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As title says, Current Light arrows Scaling is messed up
It basically revolves around huge assumptions, and the method is inconsistent and it isn't applied in the same fair way in-between OOT and MM.
1. Giant Link having the same exact strength of one of the Four Giants is a huge assumption. There isn't any scaling, one could argue that if Link really gets the exact same strength of one of them, he could just call 3 out of the 4 giants to stop the moon and be the fourth himself, while it is essential to bring all of them of course.
He gains the might of their race, just exactly the other masks grant him the same abilities of Zora, like swimming.
This isn't like omnitrix, the masks don't give Link the peak of the race abilities and strength necessarily. But let's grant this for good, since one could argue it is a fair assumption based on occam's razor, which I wouldn't disagree necessarily with, but since "becoming a dragon" with draconification wasn't threated in the same way, it would be more consistent and fair to have more proofs behind it, because statement similar like "gets the might of a dragon" can be founded as well, but since here comparisons aren't very much appreciated and labaled as whataboutism when they aren't, I'll keep explaining why it still wouldn't work even if we assume Giant Link actually gets that might.
2. Light arrows game mechanic is only present in the 3Ds version of the game, which it means it doesn't necessarily retcon the lore behind the fight, since at the end of the day you still need the giant mask to defeat twinmold according to game guides. It could just be a mechanic implementation.
Here, literally:
"To have a fighting chance you must supersize yourself by wearing the giant Mask", so this would imply that light arrows alone wouldn't be enough to finish off this enemy, they wouldn't give Link a chance to defeat them for good.
But let's even grant this for good as well, there are still major inconsistencies on why the light arrows wouldn't scale to twinmolds' durability:
- the arrows are used to shot their eyes, which is a major weakness, both fictional and real life the eyes don't have the sturdiness and durability of the body, and second of all the arrows got an anti-evil hax property, so that they can damage the enemy isn't necessarily due to AP, since they got no known resistance to that hax. Plus, again, you must use the giant mask if we go by lore which would mean you cannot defeat them for good with arrows, and even if gameplay allows you to, that's not much different from defeating Ganon with a wood stick in BOTW, which is also the same justification we have for the same game for not scaling base Link to Majora just because you can choice to not wield fierce deity mask and beat the boss.
This is apparently how according to staff and knowledge members in the previous thead the golden sword could hurt Ganon, so that they can stun, damage twinmold by hitting the eyes and having an anti-evil property wouldn't be enough for AP scaling.
3. Even if we still gonna go with the light arrows - giant Link - twinmold scaling, then we should for the same very reasons scale the light arrows to Majora HIMSELF, since according to the official source of hyrule encyclopedia, he is vulnerable to light arrows and in fact can be damaged by them in both the original and 3Ds game if we go by gameplay.
So, this would mean either breaking the chain-scaling between Four giants - Giant Link - twinmold - light arrows - Ganondorf, downgrading Ganondorf with ToP to At least High 6-C (and even more characters) OR upgrading ToP Ganondorf to Star level by tanking light arrows that can hurt 4-C Majora.
It basically revolves around huge assumptions, and the method is inconsistent and it isn't applied in the same fair way in-between OOT and MM.
1. Giant Link having the same exact strength of one of the Four Giants is a huge assumption. There isn't any scaling, one could argue that if Link really gets the exact same strength of one of them, he could just call 3 out of the 4 giants to stop the moon and be the fourth himself, while it is essential to bring all of them of course.
He gains the might of their race, just exactly the other masks grant him the same abilities of Zora, like swimming.
This isn't like omnitrix, the masks don't give Link the peak of the race abilities and strength necessarily. But let's grant this for good, since one could argue it is a fair assumption based on occam's razor, which I wouldn't disagree necessarily with, but since "becoming a dragon" with draconification wasn't threated in the same way, it would be more consistent and fair to have more proofs behind it, because statement similar like "gets the might of a dragon" can be founded as well, but since here comparisons aren't very much appreciated and labaled as whataboutism when they aren't, I'll keep explaining why it still wouldn't work even if we assume Giant Link actually gets that might.
2. Light arrows game mechanic is only present in the 3Ds version of the game, which it means it doesn't necessarily retcon the lore behind the fight, since at the end of the day you still need the giant mask to defeat twinmold according to game guides. It could just be a mechanic implementation.
Here, literally:
"To have a fighting chance you must supersize yourself by wearing the giant Mask", so this would imply that light arrows alone wouldn't be enough to finish off this enemy, they wouldn't give Link a chance to defeat them for good.
But let's even grant this for good as well, there are still major inconsistencies on why the light arrows wouldn't scale to twinmolds' durability:
- the arrows are used to shot their eyes, which is a major weakness, both fictional and real life the eyes don't have the sturdiness and durability of the body, and second of all the arrows got an anti-evil hax property, so that they can damage the enemy isn't necessarily due to AP, since they got no known resistance to that hax. Plus, again, you must use the giant mask if we go by lore which would mean you cannot defeat them for good with arrows, and even if gameplay allows you to, that's not much different from defeating Ganon with a wood stick in BOTW, which is also the same justification we have for the same game for not scaling base Link to Majora just because you can choice to not wield fierce deity mask and beat the boss.
This is apparently how according to staff and knowledge members in the previous thead the golden sword could hurt Ganon, so that they can stun, damage twinmold by hitting the eyes and having an anti-evil property wouldn't be enough for AP scaling.
3. Even if we still gonna go with the light arrows - giant Link - twinmold scaling, then we should for the same very reasons scale the light arrows to Majora HIMSELF, since according to the official source of hyrule encyclopedia, he is vulnerable to light arrows and in fact can be damaged by them in both the original and 3Ds game if we go by gameplay.
So, this would mean either breaking the chain-scaling between Four giants - Giant Link - twinmold - light arrows - Ganondorf, downgrading Ganondorf with ToP to At least High 6-C (and even more characters) OR upgrading ToP Ganondorf to Star level by tanking light arrows that can hurt 4-C Majora.
