 Welcome back to Nintendo Prime, and we're going to be talking about Tears of the Kingdom, I know. It's the topic that never gets old on my channel, and I'm going to keep talking about it because it's my most hyped video game of all time. It's a sequel to my favorite video game of all time, and I never grow tired of talking about it. Today, we are going to focus in on the champions. You guys remember the champions from Breath of the Wild? Well, maybe you don't, because really all we have is memories in that game. Then again, if you play the DLC, if you play the Age of Calamity, I guess you got to know the champions a bit better. We're not really focusing in on them, but rather the abilities we gained from them in Breath of the Wild, and their possible return in Tears of the Kingdom. Now, before we get into it, I just want to remind you guys that we are on our road to 100,000 subscribers. 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So a poll popped up over on the Tears of the Kingdom Reddit, right? Just a random poll talking about the champion abilities and which one you would like to see come back. And it's no surprise that Ravalli's Gale was clearly the number one response followed by Mipha's Grace versus Fury into Rook's Protection. That's not really a surprise. It was probably a ranking of the most popular. People love Ravalli's Gale. It really helps with exploration. And some people like having Mipha's Grace. It's kind of an oh shit button. You die and you instantly come back. It's like having the ultimate fairy in your pocket, except it also gives you extra hearts, so it's even better. That being said, we don't have any confirmation that the abilities are back. For the longest time, we have thought the champion abilities can't be there with Link, right? He's got a glowing hand. He's got this reverse time mechanic. There's no way that he could have these abilities back. Now, we do know that there is some sort of Sheikah slate in the game because we have official art with Zelda holding some sort of Sheikah slate like thing, and Nintendo's made references that is some sort of Sheikah slate type thing, and that's cool. And that does sort of bring up the idea that maybe the abilities aren't gone. While Link might have some new abilities, what if we have the old abilities as well? Or maybe we have some of the abilities, some of the time, or maybe we just have one of the abilities, and maybe we even get to choose. Imagine that because, look, it feels tired going back to this, but the producer of the Legend of Zelda series recently said, you know, hey, the world can change based on your imagination. What if one of those imagination things is a choice you make, or you get to choose one of the four abilities, and you get to just have it throughout the game, and you can't change that choice until you restart all over again. So suddenly you can choose one of the other abilities, or one of the other abilities, or one of the other abilities all in hindsight. That would be kind of interesting if that was a mechanic. We don't have any suggestions as happening other than the fact that, yeah, there's some sort of Sheikah slate like thing in the game, and Zelda holds it. Now, I don't want to go too much into art book spoilers or anything, but there is just one little tiny reference I want to make. I don't really think it's a spoiler because I don't know what it means, but there is a piece of art in that leak where Link is also holding that same sort of Sheikah slate thing that Zelda has. I'm not going to say much more than that. I'm not going to go into details other than that. Yeah, there at least was an idea of Link holding what Zelda's holding in that art. So when you think about that, it really brings forward that maybe temporarily or something that Link might have access to these old champion abilities. And yeah, they're really powerful abilities. They help shape the game in many different ways, and they work brilliantly within the physics system. And there's going to be new abilities because we've already seen some. It's just curious if we get to revisit some of these old ones and how they might interact with the new ones. Because some of the most fun things to do with the abilities was to use them in tandem. Combine, you know, Revali's Gale with Stasis or something, right? And just a lot of crazy things that you guys can do with these. You know, a lot of these abilities, you know, Herbosa's Fury, man, I can't get that word out. Daruk's Protection and Mipha's Grace, those are all sort of combat related abilities. It's interesting that Revali's Gale, although can be used in combat, is the most popular ability because of the exploration. And we love exploring. It's one of the number one things. I mean, the game was sold to us as an exploration game. I don't know. You guys let me know what your thoughts are here because I could take or leave the abilities. They don't necessarily need to be in the game. I like the idea of having completely new mechanics and completely new abilities. But I also like the idea of at least occasionally being able to revisit an old mechanic that we can maybe use in a new way with our new abilities and this new world we're in. I mean, Revali's Gale makes so much sense to be able to have, you know, up in the floating islands as an example. It'd be really nice to have that ability, especially if they update them to go like, pop it mid-air while we're falling. Wouldn't that be something? That'd be really cool. But obviously these abilities were all tied to the champions which were a huge part of that first game, at least in terms of the story and the DLC. I don't think the champions or their successors will necessarily be as big of a part of Tears of the Kingdom. It's a personal thought. I think they do exist. I think they're in the world somewhere. I just don't think that their role is nearly as big as it was in Breath of the Wild. I sort of get the idea that a lot of the new ideas that they came up with for this game were completely original and almost independent of the original game. Now you might go, but then why is there is a new Sheikah Slate thing? Well, notice we have a Sheikah Slate thing, but it looks different, which means there's something different about it. Maybe something happened to the old Sheikah Slate and it got destroyed, because after all, what don't we know about? The divine beasts. What happened with them? Where have they gone? They were a huge part of the Sheikah Slate. Where the hell are the damn divine beasts? We don't know. At the end of Breath of the Wild, we were supposed to go check out Varuta, but we have no idea what happened to the divine beasts. They are nowhere to be seen. So you combine that in tandem with the fact that Zelda has this new little Sheikah Slate. You wonder that the old Sheikah Slate maybe stopped working because the old Sheikah technology stopped working. So then everything got disassembled from the guardians to the divine beasts. And they reused those parts as we've seen in some images and in some, let's just say, interesting ways. Maybe they've reused those parts for other things and then we have a new Sheikah Slate, a newly built one, maybe by a certain character in the game from Breath of the Wild. Just throwing that out there. And that gives us access to the abilities again, but maybe only one at a time, or maybe only one. Like it's not as powerful as the old Sheikah Slate because a lot of the Sheikah technology doesn't work anymore. Or maybe we're just all wild that all this stuff we assume is zonai is actually Sheikah and they just change colors from blue to green. I mean, that's a crazy theory to be at this point, but you know what? Anything is possible. Anyways, you guys let me know what you think about this down in the comments below. I'm gonna get going out here to PAX East and having some fun with some friends and you guys have a good rest of your day.