Game Theory: Is Link the STRONGEST Video Game Character? (Legend of Zelda)

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It's been a while since I talked about Legend of Zelda, and since Nintendo released a teaser trailer for Breath of The Wild 2, I figured it was about time we revisited the franchise. I've talked a LOT about this world, its timelines, and pretty much every version of Link there is - so what's left? Well Theorists, today we are doing some heavy lifting and figuring out just how strong our hero Link REALLY is!
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Credits:
Writers: Matthew Patrick and Justin Kuiper
Editors: Josh Langman, Alex "Sedge" Sedgwick, Tyler Mascola, and Marc Schneider
Assistant Editor: AlyssaBeCrazy
Sound Editor: Yosi Bermam
Sources:www.aqua-calc.com/page/densit...

[@MarioMiyamoto]

Matt: "But hey, that's ju-" Me: "HOLD UP! You said how strong Link was to lift the rock, but what about the height and distance he threw it BACKWARDS?" This theory ain't over yet, folks

[@menacingarc2297]

Dang it Matpat make sure you finish the video AFTER you sleep.

[@trueblade444]

Not to mention the grip strength required to lift it despite not having the center of gravity in his favor

[@bellechloe5159]

I wish it would be the end of this theory and the other theories he was working on before Xmas and after New Years need to be finished like his hiimmarymary theory it’s been over for a while know and I’d l like to know his thoughts on it

[@pkbackthrow]

What about how strong his back has to be to also lift it

[@danielbrownii3079]

@@bellechloe5159 yeah

[@aine3523]

Link: “I fear no man.... but that thing” **A cucco clucks in the distance** “....It scares me”

[@furstyboys7204]

Cluck

[@firecracker6140]

📝

[@silverlightyoake9938]

Not even 15 minutes aftrr the video is posted and I see this comment. I approve.

[@aine3523]

Silverlight Yoake gotta get it in before the filthy casuals

[@sliggoomaster7213]

*throws cucco in the lava at death mountain*

[@FableReign]

I think Mat missed the chance to call Link's muscles the Triceps of Power

[@somedudeplayingasaxophone9285]

lmao

[@somedudeplayingasaxophone9285]

wasted opportunity

[@leineejeanherrera-lim6249]

Good one

[@oliverluce315]

well true

[@RealMysticalMan]

The Golden triceps

[@flashproductions9148]

Links stamina bar actually is really impressive. Every second is equivalent to 1 minute in game. Which means he’s sprinting at full speed for around 10 seconds at least.

[@-C.V.N-]

Underrated comment

[@illay3647]

2:01 you definitely missed a triceps joke right there

[@patty069]

Holy crap you got a heart

[@bilbot.baggins9019]

MatPat: Lemme try character strengths! Austin: Stand down, final warning

[@Daiceto]

@Over 900000 8000*

[@itsjt8217]

“Link’s feats of strength throughout the series is common” *Reflects on every time link touches a boulder*

[@internal.rage.]

steve can lift a nether fortress in his pockets. hbt link

[@SpaceRexy]

@ Yeetus the Almighty, Slaughterer of Gods. no one asked 👌

[@internal.rage.]

@@SpaceRexy same goes for u???

[@SpaceRexy]

@ Yeetus the Almighty, Slaughterer of Gods. I luv u

[@internal.rage.]

@@SpaceRexy that makes the number of ppl that love me go from -6 to -5

[@sirmrthe3rdesq974]

“Aka the Hero of Time” *shows picture of the Hero of the wild*

[@raawesome3851]

Well, I guess the legacy of the hero of time really lives on.

[@XanderVJ]

@@raawesome3851 Well, Link reincarnates, so it's still technically the same guy, just going by different names.

[@ShadowBlast-nd5vb]

@@XanderVJ and yet he studied on the timeline

[@ShadowBlast-nd5vb]

@@XanderVJ also why is everyone in hyrule naming their children Link

[@GODOFAWSOMENESS1]

@@ShadowBlast-nd5vb because he is a famous hero. There are people who name their kids after other people all the time ( some of those namesakes aren’t worthy though).

[@Project129]

"To lift it cleanly off the ground." -Matthew, Talking about the Granite Pillar I want to actually know how much strength it would take to not only lift it, as he says, but you need to remember he threw it overhead with enough force to cause a violent fragmentation. Perhaps we can get that answer here in the comments?

[@jamanijones2549]

Thank you, that's what I wanna know

[@brysenwhite8957]

I was hoping he would

[@bugalugga8531]

Also, im not sure if he counted the fact that with the silver gauntlets, Link was pushing the block against 3 different surfaces

[@owenhart2813]

It was also a different block to find out how much stronger link would have gotten the same block should have been pushed with each glove

[@shadowrim5560]

According to my (very rough and probably wrong) calculations, estimating starting conditions of- 200 meter throw height, 0.75 seconds to reach max throw height 0.2 acceleration period where he holds onto the pillar mass of the pillar given in the video I estimate that the force he is applying over that 0.2 second period is 1.6 billion N or 37 million lbs. I may have gotten some conditions incorrect or something but overall I would say somewhere in the ballpark of this range. EDIT: I forgot to factor in gravity into my calculation, so the true force that he would be applying would be the force I said above added to the force of gravity acting on that pillar, making it even more than what I said.

[@FirionLeFleur]

So quick fact, the shield isn't iron, it's canonicaly steel. Meaning that he's lifting EVEN HEAVIER weights than before.

[@errinsk9]

I thought his shield was titanium?

[@FirionLeFleur]

@@errinsk9 nope, wiki says steel.

