Yes he is. Revail was my favorite character in the entire game. I felt like I could relate to him with how he tried to be perfect but was secretly jealous of Link but wouldn’t admit it.
I would say he does get a bad rep for his personality. But I personally like it and think it gives him more depth and makes him a much more interesting character
The champions ballad shows that Revali was training himself to the point of pain, constantly failing to perfect his ability. He may not be the nicest champion, but he is one of the most dedicated.
What makes me sad is that his brusqueness probably comes from an inferiority complex. He hates himself for not being able to perfect himself, so he redirects that hatred on others as petty arrogance.
Exactly! He’s a very complex and layered character full of insecurities and doubts but with an outward attitude of perfection and disdain towards others. Personally for me, he’s my favorite video game character ever, not just from BOTW. So happy to see videos still being made about him!
You can also tell he genuinely cares Hyrule. He said the training grounds were originally meant for him alone but he began letting other archers 🏹 use it. Also while he was annoyed at first that Link would be the one to take on Calamity Ganon, he said he agreed to help anyway after seeing the look of concern in Zelda's eyes
The dubbing did him dirty too, he's more pleasant in Japanese dub... He is actually my favourite champion out of all 4 and it shocked me to learn that the English-speaking fandom hates him
This coupled with the fact that each of the Devine Beasts Themes have the SOS signal in it, showing the Champions were sending out distress signals knowing they were going to die, but Revali's SOS starts much later than the other Champions' and is much more frantic once it does start, is absolutely heartbreaking... He was so sure of himself despite being at a huge disadvantage that he waited until almost the end to call for help shows just how terrifying the situation really was to him.
Anyone reading go to the Vah Medoh dungeon ost with headphones and read the comments while the music is playing at like 3 am. It’s a crazy rush of emotions
What if the SOS delay wasn't due to Revali's confidence that he could win, but because he didn't even realize he was in danger? High in the sky, possibly further from danger than the others, he'd have heard the distress signals coming from everyone else and been distracted for the few seconds longer that it might have taken for the blight malice to reach him. Then he realizes he's in danger...Maybe the others held out hope that at least one of them would survive...only to hear that SOS come a few seconds later.
You know when the fight starts and Revali mentions that windblight ganon "plays dirty"? I think this may be what he was referring to. Nullifying all of Revali's strengths and hitting him with invisible and unpredictable attacks, of course he'd feel like the fight was unfair.
Not to mention it is very heavily implied in Age of Calamity that Windblight is a coward, whereas Revali is arrogant and prideful. Imagine how frustrating it would be for Revali when, in the brief moments he catches Windblight, he just up and runs away, or uses his drones as a distraction. Each Blight, at least to me, seems to be a perversion of their corresponding Champion, but hot damn Revali got his traits mirrored in the worst way for the fight at hand.
You know, in the original Japanese dialogue, he doesn't say anything about Ganon "playing dirty." Rather, he says that he, Revali, let his guard down, or got careless. All in all, the Revali we see in the English version has a different attitude post-Calamity than he does in the true version, not making excuses, but acknowledging fact.
Not only that. In age of calamity when revalis fighting windblight, it’s raining. Since storms come in on a low pressure center, it makes it really hard for birds to fly, along with his feathers getting wet, which puts him even more at a disadvantage with his flight. Even if he tried to use his gale to dry, he would most likely get frostbite (assuming his gale is of cold wind) Nintendo did NOT want this guy to win 💀
Also, anyone noticed that the Windblight is technically, the weakest of them all? However the Windblight in Hyrule Warriors has two canons when in botw, he only has one. And Revali lasted his fight the longest. Which means, even in that situation, he still managed to do a decent damage to Windblight. And that’s why Windblight is an easy boss.
Also in what way would you say windblight is the easiest? There is scalling if the bosses in botw so it depends on the order in which you fight them. Do you fight windblight first?
@@hersley1683 I mean they could just be in talking about the fact that his attacks are fairly predictable. I'm not really sure. But for me wind blight was the easiest boss despite the fact that I fought him last
I do love Revali. Even before something about him was pointed out to me, but once I realised this particular fact about him, I had so much more respect for him. Revali is the only one of the champions to actually work hard and make his champion ability. In Mipha's diary, she talks about healing Link when he was just a child and the way she talks about healing magic makes it seem like something thats not unheard of. Rare maybe, but not something unknown, especially by the Zora. So it's safe to say it's something she inherited or was born with. Yunobo has Daruk's protection and is said by the chief that Yunobo is a decendant of Daruk so it's most likely something passed down through bloodline. While much isn't said about Urbosa's fury, in Age of Calamity Riju also has electric abilities. With both of them being chiefs, maybe the thunder helm has something to do with it. That's just a theory though. In Revali's diary, he talks about having a dream about creating an updraft from nothing and from that decided to work and push his limits until it becomes a reality. In the Champions' Ballad DLC memory we even see him struggling to perfect it but still not giving up. He straight up just made Revali's gale out of nothing but hard work and persistance while the other champions just had their ablities and for that, I think he deserves some praise.
For the Urbossa and Riju part : In OOT, we need to remember that Ganondorf was a sorcerer (or at least knew magic), something he learned from Koume and Koutake who also used magic. And, those two were the leaders of the Gerudo before his birth. I think this is safe to assume Gerudos have magic powers running in their veins. Maybe the stronger the magic, the higher the position (in the past) and now it is just frequent for the Gerudo ruler to have magical power. The helm maybe was more the symbol of a previous ruler who had really strong thunder power, who became a legacy.
Rito are the newest race in Hyrule at this point as The Zora, Goron and Gerudo would have long epochs of history to have their powers passed down to their champions. Due to the Rito needing to evolve fast from the Zora and only gifted the ability to fly through Valoo, Revali had to inventively create and refine his race's champion ability from nothing but sheer will and determination.
while i do agree that revali is extremely skilled, the fact that these powers are passed down or obtained in some way does not subtract from the skill the other champions still possess. Urbosa can summon lighting by simply snapping her fingers, but for link to activate it, he needs to charge up 1 or 2 times before he can use her ability. it can be interpreted multiple ways, but to me it seems as if just to harness urbosas power it would take that much of links energy to unleash it. i’m not gonna go in detail on everyone, but i think they all did go through a struggle to master their abilities
Also, there was a video about the Divine Beasts sending out morse code signals. Revali was the last one to send out his distress signal in comparison to the others.
This is why I believe the Champion’s Ballad was really to help the spirits of the champions heal from the trauma, anger and hopelessness during their battles with their respective blights so they can move on to the afterlife. During each battle with the blights, Link fights with the very weapons they used in their confrontation.
All I could think about while re-fighting Windblight was how miffed Revali must be seeing Link beat the thing that killed him with the exact same gear he had, and no power of flight (just limited paragliding capabilities).
That reminds me of how when you defeat Ganon & reunite with Zelda, yu see the ghosts of the Champions & King Rhoam looking at them. Then they disappear. I was thinking it's bcuz they all have regrets from a century ago & they were glad to see Link & Zelda finish what they'd started
@@jacintacapelety9600 If anything, it might actually be what let him let go of his anger towards Link. I mean, yes, it probably pissed him off- but at the same time, it would have proved to him that Link didn't get his position because of favoritism or destiny. Which was always Revali's grudge against Link.
Who really believes that Daruk used a bow or had food items with him other than rocks? Or that Mipha had the Ceremonial Trident, something created after her death? The re-lived battles seem to be exclusively to test Link, not to indicate how the Champions' fights went.
If you add the reason for Revali's pettiness and the SOS signal into all this, it makes Revali's story even more tragic. A personal theory of mine is that Revali acts so petty is because he needed to work to get where he was. It's implied (at least it was to me) that all the other Champions were born with their powers and born into positions of power. Revali wasn't. We see him struggling to master Revali's Gale in The Champion's Ballad and beating himself up over failing. He had to work his feathers off to become a Champion, and all Link had to do was pull a sword out of a rock. Imagine how crushing that was for him to have all his work be for nothing. Anyone would feel jealous or resentful if that happened to them. And things only get worse when it comes to the SOS signal. While the other Champions immediately sent out their SOS signals, Revali held out long enough to see (or rather, feel, since he couldn't see anything) the true power of what he was fighting against. Unlike the other three SOS signals, Revali's SOS isn't masked by the music. It's out there, easy to hear because it's the signal of someone he knows that he's about to die.
While yes that may be true, I will have to call you out on saiyng Link only pulled out a sword and became champion. Link has been stated to have been able to beat some adults when he was young and trained ever since he was little to become a very good royal knight. We learn that Link pulled out the master sword when he was a young teen and ever since then he was expected by everyone to become the great hero of the legend, even going silent as the time went on as stated by Link himself and quoted by Zelda: With so much at stake, and so many eyes upon him, he feels it necessary to stay strong and to silently bear any burden."
@@somerandomguyonthenet1566 Link still had the privilege to be born out of a line of royal knights. he isn't without status. he had access to good training. the flight range was only made because revali requested it to be made. the ritos have a very humble village and though they're not struggling to live, they aren't exactly rich either. revali had to train himself just to become somebody. link had teachers, mentors, tutors, his own father even. revali had no one. sure, revali hasn't seen link grow as a knight. but he knows all to well he is born with approving eyes from the royal family. revali does not.
I feel like all the Blights hard-countered the Champions they faced. Mipha is more of a support/healer-type and Water-Blight not only has high damage, but also super long reach, meaning she probably couldn't keep up the healing even when she gained distance. Urbosa is said to be a strong warrior, so she's prolly very durable and strong, but Thunder-Bright was just too fast. It most likely didn't do much damage, but slowly chipped away at her, whilst dodgeing all of her attacks. Daruk just got rekt completely by the fact the Fire-Blight's shield can only be destroyed by Bombs, which he didn't have.
Play or watch the cutscenes from chapter 7 of Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity. You can see how each one would've died if not for intervention. Like to a T they show you what failed them even!
If age of calamity showed them how they were in the main timeline, as well... Well. They all look much more powered up. Stronger than when we beat them 100 years later.
Urbosa also dislikes ‘dirty’ and ‘cowardly’ attacks, which is exactly what Thunderblight would do. Use cheap tactics just to win faster rather than show respect as a fighter.
Another thing to remember about Rivail is, in addition to everything that was said in the video and in the other comments, is that Rivali is around Links age. He’s a teenager. And since everyone else in the champions has inherit gifts/an awesome sword effectively given to them on a silver platter while Rivail has worked for his abilities… the guy is trying to prove his worth to everyone. Quite possibly himself included. He might not have the best attitude, but it might be how he hides his pain, his fears of being inferior to the rest of the champions.
@@pforgottonsoul Thats because it’s not the norm and I don’t think anyone’s telling you that it is. It’s not that he’s being an asshat, and I don’t approve his behavior but I still respect him because he came from a place where he had to go through so much to the point of pain to get to where he is as a champion and a wielder of a craft probably unheard of among his people by himself rather than being born with a power, and despite all that he did, he was put on the sidelines to merely support the chosen hero, and for someone prideful and arrogant as him, he is of course salty and there usually that one person in a group who is. It’s not that being an asshole is the norm, it’s that it makes it realistic for someone to be on board with being a hero to his people but still salty that he wasn’t chosen as THE hero despite what he did to go so far. Kinda like being an employee and doing so much for an establishment, and being well respected, but someone else gets promoted despite not going through as much as you just because of a special thing rather than skill and how much you went through. To say that being an asshole = the norm is ignorant. Yes he is arrogant, egotistical, prideful, and at times ignorant himself as a result, but the fact that there is someone in the group who is makes the dynamic between the characters more interesting in one way or another. He doesn’t seem to have much spite towards the other champions, probably because he’s aware of their importance and they’re well known fighters among their own people with their own share of power and skill, but Link was born into a royal family of knights and had a darkness sealing sword and had he not possessed it, he would be just a royal soldier like everyone else probably. The Rito was not born into a privileged background like that. Revali was also ignorant of the fact that Link beaten adults at a young age and was trained well, but Revali had no one other than villagers to get where he is. He’s straight up petty but he actually had an understandable reason that doesn’t excuse but explain why he acts that way. Tdlr; Being petty over something for a reason, given someone’s background is realistic and is something people feel all the time. He’s a petty asshole and I can’t excuse it, but at least it’s understandable why he is. I’m sure people like you have been one for a reason.
@@mysryuza he always put himself over the group it wasn't just link that he was being arrogant to it was all the champions and given this was a life or death scenario the least he could do put aside his worthless pride for the greater good.
I want to add this severely overlooked point. It's one thing that it's dark and he cannot see. It's another thing that it's dark and it's RAINING. Rito feathers are good for insulation but what happens when it's wet? Birds are extremely sensitive to body temperature changes and wet feathers do not make easy flight. Poor thing is soaked through, can't see, hampered flight abilities and fumbling. He's pretty much screwed here right from the start. He wasn't 'winging it' he was getting his ass completely thrashed here (Conveniently the rain stopped when teba arrived...)
Kass revealed a fact about himself that I think is true for all Rito: their feathers are waterproof. He tells you this before giving you the Song of the Storm Shrine Quest in Faron.
@@solaris9426 Problem there- waterproof feathers are not completely waterproof. If the feathers get wet enough, or ruffled enough, the water does get through- and gets trapped *inside* the waterproofing. Meaning that the bird gets waterlogged. Birds have to maintain their feathers, and it makes getting in sustained fights a problem. Which this fight definitely would have been.
i know this is a while back but considering how for a rito he was 21 and for a Rito still a child (which is seen as Ravali still has the blush markings ALL Rito children have and being really really short), not only was he dealing with all of this but he in all honestly was still a kid, teenager at best. so imagin you a 13-15 year old fighting against a monster that you cant see, its pouring wet, loud noises everywhere, and its DARK while it constently attacked you, your own weapom not even working (his signature bomb arrows not being useful as the wick would be snuffed out) its actually really depressing
I thought you were gonna talk about how he may not have had his Eagle's bow in the fight, as when you fight Windblight in the "memory realm", in a fight which supposedly replicates what the champions had to go through, you don't have it either. And it being one of the best bows in the game, it was Revali's best weapon by far. On top of that, the bows that the game gives you for the fight are kinda mediocre, so, if Revali had those same weapons, he was totally unprepared
@@JustAWildSkullKid Yeh the mountain hole was made during a previous battle, not when Revali was the pilot of Medoah. You can tell cause there’s a shrine inside a cave in that hole, and I’m pretty sure it would of been mentioned by somebody in game if it had happened 100 years prior to BoTW.
