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Ok, I will. My primary reason to believe that WW Link would win is his attack style. He's never been shown to be particularly weak (picks up pigs easily when OoT Young needs bracelets for bombs), and unlike some of the earlier Links he can get a larger maximum health bar, and survives some rather exaggerated falls- he's got good endurance.
Think back to Wind Waker, in places with holes that drop you into rooms full of enemies. You know those rooms with the giant Dodongo skulls, with enemies pouring out of them? How many people actually found those difficult, as opposed to fun? Massive numbers of enemies are pouring out while Wizzrobes launch reinforcements and fire spells like crazy, and in the end you maybe lose five or six hearts if you're not careful.
Wind Waker Link has a unique style of swordsmanship that aggressively pursues opponents while flinging himself into battle- he's never standing still, like all of the other Links. Even when totally surrounded (as in this melee), WW Link is almost never in danger since he's not sitting there trying to defend. He's in the air, flying around the battlefield dishing out crazy powerful attacks like the Hero of Wind he is.
Now, I respect LoZ/AoL Link's trials, but in reality he wasn't a very good swordsman. In LoZ he couldn't do anything but a simple thrust attack, and all of his projectiles save the boomerang had a totally straight attack path. In AoL, he expanded to a crouch strike and a downward and upward thrust, but all in all his swordsmanship remained extremely bare-bones. Even TP Link would have little trouble getting past his weak stuff.
The main reason LoZ/AoL Link has a case is because of his spells- thunder in particular ix extremely powerful, but since as far as I know it isn't an OHKO on Gleeok, and Link has usually been able to take massive amounts of damage compared to even bosses, many of his tools seem like mere gimmicks. His other main asset is his Life spell, and that's like three hearts and you can use it, like, three times. All in all, even with his arsenal of spells, the other Links can pretty much take what he can dish out and then go to town on his pitiful sword.
The other main contender here is TP Link. He's definitely got the strength and the sword arsenal, but he's mainly geared toward one-on-one combat. Depending on how the fight goes, he might end up winning a war of attrition, but it seems to me that his fighting style is too likely to leave him vulnerable at key moments. His jump attack lags, his Spin attack leaves him open, his back slice is somewhat slower than WW Link's, and his shield bash doesn't help in melees.
TP Link's chance of victory primarily depends on how the fight unfolds- if he can do well enough to survive until only one or two foes remain, he stands the best chance of victory, but unfortunately I think he's one of the most vulnerable Links in huge brawls.
So, in conclusion, Wind Waker Link has a fluid, aggressive fighting style that is designed to carry him unscathed through vicious melees. He's got a number of TP Link's skills innately and suffers from much less lag- he can always get out of the way of trouble. His hurricane spin might also turn the tide, but the lag seems undesirable and it's really more of a gimmick move easy enough to dodge. He's got pretty much the standard Link arsenal, with fire arrows and bombs (with greater range) and a hookshot and a boomerang- but his fighting style, all other things being equal, greatly surpasses the abilities of other Links in this situation.
Oh, and he's got magic armor that actually runs on magic, which is always a plus. It's kind of overkill on a Link focused on avoiding damage while attacking, but hey...
Think back to Wind Waker, in places with holes that drop you into rooms full of enemies. You know those rooms with the giant Dodongo skulls, with enemies pouring out of them? How many people actually found those difficult, as opposed to fun? Massive numbers of enemies are pouring out while Wizzrobes launch reinforcements and fire spells like crazy, and in the end you maybe lose five or six hearts if you're not careful.
Wind Waker Link has a unique style of swordsmanship that aggressively pursues opponents while flinging himself into battle- he's never standing still, like all of the other Links. Even when totally surrounded (as in this melee), WW Link is almost never in danger since he's not sitting there trying to defend. He's in the air, flying around the battlefield dishing out crazy powerful attacks like the Hero of Wind he is.
Now, I respect LoZ/AoL Link's trials, but in reality he wasn't a very good swordsman. In LoZ he couldn't do anything but a simple thrust attack, and all of his projectiles save the boomerang had a totally straight attack path. In AoL, he expanded to a crouch strike and a downward and upward thrust, but all in all his swordsmanship remained extremely bare-bones. Even TP Link would have little trouble getting past his weak stuff.
The main reason LoZ/AoL Link has a case is because of his spells- thunder in particular ix extremely powerful, but since as far as I know it isn't an OHKO on Gleeok, and Link has usually been able to take massive amounts of damage compared to even bosses, many of his tools seem like mere gimmicks. His other main asset is his Life spell, and that's like three hearts and you can use it, like, three times. All in all, even with his arsenal of spells, the other Links can pretty much take what he can dish out and then go to town on his pitiful sword.
The other main contender here is TP Link. He's definitely got the strength and the sword arsenal, but he's mainly geared toward one-on-one combat. Depending on how the fight goes, he might end up winning a war of attrition, but it seems to me that his fighting style is too likely to leave him vulnerable at key moments. His jump attack lags, his Spin attack leaves him open, his back slice is somewhat slower than WW Link's, and his shield bash doesn't help in melees.
TP Link's chance of victory primarily depends on how the fight unfolds- if he can do well enough to survive until only one or two foes remain, he stands the best chance of victory, but unfortunately I think he's one of the most vulnerable Links in huge brawls.
So, in conclusion, Wind Waker Link has a fluid, aggressive fighting style that is designed to carry him unscathed through vicious melees. He's got a number of TP Link's skills innately and suffers from much less lag- he can always get out of the way of trouble. His hurricane spin might also turn the tide, but the lag seems undesirable and it's really more of a gimmick move easy enough to dodge. He's got pretty much the standard Link arsenal, with fire arrows and bombs (with greater range) and a hookshot and a boomerang- but his fighting style, all other things being equal, greatly surpasses the abilities of other Links in this situation.
Oh, and he's got magic armor that actually runs on magic, which is always a plus. It's kind of overkill on a Link focused on avoiding damage while attacking, but hey...
