Talk:Link vs Saber/@comment-4363364-20150929144646/@comment-3463132-20150929151735

Link vs Cloud wasn't a stomp in the slightest; notice Deathbattle didn't once say anything absurd like Link being able to tank planet-level attacks? Because he never has. He's never tanked an attack that would destroy a planet and he's never dealt an attack that would destroy the planet.

It's not even just Link, this sort of errant powerscaling is used everywhere around here, people say Cloud and Sora are planet-level as well; they are not.

He's not planet-level. Powerscaling is all that puts him there. By this logic Saber is planet-level as well because she fights Gilglamesh- who can destroy an entire planet too. Shocker.

There's two ways of gauging characters:

Going by feats (What Deathbattle does)

Going by powerscaling (What a lot of people here do)

Link again has no speed feats to keep up with anyone over Supersonic. The only arguments I've heard against this is "Link reacts to lightning".

Which is wrong for 2 reasons:

1) Link reacts to magical balls of lightning and then blue lightning that clearly isn't lightning. Neither of those is provable to actually move at the speed of lightning and neither truly acts like lightning.

2) Reactions are not combat speed. Link has never demonstrated a large number of strikes in a short time or the ability to deal with such.