Love Vader's response to the standard rod

That Vader VA is genuinely incredible, 10/10 performance from him

I don’t disagree that Vader Wins, however some of the reasoning just seems off like reading his mind or using the time Vader overpowered Starkiller as a feat. Link resists mind control and corruption all the time, hence why he gets deceived whilst Zelda is usually the one possessed. And Starkiller was never canon outside of Unleashed, he was a part of Legends before the Disney era. Plus the Link used for the awesome animation got some new equipment and abilities in TotK that I would’ve like to have seen included, such as Earthwake.

I think the thing that bothers me the most about their justification is vader being able to read links mind. Those kind of tricks only work on weak minded individuals. Link is not weak minded I don’t think that’s in question. That means that putting him to sleep or reading his mind won’t work. Link also retains the combat experience of all his past lives giving him decades of experience. He has the skill just not the memories of his past selves. The best way for vader to win this is to keep link from accessing his full arsenal and while I’m not completely certain I’m pretty sure their are quite a few weapons link doesn’t need to physically activate. Love seeing vader get a win and there are ways for him to win but I’m not 100% sold on this one.

12:53 Vader's reaction to being trapped in sand is perfect

I would have to guess that the research process for Darth Vader was a time consuming process... There's just so much Star Wars material that could be considered primary or secondary canon.

After Vader chopped off Link's hand, I was expecting him to way "Link, I am your father."

Can't wait to watch this fight that will be able to "link" these worlds together and not have it be "forced"

Dang Link really used sand against him lol

The real thing that pisses me the fuck off is that he calls Link untrained and unfocused. Bullshit, Link has always been trained and focused on multiple occasions. Ik this is BOTW Link apparently, but seriously. Even in botw, Link was trained and focused, so that is just bullshit

I agree with the verdict, although I would have placed them at equal speeds (via blocking/reflecting lasers) and have given Link Battle IQ.

Thanks for a fight that really shows how terrifying Vader can be. Even though I thought Vader would win to start with, I was still hoping that Link would have some item, equipment or strategy that could win the day. Unfortunately against a roughly equal or weaker opponent the Force can be quite a dealbreaker with it's telekinesis, precognition and ability to enhance the user's physical capabilities. Edit: Getting bothersome notifications about people vs debating in my comment threads is why I usually don't comment on the videos directly, just the music. Thanks guys for giving more reason to stick with that.

Well that had some tonal whiplash. Overall, it was a great episode as always crew! Spoilers below: I felt extreme despair!!!

Wasn’t the most hyped for this upon announcement but I adored this. Great job to everyone and while I was sad to see Link go, him using the Fierce Deity against Vader went he didn’t get to against Ridley was awesome. Speaking of which Ridley must be cheering rn from hell.

Legends Vader? He wins. Canon Vader? He gets destroyed by Link lmfao

I think Gordon Freeman vs Isaac Clarke would be a fun match-up, both just normal engineers forced to survive against an alien threat

