Description[]
The Legend of Zelda VS Minecraft! Two open world video game swordsman who travel the wild with a quest to save the world from an evil beast. Whose weapon and skin will break first?
Intro[]
Wiz: If you are reading this, you're probably reading this in an area where you don't have to worry about constantly fighting for your life unlike these two heroes of the wildlife.
Boomstick: Link, the hero of the wild
Wiz: And Steve, the protagonist of Minecraft.
Boomstick: He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick
Wiz: And it's our job to analyse their weapons, armours and skills to find out who would win... a Death Battle.
Link[]
Wiz: The land of Hyrule is a vast and beautiful land with many unique inhabitants.
Boomstick: Or it would be if wasn't for the pest problem.
Wiz: Right, time and time again, the land had been invaded by Ganon and his monsters.
Boomstick: Luckily, the Royal Guard of Hyrule found this entire army of machines from over 10,000 years ago.
Wiz: The army mainly consisted of Guardians, six-legged machines that could fire lasers. But the real deal was the divine beasts. Giant piloted animals that could also fire lasers.
Boomstick: Like Power Rangers! GO GO POWER RANGERS!
Wiz: Anyway, the Royal Guard to control the Divine Beasts, Hyrule needed four warriors to control the Divine Beasts but they also needed a knight to protect Princess Zelda, the... well princess of Hyrule.
Boomstick: So they got some trained 17 year old from Hateno Village. Who was that teenager, well that man goes by the name of... Link.
Wiz: Since being the knight of Princess Zelda is such a big job, Link needs some weapons and like all Links he has a massive arsenal.
Boomstick: These include the signature Master Sword and Hylian Shield, the... HOLY SHIT! IS THAT A LASER CHAINSAW!?
Wiz: Basically, the thing is this Link has several different new items in the form of ancient weapons/armours.
Boomstick: These items start off as a hilt, but when used, light up such as the ancient axe, ancient spear and ancient sword.
Wiz: Link just doesn't have a good close combat game, he also has a pretty great projectile game too.
Boomstick: Link has a bow some of which can fire multiple arrows at a time such as Revali's bow. Besides his ordinary arrows, he has other arrows that come in 6 other flavours.
Wiz: The Fire arrows... well set opponents of fire. The ice arrows freeze enemies in place like in every other game that uses ice attacks, the lightning arrows disarm any item that an opponent is using, the bomb arrows create an explosion when shot and the light arrows work great against demons.
Boomstick: But his most powerful arrow is the ancient arrow, an arrow that instantly obliterates most enemies and literally not leaving a trace behind.
Wiz: Link can use a variety of a different armours that can grant him different skills, resistances and abilities.
Boomstick: Some allow him to survive in very hot conditions. Others allow him to swim better, The Sheikah outfit allows him to sneak around better by increasing his stealth and the Barbarian armour increases Links attacks.
Wiz: But what sets Breath of the Wild Link apart from all the other Links is his orbs and the Nintendo Switch aka Sheikah Slate.
Boomstick: The Sheikah Slate comes equipped with different apps that do different things for Link
Wiz: This includes creating small bombs for different surfaces, making pillars of ice, moving around metal objects like ragdolls, freezing opponents in time, taking selfies and summoning a motorcycle... that's shaped like a unicorn.
Boomstick: But let's get onto the orbs. Remember how their were those Divine Beasts that needed to be piloted by some people. Well.. those people kind of died. Anyway when Link saved their asses, they each gave Link a special orb that gave him some kind of wacky tacky power when activated.
Wiz: Mipha's Grace allows Link to automatically come back to life, Urbosa's Fury lets Link unleash a powerful lightning strike. Daruk's protection a shield that protects Link from virtually anything and Falco/Revali's Gale creates a vertical gust of wind that sends Link upwards on his paraglider.
Boomstick: WOW! With that kind of power Link must have done a lot of stuff.
Wiz: Yep! Link saved Hyrule by defeating Calamity Ganon with the help of Princess Zelda and the other Divine Beasts. Survived an onslaught of Guardians without his full arsenal and striked down a Yiga Clansman Soldier seemingly out of nowhere, he is a very skilled swordsman who has developed a number of techniques and he can shoot his arrows very quickly while in mid-air. Why he can shoot arrows faster while falling rather than on the ground is a question a scientist like me can't answer.
Boomstick: But sadly despite how badass he is, he isn't invincible. It took him his second try to defeat Ganon because he kind of died on his first try because Zelda had to put him in a 100 year sleep so he could be back on his feet.
Wiz: His arsenal, mainly his swords, shields and bows do eventually break while his Master Sword does eventually come back, it does take some time and orbs do only have a few uses before they have to take an hour to recharge.
