Ganon (Smash Bros.)

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Background

Ganondorf is the main antagonist of The Legend of Zelda series. His first appearance was as the beast known as Ganon in the original The Legend of Zelda game, although it was misspelled as Gannon in-game. The name "Ganondorf" was first mentioned in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past with the villain making his first appearance as Ganondorf in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Since then, the name "Ganondorf" has been used to refer to his true humanoid form while "Ganon" is used for his monster form, the only exception being in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (though, at times, the names have been used interchangeably). In either case, he has been Link's archenemy since the first game.

Ganondorf debuted as a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Melee, and also appears in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. 4, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as such.

Statistics

Tier: High 2-A, higher with Spirits and Final Smash

Name: Ganondorf, Ganon

Origin: Super Smash Bros.

Sex: Male

Age: Unknown

Classification: Smash Fighter, Trophy Fighter, King of Darkness

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: High Multiverse level (Can fight Master Hand who is far superior to beings such as Arceus and Dialga who birthed time and created the universe, fought and defeated Tabuu with the rest of the cast who one-shotted Master Hand and whose defeat caused the subspace realm to be destroyed the subspace realm contains worlds from the world of trophies including objects like the subspace gun which can infinitely render space. Fought Galeem and Dharkon the former of who commands hundreds of Master Hands. Master Hand has several statements of being the creator of the Super Smash Bros. universe which has countless timelines), higher with Spirits and Final Smash (Spirits are used to power up smash characters and are the very thing that aided them to defeat Galeem)

Durability: High Multiverse level, higher with Spirits

Striking Strength: High Multiverse Class, higher with Spirits

Lifting Strength: Class K (Comparable to King Dedede who can swing his hammer at such a force)

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Can travel around the World of Light map in a short timespan), higher with Spirits

Combat Speed: Extra-Temporal (Can tag Kirby, who avoided beams from Galeem's, which can reach alternate space-times and seperate time periods), higher with Spirits

Reaction Speed: Extra-Temporal, higher with Spirits

Stamina: Very High (Can fight with up to 7 opponents at once without shows of being tired), higher with Spirits

Range: Standard Melee Range, Extended Melee Range with Sword, Tens of kilometers with projectiles.

Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius in combat (Can fight and defeat Master Hand who craves to fight against the greatest warriors that have defeated all the prior fighters, is one of the most difficult challenges, with enough skill to perfectly mimic other forms and change up patterns in order to beat the fighter)

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Powers and Abilities

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Mastery (Wields a sword in combat), Acrobatics, Multiple Jumps, & Limited Physics Manipulation (All Smash Characters are capable of doing flips around the battlefield and being agile, this gets further upgraded to the point of being able to gain an extra mid-air jump), Life Absorption (Can drain the life of their opponents with their attacks), Dimension Manipulation (Can interact and harm beings such as Mr. Game & Watch), Immortality (Type 1, 4, & 8 All smash characters that have fallen in battle turn back into trophies, allowing them to be resurrected), Non-Physical Interaction (Can harm beings like Mr. Game & Watch who is the embodiment of a primordial substance, can harm Floow), Forcefield Creation, Absorption & Attack Reflection (Can create a shield that can absorb and deflect attacks), Rage Power (His attacks come out stronger the more damage she takes via the rage mechanic), Explosion Manipulation (Can cause explosions with powerful leg smashes), Darkness Manipulation (With various of his warlock techniques such as the warlock punch, which deals the darkness effect), Transformation & Burrowing (With his final smash he transforms into dark beast Ganon and burrows all near him into the ground), Resistance to Empathic Manipulation & Madness Manipulation (Type 2. Doesn't turn mad or go sad from Floow's screams)

