@ChristiJunior I mean... out of 5 Zelda games I played, Ganondorf has been a sword-fighter in 100% of the games he appeared in.
In any case, Sakurai should be thanked for including such an obscure character in Melee, making him famous. Perhaps that role in Melee is what gave us Ganondorf in TotK.

I remember schoolmates asking who the guy with the big nose was... Fortunately, the guy who owned the GC knew.