Game Theory: Is Link the STRONGEST Video Game Character? (Legend of Zelda)

Dang it Matpat make sure you finish the video AFTER you sleep.

Not to mention the grip strength required to lift it despite not having the center of gravity in his favor

I wish it would be the end of this theory and the other theories he was working on before Xmas and after New Years need to be finished like his hiimmarymary theory it’s been over for a while know and I’d l like to know his thoughts on it

What about how strong his back has to be to also lift it

@@bellechloe5159 yeah

Cluck

📝

Not even 15 minutes aftrr the video is posted and I see this comment. I approve.

Silverlight Yoake gotta get it in before the filthy casuals

*throws cucco in the lava at death mountain*

lmao

wasted opportunity

Good one

well true

The Golden triceps

Underrated comment

Holy crap you got a heart

I thought his shield was titanium?

@@errinsk9 nope, wiki says steel.

You mean he is lifting even heavier weights, weights don't get stronger

@@XENOX-777 Idontknowwhatyouretalkingabout.

It's actually canonically Hylian steel, which is supposedly more dense than average steel. I can't find a direct source for this, but it was in one of the games.

steve can lift a nether fortress in his pockets. hbt link

@
Yeetus the Almighty, Slaughterer of Gods. no one asked 👌

@@SpaceRexy same goes for u???

@
Yeetus the Almighty, Slaughterer of Gods. I luv u

@@SpaceRexy that makes the number of ppl that love me go from -6 to -5

Well, I guess the legacy of the hero of time really lives on.

@@raawesome3851 Well, Link reincarnates, so it's still technically the same guy, just going by different names.

@@XanderVJ and yet he studied on the timeline

@@XanderVJ also why is everyone in hyrule naming their children Link

@@ShadowBlast-nd5vb because he is a famous hero. There are people who name their kids after other people all the time ( some of those namesakes aren’t worthy though).

Thank you, that's what I wanna know

I was hoping he would

Also, im not sure if he counted the fact that with the silver gauntlets, Link was pushing the block against 3 different surfaces

It was also a different block to find out how much stronger link would have gotten the same block should have been pushed with each glove

According to my (very rough and probably wrong) calculations, estimating starting conditions of-
200 meter throw height,
0.75 seconds to reach max throw height
0.2 acceleration period where he holds onto the pillar
mass of the pillar given in the video
I estimate that the force he is applying over that 0.2 second period is 1.6 billion N or 37 million lbs.
I may have gotten some conditions incorrect or something but overall I would say somewhere in the ballpark of this range.
EDIT: I forgot to factor in gravity into my calculation, so the true force that he would be applying would be the force I said above added to the force of gravity acting on that pillar, making it even more than what I said.

@Over 900000 8000*

I think he mentioned that at some pint in the "battle of Links" episode

yeah but the hero of time is the one that taught twilight princess link how to fight in the first place

@@xenoncry3413 Swordplay doesn't equal Sumo wrestling.
It's not like he made him lift weights.
Not only that, but Twilight Link already knew how to fight. The Hero's Shade only taught him advanced techniques. That's like saying that my college professor, who taught Linear Algebra, was the one responsible for teaching me everything else I learned in school (Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Algebra 2, etc).

right as well as the gorons but GANON?!

Any amount you just might not win

*volume of endless universes*

Link can do that while slowing down time, wheight is just another property if things for him

@Roel nice one

Dont mind me just carrying unbreakable thing

@@tamoozbr Actually, due to shulker boxes, steve can litterally carry infinate wheight depending on how many different shulkers he uses

I believe that the measurements were actually supposed to be 14.6 m for the height and 3.0 m for the width. 146 m would slightly exceed the height of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

@@BalkanGames
The more you know. 😋
(Duly noted.)
Then that would make the distance around 50 meters.
Still impressive, though.

This. I fully expected a calculation of the force needed to throw it like he did

Because Science did already cover everything in this video plus the final pillar hurl

YEET

"THATS MORE THEN 450 GRAND PIANO"

Than

Fixed

FOOTBAW

m.krplus.net/bidio/YtmteF2iprGdY4Y&persist_app=1&app=m

I watched a video calculating how much force that would take but I forgot the numbers

@@justyourfriendlyneighborho903 1 small jet engine

Reflects a guardian's laser shot which has enough power to 1 shot even a full 20 heart Link and explodes at the end so has compression and force behind it unlike the normal laser

He was even able to block and react to a few shots from god while other gods just died

Czar Khasm yeah but he skipped most of the calculations...

