Game Theory: Which Link Rules them All? (Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Warriors) 

"Hero of trains"". I fucking died.

Don’t diss the hero of trains when he could be barreling down the tracks as you are tied to them

The Hero of Spirits, or as you called him, "Trains", may be the weakest incarnation of Link, but it has the best incarnation of Zelda in the entire series.

"He can jump with the Roc's Feather in both Oracle games." Link's Awakening: Am I a joke to you??

don't cha mean link vs link: which link hyrules them all? 😅

but wait....Twilight Princess link is allowed to use his sword underwater?! ಠ_ಠ

Matpat in 2014: which link is the strongest? Death battle in 2019: let’s do that but with mega man Matpat in 2019: let's do that but with spiderman

Breath of the wild link: *Allow Me To Introduce Myself.*

At least the “Hero Of trains” has courage and an engineer certificate with the Princess

I played Twilight Princess again recently and I noticed that Link could also use his sword underwater

Hero of Trains definitely deserves the reward as the smartest, kid graduated as an engineer at the age of 12. You also know that this isn't a normal occurrence at all due to the reactions of some of the castle staff in the beginning of the game so it just a normal thing in new hyrule to have children as engineers.

Hero of Time (young edition): *travels time* Hero of Twilight: Wait where'd he go? Hero of the Wild: I don't know. 7 years later... Hero of Time: *destroys everyone remaining*

Sword smith = someone who MAKES a sword. Swordsman = someone who uses a sword. Come on man. That's easy.

Which Link Rules them All? _Zelda_

Funny he doesn’t talk about young links masks until he sneaks him in at the end

3:21 he went from conducting trains to being a knight weilding a legendary sword and saving a kingdom and possible the world that's a big promotion man....

I guess that makes the Hero of Trains a trainee

Things Botw link wins at: Mount: The bike Bow Accuracy: He can do a backflip and shoot as many arrows as he has in middle air and also has a bow with more range Mobility and Agility(?): he can climb, Run and swim with lots of stamina, climb anything, jump and dodge enemy attacks He might also win at puzzles or be at second place (If there’s a cooking and survival category he might be the best of all)

Oh don’t mind me, just rewatching one of my favorite old Game Theory videos after MatPat made his “Goodbye Internet” announcement.

Other Links: I defeated Ganon in a 1v1. Minish Cap: Smol Train Link: Train

I knew Link would win!

I'm still waiting for "The Legend of Zelda: Enchanted Jetliner". Screw Loftwing, Epona, Train and ship. I got a freakin machine on my side. Come at me Ganon!

The most experienced link HAS to be oot link. I mean HE DID travel through time in oot but in mm he travels through time multiple times to save termina multiple times in only 3 days each trying to save his own failures. Which might be years to do. After that link must have had a family or something idk lol

Matpat: the child link is the strongest Hero of the wild: Hold my Master sword

You know, watching this video again has made me want a Zelda game where all the Links come together for a big adventure. I can see it now; "The Legend of Zelda: The Gathering of Links".

You should update it with Hyrule Warriors, Breath of the Wild, and Cadence of Hyrule

This makes me want to see a battle between the Hero of the Wild and the Fierce Deity. Especially if HotW can reflect the Fierce Deity’s projectiles like a guardian’s lasers, it would be a pretty awesome match to watch.

Adding on “The Hero Of The Wild” From Breath Of The Wild. This guy does sprint and at full health get shot by 3 lightning speed lasers. Also on the topic of lasers, this dude can deflect lightning speed lasers with a pot lid.

But now there is Botw And botw link has a motorbike Surely thats enough to make him win

Young Link has a few "Sticks and Nuts" to play with.

I always feel that the Hero of Legend pretty much trumps the rest by virtue of defeating Ganon without the aid of any component of the Triforce. Simply put, in order to win, most Links needed divine power ups. ALttP Link defeated the full triforce while operating under a handicap that none of the other Links endured.

