User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Tifa vs Yang pt.2/@comment-25405817-20151015024728

"But this is Death Battle: a show where everyone fights at their prime"

Yes, but in the Link vs Cloud battle, they made a point that because both characters had so much equipment, that both should have their most basic weapons. In the case of Cloud, that included basic Materia and his starting weapon: The Buster Sword.

If they try to put Tifa in her prime even though they have this rule for directly-out-of-RPG characters, then the fight will be terribly one-sided.