Statistics Amplification (Via various attack, defense, items, etcetera skill increases), Poison Manipulation (Via Poisoned Smash, sometimes poisons opponents hit by smash attacks), Attack Reflection (Via Perfect Shield Reflect, reflects incoming projectiles when you perform a perfect shield), Invulnerability (Type 1. Via Unflinching Charged Smash Attacks, gain super armor while charging smash attacks), Healing (Via Perfect-Shield Recovery, restores health relative to an attack when it is blocked by a perfect shield), Life Manipulation (Via Heal With Smash Attacks, sometimes steals opponents' health when they're hit with a smash attack), Acrobatics & Limited Physics Manipulation (Via additional midair jump, ncreases the number of midair jumps), Magnetic Attraction (Via Healing-Item Attraction, pulls nearby recovery items closer), Empowerment (Gets stronger when both damaged, undamaged, and eating food), Resistance to Fire Manipulation & Explosion Manipulation (Via Fire/Explosion Resist, reduces damage taken from explosion and fire attacks), Weapons (Via Weapon Resist, decreases damage taken from melee weapons like swords and whips), Blunt Force Trauma (Via Sprinting Endurance, makes it harder to be launched while running, airborn endurance, makes it harder to be launched when in the air), Resistance to Ice Manipulation (Can break out of freezies)

Summoning (With Assist Trophies, and pokeballs), Weapon Mastery (With banana peel), Explosion Manipulation (With Barrels, blast box, bob-omb, bombchu, bomber, capsule, cracker launcher, crate, fake smash ball, gooey bomb, hocotate bomb, motion-sensor bomb, smart bomb, spiny shell, warp star, X Bomb), Plasma Manipulation & Light Manipulation (With Beam Sword), Homing Attack (With Beastball, reappears near an opponent after being thrown and targets them, covered in flames), Animal Manipulation (With Beehive, if attacked or thrown at a player, it summons bees that attack the player that attacked it or was hit by it. With Cucco, if attacked or thrown at a player, it summons various Cuccos that attack the player that attacked it or was hit by it), Black Hole Creation & Gravity Manipulation (With Black Hole, creates a massive black hole, dragging all items and players nearby in), Transformation (With bullet bill, transforms the user into a Bullet Bill and launches them in a specified direction, dealing big damage to anyone they hit along the way), Statistics Amplification (With Bunny Hood, increases the user's movement speed, jump height, and falling speed, killing edge, a sword that deals x2 more damage and knockback when glowing), Invisibility (With Cloaking Device renders the user mostly invisible and makes them immune to damage), Death Manipulation (With Death's Scythe, instantly KOs opponents at high percentages), Paralysis Inducement (With Deku Nut, when thrown, damaged, or after a short time (even if held), nearby characters are stunned (if grounded) or launched (if aerial)), Healing (With Fairy Bottle, recovers an excess of 100% damage, but only if the user's damage is 100% or more), healing field, once thrown, it will open up and will heal anyone standing on it, healing sprout, sticks to fighters and gradually heals them, maxim tomato, the third most powerful recovery item, healing up to 50% damage (in the original Super Smash Bros., it can heal up to 100% damage), team healer, heals teammates when thrown at them, food, each type of food recovers a different amount of damage and heart container, strongest recovery item, recovering up to 100% damage (in the original Super Smash Bros., it can reset player health to 0%)), Fire Manipulation (With fire bar, fire flower, hothead, superspicy curry, causes the user to constantly shoot short-range fireballs and be incapable of walking slowly), Passive Attack Reflection (With Frankling Badge, temporarily makes the wearer immune to projectiles by automatically reflecting them), Ice Manipulation (With Freezie), Limited Flight (With Golden Hammer, acts the same as the regular Hammer, though faster, more powerful and with the ability to float, parasol, reduces the holder's falling speed, allowing them to glide slowly left and right, potentially improving recovery, rocket belt, can be equipped and used to increase upward momentum at will, similar to R.O.B.'s up-special, Super Leaf, gives the user raccoon ears and tail. Allows the user to float in mid-air using the jump button), Air Manipulation (With Gust Bellows, blows gusts of wind at other players to push them away), One Hit Kill (With Home-Run Bat, able to one-hit kill anyone that comes into contact with it's full swing), Energy Projection (With Killer Eye, when placed, can fire energy beams in the direction it faces, ray gun, fires blasts of energy that have infinite horizontal range, super scope, can shoot a total of 48 small rapid-fire pulses of energy or charge 3 large blobs of energy), Lightning Manipulation & Size Manipulation (With Lightning Bolt, when touched, shrinks all opponents, super mushroom, enlarges the character, poison mushroom, shrinks the character), Metal Manipulation (With metal box, turns the user metallic, increasing their weight and falling speed, while also reducing the chances of flinching), Rage Power (With Rage Blaster, fires a blast of energy. The higher the percent a user has, the more damage it does), Mind Manipulation (With Ramblin' Evil Mushroom, a mushroom will grow on the opponent's head, reversing the left and right controls), Smoke Manipulation (With Smoke Ball, once thrown, spews smoke around its immediate area), Time Manipulation (With timer, slows down all opponents), Spike Manipulation (With Unira, attaches to the stage once thrown or attacked and pokes opponents that come near)