@@lluviatibia8722 did you want a part two video?

@@Caterwaulin actually... why not ^_^

Czar Khasm yes. This...is Game Theory.

@@Caterwaulin I actually wouldn't mind it if they did it this way: a shorter video to just hit the big points of the amusing ways game elements translate weirdly into real life, and then a longer video for us math nerds who would find it funny to see all the steps laid out in detail.

Robinhood Men in Tights, nice reference

Tight tights

@@degraves2003 Manly men!

We raom around the forest looking for fights

I can hear this reply😂😂 beatiful

Actually he can buff that down to one click without even aiming at any entity to kill every single entity /kill

And he can also remove the universe doing more damage then that

And be fricking unkillable with creative mode

@@unlisted5474 and with mods crate other universe

@@gtaonlineitgoodgame465 he can already create other universe

I love Robin Hood: MiT

Manly men!

Tight tights. Lol

WERE MEN WERE MEN IN TIGHTS WE GO AROUND LOOKING FOR FIGHTS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#001 Still to this day one of my favorite movies.
We're MEN!.....We're men in tights!......

Increasing a limb up to near light-speed should take less Force/work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But how big is popstar. Kirby isnt even a foot tall.

In Kirby 64, the planet 'Shiver Star' is what appears to be a post apocalyptic Earth, thereby making Popstar similar in size.

funniest comment in this video XD

@@jimmybowman6294 As we see in Milky Way Wishes (same game the planet splitting feat comes from) Popstar is the largest planet in the kirby universe, and is even larger than it's own sun, however this all means nothing as the sun and moon could be the two boss enemies from earlier games, however, in Milky Way Wishes one could argue that there's a bit of perspective trickery going on, as you can see kirby huge in comparison to Popstar when in Megaton Punch he isn't even visible on the surface.
Basically the math at absolute minimum would be like Kirby compared to the sun compared to Popstar which would probably yield an insane amount of force.
But that's not even his best feat, his best is definitely the "World Crisis" in star allies, where he bats an insanely large meteor 9999 lightyears and smashes it through multiple celestial bodies along the way, all in about 5-10 seconds.

That would be a very interesting episode. Maybe a THE SCIENCE episode

don't forget about the huge wardrobe he has inside his pockets

@@randomhuman5714 🤯🤬 Mojang add items being able to stack past 64 again please

@@NatetheNintendofan like what? It makes no sense to stack more than 64.

in botw link can hold 999 star fragments in his inventory, don´t know how much star ¨fragments¨ weight but I do know that stars weigh a lot

Its not austin, its matpat.

@keller milbourn who is ShoddyCast?

@@cabrinius austin but his own channel

Not gonna lie Austin>MatPat just my opinion

dum. dada-da-dum...

Link: **Can lift giant granite blocks** Okay boss, is that good enough?
Kirby: krplus.net/bidio/idahZmaWqoTZp2U *NO*

*nubblies, not arms.

@@mrreyes5004 how do you make the link go to a certain length in time?

Kirby actual only has a strong breathing muscles

Sorry for being a "well actually" person but as someone who deadlifts, a lot of it is in the legs. Lifting with your arms or spine is like an instant injury. So Link deadlifting that giant stone was just as much a leg strength feat.
Nitpicking a joke, but I get the feeling that Matt does not deadlift

And the thrown fist of a Talus. That was also a big number.

And in totk you can attach a boulder to a sheild and he can continue like it is nothing

Death Battle is a joke

@@matteopoldrugo9535 entertaining though. But yes.

Death battle? You're kidding right?

To be fair, they did that analysis b4 rooster teeth took over, so there wasn't any bias or bullshit. And it still holds up.

@@yoshiblade316 but now they allow Green Lantern to defeat Ben fricken 10

Lego: hold my world manipulating powers

@@kindnesstemmie6625 Steve: Hold my world manipulating powers. :)

OLD JOKE

Alex xx so true

And chests that hold almost an uncountable amount of gold and blackhole density

xince lmfao

makes more sense than the steve theory

Minecraft steve though

i hate kirby

@@hudsonkane209 not scientifically possible

@@sypenn2502 kirby is a ball

steve cant punch werry well

Sekiko Gaming double fisting vodka time

Adrian Galewski It really does not matter when you have infinite strength.

