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Scrooge VS Shovel Knight is one I prefer but before I get into why I prefer it to Lara Croft VS Nathan Drake I'm going to clear one thing up. The reasoning for Scrooge VS SK wasn't "trash". Most, if not all of SK's feats are due to player influence meaning they are iffy at best. SA gave legitimate reasoning as to why Scrooge bested SK in strength and speed (though I'm disappointed with speed due to SK's meteors but again that was due to player influence), brought up SK's finite magic meaning he couldn't continuously use his relics and Scrooge's superior weaponry that breaks the laws of physics. Hell most of the people on the prediction blog actually believed Scrooge would win even if SK got the meteor feat. The matchup may be trash but the outcome and the reasoning was not.

Now as to why I preferred it to Lara Croft VS Nathan Drake, while Lara Croft VS Nathan Drake was a good 3D fight, it didn't really improve upon the quality of the 3D fights we're used to as opposed to Scrooge VS SK which is fluid in every motion of the fight and greatly improves upon the quality of previous 2D fights. Voice Acting doesn't come into play as SK is a silent protagonist and it would kind of disturb the flow of the animation if Scrooge was just talking without getting a response. SK's death was brutal and was actually a good death as opposed to Nathan's which happened while he was trying to flee from the fight and ended up as a stroke of bullshit bad luck with a helicopter rotor completely reversing its momentum just to impale Nathan. Also while SK's stupidity was something that shouldn't of been mentioned, the fact that they brought it up as a weakness prevented a regular trap SA uses (whichever combatant has a weakness brought up against a combatant with no weakness brought up will win). This trap made its appearance in Lara Croft VS Nathan Drake making the outcome far more obvious. Even without the trap Scrooge VS SK had a bit of unpredictability to it as it instead focused on their arsenals rather than their feats. Also I was more invested because I enjoy playing Shovel Knight and I actually knew who Scrooge was.