Link amiibo (Super Smash Bros Series)

Kinda silly for me to have bought this, but I now have got the Twilight Bow in Breath of the Wild twice without a lot of fanfare. Patience and reliance upon random odds is the key! I probably could have got it cheaper elsewhere. Great bows drop daily anyway.

This amiibo figure is wonderfully crafted and makes a nice collectible of the Super Smash Bros. design of the classic Blue Bomber, which differs in some ways to his more contemporary designs, noticeably being more detailed. Though hard to tell in pictures online, the dark blue parts of Mega Mans armor have a metallic shine to them which looks very nice, something he shares with Samus amiibo figure. Beyond just his appearance, Mega Man is useful in more then just Super Smash Bros for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, where he can be trained as a CPU fighter, he can also be used to unlock a Mii Racing Suit based on his Iconic Armor for use in Mario Kart 8, can be used to unlock costumes of and based on him in Super Mario Maker and Yoshis Woolly World, respectively, and can be used to unlock Fan-Created Challenges in the upcoming Nintendo 3DS release of the Mega Man Legacy Collection. There will surely be even more functions for the Blue Bombers amiibo in the future.

Box came in bent. So collectors be warned. Figure came in fine none the less

Grandson wanted this game. I know nothing about it.

--Amiibo full in depth review-- For starters, I am giving each an all the amiibos in this list the same review as most all have the same function. I have given it a 4 stars because it would be 3 stars due to the price on most. But the product itself is good. For those who are looking to get these amiibos, wait a little bit. They should come back in stock eventually as it has been promised. So buy out the other ones on the list that are more available to have at this point. From the product design, its a knock off design from the characters trophy that you get from finishing classic mode. Most are pretty decent crafted and pretty appealing to look at. Now for the in depth product usage review for those who are unsure to how they work. And to those who do know, you might learn something. Going in order of how they are used: -All amiibos are not and I mean NOT region locked. This allows you to play with a Japanese, European/Australian, USA made amiibo on any console. This can help you find better prices. for amiibos if you so want them badly now. -Registering the amiibos is extremely easy to use and the wii u gamepad will quickly recognize the amiibo on the character selection screen on smash modes. You dont even have to touch, it will recognize it that fast. -You can feed it equipment stuff to boost the speed, power, and defense stats like a custom character. But if you are wanting them for training purposes like myself, then this would be better not done. -They start out at level 1 and will cap at level 50. Leveling is easy to do, just have them fight against a cpus for a bit. Set the timed match to an hour or 99 minutes or the stock to 30 or higher. This allows for the match to go for long periods, and allows them to level up continuously. They also gain levels for finishing matches, so its not best to level from the longest match possible always. But after they reach level 50 is when they are more usable for your training. They are better than a level 9 will ever get. on the level scale, they are more like level 13-15. But they also learn and change up move usage after a bit of playing against them. -Saving amiibo data is easy. Back out of the character selection (DO NOT TURN GAME OFF) and the game may ask you to tweak your amiibo. It will only ask that if you used 1 amiibo. Tweaking is just feeding it equipment stuff, which for training purposes is pointless. After that it will pop up with saying put the amiibo on the game pad and hold it there. This only takes a second just to transfer data. If you used more than 1 amiibo, it wont say will you tweak? and goes straight to the data transfer screen. -Now for how each one battles. They are all pretty even, not one is better then the other. Which is why its good to just have at least one amiibo to use. They may be better then some others because you have played with them more so they are smarter. Sadly though, they are not good at using combo skills. Those types of things would be difficult to program anyways. Combos being like a character would chain attacks together. Such as grabbing, and down throw to follow up with an aerial attack. This makes the more tricky characters to use more difficult for the amiibos to use. -There is a character who each amiibos have trouble against. That is Rosalina and Luma. Its due to the fact that they dont know how to deal with Luma. Like on online matches, most people know to kill Luma if you separate the two. While the amiibos wont. They also dont understand Lumas ranges as well for simple attacks. But after quite some time and playing they get a better grasp, but dont fully understand Luma. So you can easily kill them with a down attack in the air while they are off stage. -Now heres how some of them work. They do have a somewhat learning chip in them that will change up their moves and how they attack. But the sad part is the fact that they also cheat. How they cheat is like this. When you press the button A on the controller, your character will do a simple attack. The controller acts as an input device to the system, so when you press A, the system transfers it through the game data to do the simple attack. But with the amiibo, the system transfers it to the game and the amiibo, so when you press A, the amiibo knows it. This allows them to almost always get perfect dodges. How I can tell that they can do this. When going up against an opponent who grabs, its better to use jab attacks, which is the rapid A attack. But whenever I do use a jab on them, its like they are a mind reader and roll to the back of me almost instantly. And they never do this regularly unless I use a jab. They also can tell if you are going to shield against a dash attack. In this case they will grab. But I have gotten to the point where they go on a grabbing frenzy. And they are good at it. They can do backwards grabs perfect everytime even. That is when you quickly turn around and perform a grab instantly. Its not easy to do. -The amiibos are in-tuned with sweet spot hitting as well. For instance, Marth has a good sweet spot at the end of his sword. And they can recognize how to sweet spot hit easily and how to do it every time. So they are accurate with all the punches. But they also dont get perfect hits every time but most of the time. So better work on effective dodging. -When amiibos play against each other, they play more dumb then they do against you. It might be because they cant recognize the input device that a fellow amiibo will do. So they play blind, and act almost as dumb as the regular cpus do, but play better then they do. All in all, the amiibos do make a good self training partner to get the hang of different movements of characters, especially the popular to use ones. It allows you to play against someone whos better then a level 9 anytime for hours as well. But its good to note that when you face others, they probably wont have the most effective dodging to the digits that an amiibo can. They are also pretty cool to have and collect as well. And when the prices do finally drop, we can all finally collect all of them in our list of amiibos to own. Having a good variety will help with the most effective of training. And they can be fun to share with others. Overall, the product is really good and I highly recommend these, but at the $12.99 price.

Just as I thought it would be. It’s perfect. I ended up surprising my nieces and nephew with one.

I received this in a timely manner, and it was packaged nicely. I did not have any issues! I would recommend it to others.

My boy (4 years old) just picked this up to play with it - he loves Link (even though he calls him Zelda) and is having fun seeing the features in Smash Bros and Mario Kart 8 for Wii U! Highly recommended!

Not quite like Skylanders but the figures a cool enough to collect on their own. The ability to use them in game is an added bonus.

It is what its meant to be. Dont like the butter thats supporting it though. Would be much better if it was clear rather than yellow.