[@XENOX-777]

You mean he is lifting even heavier weights, weights don't get stronger

[@FirionLeFleur]

@@XENOX-777 Idontknowwhatyouretalkingabout.

[@emlie9918]

It's actually canonically Hylian steel, which is supposedly more dense than average steel. I can't find a direct source for this, but it was in one of the games.

[@ShadowPhoenix4798]

I would like to see a theory on how much force would be needed to wrestle the Gorons in twilight princess

[@ehhhhhh1885]

I think he mentioned that at some pint in the "battle of Links" episode

[@xenoncry3413]

yeah but the hero of time is the one that taught twilight princess link how to fight in the first place

[@g.masterlordoftheg-force4770]

@@xenoncry3413 Swordplay doesn't equal Sumo wrestling. It's not like he made him lift weights. Not only that, but Twilight Link already knew how to fight. The Hero's Shade only taught him advanced techniques. That's like saying that my college professor, who taught Linear Algebra, was the one responsible for teaching me everything else I learned in school (Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Algebra 2, etc).

[@mrtheunknownytquestion4592]

right as well as the gorons but GANON?!

[@Repair9851]

Any amount you just might not win

[@roel9314]

Steve be like: “Don’t mind me just carrying the volume of the sun”

[@egekahraman8985]

*volume of endless universes*

[@tamoozbr]

Link can do that while slowing down time, wheight is just another property if things for him

[@liamryantrinanes753]

@Roel nice one

[@SnowBoy1008]

Dont mind me just carrying unbreakable thing

[@badomen7199]

@@tamoozbr Actually, due to shulker boxes, steve can litterally carry infinate wheight depending on how many different shulkers he uses

[@Otatsuke]

I love how you end the episode with him lifting a 146m, 1.5 million pound object from two points in the worst position to grab it from (best out of it, though) and then never even mention him *YEETING IT 500 METERS BEHIND HIM!!*

[@BalkanGames]

I believe that the measurements were actually supposed to be 14.6 m for the height and 3.0 m for the width. 146 m would slightly exceed the height of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

[@Otatsuke]

@@BalkanGames The more you know. 😋 (Duly noted.) Then that would make the distance around 50 meters. Still impressive, though.

[@Mentleif]

This. I fully expected a calculation of the force needed to throw it like he did

[@lorenzoniccoli99ln]

Because Science did already cover everything in this video plus the final pillar hurl

[@nedia04]

YEET

[@ethanlocke3604]

Matpat is becoming a documentary “THATS MORE THAN THREE FOOTBALL FIELDS!!!”

[@Fujimokou985]

"THATS MORE THEN 450 GRAND PIANO"

[@_Obnoxious_]

Than

[@ethanlocke3604]

Fixed

[@nathanielsmith7019]

FOOTBAW

[@machoboys8884]

m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKbYd2Cmqd9saLc&persist_app=1&app=m

[@Earl_Black]

Boomers: It's just a game Parents: It's just a game Doctor: It's just a game Matpat: *screams in math*

[@kaimayeda]

Not to mention he can parry the shield so fast and with enough force to stop a lynel dead in its tracks without being pushed back at all

[@justyourfriendlyneighborho903]

I watched a video calculating how much force that would take but I forgot the numbers

[@ShadowPhoenix4798]

@@justyourfriendlyneighborho903 1 small jet engine

[@mightypancake2211]

Reflects a guardian's laser shot which has enough power to 1 shot even a full 20 heart Link and explodes at the end so has compression and force behind it unlike the normal laser

[@superxlboy3497]

He was even able to block and react to a few shots from god while other gods just died

[@theshadynorwegian6036]

"Real men wear tights" Robin hood: men in tights intensifying

[@buttoneyes777]

I love Robin Hood: MiT

[@jorgeamadosoriaramirez8953]

Manly men!

[@chamblessrayburn6885]

Tight tights. Lol

[@selenamcmahan9234]

WERE MEN WERE MEN IN TIGHTS WE GO AROUND LOOKING FOR FIGHTS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@bulbasaur15]

#001 Still to this day one of my favorite movies. We're MEN!.....We're men in tights!......

[@Czar_Khasm]

Ah, THIS is the kind of GT episode I’ve been missing: Calculations to determine the absurdity of game mechanics Props for the old-school theory, Mat!

[@lluviatibia8722]

Czar Khasm yeah but he skipped most of the calculations...

[@Caterwaulin]

@@lluviatibia8722 did you want a part two video?

[@jacobguillerey4476]

@@Caterwaulin actually... why not ^_^

[@firebladetenn6633]

Czar Khasm yes. This...is Game Theory.

[@DiabloGraves]

@@Caterwaulin I actually wouldn't mind it if they did it this way: a shorter video to just hit the big points of the amusing ways game elements translate weirdly into real life, and then a longer video for us math nerds who would find it funny to see all the steps laid out in detail.

[@craftuniverse4524]

Steve: just carrying all universes,timelines,dimensions in my pocket Me: yet it takes you more than 3 hits to kill a sheep Steve: (left the room)

[@unlisted5474]

Actually he can buff that down to one click without even aiming at any entity to kill every single entity /kill

[@unlisted5474]

And he can also remove the universe doing more damage then that

[@unlisted5474]

And be fricking unkillable with creative mode

[@gtaonlineitgoodgame465]

@@unlisted5474 and with mods crate other universe

[@unlisted5474]

@@gtaonlineitgoodgame465 he can already create other universe

[@kirbuff]

Yeah well it's not surprising Link can parry a charging gold lynel with his mere left hand

[@AquaticDead]

MatPat: "shows that real men wears tights" My Brain: "We're men, we're men in tiiiiiights!"

