I've played some amazing Link players in my time on Smash and I oftenly lose to them because I am not expecting them to be all that good, Link's brutal in the right hands, It sucks that most of them are just terrible and it blows you've been a victim of such.Pecentage of link players on for glory: 5%, actually do what link is supposed to be used for: full on charge and use side B as a good smash atttack helper. 95%, hide in a corner like a coward button mashing their projectiles until they're at 70% damage and come in using their smash attacks, or just hide in the corner til 110% then just charge with the side neutral.
I know this stuff can be countered, I main Ness (Soon to be Lucas) and I just LOVE to hit their projectiles back to them, these Link's are so dense that they'll always take it like a champ, but the issue isn't on my regard, it's about the OP's experience, these Link users aren't making this game any better for people and the OP is just another victim of these bad players.You can call projectile spamming cheap all you want, but the only way you can stop someone from doing it is to make them pay for doing it. I play people who use strategies I don't like too, and when I do, I try to find ways to adapt to my opponent's playstyle to beat him. It is part of the challenge of the game. Sometimes that means using a different character. If your opponent is using Link, use someone who has a good projectile reflector or someone who has a lot of speed to dodge the projectiles and close in on Link fast.