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Vedran, like I said earlier, they love RWBY so may well swing the fight in Yang's favour (although they have made their preferred fighters lose before, such as with Haggar VS Zangief and Goku VS Superman).

However, for me, a more convincing argument for Yang's inevitable victory is to point out the fact that RWBY Volume 3 is almost upon us, and what with RT and Screwattack being partner companies (both are part of the Fullscreen Network), it's entirely possible that Rooster Teeth requested that Yang be featured in (and become victorious in) a Death Battle. After all, look at the manner in which she was presented in the "Next time on Death Battle" segment. Not even Wolverine or Darth Vader received that much of a fanfare! Hell, there may have even been... monetary transactions involved in the selection process for this fight.

See, I have this theory regarding three Death Battles - Ryu Hayabusa VS Strider Hiryu, Ivy VS Orchid and Fulgore VS Sektor. Basically, the characters that won those battles (Strider, Orchid and Fulgore respectively) all featured in games developed by Double Helix Studios that were released/announced suspiciously closely to the time of the battle. Ryu VS Strider more or less coincided with the announcement of the Strider reboot; the following battle, Ivy VS Orchid, came out just before the release of the Killer Instinct reboot; and Fulgore VS Sektor came out a couple of months preceding the release of the "Season 2" expansion pack for Killer Instinct.

In addition, all three of those battles were somewhat murky in terms of results. Firstly, Ryu VS Strider is widely acknowledged to be one of the closest match-ups in Death Battle history, and while Wiz and Boomstick noted that fact, they also left out a lot of Ryu's feats and concluded that Strider was superior in every way (despite evidence to the contrary). With Ivy VS Orchid, Wiz and Boomstick gave Orchid the win, even though their ENTIRE RESEARCH TEAM said that she would lose badly. Lastly, Fulgore VS Sektor was originally planned to be Fulgore VS Cyrax (a fact that they briefly allude to in the actual video), but Fulgore's opponent was changed to the slower and arguably weaker Sektor for unconfirmed reasons - though it should be noted that Fulgore is very slow and would thus be more likely to take out a less speedy opponent. Clearly, none of these fights were without controversy, leading me to wonder how Wiz and Boomstick reached their conclusions. Basically, in other words, I firmly believe that Double Helix "payed" for their characters to both be featured in the fight, and to go on to win.

Further indication of possible payment can be seen with Screwattack's reviews of the Strider and Killer Instinct games upon their release. They gave the games a 9 and an 8.5 respectively. Watching the Strider review, one notes that it's so forced that it almost feels like the reviewer is reading off a teleprompter with a script written by Double Helix themselves, and while the Killer Instinct review doesn't praise the game as rapturously, they make constant reference to the skill of the developers (almost as if they were trying to appease Double Helix).

Perhaps it's just a crackpot conspiracy theory, but I am convinced of its truthfulness, and I think that a similar thing may have happened with Rooster Teeth now.

TL;DR: There is evidence that Screwattack can and have accepted bribes for previous Death Battles, so could very easily throw this one too.