Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition - FULL TIER LIST 

I love how Link is simultaneously the highest and lowest ranked character in the game

Tetra: has a gun Also tetra: terrible range

Me: *has never played a warriors game in my life* RU-vid: *Recommends this video to me* Me: “I mean I was never interested in this game but sure I’ll watch this* This Video: *Shows toon link hitting people with a train* Me: “I need this game”

"and when young link has more time as Fierce Deity, EVERYTHING DIES!" My character of choice. :D

Link with the Master Sword: *Sees massive army in front of him* Combo 3: *"It's free real estate."*

All these scrubs thinking Tingle will be top tier. They have no idea about the might of the Great Fai... Oh damn! I was wrong too!

"If we ever get a sequel" Nintendo 1 year later: We got you fam

I think most of the hatred for Agatha comes from a good number of the adventure mode Maps cuz some of the scenarios that force you to use Agatha or require you to use Agatha in order to get certain items are insanely difficult for her especially any of the ones that require you to quickly defeat enemies in a timely manner in order to get the a rank or being pinned up against having to fight a giant boss in a tiny room while there's other guys constantly bombarding you with range attacks

Shiek HW: ha I'm best in the game I have all elemental efftcts and a broken heavy attack mechanic. Sheik SSBU: where is my harp?

"Nobody defends great fairy" *Cut to me crying in the corner holding my great fairy*

There is *one* defense for the Great Fairy: It's impossible to hit her, even though she's the size of a whole keep! While her combo finishers are going on (and on and on, prepare to be stuck in one place for a while) she is completely invincible. Combine that with her ability to trade defense for attack (defense doesn't matter if you can't be hit), and you probably won't be *too* frustrated when the Adventure Mode forces you to use her. Also, her basic combo is pretty useful, letting her bounce around the field faster than her abysmal walking speed and keep enemies bouncing, too. As for the Summoning Gate, you do get lengthy invincibility frames and lay waste to whatever's in front of you with any of the four summons. But of course, you'll spend most of the battle cursing the RNG and demanding more Argorok. I think they nerfed Argorok at some point, too, since his empowered C5 doesn't last nearly as long as I remember from the Wii U version. The real point of the Naginata's C1 isn't to block entrances to keeps -- it's to break boss weak points. Knock them down, take a step back, and repeatedly roast them in walls of fire. Run the Sand Rod's C6 into a downed boss once, mash that Strong Attack Button to fire all the cannonballs, and watch its Weak Point Gauge crumble.

"Crossbow linkle is the most enjoyable moveset in the game for me" Ah I see you are a man of culture as well

Also, don't know if anyone else pointed this out but I like how you color-coded each characters element to their weapon; orange for lightning, yellow for light, purple for dark, blue for water and red for fire. Nice touch. Great vid, as always.

Newcomers to shane: i bet Agatha is e tier :p Veterans: wait deku spear isnt e?

Try using skull kid and spamming the YYX combo, and use the joystick to turn while you're doing it. It's a screen-clearer, man.

"sheik is brokenly amazing" me, a sheik main, thinking I was good at the game: 👁💧👄💧👁

Honestly, I was expecting S tier to just be Young Link tier

Haven’t watched full video yet hell still at beginning but S stands for Sheik Thats my s rank prediction

I'm honestly really glad that the Master Sword is so ridiculously powerful. The series gives it so much love and attention that it would be a shame if it didn't deserve it.

Me: Eh, never really been that interested in Hyrule Warriors, but sure, I'll watch this. *Sees Sheik in S-Tier* Me: Huh, didn't realize I was watching a Melee tier list...

With Agitha, I'll say the same thing I've always said about her: -push enemy generals against a wall -press Y -press X -press Y -press X continue until the general is dead

"Volga is called the Lu-Bu of this game." No, no. I think you misheard them. He IS Lu-Bu. Lu-Bu put on a full helm, and is going by "Volga". That's it.

I’m a ghirahim man myself. He tends to leave himself open by posing and elemental attack is just darkness until you finally get his rare sword, but he’s fast, strong, can take a hit, and has some pretty potent combos.

