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        = Low

|ranking      = 34

'''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 bottom tier character in both ''Melee'' and ''Brawl'' to a formidable fighter that can be played without need of {{PM|Sheik}}.

She still suffers from many of the problems she did in Melee and Brawl, but thanks to her buffs, she is placed 34th out 41, in the C tier. This is a very slight improvement over her 22nd out of 26 placement in ''Melee'' and a substantial improvement over her ''Brawl'' standing as 37th out of 38. Her tools are strong enough to make her a competent fighter, however, and numerous top placings by {{Sm|Zhime}} show that she can be deadly once mastered.

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.

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.}}

*{{nerf|[[Up smash]] has slightly smaller hitboxes.}}

*{{change|[[Up smash]] has lower knockback, allowing it to combo better, but it does not kill as early.}}

*{{change|[[Up tilt]] has much higher knockback, making it a potent kill move at the cost of combo ability.}}

*{{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 than before, the sweetspot is significantly stronger than in ''Brawl''}}

*{{buff|Both forward and back [[Lightning Kick|Lightning Kick]] are based off their Melee design with larger sweetspots.}}

*{{nerf|Both forward and back [[Lightning Kick|Lightning Kick]] sweetspots are slightly weaker than in ''Melee''. The sweetspot also decays with time, so only the first frame has the strongest hitbox}}

*{{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.}}

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

*{{nerf|The aerial version of [[Nayru's Love]] has no invulnerability.}}

*{{buff|[[Din's Fire]] functions significantly differently, loosely based on Viola's magical orb from Soul Calibur V.<ref>http://soulcalibur.wikia.com/wiki/Viola</ref> Upon releasing a fireball, instead of quickly exploding it stops and hangs in the air for ~3.5 seconds before exploding and returning to Zelda. Both the standing "mine" and the returning "wisp" will inflict damage upon making contact with a foe. If a foe runs into or hits the "standing mine" with a hitbox, it will return to Zelda without exploding. In addition to these changes, the control of fireballs is massively increased. Using Transform will also force it to explode. Zelda can manually detonate a traveling or standing Din's Fire by inputting side-special again. This explosion is significantly weaker than the timed explosion or the transform explosion, but is excellent for comboing. It also no longer puts Zelda into free fall if used in the air.}}

*{{buff|Zelda can input B at any time in the middle of the "invisible" portion of [[Farore's Wind]] to cancel the move early, giving Zelda the ability to shorten her teleport, similar to [[Fox Illusion]] and [[Falco Phantasm]]. Interrupting the teleport removes the reappearance hitbox. If begun on the ground and ended with a cancel on the ground, the move has significantly less endlag, giving Zelda a much-needed tool both in neutral and to chase down far away opponents.}}

*{{buff|The beginning hitbox of [[Farore's Wind]], when used in the air, sends foes at 40 degrees, instead of straight up, which is much more useful for edgeguarding.}}

*{{nerf|[[Farore's Wind]]'s reappearace hitbox comes out on frame 2 of reappearance, rather than frame 1}}

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

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

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

**{{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:ZeldaHeadPinkSSBB.png]]

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|[[Image:ZeldaHeadBlackSSBB.png]]

|[[Image:ZeldaHeadOoTPM.png]]