Zelda (SSBU)

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Zelda has unique high-risk/high reward [[aerial]]s which boast immense kill power power. Zelda can auto-cancel both her [[neutral aerial|neutral]] and [[down aerial|down]] aerials in a short hop, and [[forward aerial|forward]] and [[back aerial]] auto-cancel from a fast fall. Though her neutral air lacks notable KO ability, it has a fast start-up with a long active duration, dealing decent damage. Her neutral air is her most versatile aerial, used as an anti-air and burst option, combo-extending tool (and sometimes starting them), out-of-shield option, shield pressuring tool, and occasionally edgeguarding. Although the horizontal knock-back on the last hit of neutral air makes comboing afterwards difficult, it often means giving Zelda enough space to setup phantom or a ledge-trap situation. The first hit of neutral air when auto-canceled can pop opponents up and lead into a variety of confirms, but due to her mobility, this mostly is not a practical option. Additionally, opponents can occasionally fall out of her neutral aerial, making it an inconsistent tool in practice.

Her forward and back aerials are known as Lightning Kicks. Both of these aerials possess a very small but powerful sweetspot at her foot, dealing 24% with high knockback. The sweetspot is only active for the first frame, with the late hit or "sourspot" dealing 4% with minimal knockback. Both kicks boast an extremely fast startup at frame 6, but have very punishable ending lag, making them high risk/high reward aerials. Their fast startup and powerful knockback means they work as landing aerials to punish whiffed attacks, and work decently as deadly out of shield options with misspaced attacks. Their short active frame for the sweetspot and punishable ending lag/sourspot means they are very risky when used as rising aerials (or if whiffed at all in any application), as missing or hitting opponents with the sourspot will almost always mean Zelda will get punished. Up air is a large, disjointed explosion with excellent damage and knockback, however with significant startup and no horizontal range. Down air, sometimes nicknamed the "Lightning Stomp", is a meteor smash with a powerful sweetspot on her foot, similar to her Lightning Kicks. However, unlike her Lightning kicks, this sweetspot is much larger, making it much easier to connect despite it short active window. Also unlike the lightning kicks, its sourspot has a large and lingering hitbox that always ~~spike~~ opponents downwards. It is amongst the most powerful meteor smashes in the game, and one of Zelda's most useful aerials. Besides being one of the best meteor smashes in the game, it also has great utility in platform chases and is a great punish tool as hitting it on grounded opponents will allow Zelda to combo into lightning kick and up-air. Overall, her aerials are all unique high risk, high reward moves.

Her forward and back aerials are known as Lightning Kicks. Both of these aerials possess a very small but powerful sweetspot at her foot, dealing 24% with high knockback. The sweetspot is only active for the first frame, with the late hit or "sourspot" dealing 4% with minimal knockback. Both kicks boast an extremely fast startup at frame 6, but have very punishable ending lag, making them high risk/high reward aerials. Their fast startup and powerful knockback means they work as landing aerials to punish whiffed attacks, and work decently as deadly out of shield options with misspaced attacks. Their short active frame for the sweetspot and punishable ending lag/sourspot means they are very risky when used as rising aerials (or if whiffed at all in any application), as missing or hitting opponents with the sourspot will almost always mean Zelda will get punished. Up air is a large, disjointed explosion with excellent damage and knockback, however with significant startup and no horizontal range. Down air, sometimes nicknamed the "Lightning Stomp", is a meteor smash with a powerful sweetspot on her foot, similar to her Lightning Kicks. However, unlike her Lightning kicks, this sweetspot is much larger, making it much easier to connect despite its short active window. Also unlike the lightning kicks, its sourspot has a large and lingering hitbox that always spikes opponents downwards. It is amongst the most powerful meteor smashes in the game, and one of Zelda's most useful aerials. Besides being one of the best meteor smashes in the game, it also has great utility in platform chases and is a great punish tool as hitting it on grounded opponents will allow Zelda to combo into lightning kick and up-air. Overall, her aerials are all unique high risk, high reward moves.

Her [[special move]]s take inspiration from various Zelda titles. Her neutral special move, [[Nayru's Love]], is a [[reflection|reflector]] that doubles as a melee attack; Zelda also is intangible from frames 4-13 of the move. These traits make it useful against [[projectile]] users as well as evading/halting opponent’s combos. [[Din's Fire]], her side special move, sends out an explosive ball of fire that explodes on the release of the button or when reaching max charge, becoming more powerful and flying further the longer it is charged. It possesses a powerful sweetspot in the inner part of the explosion, with an otherwise large explosion hitbox. The ball of fire does not count as a projectile, but the explosion can be absorbed. In addition, for the first time in the series, Zelda can use it to cover her recovery, as it no longer leaves her helpless in midair. Her up special move, [[Farore's Wind]], is a fantastic recovery tool, allowing her to make it back to the stage in almost any off-stage situation. Due to it's quick startup and deadly knock-back, it functions as a deadly out of shield option, though DIing out of the second hit is possible if the opponent is ready or has already buffered another move. It can work as a burst option to read predictable rolls or anti-zone, but she suffers from great ending lag so this option is extremely risky. As a teleport recovery, it can be tricky to edgeguard or ledgetrap Zelda due to its reappearance hitbox, but certain characters can threaten her at ledge if they have a deadly 2-framing option. On top of this, it can have anti-ledgetrap and mindgame potential if one opts to use the aforementioned powerful second hitbox instead of snapping to ledge. And, much like {{SSBU|Palutena}}'s [[Warp]], she can completely avoid the move's ending lag by using a technique called [[edge cancel]]ling, which grants her access to otherwise-impossible approach and stage control options.