@Ezequiel Schlaen It makes sense.....After all, the Champions' weapons were left in the care and possession of their peoples' leaders. In BOTW canon, anyway. In AOC canon, they had their weapons while fighting the Blights......which puts a big hole in that, in a way, seeing as if that's the case, and if AOC is an alternate timeline to BOTW, if they had them while fighting the Blights in the BOTW timeline, *how in the blazes did their people get them back?!* Which is why I prefer to think the same way: That the "memory realm" fights are recreations of the fights from the respective memory of the Champion who fought the Blight in that memory, only with a winning outcome.
Since it's the first Revali video I found, that isn't years old, I decided to put my thoughts here. I really liked his character in botw. If all the champions were simple, happy friends the story would be kinda blant. The other 3 were constantly extra supportive of Link, (Daruk was even his friend and Mipha had a crush on him) and I think Revali noticed that and it made him even more determined to be the one that holds Link accountable and demands diligent work. Also maybe it added to his jelousy cause he had to archive everything completly alone? As I said somwhere down the comments I have noticed, he's much nicer to other champions in the playthrough than in the cutscenes. For example, he praises Mipha quite a lot and when I played with him and Daruk he said something like ,,I don't need any h- I mean thanks Daruk" witch shows he works on himself at least a bit and isn't an ashole intentionaly. Like lots of people have pointed out he was the only champion that didn't have magical powers, neither was born with a title/in a position of power, that explains why he's mad that Link is fighting Gannon beacuse of fate. It's not just jelousy, he really cares about his village and I can't imagine that someone like Revali, who relies on nobody but himself his whole life, would trust anybody easliy with that task. He was also pretty young ( somwhere around Mipha's/Link's and Zelda's age according to Urbosa's dairy, different hyrule races age differently tho) witch absolutely doesn't excuse his actions towards others but it's definitely different than grown man being petty to much younger teen. Urbosa and Daruk seem to be in their maximum potential years but I can't help thinking he and Mipha could develop their abilities even more if they lived. I also think it's interesting that because of the cockiness you would take Revali for someone who dreams of being worshiped yet when the elder proposed him a statue he chosed a flight range where he could perfect his abilities even further instead. (it was actually wholesome Daruk who has built a statue of himseld witch I found funny) I could write some more but it's quite long. Anyways, I think Revali is the most complex champion and obviously not everyone has to like him like I do, but people who hate him with passion seem very friagle & noimmune to few words of criticism. Thanks for the great video Imma gonna give u a sub
I like your comment I've never disliked Revali at all I kinda see him as a lovable asshole but I really feel bad knowing all the champions were put into such dire situations with no way out
love revali, and his theme music is so romantic. yet he does have the most tragic death/past. all the other champions had family, and were remembered with statues, whereas Revali got... a ledge. no spouse, no kids, and seemingly no friends? and on top with that bit where his music has the SOS morse code in it, it's just sad to think about
OOH YES Tbh one of these days I wanna do a whole character analysis on revali because he acts like an ass but i think he does it to hide a lot of stuff from his past and for the most part we dont hear anything about his friends or family so he was alone or he felt like it anyway I could legit go on for days 😊
I always thought of him of being just a regular guy, wasn't royalty or high-ranking in anything like the others, just an extremely skilled archer. I can admire that.
As a Revali fan, this is absolutely heartbreaking to think about but I'm glad you put out the video to make everyone warm up to our cocky birb boy just a bit more TwT
Revali also held out the longest of all the champions during Ganon's attack. This is evidenced by the SOS hidden in his divine beast's theme being far later than the SOS in the other themes, and how he held on the longest during Age of Calamity.
There's actually a theory about that; it says that all blights were the same at first and they absorbed the corpses of the champions similar to Ganon absorbing a guardian; after that, they became the creatures we see 100 years later
@@willjens1269 I mean, something worth noting is that we never see them before the blights are killed, we only hear their voices..so maybe both their bodies and souls got absorbed?
Also, although not confirmed in main botw timeline, the blights were much stronger back then. Windblight had two cannons and was much faster, bigger and stronger with his attacks. Perhaps the blights were stronger during the calamity but a hundred years of time weakened them to the point of them being former shells of the beasts they were before, leaving link to easily despatch them.
@@francineaxisa8497 and was still losing he managed to take them on yes but it was ultimately a losing battle until Zelda got her powers and was able to drive them off which pretty much confirms at this point that Zelda is stronger than Link.
@@chadpeterson5698 I mean Zelda has always been stronger than Link. Goddess vs puny mortal. It's like a supersoldier with a submachine gun fighting an army compared to nuclear ICBM against that army.
Revali's one of my favorite Champions and I'm legitimately heartbroken after seeing this.😢💔 I had always thought he had it bad after death, being stuck in Vah Medoh knowing that he failed, but THIS!? I think I'd briefly known that the Rito have poor night vision, but it never really hit me until now.
Also I consider Mipha to be the Most Disadvantaged, during her Fight with Ice Effects freezing over her Water based Attacks considering the Zora's seemingly Weakness to Ice, as shown in basicly every Major Title in an Area where there is either No water for her to use her Swimming Skills or the Direct Danger of Freezing over, like so many of her Kin have
@@Scorpion_-lk4ps Mipha is essentially a battle medic; she's more skilled as a healer but she's also a good fighter I think Waterblight may have freezed over the water before Mipha could react and get some distance away from its spear
Another thing to consider regarding seeing the blights? Even without worse night vision, Revali would have had a harder time seeing Wind Blight. Water Blight is indoors in a well lit room within Vah Ruta. Thunder Blight is also in a well lit room within Vah Naboris, not to mention the electricity lighting things up even better. And Vah Rudania? Yeah, outdoors... But in a volcano, lit up by the lava and magma. Meanwhile, Vah Medoh? In the sky, outdoors. No lights from the divine beast, no sunlight, being in the sky would even mean less moonlight, potentially having clouds to make it effectively like fog, as is the case during the Champion's Ballad rematch with Wind Blight. In terms of visuals, even for us as Link, Wind Blight's fight is visually darker and harder to see. Obviously not as hard as it would be in real life, and with poor night vision its even worse. Revali may as well have been fighting blind. You want to simulate it? Do the fight yourself, blindfolded. Even then, we have the benefit of being able to try an infinite amount of times until we can determine things from sound. That being said, its fitting for Revali. The most confident champion, cocky, believing himself to be better than everyone, even the chosen hero, ending up with what would be a fight tailored to be insanely difficult for him, a fight that only he could manage (until Link got a paraglider) yet with an added twist that impacts him the most.
@@HyruleGamer i think someone theorized that the blights only took their current form after absorbing the champions souls. though i cant remember whose theory that was
Not only all that but the bright flashes of light from the laser attack could irritate even more. Ever accidently looked into a flashlight in the night and suddenly you can't see shit around you? Yeah, now imagine that while you are being attacked by something that is hardly visible to you in the first place. It's like getting sand flung in your face in a fight.
@@kaiseremotion854 If I recall it was Maskednintendobandit's, however it was that the blights never existed until the malice consumed the champions (which is dead wrong)
I’ve always sympathized with revali, I mean he worked his entire life to master archery and his ability revalis gale, and then out of nowhere some random kid is chosen and he’s just meant for backup, I would be pissed, also I think revali is kinda lonely
Wonder how differently things would have gone for Revali if it was daytime during their fight in botw. I could very well see him winning against the blight. Maybe he’d be able to use the divine beast making the calamity way less tragic Also just noticed the pun of the title. Love it!
I don't know if he would have won even if it was daytime, the other champions were no slouches when it comes to fighting either and lost even under less unfavorable conditions (though now that I think about it, Daruk was at a pretty heavy disadvantage with his blight having both range and flight while he's reliant on close combat 🤔 )
@@drippydrip4663 Depends on whether or not he could have made to them in time to help. SPOILER WARNING FOR HYRULE WARRIORS AGE OF CALAMITY!!! When I played Age of Calamity, I chose to save Mipha and Daruk first because I figured Mipha could heal the other champions, even if they were on death's doorstep, giving all the champions the best odds of total survival. I know that's not how the game mechanically works, but for as much as Revali gets on my nerves, I don't want the pompous pigeon dead any more than the other champions. 🥺
I always thought Revali was kind of relatable, the reason people hate so much on him is, that they see their own weaknesses and uncontrolled hateful emotions reflected in him. He is just as full of envy as all of us, and at the end he still takes his chance to realize how he mistreated who he'd thought of as his competitor. I think it's also easier to understand him when you take into consideration that link never talked to him, and by that wasn't able to communicate freely. There's a lot we can learn from Revalis mistakes and i think that is what makes him such a unique character, even if he seems like your average envy filled, uppish and overall mean losing competitor. Id also like to thank you for featuring my snack in this video, hear you next time! PS: congrats mate!
I don't really think that theory holds water. While I have warmed up to Revali somewhat, especially after Age of Calamity (although the way he treated everyone poorly got on my nerves, especially how he treated Daruk in the cut scenes leading up to the Korok forest mission), I started out completely hating him. And speaking from that perspective, the reason I hated him was because of how he handled his emotions. Maybe there's some degree of relatability in the emotions he felt. I can definitely understand, if not empathize, with someone getting severely upset when they're upstaged by someone who is just naturally gifted with everything they've worked hard to achieve. My problems with Revali stem from his superiority complex, and the way he handled his emotions. He belittled everyone around him, and talked about himself like he was the best thing since sliced bread. And while Link's silence might not have helped the matter, Revali handled his feelings in a very unhealthy way, lashing out and applying false blame to people who meant absolutely no harm in their actions or words (or lack of words in Link's case). He was petty and vindictive, and anyone who can relate to Revali's behavior (not his feelings, his behavior; how he handled his emotions, and how he treated others) probably needs to go to therapy.
I just realized -- the Rito having poor night vision reminds me of another group of feathery friends with the same defect: the Loftwings! Even though the Rito were descended from the Zora in the Wind Waker, is it possible that they're rewriting it so that the Rito are the descendants of the Loftwings?
Plus, the Rito in Breath of the wild aren't all looking exactly the same. (and to begin with, I think it was said the the goddesses were the one who transformed them in Wind waker.) Our current Rito's feathers are really colorful, which remind me more of the Loftwings. Plus, I would love to hear about what happened to those feathery friends of ours.
What's worse about all this is the implication that Ganon specifically made the blights to counter each champion individually and used similar weapons as a counter. He wanted the champions to lose in the worst way possible, invalidating their own strengths. Revali killed himself to be as good as he was at air combat and was beaten by a creature that could effortlessly levitate Daruk ancestral protection was easily replicated by Fireblight and he was unable to do anything about it. Mipha was a excellent fighter as well as a expert swimmer but that was meaningless against waterblight who not only outranged her, but could spear her out of the water. Urbosa straight up couldn't keep up with Thunderblight who used underhanded tactics she couldn't counter and her own element against her. Everything that made each champion special was completely invalidated by Ganon's own "champions."
I actually had no idea that Rito night vision was so bad. But it does explain something about the Windblight battle in the Champions Ballad that I had never put much thought into (beyond thinking it was there just for a different experience). The fog in that fight so heavily obscures everything that I actually ran off the edge at first because I couldn’t see. If that is even close to the situation that Revali had to deal with then I’m not surprised he wound up losing. Especially since archery depends on having a clean line of sight to your target and Windblight’s only real weak spot is his eye.
Completely missed one other detail. You know when it's dark, and someone suddenly switches the light on and you're blinded for a few seconds? Yeah, now think about Windblight's cannon. The other blights all have constant glows from their weapons. But Windblight would just be low light, then sudden flashes of light. Even the few continuously glowy bits on Windblight would be harder to spot for anyway simply because of those bright flashes. It's also the kind of thin where night vision doesn't help you much, because the better your night vision is, the more the blast blinds you.
Maybe the Ritos who are supposed to be from night bird species can see ? (but, then again, Revali being an eagle, if I am correct, doesn't change much for him) ... wait, no, night bird locate themselve throught sound... even if he had been, guess he would have been swreded. I mean, that blight wasn't that noisy.
Maybe that's why Revalis SOS is later? If he can't see he may have not noticed he was under attacked until a little bit later and/or if the champions had to get to the terminal maybe he had trouble seeing it or getting to it because that disadvantage of not being able to see attacks to dodge etc. And yes congratulations on your anniversary:D!!!
Imagine a combo of the two. He doesn't see he is in danger and realise because he got hit by an attack who came from seemingly nowhere, then after trying to assert what his situation is, he first try to fight his ground, but when seeing that he can barely see his target (the worst possible thing for a long range fighther) he tries to find the terminal, acting based on his memories, but have to deal with dodging constant waves of attacks, because the Blight tries to prevent him to send the signal. He would be even more panicked in that case, because he is under the rain, fighting against something who is more of a ghost for him, with nearly no vison at all (maybe made worst by the cloud plus adding that the light of the attack could hurt his eyes because of the flash, making blind for a few seconds, which can be everything in such a battle), maybe injured at the wings, which would make it more troublesome to shoot too and finally, with maybe deep down, the perfect awareness that noone will be able to come to help him, because like he said himself to Link, unless you know how to fly, you cannot get the Vah'Medo, and like we said, Rito have bad nigt vision, so none of them could fly to help him, and even if they did, they would just all be killed. (I somehow wondered just how deseperate he must have felt, because he was surely the most aware of his situation being hopeless, even if he jumped from Medo to try to save his life, if his wings were hurt, he would have not been able to fly, though his pride would have surely made him fight like he could until his last breath, I think)
6:50 I always got the impression that this was the devs way of subtly showing that she has some form of autism. Her mannerisms just give me that vibe, especially since anxiety disorders are a common symptom of many types of autism.
