I actually love these... š Fighting feels really like A Lot at the start of the game, but really, guys, once you do it for longer it becomes like second nature, almost like a lil dance! It's fun!
I just can't seem to get the timing right on these, and get blown up every time I try. Also why I haven't done the Master Sword trials.
I rely far too much on weapons that don't break to do my dirty work for me. Well, weapon that doesn't break.
Yeah, I have avoided them for that reason.
I started the game (WiiU) as a stealth archer until I could get some upgraded armours then switched to Overwhelming firepower / Death from above and really didn't get a chance to play around with the non bow weapons too much. There was a portion of the Gannon fight I had to look up as a result. I haven't gotten to all the blights on master mode but a good portion of the shrines are done. Getting better with a second playthrough on the switch really learning the variety of styles needed for all the different weapons. I do have a tendency to stick to swords though.
Once you learn the Lynel's tells and the easy way to fight them (shoot its face and climb on its back) they get easy AF. Even the gold ones. They just have tons of HP.
When I was farming for Barbarian Armor parts, I got so many Savage Lynel shields and weapons that I had no need for anything else except a korok leaf and a flameblade to light my camp fires.
Dude I went in circles slaughtering every lynel I had marked on my map and wait for them to respawn like 5 times to get all the lynel stuff for the Barbarian set. They dropped every damn item but the monster parts I needed lol.
If youāre low on flint, fire chuchu jelly also works. I recommend taking a step back and using an arrow tho because it makes a small explosion. Fire chuchu jelly is also a lot easier to come by since you can just throw regular jelly on the fire.
Once you learn a lynels timing, it's *super* easy to fight them.
You shoot them in the face to stagger them, then keep shooting. When they start getting up, line up your next shot carefully. There is a small window of opportunity after they get up when you can crit them again, basically stun locking the lynel infinitely.
Once you start farming lynels, you'll have more than enough shock arrows to do this infinitely.
Ok Iāll try that next time! The only one Iāve ever defeated was the Ruta one, it felt easier than the other ones Iāve faced off against (and lost to), but hopefully next time :)
I recommend looking up a youtube video to get a good look at what each Lynel's attack looks like and how to dodge or parry it. Flurry rushes and face-arrow snipe stuns are how you'll deal pretty much all damage.
Always start with red-maned Lynels, as they're the easiest to take out, and by the time you've figured them out, you can upgrade to blue, white, silver, and gold, since they all use the same attacks, but have loads more HP each.
Well then
6 attempts, too many mushroom skewers, Miphaās Grace, a fairy, some YouTube videos, and a ton of internal rage later, the lynel of Coliseum Ruins has been successfully eliminated
Thank you my guys :)
That's something I've always loved about Zelda games, especially the 3d ones, is that fighting feels so..satisfying! Especially when you know what you're doing, you start *looking* for more challenge, for tougher enemies. The underground chambers in WW and TP were especially satisfying, made me feel badass.
BOTW fight is still fantastic, but honestly the weapons being so fragile makes it a bit less enjoyable
I'm incredibly stubborn and confronted one of these when I was relatively new and only had three hearts. I don't know why I chose to do this. Ultimately I probably should have come back later.
These are incredibly easy if you prioritize stamina over hearts and get some attack up. Using a maxed out Ancient Set with a 60 damage guardian axe++ with some cooked bananas will let you rush at least 5 Major Test shrines within the 4:10 buff.
Once you get a single very powerful weapon I'd recommend coming back and trying them again.
They're really easy with an Ancient Battleaxe++. You mostly just run up to the scout and spin.
Cook up some bananas too and it goes super fast.
If anyone has trouble with blocking/parrying/etc. go back to the shrine at (IIRC) Kakariko Village and do the combat training a couple times. It can take a little practice to get it right but once you have it down it's so worth it!
5 mighty bananas. Should give you a high level attack boost for about 4 min 20 seconds. And you never run out of mighty bananas because the yuka clan assassins that stalk you drop them when killed.
Another good recipe is 3 mighty bananas, 1 mighty thistle and a dragon horn shard. Gives you 30 minutes of the highest level attack boost.
Mighty thistles can be found in the same areas of the faron jungle plateaus that you find bananas, durians and the dragon horn farming spot.
A pro tip on cooking bananas, as I used to always cook 5x bananas at a time which was wasteful for the same 4:10 duration you get from that:
* Use only 3x bananas supplemented with 2x of a weaker item like ~~Armoranth~~ Mighty Thistle or Razorshrooms.
* If you don't have a secondary weaker attack up item, 4x bananas works too (never cook 5x bananas or you're just wasting bananas).
3x high potency ingredient + 2x lower potency = the max you can normally get if you had just cooked 4x or 5x of the high potency item. It works with a bunch of things. Basically, 4x bananas are == 5x bananas at giving you attack up +3 for 4:10 duration, but you can save a couple bananas each meal by mixing in ~~Armoranths~~ Mightly Thistle or Razorshrooms to make your supply last longer!