[@KalelDB1]

Robinhood Men in Tights, nice reference

[@degraves2003]

Tight tights

[@phodon129]

@@degraves2003 Manly men!

[@Attackontrashcan]

We raom around the forest looking for fights

[@Bugabogodofwargaming]

I can hear this reply😂😂 beatiful

[@luciferheller8725]

Matpat: Link is the strongest Ninten- Kirby: *Karate chops Popstar*

[@MrPruske]

Increasing a limb up to near light-speed should take less Force/work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@jimmybowman6294]

But how big is popstar. Kirby isnt even a foot tall.

[@thehangedman1393]

In Kirby 64, the planet 'Shiver Star' is what appears to be a post apocalyptic Earth, thereby making Popstar similar in size.

[@ae_cookie]

funniest comment in this video XD

[@luckyloomagu]

@@jimmybowman6294 As we see in Milky Way Wishes (same game the planet splitting feat comes from) Popstar is the largest planet in the kirby universe, and is even larger than it's own sun, however this all means nothing as the sun and moon could be the two boss enemies from earlier games, however, in Milky Way Wishes one could argue that there's a bit of perspective trickery going on, as you can see kirby huge in comparison to Popstar when in Megaton Punch he isn't even visible on the surface. Basically the math at absolute minimum would be like Kirby compared to the sun compared to Popstar which would probably yield an insane amount of force. But that's not even his best feat, his best is definitely the "World Crisis" in star allies, where he bats an insanely large meteor 9999 lightyears and smashes it through multiple celestial bodies along the way, all in about 5-10 seconds.

[@benbookworm]

Someone else calculated the force Link exerts when he parties a Lynel in BOTW, and that was another big number.

[@Tatokat]

And the thrown fist of a Talus. That was also a big number.

[@zaqisbackh4729]

My therapist: Muscled Keebler elf isn’t real he can’t hurt you. Muscled Keebler elf: 1:53

[@Alex-pf3lc]

Link: *very strong* Steve: Hold my gold blocks

[@kindnesstemmie6625]

Lego: hold my world manipulating powers

[@sociallyacceptablepi7449]

@@kindnesstemmie6625 Steve: Hold my world manipulating powers. :)

[@FizzleFX]

OLD JOKE

[@nathanielrobinson7533]

Alex xx so true

[@thedootlord]

And chests that hold almost an uncountable amount of gold and blackhole density

[@drunkenskunkproductionsdsp8094]

*Reads title* Kirby: _Amateurs._

[@dashmasterboss8251]

makes more sense than the steve theory

[@jimmyobama8241]

Minecraft steve though

[@hudsonkane209]

i hate kirby

[@sypenn2502]

@@hudsonkane209 not scientifically possible

[@hudsonkane209]

@@sypenn2502 kirby is a ball

[@Roryaaman]

I think another impressive feat with Link is in breath of the wild. My guy can swing that Hylian shield (and other ones that are more likely solid metal) fast enough and strong enough to perfectly re-direct laser blasts, Talos rocks, Hinox arm slams, and Lynel everything's!

[@Greetings_human.]

And in totk you can attach a boulder to a sheild and he can continue like it is nothing

[@L4yo]

You forgot to mention the „999 of every material“-inventory from Breath Of The Wild

[@tylerbelanger9527]

That would be a very interesting episode. Maybe a THE SCIENCE episode

[@randomhuman5714]

don't forget about the huge wardrobe he has inside his pockets

[@NatetheNintendofan]

@@randomhuman5714 🤯🤬 Mojang add items being able to stack past 64 again please

[@victorkim1807]

@@NatetheNintendofan like what? It makes no sense to stack more than 64.

[@theberserkingjedi7566]

in botw link can hold 999 star fragments in his inventory, don´t know how much star ¨fragments¨ weight but I do know that stars weigh a lot

[@yoshihaze1525]

Link: can carry big rock Mario: dont mind me. Just dragging my large golden sphere casually down this street of wrong

[@dylanwhipple9882]

Can't Matpat feel proud of his theories AT LEAST ONCE

[@Mr.Voiddweller]

@@dylanwhipple9882 this one theory was just incomplete

[@dylanwhipple9882]

@@Mr.Voiddweller BUT CAN HE AT LEAST FEEL PROUD ABOUT IT

[@C0ZYL4ZY]

Dylan Whipple bro chill your cap lock is on

[@dylanwhipple9882]

@@C0ZYL4ZY oh no I made it caps

[@johnweber4504]

*Reads title* *video doesn’t start with “dear Nintendo”* “Wait what?”

[@cabrinius]

Its not austin, its matpat.

[@cabrinius]

@keller milbourn who is ShoddyCast?

[@SkyTimmy]

@@cabrinius austin but his own channel

[@thanks721]

Not gonna lie Austin>MatPat just my opinion

[@dowesschule]

dum. dada-da-dum...

[@imagem9361]

Nobody: American metric system: “That weighs as much as 190 grand pianos!!” “That’s about the volume of 450 refrigerators!!” “It’s the equivalent of 6 1/2 blue whales!!”

[@hazalnupe]

Naw that’s not the based on our system at all, it’s just that we are ✨super creative✨ Get on our level.

[@imagem9361]

As an American I feel this *is* our metric system. But you’re not wrong about the ✨creative✨ part XD

[@kingyoshi4169]

It's equivalent of 1/15th of the Eiffel Tower

[@hazalnupe]

King Yoshi more like the roughly 1000x the length of 4 recently hatched caterpillars if you stacked them end to end!