As a lancer character type, I think Revali gets a lot of undeserved hate, and I think some of this hate also spills over from the undeserved scorn that the race as a whole received.
Hi, do you mind elaborating on what you mena by "scorn that the race receives". I've seen some people make comments so I see what you mean but ngl I'm confused as to why people seem to dislike the rito
They way I saw the fight before Age of Calamity came out was that Revali had Windblight Ganon on the 'ropes' but then it started to summoning its attack drones to overwhelm the champion until he was exhausted and running out of arrows.
this game is so heart wrenching, terrifying and genuinely traumatic at times. trying to explain it to someone who hasnt played is so,,, difficult. thank you for this video, ive always loved revali just bc his lil attitude
I also like to think that in spite all of this, he held on to the longest due to that SOS signal you can hear in Divine Beast Themes. In his, it is introduced the latest, while other Champions start calling almost immediately.
The blights added a disadvantage to all the fights though. Mipha had to deal with ice limiting her water mobility. Daruk had to deal with explosive ranged attacks. Urbosa had to deal with metal conducting her lightning and directing it at her. And Revali had the darkness limiting his vision.
Thank u. Ppl need to realize this and stop thinking revali is some sorts sad case. He’s a FANTASTIC character and his background isn’t glitter and gold like the rest, but specifically in this case, he didn’t draw the short stick. They all did.
Yes, except he had it the worst, honestly maybe even not taking into account the darkness. Mipha had to deal with ice limiting her water mobility? Ravioli had to deal with wind limiting his flying mobility and only form of attack, his arrows. His special power helping him fly? Basically worthless in the face of a tornado and 5 guns shooting all around him. Now you add in he basically couldn't see what to attack or where he was being shot from? The others all had been countered by impossible conditions too, sure, but not to the point of being unable to move, see, or attack. They were essentially all reduced to basic fighters against beasts, which Ravioli would probs be the best at given his backstory of hard work and not being born with some power like every other champion. But he was reduced to less than that since he was left with 0 options.
@@scottiedarko7951 I agree he had no way of winning. But neither did any of them. What's Daruk gonna do against heavy artillery like that, for example? He has no ranged attack ability. Out of the four I'd say Mipha had it the worst, as she had the least combat ability to begin with, and her healing powers were useless in that situation. She was outranged and had no way of closing in, she had no chance. Literally a fish in a barrel.
@@jerotoro2021 well yeah, but the point of the video is that he was disadvantaged the most, so if his eyesight is really that bad then he had impaired vision, movement, and attacks. None of them stood a chance, but there's a difference between "my main advantage is gone and they're better than me at my style of fighting" and "That, plus I'm also fighting near blind and my weapon is almost useless". Even if you want to say his arrows aren't completely nullified by controlling wind and artillery, and that every other champion has just as hard of a time hitting with their weapons, they weren't also fighting in the dark... unless they were lol, idk I didn't play AoC and the scenes I saw in this vid looked lit up.
Urbosa didn't, though. By fighting her fight in The Champion's Ballad, you can use Urbosa's Fury to stun Thunderblight in the second phase whenever it goes for the magnet tactic, meaning Urbosa could, too. It was just that Thunderblight outsped her in combat, operating on blitz tactics.
The dude doesn't have a quiver, I wanna know where he was keeping the arrows he had. I'm starting to think Link isn't the only character in the franchise with access to hammer space.
@Jacinta Capelety we can assume that underneath revali's feathers he had a storage of them, or kept arrowheads and used his own feathers in a pinch if he ran out. It would make sense why he was a master archer if he occasionally used his own feathers to quill arrows in certain situations. It's not like birds can't eventually regrow them, let alone how fast a rito warrior might be able to.
I'm a big fan of Revali's design, voice acting, and personality, so I was dismayed when I found out Revali lost to the easiest Blight. This alleviated my concerns.
Plus, we have to consider that Link probably faced weaker blights than the Champions did since Zelda was holding Ganon back, kind of like the guardians losing part of their "consciousness" because Ganon wasn't in full control. Great video by the way ! I didn't know about Rito not having bad nightvision before seing it on Merlin's instagram, it's really changes the "Revali should have won the fight" conversation.
i love revali. there's so much more than just a jerkish personality under those feathers, there's reasoning for his ego. and, this was an great video. i really enjoyed it
Revali's English voice actor Sean Chiplock said that when first recorded for Revali, he thought he was just a jerk. But after recording for Champion's Ballad DLC he wished he could go back with the knowledge he has now about Revali. Revali trained himself and pushed himself beyond his limits to get where he is in terms of skill. And none of the other characters see that. We saw Revali pushing himself through the wind and subsequently crashing to the ground but Zelda just arrives after the fact. We as the viewers have that information, but the other characters don't. On top of that, Revali is a staunch perfectionist. He didn't show off Revali's Gale until he could do it perfectly. Not well, not great, perfectly. I heard the phrase "it's not bragging if you actually do it" and that's a great way to encapsulate Revali. He doesn't boast about himself because he's arrogant, he's earned that right through constant effort and work. Bringing it back to Sean Chiplock's feelings on Revali, he said that, at least from his perspective as Revali's voice actor, part of Revali's issue with Link is that he didn't earn his position. Revali broke himself down and forced himself back up over and over again and earned the right to pilot Vah Medoh based entirely upon his own skill only to be made subordinate support to someone who was the "chosen one." I can't imagine what a kick in the teeth, or beak as it were, that would be to someone who spent so long working themselves to the bone for recognition. And Link has his own set of struggles, obviously. But Revali wasn't privy to them since they share the trait of not openly communicating their feelings. From Revali's perspective, all of the work that he put into himself and his tireless efforts to be the best could only gain him the role of support. I would have a chip on my shoulder too.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Revali the only champion who isn't a leader of his people? Urbsosa was the head of the Gurudo, Darunia was leading the Goron, and Mifa was the princess of the Zora. As far as I'm aware, Revali is the only one who was just an regular citizen. It's probably the reason he has it especially out for Link. Link, for the most part, is just a skilled knight making Link the most similar to Revali. Difference between them, other than species, is one happens to be the incarnation of the hero
But, he was never said to be the chief indeed. He is just treated like a hero (which he was, even when he was alive, despite his crappy personnality). This is more the respect you would show toward someone who marked the history of your people, I think.
I remember seeing that post! I figured that was where this video came from. I saw and was like "OH NO". It honestly made me feel guilty for giving Revali so much shade about losing to WindBlight, who is relatively easy for Link to beat. Glad to see this topic being given more publicity! Edit after I finished: "Our poor little chicken wing" caught me off guard. Also congrats on the one-year anniversary!
Actually I saw a theory that Windblight was easy for Link because Revali had significantly weakened it during his fight. Even with all the disadvantages he was presented with, the proud Revali gave it his all and managed to last till the second half of the fight. He was even able to tear off one of Windblight's arm canon and disrupt it's aim, which is why Windblight only has one canon and takes a longer time to aim when Link confronts it a century later. Revali was the one that made the fight easier for Link when the time came.
I noticed in Age of Calamity what changed the storyline is when impa motivated zelda to helped the champions in the end they actually managed to save the champions
Fighting Windblight at night is just flexing at poor Revali. Though tbf he fought bravely and he SOS late. And the fact that he had to travel the farthest out of the four. I saw it on reddit on how he also had to exhaust himself dodging the Guardian Lasers on Hyrule Plains.
To be fair the blights were built to counter their respective champions. Thunderblight lightningfast so even Urbosa, who's amazing in close combat can't follow. Fireblight strong enough to break Daruks protection. Waterblight (as seen in AoC) can freeze the battlefield and takes Mipha out of her element. And well Windblight, with winds to deflect Revalis arrows and disturb his ability to fligh. Really the were in disadvantage all battle.
Never understood why people would dislike revali due to his tough attitude and slight rivalry with link. Always reminded me of falco's personality. He's one of my favorite champions next to mipha of course. Watching this makes me respect him alot more 💪🐦
This information makes me wonder a bit if maybe that's the reason why the only old Rito we see is Kaneli (I think that's how you spell it) the village elder. His appearance is obviously based off of an owl and he's only awake at night. If you talk to him during the day, you wake him up. Most owl species are either crepuscular (active in dawn and dusk) or nocturnal so their night vision is very good. I wonder if that applies to Kaneli who is the only Rito based off of an owl. (Unless Teba was based on a snowy owl but I'm pretty sure his appearance was based off a gyrfalcon.) Congrats on the anniversary with your lady btw.
I really liked Revali from the get go, truly. I never thought of him as HATING Link, but rather I think he hated the never ending cycle that Link was a part of. Ganondorf and Link have been stuck in this endless loop for generations, reincarnated again and again to duel against each other, and each time Ganondorf reawakens, disaster falls on Hyrule. You can't honestly tell me Revali is the ONLY character in this series who has grown tired of this doomsday on repeat. He's ticked, and justifiably so, as nobody BUT Link can end it, and even then, it just begins anew all over again. I think he was just angry at the circumstances rather than the hero himself, and unfortunately that anger was taken out on the only person Revali could blame for it. To quote him directly from the original BOTW game "It seems that I have been tapped to merely assist you. All because you happen to have that little darkness-sealing sword on your back. I mean, it's just ... asinine." And from that line of his, I just assumed he was angry that he, along with everybody else, can only rely on one person to save the people they love, while they themselves are completely powerless against the imminent threat. I don't know. I just loved his perspective on the whole thing, I thought it was a much needed approach for some of these characters to question the function of the cycle, and get angry when there is seemingly no solution.
Happy anniversary friend! Hope you have an amazing time! Thank you for the great video! I really enjoy diving deep into Zelda lore and discovering all of the details of my favorite series. Revali is definitely one of my favorite characters in the series, so this perspective of his death hit a little hard lol. I also have really bad eyesight, so imagining being in his place is just terrifying.
Revali has been my favorite champion. He worked so hard to get where he was, he wanted recognition for his deeds and felt jealous of people who he felt were given special attention for things (Link being a chosen one and such for example). He was the only real one had much character development in BOTW.
I must admit, I was never a big fan of Revali, but this video did make me feel bad for him. The additional difficulties he had during this battle was never something I considered, but... damn, there are so many. As soon as I saw the title, I immediately thought about how he's the only one of the champions who had no way of shielding attacks. It's super hard to use a shield in mid-air and it also completely stops you from using your bow and arrow, so of couse Revali didn't have one (Mipha also doesn't have a shield but she could use her spear to protect herself a little bit). And I never knew the rito have bad night vision. :( That's really unfortunate for him. Either way, great video as always!
Its sas that the champions with one of the more useful abilities suffered the worst death. I've always kinda liked him, since he uses a bow. I mean they could've just installed a couple floodlights, just in case there will be a battle that takes place at night. Come on shiekah. You surely have the technology to do that.
That's actually terrifying, the darkness. Imagine how scared he was, especially because his SOS comes later in Medoh's Theme, even in the dark he wasn't wanting to call before he knew it was too late
Each Champion was ELEMENTALLY in their element but the Blights used the champions strengths against them. Mipha is agile in water so WaterBlight froze the water, Urbosa was fast and agile but ThunderBlight was faster and used clones, Daruk has his shield but FireBlight was just much stronger, and Revali could create his own wind/updraft which no one could do until ThunderBlight kind if made his own in the reverse direction I believe. I believe Ganon was watching them through the Malice Eyes so when the Blights manifested, they already knew how to beat them.
Another thing about their fight, according to the memories when Ganon appears, it was raining, so he couldn't use his most powerful arrows (bomb arrows)
Rivali is awesome. He's a pompous ass and I think it's hilarious. Too bad he's blind at night. That must be why you need special training to fly Loftwings at night. Good video as always. Take care HG.
I see I maybe aren't the only one thinking that Breath of the wild Rito could be related to Loftwings instead. (I kinda thought it could be more likely that the Loftwings evolved into those Rito, especially looking at the color of their feathers, was it it ?
@@orianefaton1885 Speculation. I know it says Zoras in Windwaker turn to Rito, but there are Zoras in BOTW. Also, the lore is sometimes misconstrued or contradictory. For instance Zoras in the downfall timeline are on Ganons team. Why? Take care.
Dark windblight is like the illusory realm, and as someone who has been out at night away from major cities, it’s pitch black even in a full moon. So a night battle would have been difficult for most people
In case your wondering here is how each champion died: Mipha was fighting waterblight ganon in stress until waterblight ganon summoned some ice blocks and repeaditly threw it at her but she still lived so waterblight came charging at mipha with a ice crusher whip smashing it at mipha thus obliterating mipha to peices Dark was fighting fireblight ganon as we know and daruk was trying his best to get some hits on the blight but it kept teleporting away, daruk used daruks protection but fireblight managed to break through his protective sheild which knocked daruk o the floor so fireblight summoned a fireball and threw it at daruk burning him to death. Urbosa was fighting thunderblight and they both tried landing hits on each other but failing urbosa even says that she is in trouble so we know she is struggling, thunderblight manages to cause pressure on urbosas sheild knocking her off to a lowee part of naboris, urbosa is now exhausted and trys her best to stand and resist but she was way to weak since the pressure thunderblight caused at her urbosa has a hard time lifting herself and decides to accept her fate so she stares at thunderblight dead in the eyes staring at death itself ,the blight came charging at urbosa slashing her to death. Revali was off to face windblight and since rito have bad night vision revali was winging the beast trying to fly away from it as it shot multiple beams at him and revali tried his best to dodge the beams as he continued to dodge windblights attacks windblight gets a shot at revali knocking him through the air making revali airborne windblight ganon charged a massive attack and blasted it at revali killing him and even worse knocking his dead body off the divine beast but his soul is still trapped
JUSTICE FOR REVALI! He was the only champion that actually worked for his position as champion. Urbosa, Mipha, and Daruk all just had magic powers and Link was just some random soldier who pulled some dumb stick out of a rock. Revali trained hard to be the best rito archer, he trained hard to be able to create an updraft. He was just annoyed by the fact that he worked hard all his life to be ome a champion while the others seemed to have just been lucky.
