The Hylian shield is a bit tricky to use in a non-casual/fast pace game:
- it have his own 'hitbox', it only blocks projectile that hits it directly compare to regular bubble shield.
- it can't be used while airborne or while dashing
The regular shield is better in almost every situation, personally i only use the Hylian shield against Samus charged shot, Samus mains are the ones forgetting about the Hylian shield
Imo it's more of an easter egg.
Thx for the footage. By intercepting you mean, grabing and keeping it before knocking you off stage ? (that's a real possibility)
An opponent intercepting the bomb while you're in the air seems unlikely since the whole thing (z-drop + detonation) happens quite quickly. One dangerous thing tho could be fire based attack, Pushblock claims that fire based attacks make the bomb explode instantly (i wonder if ithe bomb explode in Link's hands if he's hit by a fire attack, that could prove to be problematic against... let's say Ridley's Plasma Breath: while trying to bomb jump you get hit by a fireball barrage and explode before being able to Z-drop... one more thing to add on the labbing list i guess
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JohnKnight416 and Bakasama in the thread i've linked above):