SMALL bonus point with Ruto that wasn't addressed: although her standard string is really slow, the final attack from it does HIDEOUS damage to weakpoints of large bosses, as every projectile counts as a separate hit and they'll all hit for decent damage. I feel like that's worth moving her one or two slots up within D-tier

Tingle locations: 4:02 Looking over Link's shoulder. 4:38 Cloning himself on his name in the bottom left corner. 5:39 Floating in the mouth of the shadow monster on the right. 6:14 Riding the Cucco on the right. 6:44 Floating at the top of the screen, to the left of the tree trunk. 7:14 Swimming in the right side of the puddle. 8:02 Peeking out from under the arch in the bottom right corner. 8:39 Floating in the top left corner. 9:22 Sitting on Lana's shoulder. 10:07 Dancing with Fi under her "arm" (the light blue one.) 10:45 Asserting his dominance in the bottom right corner. 11:28 Standing next to Ravio, at his bottom half. 12:03 Sitting on Agitha's arm, looking at the butterfly on her hand. 12:59 Standing on Impa's shoulder. 13:47 Standing on Darunia's head. 14:35 Leaning out from the left side of the screen. 15:14 Looking upwards in the bottom right corner, next to the Cucco. 15:52 Standing next to Zelda at the bottom right corner. 16:40 Admiring Link's Beyblade from the skies at the top right corner. 17:21 Riding Link's train, to the right of the smokestack. 18:15 Looking at Skull Kid's ocarina from the bottom right corner. 18:50 Sitting on the rock at the right side of the screen. 19:43 Looking at the sail from the bottom right corner. 20:22 Asserting his dominance on Zant's shoulder. 21:00 Leaning out from the right side of the screen. 21:39 Holding up Ganondorf's trident on the right side of the screen. 22:09 Asserting his dominance in the bottom right corner. 22:52 Floating in the top right corner. 23:28 Riding the wolf alongside Midna, right under her. 24:10 Standing on top of Lana's book. 24:49 Standing on Cia's name in the bottom left corner. 25:31 Sitting on Marin's shoulder. 26:14 Trapped inside the painting, at the bottom right corner of it. 26:52 Standing to the right of Zelda's legs. 27:57 Hanging out with a fellow weirdo in the bottom right corner. 28:36 Riding Epona with Link, just under him. 29:49 Floating to the left of the gem on Ganondorf's head. 30:55 Standing in the bottom right corner. 31:42 Being turned into fairy flambé in the bottom right corner. 32:50 Riding the wolf on the right side of the screen. 33:46 Peeking out from the bottom right corner, next to Link's knee. 35:24 Standing on Sheik's name in the bottom left corner. 36:46 Standing in the bottom left corner.

17:10 I have never heard the spinner described like that, but now I'm never calling it anything else

"I suppose if we ever get a sequel to this game, they can balance it later on." Enter, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity

Even tho weapons can be bad in this game, I love that they're all so unique and within the spirit of zelda and the game its self.

I don't own this game but when I saw Girahim I immediately thought "welp time to pull out $60 dollars out if my wallet"

I'm just gonna take a sec to thank youtube recommendations for basically telling me that this game is on the Switch and that your channel exists. The algorithm does work sometimes, guys!

Glad my man Zant is not low or bottom tier.

For me, Linkle with her Crossbows is my number 1 for how fun she is to play, how strong her Crossbows are in combat, and how cute she is. C4 is one of my favorite tools for fighting bosses because jumping off their collapsed heads and then unloading into them feels very satisfying and is quite effective.

>Young Link not being top Dude, had you even held the magic for the whole round without running it out? Doing that makes YLink broken

Honestly, it makes sense for the Master Sword to be the best of the best, I mean really, it's the Master Sword for a reason.

Here's the tier list + timestamps for all the characters. Expand to see the full list. 2:14 - Tier Explanation S 36:48 - Link (Master Sword) 35:25 - Shiek A 33:47 - Young Link 32:51 - Twili Midna 31:44 - Volga 30:56 - Linkle (Crossbows) 29:50 - Ganondorf (Blades) B 28:37 - Link (Hylian Sword) 27:58 - Ghirahim 26:54 - Toon Zelda 26:15 - Yuga 25:32 - Marin 24:51 - Cia 24:12 - Lana (Book of Sorcery) 23:30 - Midna 22:53 - Link (Gauntlets) 22:10 - Zelda (Dominion Rod) 21:40 - Ganondorf (Trident) 21:02 - Toon Link (Light Sword) 20:23 - Zant 19:43 - King Daphnes 18:52 - Zelda (Rapier) 18:16 - Skull Kid C 17:22 - Toon Link (Sand Wand) 16:41 - Link (Spinner) 15:52 - Zelda (Baton) 15:15 - Linkle (Boots) 14:36 - Impa (Giant Blade) 13:48 - Darunia 13:00 - Impa (Naginata) 12:04 - Agitha 11:29 - Ravio 10:46 - Medli 10:08 - Fi D 9:22 - Lana (Spear) 8:40 - Link (Epona) 8:03 - Link (Magic Rod) 7:15 - Ruto 6:45 - Tetra 6:15 - Lana (Summoning Gate) 5:39 - Wizzro E 4:39 - Tingle 4:02 - Link (Great Fairy)

People can agree that We're happy Darunia and Ruto were in this game, SARIA4DLC

Did you REALLY sneak Tingle into each title card?