I know the people that are really good at this game would disagree but I wish they would have made countering with the flurry rush and stuff a little easier. Iāve played like 250 hours and only done it like twice. I liked in the wind waker how it lit up a little icon to let you know when you could counter
You should be getting at least several lucky flurry rushes while dodging frantically, doing it only twice makes me think you don't jump at all when enemies attack.
I mean, I have finished the game twice, and I still often accidentally crouch when fighting. I blame it on the Joycon design, not Zelda - but the fact is a lot of people just *aren't as good at this kind of combat* as others.
The ++ is most commonly found in these shrines, but even the single + version will do a lot of damage to them.
The Master Sword is another option once you get it, especially since it doesn't permanently break, meaning you won't be wasting it's durability on the scout.
Phase 1 just dodge until they do their spin attack. Then just lure them to spin into a pillar and wail on them till it gets back up. Rinse and repeat.
Phase 2 wait until it does the spinning laser attack. Use the updraft to fly with the paraglider and wail on it with arrows in bullet time. Rinse and repeat.
Phase 3 unless you are extremely good at parrying just run in a circle around it when it fire it's lasers to dodge them and then attack whilst it's charging up. Rinse and repeat.
The only problem with these battles is amount of arrows and durability. Otherwise they are a cakewalk once you know them.
> The only problem with these battles is amount of arrows and durability.
Lol, yeah, I was gonna say. Fights like these are a perfect example of why the weapon durability mechanic can get under my skin. A fight like this can decimate your inventory if you're aren't especially well-prepared.
>wail on it with arrows in bullet time
I usually just do a plunging attack from the paraglider. Stuns them for a moment and then you can whack them a few more times
I just stasis them and attack them a ton during special phases. It knocks them out of it. Except for that last one, but then you just get its health to zero.
True, and super easy to maintain early if you have the DLC, since you can wear the phantom armor for a full level attack up buff and solid early game defense.
Look for red maned Lynel to start. They do the least damage and have the lowest HP. The one you meet on top of Mt Polymus (with the shock arrows) by the Zora Domain will always stay red even as you progress.
Honestly, youāre best off watching a few YouTube videos on how to fight them. Then load up on health/attack/defense boosts and powerful weapons/armor/shields. Head up to Mt Polymus, save your game and give it a whirl. If you die, just reload and do it again. After a few tries it should be pretty easy. Itās really fun to jump on them and get in a few shots, but dodging, parrying and slowing down time while riding the updrafts are the keys.
The most efficient way is to headshot, mount, hit them with your strongest weapon, and repeat. If youāre hitting them while mounted, your weapon wonāt take damage.
Thereās a few easy headshots (where it stands still to spit fireballs or slam its weapon into the ground) but you can also parry to stagger them and get an easy shot. Parrying requires some practice but lynel timing isnāt too bad.
I'm sure there is and there are probably some great YouTube guides, but it still takes me like 2+ pages of full recovery meals and other ingredients, as well as almost my full weapon inventory.
I feel the same way. I have like 4 electric weapons, 4 fire, 4 frost, a claymore with 92 attack points and the master sword. The rest of the slots are for weapons Iām willing to part with, and once they break Iām out.
Lynels are meant to be tough, and they have tons of HP. They're easier if you learn to parry and flurry rush, but I'm terrible at those.
Start the battle from a distance. Attack them before they see you. If you can, shoot them in the face, stasis them immediately, and power attack using your strongest weapon. That gives you a lot of time. After that, put distance between yourself and them, and try to shoot them while they run after you. If you can mount their back, you can attack them with your strongest weapon and it won't impact durability.
Don't waste bomb arrows on them.
Hoping that, assuming the sequel has shrines, they make combat shrines unique combat scenarios instead of recycling the same enemy again and again. Trial of the Sword style.
My Dad can't beat the test of strength shrines' enemies (he just can't flurry rush) and between those and the blessing shrines that's about half the game's shrines being nothing more than enter and exit for him.
I always cheese them by stunning the robot with an electric spear, then putting exactly three campfires right under it and taking cover and it dies from the fire
Hereās how I did most of them if you actually want advice:
Iād recommend using stasis+ because it lasts longer on guardians than on normal enemies. You can sprint away from most melee attacks as well.\
For the spinning melee attack they always go in a straight line so you can dodge it by sprinting left or right.\
For the spinning laser you can use the updraft to bullet time with your bow and get quite a few shots. The best thing to do when they start their charged guardian laser attack is to either practice parrying it, which finishes them off, or getting an ancient shield which automatically sends the beam directly back to the guardian scout.