Statistics Amplification (Via raising spirits in dojos increasing various stats), Invulnerability (Via Unflinching Charged Smashes, gain super armor while charging smash attacks, Invincibility after Eating, become invincible for a while after eating food), Passive Healing (Via Autoheal, recovers health every five seconds, Healing Shield, recovers health when enemy attacks are shielded, KOs Heal Damage, recovers health when enemies are KO'd, Critical-Health Healing, recovers a great deal of health when a certain amount of damage is taken, Critical-Health Healing recovers a ton of health when a certain amount of damage is taken), Life Manipulation (Via Lifesteal, steals opponents' life force when the opponent is striked), Weapon Creation (Various spirits allow the character to start with weapons), Power Nullification (Via Jam FS Charge, slows down the charge rate of ones FS meter), Resistance to Aura (Via Aura Resist, reduces damage taken from Lucario's Aura attacks), Magic (Via Magic Resist reduces damage taken from magic attacks, such as Zelda's and Robin's spells), Psychic Powers (Via PSI Resist, reduces damage taken from Ness's and Lucas's PSI attacks), Fire Manipulation, Explosion Manipulation & Darkness Manipulation (Via Fire/Explosion Resist, reduces damage taken from explosion and fire attacks, also applies to darkness based attacks), Water Manipulation & Ice Manipulation (Via Water/Ice Resist, reduces damage taken from water attacks), Electricity Manipulation (Via Electric Resist, reduces damage taken from electricity attacks), Energy Manipulation (Via Energy Resist, reduces damage taken from energy attacks, such as Fox's Blaster), Poison Manipulation (Via poison immunity, poison heals heals the user when they're poisoned), Extreme Heats (Via lava-floor immunity), Extreme Colds (Via ice-floor immunity), Paralysis Inducement (Via zap-floor immunity), Sleep Manipulation (Via slumber-floor immunity), Air Manipulation (Via strong-wind immunity), Smoke Manipulation (Via Fog Immunity), Spatial Manipulation (Via screen-flip immunity), Status Effect Inducement (Via Irreversible Controls Immunity), Gravity Manipulation (Via Gravity Change Immunity), Earth Manipulation (Via Falling Immunity, grants immunity to tripping from earthquakes), Burrowing (Via Bury Immunity)