There's a lot that can be taken from AoC about exactly how each Blight was perfectly tailored to counter each Champion, and frankly, Wind Blight's advantage over Revali is just terrifying. Each of the fights go something like this; Mipha: A fish out of water. Water Blight freezes the water in the control chamber, eliminating Mipha's swimming abilities and attacks, while dangling from the ceiling far out of reach of Mipha's only weapen, her trident, while pummeling her with ice blocks and its own long-range spear. Urbosa: Speed vs Shield. It's made clear during her fight that Thunder Blight is completely immune to Urbosa's Fury as it simply teleports away from the attack. Urbosa is left to rely on her sword and shield combat style, which Thunder Blight easily overwhelms with its teleporting and lightning fast attacks from every possible angle. Daruk: Break the Protection. All Fire Blight had to do in this fight was whittle down Daruk's Protection and then land a few good blows. Daruk is simply too slow to land a hit on Blight and we actually see the moment Daruk's Protection breaks, right before the final blow. Revali: A bird in a cage. Revali is the only Champion that has the Divine Beast itself turn on him as Vah Medoh's force field is activated, trapping Revali inside and preventing his escape. Ironic as at this point Revali is the only Champion could have simply flown away to safety. Inside the cage Revali not only has to deal with his own poor vision, but also Wind Blight has the ability to completely knock him off balance by sending out mini tornadoes to stir up the wind currents. Not only has Revali got to first find the Blight in the darkness, he then has to take aim with his bow, which takes away his flight each time he tries to attack, while being blown around off course and having an anti-air gun firing flak at him. Then Revali's own weapon actually works against him - his bomb arrows. He's the only Champion that cannot get within striking distance of the blight otherwise he'd only end up blowing himself up with his own weapon. Not that he'd actually want to get too close seeing as birds have hollow skeletons and one single blow would have most definitely crushed him. Imagine you're a fighter pilot in WW1 flying a fragile wooden fighter plane and you're trying to eliminate an anti-aircraft gun that can see you in the dark, is constantly moving around while firing flak at you, during a hurricane, in complete darkness, inside a giant cage that keeps you within striking distance of the gun, and every time you fire your weapon your engine cuts out and you plummet hundreds of feet... That's essentially what Revali was dealing with.
The tale of Revali is a tragic one. From young, he had no parents, family or friends. He had to fend for himself. He trained day and night not to be the best, but to be admired by all of the Rito. His bitter attitude and Smug face derives from his hate for anyone and not opening up to others. His Efforts were in vain when A hylian served a higher role in defeating the Calamity. He was shocked and was in Disbelief. Finally at his last breaths of trying to defeat the Ganon with powers of wind. He was gone. His spirit will not leave until he is free and his goals are met. With the final arrow to The Dark Beast, his soul departs for new heights and eternal rest. His life was a depressing story and this is why RAVIOLI is the best champion
I feel the need to mention the primary reason why everyone lost: NO ONE HAD THEIR WEAPONS!!! in the MT Lenaru Cutscene no one has their weapons (except for Link) and they didn't have any time to get them before going to their divine Beasts. This is why the weapons are given to you by NPCs outside of the beasts and not found inside them. Now you could say that they were recovered from them but then I would ask you, HOW THE HECK WOULD ANYONE DO THAT?!? VAH RUDANIA IS SO HOT IT CAN SET PEOPLE WHO ARE IMMUNE TO FIRE ON FIRE, VAH NABORIS CAN SHOCK LIGHTING PROOF THINGS, VAH MEDOH LITERALLY DOESN'T EVEN EXIST AND VAH RUTA IS PROTECTED BY AN IMPENETRABLE FORCEFIELD! If anyone could get into those things they could definitely kill the blights before the player could. So yeah, all the Champions at the time would have been unarmed while fighting the blights. Regarding gameplay logic, Urbosa is the only one who ever stood a chance at winning
Surprised that it took as long as it did for the SOS beeping to go off in the Vah Medoh’s theme in comparison to the other Champions, despite having poor night vision. I guess he was willing to “wing it” despite the disadvantages, like maybe believing he could adapt and take him on. He was a warrior and warriors were trained to handle tough situations, at least that’s what I think Revali believes. What I admire is that he’s passionate about his heritage and skills and his dedication to his craft, without being born with an arsenal of powers, even though to the point of pain. Happy to hear more about Revali
I feel like they were all out of their element 1. Revalie couldn’t see 2.mipha was enclosed in an area with little water 3. Daruk needs a big area to fight 4. And urbosa was also in a closed area
I love Revali so much and characters like him (eg Bakugo from BNHA). There just is always so much nuance that people always ALWAYS overlook, and this video just makes me love him even more. Thank you and to your partner for this video!
The story of Fort Hateno is one that I love. A small outpost, talked down in game with a measly compliment of soldiers that managed to stand and do what the pillar of strength, Akalla Citadel, couldn't despite Akalla Citadel having a massive number of soldiers, minimal access points, natural defenses and artillery batteries. While it was the arrival of princess Zelda that saved the fort, Link and Zelda faced huge resistance, and in BOTW you can see the destroyed Guardians going all the way from the stable to the gate of Fort Hateno, but no further towards the village. Without Hateno Village, Fort Hateno would have suffered a worse fate than Akalla Citadel, but the constant flow of militia fighters fighting the Guardian army and holding the gatehouse and wall coming from Hateno Village bought them the time needed for Zelda to ultimately get near enough so that when Link finally fell, her power ended the fighting. Despite its small and decrepit state, and entries calling it a "deliberate stone heap", Fort Hateno is the one Hylian stronghold that never falls between both BOTW and AoC, even after the Hylian army lost their battle and determined Hateno residents took up the battlements instead. While actual fortresses like Hyrule Castle and Akalla Citadel seem more likely to be the ones to stand and have a more interesting story, for me the story of Fort Hateno and how it became the only Hylian stronghold left standing after the dust cleared is the most interesting of all.
When the calamity first struck all of Gabon’s power was pretty much at its strongest and the blights weren’t of actually stood a chance against any of the four champions if it wasn’t for the fact the attack struck moments before and the blights were very durable and could take many blows from the champions. That’s why 100 years later when ganon is regaining his power after being awoken, they were so easy to defeat and also why during age of calamity they looked much strobgp
Within the fight of hyrule warriors, Revali and Link fight and his bomb arrows are scarily precise. So that might be something to say that Revali may of taught himself to be better acostumed to the night as he did also push the limits of Rito's aerial capabilities. However it's also cannon that Revali and Link never fought in Botw so idk
I mean are the Ritos eyesight really worse than Link? Creating a champion says that the Ritos are essentially half bird half Hylian. It does say that they have bad night visions but if Hylians are the same as RL humans then their night vision is also not that great... compared to like actual birds like owls.
@@HyruleGamer True, I was just thinking that it was more of a comparison like a feature that the Rito’s might share with Hylians. But it might be a bit too specific of an example😅 but I guess it still could go either way
My assumption would be that Rito night vision is worse than a Hylian, but better than non-nocturnal birds, somewhere in the middle (which feels fitting for a race described as a mix between birds and hylians).
Don't most daytime birds kinda shut down when it gets dark? I thought that's why people may put a cloth over a birdcage or falconers gave those little blind caps for their birds?
This isn’t really specific to Revali but Urbosa mentions in her diary that she hopes her and Daruk will be able to protect the others or smn, because they’re all so young. Just some food for thought that Zelda, Link and Mipha are all around like, what 17? And Revali is considered “young” by Urbosa and yet they’re all supposed to be Hyrules saviours.
Revali’s character has a lot of layers, which i’m going to go through. This might explain his character a bit more. First layer: Ego, pride and jealousness This is the most noticeable trait, which is shown in all of the cutscenes. This is pretty self explainatory. He brags about his aim, and pretty much else. However he finds out he’s going to only support the main hero, just a pawn in a chess game. Second layer: Insecurity. Revali Struggles with insecurity beneath is layer of pride. He trained day in and out to perfect his skills, to get approvement from everyone else, and to prove himself to the world, he was something. However, as Link, he tries to hide his real feelings, but not by staying silent, quite the opposite. Third layer: Defensive This is a pretty short one, but as he stated in his diary, he values his hone more than everything, and will go to any lengths possible to protect it. Which means he cares about something other than himself, which is not apparent at first glance. Fourth layer: the person (bird) he was . In the first page of his diary, he states he won the traditional archery competition, and broke the record by far. Everyone praised him everytime he walked past the villagers. The elder even asked him if he wanted something as a prize, and he said he wanted a new shooting range. But one particular line in the first page stands out among the rest. Which is ”I think i can get used to this”, meaning that he mildly disliked being praised before becoming famous. Which meant that he wasn’t full of pride, and egoism back then. Fifth layer: pressure The things that made him become as he was before his death was pressure. The whole village believed in him, and he had far to great standards for himself, and pushing himself to his limits unhealthy amounts of times. Even hurting himself, just to ”do better”. His whole homes fate rests on his wings, according to him. TL;DR Revali changed after becoming famous, before he became, he disliked attention and compliments, by the one line ”i can get used to this” in his diary. All thanks to the pressure he received from the village, and from himself.
i don't understand anyone disliking Revali so much. sure he's not the most "pleasant" character, but not everyone needs to be to be good. we're all so different from each other and i'd always prefer someone being completely honest with me in their actions, thoughts and words than pretending in any way with any thing. also, dude, horizontal video shorts!
I forgot who originally posted this comment but this is a good justification to why we kinda hate Revail. While I sympathize with Revail, even his 'reasons' for being a jerk make him seem more jerkish. He comes off as blind to those around him and is incredibly self centered with it. He's so focused on what he perceives as an insult to his abilities, he refuses to acknowledge everyone else, including Link, who worked just as hard if not harder to earn his position. He thinks he should be the "knight that seals the darkness" when in reality, he should be satisfied with the position as a champion.
I always wondered how Revali lost, and this theory sadly helps give an idea how it possibly happened. Revali seemed equal if not better than Link in weapons combat so on a level playing field theoretically he should have bested Wind Blight. Would be interesting to theorize how the other champions fell to the other blights.
We know that in the book "Creating a Champion", the Rito cannot see very well in the dark. Not only was it dark, it was also raining. Windblight also deflected Revali's signature bomb arrow attack and disrupted his flight with air turbulence and wind manipulation, while blasting away with rapid-fire Guardian laser. It was a totally one-sided turkey-shoot. Revali never had a chance.
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Oh absolutely I mean he kinda got on my nerves a few times but he's actually one of my favorite characters in botw/aoc
Yes he is. Revail was my favorite character in the entire game. I felt like I could relate to him with how he tried to be perfect but was secretly jealous of Link but wouldn’t admit it.
@@PurpleMonadoBlaze same here
I love all of the Champions equally
I would say he does get a bad rep for his personality. But I personally like it and think it gives him more depth and makes him a much more interesting character
The champions ballad shows that Revali was training himself to the point of pain, constantly failing to perfect his ability. He may not be the nicest champion, but he is one of the most dedicated.
What makes me sad is that his brusqueness probably comes from an inferiority complex. He hates himself for not being able to perfect himself, so he redirects that hatred on others as petty arrogance.
Exactly! He’s a very complex and layered character full of insecurities and doubts but with an outward attitude of perfection and disdain towards others.
Personally for me, he’s my favorite video game character ever, not just from BOTW. So happy to see videos still being made about him!
You can also tell he genuinely cares Hyrule. He said the training grounds were originally meant for him alone but he began letting other archers 🏹 use it. Also while he was annoyed at first that Link would be the one to take on Calamity Ganon, he said he agreed to help anyway after seeing the look of concern in Zelda's eyes
The dubbing did him dirty too, he's more pleasant in Japanese dub... He is actually my favourite champion out of all 4 and it shocked me to learn that the English-speaking fandom hates him
i really like revali
This coupled with the fact that each of the Devine Beasts Themes have the SOS signal in it, showing the Champions were sending out distress signals knowing they were going to die, but Revali's SOS starts much later than the other Champions' and is much more frantic once it does start, is absolutely heartbreaking... He was so sure of himself despite being at a huge disadvantage that he waited until almost the end to call for help shows just how terrifying the situation really was to him.
Yeah... true.
Anyone reading go to the Vah Medoh dungeon ost with headphones and read the comments while the music is playing at like 3 am. It’s a crazy rush of emotions
What SOS-Signal?
What if the SOS delay wasn't due to Revali's confidence that he could win, but because he didn't even realize he was in danger? High in the sky, possibly further from danger than the others, he'd have heard the distress signals coming from everyone else and been distracted for the few seconds longer that it might have taken for the blight malice to reach him. Then he realizes he's in danger...Maybe the others held out hope that at least one of them would survive...only to hear that SOS come a few seconds later.
@@VioletLunaChan their lights were flickering in morse code, i think
You know when the fight starts and Revali mentions that windblight ganon "plays dirty"? I think this may be what he was referring to. Nullifying all of Revali's strengths and hitting him with invisible and unpredictable attacks, of course he'd feel like the fight was unfair.
Interesting view
Not to mention it is very heavily implied in Age of Calamity that Windblight is a coward, whereas Revali is arrogant and prideful. Imagine how frustrating it would be for Revali when, in the brief moments he catches Windblight, he just up and runs away, or uses his drones as a distraction. Each Blight, at least to me, seems to be a perversion of their corresponding Champion, but hot damn Revali got his traits mirrored in the worst way for the fight at hand.