“That’s called a flurry rush, old man.” -Link

So, this was a great animation, but I'm going to argue against this result for a number of reasons: -If you really are using a composite Link, Link has multiple ways to become invulnerable through his items + magic (in just one game, AlttP, he has both a cape and staff that do this). And drinking Chateau Romani milk grants infinite magic for 72 hours. That makes his durability essentially infinite in a straight fight if he gets at least one chance to drink it, which with these listed speeds and leadup to Vader's arrival seems at least likely. The definite advantage there should go to link. Vader is tough but he is not on the level of pure invulnerability for days at a time. Link also has an additional invulnerability method not mentioned here in flurry rush. I don't understand why this fact is mentioned in both your and death battle's analysis but never brought up in the actual fight. Yes, I get that would make a boring animation, but he would win because of it. Also, link isn't exactly a stranger to being blasted with high powered lasers without taking too much damage even outside of his magic so it feels a bit off to see his limbs get severed so easily by a laser sword, even if it is a lightsaver. At max armor from just BOTW, a full guardian laser blast takes off just 2 hearts of his 20. *Actual* composite link would probably have even more damage reduction, or at least much more health. -I don't buy this speed comparison/advantage. What about Flurry rush or his bullet time from BotW? Link at least has access to bursts of speed through either method that make him far faster than his base movement speed. He also has to dodge only once for flurry rush's temporary invulnerability to activate. But sure, let's say Vader has force speed to make him even faster. At that point Link can split himself into multiple invulnerable copies to compensate with the four sword, and no Jedi or Sith has ever been in Force Speed that long as far as I know. They also never fight using it so there must be a limitation to that. -Starkiller's spaceship pulling feat has been on other analysis shows and it was brought up there that other source material confirmed there were circumstances aboard the ship that caused it's fall with starkiller only speeding up this proces. It's disingenuous to scale him to that feat. Though I've never heard of him tossing someone into the sun so I wouldn't know the specifics of that move. Even if he did this though, invulnerable link could teleport back to a shrine near the fight and continue. -On offense, ancient arrows is a flat-out instant kill as it seems to warp an enemy out of time/reality. He only has to land one somewhere during the fight to win. When you are invulnerable and have somewhat comparable speed plus bursts of much greater speed, you can simply wait out until the enemy gets tired and then land one shot. -All of this is seperate from the insane arsenal of other ability increasing items and magic from all Link's other games. One thing not mentioned here is how Vader is weak to Electricity, which Link canuse through both magic and items and also in area of effect moves. -Link's experience is measured through many different lifetimes. While vader has fought for two or three straight decades, Link's many lives fighting against many different kinds of enemies should rival the experience or come close. Taking this into account, the actual score seems to be: Durability: Link (Days-Long invulnerabilty + multiple shorter invulnerabilities + multiple resurrection methods + multiple magical full healing powers vs cyborg-level durability with limited healing powers. This is a stomp, there really is no contest.), Attack: Link or Tie (Vader perhaps has more raw magical attack through force attacks, but Link has a much more varied arsenal of items/attacks and access to electricity attacks, and should also overpower vader through brute strength in a swordfight), Speed: Tie (hardest to call imo, force sense + space combat reflexes vs Flurry rush and bullet-time, potential time stops during some moves), Experience: Tie (decades of warfare vs many lives of training + combat, but the latter probably only at peak during actual struggles vs Ganon while Anakin was at full war for longer and probably has more experience in swordfights vs other swordsman, but he has never fought against something with massive fantasy powers like composite Link. Roughly equal imo). The overal advantage would go to Link, especially since infinite durability is very hard to overcome. That said, good animation and voice acting. Good luck on having the channel grow further. '

Really hard to into words how much I loved this But I can try lol My favorite SB/CC by a decent margin The animation has certain jank in some segments and all but the moments that don’t are utterly spectacular, Vader’s voice was top tier and the writing of his lines were… “Untrained! Unfocused! And Weak!” Amazing The entire crew has improved so much through every episode to be better and better and it really paid off here

Crossover Colosseum out here making the worst possible matchups but still making banger episodes.

Idk if canon or Legends will be used for Vader, but if it's either, I hope they stick to just that. ...and I hope it's Legends.

You guys just earned yourself a sub! Very great choreography and animation, the reasoning makes sense in a way that did justice to both Vader and Link. Good job guys, and I'm looking forward to the next one!

I agree with the results but aside i do kinda find the whole thing with Link being susceptible to mind reading since he's been proven not to weak minded. Solid 9/10 for the episode though. Would've been a perfect one if the the justification for link being able to have his mind read by Vader had more explanation.

I think having multiple hosts makes the analysis way better

Great animation but I feel the research was lackluster, because it was against a deadline of some kind. Link’s research was copy and pasted from link vs Ridley, and Vader’s powers and abilities were barely touched on. Also link’s best wincons were never mentioned ie his infinite time stop and the fact you never considered speed multipliers for either character. You also never came to a conclusion of how fast Vader actually was, because if he’s 300mph, link is faster because of multipliers from potions and items, if he’s light speed but only in blocking it wouldn’t matter. I could list a million other things, but overall i think you should’ve waited to do better research for both characters.

