THIS SUB IS GENUINELY UNINTERACTABLE

He’s just a chill guy

Top 1 pick to jump off a cliff with

It’s just… asinine

There’s a reason when told of in her stone monument, it was mainly about her connection with her lightscale trident. If I asked most people of the power rankings of the champions, they’d usually say Urbosa > Revali (or Revali > Urbosa) > Daruk > Mipha. It is for unfair reasons. The reason is usually “she’s a healer, she was not meant to fight”. I’d like to point out however, that as much as she was an exceptional healer, she was an exceptional spear-woman and likely the greatest spear-fighter of all of Hyrule - even Link - at the time.

See, the Zora’s depend on their ability of water of pretty much everything; swimming, fighting and healing what I can think of right now. This is mentioned in the TotK stone monument, “The fluid spear and solid water”. Mipha has shown to have the highest capabilities in water-bending by an exceptional margin. First of all, let’s mention Mipha’s grace. Water in the LoZ universe is shown to have healing properties directly accessible by all the zora*.* Maybe seeing this, the ancient Sheikah tried to replicate this capability, and created the shrine of resurrection. Mipha is capable of doing what the sheikah did approximately 3.15 BILLION times faster, if we assume Mipha’s grace activates on frame 1 of Link’s death, and a frame is a second. To the Zora, not only do the Zora need waterpools as shown by Yona’s healing in TotK, it also takes a while. Mipha DOESN’T. She can heal anywhere. She is considered an exceptional healer by her people, not random hylians, as Laflat explicitly describes her as such. For defense, Mipha has a very powerful healing for such cases, and would make her THE most powerful asset an army can have for war.

Secondly, her offensive water powers. As shown in AOC; even if it’s gameplay, she can create powerful waves and rushes of water, with incredible shown amounts of force. It’s pretty simple, really, powerful rushes of water are really dangerous.

Thirdly, her physical form. Many people would call it nearly nothing, but her form is of agility and speed, as well as strength. She is many times considered a first-rate swimmer in AOC, has the highest waterfall climbing speed of all the domain (and possibly all time), and is very quick with her spear as shown in her AOC attack speed. Such speed puts her ways above anybody in agility.

She is shown to have tactical brilliance, shown in her many tactical announcements in many fights in AOC.

She has also some notable achievements, like being the quickest pilot to master her divine beast due to having possibly the strongest spiritual connection in all of Hyrule, having an accurate version of her putting link in a stunlock in the champions 1v4, and being the one Link goes to learn from about the spear in a aoc dlc quest, specifically to perfect his ability in the spear, showing how she’s better than even Link in the spear.

As such, having amazing and the best water capabilities to support her spear-play and general waterbending power, having a quick and powerful form, and having potentially the best technique of all time in Hyrule in spearplay and waterbending, makes her possibly the best spear fighter of all time in Hyrule and more than deserving of her position as champion.

Now, how this compares to the other champions:

Urbosa is potentially very strong, but she cannot defend well if you attack her aggressively and quickly enough, as shown by thunderblight. As such, Mipha can potentially even take down Urbosa due to her tactical brilliance and quick mobility, as long as she doesn’t get hit in the process. Saying so, Mipha vs Urbosa is more of a tie than you think and Mipha can potentially be better than Urbosa in general.

Revali may have dangerous arrows (and is capable of taking down Windblight, you didn’t change my mind but that’s a discussion already past), but his arrogance has shown to stop him from going to his full potential multiple times, and since water can slow down arrows and has range, and that Revali usually doesn’t have electric arrows in hand, Mipha vs Revali is also a closer fight than you think, and Mipha can also be stronger than Revali in general, making her the strongest champion of all Hyrule.

Daruk (the actual weakest champion) doesn’t have tactical brilliance and can easily be outsmarted and outplayed. As so, even though Daruk can pack a dangerous knock-out in one hit, he wouldn’t survive any of the champions.

So my actual ranking is: Mipha > Revali > Urbosa > Daruk

(Edit: Even if Mipha loses in a match-up between the champions, she still has many effective points for technique and abilties, and still would be the most useful in an actual war + would be possibly the most dangerous opponent out of the 4 to go against)

(Well I’ve been getting myself into a lot of controversial posts recently, but oh well)

The most common reasons people say that the fight was unfair was

1: bad night vision

2: rain

However, Windblight glows in the dark as well as divine beast vah medoh itself, and rain should be a factor he should be ready for as he can’t control it, and even without bomb arrows he should be able to beat Windblight Ganon.