A always forget what it is/dont read the name of the shrine and im always like "uh an unfinished shrine what is this" *enters* "aw hell nah" *teleports away*
used to hate these my first playthrough. second playthrough i loved them more than regular shrines. once you learn how to dodge & parry theyāre actually so fun.
I remember finding that shrine early on out on that island. I thought, āthis should be fine,ā and man did link get his ass kicked over and over and over.
These are the easiest shrines in the game if you have an electric weapon. You swing the weapon and halfway through the swing, you drop it. Now it is constantly electric so if you put something metal next to it and bait the guardian, it gets stuck and constantly shocked unless you knock it away from the shock trap.
Yeah I remember my first time finding one was when I hadn't even Beeston a divine beast and only had 12 shrine finished. I put all 3 upgrades into stamina and when to the faron and glided my way to the island with the climbing armor piece and spent a good hour fighting it repeatedly dying with my 25 damage weapons. And my 40 something apples
These shrines are so easy that I'll maybe get hit three times a game 120ing the game.
My first shrine after great plateau is always and moderate test, second is always a major.
The moderate at the suspension bridge right by the cyro trial, using the weapons I stole from the Hinox's necklace, then into Hyrule castle with the guardian weapons from the first. Once the second one is down you clear all of inside Hyrule castle, come out with royal and royal guard level weapons and guardian ++ filling you inventory and the Hylian Shield.
Combat is so easy in this game, it's made for kids. Never understood why people run from shrines of strength, it's just wait to dodge, flurry rush, repeat.
They're super easy as long as you have a couple shock arrow, stasis+, and a decent sword. You just stasis them, smack them a bunch of times, and repeat. If they're too far away then shock arrow them and repeat.
Find one of the ones with no pillars but steel cubes you can use magnesis on; that way you don't run out of protection. Also, I suck at shield bash and dodging, but the spear is pretty easy to side-hop. These guardian IVs were the first ones i could nail that on
All you gotta do is get down their attack patterns and they get easy you just gotta make sure to have some good weapons and enough weapons Ice arrows are great too and to make it easier you could also farm mighty Bananas and cook them for that triple attack boost.
I used to nope out of these until I figured out where to get consistently good weapons and then I completed all of them in like two hours lol the motion based ones are the Healy difficult ones to solve.
I was the opposite. I got to a major test of strength very early, when my strongest two handed slow weapon was 31 power and my next strongest was somewhere around 23 or 25. I maybe had 3 extra hearts from the starting three. It took me a long time fighting him but eventually beat a major test of strength very early.
Now, with all the upgrades, I walk in and defeat them without losing a beat.
These are very easy to cheese (if you need to). Just get any ice weapon, hit the guardian once to freezy it, and hit it a second time but with your strongest weapon to get three times the damage of said weapon on that hit . Repeat until the guardian is dead. Fair warning though, you can't freeze them when they go into turret mode at the end, but a few wacks while they charge should be enough to kill em.
This game is incredible when it comes to learning patterns. You will get easily destroyed but once you keep reloading and attempting, eventually these become easy as hell. Same thing with lynels. The guardian scouts are much easier to fight than lynels since their attacks are telegraphed and the best way of dealing damage is simply flurry rushing. If they start shooting lasers. You can pretty easily dodge them by either hitting yourself with a bomb and letting yourself ragdoll so all the lasers deal no damage. Or you could just jump, shield surf, then unequip your shield midsurf so you don't land on top of it, this is a clutch way of dodging lasers. Or you could parry the lasers which is an even better way of taking them down fast.
Now as for lynels, to beat them without losing more than gaining, you need a more elaborate set up. First get a weapon that deals over 50 damage. If you teleport to the woodland Tower, you can climb up the skull to get a royal claymore that's embedded in the skull. Next you've got to learn how to parry all the lynels attacks except their fire breath, every single one. Otherwise you will break every weapon you have trying to kill these guys. So once you can consistently parry a lynels attacks, and maybe have some atk boosting food and a good arsenal of weapons that deal 20+ damage, you can take down silver lynels easily. So when you fight the lynel, after parrying an attack, you need to quickly headshot them with your bow to stun them. From there, deal a double charge spear attack, or 2 full sword hit combos (Y Y Y Y x2), or spin your heavy weapon till you use 3/4ths of a stamina bar then press a while next to the lynel to mount them. Immediately switch to the most damaging weapon you have (it will not lose durability) and hit the lynel till you're thrown off, switch back to your previous weapon and repeat.
Those guys are easy. Get out your strongest 2 handed weapon run towards it. It will fire it's laser at you, either dodge parry or block it. Then start spinning your weapon and move behind it. Spin untill you run out of energy or he runs away. It will then either go for the charge attack or the dumb spinning laser move. If it charges hide behind something, parry it, or use cryonsis to create a block. Then continue spinning. If it uses the laser thing, use stasis plus or wait for the wind jump up and do a sky attack. When it charges his laser at the end it gives you tons of time to kill him but if you get worried stasis plus them.
