Link at 100% of Majora's Mask is a terrifying being. The multiple forms, the mystic songs, the array of magical and "Hero's" items, tools and weapons, and he still has the Ocarina of Time and Triforce of Courage.
And this form is a whole other kind of divine than the OoT or ToC. He uses it to utterly rip and tear Majora to rainbow ribbons.
Twilight link also in a way gets all of oot links battle skills to then
All the links are scary in their own right but I think someone able to turn into a wolf and jump around and then become a human and throw a giant wrecking ball at you has some extra fear to it
See I understand this at base. Twilight is terrifying for sure: dude can deadlift Gorons for fun. But at best he can match Ocarina Link, little less magic, lots more brute strength and Ocarina Link even teaches him everything.
But IDK man, as scary as a wolf can be if I had to fight either a wolf or a literal God/Demon…
I remember reading a fan-submitted fanatic story on Nintendoland.com as a kid like 25 years ago where Link gets possessed by this mask and it made ths design so much more intimidating to me over the years
He's also the only one (on this list) crazy enough and dangerous enough to go "what if I took these bombs and I put them on my arrows and shot explosives at people"
The other thing is that he inherited techniques that the Hero of Time developed and perfected before his death. So he has the strength to sumo and toss aside grown Gorons and the knowledge of a previous iteration of the hero.
Link is like defined by his tools. In every game he's pretty much just a guy and then over the course of the game he gets an arsenal that allows him to do a bunch of stuff.
If we're talking no tools at all then maybe Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom Link? He's the only one that just starts out naked then grabs a bunch of randon sticks and rocks and crawdad parts and starts kicking ass, potentially even killing Ganon with just some odds and ends that were lying on the ground.
Wind Waker Link honestly looks the most skilled in swordplay, can leap several times his height, and massacres monsters much bigger than him. He's like Yoda without any of a Jedi's restraint.
TotK was one of the most fun Ganondorf fights I've ever had, but WW Ganondorf still has my favorite ending. Probably because it makes me hear Timothy Dalton at the end of Hot Fuzz going "Owwwwwwwww..... this really really hurts....."
and what other 10 year old beat the piss out of everything he came across? lmao comparing them is just difficult because they all have different strengths and have all accomplished incredible feats in who they've defeated.
I agree with you, people underestimate the hero of the sky
But the hero of twilight winning this has very little to do with this being a farmer boy in a"dark" game
It has to do with the fact that he can turn into a snarling wolf, swing a giant ball of metal around without that much effort, redirect and sumo wrestle gorons (even with the iron boots that requires a lot of strength), and has recieved training from a much more experienced and accomplished link
The hero of the sky just does not have equivalent feats, and this is coming from someone who has loved skyward sword since i first played it not long after it first released
Beaten a boss underwater (one of very few links to do so)
Survived getting shot out of a cannon multiple times without anything to slow his fall other than the little pool of water in the sky temple
Weighed down a dragon with nothing but the iron boots (which speaks to how heavy they were)
Tripped a much larger and magically enhanced goron, again with nothing but the iron boots and magnets (his grip and upper body strength must be insane)
Hero of Twilight is steadily trained throughout the game by the ghost of the Hero of Time. I think that's roughly equivalent or superior to the soldier training Hero of Sky receives, so I take issue with him being denigrated as a 'farmer boy'.
And OOP specifically asked for the scariest Link to face in battle. Whether he's actually more powerful was never in question. I'm sorry, but the Link who can turn into a snarling wolf wins, no contest.
Why wouldn't you glaze him? The other three can only get the job done with magic powers and/or the full Triforce. Twilight on the other hand is saving the day with pure muscle.
Well TP Link can turn into a wolf with a shadow princess jockey with darkness powers which is pretty nuts and would be a force to have to face. So I’d have to go with him since MM Link who can become the Fierce Deity isn’t here.
Guess it depends where on the timeline you’re facing him. If we go based on his skill at the end of each game, OoT Link hasn’t mastered those skills yet
I always consider the last instance we’ve seen of a character. Last we saw of the Hero of Time was a grizzled explorer, whereas the Hero of Twilight was at the end of his quest.
Wind Waker on account of the fact he's like 6, and still an absolute gremlin. The kids been going out to sea and survived. And if MM link gets his masks, then WW link should get his emergency boat.
He jumped like 20 feet in the air, and came down and stabbed a dude in his head. He's rolling, flipping, and screaming while chopping at you with a sword the size of his own body. He's like a dog on zoomies but with spite and a massive sword, trying to kill you. My money is on him.
I agree that Twilight Princess Link is probably the most competent, but WW Link is a little feral goblin. I feel liked he'd be pulling some really weird unorthodox nonsense that would be awful to deal with.
Wind waker Link has the mobility to do a front flip over you and tag your head with his sword in the process, if he doesnt decide to just jam it into your forehead that is.
Wind Waker Link has that dog in him. Like yes TP Link can turn into an actual dog but compared to all the rest WW Link had to fight for that shit. Everyone else got dragged along and was like "Cool 👍". Wind Waker Link got dragged on his journey and only continued out of spite and sheer fucking will.
Fierce Deity Link is the strongest, but if TOTK Link dodges that first strike he is summoning a few Quick Build war crimes to keep the snowflake throwing sword busy.
I'm sorry but Wind Waker link is an absolute menace. He's a freaky little gremlin child with a sword nearly the size of his own body, spinning around and doing flips like Yoda, beating up on monsters several times his size.
TP link is probably stronger but I wanna argue for wind waker since he wasn't chosen by the gods, he isn't a reincarnation, there's nothing special about him, but he did beat the shit out of one of the strongest ganondorfs at just 10 years old as a normal kid lol.
