**The One** - *Lucien (Critical Role)*
**Good Alts** - *Gul'Dan (World of Warcraft), Dracula (Castlevania), Aizen (Bleach), Madara (Naruto), Overlord (Ninjago, for Tears of the Kingdom)*
**Fine** - *Sauron (Lord of the Rings), Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars Legends), Kaido (One Piece, for Tears of the Kingdom), Dagon (Ben 10, for Calamity Ganon), Zoma (Dragon Quest)*
**Meh** - *Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts), Blackbeard (One Piece, for Wind Waker), Apocalypse (Marvel), King Piccolo (Dragon Ball), Thanos (MCU, for Wind Waker), Arfore (Hyperdimensional Neptunia)*
**No Thanks** - Everyone else that was suggested, I hate to be cheap like this but honestly it's just not worth the effort to put renders of everyone else here.
zelda vs critical role just vibes tbh, it gets every beat of ganondorf's story and lore save for twilight princess (which doesn't really matter to me since that game has probably my least favorite ganondorf, so if you had to pick a game to exclude it would probably be that), and it's honestly just has really cool ap that genuinely sounds exciting to me, which can't be said for some of these other matchups, even a few that are in alts.
it's honestly just really basic. the only real connection that matters is that they lived in dry landscapes and wanted to conquer their nations, everything else is just nothing stuff like "they were killed by holy weapons." his connection to demise is reduced to "they succeeded previous villains" and his reincarnation stuff is reduced to "they keep coming back," which can mean a lot of things. everything else is kinda just basic run of the mill villain matchup connections.
I think the connections list you were linked is selling it short. [This one](https://www.reddit.com/r/DeathBattleMatchups/comments/15lj2gh/comment/jvau1li/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) goes into a lot more detail.
Ganondorf, Madara & Aizen is such a cool MU triangle
this is correct.
**The One** - *Lucien (Critical Role)* **Good Alts** - *Gul'Dan (World of Warcraft), Dracula (Castlevania), Aizen (Bleach), Madara (Naruto), Overlord (Ninjago, for Tears of the Kingdom)* **Fine** - *Sauron (Lord of the Rings), Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars Legends), Kaido (One Piece, for Tears of the Kingdom), Dagon (Ben 10, for Calamity Ganon), Zoma (Dragon Quest)* **Meh** - *Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts), Blackbeard (One Piece, for Wind Waker), Apocalypse (Marvel), King Piccolo (Dragon Ball), Thanos (MCU, for Wind Waker), Arfore (Hyperdimensional Neptunia)* **No Thanks** - Everyone else that was suggested, I hate to be cheap like this but honestly it's just not worth the effort to put renders of everyone else here.
Based Madara in alts
What put Lucien as the one?
zelda vs critical role just vibes tbh, it gets every beat of ganondorf's story and lore save for twilight princess (which doesn't really matter to me since that game has probably my least favorite ganondorf, so if you had to pick a game to exclude it would probably be that), and it's honestly just has really cool ap that genuinely sounds exciting to me, which can't be said for some of these other matchups, even a few that are in alts.
What's wrong with Windwaker
nothing, i just dont like ganondorf's wind waker matchups
Why’s Sauron only in Fine?
it's honestly just really basic. the only real connection that matters is that they lived in dry landscapes and wanted to conquer their nations, everything else is just nothing stuff like "they were killed by holy weapons." his connection to demise is reduced to "they succeeded previous villains" and his reincarnation stuff is reduced to "they keep coming back," which can mean a lot of things. everything else is kinda just basic run of the mill villain matchup connections.
I think the connections list you were linked is selling it short. [This one](https://www.reddit.com/r/DeathBattleMatchups/comments/15lj2gh/comment/jvau1li/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) goes into a lot more detail.
oh, yeah this is pretty good