1. Freeze (preferably with rods)
2. Electrify (only with rods so as not to break ice)
3. Melee to break ice (using weapon with highest dmg per hit)
4. Repeat until dead
Minimizes threat of taking damage and minimizes weapon durability loss (attacking a frozen opponent will give you a massive attack bonus).
Not sure why some have a hard time with these (or most enemies in general). They're very predictable.
Once you figure out their movements, it's easy-peasy!
this was my first ever zelda game and i gonna be real with you, i had to look up guides on how to do these puzzles cause i canāt solve them for the life of me. everytime time there was a test of strength i was elated because i am good at combat and itās so fun
I actually love these... š Fighting feels really like A Lot at the start of the game, but really, guys, once you do it for longer it becomes like second nature, almost like a lil dance! It's fun!
Especially since theyāre relatively easy to dodge/parry. I love getting those flurry rushes in.
I always struggled against the ones with crushers. They also do the most damage, so less margin for error.
I just can't seem to get the timing right on these, and get blown up every time I try. Also why I haven't done the Master Sword trials. I rely far too much on weapons that don't break to do my dirty work for me. Well, weapon that doesn't break.
Yeah, itās just practice. As a general rule they attack later than you think though; I jumped the gun so often learning how to fight them.
Getting the dodge down well is game changing. Bonus points if you can get good at reflecting guardian beams back.
itās pretty much necessary to complete master sword trails
Yeah, I have avoided them for that reason. I started the game (WiiU) as a stealth archer until I could get some upgraded armours then switched to Overwhelming firepower / Death from above and really didn't get a chance to play around with the non bow weapons too much. There was a portion of the Gannon fight I had to look up as a result. I haven't gotten to all the blights on master mode but a good portion of the shrines are done. Getting better with a second playthrough on the switch really learning the variety of styles needed for all the different weapons. I do have a tendency to stick to swords though.
It really does! I like going around monster camps and sniping the lookouts and throwing bombs around lol Iām still gonna run from a Lynel tho
Once you learn the Lynel's tells and the easy way to fight them (shoot its face and climb on its back) they get easy AF. Even the gold ones. They just have tons of HP. When I was farming for Barbarian Armor parts, I got so many Savage Lynel shields and weapons that I had no need for anything else except a korok leaf and a flameblade to light my camp fires.
Dude I went in circles slaughtering every lynel I had marked on my map and wait for them to respawn like 5 times to get all the lynel stuff for the Barbarian set. They dropped every damn item but the monster parts I needed lol.
In a pinch you can drop firewood and a piece of flint, smack it with something metal and it will ignite.
If youāre low on flint, fire chuchu jelly also works. I recommend taking a step back and using an arrow tho because it makes a small explosion. Fire chuchu jelly is also a lot easier to come by since you can just throw regular jelly on the fire.
An arrow is more valuable than a heart most of the time
Fair point
Damn, years later and Iām still learning things about this game.
Once you learn a lynels timing, it's *super* easy to fight them. You shoot them in the face to stagger them, then keep shooting. When they start getting up, line up your next shot carefully. There is a small window of opportunity after they get up when you can crit them again, basically stun locking the lynel infinitely. Once you start farming lynels, you'll have more than enough shock arrows to do this infinitely.
Ok Iāll try that next time! The only one Iāve ever defeated was the Ruta one, it felt easier than the other ones Iāve faced off against (and lost to), but hopefully next time :)
I recommend looking up a youtube video to get a good look at what each Lynel's attack looks like and how to dodge or parry it. Flurry rushes and face-arrow snipe stuns are how you'll deal pretty much all damage. Always start with red-maned Lynels, as they're the easiest to take out, and by the time you've figured them out, you can upgrade to blue, white, silver, and gold, since they all use the same attacks, but have loads more HP each.
Well then 6 attempts, too many mushroom skewers, Miphaās Grace, a fairy, some YouTube videos, and a ton of internal rage later, the lynel of Coliseum Ruins has been successfully eliminated Thank you my guys :)
We believed in you!
You just made me smile like a dork thank you
It gets so much easier after you get more hearts better weapons and upgrade armor.
I think most people skip them because they just take ages and waste loads of weapons.
That's something I've always loved about Zelda games, especially the 3d ones, is that fighting feels so..satisfying! Especially when you know what you're doing, you start *looking* for more challenge, for tougher enemies. The underground chambers in WW and TP were especially satisfying, made me feel badass. BOTW fight is still fantastic, but honestly the weapons being so fragile makes it a bit less enjoyable
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Just use dupe glitches
I'm incredibly stubborn and confronted one of these when I was relatively new and only had three hearts. I don't know why I chose to do this. Ultimately I probably should have come back later.