You know, in the original Japanese dialogue, he doesn't say anything about Ganon "playing dirty." Rather, he says that he, Revali, let his guard down, or got careless. All in all, the Revali we see in the English version has a different attitude post-Calamity than he does in the true version, not making excuses, but acknowledging fact.
Not only that. In age of calamity when revalis fighting windblight, it’s raining. Since storms come in on a low pressure center, it makes it really hard for birds to fly, along with his feathers getting wet, which puts him even more at a disadvantage with his flight. Even if he tried to use his gale to dry, he would most likely get frostbite (assuming his gale is of cold wind)
Nintendo did NOT want this guy to win 💀
@@fur1nadefonta1ne he also fought at night and rito has horrible vision at night
Also, anyone noticed that the Windblight is technically, the weakest of them all? However the Windblight in Hyrule Warriors has two canons when in botw, he only has one. And Revali lasted his fight the longest. Which means, even in that situation, he still managed to do a decent damage to Windblight. And that’s why Windblight is an easy boss.
Waterblight had a ball and chain, thunder blight could make duplicates, and fireblight had a fiery hairdo
They were all made more difficult for age of calamity.
Also in what way would you say windblight is the easiest? There is scalling if the bosses in botw so it depends on the order in which you fight them. Do you fight windblight first?
@@hersley1683 I mean they could just be in talking about the fact that his attacks are fairly predictable. I'm not really sure. But for me wind blight was the easiest boss despite the fact that I fought him last
@@hersley1683 He’s really just a harder guardian
I do love Revali. Even before something about him was pointed out to me, but once I realised this particular fact about him, I had so much more respect for him. Revali is the only one of the champions to actually work hard and make his champion ability. In Mipha's diary, she talks about healing Link when he was just a child and the way she talks about healing magic makes it seem like something thats not unheard of. Rare maybe, but not something unknown, especially by the Zora. So it's safe to say it's something she inherited or was born with. Yunobo has Daruk's protection and is said by the chief that Yunobo is a decendant of Daruk so it's most likely something passed down through bloodline. While much isn't said about Urbosa's fury, in Age of Calamity Riju also has electric abilities. With both of them being chiefs, maybe the thunder helm has something to do with it. That's just a theory though. In Revali's diary, he talks about having a dream about creating an updraft from nothing and from that decided to work and push his limits until it becomes a reality. In the Champions' Ballad DLC memory we even see him struggling to perfect it but still not giving up. He straight up just made Revali's gale out of nothing but hard work and persistance while the other champions just had their ablities and for that, I think he deserves some praise.
For the Urbossa and Riju part : In OOT, we need to remember that Ganondorf was a sorcerer (or at least knew magic), something he learned from Koume and Koutake who also used magic. And, those two were the leaders of the Gerudo before his birth. I think this is safe to assume Gerudos have magic powers running in their veins. Maybe the stronger the magic, the higher the position (in the past) and now it is just frequent for the Gerudo ruler to have magical power.
The helm maybe was more the symbol of a previous ruler who had really strong thunder power, who became a legacy.
Rito are the newest race in Hyrule at this point as The Zora, Goron and Gerudo would have long epochs of history to have their powers passed down to their champions. Due to the Rito needing to evolve fast from the Zora and only gifted the ability to fly through Valoo, Revali had to inventively create and refine his race's champion ability from nothing but sheer will and determination.
while i do agree that revali is extremely skilled, the fact that these powers are passed down or obtained in some way does not subtract from the skill the other champions still possess. Urbosa can summon lighting by simply snapping her fingers, but for link to activate it, he needs to charge up 1 or 2 times before he can use her ability. it can be interpreted multiple ways, but to me it seems as if just to harness urbosas power it would take that much of links energy to unleash it.
i’m not gonna go in detail on everyone, but i think they all did go through a struggle to master their abilities
Also, there was a video about the Divine Beasts sending out morse code signals. Revali was the last one to send out his distress signal in comparison to the others.
Oh true!
What was the video?
@@DatBuffBanana I forgot who made the video, but I never found it again.
This is why I believe the Champion’s Ballad was really to help the spirits of the champions heal from the trauma, anger and hopelessness during their battles with their respective blights so they can move on to the afterlife. During each battle with the blights, Link fights with the very weapons they used in their confrontation.
Yup!
All I could think about while re-fighting Windblight was how miffed Revali must be seeing Link beat the thing that killed him with the exact same gear he had, and no power of flight (just limited paragliding capabilities).
That reminds me of how when you defeat Ganon & reunite with Zelda, yu see the ghosts of the Champions & King Rhoam looking at them. Then they disappear. I was thinking it's bcuz they all have regrets from a century ago & they were glad to see Link & Zelda finish what they'd started
@@jacintacapelety9600 If anything, it might actually be what let him let go of his anger towards Link.
I mean, yes, it probably pissed him off- but at the same time, it would have proved to him that Link didn't get his position because of favoritism or destiny. Which was always Revali's grudge against Link.
Who really believes that Daruk used a bow or had food items with him other than rocks? Or that Mipha had the Ceremonial Trident, something created after her death? The re-lived battles seem to be exclusively to test Link, not to indicate how the Champions' fights went.
If you add the reason for Revali's pettiness and the SOS signal into all this, it makes Revali's story even more tragic.
A personal theory of mine is that Revali acts so petty is because he needed to work to get where he was. It's implied (at least it was to me) that all the other Champions were born with their powers and born into positions of power. Revali wasn't. We see him struggling to master Revali's Gale in The Champion's Ballad and beating himself up over failing. He had to work his feathers off to become a Champion, and all Link had to do was pull a sword out of a rock. Imagine how crushing that was for him to have all his work be for nothing. Anyone would feel jealous or resentful if that happened to them.
And things only get worse when it comes to the SOS signal. While the other Champions immediately sent out their SOS signals, Revali held out long enough to see (or rather, feel, since he couldn't see anything) the true power of what he was fighting against. Unlike the other three SOS signals, Revali's SOS isn't masked by the music. It's out there, easy to hear because it's the signal of someone he knows that he's about to die.
Right?! Such a good point!!!
I feel so bad for him because of that, he has that small hope someone will save him.
But no one did
While yes that may be true, I will have to call you out on saiyng Link only pulled out a sword and became champion. Link has been stated to have been able to beat some adults when he was young and trained ever since he was little to become a very good royal knight. We learn that Link pulled out the master sword when he was a young teen and ever since then he was expected by everyone to become the great hero of the legend, even going silent as the time went on as stated by Link himself and quoted by Zelda: With so much at stake, and so many eyes upon him, he feels it necessary to stay strong and to silently bear any burden."
@@somerandomguyonthenet1566 Link still had the privilege to be born out of a line of royal knights. he isn't without status. he had access to good training. the flight range was only made because revali requested it to be made. the ritos have a very humble village and though they're not struggling to live, they aren't exactly rich either. revali had to train himself just to become somebody. link had teachers, mentors, tutors, his own father even. revali had no one.
sure, revali hasn't seen link grow as a knight. but he knows all to well he is born with approving eyes from the royal family. revali does not.
@@officaldaelight That actually makes Revali all the more impressive and deserving of his posthumous praise by the Rito.
I feel like all the Blights hard-countered the Champions they faced.
Mipha is more of a support/healer-type and Water-Blight not only has high damage, but also super long reach, meaning she probably couldn't keep up the healing even when she gained distance.
Urbosa is said to be a strong warrior, so she's prolly very durable and strong, but Thunder-Bright was just too fast. It most likely didn't do much damage, but slowly chipped away at her, whilst dodgeing all of her attacks.
Daruk just got rekt completely by the fact the Fire-Blight's shield can only be destroyed by Bombs, which he didn't have.
Play or watch the cutscenes from chapter 7 of Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity. You can see how each one would've died if not for intervention. Like to a T they show you what failed them even!
I would add for Mipha that she didn't had access to her superior mobility since all the water in her Divine Beast was frozen
@@ns0557212 well some blights were different like waterblight and Mipha wouldn’t have died from the added wrecking ball if it wasn’t there in notw
If age of calamity showed them how they were in the main timeline, as well...
Well. They all look much more powered up. Stronger than when we beat them 100 years later.
Urbosa also dislikes ‘dirty’ and ‘cowardly’ attacks, which is exactly what Thunderblight would do. Use cheap tactics just to win faster rather than show respect as a fighter.
Another thing to remember about Rivail is, in addition to everything that was said in the video and in the other comments, is that Rivali is around Links age. He’s a teenager. And since everyone else in the champions has inherit gifts/an awesome sword effectively given to them on a silver platter while Rivail has worked for his abilities… the guy is trying to prove his worth to everyone. Quite possibly himself included.
He might not have the best attitude, but it might be how he hides his pain, his fears of being inferior to the rest of the champions.
This is so so true.
Ravali is a necessary character, otherwise everyone would be happy happy friendly friendship which is boring and very unrealistic.
Correct
I love Revali, his attitude reminds me of my cat
that would imply being an unremitting asshat is the realistic norm and i refuse to believe that.
@@pforgottonsoul Thats because it’s not the norm and I don’t think anyone’s telling you that it is. It’s not that he’s being an asshat, and I don’t approve his behavior but I still respect him because he came from a place where he had to go through so much to the point of pain to get to where he is as a champion and a wielder of a craft probably unheard of among his people by himself rather than being born with a power, and despite all that he did, he was put on the sidelines to merely support the chosen hero, and for someone prideful and arrogant as him, he is of course salty and there usually that one person in a group who is. It’s not that being an asshole is the norm, it’s that it makes it realistic for someone to be on board with being a hero to his people but still salty that he wasn’t chosen as THE hero despite what he did to go so far. Kinda like being an employee and doing so much for an establishment, and being well respected, but someone else gets promoted despite not going through as much as you just because of a special thing rather than skill and how much you went through. To say that being an asshole = the norm is ignorant. Yes he is arrogant, egotistical, prideful, and at times ignorant himself as a result, but the fact that there is someone in the group who is makes the dynamic between the characters more interesting in one way or another. He doesn’t seem to have much spite towards the other champions, probably because he’s aware of their importance and they’re well known fighters among their own people with their own share of power and skill, but Link was born into a royal family of knights and had a darkness sealing sword and had he not possessed it, he would be just a royal soldier like everyone else probably. The Rito was not born into a privileged background like that. Revali was also ignorant of the fact that Link beaten adults at a young age and was trained well, but Revali had no one other than villagers to get where he is. He’s straight up petty but he actually had an understandable reason that doesn’t excuse but explain why he acts that way.
Tdlr; Being petty over something for a reason, given someone’s background is realistic and is something people feel all the time. He’s a petty asshole and I can’t excuse it, but at least it’s understandable why he is. I’m sure people like you have been one for a reason.
@@mysryuza he always put himself over the group it wasn't just link that he was being arrogant to it was all the champions and given this was a life or death scenario the least he could do put aside his worthless pride for the greater good.
I want to add this severely overlooked point. It's one thing that it's dark and he cannot see. It's another thing that it's dark and it's RAINING.
Rito feathers are good for insulation but what happens when it's wet?
Birds are extremely sensitive to body temperature changes and wet feathers do not make easy flight.
Poor thing is soaked through, can't see, hampered flight abilities and fumbling. He's pretty much screwed here right from the start.
He wasn't 'winging it' he was getting his ass completely thrashed here
(Conveniently the rain stopped when teba arrived...)
Oh true!
Kass revealed a fact about himself that I think is true for all Rito: their feathers are waterproof. He tells you this before giving you the Song of the Storm Shrine Quest in Faron.
@@solaris9426 Problem there- waterproof feathers are not completely waterproof. If the feathers get wet enough, or ruffled enough, the water does get through- and gets trapped *inside* the waterproofing. Meaning that the bird gets waterlogged.
Birds have to maintain their feathers, and it makes getting in sustained fights a problem. Which this fight definitely would have been.
THIS 😭
i know this is a while back but considering how for a rito he was 21 and for a Rito still a child (which is seen as Ravali still has the blush markings ALL Rito children have and being really really short), not only was he dealing with all of this but he in all honestly was still a kid, teenager at best.
so imagin you a 13-15 year old fighting against a monster that you cant see, its pouring wet, loud noises everywhere, and its DARK while it constently attacked you, your own weapom not even working (his signature bomb arrows not being useful as the wick would be snuffed out)
its actually really depressing
I thought you were gonna talk about how he may not have had his Eagle's bow in the fight, as when you fight Windblight in the "memory realm", in a fight which supposedly replicates what the champions had to go through, you don't have it either. And it being one of the best bows in the game, it was Revali's best weapon by far. On top of that, the bows that the game gives you for the fight are kinda mediocre, so, if Revali had those same weapons, he was totally unprepared
Yet he most likely held up enough for Medoh to shoot a laser (the whole that you see on that mountain). It's a theory but still
@@JustAWildSkullKid That hole more likely comes from the fight against Ganon 10,000 years ago, in the ancient past.
@@JustAWildSkullKid Yeh the mountain hole was made during a previous battle, not when Revali was the pilot of Medoah. You can tell cause there’s a shrine inside a cave in that hole, and I’m pretty sure it would of been mentioned by somebody in game if it had happened 100 years prior to BoTW.
This was what I thought the video was going to be about.
@Ezequiel Schlaen It makes sense.....After all, the Champions' weapons were left in the care and possession of their peoples' leaders. In BOTW canon, anyway. In AOC canon, they had their weapons while fighting the Blights......which puts a big hole in that, in a way, seeing as if that's the case, and if AOC is an alternate timeline to BOTW, if they had them while fighting the Blights in the BOTW timeline, *how in the blazes did their people get them back?!* Which is why I prefer to think the same way: That the "memory realm" fights are recreations of the fights from the respective memory of the Champion who fought the Blight in that memory, only with a winning outcome.