Link- Succeeded to Kill Ridley Failed to Kill Vader

Absolutely amazing video and matchup.

So did we forget about bullet time and flurry rush?

Link: I got the power of the Triforce. Vader: You don't me, but I am a Sith and I have the power of the Dark Side.

Spoilers if ya haven't seen Darth Vader vs Obito Uchicha. While Vader loss yet again on DB He atleast won OUTSIDE of DB and its the Unofficial one as well. So he pretty much has 1-2 ratio of it.

Link: It's over Anakin I have the master sword.

That was an intense and brutal battle. Great video.

Link could use stasis on Vader's armor and smack him, rinse and repeat.

LOL When he fell in the sand he said no

That final scene was so good. Well done!

Not what I expected I generally thought Link would win

Props to the guy who voiced Vader he did an amazing job.

Ganondorf. The Triforce of Power has chosen a new host.

You guys are underrated you deserve like 1 million subscribers that how underrated you guys are

Dude I literally made a drawing of these two fighting once, amazing to see them legitimately fighting like this. Also Vader being even more of a cold-blooded killer

Well, the result is definitely unfortunate, but oh well, doesn't change the overall quality of the episode. Vader's VA did an absolutely incredible job, and I want to give a special shoutout to the music, it's probably one of my favorite tracks on either this or Smash Bracket. The reprises of the Zelda motifs in the extremely heavy orchestra of Star Wars was very interesting to hear.

That kill was cold as fuck

This was a good fight can’t wait for more

respectable fight. awesome animation!!

This is legitimately better than the death battle

It's so nice to see a unique matchup on a versus show that hasnt already been done a million times. Two of my all-time favorite characters. Link pulling out the Master Sword and clashing with Vader was prob the single most hype I've ever gotten for a single moment in a versus show. I don't agree with the result, but that's okay. I love both characters, and the animation was fantastic, so I'm unbothered. Can't wait for more unique matchups!!

This is the first battle that has me actually on the edge in a long time

My goodness these battles and animations are just simply beyond fantastic! I had a feeling in the force Vader would win :) I've only watched three of your battles so far this was the first one I guessed correctly, I am happy I found your channel and videos, you earned a new subscriber today :)

While I understand how much Vader stomps, I was still really sad to see Link die. Boi did not deserve that much crippling.

This is such a weird episode for me because I'm rooting for a link but at the same time I knew Darth Vader was going to win...

I never thought I needed this fight, but omg this was dope

Wow this animation is awesome!

Man, I thought it was a LOCK that Link would win after Navi saved him. But this actually strayed from than the usual flow of VS Battle animations. Also helps that Vader didn't bring out the Force Demon, or the fight would instantly end of course :v

Was that brutal? Yes. Was I surprised? No.

Amazing video.

Gruesome deaths let’s gooo

i get that it's the heat of battle, and he may not have even thought of it, but i find it even a bit funny that Link has a lynel sword and the light bow, but only uses urbosa's fury once, is allied with the Goron despite never using Daruk's protection which could've at the bare minimum helped when a lightsaber was being pushed into his skull or cutting off his arms, and sure only using Urbosa's fury once could've been attributed to the fact he was on his last charge and it was on cooldown for the whole fight, which would be reasonable as some of the other abilities take entire hours to recharge, or whole days if we're going by the in game clock, such as Mipha's grace which he also didn't use instead going for a fairy, and Revali's gale was kinda just there with not many opportunities or reasons to use it mid fight, also, though it definitely couldn't have fit too well given the timeframe to do so, but i liked to have imagine Link getting his right arm cut off (like in TOTK's prologue) that it would've been a segway into Link borrowing Rauru's arm mid fight and using the zonai abilities, also giving a creative clash between The Force and The Ultrahand ability,

I feel like Luke skywalker vs link. Would have made more sense but still this was a good episode

Well done sir good job

Absolutely incredible match I really like the matches you pick! I would love to see if you could do Red vs Peashooter

This was fun to watch, but honestly, when a battle is this one-sided between characters who really don't have anything in common, I find myself wondering why it was made. Still, like I said, it was fun.