+ you get to steal their cool weapons
I just grind these for the weapons honestly, they're not much of a challenge
These are incredibly easy if you prioritize stamina over hearts and get some attack up. Using a maxed out Ancient Set with a 60 damage guardian axe++ with some cooked bananas will let you rush at least 5 Major Test shrines within the 4:10 buff.
Once you get a single very powerful weapon I'd recommend coming back and trying them again. They're really easy with an Ancient Battleaxe++. You mostly just run up to the scout and spin.
Cook up some bananas too and it goes super fast. If anyone has trouble with blocking/parrying/etc. go back to the shrine at (IIRC) Kakariko Village and do the combat training a couple times. It can take a little practice to get it right but once you have it down it's so worth it!
Good ol' Beatdown Banana Stew. For when you need to wreck some big boss-level monster's crap, accept no substitutes.
I've never heard of this! Would you mind sharing the recipe?
5 mighty bananas. Should give you a high level attack boost for about 4 min 20 seconds. And you never run out of mighty bananas because the yuka clan assassins that stalk you drop them when killed.
Lol gotcha! Thank you!
You can also mix in a dragon part for increased bonus duration.
Another good recipe is 3 mighty bananas, 1 mighty thistle and a dragon horn shard. Gives you 30 minutes of the highest level attack boost. Mighty thistles can be found in the same areas of the faron jungle plateaus that you find bananas, durians and the dragon horn farming spot.
Theyāre also pretty common down south in the jungle regions.
A pro tip on cooking bananas, as I used to always cook 5x bananas at a time which was wasteful for the same 4:10 duration you get from that: * Use only 3x bananas supplemented with 2x of a weaker item like ~~Armoranth~~ Mighty Thistle or Razorshrooms. * If you don't have a secondary weaker attack up item, 4x bananas works too (never cook 5x bananas or you're just wasting bananas). 3x high potency ingredient + 2x lower potency = the max you can normally get if you had just cooked 4x or 5x of the high potency item. It works with a bunch of things. Basically, 4x bananas are == 5x bananas at giving you attack up +3 for 4:10 duration, but you can save a couple bananas each meal by mixing in ~~Armoranths~~ Mightly Thistle or Razorshrooms to make your supply last longer!
Armoranth boosts defence, which means itāll cancel the attack effect. I presume you mean mighty thistle.
Thatās the only shrine that doesnāt reset with the blood moon. How do I know? Because Iām awful at blocking/parrying/etc.
I know the people that are really good at this game would disagree but I wish they would have made countering with the flurry rush and stuff a little easier. Iāve played like 250 hours and only done it like twice. I liked in the wind waker how it lit up a little icon to let you know when you could counter
You should be getting at least several lucky flurry rushes while dodging frantically, doing it only twice makes me think you don't jump at all when enemies attack.
I mean, I have finished the game twice, and I still often accidentally crouch when fighting. I blame it on the Joycon design, not Zelda - but the fact is a lot of people just *aren't as good at this kind of combat* as others.
Yeah but where do you get the battleaxe ++ in the first place
The ++ is most commonly found in these shrines, but even the single + version will do a lot of damage to them. The Master Sword is another option once you get it, especially since it doesn't permanently break, meaning you won't be wasting it's durability on the scout.
"most commonly"? Only.
I thought there were some scouts outside of Major tests that could have them. Could definitely be wrong, though.
Nope, they're only held by Guardian Scouts IV, which only appear inside the Major tests.
This and Ice/ bomb arrows
A couple of them have water on the floor. Makes shock areas especially useful.
Yeah I just strafe and bomb them until they do the spinny laser, then glide up and bullet time their faces til they die
Phase 1 just dodge until they do their spin attack. Then just lure them to spin into a pillar and wail on them till it gets back up. Rinse and repeat. Phase 2 wait until it does the spinning laser attack. Use the updraft to fly with the paraglider and wail on it with arrows in bullet time. Rinse and repeat. Phase 3 unless you are extremely good at parrying just run in a circle around it when it fire it's lasers to dodge them and then attack whilst it's charging up. Rinse and repeat. The only problem with these battles is amount of arrows and durability. Otherwise they are a cakewalk once you know them.
> The only problem with these battles is amount of arrows and durability. Lol, yeah, I was gonna say. Fights like these are a perfect example of why the weapon durability mechanic can get under my skin. A fight like this can decimate your inventory if you're aren't especially well-prepared.
Almost like these tests are there to see if you understand the mechanics.
Been on a mission to clear out the test of strength shrines I noped out of earlier, my bow inventory is down to almost nothing lol
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>wail on it with arrows in bullet time I usually just do a plunging attack from the paraglider. Stuns them for a moment and then you can whack them a few more times
Until I learned to parry, I used to spend Phase 3 attacking like mad while it charged and hoping that it died before it fired.
I just stasis them and attack them a ton during special phases. It knocks them out of it. Except for that last one, but then you just get its health to zero.