Since it's the first Revali video I found, that isn't years old, I decided to put my thoughts here.
I really liked his character in botw. If all the champions were simple, happy friends the story would be kinda blant. The other 3 were constantly extra supportive of Link, (Daruk was even his friend and Mipha had a crush on him) and I think Revali noticed that and it made him even more determined to be the one that holds Link accountable and demands diligent work. Also maybe it added to his jelousy cause he had to archive everything completly alone? As I said somwhere down the comments I have noticed, he's much nicer to other champions in the playthrough than in the cutscenes. For example, he praises Mipha quite a lot and when I played with him and Daruk he said something like ,,I don't need any h- I mean thanks Daruk" witch shows he works on himself at least a bit and isn't an ashole intentionaly. Like lots of people have pointed out he was the only champion that didn't have magical powers, neither was born with a title/in a position of power, that explains why he's mad that Link is fighting Gannon beacuse of fate. It's not just jelousy, he really cares about his village and I can't imagine that someone like Revali, who relies on nobody but himself his whole life, would trust anybody easliy with that task.
He was also pretty young ( somwhere around Mipha's/Link's and Zelda's age according to Urbosa's dairy, different hyrule races age differently tho) witch absolutely doesn't excuse his actions towards others but it's definitely different than grown man being petty to much younger teen. Urbosa and Daruk seem to be in their maximum potential years but I can't help thinking he and Mipha could develop their abilities even more if they lived.
I also think it's interesting that because of the cockiness you would take Revali for someone who dreams of being worshiped yet when the elder proposed him a statue he chosed a flight range where he could perfect his abilities even further instead. (it was actually wholesome Daruk who has built a statue of himseld witch I found funny)
I could write some more but it's quite long. Anyways, I think Revali is the most complex champion and obviously not everyone has to like him like I do, but people who hate him with passion seem very friagle & noimmune to few words of criticism. Thanks for the great video Imma gonna give u a sub
You are my new favourite person, you put all my thoughts about this Baby in words!
@@mxhyrule thank u, local revali's interpretator at your service
I like your comment I've never disliked Revali at all I kinda see him as a lovable asshole but I really feel bad knowing all the champions were put into such dire situations with no way out
love revali, and his theme music is so romantic. yet he does have the most tragic death/past. all the other champions had family, and were remembered with statues, whereas Revali got... a ledge. no spouse, no kids, and seemingly no friends? and on top with that bit where his music has the SOS morse code in it, it's just sad to think about
So sad indeed
OOH YES Tbh one of these days I wanna do a whole character analysis on revali because he acts like an ass but i think he does it to hide a lot of stuff from his past and for the most part we dont hear anything about his friends or family so he was alone or he felt like it anyway I could legit go on for days 😊
Getting a ledge after you die probably stabbed his ego even more.
I always thought of him of being just a regular guy, wasn't royalty or high-ranking in anything like the others, just an extremely skilled archer. I can admire that.
As a Revali fan, this is absolutely heartbreaking to think about but I'm glad you put out the video to make everyone warm up to our cocky birb boy just a bit more TwT
Yeah...
I am also a huge Revali fan
“TwT”
revali my boyyy :D
Revali also held out the longest of all the champions during Ganon's attack. This is evidenced by the SOS hidden in his divine beast's theme being far later than the SOS in the other themes, and how he held on the longest during Age of Calamity.
I just realised that the blights all have striking similarities to the champions like water blight has a spear just like mipha
Yup!
There's actually a theory about that; it says that all blights were the same at first and they absorbed the corpses of the champions similar to Ganon absorbing a guardian; after that, they became the creatures we see 100 years later
Yeah, I always believed the fact that the champions are the ones unwillingly powering the blights. Maybe their souls got consumed upon their death.
@@willjens1269 I mean, something worth noting is that we never see them before the blights are killed, we only hear their voices..so maybe both their bodies and souls got absorbed?
@@Kiyosonryo It’s a shame Age of Calamity nullifies this awesome theory
Also, although not confirmed in main botw timeline, the blights were much stronger back then. Windblight had two cannons and was much faster, bigger and stronger with his attacks. Perhaps the blights were stronger during the calamity but a hundred years of time weakened them to the point of them being former shells of the beasts they were before, leaving link to easily despatch them.
Yeah each individual blight back then was so strong Link could only beat one of them at a time and would be outmatched against all 4 of them
@@chadpeterson5698 except in hyrule warriors were he took on all 4 of them at once
@@francineaxisa8497 and was still losing he managed to take them on yes but it was ultimately a losing battle until Zelda got her powers and was able to drive them off which pretty much confirms at this point that Zelda is stronger than Link.
@@chadpeterson5698 I mean Zelda has always been stronger than Link. Goddess vs puny mortal. It's like a supersoldier with a submachine gun fighting an army compared to nuclear ICBM against that army.
@@duddude321 Zelda's not the goddess's incarnate in BOTW iirc
Revali's one of my favorite Champions and I'm legitimately heartbroken after seeing this.😢💔 I had always thought he had it bad after death, being stuck in Vah Medoh knowing that he failed, but THIS!? I think I'd briefly known that the Rito have poor night vision, but it never really hit me until now.
Aw :(
Also I consider Mipha to be the Most Disadvantaged, during her Fight
with Ice Effects freezing over her Water based Attacks
considering the Zora's seemingly Weakness to Ice,
as shown in basicly every Major Title
in an Area where there is either No water for her to use her Swimming Skills
or the Direct Danger of Freezing over,
like so many of her Kin have
She was genuinely the weakest she got 1 tapped
@@Scorpion_-lk4ps Mipha is essentially a battle medic; she's more skilled as a healer but she's also a good fighter
I think Waterblight may have freezed over the water before Mipha could react and get some distance away from its spear
revali is tired, fought at night time (barely can see shit), and his feathers are soaked
Another thing to consider regarding seeing the blights? Even without worse night vision, Revali would have had a harder time seeing Wind Blight.
Water Blight is indoors in a well lit room within Vah Ruta. Thunder Blight is also in a well lit room within Vah Naboris, not to mention the electricity lighting things up even better. And Vah Rudania? Yeah, outdoors... But in a volcano, lit up by the lava and magma.
Meanwhile, Vah Medoh? In the sky, outdoors. No lights from the divine beast, no sunlight, being in the sky would even mean less moonlight, potentially having clouds to make it effectively like fog, as is the case during the Champion's Ballad rematch with Wind Blight. In terms of visuals, even for us as Link, Wind Blight's fight is visually darker and harder to see. Obviously not as hard as it would be in real life, and with poor night vision its even worse. Revali may as well have been fighting blind. You want to simulate it? Do the fight yourself, blindfolded. Even then, we have the benefit of being able to try an infinite amount of times until we can determine things from sound.
That being said, its fitting for Revali. The most confident champion, cocky, believing himself to be better than everyone, even the chosen hero, ending up with what would be a fight tailored to be insanely difficult for him, a fight that only he could manage (until Link got a paraglider) yet with an added twist that impacts him the most.
Interesting points!
@@HyruleGamer i think someone theorized that the blights only took their current form after absorbing the champions souls. though i cant remember whose theory that was
Not only all that but the bright flashes of light from the laser attack could irritate even more. Ever accidently looked into a flashlight in the night and suddenly you can't see shit around you? Yeah, now imagine that while you are being attacked by something that is hardly visible to you in the first place. It's like getting sand flung in your face in a fight.
@@kaiseremotion854 If I recall it was Maskednintendobandit's, however it was that the blights never existed until the malice consumed the champions (which is dead wrong)
I’ve always sympathized with revali, I mean he worked his entire life to master archery and his ability revalis gale, and then out of nowhere some random kid is chosen and he’s just meant for backup, I would be pissed, also I think revali is kinda lonely
his lonelyness is due to his jerk's attitude in my opinion
Understandable
@@verogoss yeah but he only acts like that to link
@@aylinilya. I don't think so...he's very rude with the princess too
@@verogoss yeah I guess so
Wonder how differently things would have gone for Revali if it was daytime during their fight in botw. I could very well see him winning against the blight. Maybe he’d be able to use the divine beast making the calamity way less tragic
Also just noticed the pun of the title. Love it!
Thanks haha
I wonder if he would of helped the other champions when he was done with windblight ganon
@@drippydrip4663 he probably would have. damn.
I don't know if he would have won even if it was daytime, the other champions were no slouches when it comes to fighting either and lost even under less unfavorable conditions (though now that I think about it, Daruk was at a pretty heavy disadvantage with his blight having both range and flight while he's reliant on close combat 🤔 )
@@drippydrip4663 Depends on whether or not he could have made to them in time to help.
SPOILER WARNING FOR HYRULE WARRIORS AGE OF CALAMITY!!!
When I played Age of Calamity, I chose to save Mipha and Daruk first because I figured Mipha could heal the other champions, even if they were on death's doorstep, giving all the champions the best odds of total survival. I know that's not how the game mechanically works, but for as much as Revali gets on my nerves, I don't want the pompous pigeon dead any more than the other champions. 🥺
I always thought Revali was kind of relatable, the reason people hate so much on him is, that they see their own weaknesses and uncontrolled hateful emotions reflected in him. He is just as full of envy as all of us, and at the end he still takes his chance to realize how he mistreated who he'd thought of as his competitor. I think it's also easier to understand him when you take into consideration that link never talked to him, and by that wasn't able to communicate freely. There's a lot we can learn from Revalis mistakes and i think that is what makes him such a unique character, even if he seems like your average envy filled, uppish and overall mean losing competitor.
Id also like to thank you for featuring my snack in this video,
hear you next time!
PS: congrats mate!
Yeah :)
I don't really think that theory holds water. While I have warmed up to Revali somewhat, especially after Age of Calamity (although the way he treated everyone poorly got on my nerves, especially how he treated Daruk in the cut scenes leading up to the Korok forest mission), I started out completely hating him. And speaking from that perspective, the reason I hated him was because of how he handled his emotions. Maybe there's some degree of relatability in the emotions he felt. I can definitely understand, if not empathize, with someone getting severely upset when they're upstaged by someone who is just naturally gifted with everything they've worked hard to achieve. My problems with Revali stem from his superiority complex, and the way he handled his emotions. He belittled everyone around him, and talked about himself like he was the best thing since sliced bread. And while Link's silence might not have helped the matter, Revali handled his feelings in a very unhealthy way, lashing out and applying false blame to people who meant absolutely no harm in their actions or words (or lack of words in Link's case). He was petty and vindictive, and anyone who can relate to Revali's behavior (not his feelings, his behavior; how he handled his emotions, and how he treated others) probably needs to go to therapy.
I just realized -- the Rito having poor night vision reminds me of another group of feathery friends with the same defect: the Loftwings! Even though the Rito were descended from the Zora in the Wind Waker, is it possible that they're rewriting it so that the Rito are the descendants of the Loftwings?
Plus, the Rito in Breath of the wild aren't all looking exactly the same. (and to begin with, I think it was said the the goddesses were the one who transformed them in Wind waker.) Our current Rito's feathers are really colorful, which remind me more of the Loftwings. Plus, I would love to hear about what happened to those feathery friends of ours.
that's actually a rather interesting theory that i never considered.
What's worse about all this is the implication that Ganon specifically made the blights to counter each champion individually and used similar weapons as a counter. He wanted the champions to lose in the worst way possible, invalidating their own strengths.
Revali killed himself to be as good as he was at air combat and was beaten by a creature that could effortlessly levitate
Daruk ancestral protection was easily replicated by Fireblight and he was unable to do anything about it.
Mipha was a excellent fighter as well as a expert swimmer but that was meaningless against waterblight who not only outranged her, but could spear her out of the water.
Urbosa straight up couldn't keep up with Thunderblight who used underhanded tactics she couldn't counter and her own element against her.
Everything that made each champion special was completely invalidated by Ganon's own "champions."
I actually had no idea that Rito night vision was so bad. But it does explain something about the Windblight battle in the Champions Ballad that I had never put much thought into (beyond thinking it was there just for a different experience). The fog in that fight so heavily obscures everything that I actually ran off the edge at first because I couldn’t see. If that is even close to the situation that Revali had to deal with then I’m not surprised he wound up losing. Especially since archery depends on having a clean line of sight to your target and Windblight’s only real weak spot is his eye.
I love how passive aggressive you were at the end! “Maybe now you will have sympathy for him”
I laughed way too hard when u said “finger licking good” 🤣 and happy 1 year anniversary to Mr.Hyrule Gamer and Mother Hyrule ❤️
Thanks haha
Completely missed one other detail. You know when it's dark, and someone suddenly switches the light on and you're blinded for a few seconds? Yeah, now think about Windblight's cannon. The other blights all have constant glows from their weapons. But Windblight would just be low light, then sudden flashes of light. Even the few continuously glowy bits on Windblight would be harder to spot for anyway simply because of those bright flashes. It's also the kind of thin where night vision doesn't help you much, because the better your night vision is, the more the blast blinds you.
lol didn't know ritos had bad night vision
Yup!
Maybe the Ritos who are supposed to be from night bird species can see ? (but, then again, Revali being an eagle, if I am correct, doesn't change much for him)
... wait, no, night bird locate themselve throught sound... even if he had been, guess he would have been swreded. I mean, that blight wasn't that noisy.
The rito woman in gerudo town confirms that
Maybe that's why Revalis SOS is later? If he can't see he may have not noticed he was under attacked until a little bit later and/or if the champions had to get to the terminal maybe he had trouble seeing it or getting to it because that disadvantage of not being able to see attacks to dodge etc. And yes congratulations on your anniversary:D!!!