Steve IS the strongest

Adrian Galewski ERM he can desintegrate a solid 1 meter by 1 meter block of iron in mere minutes

Naw that’s not the based on our system at all, it’s just that we are ✨super creative✨ Get on our level.

As an American I feel this *is* our metric system. But you’re not wrong about the ✨creative✨ part XD

It's equivalent of 1/15th of the Eiffel Tower

King Yoshi more like the roughly 1000x the length of 4 recently hatched caterpillars if you stacked them end to end!

get outta here gacha kid

Can't Matpat feel proud of his theories AT LEAST ONCE

@@dylanwhipple9882 this one theory was just incomplete

@@Mr.Voiddweller BUT CAN HE AT LEAST FEEL PROUD ABOUT IT

Dylan Whipple bro chill your cap lock is on

@@C0ZYL4ZY oh no I made it caps

enchanted golden apples consist of 8 gold blocks in the past, and a single apple, making one, which means 1 enchanted golden apple will weight 154560.8 kg, which is 267081062.4kg per shulker box due to the fact that there is 27 slot and 64 enchanted golden apple per slot, adding up to 267081062.4kg, then an inventory can hold 36 items but because of the off hand that increases to 37, which is 9881999308.8kg for 37 shulker filled to the brim with enchanted golden apples, since the enchanted golden apple recipe have been remove, it means nothing, because it still consist of the same things even tho the recipe is removed because when you craft it before 1.9 and then bring it to 1.9 and after wheere there is shulker box, you spent the same amount of gold, so steve can hold 9881999308.8kg, which is 10 billion kg if you round it off and 9.88 Mega tons.

which is literally more then link....

but if you were to use gold blocks, its just a simple Divison of 8, but then because the apples, even if you Divide it by 10, which is way less than it should weight, its still, millions of kg, sooooo steve is stronger

Kenhel Austin does another episode on putting embedded chests into embedded chests and find out that Steve can walk around with 10^505 universes in his pocket so ya I ain’t putting much hope on link

Plus Steve can literally punch through a solid 1m cubed block of stone in seconds

no

Ye

no

@@Dhjsaha I'm sure there aren't shulker boxes in breath of the Wild

No

steve "laughs in 10,000,000,000 LBs"

@@bloodlust_9890 Link ¨laughs in carrying 999 stars in his inventory¨

ShoutingDerek He did say stronger than 99.9% of all game characters

ShoutingDerek didn’t even play the game but still the first thing I though of

Lol

Yup and in that 0.01% kirby is definitely there too. He has been beating reality manipulators for quite some time now. But I do feel like asura is the strongest video game character

What about the Terrarian

Steve: pulls out laptop "/gamemode c b*tch!"

@@Equinox401 labtop

The funny thing is bedrock is not as hard to break in real life

Unstoppable force meets immovable object

Steve's Bizarre Adventure part 4: Bedrock is Unbreakable

@sahib jacthceth galvez The game still checks for it... This is common knowledge for people who play rando... Why? Idk the devs were lazy I guess

Yet, if we go back to Darunias room, without any strength enchantment, he can still move the statue, which looks to weigh a ton of so.
*Hmmmm*

Don't you cut THROUGH bushes in Ocarina of Time?

@@Wolffman109 the bushes are so thin it doesn't matter if he slices through it since a SWORD is required

uh, he can't even WEAR THE GORON BRACELET AS AN ADULT IT'S TOO FRICKIN' SMALL

YES

True that

**starts trading like they're pokemon cards**

And about 5000 steel rods and silos

Steve: *laughs* *in* *several* *universes* *inside* *duped* *chests*

@@elecstorm3701 modded steave: laughs in diamond shulker boxes filled with 8X compressed cobblestone aka 43 million cobblestone in a single block.

Well, the Steve's unlimited power episode was on The SCIENCE. Just thought I'd mention it :)

@@Iraijus Still, to Steve, those weights are for rookies.

Erez Boyarski agreed

I was about to say that !