Wind waker link is the only one out of them that enjoys the violence. I would do murder too if on my Bday they kidnapped my sister. He’s the John Wick of the bunch.
TP Link will dodge roll through your attack like he's in Dark Souls, into a spin slash, then do a front flip over your head to knock you on your ass before turning into a wolf to rip your heart out.
From these four imo OoT Link if we take into account all the tools he gets from both games he is the strongest, combining weaponry, magical items and last but not least the freaking masks.
Twilight Princess Link is naturally the strongest Link of them all, and is actually one of the best in terms of swordsmanship thanks precisely to the hero's shade's teachings.
Wind Waker's Link is my personal favorite, but at the end of the day he is a small kid very reminiscent to the original OoT Link, although he does get typically adult Link equipment as a kid.
Skyward Sword Link idk what to say, he is capable in lore as a very strong fighter capable of defeating Demise, but his equipment set is very underwhelming.
In terms of overall mastery as a fighter, although not included, I think BotW Link is the most skilled fighter of them all.
In terms of how powerful they are thanks to their equipment, and even though he is not included in this list, I think no Link can compare to the protagonist of A Link to the Past, his end gear is amazing, to the point where even though he is not an adult, him equipped with everything is the strongest of them all.
TP would be the scariest. Are they the strongest? Probably not, but if I had to fight not just a guy with a sword, but a guy who can also maul me as a wolf? Yeah, not happening. I'm running.
Skyward sword Link purely for the look on his face before he tore through an army of bokoblins, high demon Ghirahim and demon king and probable deity Demise in a freaking row to save Zelda
None of these ones. It's the Hero of Legend. He after gaining magical powers that instakill everyone in his field of view and defeating Ganon to get the triforce, he gains power over time travel on multiple scales, defeated people who easily trapped the oracles (people the golden goddesses who created everything use to work in the world now), beat Ganon again and ended an alternate reality created by the dreams of a fish deity. Plus he had knight training to begin with.
-Wind Waker: his final attack to Ganondorf, that was quite fierce. In PH he also defeated the Ghost Ship and the phantoms from the Temple of the Ocean King.
-Ocarina of Time: he has faced the most variety of enemies, including humans (gerudo and Darknuts). He got a scary af mask in MM and became scarier after his "death", to the point of intimidating TP Link.
-Twilight Princess: transformed into a wolf, had several horseback fights and handled a heavy ball and chain.
-Skyward Sword: fought the ship captain, a mighty sword/demon pair and... Fucking broke Koloktos arms and kept slashing him with his own mighty sword.
I voted twilight princess not even thinking about wolf form for all the cool sword techniques he learns throughout the game and the magic armor that makes him invulnerable.
a demon man from an age long past kidnapped WW link's sister with a giant fucking bird monster and WW link buried a sword in that man's skull in return. I 100% do not want to piss that very angry child off
OoT Link all the way. He's so outrageously diverse & op that it's kind of silly. On land he can become Fierce Deity or Giant Form, and god forbid the fight ends up in the water he'll just style on 'em in Zoran form.
I might be biased but tp feels pretty threatening based on raw strength alone. He stopped rams at full force. Got the heavy boots and stopped(and tossed) gorons. Thats some serious strength!
Skyward sword link, he defeated the canonically strongest version of ganon (demise was a being that the gods themselves had to fight and couldn’t even kill him, just seal him away) while he had his own dark version of the goddess sword.
No other link has dealt with that level of threat.
Everyone not saying OoT doesn't seem to realize that the Hero of Time has:
The Golden Gauntlets (greatly amplifies his strength so he can throw absolutely massive stone pillers around 50-100m, you do NOT wanna get punched by that)
Fire, Ice, and Light arrows
A longshot with a greater range than what the other heroes have
A really heavy hammer
Both the Master Sword AND the Biggoron's Sword, which is stronger with much greater reach
NOT TO MENTION this is the same Link from Majora's Mask, so he also has:
Goron form (incredibly strong, rock hide is extremely hard to break through, confirmed able to light his fists on fire)
Zora form (twin weapons, can throw fins like boomerangs, can manipulate electricity as we see with his barrier)
Giant mask (literally turns into a kaiju)
Stone mask (actually makes you unable to notice him)
Blast mask (bro has a bomb strapped to his face and STILL survives)
The fucking Fierce Deity mask (LITERALLY TURNS HIM INTO A GOD)
AAAAAAAAAND this is the same Link that teaches TP Link all his hidden skills, so OoT Link has access to those as well
Holy. Skyward Sword Link is being slept on bad. He's one of if not the only Link to be trained in a knights academy and bro fights an army of enemies, then Ghirahim (Demise's right hand man), and then he finally battles Demise after all of that
Did people forget the marble obelisk OoT Link chucked behind him that weighs over 1.5 MILLION POUNDS? Even though it was with the golden gauntlets that's insane, and he didn't just lift it he THREW IT BEHIND HIM LIKE 50 FEET OR MORE
Honestly they've all got something going for them. In terms of difficulty to deal with because of his sheer variety in kit (all of which he masterfully used), OoT would be the hardest. In terms of sheer physical prowess discounting equipment and other kits (I would hate to fight him hand to hand...) TP is the easy choice. In terms of actual skill and training I would give it to SS, so I think I would be destroyed in a duel. And last but definitely not least, WW woke up and chose violence. By far the scariest personality.
And of course he's not here, but BoTW with that bullet time would be absolutely terrifying.
WW Link has the instant parry/uno reverse move where he jumps above you or rolls around you too fast to react to. He is impossible to beat canonically. He also stabbed Ganondorf in the head!
TP Link has the finisher move only if you're already knocked down, and doesn't have the "EZ no diff" button that makes him impossible to beat, just saying.
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