Delzethin Explores What King Rauru Might Look Like in Smash

Waiting for the next Smash game? Delzethin's Challenger Approaching series has a new episode that could scratch your itch! His latest video focuses on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s Rauru!

Why Rauru? Delzethin addresses how The Legend of Zelda has not received a unique newcomer since Melee. If the next Smash game is in development right now, then the newest Zelda game is a key place to look, with Rauru being a stand out character. How Delzethin approaches the moveset means utilizing as many Tears of the Kingdom abilities as possible. Part of why Delzethin went with this approach is to not completely overhaul Link.

How would Rauru play? Delzethin gives us a character with an overwhelming amount of options. Rauru is primarily a heavyweight fighter without a conventional projectile, similar to Ganondorf. But, he’s also almost an opposite to Ganondorf: He’s very versatile and tactical with his play, atypical for a heavyweight. Some of Rauru’s attacks include his normal moves having a combination of sword attacks and light-elemental magic. His specials are based on various hand powers, such as Fuse, Ascend and Ultrahand.

This only covers a small part of the moveset. If you’re curious for more, check out Delzethin’s video below:

Author's Note: well that was fascinating. I'd be interested in seeing a character with this playstyle in Smash. What are your thoughts? Let us know!

Credits:
Writing: Thirdkoopa
Editing: @Zerp

 

I can't believe the Zelda series used the name Rauru twice already. Seems oddly specific of a name

 

I can't believe the Zelda series used the name Rauru twice already. Seems oddly specific of a name

thrice. there's a town called rauru in the adventure of link

 

I can't believe the Zelda series used the name Rauru twice already. Seems oddly specific of a name

TOTK Rauru has a similar mentor role to OoT Rauru so it’s not that different from continuously calling a character Link or Zelda when you think about it. The difference is that they changed a lot more for this character than they usually do

Anyways I haven’t watched the video yet but Rauru does seem like a pretty interesting way to rep TOTK

 

TOTK Rauru has a similar mentor role to OoT Rauru so it’s not that different from continuously calling a character Link or Zelda when you think about it. The difference is that they changed a lot more for this character than they usually do

Anyways I haven’t watched the video yet but Rauru does seem like a pretty interesting way to rep TOTK

Fair enough, I haven't played TOTK so I wouldn't know their similarities to the OOT Rauru

The LOZ series also has three different characters named Fado

• Kokiri girl from OoT
• Sage of the Winds from Wind Waker
• Goat Farmer from Twilight Princess

I guess it's a very LOZ thing to do, reusing names.

 

I’ve never played Tears of the Kingdom but based on Del’s pitch, I’d be pretty psyched to try out Rauru.

 

Fair enough, I haven't played TOTK so I wouldn't know their similarities to the OOT Rauru

The LOZ series also has three different characters named Fado

• Kokiri girl from OoT
• Sage of the Winds from Wind Waker
• Goat Farmer from Twilight Princess

I guess it's a very LOZ thing to do, reusing names.

Zelda usually has a lot of reincarnations (or atleast similar people showing up multiple times)
Beedle, impa, tingle a lot of the oot cast (especially in 2d games) Like Dampe apeared in:
OOT, MM, MC, ALTTP, LAR thats 5 games!
Usually those diffrent appearnces basically count as the same character (like Link and Zelda)
Although the two raurus look diffrent!

Also BTW Rauru cant be the first to found hyrule he probably founded His Hyrule sometime after the timeline but before BOTW!