@@DeeTheRocketeer Yeah, of course. The joke's still correct. Steve is almost infinitely stronger than...anyone, I guess.

about 8,000 eiffel towers

*10^505 universe

My question is why the little Steve win-win and beat beat Mario automatically in Smash

Cuz that would be unbalanced

Kratos: I can lift the moon

*HYLIAN YEET*

and he's lifting the gauntlets themselves

Dont forget those empty bottles too

And he parries a lynel charge with the shield

As well as a sword and a bag of items three tunics the ocarina of time and 99 of each arrow.

Well, adding the Skulker boxes to the equation would probably decrease the weight from a block of gold, due to likely being multidimensional in nature, and thus, shunting it's mass into another dimension, making it less affected by gravity. (Plus this fits with Skulkers projectiles). Plus, all item entities in Minecraft float in water, meaning they have a density lighter than water. Yes, even the blocks of gold. This is something intrinsic to the world, not just Steve, as TNT, Creepers, and other explosions, will also result in blocks being turned into item entities.

@@NomekopLightspeed True, I didn't think about the water floating part before, that's quite interesting.

bedrock: you have no power here

frozenLake what about Kratos? His Tyrs Temple flip?

Notch apples would be heavier since they are 8 gold blocks and an apple.

Steve can hold infinite amounts of universes in his hands and still jumps a full 1 meter up without even losing a pixel height

@@thetrgger8630 true but you're not supposed to be able to do that so his max is really the full inventory of gold blocks

Golden Experienced but he CAN do it though

@@misko2952 netherite okay does this comment might have been made before netherite existed

He doesn't skip leg day

Minecraft steve and his universe full of chests of gold in his pocket and still able to run faster than the average human

I think matpat conveniently forgot that

But they are

Well hey he runs for miles

2 years later netherite blocks or even better enderite

in botw link can hold 999 star fragments in his inventory, don´t know how much star ¨fragments¨ weight but I do know that stars weigh a lot

lol

XDDD

He isn't the weirdest... Also you forgot researching for hours and hours for thing nobody really cares about (Except for gamers)

Drinking diet coke in the closet

Nepheos Random child: Oh cool your dad’s a KRplus star.
Matpat’s child: He is on a crusade to prove Video game logic doesn’t exist.

That battle was b.s. mixed multiple different links and gave him items while cloud got diddly

Death battle is a joke

@@soraceant Absolutely true! They put an imaginary Link which is never seen in ANY of his games against a lv. 0 Cloud and still had to fudge things to force Link to win. That's some unbelievable bias right there.

Yeah, Death Battle is kinda.. Ugh... Like, Dio would beat Dracula!

Oof y’all saltier than me at the Green Lantern vs Ben Ten fight. Anyways, it was a bad matchup in total, because DB always takes the composite character, vs an iteration of a character. The problem is that Cloud strife doesn’t have 10 games to composite, but link of course does.

I was also am i only one who say the yellow in the logo now

You, dweeb

Its WallBangs looks like someone didn’t get high grades in school

Yeah, science!

Me

Maybe they're short tons?

He means imperial tons, not metric tonnes.

@@Riku70X TIL there are tons and tonnes, and that they are two different things

Searched for that comment. I wish for the remaining few countries to join the metric system. (I mean... the US tried... but in the end it‘s in the hands of the people...)

77 thousands kilograms not just 77

Hoi, I'm temmie, would you like some temmie flakes?

jeSUS AGElvis shulker boxes

@Nikil Pakianathan actually he is right, in creatibw mode or in a certain version, you can hold chests full of stuff in your inventory

THIS IS WHAT IM TALKIN ABOUT! Steve is a feckin God of Gods of Gods of Gods!

E n d e r.
C h e s t.
1 0 0.

Phlimbob84 you aren’t really supposed to be there in the first place without the bracelet so the devs just didn’t give adult link the bracelet strength by default

This annoyed me so much. I know he doesn't play randomizers and doesn't know, but do some research first cmon!

@@jeremiahpozzolo Adult Link doesn't wear the bracelets.

