DarkDragonMedeus said:
I was once again tired from a long day at work when I wrote that and I didn't have the full memory of the scene. When I rewatched it and saw the details, I crossed it out for that reason; so it's best not to address that bit. And it was already addressed about Lanaryu Vs Zant bit, so no need for repeated derailment. And the strawmanned conspiracy theories are unnecessary; only going to be informative, not to be offensive, but plenty of users have been banned for showing that kind of attitude towards the staff @Inverted Tempest.
Okay, then this isn't my fault. I'm not denying you even having a hard work day, but you shouldn't be
mocking my refutes, saying they're not absolute then try to get upset when I call you out for the exact same thing. If you're busy,
then you shouldn't be trying to excuse your refutes and should instead not be pushing I've done something wrong when I have more reason to assume you're trying to mislead people following the thread.
I didn't know you crossed it out for that, I thought it was because you were trying to mock the refute being bad in your eyes, as that's a very common usage of strikethrough. Regardless, I wasn't derailing with it, I already explained to you why it was relevant to establish that Zant was above the light spirits. Nothing really indicates they were stronger combined, which is elaborated more below.
And no, that remark comes off as incredibly offensive. I'll quote what I said, "
It's the complete other way around from what you were trying to say. So in short, you completely manipulated a scene that happened in Twilight Princess in hopes of getting a falsehood accepted, or you just aren't as knowledgeable as you think you are, it's quite literally that simple." What about this is a "strawmanned conspiracy"? All you can really call foul play on me for was being aggressive in my approach, but there are
others who have done the exact same thing on thread on the opposition which you've not protested against so these seem like real double standards. The only reason I've called you out for this was just you trying to act like my arguments were solely invalidated by the fact staff don't agree with me or this side of the coin, which isn't how a discussion should go down in which it's natural these tactics have to be resorted to make a point.
I was talking to Lightning and Giver, not you for those parts about Hero Shade. But still, curb stomping Tier 6 characters doesn't automatically mean Tier 4 is legit. Temple Bosses simply don't have any showings of being any higher than Tier 6, and Link beats them rather handley; but he's still not officially Tier 5 till close to end game for other reasons mentioned. The Solaris thread is a derailment and shouldn't be brought up here, but that one also has other issues; not just the holy weakness stuff.
That really isn't making a difference here, I can still help address the point for them. But regardless, I never claimed curbstomping a Tier 6 character made them Tier 4,
I said that the Light Spirits simply do not scale to Zant or Ganondorf though.
The Solaris thread? I'm not bringing up the thread, you cannot disregard my example just because there is an ongoing thread about it. I'm saying by the wiki's standards, weaknesses and exploitation of them
directly almost never let you scale to them. But if they are stomping those characters, then we don't really have a reason to assume that's his upper limit, you should literally never do as such if the feats are done casually, because that means no real effort was put into = not the full potential.
And 4 Spirits fused together, or spirits being reawakened causes numerous Twilight minions to be incinerated. Then again, a lot of things in Zelda are inconsistent, but that's because writers don't really care about power scaling and that's places like here exists to elaborate.
Okay, but the minions are below Zant very easily. My point was though that the Twili Zant sent to take care of the Light Spirits should honestly still disprove the notion they remotely scale. While a lot of them can be obliterated, what Zant sent isn't number specific whatsoever, but they'd still be below him obviously.
Also, using an assumption to counter an what you consider an assumption isn't really the best approach. Where actually do see the Sol Orbs up close; they're much smaller than an actual sun and don't appear to generate anywhere near as much heat or force as the sun. And yet, they're the closest things in the Twilight Realm to be considered stars or suns. But as mentioned above, it lacks any sort of concrete evidence to be a real sun. They're just solid orbs that generate light similar to sunlight; but not equal to a sun's GBE.
Because none of this is objective, it's all completely subjective like how most of fiction tends to be, there's not a distinct right or wrong and you know that. Anyway, assuming some of it is real and some of it is an illusion isn't a simplistic approach whatsoever, it makes far too many "compromises" to the point it gets invalidated by other alternatives. I.e., the fact it should all be real if more than a few things present are physically tangible and support Link.
The sun part has already been covered by Giver and Lightning so I find addressing this myself to be redundant if I do.
Anyway, this thread is getting too chaotic. And I'm pretty sure both sides are getting tired of arguing for Zant's Tier 4 rating. So I believe it's best to move on from that and go back to the credibility of Ganondorf flipping the Earth in Wind Waker.
No, all that accomplishes is you trying to shift the topic unnecessarily when we don't need to whatsoever. All that accomplishes is you silently going with "the staff agreed to this so we should put down this discussion, even though new points are continued to keep being made."
More importantly, none of the knowledgeable staff members agree with Tier 4 Zant. Not saying staff members are automatically obsolete over normal users, but it needs to be considered that our professional reasoning skills are what got us promoted to staff in the first place. We can't just upgrade characters or verses based something too vague; especially if appeal to popularity or fan service are the motivations behind it.
Staff Members aren't the end all be all determinants, you're supposed to help understand both sides of the argument, then proceed to justify your viewpoint. It seems more or less you're agreeing with a lot of what Cal's saying, even though everyone else addressed practically every point he brought up was incorrect and Dark649 doesn't seem to be taking much of a stance, only noting things once in awhile. Effectively, you're really the only Staff member representing your side, and that difference can't really matter when Cal has stopped replying and Dark isn't giving any input to the new parts of the discussion. I'm not saying you can't argue or anything like that as well, but this still sounds incredibly elitist on your behalf, this line specifically, "
Not saying staff members are automatically obsolete over normal users, but it needs to be considered that our professional reasoning skills are what got us promoted to staff in the first place."
And that's already been explained; the Light Spirits formed into the Bow of Light; which is what gives Zelda the power to give significant Damage to Ganon. Before one says, "Oh that's because of Ganon's weakness to holy magic". By that, Link Wielding the Master Sword wouldn't scale due to Ordon Sword among other weapons doing 0 damage to Ganondorf as well and being in the same boat as the Bow of Light. And saying it only stunned him and not actually hurt him is more game mechanics; Ganon still reacts in a way that he expresses pain same way with Master Sword or Light Arrows.
This point isn't valid for a multitude of reasons. Giver already went over why the Light Arrow point was wrong, Lephyr corrobated other weapons harm Ganon as well, but the reason Link scales to Ganondorf with the Master Sword is because he literally physically clashes with him, before hurting him with the Master Sword. Key example
in this scene right here. Link is literally physically holding back Ganondorf and physically overpowering him, even after their struggle. There are other moments like this in Zelda as well where they can still hurt him with other weapons so my point still stands, or else the weakness needs to be removed from his profile. Also, him expressing pain is a moot point if he literally is being hurt from the fact his weakness is being exploited.
No one said Zant was or the pots were illusions, only the backgrounds. But Warren mentioning Holodecks make sense as it produced an illusory sun as well as real steeps/hills. Also, that circle in Oblivion's picture looks like the same color as the sky not covered by clouds. Twilight Realm has a bright yellow sky and dark clouds with colors seen in the image.
Which still isn't a consistent PoV, it really seems unsupported that the rest is just an illusion, you keep treating Zant likes he's Infinite and casually creates illusions to this degree. Literally his best showing according to his page would be, "
Illusion Creation (Can create fake projections of himself to combat enemies)." You're suggesting he's conjuring up an entire illusion to this degree, when his best display is a completely bare minimum and underwhelming showing at best.