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Standard Equipment

Sword of Six Sages, Regular Sword

Optional Equipment

Item	Description
Assist Trophy	When picked up, after the character lands on the ground, they will perform a short animation and summon a random character to aid them in the fight.
Back Shield	Defends the wearer from attacks towards their back.
Banana Gun	Ejects the banana out of the peel and the player is left with the banana peel after using it.
Banana Peel	Once thrown, trips opponents that touch it.
Barrel	Once thrown, struck, or landed on a slope, may roll across the stage and damage what it hits before breaking. Has a one-in-eight chance of exploding.
Barrel Cannon	Once thrown or it lands on a hill, grabs and launches the first character it hits. Disappears very quickly.
Beam Sword	Starting in Melee, gets longer when swung depending on character. Peach has a rare chance of plucking one when using Vegetable.
Beastball	Reappears near an opponent after being thrown and targets them, covered in flames.
Beehive	Can be thrown at opponents. If attacked or thrown at a player, it summons bees that attack the player that attacked it or was hit by it.
Beetle	Can be thrown towards an opponent, and the item will grab the opponent and fly off into the air with them. Can be reversed by hitting it.
Black Hole	Creates a massive black hole, dragging all items and players nearby in. Throws the opposite side of user's orientation.
Blast Box	Very poor throwing distance. Explodes upon taking 30% damage or a flame attack.
Bob-omb	Very powerful explosive. If not grabbed within a few seconds of its appearance, it lights its own fuse and begins walking around, exploding on any character it meets. If it doesn't meet a character it will blow itself up after a while. Peach has a rare chance of plucking one when using Vegetable.
Bombchu	Can move up walls and across floors and ceilings. Explodes on contact with opponent.
Bomber	Explodes in the player's hand when used. Only affects enemies.
Boomerang	Can be thrown at and grabbed by opponents. Returns to the thrower unless intercepted. Gains power when caught.
Boss Galaga	Carries foes upward to the top of the screen. Can be destroyed by attacking it.
Bullet Bill	Transforms the user into a Bullet Bill and launches them in a specified direction, dealing big damage to anyone they hit along the way. After a set distance, the user returns to normal. Can be reflected.
Bumper	Can be placed on the stage or (starting in Brawl) set in midair, where it will knock away characters that touch it. If two or more are present, they can be used to momentarily trap characters by bouncing them back and forth.
Bunny Hood	Increases the user's movement speed, jump height, and falling speed.
Capsule	Contains a single item. Has a one-in-eight chance of exploding.
Cloaking Device	Renders the user mostly invisible and makes them immune to damage (but not knockback).
Cracker Launcher	Shoots explosive fireworks. Limits the user to walking and a single jump, and automatically dropped from any flinch.
Crate	Contains many items. Has a one-in-eight chance of exploding when thrown, or hit with enough force to break.
Cucco	Can be thrown at opponents. If attacked or thrown at a player, it summons various Cuccos that attack the player that attacked it or was hit by it.
Daybreak	Appears in three pieces that must be collected all at once; characters can lose pieces from their possession when hit or KO'd. Once one character has all the pieces the weapon assembles in their hands, which they can then use at their discretion to fire a giant laser across the stage, almost guaranteed to KO anyone it hits.
Death's Scythe	Instantly KOs opponents at high percentages.
Deku Nut	When thrown, damaged, or after a short time (even if held), nearby characters are stunned (if grounded) or launched (if aerial).
Dragoon	Appears in three pieces that must be collected all at once; characters can lose pieces from their possession when hit or KO'd. Once one character has all the pieces the Dragoon is assembled and flown into the stage for a one-hit KO ram attack.
Drill	Allows the wearer to fire a large drill.
Fairy Bottle	Recovers an excess of 100% damage, but only if the user's damage is 100% or more. Otherwise, can be thrown, but will heal anyone hit who meets the prior requirement.
Fake Smash Ball	Flies around the stage, similar to the Smash Ball. Characters can break it in order to activate. Once broken, it will explode.