Finding out you can cancel Lana jumping into the air with her Deku Spear was a HUGE game changer for me, it felt like you could actually get more results without the slowdown of swooping in the air.

so happy my midnas got their recognition. i play both twili and imp midna as my mains. i just love how many ways they have to clear out troops and completely wail on a single enemy

Young Link in a nutshell: *_BREAKING NEWS: CHILD CAUSED GENOCIDE_*

As a minor note, Wizzro has one huge plus that's a huge boost. His C1 is basically able to PASTE common enemies and duels

When Hyrule Warriors 2 happens and Master Sword gets nerfed, in its place will be True Master Sword

Zant is honestly one of my favorite characters in this game

I think you forgot to mention Rapier Zelda's c5 without light charge deals more wpg damage on bosses than a full master sword link c3 string Rapier Zelda is still one of my favorites

Few fun things I thought were missing I love doubling the pillars from Lana's C4 on themselves by cancelling the animation on the first one before the 3 big blocks are sent out, making 6 giant explosions that decimate boss gauges and everything else. I'm surprised you didn't mention that Ganon's gauge continues to charge even when his combos' animations are canceled. Throw out and cancel two C4s and you've charged your spooky meter with zero risk. My favorite C1 by far is link picking up a jar and slamming it down on someone for a hilarious amount of damage on bosses and weakpoints. Probably doesn't raise it any tiers but it's the funniest thing to me.

I love how complex Sheik is early game, compared to everyone else. Absurdly fast, and the water shield makes you flinch-proof before your have enough materials for any of those badges, which allows you to activate the other songs even if you're surrounded. It's simultaneously mindless to play her, but also complicated to figure out for a totally newbie.

Good to know that most of my favorites are B or A tier. Actually, this was just a great video overall, thanks.

"I suppose if we ever get a Sequel to Hyrule Warriors..." My MAN

And when he’s the fierce deity everything dies * dies of laughter*

You know the Master Sword is busted when it allows for the complete playstyle change of one of the game's major characters. The game's premier close-to-mid-range utility character can choose to become an absolutely safe, long-range zoner character with zero drawbacks other than needing full health... which encourages more absolutely safe, long-range zoning. Normally Link wouldn't be able to get away with something like that, but the ridiculous attack stat makes its own rules, apparently.

I really like the way you truly think about each placement. You care about the game and it shows.

I was happy to see how high up Volga was! He's my absolute favorite character to play as and honestly deserves a lot of love for being a really cool character. His moveset is really great, I love being able to basically juggle enemies and they can't do anything about it lol.

As someone who's used the move a lot with Lana, her Deku Leaf combo move with her Spear, you can actually dash cancel out of before she leaps into the air. Saves you having to float around or swoop down. It's what I tended to use a lot just to pull off another leaf gust quicker. Doesn't really make it that much better, but it's a handy tip to keep in mind on the levels you're required to use it.

I was going to suggest some changes to this list, then I remembered you said this is judging by their base forms. When Hasty Attacks is added to the equation, I see a few potential changes. In particular, Spear Lana, Book Lana, Cia, Tetra, Agitha, Darunia and Baton Zelda are helped greatly by the increased attack speed. On the other hand, Trident Ganondorf might be a little _too_ fast, leading to some botched juggling, and Wizzro's C4 actually gets ruined by it.

This game is probably one of the most balanced games I've ever played-- I don't think I will EVER see two people agree on a character. I saw people defending the Summoning Gate, and I HATE that weapon! but my favorite character is wizzro (I'll always say he's the most slept-on character in the game) Basically, every single weapon and character seems to be SOMEONE'S favorite, because I always notice there's at least one low-tier that people will go up to bat for. There isn't a SINGLE character that at least _one_ person won't go "Actually, there's some hidden depth to them..." for. ...except maybe tingle

Great tier list amongst ever excellent content! I have a tonne of respect for the design put into unique playstyles. KOI took risks and provided huge variety and challenge. Some worked some didn't but for every Wizzro or Fairy, we got a Dominion Rod or Parasol. They each have a clear identity and the challenge is in playing them effectively. Some come easily, others not so, a small few just never really pay off. But I much prefer them to "safe" designs that never really fit a niche. With a roster this big I'm impressed there ain't that many of these.