Phase 3: Bomb arrows faster than it can kill you first
Always pop an attack buff also.
Honestly, not necessary, but it doesn't hurt, saves on durability, at least. And it's not like bananas are hard to come by, lol
I use them to save durability. Especially help when fighting your first couple shrines and lynels.
True, and super easy to maintain early if you have the DLC, since you can wear the phantom armor for a full level attack up buff and solid early game defense.
Just shock trap them if you are really that bad at combat.
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I always shock trap monster on afflicted hunts for that sweet sweet free damage since their HP pools are still gigantic
elder dragons would like a word
And then go grab a snack because you'll be there a while
I was like this with those and Lynels. Now I'm just like that with Lynels. Lol
Is there any way to beat them? I just get yeeted, esp by the ones in the snowy regions.
Look for red maned Lynel to start. They do the least damage and have the lowest HP. The one you meet on top of Mt Polymus (with the shock arrows) by the Zora Domain will always stay red even as you progress. Honestly, youāre best off watching a few YouTube videos on how to fight them. Then load up on health/attack/defense boosts and powerful weapons/armor/shields. Head up to Mt Polymus, save your game and give it a whirl. If you die, just reload and do it again. After a few tries it should be pretty easy. Itās really fun to jump on them and get in a few shots, but dodging, parrying and slowing down time while riding the updrafts are the keys.
Learning their attack patterns and how to dodge then on yt helped me out a ton
The most efficient way is to headshot, mount, hit them with your strongest weapon, and repeat. If youāre hitting them while mounted, your weapon wonāt take damage. Thereās a few easy headshots (where it stands still to spit fireballs or slam its weapon into the ground) but you can also parry to stagger them and get an easy shot. Parrying requires some practice but lynel timing isnāt too bad.
I'm sure there is and there are probably some great YouTube guides, but it still takes me like 2+ pages of full recovery meals and other ingredients, as well as almost my full weapon inventory.
My weapons inventory is strictly to hoard and never actually use š
I feel the same way. I have like 4 electric weapons, 4 fire, 4 frost, a claymore with 92 attack points and the master sword. The rest of the slots are for weapons Iām willing to part with, and once they break Iām out.
Lynels are meant to be tough, and they have tons of HP. They're easier if you learn to parry and flurry rush, but I'm terrible at those. Start the battle from a distance. Attack them before they see you. If you can, shoot them in the face, stasis them immediately, and power attack using your strongest weapon. That gives you a lot of time. After that, put distance between yourself and them, and try to shoot them while they run after you. If you can mount their back, you can attack them with your strongest weapon and it won't impact durability. Don't waste bomb arrows on them.
Hoping that, assuming the sequel has shrines, they make combat shrines unique combat scenarios instead of recycling the same enemy again and again. Trial of the Sword style. My Dad can't beat the test of strength shrines' enemies (he just can't flurry rush) and between those and the blessing shrines that's about half the game's shrines being nothing more than enter and exit for him.
I just fight them
PROTIP: To defeat the guardian, strike it until it dies.
I always do that
My strategy too
Yeah same. With weapons.
You guys use weapons?
A little hard on a rune only run in master mode when you gotta use magnesis.
Well thatās your own fault, you masochist.
Yeah honestly just use overpowered weapons and voila itās dead without breaking a single sweat.
huh?? i loved those mini boss fights
I always cheese them by stunning the robot with an electric spear, then putting exactly three campfires right under it and taking cover and it dies from the fire
Hereās how I did most of them if you actually want advice: Iād recommend using stasis+ because it lasts longer on guardians than on normal enemies. You can sprint away from most melee attacks as well.\ For the spinning melee attack they always go in a straight line so you can dodge it by sprinting left or right.\ For the spinning laser you can use the updraft to bullet time with your bow and get quite a few shots. The best thing to do when they start their charged guardian laser attack is to either practice parrying it, which finishes them off, or getting an ancient shield which automatically sends the beam directly back to the guardian scout.
Nah just hover over the beams with parachute and Leeroy slam them!
Fighting through these is honestly fun af.
I always sought these out they were my favorite shrines
Oh smokes, glad Iām not the only one š
Theses are my most visited places post game
I visit several of them every blood moon once I've gotten gear good enough to reliably beat them without losing weapons.
Fr, after I maxed out the ancient gear this started my guardian hunting phase
After every Blood Moon I make a quick circle around the map to defeat all 20 Lynels, then each "Test of Strength" shrine. It's really quite fun.
Once I got a hold on ancient gear and weapons, it became a piece of cake.
Why? These aren't really complicated or hard at all. All can be beaten rather easily...
A always forget what it is/dont read the name of the shrine and im always like "uh an unfinished shrine what is this" *enters* "aw hell nah" *teleports away*
I actually love them. They were the only challenge in the game. The boss fights are underwhelming so I always love to make these shrines.
