The Competitive History of Link In Super Smash Bros 

0:04 That Link is the Hero of Hyrule, literally the Hero of Time's death set up this timeline

T literally showed me how underrated Link is and how he is possibly the most fun character in Smash Ultimate The use of his remote bombs is ENDLESS and it's fun as hell to experiment with them

Thanks for making this video. As a link main, I feel blessed for this vid to be uploaded

Wheres smash world tour qualifier Sillintor

I would lowkey love a competitive history of Sonic from how he went from being a low tier in brawl to a top 10 in Sm4sh and to having a bumpy start but started to get better the more ultimate has progressed so far.

WOAH They forgot Soul Calibur II

Damn great to see someone talking about Aniki after all these years, tbh Nobody has pushed any Link version harder than him fighting Ken back in the day. Despite all the trash talk I can’t help but feel like melee Link is awesome

Imagine paying money for proguides when literally a king of skill video would teach you more lol

T had a style boost between smash 4 and ultimate. Got the hair cut, slim cut jeans, rockin some dope jackets. He’s on the glow up fr

links mains unite

My Smash 4 main! Glad he's finally high tier now

Link will always be a good fighter and do competitive history of yoshi

Whaat, had no clue link was a low tier character. He sure didn't feel like it playing him when super smash bros came out

Personally my favorite iteration of Link in Smash is Smash 4 Link

Link’s ultimate iteration is by far the most exciting and powerful one.

Dude its T vs Tea 12:40

i love playing link in ultimate so much he just feels great. his disadvantage is so bad but honestly just get better??? don’t get in disadvantage and you’re chilling. in all seriousness he’s so fun.

That moment when T defeats Tea

Regardless of how good, or bad of course, Link may have been in any Smash game, he always was fun as hell to play as for me. Still is, in fact. All three of them in Ultimate, too! :D

64: Just plain ol' bad and is infimise for having the worst recovery in the Smash series. Worse than even Sm4sh Little Mac and Brawl Ganondorf. Melee: Not much better but is at the very least a much more improved version of his 64 counterpart and is known for being a very glichy character. It can be debated on whether he is better or worse than Young Link. Brawl: Back to bottom tier, despite a few changes being made to his kit. He is a downgrade compared to his Melee counterpart and is an absolute disappointment when compared to Toon Link. 4: Started off not being very strong, but he would end up getting a lot of buffs and an amazing representative in the form of T. Still not better than his Toon counterpart, but he is a massive improvement to both his Brawl and Melee counterparts. Ultimate: The overall changes to both the game mechanics and his kit would end up making this version of Link an easy high tier character. He is finally better than his Toon counterpart, but just like in Melee it can be debated on whether he is better or worse than Young Link. His bomb allows for some insane tricks and combos to be performed, and mastery of it is crucial to playing this character. While being miles ahead of the Link's from previous games, he ended up becoming much harder to master in the process (it can be debated on whether that's a good thing or a bad thing). Overall, not a bad character like in the past.

Each design that Link had in Smash Bros isn’t just a design change, but a separate character from the others. This means that the ‘Everyone is Here!’ tagline is a BIG FAT LIE! Twilight Princess Link is missing from the roster of playable characters because he was REPLACED with BotW Link.

I hid an Easter Egg in the video btw, let's see if anyone finds it :) (hint: it's at around 5:40)

Link barely had any history in competitive Smash until Smash 4

Happy to see my boys T and sixx in here. Germ and sauss are pretty neat too.

I personally love link and young link in melee but I see where this guy is coming from, at a professional view there are better options, from a casual view you just play for fun.

He called the Clawshot a Hookshot. Rabble, rabble, rabble!

I think Luigi would be an interesting character to do

Do DK next. I heard there’s a guy in Canada who used him since Brawl that might be a good source for reference

I always have been torn between whether Link is cooler in 64 or Melee. Minus the terrible up B height, a lot of Link's options in 64 are straightforward and powerful. Toon Link is arguably the closest thing we have to 64 Link's play style. And in Melee, Link required a lot of skill to use, but he was just a really cool character and the new concept of multi-hit and charged up B was great (although I still prefer single hit aerial up B). He also had the coolest rapid jab and it was only in Melee. It was the first time Link felt like they had some weight to them and it was a character who you really had to understand how to play with that fast falling. Also, the Adventure mode stage for Link in Melee was one of my favorite things in a fighting game. Introducing the double slash forward smash was cool as it was and still is the only Smash attack that requires a second input and it looks very stylish... At the end of the day, I think most modern appearances of Link are in the same vein as Melee Link so 64 Link is my favorite for their unique and more fun traits.