Yup true! Thanks :)
Imagine a combo of the two. He doesn't see he is in danger and realise because he got hit by an attack who came from seemingly nowhere, then after trying to assert what his situation is, he first try to fight his ground, but when seeing that he can barely see his target (the worst possible thing for a long range fighther) he tries to find the terminal, acting based on his memories, but have to deal with dodging constant waves of attacks, because the Blight tries to prevent him to send the signal. He would be even more panicked in that case, because he is under the rain, fighting against something who is more of a ghost for him, with nearly no vison at all (maybe made worst by the cloud plus adding that the light of the attack could hurt his eyes because of the flash, making blind for a few seconds, which can be everything in such a battle), maybe injured at the wings, which would make it more troublesome to shoot too and finally, with maybe deep down, the perfect awareness that noone will be able to come to help him, because like he said himself to Link, unless you know how to fly, you cannot get the Vah'Medo, and like we said, Rito have bad nigt vision, so none of them could fly to help him, and even if they did, they would just all be killed. (I somehow wondered just how deseperate he must have felt, because he was surely the most aware of his situation being hopeless, even if he jumped from Medo to try to save his life, if his wings were hurt, he would have not been able to fly, though his pride would have surely made him fight like he could until his last breath, I think)
6:50 I always got the impression that this was the devs way of subtly showing that she has some form of autism. Her mannerisms just give me that vibe, especially since anxiety disorders are a common symptom of many types of autism.
As a lancer character type, I think Revali gets a lot of undeserved hate, and I think some of this hate also spills over from the undeserved scorn that the race as a whole received.
Hi, do you mind elaborating on what you mena by "scorn that the race receives". I've seen some people make comments so I see what you mean but ngl I'm confused as to why people seem to dislike the rito
They way I saw the fight before Age of Calamity came out was that Revali had Windblight Ganon on the 'ropes' but then it started to summoning its attack drones to overwhelm the champion until he was exhausted and running out of arrows.
TBH. Revali was my favorite champion. I just like archers and birds, yeah his personality wasn't the best but still I liked him
Ahh
this game is so heart wrenching, terrifying and genuinely traumatic at times. trying to explain it to someone who hasnt played is so,,, difficult. thank you for this video, ive always loved revali just bc his lil attitude
Also in the Champion’s Ballad, Link fights the Blight-Ganons the way the champions did: Revali didn’t even have the Great Eagle Bow 😢 poor baby
I also like to think that in spite all of this, he held on to the longest due to that SOS signal you can hear in Divine Beast Themes. In his, it is introduced the latest, while other Champions start calling almost immediately.
Omg this is so terrifying... I've always loved Revali from the beginning and this is so heartbreaking
The blights added a disadvantage to all the fights though. Mipha had to deal with ice limiting her water mobility. Daruk had to deal with explosive ranged attacks. Urbosa had to deal with metal conducting her lightning and directing it at her. And Revali had the darkness limiting his vision.
Thank u. Ppl need to realize this and stop thinking revali is some sorts sad case. He’s a FANTASTIC character and his background isn’t glitter and gold like the rest, but specifically in this case, he didn’t draw the short stick. They all did.
Yes, except he had it the worst, honestly maybe even not taking into account the darkness. Mipha had to deal with ice limiting her water mobility? Ravioli had to deal with wind limiting his flying mobility and only form of attack, his arrows. His special power helping him fly? Basically worthless in the face of a tornado and 5 guns shooting all around him.
Now you add in he basically couldn't see what to attack or where he was being shot from? The others all had been countered by impossible conditions too, sure, but not to the point of being unable to move, see, or attack. They were essentially all reduced to basic fighters against beasts, which Ravioli would probs be the best at given his backstory of hard work and not being born with some power like every other champion. But he was reduced to less than that since he was left with 0 options.
@@scottiedarko7951 I agree he had no way of winning. But neither did any of them. What's Daruk gonna do against heavy artillery like that, for example? He has no ranged attack ability. Out of the four I'd say Mipha had it the worst, as she had the least combat ability to begin with, and her healing powers were useless in that situation. She was outranged and had no way of closing in, she had no chance. Literally a fish in a barrel.
@@jerotoro2021 well yeah, but the point of the video is that he was disadvantaged the most, so if his eyesight is really that bad then he had impaired vision, movement, and attacks. None of them stood a chance, but there's a difference between "my main advantage is gone and they're better than me at my style of fighting" and "That, plus I'm also fighting near blind and my weapon is almost useless". Even if you want to say his arrows aren't completely nullified by controlling wind and artillery, and that every other champion has just as hard of a time hitting with their weapons, they weren't also fighting in the dark... unless they were lol, idk I didn't play AoC and the scenes I saw in this vid looked lit up.
Urbosa didn't, though. By fighting her fight in The Champion's Ballad, you can use Urbosa's Fury to stun Thunderblight in the second phase whenever it goes for the magnet tactic, meaning Urbosa could, too. It was just that Thunderblight outsped her in combat, operating on blitz tactics.
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the other reason Revali had a lower chance is cause he can run out of arrows
True!
The dude doesn't have a quiver, I wanna know where he was keeping the arrows he had. I'm starting to think Link isn't the only character in the franchise with access to hammer space.
@@jacintacapelety9600 I think you just made me realize why Revali acts like he has a stick up his ***.
@Jacinta Capelety we can assume that underneath revali's feathers he had a storage of them, or kept arrowheads and used his own feathers in a pinch if he ran out.
It would make sense why he was a master archer if he occasionally used his own feathers to quill arrows in certain situations. It's not like birds can't eventually regrow them, let alone how fast a rito warrior might be able to.
I'm a big fan of Revali's design, voice acting, and personality, so I was dismayed when I found out Revali lost to the easiest Blight. This alleviated my concerns.
Plus, we have to consider that Link probably faced weaker blights than the Champions did since Zelda was holding Ganon back, kind of like the guardians losing part of their "consciousness" because Ganon wasn't in full control.
Great video by the way ! I didn't know about Rito not having bad nightvision before seing it on Merlin's instagram, it's really changes the "Revali should have won the fight" conversation.
Did someone say Revali? I'm liking this regardless of the content.
Haha
His name is ravioli
@@RogueStudios722 my bad
Sameeee, I always had Revali as my favourite champion because he was kinda salty. Lol
i love revali. there's so much more than just a jerkish personality under those feathers, there's reasoning for his ego.
and, this was an great video. i really enjoyed it
Revali's English voice actor Sean Chiplock said that when first recorded for Revali, he thought he was just a jerk. But after recording for Champion's Ballad DLC he wished he could go back with the knowledge he has now about Revali. Revali trained himself and pushed himself beyond his limits to get where he is in terms of skill. And none of the other characters see that. We saw Revali pushing himself through the wind and subsequently crashing to the ground but Zelda just arrives after the fact. We as the viewers have that information, but the other characters don't.
On top of that, Revali is a staunch perfectionist. He didn't show off Revali's Gale until he could do it perfectly. Not well, not great, perfectly. I heard the phrase "it's not bragging if you actually do it" and that's a great way to encapsulate Revali. He doesn't boast about himself because he's arrogant, he's earned that right through constant effort and work.
Bringing it back to Sean Chiplock's feelings on Revali, he said that, at least from his perspective as Revali's voice actor, part of Revali's issue with Link is that he didn't earn his position. Revali broke himself down and forced himself back up over and over again and earned the right to pilot Vah Medoh based entirely upon his own skill only to be made subordinate support to someone who was the "chosen one."
I can't imagine what a kick in the teeth, or beak as it were, that would be to someone who spent so long working themselves to the bone for recognition. And Link has his own set of struggles, obviously. But Revali wasn't privy to them since they share the trait of not openly communicating their feelings. From Revali's perspective, all of the work that he put into himself and his tireless efforts to be the best could only gain him the role of support. I would have a chip on my shoulder too.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Revali the only champion who isn't a leader of his people? Urbsosa was the head of the Gurudo, Darunia was leading the Goron, and Mifa was the princess of the Zora. As far as I'm aware, Revali is the only one who was just an regular citizen. It's probably the reason he has it especially out for Link. Link, for the most part, is just a skilled knight making Link the most similar to Revali. Difference between them, other than species, is one happens to be the incarnation of the hero
Many Rito talk about Revali as Master Revali from my memory.
But, he was never said to be the chief indeed. He is just treated like a hero (which he was, even when he was alive, despite his crappy personnality). This is more the respect you would show toward someone who marked the history of your people, I think.
I remember seeing that post! I figured that was where this video came from. I saw and was like "OH NO". It honestly made me feel guilty for giving Revali so much shade about losing to WindBlight, who is relatively easy for Link to beat. Glad to see this topic being given more publicity!
Edit after I finished: "Our poor little chicken wing" caught me off guard. Also congrats on the one-year anniversary!
Lol thanks
Actually I saw a theory that Windblight was easy for Link because Revali had significantly weakened it during his fight. Even with all the disadvantages he was presented with, the proud Revali gave it his all and managed to last till the second half of the fight. He was even able to tear off one of Windblight's arm canon and disrupt it's aim, which is why Windblight only has one canon and takes a longer time to aim when Link confronts it a century later.
Revali was the one that made the fight easier for Link when the time came.
I noticed in Age of Calamity what changed the storyline is when impa motivated zelda to helped the champions in the end they actually managed to save the champions
It’s amazing how it’s been four years since this game came out and yet people still find out new stuff
Ikr!
Fighting Windblight at night is just flexing at poor Revali. Though tbf he fought bravely and he SOS late. And the fact that he had to travel the farthest out of the four. I saw it on reddit on how he also had to exhaust himself dodging the Guardian Lasers on Hyrule Plains.
To be fair the blights were built to counter their respective champions. Thunderblight lightningfast so even Urbosa, who's amazing in close combat can't follow. Fireblight strong enough to break Daruks protection. Waterblight (as seen in AoC) can freeze the battlefield and takes Mipha out of her element. And well Windblight, with winds to deflect Revalis arrows and disturb his ability to fligh. Really the were in disadvantage all battle.
Never understood why people would dislike revali due to his tough attitude and slight rivalry with link. Always reminded me of falco's personality. He's one of my favorite champions next to mipha of course. Watching this makes me respect him alot more 💪🐦
This information makes me wonder a bit if maybe that's the reason why the only old Rito we see is Kaneli (I think that's how you spell it) the village elder. His appearance is obviously based off of an owl and he's only awake at night. If you talk to him during the day, you wake him up. Most owl species are either crepuscular (active in dawn and dusk) or nocturnal so their night vision is very good. I wonder if that applies to Kaneli who is the only Rito based off of an owl. (Unless Teba was based on a snowy owl but I'm pretty sure his appearance was based off a gyrfalcon.)
Congrats on the anniversary with your lady btw.
I really liked Revali from the get go, truly. I never thought of him as HATING Link, but rather I think he hated the never ending cycle that Link was a part of. Ganondorf and Link have been stuck in this endless loop for generations, reincarnated again and again to duel against each other, and each time Ganondorf reawakens, disaster falls on Hyrule. You can't honestly tell me Revali is the ONLY character in this series who has grown tired of this doomsday on repeat. He's ticked, and justifiably so, as nobody BUT Link can end it, and even then, it just begins anew all over again. I think he was just angry at the circumstances rather than the hero himself, and unfortunately that anger was taken out on the only person Revali could blame for it. To quote him directly from the original BOTW game "It seems that I have been tapped to merely assist you. All because you happen to have that little darkness-sealing sword on your back. I mean, it's just ... asinine." And from that line of his, I just assumed he was angry that he, along with everybody else, can only rely on one person to save the people they love, while they themselves are completely powerless against the imminent threat. I don't know. I just loved his perspective on the whole thing, I thought it was a much needed approach for some of these characters to question the function of the cycle, and get angry when there is seemingly no solution.
Happy anniversary friend! Hope you have an amazing time!
Thank you for the great video! I really enjoy diving deep into Zelda lore and discovering all of the details of my favorite series. Revali is definitely one of my favorite characters in the series, so this perspective of his death hit a little hard lol. I also have really bad eyesight, so imagining being in his place is just terrifying.
Thanks for watching!
Revali has been my favorite champion. He worked so hard to get where he was, he wanted recognition for his deeds and felt jealous of people who he felt were given special attention for things (Link being a chosen one and such for example).
He was the only real one had much character development in BOTW.
I must admit, I was never a big fan of Revali, but this video did make me feel bad for him. The additional difficulties he had during this battle was never something I considered, but... damn, there are so many. As soon as I saw the title, I immediately thought about how he's the only one of the champions who had no way of shielding attacks. It's super hard to use a shield in mid-air and it also completely stops you from using your bow and arrow, so of couse Revali didn't have one (Mipha also doesn't have a shield but she could use her spear to protect herself a little bit). And I never knew the rito have bad night vision. :( That's really unfortunate for him.
Either way, great video as always!
Thanks a lot!
Its sas that the champions with one of the more useful abilities suffered the worst death. I've always kinda liked him, since he uses a bow.
I mean they could've just installed a couple floodlights, just in case there will be a battle that takes place at night. Come on shiekah. You surely have the technology to do that.
wow for just a few seconds I actually felt appreciated as a revali fan 😂
He appreciates us, don't worry 🥳
You are ❤
That's actually terrifying, the darkness. Imagine how scared he was, especially because his SOS comes later in Medoh's Theme, even in the dark he wasn't wanting to call before he knew it was too late
Each Champion was ELEMENTALLY in their element but the Blights used the champions strengths against them. Mipha is agile in water so WaterBlight froze the water, Urbosa was fast and agile but ThunderBlight was faster and used clones, Daruk has his shield but FireBlight was just much stronger, and Revali could create his own wind/updraft which no one could do until ThunderBlight kind if made his own in the reverse direction I believe. I believe Ganon was watching them through the Malice Eyes so when the Blights manifested, they already knew how to beat them.
Another thing about their fight, according to the memories when Ganon appears, it was raining, so he couldn't use his most powerful arrows (bomb arrows)
Rivali is awesome. He's a pompous ass and I think it's hilarious. Too bad he's blind at night. That must be why you need special training to fly Loftwings at night. Good video as always. Take care HG.
Thanks!
Wait wait wait. Is that a link between Rito and Loftwings that hasn't been considered?