Fan	Fastest-swinging battering item. High shield damage.
Fire Bar	Causes fire damage. Grows shorter with each successful attack.
Fire Flower	Produces a continuous stream of short-range fire.
Flipper	Once thrown, halts in the air and bops characters that run into it.
Food	Each type of food recovers a different amount of damage. Can be produced in large numbers by Peach Blossom.
Franklin Badge	Temporarily makes the wearer immune to projectiles by automatically reflecting them. Can be knocked off.
Freezie	Slides across the stage, freezing characters when struck by it. Can be destroyed before being picked up.
Golden Hammer	Acts the same as the regular Hammer, though faster, more powerful and with the ability to float. May be a dud Squeaky Hammer that deals no damage at all.
Gooey Bomb	When thrown, attaches to characters and can transfer to other characters that pass by. Explodes after a certain time or if attacked when not on a character.
Grass	When picked up, another item appears in its place.
Green Shell	When thrown, attacked, or landed on, slides across the stage and damages everything it hits. Can be stopped by jumping on it.
Gust Bellows	Blows gusts of wind at other players to push them away.
Hammer	One of the most feared items in the game due to its range, damage, and knockback. However, it limits the user to walking and a single jump; the user cannot even choose to drop the item. May randomly lose its head and become useless.
Healing Field	Can be thrown on the ground. Once thrown, it will open up and will heal anyone standing on it.
Healing Sprout	Sticks to fighters and gradually heals them. Can be transferred on contact like the Gooey Bomb.
Heart Container	Strongest recovery item, recovering up to 100% damage (in the original Super Smash Bros., it can reset player health to 0%).
Hocotate Bomb	A bomb shaped like the Hocotate Ship that will fly off, and then crash down after a set time.
Home-Run Bat	An extremely powerful item. Its forward smash is among the most powerful attacks in all four games, being a one-hit KO in every one. As a throwing item, it maintains its high knockback and is a semi-spike. In Brawl, forward smash uses a unique animation. It becomes stronger when hit on the tip.
Hothead	Follows the contours of the stage once thrown. Grows in size and damage but lasts for a shorter time when hit by flame or electric attacks.
Killer Eye	When placed, can fire energy beams in the direction it faces. Hitting it flips it around.
Killing Edge	A sword that deals x2 more damage and knockback when glowing.
Lightning Bolt	When touched, shrinks all opponents. Can backfire and shrink the user or enlarge all opponents.
Lip's Stick	Flowers opponents. Has a limited supply of short-range spore projectiles produced on f-tilt or f-smash.
Master Ball	Just like the Poké Ball, but it is guaranteed to release a rare or Legendary Pokémon.
Maxim Tomato	The third most powerful recovery item, healing up to 50% damage (in the original Super Smash Bros., it can heal up to 100% damage).
Metal Box	Turns the user metallic, increasing their weight and falling speed, while also reducing the chances of flinching. Can be activated by pickup or by direct attack; indirect attacks will either destroy it (in Melee) or do nothing (other games).
Motion-Sensor Bomb	Attaches to the stage once thrown; characters that approach it after a short time cause it to explode.
Mr. Saturn	Walks around the stage and can be knocked about by attacks. Deals massive damage to shields when thrown, but only minor damage otherwise.
Ore Club	An extremely powerful club made of stone that produces tornadoes when swung. Grants super armor when used as a forward smash.
Parasol	Reduces the holder's falling speed, allowing them to glide slowly left and right, potentially improving recovery.
Party Ball	Once activated by being thrown or damaged, it floats into the air and opens, dropping its items.
Pitfall	Embeds itself into the ground once thrown; characters that approach it after a short time will be buried or Meteor Smashed. Can also be thrown at an opponent directly for the same effect.
Poison Mushroom	Slides across the stage. When touched, shrinks the character.
Poké Ball	Once thrown and lands on the ground, unleashes a Pokémon to aid the user.
POW Block	When thrown, it causes an earthquake, launching all characters (including the player) straight up if on the ground. Can be used three times.
Rage Blaster	Fires a blast of energy. The higher the percent a user has, the more damage it does.