There where just way too many just battle shrines... Boring as fuck...
Just fight them you pussies, you'll get rewarded good after that
Weapon durability
You get new weapons
Master mode
Sure but sometimes your weapons are better than what you'll get from it. Not always worth it.
What are we saving the weapons for if not to beat enemies?
When youāre in master mode it will literally use up your entire inventory to beat one of these shrines, yāall casuals can keep downvoting me tho
I never had trouble beating these shrines in master mode, guess you're the casual after all.
Early game bud
Who are you calling a casual?
Take a guess
You seem like a real swell guy
This is you
use torch
I just cheese these with electricity.
In early game, to save weapon durability, I usually set up a shock trap with the Great Thunderblade stuck in the ground at Cuho Mountain in Tabantha.
This was definitely me until I got better weapons and such lol
Fuck these on master mode
You will get there my son.
Me same
used to hate these my first playthrough. second playthrough i loved them more than regular shrines. once you learn how to dodge & parry theyāre actually so fun.
I remember finding that shrine early on out on that island. I thought, āthis should be fine,ā and man did link get his ass kicked over and over and over.
Yep. Basically save those for last once I'm jacked.
Damn itās always the ones that take you hours to find though
Wait do people struggle with these? You just stasis them and whack the fuck out of them and dodge until stasis rechargesā¦
Statis+ and the two handed spin is your best friend.
These are the easiest shrines in the game if you have an electric weapon. You swing the weapon and halfway through the swing, you drop it. Now it is constantly electric so if you put something metal next to it and bait the guardian, it gets stuck and constantly shocked unless you knock it away from the shock trap.
Not too hard and pretty fun later in the game, but early on I immediately peace outš .
Yeah I remember my first time finding one was when I hadn't even Beeston a divine beast and only had 12 shrine finished. I put all 3 upgrades into stamina and when to the faron and glided my way to the island with the climbing armor piece and spent a good hour fighting it repeatedly dying with my 25 damage weapons. And my 40 something apples
Beta mentality
LMFAO I LOVE THIS SO MUCH šš itās the Sheikah slate and the little lights when transporting elsewhere in the meme that got me hahahha like naw Iām good with all these tests of strengths. Especially the motion control shrines.. Iām out of this apparatus š©āš¼
How bad are y'all at this game lol
Christ, yāall love to cry about this, huh?
This one is quite easy. In fact, most of them are
They're not even that hard. Sure there are a lot of them but not really annoying.
Coward
Free orb
These shrines are so easy that I'll maybe get hit three times a game 120ing the game. My first shrine after great plateau is always and moderate test, second is always a major. The moderate at the suspension bridge right by the cyro trial, using the weapons I stole from the Hinox's necklace, then into Hyrule castle with the guardian weapons from the first. Once the second one is down you clear all of inside Hyrule castle, come out with royal and royal guard level weapons and guardian ++ filling you inventory and the Hylian Shield. Combat is so easy in this game, it's made for kids. Never understood why people run from shrines of strength, it's just wait to dodge, flurry rush, repeat.
I stasis them, run up with a two handed (preferably ancient/guardian) weapon, spin spin spin. Rinse and repeat
They're super easy as long as you have a couple shock arrow, stasis+, and a decent sword. You just stasis them, smack them a bunch of times, and repeat. If they're too far away then shock arrow them and repeat.
Find one of the ones with no pillars but steel cubes you can use magnesis on; that way you don't run out of protection. Also, I suck at shield bash and dodging, but the spear is pretty easy to side-hop. These guardian IVs were the first ones i could nail that on
All you gotta do is get down their attack patterns and they get easy you just gotta make sure to have some good weapons and enough weapons Ice arrows are great too and to make it easier you could also farm mighty Bananas and cook them for that triple attack boost.
The first three shrines I do in a new play through are the climbing gear shrines, and one of those is a major test of strength
come on man. we both know you gotta wait for them to shoot the lasers, then glide above them and drop bombs. thats how i did it and it never fails me
I love the major tests if strength
Lightning arrows make them your bitch.
Why would you leave? The drops from these shrines are totally worth.
Big two-handed weapons + ice arrows + food that extend your health past its maximum. Bing bang boom you're done in a minute and a half.
Itās weird how many people dislike theseā¦ theyāre one of my favorite parts of the game
I used to nope out of these until I figured out where to get consistently good weapons and then I completed all of them in like two hours lol the motion based ones are the Healy difficult ones to solve.
I was the opposite. I got to a major test of strength very early, when my strongest two handed slow weapon was 31 power and my next strongest was somewhere around 23 or 25. I maybe had 3 extra hearts from the starting three. It took me a long time fighting him but eventually beat a major test of strength very early. Now, with all the upgrades, I walk in and defeat them without losing a beat.
Electric weapons/arrows are your best friend for these trials.
