Originally posted by NotAllThatEvil
The Hero of Time was the main protagonist in both OoT and Majora's Mask, as well as a npc in TP. OoT was in the top three for raw strength and knew some basic magic. MM is probably the fastest and most agile link who got by on sheer diversity. Throw in the swordsmanship he had in TP, and he is probably the most formidable link.
We'll go with this since it includes experience from his bloodline.
Originally posted by NotAllThatEvil
Does fox get ALL his ground weapons (excluding vehicles)?
Yes, as do Marcus, Jak, and Chief. Team Micro doesn't have to look for them either.
Originally posted by Sacred 117
Weaknesses, no. Patterns, yes. Kratos approaches combat directly with overreliance on overwhelming force. This is why Cloud lost.
It's easy to say 'patterns' in some vague, non-specific way and expect that to be self evident, but what does 'patterns' even mean in a cross-universe fiction fight? It's all fake. There's no real way to quantify 'skill' or tendencies in fiction. It's just all arbitrary bullshit. -
All of these characters have human anatomies, everyone knows there are very few ways in which a human body can punch, kick, throw, duck or weave, or do any sort of movement. It's less about patterns and more about who's simply more readily able to capitalize, and 9/10, the faster guy is that one that will be able to capitalize.
Cloud didn't lose for this oversimplified reasoning. Cloud lost because for some reason, Death Battle went with the reasoning that Link and Cloud are on equal terms as far as speed and reaction time goes. They aren't. Cloud is much faster and swifter, and thus should have beaten Link.
I will say this though on fighting styles, in the case of Kratos and Link--Link's fighting style (sword and shield) is extremely common for Kratos, whereas Kratos' fighting style (I call it helicopter-jitsu) does not exist in the Zelda universe at all--
Originally posted by NotAllThatEvil
Umm link is hylian and fox is an anthropomorphic vulpine...I thought FFVII was turn based? How can you qualify reaction time?
Lol what? You can't be that dense. This is extremely simple. Link has a human anatomy. What his fictional race is called in his universe absolutely irrelevant. Same for Fox, except he has an animal head so above the neck, he's a little different in that respect.
Everything else, as far as how their joints, bones, and general movement is designed, is 1 to 1 with human movement. That's how their character's skeletal structure was modeled. That is to say, Link can't do a random, awkwardly angled punch that would disjoint a human arm because he is built the same way as a human is anatomically.
Yes. FF7 is turn based. What of it? Have you ever debated in a games thread before? Do you know what gameplay mechanics are? Or do you believe fights in FF7 happen with guys standing in a row , generously waiting their turns to strike and on-screen statistics play out the winner?
You qualify reaction time by feats. Easy right? Let me know if you want to know anything else.
Where was that stated? In Hyrule Historia? Regardless, what I said remains unchanged, as I was talking about their skeletal structure and range of movement. In which Link is the same as any other human. Though obviously more athletic in that regard, though he can't just ignore his joints. Same with Cloud, Dante, Superman, etc.
Cloud bullet timed. Link has no quantifiable speed feats on par with that.