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 Zelda has unique high-risk/high reward [[aerial]]s which boast immense kill power power. Zelda can auto-cancel both her [[neutral aerial|neutral]] and [[down aerial|down]] aerials in a short hop, and [[forward aerial|forward]] and [[back aerial]] auto-cancel from a fast fall. Though her neutral air lacks notable KO ability, it has a fast start-up with a long active duration, dealing decent damage. Her neutral air is her most versatile aerial, used as an anti-air and burst option, combo-extending tool (and sometimes starting them), out-of-shield option, shield pressuring tool, and occasionally edgeguarding. Although the horizontal knock-back on the last hit of neutral air makes comboing afterwards difficult, it often means giving Zelda enough space to setup phantom or a ledge-trap situation. The first hit of neutral air when auto-canceled can pop opponents up and lead into a variety of confirms, but due to her mobility, this mostly is not a practical option. Additionally, opponents can occasionally fall out of her neutral aerial, making it an inconsistent tool in practice.
-Her forward and back aerials are known as Lightning Kicks. Both of these aerials possess a very small but powerful sweetspot at her foot, dealing 24% with high knockback. The sweetspot is only active for the first frame, with the late hit or "sourspot" dealing 4% with minimal knockback. Both kicks boast an extremely fast startup at frame 6, but have very punishable ending lag, making them high risk/high reward aerials. Their fast startup and powerful knockback means they work as landing aerials to punish whiffed attacks, and work decently as deadly out of shield options with misspaced attacks. Their short active frame for the sweetspot and punishable ending lag/sourspot means they are very risky when used as rising aerials (or if whiffed at all in any application), as missing or hitting opponents with the sourspot will almost always mean Zelda will get punished. Up air is a large, disjointed explosion with excellent damage and knockback, however with significant startup and no horizontal range. Down air, sometimes nicknamed the "Lightning Stomp", is a meteor smash with a powerful sweetspot on her foot, similar to her Lightning Kicks. However, unlike her Lightning kicks, this sweetspot is much larger, making it much easier to connect despite it short active window. Also unlike the lightning kicks, its sourspot has a large and lingering hitbox that always spike opponents downwards. It is amongst the most powerful meteor smashes in the game, and one of Zelda's most useful aerials. Besides being one of the best meteor smashes in the game, it also has great utility in platform chases and is a great punish tool as hitting it on grounded opponents will allow Zelda to combo into lightning kick and up-air. Overall, her aerials are all unique high risk, high reward moves.
+Her forward and back aerials are known as Lightning Kicks. Both of these aerials possess a very small but powerful sweetspot at her foot, dealing 24% with high knockback. The sweetspot is only active for the first frame, with the late hit or "sourspot" dealing 4% with minimal knockback. Both kicks boast an extremely fast startup at frame 6, but have very punishable ending lag, making them high risk/high reward aerials. Their fast startup and powerful knockback means they work as landing aerials to punish whiffed attacks, and work decently as deadly out of shield options with misspaced attacks. Their short active frame for the sweetspot and punishable ending lag/sourspot means they are very risky when used as rising aerials (or if whiffed at all in any application), as missing or hitting opponents with the sourspot will almost always mean Zelda will get punished. Up air is a large, disjointed explosion with excellent damage and knockback, however with significant startup and no horizontal range. Down air, sometimes nicknamed the "Lightning Stomp", is a meteor smash with a powerful sweetspot on her foot, similar to her Lightning Kicks. However, unlike her Lightning kicks, this sweetspot is much larger, making it much easier to connect despite its short active window. Also unlike the lightning kicks, its sourspot has a large and lingering hitbox that always spikes opponents downwards. It is amongst the most powerful meteor smashes in the game, and one of Zelda's most useful aerials. Besides being one of the best meteor smashes in the game, it also has great utility in platform chases and is a great punish tool as hitting it on grounded opponents will allow Zelda to combo into lightning kick and up-air. Overall, her aerials are all unique high risk, high reward moves.
 Her [[special move]]s take inspiration from various Zelda titles. Her neutral special move, [[Nayru's Love]], is a [[reflection|reflector]] that doubles as a melee attack; Zelda also is intangible from frames 4-13 of the move. These traits make it useful against [[projectile]] users as well as evading/halting opponent’s combos. [[Din's Fire]], her side special move, sends out an explosive ball of fire that explodes on the release of the button or when reaching max charge, becoming more powerful and flying further the longer it is charged. It possesses a powerful sweetspot in the inner part of the explosion, with an otherwise large explosion hitbox. The ball of fire does not count as a projectile, but the explosion can be absorbed. In addition, for the first time in the series, Zelda can use it to cover her recovery, as it no longer leaves her helpless in midair. Her up special move, [[Farore's Wind]], is a fantastic recovery tool, allowing her to make it back to the stage in almost any off-stage situation. Due to it's quick startup and deadly knock-back, it functions as a deadly out of shield option, though DIing out of the second hit is possible if the opponent is ready or has already buffered another move. It can work as a burst option to read predictable rolls or anti-zone, but she suffers from great ending lag so this option is extremely risky. As a teleport recovery, it can be tricky to edgeguard or ledgetrap Zelda due to its reappearance hitbox, but certain characters can threaten her at ledge if they have a deadly 2-framing option. On top of this, it can have anti-ledgetrap and mindgame potential if one opts to use the aforementioned powerful second hitbox instead of snapping to ledge. And, much like {{SSBU|Palutena}}'s [[Warp]], she can completely avoid the move's ending lag by using a technique called [[edge cancel]]ling, which grants her access to otherwise-impossible approach and stage control options.