When revising the AOC cutscene, I see that Revali’s strategy wasn’t the best. For a slow, precise shooter that is Windblight he should have been flying circles and shooting barrages of arrows at him, similar to his champions balled cutscene. However, he was flying in a straight line trying to dodge it and when his arrow got knocked out of his hand he thought he had actually had TIME to look at it! Simply, it just looks like he was “winging it”, and for that he died.

Edit: You do know how Revali’s sos signal in his divine beast is later and more panicked than of the other champions? That’s further proof his arrogance made him fall - once he realized he was losing (which is because of his arrogance) he started panicking.

Red-associated princess from a kingdom prime long past, have a diagonal pogo, skirt design (👀), are capable of healing, have a long-ranged weapon, and are able of manipulating a liquidish-material. They are also pretty similar in fighting style.

Bonus one: The kingdom they live in/ go to’s currency starts with the letter r 😭.

Along my playthroughs, I’ve realized different shapes of Zora Waterbending implemented throughout the games. This will be a post mentioning all the ways of Zora waterbending seen in all three wild era games (didn’t play AoI). There will be many points that I’ll cover here for each game. Now, let’s begin.

BotW

This game doesn’t have many mentions of Zora waterbending, especially compared to the other 2 wild era games. If game was on its own, I wouldn’t think the zora are capable of manipulating water at all. But there is one instance seen in-game of Waterbending - Mipha’s grace. Water particles are shown when given the ability from Mipha herself, and when used water surrounds Link to heal him back to health and more. In fact, we see at the beginning of the game at the shrine of resurrection how the Sheikah used water to be able to heal Link back to full health - with many large consequences that Mipha’s grace doesn’t have. As such, I believe that water has healing properties in at least the wild era games, and that the Zora are capable of waterbending significantly stronger than what science could do.

AoC

In this game, both Zoras are capable of bending water for not only for defense, but offense as well. While Mipha can teleport from water spouts (probably only for gameplay), she can also use the water to heal herself and allies, further proving that water has healing properties. Furthermore, both Sidon and Mipha can use the force of water to damage and stun enemies. The water forced from them are greatly powerful, showing that the Zora can use water for offense strongly. Lastly, in an interview it was stated that when developing Mipha giving her water powers seemed natural and that it fit, although I don’t have that evidence.

TotK

This is the game where waterbending between the Zoras is most explained. First of all, upon entering the domain, we can see Yona healing 2 injured Zora using her water powers. However, the healing was only done in a pool of water, something shown that Mipha can do outside, so it may be that Mipha’s waterbending is vastly more powerful than any of the Zora. In fact, stated in botw, her healing is deemed as “exceptional”. Healing wherever you want can be considered exceptional, as in nobody else can do that. Furthermore, at Mipha court you can see Sidon practicing his Waterbending to separate the clean and mucked water. This is another Waterbending practice the Zora are capable of. Finally, Sidon’s waterbending manifests as Sidon’s vow, a power where Sidon can use water for defense and aggression, depending on what Link needs. As seen, it is vastly different from Mipha’s grace, and Yona was the one who had to heal the injured Zora, which leads me to believe that it can possibly be that the male Zora are not capable of healing, but they make it up with stronger force in their water. Finally, there’s the stone tablets, where Sidon mentions how that ALL Zora can manipulate water to some degree, and can use for many purposes. A notable use is for swimming - they manipulate water to swim faster, and can be what made Sidon causing a whirlpool possible. He also mentions how his first discovery of strong Waterbending is when trying to catch a slipped spear, where “the water was solid and spear fluid”. This was apparently told to him by Mipha as well, showing that: 1) Spear play among the Zora might heavily depend on water manipulation for their advantages and 2) Warriors with refined technique may have a sense the average Zora can‘t experience.

Conclusion

Waterbending is one of the Zora’s main powers, effectively used for everything in their daily life. From swimming to fighting to healing, the Zora’s use water in a way no other race can even replicate. Overall, the Zora are a strong water tribe that have fully learned how to use water to their advantage, an advantage no race can keep up with as expected.