But Ryu is a helluva lot faster than Link and more durable than most of his attacks, so its just a matter of waiting until Link runs out of magic. The cape drains it faster than anything in the game.
The three medallion attacks don;t work against high powered enemies like Aganhim or Ganon, besides which Ryu has shown time and time again to be able to avod and survive large AoE attacks.
edit; so yeah I mean when exactly does Ryu show this awsome durability? because in the games he seems easily hurt by falling plats in levels where as Link can through entire dungeon floors and mountains with out a scratch.
Link has mad reflex skills to by the way, and speed isn't always compensating for agility, they're two different things. Besides, pegasus boots? mhmm...thought so.
Link gets hurt from jumping out of trees and falls don;t hurt Ryu....
Link doesn't have the refexes to block bullets, Ryu does. Ryu is also faster, can teleport, etc. This is just a game of Ryu relying on his other senses until Link's magic runs out, then he speedblitzes like none other. Heck, he'd most likely decapitate Link before the cape could be activated.
Originally posted by fascistcrusader
Link gets hurt from jumping out of trees and falls don;t hurt Ryu....Link doesn't have the refexes to block bullets, Ryu does. Ryu is also faster, can teleport, etc. This is just a game of Ryu relying on his other senses until Link's magic runs out, then he speedblitzes like none other. Heck, he'd most likely decapitate Link before the cape could be activated.
Link could block bullets with his shield relatively easily.
if we are talking about LttP Link, and we are, then no. he can drop hundreds of feet without a single scratch. When does Ryu teleport? I have played the Ninja Gaiden series extensively and I have yet to notice this teleport ability. Ryu most certainly has good reflexes, but he is not faster than Link. For LttP Link, i'd put them at very close speeds.
The way you write makes it seem as though a single sword blow would have the strength to cut Link at all. Ryu doesn't have the power behind his attacks for that sort of thing. His strength is certainly above human, but nowhere close to the enemies Link fights regularly.
Link loses a heart anytime he falls down a shaft in LttP, falls still hurt him, they don;t damage Ryu.
He teleports during certain attacks where he goes blue, disappears and reappears somewhere else to slash again.
And this is ridiculous, Link has no more speed than a normal human. Give me one single feat to suggest that Link has even half the speed of Ryu or you cannot make this silly claim.
He still takes damages from fals. And that's not a speed feat, thats an old games graphics. The normal enemies can step out of the way of arrows but they aren't as fast as Ryu. I'm talking something in canon, from any Zelda game, that shows him pulling off speed anywhere close to what Ryu does throughout his entire game. Until we have a cutscene or something showing him using superspeed like Ryu does, he is nowhere near as fast.
Zelda doesn't use cut senes for combat, it makes you fight it yourself, this is a game not a movie.
the graphics were good enogh to show Link move faster than the arrows. an arrow moving ---------> and Link moving -------> Link gets to the target destination first. If you can use bottomless pits doign 1 eart of damage as canon, I can use him out running arrows, keke. Falls that let him land on ground did no damage at all.