[@Hannah57293]

get outta here gacha kid

[@isabellaponce4244]

i love that at the end it says "ruining your childhood xince 2011"

[@ghettokage6104]

xince lmfao

[@presidentdeadpool3198]

Pfft, we all know that Kirby is Link's gym coach. Kirby: Do arms! Link: what about the rest of my bo- Kirby: *Intense glare* Link: *hammercurls nervously*

[@mrreyes5004]

Link: **Can lift giant granite blocks** Okay boss, is that good enough? Kirby: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6PMZWmarbKorJY *NO*

[@nerd9347.]

*nubblies, not arms.

[@Chrisdish]

@@mrreyes5004 how do you make the link go to a certain length in time?

[@thesuccessfulone]

Kirby actual only has a strong breathing muscles

[@ShadowTheDeathhog]

Sorry for being a "well actually" person but as someone who deadlifts, a lot of it is in the legs. Lifting with your arms or spine is like an instant injury. So Link deadlifting that giant stone was just as much a leg strength feat. Nitpicking a joke, but I get the feeling that Matt does not deadlift

[@GtdAquataine]

Meanwhile in Factorio: "what do you have in your pockets?" "1000 locomotives, you?" "500 nuclear reactors."

[@littlebitfix4511]

True that

[@noneofyourbusiness217]

**starts trading like they're pokemon cards**

[@ladripper47874]

And about 5000 steel rods and silos

[@elecstorm3701]

Steve: *laughs* *in* *several* *universes* *inside* *duped* *chests*

[@creater20225]

@@elecstorm3701 modded steave: laughs in diamond shulker boxes filled with 8X compressed cobblestone aka 43 million cobblestone in a single block.

[@renme6068]

Nobody gonna talk about him slapping lynels out of full on charges with a 250 pound iron frisbee

[@Tutel9528]

Steve: *I'm gonna stop you there!*

[@majineve8557]

link: lifts 1.5 million lbs steve: *laughs in block*

[@KenhelExcallius]

enchanted golden apples consist of 8 gold blocks in the past, and a single apple, making one, which means 1 enchanted golden apple will weight 154560.8 kg, which is 267081062.4kg per shulker box due to the fact that there is 27 slot and 64 enchanted golden apple per slot, adding up to 267081062.4kg, then an inventory can hold 36 items but because of the off hand that increases to 37, which is 9881999308.8kg for 37 shulker filled to the brim with enchanted golden apples, since the enchanted golden apple recipe have been remove, it means nothing, because it still consist of the same things even tho the recipe is removed because when you craft it before 1.9 and then bring it to 1.9 and after wheere there is shulker box, you spent the same amount of gold, so steve can hold 9881999308.8kg, which is 10 billion kg if you round it off and 9.88 Mega tons.

[@KenhelExcallius]

which is literally more then link....

[@KenhelExcallius]

but if you were to use gold blocks, its just a simple Divison of 8, but then because the apples, even if you Divide it by 10, which is way less than it should weight, its still, millions of kg, sooooo steve is stronger

[@marcuswong730]

Kenhel Austin does another episode on putting embedded chests into embedded chests and find out that Steve can walk around with 10^505 universes in his pocket so ya I ain’t putting much hope on link

[@triforceofstupidity131]

Plus Steve can literally punch through a solid 1m cubed block of stone in seconds

[@dashmasterboss8251]

steve: has "infinite" strength bedrock: *laughs in unbreakable*

[@Equinox401]

Steve: pulls out laptop "/gamemode c b*tch!"

[@Turtoile41]

@@Equinox401 labtop

[@adrienbarker]

The funny thing is bedrock is not as hard to break in real life

[@alyssasalmon4883]

Unstoppable force meets immovable object

[@floatingf8783]

Steve's Bizarre Adventure part 4: Bedrock is Unbreakable

[@gyomeihimejima1313]

Steve: “Allow me to introduce myself.”

[@pokemontrainerred6317]

no

[@RoofusTheRoofus]

Ye

[@theoriginallinko]

no

[@NatetheNintendofan]

@@Dhjsaha I'm sure there aren't shulker boxes in breath of the Wild

[@Alejandro-fr9jc]

No

[@lawrencescott3140]

One thing: that wasn't truly base strength Link. That was Goron Bracelet strength. Even as Adult Link, if you have not collected the Goron Bracelet as Young Link, you won't even be able to lift a bush off the ground.

[@marigoldzephyrnio3647]

@sahib jacthceth galvez The game still checks for it... This is common knowledge for people who play rando... Why? Idk the devs were lazy I guess

[@HylianKirbo]

Yet, if we go back to Darunias room, without any strength enchantment, he can still move the statue, which looks to weigh a ton of so. *Hmmmm*

[@Wolffman109]

Don't you cut THROUGH bushes in Ocarina of Time?

[@marigoldzephyrnio3647]

@@Wolffman109 the bushes are so thin it doesn't matter if he slices through it since a SWORD is required

[@ehhhhhh1885]

uh, he can't even WEAR THE GORON BRACELET AS AN ADULT IT'S TOO FRICKIN' SMALL

[@niclaswa5408]

“I don’t think he is getting enough credit for his strength...” Death Battle and Because Science: “are we a joke to you?”

[@matteopoldrugo9535]

Death Battle is a joke

[@ararepotato1420]

@@matteopoldrugo9535 entertaining though. But yes.

[@glazeuniversagladis2499]

Death battle? You're kidding right?

[@yoshiblade316]

To be fair, they did that analysis b4 rooster teeth took over, so there wasn't any bias or bullshit. And it still holds up.

