Moblins and Lynels and bosses, oh my! Here are the awaited results of my numerous science experiments. I tested so much more than what I talk about this video, so if you’re curious about anything to do with any enemy, just ask me. I’ve probably got an answer for you.
Enemy list (in order):
Bokoblins, Moblins, Lizalfos
Hinoxes and Stalnoxes
Taluses
Flux Constructs
Froxes
Moldugas
Lynels
Bosses
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Of all of the interesting interactions that I left out of the video, here's a cool one that comes to mind:
You can dispel a like-like's fire or ice attacks by waving a wand of the opposite type.
P.S. Is it bo-KOBlin or BOKO-blin? I used to say the latter until I was told it's the former, but I'm not so sure…
Awesome video!
Great video! I found that with gleeoks, using an opposing element's keese eyeball does extra damage, so a fire-keese eyeball with a 3 shot bow would actually one-shot the heads of a frost gleeok, instead of needing two shots, or a frost-keese eyeball on a flame gleeok, etc. Not super helpful, but every small resource saved adds up.
Ayo? Great vid! Nice tips 🙂
I know you said that this would be the final tips video, but I would love a video on different uses for the sages. Stuff like: Using Mineru to safely traverse Gloom, jumping off of her to get bullet time or using Yunobo whilerunning through grass to create an updraft.
I love using recall on Talus arms. Especially when you stop them right before they hit you.
I found that homing carts with hydrants are pretty useful against Mucktorock. They can clear a lot of his mud off the arena and can even stun him occasionally. The downside is that is that it can be battery intensive, escpecially if you use multiple carts.
for molduga, shoot a time bomb from a place of un-detection to draw it's attention; it will swallow the bomb and be stunned when it goes off.
just as with the bomb ability in botw
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If you use a gloom weapon on a lynels back it doesn’t do gloom damage
I reccomend using gerudo over anything in most situations, use some zora stuff if it’s raining
Something important that I'm 90% sure about with Lynels:
If one has already drawn its bow, you CANNOT stun it. You can shoot it in the face and you'll hear the critical hit sound effect, but the Lynel will still fire at you. This "invincibility" also protects it from muddle buds. If the Lynel is already aiming at you when you connect with a muddle bud, it will fire the shot before sheathing its bow.
another tip on lynels, you can backflip off of a lone standing controller device to get bullet time.
For Gleeoks, as long as you're prepared before the fight with several rocket shields and a multi-shot bow, you can kill it while keeping it locked down the entire time. Come in from above it, and when you get close to them (I like to aim for landing right in front of them), bullet-time shoot all three heads. Then attack them with your melee weapon while they're stunned on the ground. As soon as they start to wake back up, use a rocket shield so that you can get into bullet-time for when they regen their horns. As soon as the horns start to regen, shoot all three heads again while in that bullet-time, then they'll fall back down, rinse, repeat, done.
So far, I've killed 2 Phantom Ganons by getting the high ground and being good at headshots to stun-lock.
I don't think Phantom Ganon teleports as long as he can see you. Under the Deku Tree, I knocked him back until I out-range him, and he didn't teleport to my platform.
One thing to add about Queen Gibdo; the Gibdo Nests CAN be destroyed without Riju by using any type of explosive (which Riju's Lightning actually does create). The nests are programed to only take damage from explosives, so a single bomb arrow on the weak points can collapse them.
thx very helpful
I lean heavily into melee combat vs. lynels too. But when dismounting them (this takes more than just starting stamina) you can instantly get about 5 headshots on the way down. Want an easy headshot to mount again? Dodge the horn swing just a bit too early to trigger the flurry, and he will give you time as he recoups from his own whiplash.
in the second phase of all gleeok fights, when they fly up really high, they always provide you a way to get up to them, so don’t worry if you miss a headshot before then!
– fire gleeoks shoot a big fireball to create a massive updraft
– thunder gleeoks strike the ground with lightning to create thinner, but still strong updrafts
– ice gleeoks (my personal favourite) rain down big icicles that you can climb up and use recall on. i’m not entirely positive, but i think the bigger ones spawn higher up (and thus will take you higher up) with the added challenge of being harder to climb.
– king gleeoks are a chaotic mix of all three, and i believe that the easiest one to use is the recall on the icicles, because while in recall i don’t think that more will spawn to hit you off yours.
sorry if any of that didn’t make sense, just thought it was worth pointing out.
From another video I watched, using your most powerful item fused to a Royal Guard claymore is the ultimate lynel buster, because when they're nearly broken, they do double damage. When you're mounted, like in BOTW, your weapon doesn't lose durability, and that means you can repeatedly use a royal guards claymore on its back.
If you're confident in your parrying you can parry each Lynel attack and shoot it in the face as it finds its footing, then mount. The lack of durability loss makes near-broken royal guard fusion weapons stupid powerful. Just be careful to not trigger an air attack and subsequently break your weapon the moment it bucks you off.
