It makes one...But Link never dodged the crack of the tip of the whip.
And that is the TIP of the whip, and looking at the vid again, the whips are not even that long.
Hell, I should be a dick and not even call them whips, they'll technically tentacles.
Also, the only crack I head in that vid, was when it hit Link's shield.
Your evidence is faulty.
Originally posted by C. C. Cowgirl!
[b]No. The crack is supersonic. I read up on it. The tip is a sonic boom. This is the result of the velocity that increase with the decrease of mass. Only the cracker actually breaks the sound barrier because of the excessive velocity increasement in the end.Tank them. Block them.
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Or anticipate them.
Blocking still requires you to react to them, and the crack is the attack. That's when the whip accellerates toward you, until then, it can still be aimed.
Anticipate? You mean, dodge before the attack, and then get hit anyway? You can still aim a whip until you crack it, so dodging early is useless.
Originally posted by ScreamPaste
Blocking still requires you to react to them, and the crack is the attack. That's when the whip accellerates toward you, until then, it can still be aimed.Anticipate? You mean, dodge before the attack, and then get hit anyway? You can still aim a whip until you crack it, so dodging early is useless.
If you hold your shield ready, you only need slight movement to block it. Only the tip breaks the barrier, and this breach in sound is not even a second long.
As for the fight against that Majora, he isn't using a technique that breaks the sound barrier. When he spun around, that's all he did. The sound then was when they hit Link and the actual impact made sound (Like when any other attack hits Link).
Majora doesn't make a sharp enough swing in order to break the soundbarrier, because his attacks doesn't charge up the required kinetic energy.
...? I disagree entirely. They're quite obviously supposed to be whips, and even function as whips. o_o They make a cracking noise, Nintendo gave Majora whips, they've been called whips by Nintendo.
The attack is less than a second, becuase it's lightning fast. Hence it breaks the sound barrier.
A sheild does not cover one's entire body, if Majora say, went ofr Link's leg, he'd have to react in order to defend. He's still reacting on super sonic levels in his weakest incarnation. [IE, a ten year old without the triforce, on three days [atleas] with no sleep.]
The whip alone doesn't break the sound barrier. The technique it's wielded with does, and Majora's technique is nothing special. It's not even a technique. He just throws his whips around. When he spin around, they are just spinning at the same rate as him, and that rate isn't beyond the speed of sound.
A punch can from point A to point B be delivered in less than a second, but that doesn't mean it breaks the sound barrier. Yet, it makes a sound when it hits. So does a whip even when it hits with the tapering and not the tip.
Majora's cracking the whips to attack. -.-; Also, legnth adds exponentially to the velocity of a weapon's tip. When Majora's spinning in circles, though IU agree he's not cracking them at that point, they ARE still moving extremely fast for the same reason the equator of the earth spins faster then the earth's poles.
The feat stands. o_o
Link had to react to super sonic attacks. They whips cracked.
I'd like to also point out that the whips crack when he isn't hit by the tip. And the tip is the part of the whip that's breaking the soundbarrier. So we're talking game mechanics here, because the whip cracks for every hit and not only when the tip hits you. This implicate that it's just regular "hit by a tough material" sound and not a breach of the soundbarrier. Majora doesn't produce the kinetic energy required, judging by his moves.
The feat is beyond vague. It's real science applied to a vague gameplay occurance.
No, he doesn't necessarily react to a super sonic attack.
A whip cracks whether you hit anythign or not, and Majora could streth and contract his whips so that Link was always in range of the attack, it was always the tip attacking unless Majora was spinning.
If Link could defend himself against that, yes, he can react to a super-sonic attack, it's blackand white.
Originally posted by ScreamPaste
A whip cracks whether you hit anythign or not, and Majora could streth and contract his whips so that Link was always in range of the attack, it was always the tip attacking unless Majora was spinning.If Link could defend himself against that, yes, he can react to a super-sonic attack, it's blackand white.
The whip cracked when it hit him while spinning as well, and that without Link being hit by the tip.
No, it's not. Not even near. The reason the tip of the whip breaches the sound barrier is because of the kinetic energy that is released when it reaches the tip. The kinetic energy charges up and unleashes strength to the tip that's beyond what the rest of the tapering can offer. The breaching of the soundbarrier is a multiplied effect that takes place in an instant at the turnpoint of the tip.
I'm sorry, but it's just gameplay sound, what cracks you hear when it hits Link. Scientificly cunning as you have appeared to be, you must realise that those pathetic slashes doesn't dish out the required level of kinetic energy. They barely create any velocity at all.
I understand how a whip works, when they designed Majora, because it's a game, and I doubt anyone on the design team had ever used a whip, they animated Majora to look badass and threatening, but they also gave the whips a cracking contact sound, and called them whips. What they're supposed to be is obvious, thy even crack. The cracking during the spin is Nintendo reusing the weapon's contact sound effect.
Majora's animated avatar doesn't display much in the way of technique but they still crack. They're still supersonic, and Link still reacts.