Hearing that old intro brought tears to my eyes

Actually, the Hero of Twilight can also use his sword underwater.

1:59 Matpat was three years ahead of the meme

I knew Majora's Mask Link would be the best!

I love the joke about the planes and cars ended up coming true.

Oh phew, throughout the video I was like "But what about MM Link?" "But what about MM Link?" "Wasn't that stalfos MM Link?" Turns out I wasn't crazy.

Breath of the wild: hold my beer

It's 2020. Time for a recount. There's now breath of the wild.

I knew right from the start that Young Hero of Time would win 😂😂😂😂

BUT WHAT ABOUT CDI LINK?

"The Hero of Legend is Hyrule's resident HORDER." Breath of the Wild Link: *Shoves 20 swords, shields, hundreds of arrows, plates of food, 20 different armor sets, meat chunks, fruits, vegetables, and thousands of rupees into his pants* Y o u w e r e s a y i n g s i r

Breath of the Wild: I'm about to ruin this man's whole career

2:19 It is called "The Hero of the Four Sword"

2014: it’s like they just made up a timeline to tie a bunch of game together that weren’t supposed to be tied together 2017: NINTENDO HAS BEEN KEEPING TRACK OF TIMELINE PLACEMENTS FROM THE FIRST GAME!!!

The most powerful Link is an Internet Link

i keep coming back to watch these old videos, they're so comforting somehow

I just keep coming back to this video. I think it may be my favorite

Twilight link is my favorite, but yeah. i do have to give it to you. majoras mask link is the most powerful

I think Twilight Princess is the most beautiful Zelda game there.

Ive watched this video dozens of times and i just noticed and want to thank you for using the music from TOP Gear from the snes its my ringtone on my phone and one of my fav games growing up.

This is it the one that led me to this channel. Thanks Matpat!

You'll probably have to check your theory again with Breath of the Wild who's coming.

He forgot CDI Link.

Spirit Tracks gets no respect, despite having some of the best music of the series. :c

Thanks for using Top Gears Music for the video. Such a great game. Love the videos. Any theories I may have missed for older games (SNES or Nes)? I see a lot of Mario and Zelda. Keep up the hard work!!!

Not even mentioning the hero of Koridai? He'd eat every other link like an octoarok, and then bomb some dodongoes all over their face.

So which is the most powerful Ganon/Ganondorf?

Congrats Matpat! You called it! 7 years before the contest even started, you called that Slurmp would be name champion of the links! Lol

ide like to see an updated version of this

Even if botw Link was in this, child Link would still win. All he has to do is play the Song of Storms and botw Link would fall off a cliff.

Even in 2019 this is one of my favourite Game Theory videos.

And then the Hero of the Wild came around and blew everyone of their feet. Like seriously have you seen his capabilities! Like Stopping a charging Lynel (doesn't matter which type he stops them all the same) in 3 seconds, learning to survive with literally no memories (I'm talking about the Great Plateau), being able to use not only bows and swords on horseback, but also clubs, spears and double handed swords (also the fact that he can use those things in the first place give him extra points from me), HAVING to have a large inventory because he's breaking his weapons left and right, and most importantly, be so agile that he can not only jump (shocking I know) but also back flip and slow down time as he does it. Sure he may not have the magical prowess of his ancestors or the battle experience they have, but he makes up for it with his already mentioned slow-time ability, as well as having Revali's Gale, Urbosa's Fury, Daruk's Protection and Mipha's Grace. And for the other downside, first off the only reason he has none is because he cant remember. In Mipha's diary she says that Link was able to easily best adults in combat at the age of four. But through his adventures 100 years later he slowly relearns everything he lost as well as picking up a few survival instincts along the way. Oh yeah quick edit: There is also the fact that he was so strong, in every way, that he wore down the MASTER SWORD!!!!!! He used the master sword so much 100 years ago that it was cracked, chipped and was rusting away before Zelda put it back in the pedestal. And even after 100 years of healing itself, it still breaks after a few hits. Link is just smashing thing with it so hard that it is literally wasting away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you're counting Zora armor, I think iron boots AND the Zora mask could do pretty good.

