The Most Glitchy Character in Melee 

“And it might have the coolest name, too”. I guess we’re just gonna forget the Koopabackdashwaveslide Hoverwalkmoonland

I acually wouldn't call these glitches, rather part of the extended Zelda lore. Hookshot jumps, superslides and spawning random things from memory into your empty hands are core elements of the OoT experience

"This might be the craziest glitch in Melee" I dunno... Melee has a lot of crazy glitches already. "It can corrupt textures and steal UI elements" Nevermind.

Dude your videos are so good

Sick

The ghost arrow walked so villager’s pocket could run

Imagine creating a character so incredibly glitchy that it ends up stealing the background texture from your game.

Why is it so funny the way you say Link just straight up fucking died lol

The UI not appearing correctly because vital elements are loaded into link's bow is the most melee thing i've ever heard.

In OoT speed runs a glitch is used to unload a held rock and then you can load almost anything else in that space in memory. In a way the Ghost Arrow is just making sure Link's mechanics are true to his game.

this is so fitting for OOT link being the glitchest character considering that game. the ghost arrow glitch feels like something straight out of an oot tas

God, i wasn't expecting the insane RANGE of that ghost arrow glitch. Until you showed it picking up master hand's projectiles, i thought it was just a neat little "visual and purely cosmetic glitch that has no use ingame whatsoever", and that dubbing it "the most INSANE glitch in melee" was just a fun little joke... boy i was wrong, being able to PICK UP THE UI OF THE GAME ITSELF is mindblowing. Do you perhaps have more videos of it being used in a competitive environment? (outside 1.02)

4:49 what’s most insane is the absolute pain and agony you can hear Link in when his body is forced through a dimensional rift into the blast zone

"That's the game slowing down because of how astronomically fast Link goes by doing this." So he slows down time by moving faster than time himself? Hero of Time indeed! Though by the looks of that last part, Link's been taking lessons from Missingno...

I think I remember for an april fools day joke somebody said they managed to fill the empty space Link's arrow is supposed be loaded into (during the ghost arrow glitch) with the opponents stock. So in theory, Link would be able to press neutral b to delete stocks. Shout out to my boys who didn't realize it was a joke and thought Link had become the most broken top tier in the game.

I'm 99% sure that the Ghost bug was found like this: *Hang on, let me shoot my arrow from ledge..* *Oh dang that didn't work.* *Wait, why is my arrow Falco?-*

You thought I wouldn’t see the sombrero skeleton, didn’t you?

3:16 Excuse me, wtf is in the background?

BoTW Link: *Perceives time slowly when engaged in combat* OoT Melee Link: "I am already 4 parallel universes ahead of you Brother!"

5:17 Dry Firing is harmful to your bow Link

The ghost arrow is literally RBAing form oot lol

3:00 I hate when people underestimate my fastness

When you run out of arrows so you start shooting the HUD at people Also I really appreciate the tiny tiny detail at the end, when the game crashes, you stuttered the music that you had edited in to the video as if it had crashed the video as well. Very nice touch.

0:37 you forgot about the one where he defeated ganon said fuck it and went to soul caliber

Having the title of “glitchiest character” in the glitchiest installment of this party game series is a feat all its own.

"Ghost Arrow" sounds like it could be a new type of arrow in a zelda game. Like an arrow that could pass through certain walls and pierce enemies.

Editing in Link's screams with his super jump made me actually laugh out loud. I don't know why but I found that to be the funniest thing!

6:52 The Melee disk was put into Link's bow and erased existence.

Imagine sonic being outsped by link screaming past him at supersonic speeds

Playing the Kass theme from BOTW in a ocarina of time link video whilst talking about the split timeline that BOTW is excluded from is probably the best piece of musical comedy on all of RU-vid.

I once did the ghost arrow glitch as a child, my dad disappeared and rebooting my gamecube didn't bring him back

I still find this really funny. Like yeah Fox and Falco being top tier competitive characters is cool and all but then you see Link casually jump off a ledge and brick your console. I think he fits the true definition of overpowered

The ghost arrow is just like SRM, a glitch from Ocarina of Time where you unload an object from memory and can make new objects appear in its place. Another insane attention to detail from Hal. Really outdid themselves

Melee is a game so good that at first that you wouldn't believe the game was rushed, but if you dive in just a little deeper you go and discover that you can teleport to the other side of the stage by just airdodging diagonally onto the wall's other side (Still the best rushed game i know, some *NON-rushed* games can't top it).

Jesus christ, no matter how many times I watch 1:52, I can't stop finding it incredibly funny

3:16 Shoutout to my skeleton bro.

1:23 those sound effects make the clip hilarious

I would love to see Link's super wave dash on that really long test stage in the pub.

1:10 Jigglypuff blowing up caught me so off guard I laughed out loud good stuff

The 4 melee horsemen of glitches Luigi Ness Game&Watch Link

Wait does this make Link the strongest video game character of all time? SM64 Mario can BackwardsLongJump faster than the speed of light, but Melee Link can steal *objects* and even theoretical concepts like backgrounds and UI text with the ghost arrow. He is to be truly feared...

I'm being completely serious when I say my PC bluescreened the exact second that Link's chain hit the ledge at 2:07. It took me around 10 seconds to realize that it wasn't a joke from the video.

"The Ghost Arrow" Bro, Link straight up brought SRM with him from OOT. He's the most powerful wizard on the Smash roster.

Im glad you pointed out the "hero of time" is specifically the one from OoT. Its a pet peeve of mine to always hear people call all of them that. I mean its completely unimportant but still.