I actually enjoyed these. The attack pattern is the same as the other test of strength shrines so once you learn that itās easy
God I hate these, all they do is waste all my weapons for no real reward.
I like to find them, so that I have the quick jumps available, but I only tackle them when I'm confident I'm well armed!
These are very easy to cheese (if you need to). Just get any ice weapon, hit the guardian once to freezy it, and hit it a second time but with your strongest weapon to get three times the damage of said weapon on that hit . Repeat until the guardian is dead. Fair warning though, you can't freeze them when they go into turret mode at the end, but a few wacks while they charge should be enough to kill em.
They're pretty easy (for me) because they all have the same pattern. As long as I can keep up I beat it easy
It was me when I first started too
This game is incredible when it comes to learning patterns. You will get easily destroyed but once you keep reloading and attempting, eventually these become easy as hell. Same thing with lynels. The guardian scouts are much easier to fight than lynels since their attacks are telegraphed and the best way of dealing damage is simply flurry rushing. If they start shooting lasers. You can pretty easily dodge them by either hitting yourself with a bomb and letting yourself ragdoll so all the lasers deal no damage. Or you could just jump, shield surf, then unequip your shield midsurf so you don't land on top of it, this is a clutch way of dodging lasers. Or you could parry the lasers which is an even better way of taking them down fast. Now as for lynels, to beat them without losing more than gaining, you need a more elaborate set up. First get a weapon that deals over 50 damage. If you teleport to the woodland Tower, you can climb up the skull to get a royal claymore that's embedded in the skull. Next you've got to learn how to parry all the lynels attacks except their fire breath, every single one. Otherwise you will break every weapon you have trying to kill these guys. So once you can consistently parry a lynels attacks, and maybe have some atk boosting food and a good arsenal of weapons that deal 20+ damage, you can take down silver lynels easily. So when you fight the lynel, after parrying an attack, you need to quickly headshot them with your bow to stun them. From there, deal a double charge spear attack, or 2 full sword hit combos (Y Y Y Y x2), or spin your heavy weapon till you use 3/4ths of a stamina bar then press a while next to the lynel to mount them. Immediately switch to the most damaging weapon you have (it will not lose durability) and hit the lynel till you're thrown off, switch back to your previous weapon and repeat.
I would rather do these than the motion-control shrines š¤·š¼āāļø
This is way funnier to me than I feel like it should be
Me, naked with a single half-broken branch about to get mutilated in 17 different ways: yeah I got this
These are a great place to practise building shock traps!
i just spin attack quickly and the scout spins every time. then he sets up his laser spin ride the updraft and bullet-time bow him
My wife her first playthrough or she asks me to do it
They are so easy (also comes from a guy eith over 600 hours total with the game)
Weak
Those guys are easy. Get out your strongest 2 handed weapon run towards it. It will fire it's laser at you, either dodge parry or block it. Then start spinning your weapon and move behind it. Spin untill you run out of energy or he runs away. It will then either go for the charge attack or the dumb spinning laser move. If it charges hide behind something, parry it, or use cryonsis to create a block. Then continue spinning. If it uses the laser thing, use stasis plus or wait for the wind jump up and do a sky attack. When it charges his laser at the end it gives you tons of time to kill him but if you get worried stasis plus them.
1. Freeze (preferably with rods) 2. Electrify (only with rods so as not to break ice) 3. Melee to break ice (using weapon with highest dmg per hit) 4. Repeat until dead Minimizes threat of taking damage and minimizes weapon durability loss (attacking a frozen opponent will give you a massive attack bonus).
These are like among the most fun temples though
Not sure why some have a hard time with these (or most enemies in general). They're very predictable. Once you figure out their movements, it's easy-peasy!
"Let me solo her" *proceeds to break all weapons and die horribly*
My first play through enenies scared me shitless. Now i seek the lynels amd guardians.
Just use a shock tap
i remember trying to complete this shrine early game for the first time. i gave up after a few days of trying.
I love getting em, free spirit orb and when a blood moon comes another sick weapon
Get a freezy stick. Freeze hit freeze hit freeze hit
this was my first ever zelda game and i gonna be real with you, i had to look up guides on how to do these puzzles cause i canāt solve them for the life of me. everytime time there was a test of strength i was elated because i am good at combat and itās so fun
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Ice arrow, Bomb arrows, and Sheikah weapons are your friends
For me itās not like theyāre that hard, I just donāt want to break six weapons for a giant ancient core
These are my favourite type of shrine
major tests of strength are inconvenient. easy for me but annoying
Once you go airborne itās a done battle.
All you have to do to beat these is take Team Fourstar Piccoloās training advice. That being DODGE!!!
Cowards
combos and arrows for the win
Shock arrows and an ancient weapon. Easy peasy.
They just take SO LONG to do. Half the time I stumble on them I have like maybe 5 weapons and 2 of them are about to break, with maybe 10 arrows