[TokuChris]

Pretty confident that Takatora will win. Here's my thinking as to why (aside from the fact he's a badass).

Takatora and Micchy have had complete polar opposite story lines.

Micchy started the series as the friend behind your best friend - note quite your right hand man but not someone you forget about. He struggled for attention, struggled to do what he wanted versus what his brother (and his family supposedly) wanted him to do. He took on his powers to protect Mai, but he was weak compared to the others. He could handle Gridon, but all the others were too much. He had to find his strength elsewhere - through deception and manipulation. After he realized that his brother was the White Armored Rider, he became more daring. He's eventually discovered and welcomed in by his brother with open arms - something he used to connect himself to the other major player - Ryouma.

Realizing that he had the power to control the others through manipulation, he decided the only wildcard was Kouta - he never did what was logical, only reacted to his emotional instincts. So his grand plan was to remove Kouta from the equation using his blind loyalty - so Micchy told him to stay away from Yggdrasill. Kouta obviously didn't listen, and the more he learned the more he wanted to defeat them. Micchy couldn't keep up.

Once he discovered that Ryouma was against his brother, he decided to weasel his way in to that piece of the pie. And when his brother was hanging on the cliff, Micchy realized that with his brother out of the way he could finally seize control of everything, and thus he let him fall.

Taking on the Zangetsu Shin suit was his outward transformation from good to evil, even though we've seen him changing the entire series. The suit change was finally the nail in the coffin - he had thrown away everything he was when he was Ryugen and taken his brother's blindness and "this is the only way" approach, and with his own dark ruthlessness inside of him, decided he would do what his brother could not - save those he deemed worthy of saving and be the ruler of humanity.

Takatora, on the other hand, started the series as a man running the operation that would kill off 6/7ths of the population of the world. This was the only way and Kouta and the others were simply distractions that needed to be removed. However, Kouta's endearing spirit was always befuddling to him - how could someone with so little knowledge have so much heart? What was his dog in the fight, so to speak?

His transformation from Zangetsu to Zangetsu Shin was his outward change of "strong protector/fighter" to "evil ruler". His characterization was totally changed to appear even more evil than before. But after witnessing the Overlords and seeing Kouta, he discovered that his plans didn't have to be the way they were planned - humanity didn't have to be sacrificed to the brink of extinction to survive. So he decided to openly join Kouta. And when he did, he was betrayed by his servants (the Energy Riders). And thus, he lost the Zangetsu Shin suit (to his brother, who had now taken his very role).

Now here we are - Takatora realizes that the Overlords must be stopped in order to save the world. He knows that he has to fight. And now he realizes his brother's immaturity and misguidance have led him down the same path he was already one - mutually assured destruction for mankind. Now, he will take on the Zangetsu suit once again, this time the "Heavenly Warrior" call-out will live up to its name, and Takatora will finally destroy the evil he once represented by destroying the Genesis Driver, eliminating Zangetsu Shin once and for all.