[@danielbrownii3079]

@@yoshiblade316 but now they allow Green Lantern to defeat Ben fricken 10

[@ShoutingDerek]

Title: is Link the STRONGEST Video Game Character? Meanwhile, Asura from Asura's Wrath punching an omnipotent god so hard, it resets the universe

[@masonwooldridge42]

ShoutingDerek He did say stronger than 99.9% of all game characters

[@mcm203]

ShoutingDerek didn’t even play the game but still the first thing I though of

[@silver7215]

Lol

[@ZombieB1]

Yup and in that 0.01% kirby is definitely there too. He has been beating reality manipulators for quite some time now. But I do feel like asura is the strongest video game character

[@bigjuice2623]

What about the Terrarian

[@watchingfromafar.6970]

Matpat - "Old style of game theory" Me - Excitedly waits for super amazing end card tournament

[@ehhhhhh1885]

YES

[@owenlahiji6213]

Kirby: laughs in light years

[@bloodlust_9890]

steve "laughs in 10,000,000,000 LBs"

[@theberserkingjedi7566]

@@bloodlust_9890 Link ¨laughs in carrying 999 stars in his inventory¨

[@sekiko7183]

Austin: B-b-b-but I did that already with Ste- Matt: Link is the strongest. Austin: *swears and yells frantically*

[@notanidiot567]

steve cant punch werry well

[@Iloveraz]

Sekiko Gaming double fisting vodka time

[@forgetfulicekin222]

Adrian Galewski It really does not matter when you have infinite strength.

[@harrydavis8688]

Steve IS the strongest

[@shlokbhakta2893]

Adrian Galewski ERM he can desintegrate a solid 1 meter by 1 meter block of iron in mere minutes

[@royalzano8114]

Game theory: Steve is infinitely strong Also Game Theory: Is link the strongest Game character?

[@Iraijus]

Well, the Steve's unlimited power episode was on The SCIENCE. Just thought I'd mention it :)

[@DeeTheRocketeer]

@@Iraijus Still, to Steve, those weights are for rookies.

[@nathanjoseph5449]

Erez Boyarski agreed

[@scuratoschiiustin9137]

I was about to say that !

[@Iraijus]

@@DeeTheRocketeer Yeah, of course. The joke's still correct. Steve is almost infinitely stronger than...anyone, I guess.

[@jadenwashburn2267]

I can't stop laughing at the image in my head where link just breaks his at in the intro cinematic followed by that scream... It just fits so well!

[@syifi9810]

Link: I can lift heavy things! Steve: I can hold the Eiffel Tower in my pocket

[@bloodlust_9890]

about 8,000 eiffel towers

[@azamzahid6626]

*10^505 universe

[@NatetheNintendofan]

My question is why the little Steve win-win and beat beat Mario automatically in Smash

[@NatetheNintendofan]

Cuz that would be unbalanced

[@gamerstheater1187]

Kratos: I can lift the moon

[@bluetangsrock938]

MatPat: "Is Link the strongest video game character?" Steve with a full inventory of shuliker boxes with gold blocks: "Hold my pickaxe."

[@NomekopLightspeed]

Well, adding the Skulker boxes to the equation would probably decrease the weight from a block of gold, due to likely being multidimensional in nature, and thus, shunting it's mass into another dimension, making it less affected by gravity. (Plus this fits with Skulkers projectiles). Plus, all item entities in Minecraft float in water, meaning they have a density lighter than water. Yes, even the blocks of gold. This is something intrinsic to the world, not just Steve, as TNT, Creepers, and other explosions, will also result in blocks being turned into item entities.

[@bluetangsrock938]

@@NomekopLightspeed True, I didn't think about the water floating part before, that's quite interesting.

[@dashmasterboss8251]

bedrock: you have no power here

[@cotui8098]

frozenLake what about Kratos? His Tyrs Temple flip?

[@shasta_le_bab]

Notch apples would be heavier since they are 8 gold blocks and an apple.

[@Uberwenis]

Don't forget, he's also wearing the shield on his back WHILE yeeting the massive stone

[@alexisrodriguez6526]

*HYLIAN YEET*

[@qazaqstories]

and he's lifting the gauntlets themselves

[@ibrahimahmed8343]

Dont forget those empty bottles too

[@glitchb0t595]

And he parries a lynel charge with the shield

[@chuzzahfromtongah]

As well as a sword and a bag of items three tunics the ocarina of time and 99 of each arrow.

[@captainmagma408]

I love how he forgets not only that there are multiple hylian shields but also does his calculations based on a mod of the hylian shield

[@misko2952]

MatPat: Steve is strong because he can keep all those blocks in his inventory Me: Have you seen my inventory in Breath of the Wild? that's all the proof I need to know that link is insanely strong

[@thetrgger8630]

Steve can hold infinite amounts of universes in his hands and still jumps a full 1 meter up without even losing a pixel height

[@misko2952]

@@thetrgger8630 true but you're not supposed to be able to do that so his max is really the full inventory of gold blocks

[@Tidenshi]

Golden Experienced but he CAN do it though

[@NatetheNintendofan]

@@misko2952 netherite okay does this comment might have been made before netherite existed

[@mynickisnick8270]

"77,677 kilograms!!!" "and that's just over 85.6 tons!!" what

[@ADAJ342]

Maybe they're short tons?

[@Riku70X]

He means imperial tons, not metric tonnes.

[@kevjab3895]

@@Riku70X TIL there are tons and tonnes, and that they are two different things

[@UP87]

Searched for that comment. I wish for the remaining few countries to join the metric system. (I mean... the US tried... but in the end it‘s in the hands of the people...)

