Editing Zelda (PM)

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|name         = Zelda

|image       = [[Image:Zelda SSBB.jpg|250px]]

|mod          = Project M

|base        = ssbb

|moveset1    = Zelda (SSBM)

|moveset2    = Zelda (SSBB)

|altcostume   = Ocarina of Time Zelda

|tier        = High

|ranking      = 3

'''Zelda''' is a playable character in the ''[[Brawl]]'' mod ''[[Project M]]''. She was one of the most buffed characters from ''Melee'' and ''Brawl'', going from being a low/bottom tier character in both ''Melee'' and ''Brawl'' to a formidable fighter that can be played without need of {{PM|Sheik}}. <!--tier position paragraph-->

In both ''Melee'' and ''Brawl'', Zelda was plagued for being large, floaty, and slow on the ground and in the air. Additionally, she was hampered by poor approach options. In ''Project M'', these weaknesses are addressed by significantly [[buff]]ing Zelda overall to the point where her pros generally outweigh her cons.

Zelda excels at defensive gameplay, being able to [[reflect]] projectiles with [[Nayru's Love]], her neutral special. This move can also be used for spacing. Zelda's side special, [[Din's Fire]], is a fiery, guided projectile that explodes after a few seconds or on contact. This move can be used to force opponents to move closer to Zelda or as a combo finisher. Other moves that Zelda can use for spacing include her jab, which has disjointed hitboxes, and her neutral aerial, which is good for aerial spacing. Her recovery, [[Farore's Wind]], is versatile in that it sends Zelda a good distance in any direction.

Despite being good for defense, Zelda is also a good offensive character, able to utilize combos and possessing many powerful finishers as well. Zelda's most notable finishers, her [[Lightning Kick]]s, cause high damage and knockback when [[sweetspot]]ted. Although difficult to sweetspot with, Zelda's down aerial is an effective [[meteor smash]]. Her up tilt, up aerial, and back throw are also KO moves at high percentages.  

Although she is much better character than either her ''Melee'' or ''Brawl'' iterations, Zelda still has many weaknesses. Her recovery can be easily prevented by proper [[edgehogging]]. Zelda's light weight causes her to be very vulnerable to many finishing moves. Lastly, while the return of ''Melee's'' physics make Zelda faster, she is still slower than the majority of the roster. In earlier version of ''Project M'', Zelda was considered by many to be a powerhouse due to her capability to use three quickly-moving Din's Fire projectiles at once. In ''Project M'' Version 3.5 and onward, Din's Fire was [[nerf]]ed so that only one projectile can be used at a time. On top of that, the speed of the remaining projectile was drastically lessened.

==Changes from ''Melee'' and ''Brawl'' to PM==

Zelda was immensely buffed from ''Brawl'' to ''Project M''.

*{{buff|[[Forward smash|Forward]] and [[up smash]]es link much better; while the latter uses its superior ''Brawl'' format with reduced hitlag, the former has more favorable angles for the multiple hits, both hitting faster and with fewer [[freeze frame]]s.}}

*{{buff|Neutral aerial's multiple hits link into each other much better, and the hitboxes are larger.}}

*{{buff|Up aerial has an early hitbox at the base of her fingertips which deals weak electric damage and links into her up air sweetspot. The explosion also deals more damage if it hits at the center.}}

*{{buff|Down aerial has also been made to sweetspot on grounded opponents in addition to aerial opponents. While the sourspot deals stronger damage, the sweetspot is significantly stronger than in ''Brawl'', and both are more powerful on aerial foes.}}

*{{nerf|Both forward and back [[Lightning Kick|Lightning Kick]] sweetspots are slightly weaker than in ''Melee''.}}

===Grabs and Throws===

*{{buff|Back throw is significantly stronger and is one of the strongest throws in the game.}}

*{{buff|Up throw has decreased knockback, so it can now be used to [[chaingrab]] opponents.}}

*{{buff|Down throw deals more damage and is drastically faster.}}

*{{nerf|Up throw deals less damage.}}

*{{buff|[[Nayru's Love]] is land cancelable after the attack frames end, and while the ground version has no such cancel, it posseses improved invulnerability.}}

*{{buff|[[Din's Fire]] functions significantly differently. Upon releasing a fireball, instead of quickly exploding it stops and hangs in the air for several seconds before exploding, and upon making contact with a foe, it inflicts damage and sets the fireball on a trail back to Zelda, hurting opponents that it hits. In addition to these changes, the control of fireballs is massively increased. After a fireball is suspended for too long, it will explode (like the original attack) and begin traveling, possesing wide hitboxes that deal strong knockback. Using Transform will also force it to explode. It also no longer puts Zelda into free fall if used in the air.}}

*{{buff|[[Farore's Wind]] can air dodge to interrupt teleporting from the ground, giving Zelda the ability to [[waveland]] or pseudo-wavedash any time during the duration of the move. The disappearance hitbox also has its ''Melee'' power, and its start-up lag has been reverted to its Melee self.}}

*{{buff|Can act out of [[Transform]] sooner, like {{PM|Sheik}}.}}

*{{nerf|Reappearance hitbox of Farore's Wind deals weaker damage.}}

*{{change|Transform now detonates all current fireballs on the screen.}}

*{{buff|Din's Fire buffed, increasing in size and power as it goes a greater distance.}}

**{{change|New function implemented. Pressing the side special button while a fireball is set stationary will allow it to return to Zelda. The time it takes for the fire to return and the amount of damage depends on how far Zelda launched it; if no action is taken after it is set, the fire will automatically return to her itself later.}}

**{{buff|Din's Fire slowly builds up power once Zelda places it, and it will self detonate after a set time. The explosion is large and powerful, and gives an advantage to attack those with higher damage or are stuck airborne.}}  

