r/Mipha

I think this is only the second Mipha fan art print I’ve ever encountered at any convention. I believe the same artist/vendor at the same convention last year had a Sidon print but hadn’t yet tried her hand drawing his sister. I guess patience pays off sometimes.

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)

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 😭.