Bruh you forgot that Link can literally stop/recall time

You earned my subscription

Damn, that was brutal.

Such a weird matchup😅. Vader probably wins but im just happy to see link again.

Happy to see Vader pull the W! There's a lot of feats from Link and Vader infamous in the vs community that put them way higher than what you placed them at, is there a way we could see the research process for the episode and why you guys bought certain feats while disregarded others?

Amazing video as always, the analysis needed some work tho, it was kinda obvious that vader was going to win as soon as ink said "chuck people into the sun" but i always enjoy rooting for the underdog

I really do Love this channel, keep up the good uploads, I do have an few fight suggestions you guys can do Like Denji Vs Yuji (both series are currently blowing up rn so yeah), Giyuu Vs Levi, Akame Vs Killua, Ghost rider Vs spawn, Gowther Vs Sasori, Revy Vs spike, Shinobu Vs Mina, Gojo Vs makima I think those are some good matchups and an few more but yeah

Wow, you actually gave it to Vader. How bout them apples? That ending was sick. I was shouting during the whole thing. I don't remember being that hyped up at a death since Wargreymon sliced up Mega Charizard X. You guys did real good.

If I had a nickel for every time Link fought a famous villain from space, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot but, it's weird that it happened twice. Right? Ok, seriously this was a really great fight. I think it's my favorite 3d fight the team made!!! Had some really cool moments especially for Vader. Vader definitely stole the show here. I absolutely loved the visceral "NO" Vader gave when he got trapped in the sand. One criticism I have is there was no real suspense to who was going to win. Besides hitting Vader with the arrow and the slice to his helmet, it didn't feel like Link got any major hits on Vader. More of a nitpick here, but I do wish Links slice on Vader's helmet would have revealed his an eye. It would have made Link's hit have more impact and could give Vader a chance to emote a little later in the fight. Like maybe showing his eyes narrow in contempt as he chokes Link to death, or widen in surprise a little as Link wearing the fierce deity mask knocks Vader against the wall. Also another minor nitpick is that I wish when Vader threw link near the lava that he caught on fire before Vader finished him off. Felt it would have been a good callback to Revenge of the Sith. Great job everyone!!!!

This episode is a 9/10 amazing job

Yeah, i don't think a bottle of fairies could have saved link from that fate lol.

a composite link will just be practically immortal.. the number of fairies and dishes he can wear or mipha grace to come back to life and heal, his many invulnerability objects like daruk protection, the mystic set, nayru love, the magic cape, his magic armors from twilight princess and wind waker, and all that without any limitation thanks to the Château romani which will make them last three days. All the incarnations of the spirit of the hero combine in a person will not have a weak spirit and vader could neither control it, nor know what he is going to do, nor put him to sleep because he has the all night mask. link also has the truth mask allowing him to read minds. on top of that a composite link will have access to an absolutely ridiculous number of abilities and items, giving him counters to virtually every vader option. He is also faster, he can dodge laser, has the flurry rush (boost ×19 speed) the rabbit mask, the pegasus boots, or can even stop vader in time with cinetis, make go back in time any inanimate object with recall, he can also go back three days ago with his ocarina of time. and then the mask of fierce deity link is infinitely more powerful than vader, the ending of the animation has the same effect on me as watching the alternate ending of lucina vs rob, something is wrong, fierce deity link have stomps majora who destroyed an entire dimension by sending a moon to crash, moon in which he created a dimension which has a sun so infinitely stronger than vader who has his prime can destroys an imperial star killer and even if he will only have his sword in the game , in therms of lore fierce deity link has the merit of all the masks which allow him to read minds, never sleep, become giant, be invisible, go faster, (explode, or do yoga?) ect .. apart from all that, the video is very pleasant to watch and I can't wait to see the channel grow, just a little disappointed that the animation look so good for its lack of connection with the research

To be honest, I kind of knew what the outcome was. While link fought some serious bad guys, all of them were basically ancient tech at best. Darth Vader is literally using a sword hot enough to cut through metal. Not to mention he could’ve just continuously snapped his neck, every time he got up. He may be a fling found a way to continuously shock him and takeoff his life preservers he could’ve had a shot, but that’s not likely if he can deflect bolts.

