#But SS Link faced deathloop via silent realm 4 times!

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Skyward Sword guardians for sure imo

This isn't a question of 'how likely you are to run into them' which really leaves the question of if it's on the monsters home turf or if you just got randomly locked in a room with them.

If I'm locked in a room with them the order goes 1: SS guardians 2: everything else tied. Redeads, dead hand, and gloom hands are all just going to kill me. Which sucks but at least it's over fairly quickly. On the other hand, the guardians won't kill me. There's a bunch of people who discount them because of that, and think they aren't even on the same threat level as the other three, and you know what? They're right! SS guardians are worse! Because they won't kill you. Just keep you trapped and tormented and constantly on edge until you either escape them (unlikely at best but more probably impossible in an irl scenario, at least for me. I do not have the kind of mental or physical endurance the silent realms require.) or die naturally, if you even can! Them hitting you is described as 'shattering your spirit' and plays the death animation, so I have to assume that it feels like you're dying even if you technically aren't - so really in a situation where I was trapped in a room with them the question would become would you rather die or be stuck in a death loop for eternity or, maybe, if the goddess designed it mercifully, until your heart gives out from the stress and anxiety of repeated deaths and chases? (I suppose its also worth mentioning that in a sufficiently tall room with like, brick walls or anything else I could get a grip on, that Gloom Hands drop to the bottom of the list. Dead hand and redeads would just wait me out, but there would be a solid chance of survival against the gloom hands if I could get up out of their reach since they give up so quickly) If I was in their natural habitat the places line out a bit - 1: SS Guardian - For the reasons stated above - theres pretty much no chance I complete the trial and I don't want to be stuck in a death loop forever 2: Dead Hand - By the time I realized I've encountered it its probably too late to escape and its just going to kill me 3: Redead - Slow moving and usually visible from a distance. It would be absolutely nerve wracking but I'd probably manage to slip past them and escape in most scenarios. It really would depend on the layout of the (presumably cave or catacomb-esk) area I encountered them in, as if the tunnels are narrow enough that you had to go within grabbing distance to duck past the redead to escape then that could pose a significant danger. and 4: Gloom Hands - Pretty much everywhere they spawn in game, or would spawn irl, has Someplace you could climb and wait them out. A wall, a building, a tree, a sufficiently steep hill - it's pretty easy to get out of range and wait these guys out! They're creepy as hell sure, but I genuinely think they pose the least danger to me out of this list.

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