Boomstick: But no matter what happens, the Hero of the Wild will always fight even if he might die.
Steve[]
Wiz: So there really isn't an introduction for the world of Minecraft or really a backstory for Steve considering that Minecraft is heavily based on the real world apart from the monsters. So we should probaly just get onto Steve.
Boomstick: Steve is the main character in Minecraft and the character you play as. But for some reason his world is made out pixels like it's still 1997.
Wiz: Don't let that fool you though, Steve is a very resourceful character being able to make a weapon out of virtually anything. He can also place blocks which may not sound great on paper but they can actually work as small traps and blocks that actually follow the laws of physics, can be dropped on opponents.
Boomstick: Steve uses a crafting table that can forge almost anything except for a girlfriend which sucks because only the animals can have sex in Minecraft for some reason.
Wiz: Getting back on topic, Steve can use different materials to make swords, tridents, torches, bows, armour, tnt, pickaxes, axes and buckets that can store lava and water. His weapons and armour can be further enchanted to become sharper, more durable of even set Steve's enemies on fire.
Boomstick: He also has tools such as the Elytra which allows Steve to glide through the air and he even has TNT which can be planted and set off in a small timeframe and cover a large blast radius.
- clip of TNT blowing up an entire village*
Boomstick: COOOOL
Wiz: The Totem of Undying is a one-use item that can resurrect Steve if he is killed in battle and it slowly regenerates his health and even gives him extra health, he also owns a large amount of food that can heal him including golden apples which temporarily give Steve more life than his maximum limit.
Boomstick: His most varied range of weapons are his potions which can poison people, slow down people or decay people or Steve can use them for himself with potions that heal him, give him resistance to fire or make him stronger at the cost of his speed and that's saying something if Steve wasn't already strong enough.
Wiz: Indeed, Steve is very capable for a human being able to easily lift several blocks of solid gold and run round with it, single handedly took down the Ender Dragon and other monsters by himself, travelled to two other dimensions and he is very intelligent in not just combat as he is also a skilled farmer, blacksmith and many more jobs.
Boomstick: However what he has in strength, he lacks in speed clocking in at normal human speed and his durability isn't the best without his armour. However no matter how many times you kill Steve, he will keep coming back. I'm talking to you lava! YOU GLORIFIED MOLTEN ROCK!
Wiz: Wow, Boomstick I did not expect a geology joke from you.
Boomstick: Eh I read it one of your posters.
Pre-Fight[]
Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set. Let's end this debate once and for all.
Boomstick: It's time for a DEATH BATTLE!
Fight[]
Link is walking through a forest. Suddenly, he spots a herd of deer. Link hides behind some bushes and takes out his hero's bow and fires a bomb arrow successfully killing the herd. However before the hero could take the remains, a blocky figure came out of nowhere and picked up the meat.
Link shouted at the man with the latter equipping his diamond armour and equipping a diamond sword and shield. Steve looked up and saw the Hero of the Wild take out the Master Sword and an ancient shield. The two heroes prepared a fighting stance and looked at each other.
FIGHT!
Link slashed his sword which emitted two sword beams that travelled towards Steve. Steve barely had enough time to block both the blasts but when he looked up, Link was right in front of him and slashed at Steve repeatedly causing Steve to fly into a tree. Link smirked thinking he had already won as he took out his bow and knocked a fire arrow.
Steve quickly rummaged through his inventory until he found a potion which he drank. Link fired the arrow creating an explosion but much to his surprise, Steve walked out of the fire and attacked Link but Link was distracted by the fact that the fire was starting to spread so Link blocked one of Steve's hits then parried it, pushing Steve back.
Link crouched down creating an upward wind and he flew upwards with his paraglider leaving the forest just as it burned to the ground. When the fire cleared, Link spotted Steve whose potion had just ran out and the Hero of the Wild put his paraglider away and fired a few arrows which Steve effortlessly blocked. Link fired a shock arrowdisarming Steve and causing him to drop his shield.
Steve looked at his shield but then heard Link nock another arrow. Link fired a bomb arrow but Steve took out a shovel and started digging downwards which confused the Hero. Link landed on the ground and saw a big hole where Steve used to be. Link jumped into the hole and saw a pile of lava which prompted Link to take out his bow again and fire an ice arrow, evaporating the lava.
Link used his paraglider to land on the ground and he looked around. He saw four holes around him that were the height of humansand on the last gap he found Steve who threw an Ender Pearl which bounced off Link's ancient shield but Steve striking at Link with his sword. Link was struck back but Steve teleported to where the Ender Pearl was and slashed at Link again causing a cut across his back. Steve kept repeating this, teleporting to different gaps and striking Link each time.
