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'''Ganondorf''' ({{ja|ガノンドロフ|Ganondorofu}}, ''Ganondorf'') appears as an unlockable playable character in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''. His design (and model) is directly taken from his appearance from the SpaceWorld 2000 [[Nintendo GameCube|GameCube]] tech demo, which is itself based on his appearance in his original Gerudo form from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]''. Ganondorf is a [[clone]] of {{SSBM|Captain Falcon}}, and as such, he fights in a brawler style similar to Captain Falcon, but in a slower, more powerful manner.

Ganondorf currently ranks 14th in the C+ tier on the ''Melee'' [[tier list]], which is his best placement in the series. Ganondorf boasts extreme power, good reach, decent [[chaingrab]]bing ability, and very useful aerials, including the strongest [[meteor smash]] in the game in his down aerial. He also has several effective edgeguarding options including the aforementioned down aerial, both the strong and weak hitboxes of his up aerial, and his back aerial. Nonetheless, Ganondorf has extreme flaws to counteract these great strengths as well. He has a bad neutral game due to his poor [[dash dance]] and lack of non-committal approaching moves, forcing Ganondorf players to rely more on reads and baits, and the punishes that come with them. However, Ganondorf is also very susceptible to punishes himself, as he is easily [[combo]]ed and [[chaingrab]]bed due to his size and weight, and is very easily edgeguarded due to his very predictable (albeit long) recovery; however, the latter would be among the worst should the aerial Wizard's Foot be absent during the process. He is also vulnerable to projectiles and has few ways to deal with characters that outrange him or have very fast attacks. Because of this, while Ganondorf has good [[matchup]]s against characters ranked lower than him, and a few high tiers reliant on wavedashing for movement, he struggles to maintain ground against top-tier characters, such as {{SSBM|Fox}} and {{SSBM|Sheik}}.

==How to unlock==

==Attributes==

***{{buff|It has higher base knockback than the Gentleman (20 → 30).}}  

***{{nerf|It has more ending lag than Falcon's Jab 1 (IASA 16 → 19).}}

**{{change|It has an [[electric]] effect.}}

*[[Forward tilt]]:

*[[Up tilt]]:

**{{buff|Up tilt deals significantly more damage (13% → 27%) with drastically higher base knockback (50 → 110), able to KO from center under 25% and at 0% near ledges and is thus the strongest tilt in the game.}}

**{{change|Up tilt has a wind effect while the leg is lifted up and an explosive effect that deals flame damage when the leg strikes the ground.}}

*[[Down tilt]]:

''For a gallery of Ganondorf's hitboxes, see [[Ganondorf (SSBM)/Hitboxes|here]].''

[[File:GanondorfAerialAttacksSSBM.png|thumb|Ganondorf's aerial attacks]]

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*Ganondorf is tied with the {{SSBM|Ice Climbers}} for the world record in the [[Home-Run Contest]]. Ganondorf is also the only character that can break the max distance in the Home-Run Contest without the use of a [[glitch]] or [[Action Replay]] (the Ice Climbers have to utilize the [[freeze glitch]] to break the max distance).

*When Ganondorf's trophies are viewed under the "night"/"dark" background in the Trophy Gallery, his eyes glow. He is the only character whose trophy holds this trait.

*Ganondorf is the only clone whose original character ({{SSBM|Captain Falcon}}) is from [[F-Zero (universe)|a different series]].

**Sakurai did not plan to include Ganondorf as a playable character in ''Melee'', only including him later in development because his body had a very similar build to Captain Falcon's, allowing him to be easily added on as a last minute clone of Captain Falcon.

==References==

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==External links==

{{SSBMCharacters}}

{{Zelda universe}}