DOAfanforever
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I still don't see the proof in Ayane getting the win. Team NINJA doesn't say anywhere that she won the tournament to my knowledge. Not in the lore, not pre-DOAD... literally nowhere does it say whoever slays the boss wins the tournament and it is fan theory that Ayane won. They are just assuming because Kasumi and Ryu were written in as winners for slaying their perspective bosses that Ayane must be too, and it isn't exactly proof.
AND I wasn't mixing up the Itagaki narrative with DOAD. I was just further demonstrating the lack of proof that she won, even in that game, but I totally see where you're coming from because it doesn't help that Team NINJA cherry picked so many different topics from the Itagaki narrative and combined them with their own.
Then think about like this. Ayane was the main character in DOA 3, right? And in being the main, the story of that game resided to Ayane, not Zack.
We the players, see that she fought against her foes in DOA 3, and defeated, all of them, including ZACK, Hayate, and even Kasumi was defeated by Ayane in DOA 3. How can she do that if they never showed it? She made it all the way to the finals, right? There you go. (Where's my proof? The proof is in the game itself)
Zack on the other hand was NO protagonist in this game, or in any other DOA games. So it wouldn't make any sense at all for him to claim a tournament victory unless it was handed to him, which in this case, it was, just like how Helena won the 4th DOA tournament, but she gave it to Zack for saving her life. It's basically the same thing as to how he "clamed" the 3rd tournament victory.
You cannot be champion of any DOA tournament without beating the final boss of that said tournament, like Kasumi beating Raidou, and Ryu beating Bankotsubo. Ayane defeated Genra, so she's champion, no matter what some encyclopedia says.
Also, knowing the type of character Zack is, can you really imagine him fighting Genra in his Omega form and take that seriously? I know I can't.