I’m wondering why this is getting a low amount of views. This was very cool to watch

YT never disappoints with his fights.

Ya but run it back with Speedrunner Link.

I’m disappointed that Crossover Colosseum had one slash from Vader’s lightsaber can slice off one of Link’s limbs so easily despite Link surviving multiple laser based attacks and energy blades in BotW and TotK. That seems disingenuous to their portrayal of Link.🙁

I found you just yet but great Animation. Really Entertaining :) and if Suggestions Allowed here a Dream Match of mine: Micheal and Trevor (Gta5) vs Kane and Lynch (Kane and Lynch)

wow this is amazing

What is up with the unhealthy obsession the internet has with comedically downplaying Link's feats and abilities?

Vader Didn't turn into a Giant F*cking Scorpion... 0/10 For real though Awesome Fight, a crossover everyone has been begging for, and great parallels!

wish link used more of his Arsenal in the fight animation, but still a great video keep up the great work also can you do tohru adachi vs freddy krueger one day

Oh my God, they're finally back after 7 months of waiting once again! But, whoa! Was that death ever that brutal?! I can't even think right now... Also, PLEASE tell me that Ben 10 VS Jaden will FINALLY happen soon...!

In retrospect it was pretty obvious how much they were wanking Star Wars when a gaggle of stormtroopers no-sold Urbosa’s Fury

Well then... That was incredible and that ending genuinly gave me chills. SPOILERS, IF YOU SCROLL DOWN AND GET SPOILED THAT'S ON YOU, WATCH THE AMAZING VIDEO FIRST... Ridley must be jealous in hell right now, damn.

After years of then both being in soul caliber and me dreaming for a fight between theses 2. It’s finally real. You guys are amazing. You have made my decade long fantasy a reality ❤ My only issue is that fierce Deity should have lasted longer in that fight. Now star killer vs link

Me before watching this: Link for the win Me after watching this: GOD DAMN

Now the real question is if link has the high ground or not Edit: huge spoilers for the episode scroll at your own risk. So Link did not have the high ground if he did he woulda won tbh.

We all knew who was winning this fight. But that didn’t stop you guys making the fight SO DAMN GOOOOOOD!!!! The choreography, the flow, and the M U S I C! 10/10 better than A bunch of Death Battle fights hands down.

I really like how Vader just completely Anakin’d Link. That made me laugh.

1st 3D fight LOOKING SICK AF!!!!!

Link's Master Sword is insignificant next to the power of the force. This will be all to easy for Vader. Looks like I was right, Link was no match for the power of the Dark Side!

Probably the worst analysis/conclusion you guys have ever had, I get that you have a different criteria than most of the VS Community but Link's analysis and stats seemed straight up inaccurate to his battle vs Ridley on the main channel. Stasis especially seems like a weird exclusion, I'm guessing you probably decided that it wasn't effective against Vader but that would have at least been worth a mention in the conclusion if you did. Fight animation was neat though. Not the most creative, but a fun time.

My real question is how did Darth Vader’s lightsaber not cut through the master sword or link’s shield, but it did cut through his other weapon

Amazing

To those thinking "couldn't link just use x item" remember that even if link and Vader were the same speed, that Vader for one has precognition, and for two can yoink any item out of link's hands with, bare minimum, enough force to yeet someone into the sun, meaning any attempt for link to cheese the fight with infinite magic or simular somethings wouldn't exactly work.

0:24 *Link Analysis* 5:12 *Darth Vader Analysis* 11:13 *Fight* 15:50 *Post Analysis*

Prediction: going in blind Vader stomps. Hard. A MIDDLING version of him repelled an entire ocean, but technically 3 times thanks to gravity.

The downplay is crazy