Life Lessons from Ganondorf

Christopher M. Jones
3 min readAug 8, 2021

There is no practical reason anyone should ever be able to win a one-on-one fight playing as Ganondorf in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. He is a disastrously slow character in a game centered around mobility, he has no defense against ranged attacks except to pray that his basic block will hold out against them, and his jump arc — his one viable option for getting back on the stage if he gets knocked off — resembles nothing if not a wet paper…

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Christopher M. Jones

Writer, media critic, and thinker of thoughts based out of Austin, TX. Get in touch at chrismichaeljones@gmail.com, or follow on Twitter at @CJIsWingingIt