Link

Link is a Pokemon made in Batch 5 of Fun Pokemon.

## Origin

The inspiration for Link was the character named Link from The Legend of Zelda series and is the main character whom you play as in the games. Link has been shown to have a very large assortment of powers and items to use throughout the games and some of which contribute to the moves the pokemon uses. Link's abilities are not all derived from a single Link from a single game and gets stuff from different Links. Every abilities' origins are shown below in chronological game order:

* Spirit Shackle = Bow and arrows - TLoZ, ALttP, LA, OoT, MM, FS, WW, FSA, MC, TP, PH, ST, SS, ALBW, BotW
* King's Shield = Hylian Shield - OoT, TP, SS, ALBW, BotW
* Anchor Shot = Hookshot (or any variation) - ALttP, LA, OoT, MM, OoA, WW, TP, ALBW
* Leaf Blade = Master Sword - ALttP, OoT, OoS, OoA, FS, WW, TP, SS, ALBW, BotW
* Prism Armor = Tunic - All games made to date
* Leftovers = Fairy - All games made to date.

* The only Zelda games that have all of the above items are OoT and TP so Link can be thought of as one of those two Links for the Pokemon to make sense.

## Strengths

Link has many strengths over a wide range of categories, mainly offense and defense, making him a very strong and balanced Pokemon. He has Leaf Blade as a good STAB move to deal a large amount of damage per turn, Anchor Shot to restrict the opponents options and deal damage at the same time, and Spirit Shackle which does both. He also has the OP King's Shield to protect himself from any incoming attacks and possibly debuff the opponents as a bonus. In addition, he has Prism Armor to limit damage done by attacks that would normally do big damage to him and Leftovers to heal automatically at the end of every turn. Finally, he has a very high special defense stat to maximize his defensive potential.

## Weaknesses

Link has very few flaws which is why he is a top tier Pokemon and is sometimes picked next to first in a draft. The only way that he could be dealt with in a smart way is if the opponent has one, or preferably two to increase success rate, fast Pokemon that has a type combination that Link can not easily deal with and super effective moves to kill him quickly. However, even then it is difficult because Link has a wide variety of move types and therefore good type coverage and King's Shield, Prism Armor, Leftovers, and High Special Defense to stay alive for a long time. In addition, neither type of attack (physical or special) is effective, physical because King's Shield will gradually reduce the attack stat of his attackers and special because of his alarmingly high special defense, so the best way to deal damage to him is with status moves, particularly Toxic. If he is Toxiced, it will eventually get him to a low enough health to be killed at and his Leftovers will not be able to keep up with it. However, this is a long process and not that many of our Fun Pokemon have Toxic.

## Trivia

* Link is considered to be one of the best Fun Pokemon made because of all of his strengths and minimal weaknesses, his rank rivaling even those of Fun Pokemon such as Hadune and Solguin.
* Link is one of the best, if not the best, examples of how a Pokemon should maintain its offensive and defensive capabilities to maximize it's potential in a battle while not losing it's main focus to accomplish this goal.
* Decidueye was chosen to be Link's base Pokemon because they look slightly similar and do similar things, despite one of them being an owl.