LINK vs SAMUS
Now before i go into the aspects of this match-up i want you people to ASSUME some things.
1. BOTH players know the match-up. Like they play it every day.
2. BOTH players are at the TOP of thier field in thier character.
3. LUCK is NOT a factor(tripping, random falling through stages....ect)
Match-up Ratio: 55-45 Samus favor.
Spam: Both side of this battle will see lots and lots of spam. However, there are advantages and disadvantage to both sides of spam.
SAMUS SPAM:
Samus can flat out spam better than link, now when i say BETTER i ONLY mean it as FASTER. We can fire 2 types of missles, one of which is lock on( we can missle cancel BOTH missles out of short hop and full hop). Our CHARGE SHOT can be fire along with our Z-air(2.5 times longer than yours) which also auto cancels at split second we touch round. CHARGE SHOT and ZAIR goes through boomerangs and arrows.
LINK SPAM: Even though link cannot spam faster than Samus, i believe Links spam is more USEFUL overall than samus spam. You bombs are considered items(this means it stops MISSLES and CHARGE SHOT). Your boomerang can obviously bring us towards you when we dont want it to happen and it can also push us away when we dont want it to. Your Zair is shorter than ours but it does more damage(ours does 4% or 7%). Your arrows are omega gay because it can hit our toes EVEN THOUGH we are shielding.
MELEE combat: To be honest, Link wins this area BIG TIME.
SAMUS MELEE OPTIONS: We KO with D-tilt/Charge Shot and Dair. F-smash and D-smash will be to weak to KO by the time a KO is needed so basicaly we KO upwards. Our jab is little range and our 2nd jab is MEGA slow.
LINK MELEE OPTIONS: You can KO earlier than us. You can spike/kill upwards/ fowards with MULTIPLE moves. Your Usmash and Utilt cover BOTH SIDES of your body. Your OOS up+b CAN KO! To comppliment ALL of this, your range is better than ours.
RECOVERY:
As YOU know, link has a BIG problem with recovery. His jumps and slow and low and his UP+B is slow and low. It can be gimped easier than pushing an old man with a walker down stairs. Its flat out HORRIBLE. To top it off, your tether isnt long so its next to useless as well as your bomb jump ability. Samus on the other hand can run off the stage and attack then have time to UP+B back to the stage. If you are REALLY far out there we can use our double jump and UP+B. We can bomb jump to stall and/or recover. Our tether is MOTHA F-ing HUGE so we can attack you while u hang on the ledge AND still grapple on to it immediatly afterwords.
STAGES:
Whats funny is, just about ANY stage you guys are good on, so is samus. However, i recommend you take us to JAPES. YES you can die if u hit the water but so do we. Yes we can camp the side but so can you. What it boils down to is WHO can KO the earliest(link) and who can KO horizantaly the best(link) on that stage.
OVERALL Though you win in the melee department and in the KO department, Samus can outspam you(due to our spam speed) and can gimp the **** out of you the split second you are off stage(ask legan about this). Since you guys do good on stages link BF and FD it kinda cancels out because samus does good on those EXACT stages. I STILL give the nod of 55-45(samus favor) due to the fact our speedy spam can shut down ALOT of link spam and links spam is HALF the battle.