Spoiler alert: the strongest link is... Link

I don't care what you say. The Hero Of Twilight is a god

Love your content and style of expression. Earned a new sub :)

Yay

Twilight Princess was so damn close!! God damn it. I love you TP Link... Also, one last bit of information. As you showed that the Hero of Time is the white wolf who teaches Link his moves in Twilight Princess, he refers to Link at one point as his son (or something close to that) so a big theory is that the Hero of Time married a ranch girl. Kinda makes sense because in the Time line where Link stays an adult, Twilight Princess is the first game in that branch of the time line.

Still years later and this is one amazing video

And I'm sure that after seeing young Link in the game you mentioned at the outset, you'll realize he is the god of death.

3 years later, Breath of the wild comes out.

You need to update this with Breath of the Wild coming out in the near future

"Some sticks and nuts to play with" - game theorists

It's really interesting watching how your intros have changed over the years 🤣 I been wondering where my favourite Link was... MM Link to the end!!!

Man oh man, that was a lot of research. Still, I had a lot of fun doing it! Thanks again MatPat. :D

I think we have a new winner, Breath of the Wild Link. I mean....he can jump...c'mon 10/10

i knew one day, after putting this on my playlist this would come in handy. ^^ I'm getting ready to do a Zelda D&D game, and I couldn't fully remember how many games The Hero of Legend was in. ^^ Thank you for making this enjoyable video that holds up to this day.

Wow 2014 this channel old, and it's still amazing

Hero of Trains XD!! So threatening. Watch out Ganon

And then Botw arrived...

Spirit tracks was my childhood I'M THE HERO OF TRAINS XD

2023: okay link can be the hero of enchanted jetliners

Let's say he's the Hero of Spirits from Spirit Tracks. Sure there's a big emphasis on trains in that game, but there's an even bigger emphasis on the spirits

HEY JACKSFILMS YOUR BRETHREN HAVE ARRIVED. 13:12

3:19 - 3:30 This gets me everytime

Love the top gear music at 3:40

I was sad that my boy young link was mentioned once And then he gave him the victory, yeah!

How does this channel have 2,000,000 subs if there are only 7,000,000,000 people in the world. Oh wait I'm not an idiot

When I first saw this vid I was 10 and I had no idea what Zelda was. This video got me into the franchise and now I’ve played nearly all of them.

Wooooow amazing, I literally haven't expect that end

Bullshit twist. Anyone can beat a Deku Scrub, earlier in your video you say yourself that TP Link can take down a goron, and TP Link also has the Zora armor which could make him go toe to toe with a Zora. Obvious winner is Twilight Princess Link.

HERO OF TRAINS? I like trains :v

I agree with the outcome. I was skeptical when you hardly mentioned the hero of time at first. and imagine if you gave him his complete weapon arsenals from both games adult and child. then he would have the longshot and all the elemental ocarina stuff. Also I just thought of something stupid. how weird would it look if young hero of time used the golden gauntlets.

Clue reference!! I love that movie!!! Love your videos too MatPat!

Why doesn't Ganon like the Internet? Because there are so many "LINKS"

But the wind waker Link has infinite grandmas soup glitch which combined with his magic armor cannot ever ever die. He is invincible.

Hey, spirit tracks link pushed a freaking sword through a giant beasts head

I'd like to see a remake of this with BoTW Link

Hero of Twilight, calling it at the beginning of the video...okay wait a minute: Twilight can wrestle a goron, so the goron mask isn't that special. Twilight's swimming ability is the same as the zora mask essentially. Wolf form is more agile than the damn bird even, much less the deku scrublord. Also, Young Hero of Time only had the skill to teach the Hero of Twilight after an obviously extensive amount of time. If Time and Twilight fought, it would be the young, inexperienced kid, not the old, grizzled veteran. Tl;dr you are wrong dammit.