Ramblin' Evil Mushroom	A mushroom will grow on the opponent's head, reversing the left and right controls.
Ray Gun	Fires blasts of energy that have infinite horizontal range.
Red Shell	When thrown, attacked, or landed on, slides across the stage and damages everything it hits. Aims for nearby characters and avoids sliding off edges.
Rocket Belt	Can be equipped and used to increase upward momentum at will, similar to R.O.B.'s up-special.
Rolling Crate	When thrown, struck, or landing on a hill, it will roll across the stage and damage what it hits without breaking, though it will break with enough force. Can be stood on.
Sandbag	When attacked, produces items.
Screw Attack	Turns the holder's jumps into Screw Attacks. In Melee, applies for as long as the holder keeps the item, and a forced Screw Attack will be applied to those the item is thrown at. In Brawl, applies until the item wears off and does not need to be held in-hand once picked up.
Smart Bomb	Produces a large explosion when thrown or attacked. Has a chance to be a dud, though it can still explode if hit or thrown again.
Smash Ball	Flies around the stage. Characters must break in order to obtain. Once broken, player presses their neutral special button to use their Final Smash. Will fly off-stage after a short period if not obtained and used.
Smoke Ball	Once thrown, spews smoke around its immediate area. May stick to opponents.
Soccer Ball	Cannot be picked up. When attacked, it careens in the knockback direction with high damage and knockback.
Special Flag	Can be held above the user's head for a long period to gain either a KO point in a timed match or a stock in a stock match. Unlike other items, this one will always be dropped if the user is hit while holding it.
Spiny Shell	Commonly known as the 'Blue Shell'. Hovers above a player before dropping onto them and exploding. Can be dodged, or it can hit someone other than its intended target on descent.
Spring	When idle, repels characters when touched depending on whether it is upright or sideways.
Staff	Shoots a beam. The farther the opponent is, the more damage it deals.
Star Rod	Has a limited supply of long-range star shots produced on f-tilt or f-smash.
Steel Diver	A smaller gun-like version of the Steel Diver from the self-titled game for the Nintendo 3DS. Fires a torpedo which travels slowly at first. Deals no shield damage whatsoever.
Super Launch Star	Can be set in midair, where it will attract and launch any characters that get too close to it. The launch has the potential to KO fighters.
Super Leaf	Gives the user raccoon ears and tail. Allows the user to float in mid-air using the jump button.
Super Mushroom	Slides across the stage. When touched, enlarges the character.
Super Scope	Can shoot a total of 48 small rapid-fire pulses of energy or charge 3 large blobs of energy.
Super Star	Bounces across the stage, and makes whoever it touches invulnerable to all damage and knockback for a short time. Users can still be KO'd if they fall off the stage with it.
Superspicy Curry	Causes the user to constantly shoot short-range fireballs and be incapable of walking slowly.
Team Healer	Heals teammates when thrown at them. When thrown at opponents, can heal or damage them at random. Only appears during team battles.
Timer	Slows down all opponents. Can backfire and slow down the user, or slow down the entire game.
Unira	Attaches to the stage once thrown or attacked and pokes opponents that come near. Can be set or reset with a direct attack; indirect ones do nothing.
Warp Star	Once picked up, the user flies into the sky and then crashes down with an explosion. Can be steered slightly, and if there are platforms above, will land there instead of the starting point.
X Bomb	Creates a cross-shaped explosion that spans most of the screen.

• Spirits.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Smash characters are general wild cards whose moveset tailor to how a person plays. Thus making it hard to tell what their standard tactics are.

Weaknesses: Incredibly slow and leaves out predicatble attacks. Holding their shield too long will cause it to break leaving them in a dazed state.

Note: The attack that Tabuu used to one-shot the entire Smash cast is far above his regular attacks and this is further proven in-game as when he uses this same attack it one-shots whoever is on-screen thus arguing that they should not scale to Tabuu because he one-shotted them is not accurate as it's with a very specific attack.

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