Super Smash Bros. Player Adds Tears Of The Kingdom Link With Ascend And Fuse
A Super Smash Bros. modder is creating a variant of Link that's based on his Tears of the Kingdom iteration, complete with the ability to use Ascend and Fuse.
When it comes to Super Smash Bros. characters, Link is unarguably one of the most interesting to follow between games. With each new Smash Bros. that comes out, he either gets a whole new character based on his most recent game (such as Toon Link or Young Link), or his mainline version gets a moveset and design change to represent his most recent game, like what happened in Smash Bros. Ultimate Link being based on Breath of the Wild.
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We have no clue when the next Super Smash Bros. game is going to be, but chances are that it's going to redesign Link based on Tears of the Kingdom, the most recent Legend of Zelda game. Well, if that does end up being the case then Twitter user and modder Claude1308 has given the Big N some excellent cliff notes to work off of, as they're currently crafting their own version of Link that utilises some of his abilities from Tears of the Kingdom.
Over on Twitter, Claude1308 shared a few clips of their current work on the mod, which has so far adapted two of his main powers from Tears of the Kingdom. The first one, and arguably the most impressive, is Ascend, which acts as Link's recovery move in the mod. When using this move, Link can either go straight through surfaces like he does in the game, or use a Hover Stone if there's nothing above him. It's an incredibly clever way of implementing the move, essentially.
The next move that Claude1308 has managed to implement is Fuse, which isn't given a specific input but I'd have to imagine that it's the downwards special since it works with both the sword
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