Best way to get a lot of damage equip the armor that gives you bone proficiency, take a lvl 3 food buff, use a zora weapon with the Magulda jaw on it, then use the water sage power and boom. 2x attack from the zora weapon, 2x attack from the bone proficiency, and finally, the attack up from lvl 3 food buff. It's alot of setup, but you beat any boss fast
here is a long list of extra tips when it comes to combat.
savage lynel bows are your friend. i suggest once u start consistently killing lynels (tips on how to do so later on) u should start saving the bows. you should go for at least 3-5 in ur inventory at all times. then, go to death mountain and look for some rock octoroks (pretty easy to find urself but just look up a vid if u have some issues), save infront of them, drop ur bow, wait for the octorok to spit the bow back out, and check to see if the bow has the "5 shot" property. if it does, kill the octorok and continue, if it doesnt, reload that save. this will do two things: 1. repair ur bow incase it was about to break, meaning u dont need to fight more lynels if u dont want to, and 2. give u the best bow in the game dps wise. the thing about bows in this game is that u can honestly win most fights with them alone as long as u can consistently use bullet time and have strong fuses like bombs, gibdo bones, and lynel horns. a lot of the tips leo brought up in the video work really well, but if u wanna be as efficient/boring as possible, a few 5 shot bow shots is all you will ever need for all of the basic mobs, most of the minibosses, and a few of the bosses.
(spoiler for story past the 4 regional phenomena) the easiest way to consistently get bullet time is with mineru. just hop on her back, jump off of it and pull out your bow. you wont need this a lot of the time as there will be uneven terrain everywhere, but its still good for consistent bullet time.
if ur having trouble finding bombs, they are in practically every cave in the game and also are pretty common in the depths. if u are okay with it, you can also dupe them. there are tons of ways to do so, but the best for u is up to personal preference and what version of the game ur running.
for gibdo bones, if u already completed the regional phenomena for gerudo then its going to be pretty difficult to consistently find them, but they are also in a lot of caves in gerudo and u can also dupe them.
if u want to make lynel farming even more effiecient, theres a long process hard to explain with a comment, so simply just go to austin john's video about lynel farming and do what he says (make sure to fuse the molduga jaw to the claymore instead of a lynel saber). combining that video with my mineru tech allows for pretty consistent lynel farming. if u dont want to do that though, u can simply climb up really high, glide down to the lynel, and spam 5 shot lynel bows with molduga jaws, gibdo bones, or silver lynel saber horns until it eventually dies.
if u want to do as much damage as possible, get either the evil spirit or radiant armor. the evil spirit armor is faster to get compared to getting the radiant armor and having to level it up to level 2, but the radiant armor provides better defense. then, make sure to fuse ur strongest weapons with molduga jaws (tips on how to kill them later). then, u need to make sure u have attack 3 food on hand, and now u will be doing tons of damage. one of the easier ways to get attack 3 food is to just cook 5 mighty bananas (theres a good amount in the faron region, specifically near the dondons), and using 4 mighty bananas and a dragon horn will make it last 30 minutes (go to austin johns video about how to farm dragons).
in order to kill moldugas effectively, its quite simple with my mineru tech. get on mineru and just start running away from the molduga (make sure its already chasing u). then, as soon as it leaps out of the sand it should be far away enough that it doesnt hit u. get off of mineru immediately and start spamming bow shots at its chest. if u have the savage lynel bow and barbarian armor with some bomb arrows, you can one shot it within one bullet time. like i said eariler, 5 shot lynel bows are the easiest way to kill most enemies the majority of the time. more examples of this are the gloom spawn/hands and phantom ganon.
the thing about nearly every gleeok is that they are near some form of elevation that allows you to drop down and get free bullet time. obviously u can do so with my mineru method, but if they start firing beams at u before u can get off it can be a little challenging. minus that, equip the radiant or evil spirit armor, take out a weapon with a molduga jaw attached (a pristine gerudo scimitar, pristine gerudo claymore, or the scimitar of the seven are best), and start wailing on it. if u couldnt kill it before it gets back up and starts to fly (will always happen with king gleeoks), simply run out of the range for its gust attack, get back on mineru, and repeat (might need keese eyeballs if its a little too high up).
for colgera, fly above it and simply fly into it's circular weak spots, its a lot faster than trying to shoot them with arrows. this works best with the glide suit armor.
mucktoroks are pretty easy to kill if u just time mineru's bullet time properly. sure, it moves around pretty fast in its second phase once its out of the mud shark, but it slows down significantly in bullet time, so use a few splash fruit arrows and ur good.
the queen gibdo is honestly not much of a challenge if u bullet time into a bomb arrow and then a couple gibdo bone/molduga jaw/silver lynel saber horn right into its face. if u dont want to only use arrows, u can simply walk up behind it once u get rid of its outer layer and perform a charge attack with a 2 handed weapon until it gets stunned.
a pretty situational weapon that deals tons of damage is the lightscale trident, the champion weapon of the zora. when u are wet, its damage will double, and since it is a spear it will do tons of damage when flurry rushing (or by using its charge attack). attach a molduga jaw to it and pull out a hydrant to stay wet (or just hope its raining) and u can reek havoc. one flurry rush with this weapon, radiant armor, a hydrant, and attack 3 food is enough to kill ganon's first phase out right.
Great video! Thanks!!! I'm sure everyone tells you this, but I will say it too: you deserve much more followers.
When fighting Moldugas, you can also you cannon fused weapons instead of your bomb arrows. You gerudo buddy works too, both on foot and on zonai devices.
When using Zora weapons, best way to get wet is to just let Sidon get you wet.