Literally all the mains of me and my friends are all Dark element characters. I mainly use Skull Kid, Young Link, and Zant My two friends who I play this gane with use Girahim and Ravio respectively. I don't know if I should be afraid or not that we all gravitate towards darkness.

Fi will remain my favorite character, even though her damage is so bad her Heavy attack does nothing to help it. Pretty good list. I definitely agree with the top tiers. Didn’t realize Sheik was that strong, tho.

"Epona suffers at taking down bosses..." Me: HAVE YOU NOT SPAMMED THE CARROT MOVE???

Young Link should've been in S tier

Funny how the 2 S rank characters are actually obtained in the main story

i say volga deserves to be S-tier because of just how spammable his C2 is to the point where enemy commanders can't really do anything to escape it that isn't the invincibility frames of a special attack/combo finisher. his C5, while indeed slow, has MASSIVE AOE that can clear any keep in a single go and it's made even better by the fact that you can control where volga impacts the ground. his guard breaking is crazy powerful and there's little anybody can do against him.

"And when young Link is the fierce deity, everything dies!" Me an avid young Link main in any and every game featuring him as a playable character: *maniacal laughter in background* "yes good, good..."

I'm glad I'm not the only one who still likes this game 😅

Ever since I played Young Link on the Wii U, i knew he was broken lol. He can level up so frickin fast AND his C4 (i think it is (where he does the triforce thingy)) is amazing at filling his meter, which can be transfered to Magic and give him Fierce Deity. The whole concept and mechanuc made me realize early on that he was broken. Gg good vid man

While I do agree that the great faerie is one of Link's weakest weapons, I'd place it in the middle of D tier. Sorry, Tingle, you've got an entire tier to yourself now.

Something that Ghirahim is also really good at, is bringing enemies close to him one time specifically, I was in the scenario where you have to catch the three fleeing Lanas, Ghirahim's C1 followed by C2 sent one of the Lanas literally flying back towards me

Lana's Sorcerer's Book should be higher tier because you can actually set up more than one wall for her C1, which devastates everything

I'm still bitter that the Wii U version got shafted on DLC. I played the game to death but no way was I going to buy the game again and do everything all over again just to experience the 3DS/DE exclusive content.

2020: and then calamity stroke.

I use Great Fairy for every "kill # enemies" mission. Super useful.

Lana's summoning Gate combined with Speedy Attacks and Strength VI and constant dodge cancelling makes Lana literally broken, defeating Bosses in 1-2 C6's.

This is from my personal experience, but I think Zelda's rapier should be much higher simply because of her standard C-5 attack. It decimates anything in front of her, she's completely mobile while doing it, it travels far, and it hits hard and fast. The only thing about it is that since it's C-5, it takes a while to set up. And while the range isn't terrible, it's not as big as other moving area clears, like her C-4. That's just my opinion tho. Also, I'm surprised Great Fairy literally the bottom. I figured her ginormous hitbox on her standard string would help her be of use for area clearing. It's pretty terrible for 1-on-1s though, so I can see why it would be low. Nice video! I'm glad I found it.

Love the effort that went into this! Great job! Shiek/Zant/Fire Rod main. Shiek is 100% broken, Zant is underrated (but placed appropriately in this list), and my love for Fire Rod is eternal: most fun/fav weapon to play personally.

As a Fi main i felt hurt but I totally agree with the weak spot thing

In my opinion young link is a situational S tier, so I can understand the fact that he is in A because his base form is C to B tier due to his C6. All around good video and it was awesome, by the way I was thinking that Tingle was going to the best but whatever ;-)

22:15 'and its smashy smashy statues' that sounds like a reference to a let's play I once watched on twilight princess

I kinda disagree with Wizzro being at the bottom of D Tier - I found him to overall be rather good, thanks to his great range, some decent crowd clearing capabilities if you know how his orbs work, allowing him to be pretty safe in 1v1s and in crowds as he blasts both enemies and generals from far away. Summoning Gate is actually a weapon I like to use from time to time, as each of the enhanced boss combos are quite good for either crowds (Dodongo and Gohma have good area damage) or for 1v1s (Like the Manhandla combo, provided you have good spacing).

I didn't think the Great Fairy would be this low. I actually got along with her very well. Yes she is slow but her attacks are really strong

"Great Fairy worst wep in game." One of us does not know how to play Hyrule Warriors.

