Who's the strongest Link of them all? Game Theory.

[mysteryman]

Experimental42 said:

mysteryman said:

Clyde32 said:

The question is why though? What was the determining factor that led link to be defeated? There are actually theories that suggest that he failed because of the lack of neccessary means to defeat Ganondorf. 

Why does it matter? The Hero of Time failed and the possibility of any other Link doing so hasn't even been considered.

You shouldn't base the strength of a character on him failing because a situation is literally improssible. The other links didn't fail because their their situations. The original Link would have failed if there were no silver arrow, and that has nothing to do with his personal prowess.

So what are you basing their individual stengths on then?

Are you comparing purely their raw strength, or incorporating their collected items/magics/powerups?

One could also argue that attaining the required items/magics/powerups to defeat evil is directly tied to Link's strength (or courage), so not having what is required would still be Link's fault, and weakness.

This also assumes that failing to defeat Ganondorf in OoT was indeed a result of missing the required means to do so, whereas it could also simply be the lack of skill/strength/courage to do so.