[@greatesterrboi408]

77 thousands kilograms not just 77

[@Nepheos]

random child: "Hey what does your dad do at work?" Matpat's child: "Sitting in a closet, talking to himself and screaming like a dying goat... for youtube"

[@ramekin5635]

lol

[@chlozentimes]

XDDD

[@22crazynight]

He isn't the weirdest... Also you forgot researching for hours and hours for thing nobody really cares about (Except for gamers)

[@Detec_]

Drinking diet coke in the closet

[@butterballporkbunthetoymak]

Nepheos Random child: Oh cool your dad’s a KZbin star. Matpat’s child: He is on a crusade to prove Video game logic doesn’t exist.

[@secretrobotbird7035]

Lynel: *Chilling* Also Lynel: *hears HYA in the background with galloping horse sounds* Link: *OHO, P R E P A R E*

[@TimelyMannor]

I'd like to see him do this theory again with taking in the events from tears of the kingdom and its fuse ability to weapons. I miss the science videos he used to do. 😢

[@chic7489]

"Weights 252 pounds" Americans: OMG Everyone else: how much is that?

[@goganii]

114.3kg

[@ramekin5635]

marcelo kraft its 114 kg’s👍

[@Mehdyk]

I had to ask Google and pausing the video haha

[@pinkdoe1725]

@@oofbychips1809 No

[@braidenj152]

pink doe well no, but actually yes

[@TJWehse]

Technically having insane arm strength means nothing if his legs aren’t strong enough to support all the weight

[@commoncanadians9830]

He doesn't skip leg day

[@trxlord09]

Minecraft steve and his universe full of chests of gold in his pocket and still able to run faster than the average human

[@diamondsrubies1964]

I think matpat conveniently forgot that

[@ekanshgoel6602]

But they are

[@dinoluke3234]

Well hey he runs for miles

[@jamethanjames1436]

Holy cow, I just clicked on this from my recommended and I had no idea that their was a food theory reference in it. Have people known about this since last July when the channel launched or did I just find something new?

[@fatalwaffle1715]

Awesome video bro!

[@-aeronaut-]

Kirbster: Slams meteor eclipsing his planet 9999 light years away in 23 seconds Game Theory: Is Link the strongest character in video game history Kirbster: :(

[@nightwalker174]

Goldlight101 The anime isn't canon to the games

[@drfarrin]

well, he DID say stronger than 99% of characters.

[@Odd1337]

@@nightwalker174 kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6WZmaelecunsKs From the game and before you ask the mini games are canon.

[@GLOVEEM]

That was in a game

[@diolight9450]

Steve

[@itsjustmenova]

“Back in 2014” ...really..? It’s that old? Why does this make me feel both sad, old, and surprised

[@valeriecodd532]

i know how you feel

[@thewolfcyborg6808]

my first thought was "calm down it was only like 3 years ago"

[@Calmtimer]

Me with a brain still processing what happened in 2015: What do you mean way back in 2014?

[@oromain]

what makes me sad is seeing robbie's editing :( RIP

[@hanakokun9453]

Blue Dragon Entertainment same .-.

[@josiahrandecker5406]

I was waiting for you to say something about link using the parry in botw, that is using a lot of strength to stop even a Lynel!

[@lsandjs9793]

I was actually just thinking about all the rocks i pick up in BOTW and how swiftly Link does it and I was impressed by that alone, then this video came up in my feed

[@jesusagelvis4917]

Matpad: "Link is the strongest videogame character" Steve: Hold my chest full of chest full of chest full of chest full of chest... Full of gold

[@gamer_ike_07]

Hoi, I'm temmie, would you like some temmie flakes?

[@nikilpakianathan4822]

jeSUS AGElvis shulker boxes

[@gamer_ike_07]

@Nikil Pakianathan actually he is right, in creatibw mode or in a certain version, you can hold chests full of stuff in your inventory

[@TheEmeraldPixel]

THIS IS WHAT IM TALKIN ABOUT! Steve is a feckin God of Gods of Gods of Gods!

[@Froggediah]

E n d e r. C h e s t. 1 0 0.

[@KTSpeedruns]

Death Battle: “didn’t we do these calculations years ago?” Cloud Strife: “I thought we said we’d never speak of that again.”

[@soraceant]

That battle was b.s. mixed multiple different links and gave him items while cloud got diddly

[@glazeuniversagladis2499]

Death battle is a joke

[@ApocolypseChild]

@@soraceant Absolutely true! They put an imaginary Link which is never seen in ANY of his games against a lv. 0 Cloud and still had to fudge things to force Link to win. That's some unbelievable bias right there.

[@Mauripsu]

Yeah, Death Battle is kinda.. Ugh... Like, Dio would beat Dracula!

[@spiderodoom]

Oof y’all saltier than me at the Green Lantern vs Ben Ten fight. Anyways, it was a bad matchup in total, because DB always takes the composite character, vs an iteration of a character. The problem is that Cloud strife doesn’t have 10 games to composite, but link of course does.

[@BakedBeans6969]

Matpat has been solving all the questions of my childhood not ruining it

[@NO-tl4or]

I like how theres all the incredibly strong and cool godslaying characters, and then theres the absolute chad that is minecraft steve benching stacks of gold blocks

[@NatetheNintendofan]

2 years later netherite blocks or even better enderite

[@theberserkingjedi7566]

in botw link can hold 999 star fragments in his inventory, don´t know how much star ¨fragments¨ weight but I do know that stars weigh a lot

[@Opiacrow]

The opening scene.. **Flashbacks to Escape the Night.** The chills.

