Wow, I thought Deva was just really really sloppy. Bit onto a lot of Up-Bs oos really unnecessarily and picked bad moments to use Bombs. He was really sloppy with his ledge game, and no D-air edgeguards? Seriously, I thought Deva just missed a hell of a lot of opportunities besides just picking suboptimal spacing options (he got better later on though). And his edgeguarding and edgetrapping was waaaaaaay too conservative while Zigsta took a lot more intelligent risks when edgeguarding/edgetrapping Link (which could have been avoided, provided Deva just waited a little longer on the edge). Against Bowser it isn't even a risk to edgeguard him. His recovery is more punishable than Link's, and he suffers from an even worse ledge game, yet Deva almost never capitalized on it.
But seriously, Deva did not play this matchup as well as I would have expected from him. His juggles were good and his spacing became better later on in this matches, but overall I just felt he was on the sloppy side and that his edgeguards were much too conservative and not well thought out. It's as if he forgot that Bowser literally can't airdodge offstage.
Props to you and all Zigsta (I mean hell, you played the matchup pretty d*mn well aside from one missed shieldgrab opportunity that I noticed and some suboptimal decisions with grab releases), but Deva could have definitely played that match a lot better by simply making better choices. I still stand this is a 65/35 matchup in Link's favor.
The fact that Zigsta was going EVEN with suboptimal gameplay while working his *** off makes me dead convinced about my matchup ratio.
The third match is up, but it's not nearly as good as the others imo. Plus I didn't think it was actually as close as Zigsta suggested, when you consider that Deva survived to 160+ each stock, and only had 104% at the end. Deva won that one pretty solidly, but regardless, the gameplay on both sides really wasn't that impressive to me, and Zigsta as far as I'm concerned almost certainly could have survived the F-smash hit 2 kill on his second stock.
Actually the 2nd match now that I think about it wasn't even close. Deva only had
61% at the end of that one. But again, I don't get why Zigsta died from that F-smash hit. He would have survived it by using his midair jump. Although on the other hand, Deva probably still would have won anyway with a smart D-air edgeguard or other stuff.
Only the first match was close, and it was because Zigsta got an
extremely lucky gimp that was completely avoidable on Deva's part.