@@samhobbs9116 Just a theory.
I see I maybe aren't the only one thinking that Breath of the wild Rito could be related to Loftwings instead. (I kinda thought it could be more likely that the Loftwings evolved into those Rito, especially looking at the color of their feathers, was it it ?
@@orianefaton1885 Speculation. I know it says Zoras in Windwaker turn to Rito, but there are Zoras in BOTW. Also, the lore is sometimes misconstrued or contradictory. For instance Zoras in the downfall timeline are on Ganons team. Why? Take care.
Dark windblight is like the illusory realm, and as someone who has been out at night away from major cities, it’s pitch black even in a full moon. So a night battle would have been difficult for most people
In case your wondering here is how each champion died:
Mipha was fighting waterblight ganon in stress until waterblight ganon summoned some ice blocks and repeaditly threw it at her but she still lived so waterblight came charging at mipha with a ice crusher whip smashing it at mipha thus obliterating mipha to peices
Dark was fighting fireblight ganon as we know and daruk was trying his best to get some hits on the blight but it kept teleporting away, daruk used daruks protection but fireblight managed to break through his protective sheild which knocked daruk o the floor so fireblight summoned a fireball and threw it at daruk burning him to death.
Urbosa was fighting thunderblight and they both tried landing hits on each other but failing urbosa even says that she is in trouble so we know she is struggling, thunderblight manages to cause pressure on urbosas sheild knocking her off to a lowee part of naboris, urbosa is now exhausted and trys her best to stand and resist but she was way to weak since the pressure thunderblight caused at her urbosa has a hard time lifting herself and decides to accept her fate so she stares at thunderblight dead in the eyes staring at death itself ,the blight came charging at urbosa slashing her to death.
Revali was off to face windblight and since rito have bad night vision revali was winging the beast trying to fly away from it as it shot multiple beams at him and revali tried his best to dodge the beams as he continued to dodge windblights attacks windblight gets a shot at revali knocking him through the air making revali airborne windblight ganon charged a massive attack and blasted it at revali killing him and even worse knocking his dead body off the divine beast but his soul is still trapped
JUSTICE FOR REVALI!
He was the only champion that actually worked for his position as champion. Urbosa, Mipha, and Daruk all just had magic powers and Link was just some random soldier who pulled some dumb stick out of a rock. Revali trained hard to be the best rito archer, he trained hard to be able to create an updraft. He was just annoyed by the fact that he worked hard all his life to be ome a champion while the others seemed to have just been lucky.
There's a lot that can be taken from AoC about exactly how each Blight was perfectly tailored to counter each Champion, and frankly, Wind Blight's advantage over Revali is just terrifying. Each of the fights go something like this;
Mipha: A fish out of water. Water Blight freezes the water in the control chamber, eliminating Mipha's swimming abilities and attacks, while dangling from the ceiling far out of reach of Mipha's only weapen, her trident, while pummeling her with ice blocks and its own long-range spear.
Urbosa: Speed vs Shield. It's made clear during her fight that Thunder Blight is completely immune to Urbosa's Fury as it simply teleports away from the attack. Urbosa is left to rely on her sword and shield combat style, which Thunder Blight easily overwhelms with its teleporting and lightning fast attacks from every possible angle.
Daruk: Break the Protection. All Fire Blight had to do in this fight was whittle down Daruk's Protection and then land a few good blows. Daruk is simply too slow to land a hit on Blight and we actually see the moment Daruk's Protection breaks, right before the final blow.
Revali: A bird in a cage. Revali is the only Champion that has the Divine Beast itself turn on him as Vah Medoh's force field is activated, trapping Revali inside and preventing his escape. Ironic as at this point Revali is the only Champion could have simply flown away to safety. Inside the cage Revali not only has to deal with his own poor vision, but also Wind Blight has the ability to completely knock him off balance by sending out mini tornadoes to stir up the wind currents. Not only has Revali got to first find the Blight in the darkness, he then has to take aim with his bow, which takes away his flight each time he tries to attack, while being blown around off course and having an anti-air gun firing flak at him. Then Revali's own weapon actually works against him - his bomb arrows. He's the only Champion that cannot get within striking distance of the blight otherwise he'd only end up blowing himself up with his own weapon. Not that he'd actually want to get too close seeing as birds have hollow skeletons and one single blow would have most definitely crushed him.
Imagine you're a fighter pilot in WW1 flying a fragile wooden fighter plane and you're trying to eliminate an anti-aircraft gun that can see you in the dark, is constantly moving around while firing flak at you, during a hurricane, in complete darkness, inside a giant cage that keeps you within striking distance of the gun, and every time you fire your weapon your engine cuts out and you plummet hundreds of feet... That's essentially what Revali was dealing with.
recently this has been my go-to channel i just feel fascinated every time
Oh nice, thanks a lot!
The tale of Revali is a tragic one. From young, he had no parents, family or friends. He had to fend for himself. He trained day and night not to be the best, but to be admired by all of the Rito. His bitter attitude and Smug face derives from his hate for anyone and not opening up to others. His Efforts were in vain when A hylian served a higher role in defeating the Calamity. He was shocked and was in Disbelief. Finally at his last breaths of trying to defeat the Ganon with powers of wind. He was gone. His spirit will not leave until he is free and his goals are met. With the final arrow to The Dark Beast, his soul departs for new heights and eternal rest. His life was a depressing story and this is why RAVIOLI is the best champion
I feel the need to mention the primary reason why everyone lost: NO ONE HAD THEIR WEAPONS!!! in the MT Lenaru Cutscene no one has their weapons (except for Link) and they didn't have any time to get them before going to their divine Beasts. This is why the weapons are given to you by NPCs outside of the beasts and not found inside them. Now you could say that they were recovered from them but then I would ask you, HOW THE HECK WOULD ANYONE DO THAT?!? VAH RUDANIA IS SO HOT IT CAN SET PEOPLE WHO ARE IMMUNE TO FIRE ON FIRE, VAH NABORIS CAN SHOCK LIGHTING PROOF THINGS, VAH MEDOH LITERALLY DOESN'T EVEN EXIST AND VAH RUTA IS PROTECTED BY AN IMPENETRABLE FORCEFIELD! If anyone could get into those things they could definitely kill the blights before the player could. So yeah, all the Champions at the time would have been unarmed while fighting the blights. Regarding gameplay logic, Urbosa is the only one who ever stood a chance at winning
Surprised that it took as long as it did for the SOS beeping to go off in the Vah Medoh’s theme in comparison to the other Champions, despite having poor night vision. I guess he was willing to “wing it” despite the disadvantages, like maybe believing he could adapt and take him on. He was a warrior and warriors were trained to handle tough situations, at least that’s what I think Revali believes. What I admire is that he’s passionate about his heritage and skills and his dedication to his craft, without being born with an arsenal of powers, even though to the point of pain. Happy to hear more about Revali
That explains why Revali waited so long to send out an SOS...
YUP!
At least in one timeline, the champions survived. I'd plant their weapons in the grounds of their homelands, to honour them.
Yes. Finally my boy receiving the understanding he deserves.
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I feel like they were all out of their element
1. Revalie couldn’t see
2.mipha was enclosed in an area with little water
3. Daruk needs a big area to fight
4. And urbosa was also in a closed area
Ah finally someone explained his death! Thank you!
Appreciate the watch!
I love Revali so much and characters like him (eg Bakugo from BNHA). There just is always so much nuance that people always ALWAYS overlook, and this video just makes me love him even more. Thank you and to your partner for this video!
Thanks for watching!
2:11 I feel so bad for laughing
Also congratulations
Thanks haha
The story of Fort Hateno is one that I love. A small outpost, talked down in game with a measly compliment of soldiers that managed to stand and do what the pillar of strength, Akalla Citadel, couldn't despite Akalla Citadel having a massive number of soldiers, minimal access points, natural defenses and artillery batteries. While it was the arrival of princess Zelda that saved the fort, Link and Zelda faced huge resistance, and in BOTW you can see the destroyed Guardians going all the way from the stable to the gate of Fort Hateno, but no further towards the village. Without Hateno Village, Fort Hateno would have suffered a worse fate than Akalla Citadel, but the constant flow of militia fighters fighting the Guardian army and holding the gatehouse and wall coming from Hateno Village bought them the time needed for Zelda to ultimately get near enough so that when Link finally fell, her power ended the fighting.
Despite its small and decrepit state, and entries calling it a "deliberate stone heap", Fort Hateno is the one Hylian stronghold that never falls between both BOTW and AoC, even after the Hylian army lost their battle and determined Hateno residents took up the battlements instead. While actual fortresses like Hyrule Castle and Akalla Citadel seem more likely to be the ones to stand and have a more interesting story, for me the story of Fort Hateno and how it became the only Hylian stronghold left standing after the dust cleared is the most interesting of all.
Congrats on the one year anniversary! I remember when u two got together! Glad it's going good!
Thanks!
When the calamity first struck all of Gabon’s power was pretty much at its strongest and the blights weren’t of actually stood a chance against any of the four champions if it wasn’t for the fact the attack struck moments before and the blights were very durable and could take many blows from the champions. That’s why 100 years later when ganon is regaining his power after being awoken, they were so easy to defeat and also why during age of calamity they looked much strobgp
Bird boi Ravioli deserves more love-
Yes
I agree
Within the fight of hyrule warriors, Revali and Link fight and his bomb arrows are scarily precise. So that might be something to say that Revali may of taught himself to be better acostumed to the night as he did also push the limits of Rito's aerial capabilities.
However it's also cannon that Revali and Link never fought in Botw so idk
I mean are the Ritos eyesight really worse than Link? Creating a champion says that the Ritos are essentially half bird half Hylian. It does say that they have bad night visions but if Hylians are the same as RL humans then their night vision is also not that great... compared to like actual birds like owls.
If there was no difference it wouldn't state that.
Well, falcons, eagles and hawks don’t have very good vision at night so maybe it depends on type of Rito?
@@HyruleGamer True, I was just thinking that it was more of a comparison like a feature that the Rito’s might share with Hylians. But it might be a bit too specific of an example😅 but I guess it still could go either way
My assumption would be that Rito night vision is worse than a Hylian, but better than non-nocturnal birds, somewhere in the middle (which feels fitting for a race described as a mix between birds and hylians).
Don't most daytime birds kinda shut down when it gets dark? I thought that's why people may put a cloth over a birdcage or falconers gave those little blind caps for their birds?
Revali was fighting with NO COVER IN THE AIR unlike us who hide behind things on Vah Medoh.
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This isn’t really specific to Revali but Urbosa mentions in her diary that she hopes her and Daruk will be able to protect the others or smn, because they’re all so young.
Just some food for thought that Zelda, Link and Mipha are all around like, what 17? And Revali is considered “young” by Urbosa and yet they’re all supposed to be Hyrules saviours.
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Revali’s character has a lot of layers, which i’m going to go through. This might explain his character a bit more.
First layer: Ego, pride and jealousness
This is the most noticeable trait, which is shown in all of the cutscenes. This is pretty self explainatory. He brags about his aim, and pretty much else. However he finds out he’s going to only support the main hero, just a pawn in a chess game.
Second layer: Insecurity.
Revali Struggles with insecurity beneath is layer of pride. He trained day in and out to perfect his skills, to get approvement from everyone else, and to prove himself to the world, he was something. However, as Link, he tries to hide his real feelings, but not by staying silent, quite the opposite.
Third layer: Defensive
This is a pretty short one, but as he stated in his diary, he values his hone more than everything, and will go to any lengths possible to protect it. Which means he cares about something other than himself, which is not apparent at first glance.
Fourth layer: the person (bird) he was
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In the first page of his diary, he states he won the traditional archery competition, and broke the record by far. Everyone praised him everytime he walked past the villagers. The elder even asked him if he wanted something as a prize, and he said he wanted a new shooting range. But one particular line in the first page stands out among the rest. Which is ”I think i can get used to this”, meaning that he mildly disliked being praised before becoming famous. Which meant that he wasn’t full of pride, and egoism back then.
Fifth layer: pressure
The things that made him become as he was before his death was pressure. The whole village believed in him, and he had far to great standards for himself, and pushing himself to his limits unhealthy amounts of times. Even hurting himself, just to ”do better”. His whole homes fate rests on his wings, according to him.
TL;DR
Revali changed after becoming famous, before he became, he disliked attention and compliments, by the one line ”i can get used to this” in his diary. All thanks to the pressure he received from the village, and from himself.
i don't understand anyone disliking Revali so much. sure he's not the most "pleasant" character, but not everyone needs to be to be good. we're all so different from each other and i'd always prefer someone being completely honest with me in their actions, thoughts and words than pretending in any way with any thing.
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I forgot who originally posted this comment but this is a good justification to why we kinda hate Revail. While I sympathize with Revail, even his 'reasons' for being a jerk make him seem more jerkish. He comes off as blind to those around him and is incredibly self centered with it. He's so focused on what he perceives as an insult to his abilities, he refuses to acknowledge everyone else, including Link, who worked just as hard if not harder to earn his position. He thinks he should be the "knight that seals the darkness" when in reality, he should be satisfied with the position as a champion.
Revali got the short end of the stick, chicken wing will forever be in our hearts.
I always wondered how Revali lost, and this theory sadly helps give an idea how it possibly happened. Revali seemed equal if not better than Link in weapons combat so on a level playing field theoretically he should have bested Wind Blight. Would be interesting to theorize how the other champions fell to the other blights.
We know that in the book "Creating a Champion", the Rito cannot see very well in the dark. Not only was it dark, it was also raining. Windblight also deflected Revali's signature bomb arrow attack and disrupted his flight with air turbulence and wind manipulation, while blasting away with rapid-fire Guardian laser.
It was a totally one-sided turkey-shoot. Revali never had a chance.
Revali is my favourite Champion. This made me very sad. 😢
Yeah... sad
Revali is my favourite character and honestly is so sad what he went through
Yeah...