Heads up: Ruto can actually clear boss weak point gauges in one go. You just gotta start her neutral string BEFORE the WPG shows, hit it with the giant water bubbles, cancel and do another neutral string. Boom. Take a look for yourself!

I still remember the ridiculously lengthy discussions about this on gamefaqs. Malon best water!!

I've been playing since the port on 3DS to the port on Switch (a long time in other words) and I say Ghirahim deserves A rank. Some points to support my argument: -His knives can safely zone enemies and be dodge cancelled effortlessly. This not only deals great damage to officers but wipes out crowds instantly, just by two-three weak attacks. -His charge 2 I've used to juggle officers endlessly, I don't recall them ever falling down unless it was an actual character -His neutral strong attack, when locked on to a boss, can do similar to Sheik's Boloro by using Charge 4 twice and dodge cancelling to make the Demise blades appear. (You don't finish the whole combo, only use the strong attack two times) -Aforementioned attack does stupid damage to officers and with darkness will rarely need to expose their weak gauge at all to kill -His Charge5 has beautiful range and zooms out the cam, ensuring no grunts escape from the blast radius (which some characters like Volga and Twili Midna suffer from) -Musou attack has some of the best range, certainly better than Volga's -He's fabulous (Also as you know Sword Ganny empties his strong attack gauge when you switch characters, as does Linkle and Twili Midna. Ghirahim has no gimmicks he relies on and suffers no switch penalties, so I feel he should be higher)

Volga has always been my fav since when I got the game; his intro cutscene in the first level was an instant win for me lol, not to mention how powerful he felt to play as :) Awesome vid man, might consider getting the definitive edition

(My opinion) How in the world is the giant blade even considered an ok weapon? The giant blade has really few unsafe options for racking out KO and can't deal with bosses at all. All of this would make someone think that it's good at fighting enemies but no, the more you go into the attack and later combos, the more wild, slow and unsafe it gets. I generally don't understand how the giant blade is c tier and above the naginata (which in my opinion should be higher in the list)

I should get this game again. It's just whenever I play the adventure maps and they force Agitha on me... just... noooooo......

Everytime I see this game I'm like "Holy shit I've never seen those things before has there been a new dlc?!" Then I realize that no, it's just that despite spending so many hours on the game I've still not unlocked everything, haa

I'm gonna have to disagree with you completely with Epona Link. He is the best choice I find for one on one fights. You lock on, hold forward and spam strong attack and you get your target stuck in an infinite. It's admittingly not as good vs giant bosses and crowds but this brain dead combo is so satisfying to to use against single targets where normal tactics have failed me. There is also something to be said about taking that one boss from the enemy base to your own while on a horse. Edit: similar to Toon Zelda's rolling attack

I'm surprised how much I disagree with this list. For example, I would put Great Fairy and Ruto higher, and put Baton Zelda in E tier. Still a great video.

*you will have to do this when HW: AOC comes out.*

I honestly love using Ruto. Her AoE game is top-notch, and her regular combo is a massive single-target smasher. Also, it's a bit cathartic to me, because she was little more than The Load back in OoT. Here, she's a force to be reckoned with. I don't care if she has flaws, she's my waifu for this game.

Thinking about it, I actually do enjoy playing as Agitha. She's really fun and interesting. Aside from that, she's one of my favorite characters from Twilight Princess.

TBF with agitha. The scars from her T3 weapon in the og game scars runs deep

Lana''s Summoning Gate may be too reliant on luck, but oh is it ever useful. Even if you don't get Argorok (who's power is outright broken) with a strong attack, Dodongo and Manhandla can stunlock/whittle down officers. And if you can get Argorok up against a boss' weak point gauge, you can deal a TON of damage.

Started playing warriors games very recently with fire emblem warriors on my New 3DS and was amazed by how cool this genre can be when you have a big amount of knowledge on it. Will sure keep studying about this amazing genre with the help of your videos

you really have fun putting tingle in every charakterscreen :D

i think tingle is going to be top tier dang I was wrong :(

You need more subscribers, seriously! This video is amazing! I’m ur new subscriber

I rewatch this quite a bit and always get disappointed at the Gate's placement. It's easily one of my 3 favourite weapons in the entire game, when it wants to cooperate. Using Argorok and just watching the health/WPG of EVERYTHING crumble is incredible. Manhandla too, it may take a while but HOO BOY THE DAMAGE

When young link is the fierce deity, everything dies........ Accurate