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→‎In competitive play: Updating; removed Mr. R because I found just a couple low tier tournament usages, which were apparently not noteworthy enough to land him on the best Links thread on Smashboards. Removed Scabe for competing in a very weak region and not doing that great there. Removed Xavier because he has just a few mediocre results. Also unsure of the blurb for Scizor, his wiki page doesn't have much Brawl results, but the aforementioned SB thread backs up the claim of being the best

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 Link has among the worst matchup spreads in ''Brawl''. He soft counters two characters, {{SSBB|Ganondorf}} and {{SSBB|Zelda}}, and is even with three, but is soft countered by seven, countered by 20, and hard countered by four. He suffers against characters who can outspeed him such as {{SSBB|Sonic}} and {{SSBB|Sheik}}, characters who can outcamp him such as {{SSBB|Falco}}, or characters that can chaingrab him to death such as {{SSBB|Ice Climbers}} and {{SSBB|King Dedede}}. Overall, Link has very few advantageous matchups, and his positive matchups are rarely seen in competitive play.
-===Notable players===
+===Most historically significant players===
 :''See also: [[:Category:Link players (SSBB)]]''
-*{{sm|Izaw|Sweden}}
+<!--This character has a ten player limit for this section. Before adding and/or removing a player, read these guidelines: https://www.ssbwiki.com/SmashWiki:Notability#%22Most_historically_significant_players%22_guidelines -->
-*{{sm|KirinBlaze|USA}}
-*{{sm|Legan|USA}}
+*{{sm|Izaw|Sweden}} - Known as the best Link player in Europe and one of the very few to achieve any regional notoriety with the character. Managed to place 33rd out of 140 entrants at [[Bushido Brawl Impact]], the only ''Brawl'' major that Europe ever had.
-*{{Sm|LordXav1er|USA}}
+*{{sm|KirinBlaze|USA}} - Known as the best Link player in the world for most of ''Brawl''{{'}}s competitive life, while playing him alongside a {{SSBB|Mario}} comain. Placed 49th out of 192 entrants at [[Pound 4]], 33rd out of 148 entrants at [[MLG Raleigh 2010]], and 33rd out of 151 entrants at [[Pound V]], which even with a co-main, remains the only times Link was ever seen in the top 64 of ''Brawl'' majors aside from Izaw's lone major placement.
-*{{sm|Mr. R|Netherlands}}
+*{{sm|Legan|USA}} - Competed with KirinBlaze as the best Link player for most of ''Brawl''{{'}}s competitive life, while unlike Kirin he was a solo main. While Legan never competed at majors, he had some impressive placements at large Midwest regionals, including 33rd out of 117 entrants at {{Trn|School is in Session 3}}, 13th out of 70 entrants at {{Trn|School is in session 6}}, and 17th out of 89 entrants {{Trn|VENGEANCE}}, a level of regional performance that few bottom tier mains ever touched.
-*{{sm|Scabe|Australia}}
+*{{sm|Scizor|USA}} - Known as the best Link player in the world by the end of ''Brawl''{{'}}s active competitive life. While he never competed in a ''Brawl'' major, he got respectable placements using Link in [[SoCal]] regionals near the end of ''Brawl'', which was considered the second strongest region in North America after [[Tristate]]. Such placements include 17th out of 54 entrants at [[Forest Temple]] and 17th out of 59 entrants at {{Trn|Final Battle}}.
-*{{sm|Scizor|USA}}
 ===Tier placement and history===
-Despite the considerable power buffs he received in ''Brawl'', his amazing [[momentum cancelling]], and being given a usable DACUS, Link has perpetually hovered among ''Brawl'''s bottom four characters since the first tier list. Link's terrible and extremely gimpable [[recovery]] has always significantly limited his survivability even in the early inexperienced ''Brawl'' [[metagame]], and his very sluggish attacks and terrible mobility significantly inhibited Link's ability to effectively compete even from the earliest stages of competitive play. While Link had renowned players, such as {{Sm|KirinBlaze}}, {{Sm|Legan}}, {{Sm|Izaw}}, and {{Sm|Scabe}} in Australia, none of these players have ever achieved notable tournament results beyond the local level, and all of them have either dropped Link for a better character or stopped playing ''Brawl'' competitively altogether. As such, Link's competitive prospects have never gotten prospered throughout Brawl's competitive lifespan, and while he is very rarely thought of as a candidate for the worst character in the game, it is extremely unlikely Link will ever rise beyond the bottom tier, as he has a minuscule playerbase and ''Brawl''{{'}}s metagame has become mostly stagnant.
+Despite the considerable power buffs he received in ''Brawl'', his amazing vertical [[momentum cancelling]], and being given a usable DACUS, Link has perpetually hovered among ''Brawl'''s bottom four characters since the first tier list. Link's terrible and extremely [[gimp]]able [[recovery]] has always significantly limited his survivability even in the early inexperienced ''Brawl'' [[metagame]], and his very sluggish attacks and terrible mobility significantly inhibited Link's ability to effectively compete even from the earliest stages of competitive play. While Link had a few renowned players, such as {{Sm|KirinBlaze}}, {{Sm|Legan}}, and {{Sm|Izaw}}, these players were never a high placing threat at majors, with no Link player ever placing higher than 33rd at a major, and even at average regionals, making top 8 was unobtainable. Eventually all of them either dropped Link for a better character or stopped playing ''Brawl'' competitively altogether, and while {{Sm|Scizor}} would emerge late in ''Brawl'' as a strong Link player in one of the strongest regions, he too couldn't buck this trend. As such, Link's competitive prospects have never prospered throughout Brawl's competitive lifespan, and while he is very rarely thought of as a candidate for the worst character in the game, he never rose beyond being considered a bottom tier.
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