Ranking How USELESS Ganondorf is in Every Zelda Game

Ganondorf is one of the most iconic and intimidating villains in video game history, and in most games, he’s a MENACE, but he’s definitely got his shortcomings.

Today, we're looking at Ganondorf’s character in every mainline Legend of Zelda game and ranking him from worthless to elite.

[noobnor]

I would honestly put A Link Between Worlds in useless tier. He's not cooperating with Yuga, Yuga just straight up possesses him and suppresses his will. It's basically the only time in the entire series where he gets put under somebodies boot and stays there.

[Gaffivory]

11:39 “Little girl with no triforce power” *has the full power of the triforce*

[zeospark]

13:30 To clarify, Ganondorf was able to transform into a dragon because he swallowed his Secret Stone. Secret Stones enhances one's own power by a lot by itself, but something else that is considered forbidden can be done which is swallowing the Secret Stone. When someone swallows their Secret Stone, you transform into a giant, ageless dragon that is extremely powerful, but you completely lose your senses. Zelda and Ganondorf both do this in the game but Zelda does it because, long story short, she was sent 1000 years into the past and the only way for her to reunite with Link in the present was to turn into the dragon (mainly to give him the powered up Master Sword). Ganondorf did it because he was so pissed at being unable to kill Link, he gave up his own humanity just so that his mindless dragon form has a shot of killing him.

[bfgzejo]

It's actually a shame there's not more backstory to Demise. He is way more badass than every of the Ganons combined.
I mean, he basically killed almost every human being on earth and fought with the godess herself and injured her so bad that she had to give up her godly form and force her entity into a human.

[repoversemedium]

It’s still crazy to me that he started off looking like a pig.

[iancomtois]

Funny thing about OoT Ganondorf is that he and OoT Zelda had the exact same idea: let Link do all the legwork. And it works! Also, that Ganondorf is the only one who canonically kills a Link in one timeline (because he's such a big deal that he split the timeline and gave us three times as many Zelda games), so I'd actually put him higher than Elite tier...

[marche]

The Triforce splitting in OOT isn't because Ganon's heart isn't pure. It because it isn't balanced between Power, Wisdom and Courage. His only focus is power so he gets only power

[ABHyt]

Counterpoint of BotW, Link can stop him immediately after jumping off the great Plateau and his second form is the easiest final boss in the series. He should be moved down one tier.

[liammccbyrne]

not menacing? dude Windwaker Ganondorf destroyed an entire island killing everybody on it and froze time. all BEFORE his power was unsealed.

[Okada_Caelun]

6:45 : "Only half of that comes true"

I dunno. Even according to Hyrule Historia, we never see him again in thst particular timeline.

[hsqzudj]

Look, he gone in links awakening, but I'll like to mention that the nightmare took form of Ganon over links ptsd from a link to the past. With that, it makes a link to the past Ganon feel all the more menacing.

[Paal]

Besides Ganondorf in ToTK having a health bar with a lot of extra inches, he also permanently removes your hearts and surprises you by pulling a reverse uno card on your perfect dodge strike. Oh, that and that fact he has the power of God, Anime and Suavemente on his side.

[cptdumplin]

What you neglect to mention is that calamity Ganon from botw was actually just a FRACTION of TotK Ganon's power bleeding through Rauru's waning seal.
The powered up, super strong master sword you had in botw? Barely enough to scratch him. It had to literally be reforged in divine light for thousands upon thousands of years, becoming more powerful than it possibly ever has been.

All that for one Ganon? That's a tier of his own.

[levoneward]

8:08 it’s actually a pretty long time after ocarina of time because the hero of time the link in ocarina of time is dead by the time the events of twilight princess occur so it’s at least a generation after since twilight princess is a whole new link

[Jack-modm]

A tierlist with nothing in worthless tier?
Good job man!!!

[nathanweissberg]

"little girl with no triforce powers" proceeds to show Zelda using the full triforce to seal him for 100 years

[darkeye]

You can clearly see Zelda has the FULL Triforce on her hand in BOTW, it took a whole divine power JUST to him back

[vampragon]

I really wish we could see another game where Vaati is the villain, only as the main villain without Ganon. I think he's a criminally underrated villain considering within the timeline he apparently predates Ganon, and honestly I think there's just too many games where Ganon is the main villain

[thesardonicrenegade]

Twilight Princess Ganondorf is my favorite version of him. He is quite literally too angry to die. This is a Ganondorf who was never humbled by his defeat by the Hero Of Time in the 7 year time skip. This was a Ganondorf who was outsmarted by a mere forest brat, mere moments from when he was about to steal the triforce. His arrogant rage drives him through the whole game, trapped in the twilight realm feeding off the hatred of the Twili, using Zant as his pawn to open a link back to the light realm.

Not to mention the amazing voice work, every single voice clip is just dripping with the same arrogant malice I talked about earlier, his scoffs of contempt for Link and Midna, the roaring laughter, and his screams of rage.

The manga(yes there's a manga) just makes him even better, you see him interacting with Zelda in Hyrule Castle after his return, he's almost disturbingly calm for Ganondorf, sitting down to have tea with the princess. Then when Link appears he absolutely loses it. Saying and I quote "I will tear out your organs, crush your bones, and relish your lingering cries of pain!" as he brutally attacks the hero of twilight. More lines just further reinforce just how absolutely arrogant this Ganondorf is, he truly believes he's invincible, that the fact he wields the triforce of power means he can't lose, and the fact he's being beaten by Link again is something he can't comprehend.

[TheBlazingBronzeBro]

Ganon is always still something. A powerhouse that never quits.