DirtyDoge young link wears the bracelet which doubles his arm strength throughout his adventures before becoming a adult. I assume adult link doesn’t have the goron bracelet in the future because it rusted away into dust, I’m not sure what kind of metal would rust away like that in 7 years but it’s like magic and what not lol

It's not on his character model though. So it's not unreasonable to think he's not wearing it, even if it bugs out

i know how you feel

my first thought was "calm down it was only like 3 years ago"

Me with a brain still processing what happened in 2015: What do you mean way back in 2014?

what makes me sad is seeing robbie's editing :( RIP

Blue Dragon Entertainment same .-.

DASH-dragon- CLAN well,to be fair,two different guys got to those conclusions, mat pat and Austin

@@cardescomedioses3674 true but I am pretty sure since they share channel the look at each other's scripts

bro it's steve from minecraft they made a video about it

Kirby: POYO

What about the terraria caracter, i mean she is the only one who can be close to Steve? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️Right???🤔

MHM, I GET IT

oh-

YOU SON OF A-

What is Escape the Night? Lol

@@michael-angelothe69th18 A series on YT that MatPat was part of.

Goldlight101
The anime isn't canon to the games

well, he DID say stronger than 99% of characters.

@@nightwalker174 krplus.net/bidio/odhumqShdp3Yq3o
From the game and before you ask the mini games are canon.

That was in a game

Steve

Diego Gutierrez poyo

Not much math required here. Just basic physics concepts to apply. Force (F) = Normal force (N) x the coefficient of friction (μ). N = mass (M) x gravity (g). M = volume (V) x density (p) The coefficient of friction is the proportion of F/N. It gets slightly more tricky when on a slope or calculating work to push a load for a distance. Here, he's only calculating the force to overcome the static force of friction for an instant.

@@ytv2779 My brain just broke...

my lord im dead

My grade 7 brain stopped working here

My favorite language

So Minecraft Steve is still stronger?

Asura appears, kratos appears, steve appears.

steve can't even break bedrock

@@glazeuniversagladis2499 actually, Link is probably better than kratos.

Samus entires

@@glazeuniversagladis2499watch Austin's video of strength and he will show you how strong Minecraft steve is

114.3kg

marcelo kraft its 114 kg’s👍

I had to ask Google and pausing the video haha

@@oofbychips1809 No

pink doe well no, but actually yes

i think Botw link is the strkngest base link and Oni link being stronger than every other link lol

@@RinkuHeroOfTime why did you put lol in IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SENTENCE

DOOM GUY: Am I a joke to you!?

Laughs in Kirby*

What about Doom guy and the Dark Souls character you controll??

MatPat: Yeah, but I'm talking more LORE
Austin: Yeah, but Scientifically--
MatPat: LORE
Austin: SCIENCE
Matpat: NO IT IS LORE

Hotel: Trivago

@@tapirovec 🔼

agreed lets give matpat the view time

adamekzlobivej god that was just pathetic

Like number 100

Noah McClure sans: *Am I joke to all of you?*

@@chlozentimes yup, you are

@@chlozentimes Shaggy: am I a joke to you

Kirby:am i a joke to you

RPG characters with full inventory: lol.

yea but he can parry a lynal which requires more force than a rockent engine and he does it with his non dominatant hand

@@linkplays2952 steve punching down a tree in 8 hits of his fists (cubic meter of hard wood) is enough energy to send a 100 rockets into space for each hit

@@devibruin9061 in botw link can hold 999 star fragments in his inventory, don´t know how much star ¨fragments¨ weight but I do know that stars weigh a lot

Diddy Kong Racing!

AeroQC nice idea!

Future theory video comfirmed!

F ZERO vehicles are going roughly 500km/hr on the straights without boosting. Safe to say they would destroy any other racers.

F-zero. In the tie-in tv show (which IS canon don't let anyone tell you different) they can move at light-speed.

Me too ewe

Lol too accurate describing "screaming" there

He just said Link was strong and pointed out he was worthy of being in the conversation for strongest.

@@javidproductions9353 if you watched the video he compares link to Steve and says that Steve wouldn't compare to how strong link is then a few videos later he re-do's all the math and finds out Steve would be 1,000,000x strong then link and link wouldn't compare to his strength

Kirby uses tumors instead of arms 😄

Kirby is an amoeba!

Kirby has chopped a star in half. I don't think it gets much stronger than that

and he is being of infinity energy

@@quatjohn4375 exactly