"From the courageous hero of time" *shows a picture of link from Zelda 1* Yep, that ruined it for me

3:33 What are you talking about? Even BOWSER has strengths (he has good edge guarding, strong attacks, is good out of shield, & has a command grab that can start combos on fast fallers & kill early). Most low tiers in Melee actually have alot of strengths but they just get held back by 1 or 2 very bad weaknesses (just like Mewtwo & his tail hurtbox).

Is that all of the 64 characters now?

Competitive history of Link : 64 :Trash Melee : Trash Brawl : Trash Smash 4 : Trash Utlimate : Tra... Wait what?

“My name is Fock”

Chalk it up to T to bring Link’s tournament performance to new heights

USB link from botw is a great improvement and is a strong character when you grand master his moveset link is pretty deadly imo .

im still waiting for a competitive history on C.Falcon lol

7 months ago, i tried out for a local Smash team as a link main at my high school. I was one of the worst players there easily; I didn't give up, though. I practiced that season, and I made the playoffs when practicing with people there after school that were tons better than me. We're in the second season now, and I am now considered one of the best players there. I used to blame being trash on link being a bad character, but i now realize you can do anything with any character. Experiment with other characters, and pick up some of those as countepicks, but never give up on a character, because you can be great with any character besides ganondorf if you put your mind to it.

Aklo must be salivating at the fact this video was made. 🤣🤣🙏🙏

keep the link vids coming good sirs

Can’t wait for competitive history of donkey kong

Everyone would just play Kirby in 64 tho

History of Sheik PLEASE!

I can't forgive Sakurai for his Zelda character abuse all these years.

Link was always my guy from day 1, and I actually mastered using him. I used to embarrass ppl and if it was up to me he still woulda been ranked a TOP guy imo

Competitive history of donkey kong!!

Bluxious is gonna love this one

From Dumpster fire tier recovery to recover and kill at the same time up B!

Young links movement is actually pretty sick

Also do competive of the pits

I’m glad he’s actually good in ultimate, he’s rly fun to play. He may not be better than young link, but he’s still rly cool with the remote bombs and he’s better than toon link

My favorite Link is Toon Link, because of spirit tracks and brawl. Also great video, very informational. MK B META and next character hear me out ROB

Link was most fun in Melee, but yeah, he sucks in that game. Glad that he finally is viable at last! (In Ultimate)

Why I felt liek Odiki is T since T used to main Samus at Melee

Do history of ness next

Up throw Up B is a true combo

I thought they dropped the series

It's criminal what they did to my boy's jab and fair 1 coming from smash 4. I think he would be top teir if they returned his fair 1 to how it was.

Yoshi next

Do donkey or diddy next

Luigi next

Do sonic next

Please do game and watch or Falco next

3:27 At least sync with the footage the speaker has a large delay between what’s on screen and what’s being said or he could have edited the footage to sync it better

Link power

Remember when you forgot to finish your new tier list? :/

Let's do one for Sonic!

And here we have Zelda who is literally 2nd to last in every smash game she’s been in until Ultimate

Next can you do ness

Finally!!!!!!

Thought this channel was dead. Glad it's not.

orange lol

Young link now is basically smash 4 link

You know this channel is good when they are yawing scrumpy as a source

I thought he was named Zelda XD

Pls do Bowser

link mains rise up!!!!

I've favored every Ultimate version of every character except Cloud and his missing Nair... I don't care if everyone calls Melee Samus her best. I'm not a jet fighter pilot! I have more fun with Ultimate's Samus.

Link is now not that bad

Proguides talking about Link again. Anyone else remember the trash guide they put out?

I main him since smash 64 I was really bad but i enjoyed playing as Link and now people in última say my Link is legendary godlike and hard to beat

Glad you continued a canceled series by FSG (unfortunately of a lower quialaty)

Hi

"We will be including players who are currently banned from competitive because we want to be as historically accurate as possible" ......then proceeds to do everything in their power to avoid mentioning ZeRo and Ally by name, even including showing their names but never saying it Doing crappy things don't change history. If you're scared to say the names of 2 of the best smash 4 players, especially in the context of trying to be "historically accurate" and highlighting how big T's achievements really are (particularly to people who weren't watching said tournament), either go all the way or leave out your disclaimers and the entire S4 section as a whole while you're at it. There's a difference between reporting history and defending what they did, and like it or not, ZeRo and Ally shaped a lot of S4's meta and timeline. Don't claim to be historically accurate, then proceed to attempt to skirt around pretty major details to fit your personal narrative. And if viewers get offended by real history in a competitive history video, feel free to skip ahead to the Ultimate section

Really using other RU-vidrs content for this one lol

I bet you wont do a history of Ness,Luigi,DK,Yoshi,C.Falcon you wuss

Hey I'm first

2nd pog

64 link was awful tho