeing how 2D fights on this show were great and they are starting to fall on the shadow of 3D ones and a great clash between two ultimate life forms was wasted by lazyness...but. Can we really blame them? Despite not being biased, the crew on Screw Attack has shown a great dislike on Shadow (this can be seen on Goku vs Superman and even here, since they called him ''Edgelord'', he was out of character and Mewtwo regarded him as ''Black, red and extremely annoying'' while he kinda conservated his personality) and obviously that would affect their work, because no matter how much neutral you are, when you work with something you don't like, at some point lazyness and uninterest will come and effort will slowly dissapear. Anyway...I hope DB 2D fights can recover some quality with new animators since I really love Screw Attack and I don't want to see one of their show greatest features dissapear.
Before anyone comments I want to make clear that I don't want to start a rant and I respect everyone opinions, but, I just had to talk about this since I felt it just needed to, anyway, I guess that's it, thanks for reading.

/////EDIT/////
The animator explained why the death battle was so bad and he had good reasons that makes sense, you can see them right here www.deviantart.com/journal/Abo…

Description
Solo ingles/ENG only.
Ok, so some days ago Screw Attack released a new death battle between Shadow and Mewtwo wich you can watch here www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4czQ1… (I'll recomend watching it before reading this)...and oh boy, it's the first battle of this show that managed to dissapoint me a lot.
Before an unnecesary rant starts, im not here to discuss why I think Shadow should have won since overall none of this is cannon and my problem doesn't involve the result, so, if you wanna discuss the outcome I recommend you to close this window since I won't talk too much about it, my main focus will be the fight itself.
So, when this battle was announced to be honest I was really hyped, it was a promising idea and the fact that these two characters had a lot to offer most people though this clash was going to be epic, but, in a nutshell the fight was lame. Shadow was out of character, they mixed 3 Mewtwo's into one wich doesn't make sense (it's confirmed that the first movie Mewtwo and the Genesect movie one are not the same character and taking traits from the manga was not valid due to being a different version of the character) and overall, it seems it focused more on keeping up the ''edgy'' jokes about Shadow and it was lazy and one-sided and it's inconclusive, since they didn't really answer who's stronger, they straight up used the cheap way saying that the Pokemon could win against the black hedgehog by simply erasing his memories...something that doesn't quite fit with muscle memory.
One of the reasons I follow this show is simply because of the fights, since they always find a way to make them epic, entertaining and unpredictable (heck, I enjoyed Knuckles vs DK, Megaman vs Astro Boy and Goku vs Superman and in all of them the characters I support died) but, since the Hypergauge team leaved, the 2D battles suffered a quality drop and this battle is the greatest example of that. I know the animator is a human being like anyone of us and that job is not easy (animation can be really time consuming and I know that because I tried it and it wasn't really succesfull) but, sprite animation is known for it's great diversity, practical and easy use for those who can't draw in order to animate, and it can be twice as fast than traditional animation since it's not necessary to draw anything in these ones. The animator could have done a lot on this fight and he could have asked for more time instead of rushing the project, for example, Mewtwo could have used Disable instead of mind control, Shadow Ball, Aura Sphere, Telekinesis on rocks or other objects, etc. Shadow fighting style consists on aggresive assaults, thus he regulary tends to not give his opponents a chance to attack via spamming Chaos Control powers and teleportation to have a huge advantage. Overall both their transformations were also wasted since we barely saw anything between Super Shadow and Mega Mewtwo, it literally was ''Omg im glowing!. Why am I glowing!?'', so yeah...a lot was missing here.
Overall it's kinda sad seeing how 2D fights on this show were great and they are starting to fall on the shadow of 3D ones and a great clash between two ultimate life forms was wasted by lazyness...but. Can we really blame them? Despite not being biased, the crew on Screw Attack has shown a great dislike on Shadow (this can be seen on Goku vs Superman and even here, since they called him ''Edgelord'', he was out of character and Mewtwo regarded him as ''Black, red and extremely annoying'' while he kinda conservated his personality) and obviously that would affect their work, because no matter how much neutral you are, when you work with something you don't like, at some point lazyness and uninterest will come and effort will slowly dissapear. Anyway...I hope DB 2D fights can recover some quality with new animators since I really love Screw Attack and I don't want to see one of their show greatest features dissapear.
Before anyone comments I want to make clear that I don't want to start a rant and I respect everyone opinions, but, I just had to talk about this since I felt it just needed to, anyway, I guess that's it, thanks for reading.

/////EDIT/////
The animator explained why the death battle was so bad and he had good reasons that makes sense, you can see them right here www.deviantart.com/journal/Abo…