**{{nerf|The number of fireballs that can be on the screen at one time has been reduced from 3 to 1.}}

| || 2% (hits 1-2), 3% (hit 3) || Zelda sticks her hand out in front of herself and shoots small magical sparks. Disjointed with decent range.

| || 14% (tip), 13% (hand), 9% (body) || Zelda swipes her arm horizontally in front of herself with a boost of magic power. The attack has moderate knockback and sends enemies behind Zelda. Can be angled.

| || 15% (clean), 13% (late) || Zelda waves her arm above her head in an arc with a boost of magic power. Zelda's right arm is [[intangible]] while the hitboxes are out.

| || 10% (leg), 11% (body) || Zelda crouches and kicks her foot in front of her, hitting opponents low. This attack can [[meteor smash]] opponents who come in contact with Zelda's body and grounded opponents who come in contact with her foot.

| || 13% (clean sweetspot), 9% (clean sourspot), 8% (late sweetspot), 7% (late sourspot) || Zelda shoves her arms in front of her and pushes foes in front of her away with a boost of magic power. Sweetspot is located close to her body.

| || {{ChargedSmashDmgSSBM|1}} (hits 1-4), {{ChargedSmashDmgSSBM|13}} (hit 5) || Zelda charges magic energy in her right hand and flashes it in front of her, hitting opponents multiple times before knocking them away. Quick, with large range. However it can be escaped from with good [[SDI]].  

| || {{ChargedSmashDmgSSBM|1}} (hits 1-11), {{ChargedSmashDmgSSBM|4}} (hit 12) || Zelda charges magic energy in her left hand and waves it above her head twice, hitting opponents multiple times before knocking them away. This move is powerful, but can be SDI'd out of.

| || {{ChargedSmashDmgSSBM|12}} (front), {{ChargedSmashDmgSSBM|13}} (back) || Zelda quickly kicks on both sides of herself, knocking opponents away. This attack comes out very quickly and powerfully knocks enemies away horizontally. Zelda's leg is intangible while performing the move, making it a useful move for stopping projectiles.   

| || 2% (hits 1-5), 5% (hit 6), 3% (landing) || Zelda waves her arms around her, hitting opponents multiple times around her before knocking them away.

| [[Lightning Kick]] || 19% (foot clean), 16% (foot late), 8% (body) || Zelda quickly kicks in front of her, dealing great damage and knockback if the opponent is hit at the beginning of the move and just the tip of her boot strikes the opponent. Otherwise, it's extremely weak and doesn't KO until over 300% at the sourspot.

| [[Lightning Kick]] || 18% (foot clean), 15% (foot late), 8% (body) || Zelda quickly kicks behind herself, dealing great damage and knockback if the opponent is hit at the beginning of the move and just the tip of her boot strikes the opponent. Is slightly faster than her forward air but deals less damage at both the sweetspot and sourspot.

| || 5% (hit 1), 17% (explosion center), 14% (explosion sides) || Zelda brings her arm above her head and releases a fiery explosion above her head, dealing great knockback. Has a hitbox at startup that sends the enemy upward into the explosion afterward.

| || 18% (clean ground), 20% (clean air), 8% (late foot), 9% (late leg) || Zelda stomps her foot below herself. Like her forward & back aerials, if this hits within the first couple of frames with the foot, it causes a pause in the opponent's movement, then deals high damage and meteor smashes the opponent straight downwards very fast. If the opponent is grounded, it does slightly less damage and causes the enemy to bounce off the ground and into the air.

| || 10% || Magically twirls her opponent and throws them forward.

| || 3% (hits 1-4), 2% (throw) || Throws the opponent on the ground and shocks them repeatedly with magical bursts. The enemy will be launches upwards behind Zelda. While it is easily DI'd away to prevent any follow-ups, it has very good follow-ups if the opponent DIs wrong. At the edge of the stage, she can set up an early edgeguard.

| [[Nayru's Love]] || 1-2% (hits 1-5), 4% (hit 6 ground), 3% (hit 6 air) || Creates a crystal that slashes enemies and reflects projectiles. Has a few frames of invincibility near the beginning of the move when used on the ground.

| [[Din's Fire]] || 7-12% (fireball), 6-13% (set explosion), 10-25% (auto explosion), 4-9% (return) || Casts a fireball that explodes in a few seconds. The longer the hitbox is out, the bigger the ending explosion will be. The fireball slows down the longer the the button is held.

| [[Farore's Wind]] || 4% (warp & return) || Teleports in a given direction, dealing damage at both ends

| [[Transform]] || &mdash; || Transforms into [[Sheik_(PM)|Sheik]], detonating any undetonated fireballs.

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Zelda now has an alternate costume that is more closely based off [[Zelda (SSBM)|her appearance]] in ''Melee'', which itself was based off her appearance in ''The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time''. Oddly, the ''Brawl'' color palette which references the design featured in the alternate costume stays, despite Ganondorf's ''Ocarina Of Time'' based palette swap being replaced with the default color for his alternate costume, which is again based off of his ''Ocarina'' design.

|colspan=8|[[Image:Zelda Palette (PM).png|frame|center|Zelda's alternate costumes in PM]]

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|[[Image:ZeldaHeadRedSSBB.png]]

|[[Image:ZeldaHeadBlueSSBB.png]]

|[[Image:ZeldaHeadPinkSSBB.png]]

|[[Image:ZeldaHeadGreenSSBB.png]]

|[[Image:ZeldaHeadBlackSSBB.png]]

|[[Image:ZeldaHeadOoTPM.png]]

*[http://projectmgame.com/en/characters/zelda Project M character page]