Mario VS Luigi should be removed from
both brothers' sides for numerous reasons.
1. Mario is the more haxxed of the two, yet people kept bringing up few abilities like "aerokinesis" and "electrokinesis" to say Luigi would win. Despite never elaborating on
why these abilities would somehow overcome time manipulation, possession, and several other abilities, this was accepted as legitimate reasoning.
2. Many assumptions were made. First off, it's used in the thread that Mario is stronger than Luigi and Luigi is faster than Mario.
This is false.
Canon bios place the two equal in speed with Mario stronger and Luigi able to jump higher. And even then, Mario's bio even
explains how Mario
counters Luigi's jumping advantage; with the Power Flower. Furthermore, we go off of profiles here, and not once is it stated in Luigi's profile he's faster than Mario.
Yoshi's mentions being faster than both him
and Luigi, but the Bros. are stated as comparable, which is truly accurate. So that leaves Attack Potency and hax in favor of Mario with speed equal, the three deciding factors.
3. One vote that everyone used as reasoning had this for reasoning: "And while Mario does usually have a higher strength rating, some people speculate that the only reason is because Luigi's
nicer than Mario." Speculative reasoning, and "FRA" fell out from there.
4. Most, if not all the votes for Luigi
said things, but never
proved them. The votes that made Luigi win said he was "more versatile" despite Mario having more hax on his profile
and more techniques in his "Notable Attacks/Techniques" section, and also said "Poltergust > F.L.U.D.D. and Cappy" without
any reasoning for stating such. Just because. Despite the fact that the Poltergust is a
machine and should logically therefore be susceptible to short-circuiting by
water. But nobody considered this, nor did the consider that Cappy could just possess the Poltergust and make it fight Luigi. Then, it's stated that "the Negative Zone counters Mario's intelligence advantage," again, with
no reasoning whatsoever. Just because it does.
5. OP states Mario and Luigi have
every single power-up they ever used, but nobody mentions how Mario has
way more power-ups and experience than Luigi. For some reason, it seems like the majority of the thread was cherry-picking evidence to suit an argument that would allow for a
very specific yet somehow convincing circumstance with Luigi emerging as the winner.
6. Luigi's Poltergust was
way overestimated. For example: "If Luigi needs to, he can BFR Mario with his Poltergust." This cannot happen because
anyone who's played Luigi's Mansion would know that the Poltergust
only BFRs ghosts and can't even suck up Toad in Dark Moon because he's too big. Counting Smash, you could say he could suck others up, but such an ability contradicts what's been canonically shown of the Poltergust in the main series and thus should not be used. If this is what they were referring to, even
more reasoning for why this should be removed.
7. And finally,
false accusations. "It's also notable that Luigi has a better win-loss record
than Mario in cano, and
has defeated foes Mario couldn't, such as
Bowser and King Boo. All in all, I'm voting Luigi." This is directly in contrast with profiles saying Mario has fought enemies powered by Power Stars--including Bowser and King Boo--and even outright mentioning King Boo. It should also be noted that Mario has defeated Bowser and King Boo
numerous times, and the only time he lost was in Luigi's Mansion because he didn't have the Poltergust. Luigi would have
also lost if he didn't have the Poltergust; to a
normal ghost, no doubt, so it doesn't even matter.
This fight should definitely be removed.