The dimensional arrow is LITERALLY just a Melee BLJ

It's really interesting that they kept Link accurate to the source material and let him perform OoT glitches in Melee.

Your channel is the highest quality melee content out there right now

The vids continue to get better even after I thought they peaked

“The glitchiest character in Melee” Ness: You underestimate my power

Link over here joining Mario in the "Half-A-Press/QPU Alignment" level of insane techs

It makes sense that a time travelling elf could break the game harder than anyone else.

I wasn't so sure when you said Ghost Arrow was the coolest glitch in the game, as that's a pretty high bar. Ghost Arrow is the coolest glitch in the game.

2:28 that's probably the most junk thing I have ever seen in a fighting game

Tfw your in 1.0 melee and you get sniped by link through planes of existence.

link is so powerful that he can deconstruct and collapse melee from the inside with nothing but a wooden shortbow and some elbow grease

Watching link jump into the stratosphere was the funniest shit I've seen in a while, lmao

Today I learned that link is the melee equivalent of missingno

1:30 DemoLink stickyjumping colorized

Link: [Uses the boomerang, tethers to the side of the stage, and then does something else] The game: *now it's time to get funky*

Zelda: "my dad ain't home" Link: 2:51

The ghost arrow is what us programmers call an "use after free" bug. And yes, results are indeed that insane for this type of bug.

my therapist: afro woods isn't real afro woods: 6:25

6:00: "Lamp oil. Rope. Bombs? You want it? It's yours, my friend, as long as you have space in RAM!"

the added screams when Link is falling are hilarious

1:11 Gets me everytime

Loving this channel, subbed!

I guess it makes sense for the glitchiest speed game character to also be the glitchiest in this one too

I love Link's death screams.

This alone is more interesting than all 3 Links in Ultimate combined.

You really have me drop everything to watch you talk about a game im not even interested in. Keep up the good work man

I love how you edit things man. That zig zag over as you wrapped up how convoluted Links timelines are was just perfect. I knew we were going to fuc town and we were. To Melee of course where we all just say 'screw it'.

It's funny how OoT Link can actually do these things in his game.

Really cool of Sakurai to incorporate stale reference manipulation in to this Link's moveset.

I feel like if this was tournament legal, Link would be slightly higher on the tier list.

The super jump actually appears in ocarina of time as a glitch you can do after you steal the fishing rod. The more you know.

So it works like Marth's grab, it grabs anything he wants at any distance.

1:20 THOSE WERE SHYGUYS?! I always thought that they were birds for years!

3:35 i like the "Duck Game" quacks

Holy fuck, this is great! You are the Melee historian. Awesome video, as always. Who knew Link had this much jank built into him.

Seeing link do some STUPID stuff in melee makes me happy. I read "The most glitchy character in melee" and thought he was gonna be near unplayable.

Losing Links be like "time to crash the game to redo this match".

Imagine playing some random Link main in a friendlies match, and he starts shooting *PK Starstorm bolts at you from his bow.*

Your videos are so amazing. The editing and jokes are spot on, and the music choices are sooooo good. I look forward to your content all the time, please keep on!!

1:11 i just wanted to leave this here to let you know i appreciate the comedic timing of jigglypuff catching it, squeaking, and then fucking dying

All those glitches are intended to make it as close as possible to Ocarina of Time glitches

1:37 Missed opportunity to call it the "Link to the Jank"

I just wanna say thank you for not censoring yourself. I hate the direction that RU-vid is heading and it's a breath of fresh air to see someone makes these kinds of videos exactly how they want

I rarely comment on youtube but your content is so good I feel the need to. Every video either teaches me something interesting, new, or just makes me laugh. And a lot of times they do all those things. This is just really good and entertaining content and I hope you keep uploading videos cause they're all so high quality.

First time I've seen the post time of a video measured in 'seconds ago'.

I think it makes sense that link has the "dimensional arrow " it fits the hero of time

I haven't played smash in years but I always look forward to your videos, they're so well edited. Such a joy to watch!

I really liking the more consistent upload schedule Asum! Love your content and getting more of it is always welcome. I mean don't push yourself too hard or anything obviously, but yeah its nice too see.

Bro imagine knocking an arrow and instead of your arrow you’ve suddenly got the literal sun in your bow

This makes no sense though, interrupting Link's charge in any other way should lead to the same results ("not shot and deloaded"). Also, if the game places an "arrow object" in memory when you draw, that means that the object first wasn't there and needed to be loaded. So, unless the game loads the arrow once per GAME the very first time you draw and the Chain Dance makes it delete the arrow, so it disappears but it cannot get loaded another time for the rest of the game, then what you described sounds like the most reasonable thing from a programming perspective: load the object when Link draws, deload it when interrupted or shot to free the memory. Reload again if drawn again. There must be something else at work here, especially since it seems that "objects" could end up in the same shared memory slot. Though the background and UI bits really make no sense. The game crashing is what does make sense instead, since a memory leak or corruption is most likely to happen when the game tries to access something that is supposed to be there, but isn't.

That "how u do" had such a gentle vibe and I loved it so much

Extremely solid editing and content! Great job, keep it up!

Actually, the ghost arrow works exactly the same as the dimensional arrow, except that the ECB appears inside the programme and damages the game itself

Dang. Eleven minutes ago, nice. Can't wait to see this video about how fun and overpowered Link is!

LOVE your content. Glad you're making more!

absolutely incredible. I'm constantly amazed by the sheer amount of obscure glitchy bullshit in this game. ghost arrow is reminiscent of a fucking memory-corrupting speed running tactic for gods sake. keep up the incredible work asum. You're the summoning salt of melee.