[@vienowo]

MHM, I GET IT

[@Raym3a]

oh-

[@samuelberry8267]

YOU SON OF A-

[@michael-angelothe69th18]

What is Escape the Night? Lol

[@Opiacrow]

@@michael-angelothe69th18 A series on YT that MatPat was part of.

[@ArcaneOwlchemist]

10:30 Idk, I really like the "boring" deep dives in the explanations. I say add it next time.

[@GrandGourd]

He is able able to stop a lynel's charge with a shield parry which means he was able to exert about 448000 Newtons of force (Slightly over 100k pounds) which is more than a Merlin 1A rocket engine. Don't forget, he has to also take that force. He is able to do this easily. He can parry Calamity Ganon's attacks and a hinox's attacks, which are presumably much more powerful, all easily without breaking a sweat. In conclusion link is and will always be an absolute beast.

[@wetu5389]

Botw link parry’s giant Boulders flying at him at over 100 mph. Get gud hero of time.

[@lukehurd4357]

GameTheory: minecraft Steve is impossibly strong Also them:link is strongest

[@cardescomedioses3674]

DASH-dragon- CLAN well,to be fair,two different guys got to those conclusions, mat pat and Austin

[@foxy-fp7mv]

@@cardescomedioses3674 true but I am pretty sure since they share channel the look at each other's scripts

[@zaco2860]

bro it's steve from minecraft they made a video about it

[@GoblinGreed]

Kirby: POYO

[@iceking9710]

What about the terraria caracter, i mean she is the only one who can be close to Steve? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️Right???🤔

[@ZtotheMills]

and that aint even the force required to hurl that thing the huge distance that he does! which I'd LOVE to know!

[@devilproking]

I love how mattpat did this hole video about how link is the strongest game character even doing all the math and saying Steve from Minecraft wouldn't comepare to link then a few videos later he completely throws that out and says link wouldn't even stand a chance against him.

[@javidproductions9353]

He just said Link was strong and pointed out he was worthy of being in the conversation for strongest.

[@devilproking]

@@javidproductions9353 if you watched the video he compares link to Steve and says that Steve wouldn't compare to how strong link is then a few videos later he re-do's all the math and finds out Steve would be 1,000,000x strong then link and link wouldn't compare to his strength

[@theentirecircus8490]

What about Scribblenauts Maxwell. You can add the adjective "carryable" to anything and he can carry it even building larger then him, he can carry mythical creatures, he can carry planets, under his arm. whilst having a giant backpack full of people on his back, and if you add the adjective ridable to him people can sit on him, with all of it being heavy metals even if he can one thing in his hands at a time, he is undoubtedly the strongest video game character, but he's also a child, but you can change him to a baby. He can do the same things, but he's smaller and wears dippers. (Tots is the character.)

[@awesomeisland8121]

Who else got sad when he said “I’m not gonna bore you with the measurements”

[@tb4996]

I was also am i only one who say the yellow in the logo now

[@itswallbangs5243]

You, dweeb

[@BigBrother_316]

Its WallBangs looks like someone didn’t get high grades in school

[@Ageddevistation3323]

Yeah, science!

[@ehhhhhh1885]

Me

[@leandrolhez5142]

11:35 Matpat: That's a strenght that puts 99.99% of video game characters to shame" "Kirby appears on screen" Me: *"Laughs in POYO"*

[@glazeuniversagladis2499]

Asura appears, kratos appears, steve appears.

[@dashmasterboss8251]

steve can't even break bedrock

[@HylianKirbo]

@@glazeuniversagladis2499 actually, Link is probably better than kratos.

[@mr.pockets8523]

Samus entires

[@dylanwhipple9882]

@@glazeuniversagladis2499watch Austin's video of strength and he will show you how strong Minecraft steve is

[@tylersluys8599]

You also have to consider friction resistance because the floor the blocks are being pushed/pulled along are often made of stone as well. That makes it even considerably harder,so hes even stronger than that, not to mention it has to be relatively easy for him since he can essentially move them as much as needed with no signs of fatigue.

[@maheshnair3835]

As always I love the intro and the video

[@Diego31415]

Link: works hard to get his strength. Kirby: My strength now.

[@haliplays8971]

Diego Gutierrez poyo

[@Phlimbob84]

Adult Link actually can't move those first blocks you measured without the Goron Bracelet, which I only know because of my randomizer playthrough

[@LordBeau]

Phlimbob84 you aren’t really supposed to be there in the first place without the bracelet so the devs just didn’t give adult link the bracelet strength by default

[@jeremiahpozzolo]

This annoyed me so much. I know he doesn't play randomizers and doesn't know, but do some research first cmon!

[@DirtyDoge]

@@jeremiahpozzolo Adult Link doesn't wear the bracelets.

[@hichigo6584]

DirtyDoge young link wears the bracelet which doubles his arm strength throughout his adventures before becoming a adult. I assume adult link doesn’t have the goron bracelet in the future because it rusted away into dust, I’m not sure what kind of metal would rust away like that in 7 years but it’s like magic and what not lol

[@Ladyoftheroundtable]

It's not on his character model though. So it's not unreasonable to think he's not wearing it, even if it bugs out

[@HungryWarden]

Let’s not forget that Link in Breath of the Wild can be pummeled by several ton boulders thrown by a Stone Talus and still be intact even if it kills him, despite the fact that a normal human would be squished beyond recognition in that situation.