Link charged up his sword and did a spin attack knocking down Steve and Link placed both of his remote bombs down and used Daruk's protection to create an orange force-field around him and Link detonated his bombs. Steve was sent flying back onto the ground with a hard thud with Link flying out of the cave using Revali's gale and flew above Steve, took out his Master Sword and plunged his sword downwards.
Steve was impaled right through the chest and the Player closed his eyes. Link put his sword back and stared at Steve in pity and walked away but felt an arrow pierce his back. Steve was very much alive thank to his Totem of Undying and Steve fired more arrows. Link put up his shield but Steve's arrows shattered the shield causing Link to stumble back.
The Hero of the Wild summoned the Master Cycle and lept upon it causing Steve to be confused for a brief moment until Link drove right at him. Steve barely got out of the way and not become road kill. Steve found his shield still lying and picked it up as Link took out his sword and drove at Steve and the sword and shield clashed but both shattered in the process.
Link turned around and took out his Ancient Spear while Steve took out two potions. Link charged at Steve but Steve threw one of his potions and drank the other. Link found that he and the Master Cycle were severely slowed down but Steve was also slower. Link charged at Steve but Steve took out an enchanted Diamond Sword and shattered the Master Cycle with one slash causing Link to stumble.
Link got his spear out again and started attacking Steve but because he was still slow, Steve successfully kept blocking the attacks. Steve through a splash potion at Link and poisoned him causing Link to slowly die. Steve hit Link on his leg with his sword causing the Hero of the Wild to fall down. Finally, Steve placed a stack of TNT around Link, with the Hero trying to attack but failing. Steve placed a torch next to the TNT and teleported away through an Ender Pearl and the TNT blew up.
Steve watched the smoke but heard a feminine voice saying "It was my pleasure" and briefly saw a ghost. Steve fired an arrow but heard it being sliced. Suddenly a powerful wind blew clearing the smoke and Link emerged flying in the air in his Barbarian armour with a bow in his hand. Steve tried doing the same thing but another shock arrow came and disarmed him.
Link plunged his Master Sword, now fully healed at Steve, Steve barely getting out again but force of the landing completely destroyed Steve's armour. Steve realised he couldn't win and in a last ditch effort, threw an Ender Pearl but the Hero of Hyrule took out the Sheikah Slate and pointed at the Ender Pearl and freezing it and Steve in time. The Hero slashed at Steve several times and finished with a spin attack combined with Urbosa's fury. Link threw his spear at the Ender Pearl just as the Stasis ran out and the Ender Pearl was sent flying and at it's highest point, Steve was teleported but he was just in blocky chunks now.
Link took out his bow so he could go back to hunting.
K.O!
Link is seen firing at a herd of deer while one of Steve's body parts land in the fire of a Bokoblin camp with the creatures looking at in awe
Results[]
Boomstick: Yuck! Are those things going to eat Steve?
Wiz: This was a close fight, Link and Steve both had significant advantages over each other but Link's advantages were more significant.
Boomstick: Steve can take the intelligence advantage, having multiple jobs besides beating up enemies such as being a blacksmith, miner, farmer you get the idea. But Link takes advantage in close range and long range combat advantage. If Link decides to stay afar from Steve, he can just shoot at Steve.
Wiz: Steve's potions could counter fire arrows but Link still has shock and ice arrows which lets Link get some easy strikes in. Speaking of strikes, Link is a far better swordsman than Steve because Link can fight using several techniques like the Flurry of Strikes and spin attack while Steve can really only strike horizontally and vertically.
Boomstick: The best advantage Steve had was his strength being able to move normally while carrying gold but carrying something isn't as good as punching something. Remember the divine beasts? In Link's battle against the Calamity, all four of the divine fired at Ganon and only took out HALF of his HP! And guess who single-handedly took the rest of him down? Yep Link and this makes him as powerful as giant-building-sized machines!
Wiz: Steve's best hope of beating Link was using TNT however even that might not work considering that Link can attack and kill enemies before they can even see him.
Boomstick: No matter how you slice it or dice it Steve just couldn't win
Wiz: The winner is Link
Advantages and Disadvantages[]
Link:
+Faster
+More experience at taking on multiple enemies
+More powerful
+Better fighter
+Better arsenal
+Several weapons have elemental traits that Steve can't cancel
=Mipha's Grace and Totem of Undying cancelled each other out
=Same human weaknesses
=Weapons can break
Steve:
+Stronger
+Smarter
+Used to fighting alone
=Totem of Undying and Mipha's Grace cancelled each other out
=Same human weaknesses
=Weapons can break </tabber>