What's up guys it's Mario and Sonic fanboy and today I'm doing another top 5 but this one is important. Recently you all got an announcement that the fifth season of Mario, Sonic, Mega Man DEATH BATTLE will be the last season and left a link to this chapter promising I'd go into further details as to why and the reason is that I am no longer a Death Battle fan in other words I have officially stopped watching Death Battle nor will I be associated with them in anyway. Before I thought Death Battle was a good show with perfect sources for animation it was funny and I've heard about it since I was younger, but I didn't fully become a full fledged fan until around 2018, but now everything has changed with everything that's going on I don't think I want to be part of the Death Battle community anymore and I'm not going to force myself to be apart of it. That being said this list is not meant to discourage anyone or disrespect DB fans in anyway I'm only making this list helping you understand why I am no longer a Death Battle fan but if you are someone who is easily offended at what I'm about to say my advice is for you all to click off this chapter because I don't feel like dealing with salty fanboys you have been warned. With all of that out of the way let's get into the 5 reasons why I'm no longer a Death Battle fan.
5. Death Battle is completely overrated
Starting with something that is probably going to be triggering to some people is Death Battle being overrated. Now I want to make this clear being overrated doesn't mean it's bad, it simply means it's not as good as people think it is. When I used to watch Death Battle especially years ago I thought to myself "Wow they are definitely amazing and totally flawless." But looking back at it now it's not entirely flawless. One of the many problems people have with Death Battle is that it's completely overrated and people give it WAY too much praise to the point where people would sometimes often use Death Battle as a source (more on that later) for vs debating which I won't lie I have used them as a source of vs debating but honestly after some further thought not anymore the only tike I did use them (or any other source) is when they are correct if not I would not use them. Another reason why I think Death Battle is overrated is because of the animations. If you have been apart of the Death Battle community for a long time you would know that most people watch Death Battle not because they want to know if their favorite character wins or loses against a non favorite character but they also watch it strictly because of the animation and nowadays they have great animation however some of the animation I have issues with as most of the fights are mainly 2D sprites some of which they don't even own and honestly as amazing as they sound I always found sprite battles on Death Battle pretty boring I think some of the 3D models and hand drawings while they have flaws are definitely better than sprites. Don't get me wrong I don't have a problem against sprites in fact I think One Minute Melee, Riot Rumble, Super Mario Bros Z, and a few others have better sprites than Death Battle, but even so there are quite times to where I was bored out of my mine. If you want to know what I mean by that I have some examples. Here's the sprite animation for their Sora VS Pit.
And here's the animation for Link VS Sora on One Minute Melee.
Both fights feature Sora fighting a young swordsmanship Nintendo character, I think the One Minute Melee one is better because it's really well passed and gives it a lot more operation for action pack it may not be as long as Death Battle's version of Sora VS Pit but even so it's well animated, choreographed, and better pasted. Another example of what I mean by this is Mega Man VS Astro Boy. Here's Death Battle's version.
