Two characters cripled by their lack of abilities (magic for Zelda, psichokenetic might of sentimentality (PMS) for Peach), so let's have rundown.
Peach
Fighting expirience/training: None that I know of, anyone else got any?
Equiptment: Club, Bat, Frying pan, Radishes
Intelligence level: Nothing to establish better or worse then average, unless somebody has something to disagree.
Other advantages/disadvantages: Extremely emotional to the point that it could negatively affect judgement. (Super Princess Peach establishes this, her powers are based on extreme emotional outbursts)
Zelda:
Fighting expirience/training: Bow and arrow profficency (established in TP with her showing her ability to fire on HORSEBACK, which is really difficult, but also established in WW), Sword proficency (again, TP, if you don't believe me, take a look at how she holds her sword in
this video. While not the best stance for swordfighting overall, at least not in my opinion, but one side slightly back, blade leaning towards the middle is an effective defensive stance. Furthermore, if she couldn't use it, she wouldn't wield a real sword, would be too heavy for her, she'd wield a prop (to inspire). Check the clang it makes, it's too heavy to be a prop. Furthermore, her bow ability establishes the fact that she had other weapons to use, therefore unless she was quite proficent, she wouldn't use it, she would've had better options), Knife (assumed from Windwaker, as Pirate Captain you need to have weapon's proficency, and it's the weapon she carries)
Equiptment: Sword, Bow and Arrows, knife (Windwaker, as Tetra)
Intelligence level: Genius-level (triforce of wisdom, while the rest of it's powers don't work, genius-level intelligence is perfectly realistically explainable).
Other advantages/disadvantages: High speed and agility (established in OoT when disguised as Sheik).
Unless there's something that peach has that I don't know about, this looks like a rout by Zelda. Her equiptment is far superior, and it's obvious that she either has formal weapons training, or considerable expirience in their use. Especially the knife, it's probably both.
Peach has neither formal weapons, nor any realistic formal weapons training. The bat is probably the closest thing to a formal weapon, and it's honestly pretty weak because it's a pretty light blunt weapon. It CAN do damage, but swords can still do a lot of damage when mostly blocked against unarmored or lightly armored foes.
Best configuration for Peach is probably using the frying pan as a shield, and the bat as a substitution sword, that will allow her to MAYBE deflect arrows. Depending on what close-range weapon Zelda picks, it might help there too (knife yes, sword no).
well what about peaches kart from mario kart??
zelda may have a sword but peach has a go kart!!
lol from what i think, a go kart trumps sword anyday!!! lol
what do you guys think of that??
Useless, against the sword yes, but Zelda's trademark weapon is the bow and arrow, which she'll be using too, in order to force an approach, or kill at range. Go carts are open on top, and predictably moving targets (takes some time for anything moving fast to turn), and as she gets closer a death-shot gets easier and easier. 999 times out of 1000 Zelda will kill her before she's close, even in pure planes. In every other enviroment, it's worse, every other enviroment has some obstructions Zelda can manuever to prevent herself from being hit.
She doesn't have magic, this is real life, no magic allowed.
Dragonblooded said that her sword has fragile and a bat would probably break it, in the OP it says it is unknown if Zelda is good with the sword, if someone isn't good/inexperienced with a sword it wouldn't help that much if doesn't know how to use it well.
As an actual swordfighter, I can tell you that her sword is NOT fragile. That's a well-made hand and a half sword (aka bast*** sword). It would break the bat, not vice-versa.
Her stance, the fact that the sword is real (she wouldn't hold it like that without training, if it was symbolic, it would've been a prop (which the clang revealed wasn't true) or she would've let it rest).
Zelda's sword looks more for show than for fighting. Ceremonial.
Incorrect, look at the sword, listen to how it clangs when it hits the ground, look at the lack of designs that actually inhibit function. Also look at the fact that in the game, she's established as having proficency with bow, nobody with proficency with a weapon would ever pick a cerimonial weapon of a type they have no expirience with in an actual battle. Especially not somebody with genius-level intelligence.
I'm going with Samus vs Meta-Ridley?
@S.O.L.I.D.: Doesn't Zelda have a GAINT bow? If she manages to get it in there wouldn't it take a long time to set up her Bow and arrow (I am assuming it's big because of brawl, but I'm ignorant with LoZ so i'm probably wrong)
Being large doesn't mean that it takes a while to draw necessarily, though it can. It means you need to be practiced and strong because it requires more strength to fully draw and stores more power, which is not physically impossible for Zelda since she is a fully grown woman. Aiming CAN take a while though. Note that you don't NEED to fully draw the bow.
Bow-drawing mechanics might come into play later, and I'm ready to explain them if necessary.