[@zuko6378]

I did some quick math with the Kratos temple-flipping scene. Now, I could be wrong, but I found out that he was flipping a temple that is about 592,339.48 kg, or 1,305,885.01 lbs, or 652.94 tons. This is really close to the golden gauntlet deadlift, and he was an old man using his bare hands

[@chaingigan7545]

Austin: STEVE CAN HOLD UNIVERSES WITH NO ISSUE MatPat: he push block real good.

[@ehhhhhh1885]

MatPat: Yeah, but I'm talking more LORE Austin: Yeah, but Scientifically-- MatPat: LORE Austin: SCIENCE Matpat: NO IT IS LORE

[@AeroQC]

Here's a question I've been having in my head this past week: Which franchise has the faster karts? Mariokart? Crash Team Racing? Sonic Racing? F-Zero?

[@Sophi023]

Diddy Kong Racing!

[@biancazou6279]

AeroQC nice idea!

[@silverrakhsh1834]

Future theory video comfirmed!

[@MTopola]

F ZERO vehicles are going roughly 500km/hr on the straights without boosting. Safe to say they would destroy any other racers.

[@bobmasters9871]

F-zero. In the tie-in tv show (which IS canon don't let anyone tell you different) they can move at light-speed.

[@chroment0962]

Ima Zelda nerd out for a sec: Not all the Links are the same Link they ARE all incarnations of the hero

[@NatetheNintendofan]

So Minecraft Steve is still stronger?

[@FirstLast-pk4od]

I love the little cameo for the Japanese commercial for a link to the past at the end.

[@kmslyda4530]

Nobody: Matthew: Is Link the STRONGEST Video Game Character? Kratos, Asura, Bayonetta: Hold my beer Me: Which Link? There's dozens of them

[@RinkuHeroOfTime]

i think Botw link is the strkngest base link and Oni link being stronger than every other link lol

[@dylanwhipple9882]

@@RinkuHeroOfTime why did you put lol in IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SENTENCE

[@2bkeane618]

DOOM GUY: Am I a joke to you!?

[@bobbywilliams1128]

Laughs in Kirby*

[@andrija3645]

What about Doom guy and the Dark Souls character you controll??

[@toddhahn6642]

Hey Matt, just a fun little tip from the agricultural field. Modern train cars can usually hold between 195,000 and 223,000 pounds of grain. Including the car's weight, a full train car weighs about 250,000 pounds. This means Link can deadlift about 6.28 fully loaded train cars.

[@andrewaragooand0]

Link: * slices an entire moon in half*

[@MB-tz8hb]

“I won’t bore you with the calculations” Me: no show me I want to see!!!!!! *cries in math major*

[@ytv2779]

Not much math required here. Just basic physics concepts to apply. Force (F) = Normal force (N) x the coefficient of friction (μ). N = mass (M) x gravity (g). M = volume (V) x density (p) The coefficient of friction is the proportion of F/N. It gets slightly more tricky when on a slope or calculating work to push a load for a distance. Here, he's only calculating the force to overcome the static force of friction for an instant.

[@alternatetimelinegiyuu6062]

@@ytv2779 My brain just broke...

[@hail_yeet462]

my lord im dead

[@th3letterE]

My grade 7 brain stopped working here

[@rubub8455]

My favorite language

[@crossin8772]

Game Theory: link is the strongest video game character Steve: am I a joke to you?

[@chlozentimes]

Noah McClure sans: *Am I joke to all of you?*

[@thewinner4x873]

@@chlozentimes yup, you are

[@Aaron-xg6dz]

@@chlozentimes Shaggy: am I a joke to you

[@eduardoaarvore4235]

Kirby:am i a joke to you

[@barrybend7189]

RPG characters with full inventory: lol.

[@majora501]

maaaan i am so adicted to your channels :)

[@kevin2714]

Ironic that in the same channel, it tries to assert Link as the strongest video game character possibly when Steve has been shown by Austin to carry practically infinite mass in his pockets, with immeasurable amounts of blocks of gold not being able to slow him down when running

[@Ageddevistation3323]

Game theorist: link is the strongest Me: kirby has no muscles... THAT MAKES HIM THE STRONGEST BEING

[@errinsk9]

Kirby uses tumors instead of arms 😄

[@wrentheelf2656]

Kirby is an amoeba!

[@quatjohn4375]

Kirby has chopped a star in half. I don't think it gets much stronger than that

[@pedrohenriquefernandesdasi5310]

and he is being of infinity energy

[@Tomcatsz]

@@quatjohn4375 exactly

[@bearindawoods]

Joke: overused Response: let’s all do it Me: I actually like the long math problems and watching matpat’s explanations of said math

[@tapirovec]

Hotel: Trivago

[@ZachariahMBaird]

@@tapirovec 🔼

[@hulkex6575]

agreed lets give matpat the view time

[@brianv9242]

adamekzlobivej god that was just pathetic

[@thecrawler1265]

Like number 100

[@ImNotAWitchImYourWIFI]

nah, it was literally the time we dead smashed the heck out of a Lynel with naught but a metal shield.

[@natedogg1088]

You guys have to fight to stay alive! I'd miss all the new ways to have my mind blown by the series I grew up with! Long live the Game Theorists!

[@skytheguy3693]

Mario's Castle-lifting Strength: *Am I a joke to you?*

[@Trybel]

To Kirby, Shulk, Ness and Sonic? Yes.

[@coyraig8332]

@@crusadertime6746 That speed needs some serious leg strength

[@nomight273]

@@crusadertime6746 sonic murders mario. Tf you on?

[@crusadertime6746]

@@nomight273 watch death battle

[@jarvislinarez1251]

@@crusadertime6746 Death Battle gets it wrong sometimes and Archie Sonic murder Mario