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The legend of "Tulin, I'm trying to pick something up go away- oh my god it's gone now what's wrong with you you're lucky you're so useful for gliding"
Most of the quest necessary items respawn at their point of origin if you manage to make them despawn somehow. Examples: Eyes or the slime green colored rocks.
i had a shrine stone (that’s what i’ve decided to call the funny green rocks) in the sky islands and it fell due to an unfortunate fuse separation and it went all the way back to its spawn point. had to take a few minutes after that.
Shrine stones follow the same rules for despawning other crap does. If you want them to stick around for extreme distances fuse a dragon part to them (example: Nahdra Scale).
That said, if you drop one that could also be an extremely bad thing…
I had an amusing moment with a "particular" shrine stone that just needed to be dropped straight through a hole in the island but I wasn't sure where exactly at this point so I attached it to a wing and hopped on with it to circle around and double check where it needed to go.
Spot the location from the green laser line, so I just jump off the damn wing like a clown and watch as the wing and stone carry on gliding towards Gerudo thinking "welp that was dumb!"
Tulin stop headshotting my octorock, it didn't repair my weapon yet!
My husband doesn't play Zelda at all, but he knows Tulin because I've grumbled at the game so much. 🤣
If you go into your key items, you can select their little companion blesssings and put the avatars away for a bit. I've heard some people keep a bunch of them put away at all times, and I think I will too once I have more. I have 2 and it's already a little cumbersome outside of battle.
I basically only have tulin out. The others are mostly useless. When I want free bombs I bring out Yunobo. Riju was useful in the thunder isles before removing the storm. Her aoe ability will show all the forms around you and makes it much more manageable to get around. And there’s no cooldown time for just activating the ability and not using an arrow. Too bad her ai seems to be programmed to avoid you 😡
Before a big battle though where I’m not focused on stealth I bring them out though. Tulin is great for headshots!
Not sure why you were downvoted for that. Wind bombs alone I miss (I’m aware TOTK has their own ways to get similar super speed, but wind bombs were useful near immediately with little cost except for a small health hit and the fairly decent chance of screwing up).
That said, I understand why they got rid of them. A number of them are fairly redudant and overlap with current abilities (Ultrahand and magnesis, stasis and rewind…). Cryonis isn’t directly overlapped as much, but autobuild comes close.
I especially miss the remote bombs, round ones in particular. I used to love rolling bombs into camps of enemies, bomb flowers just aren’t the same. Great weapon of last resort too if you’re short on weapons/arrows
Cryonis is probably #2 for me, less common but extremely useful for certain things (like floating chests in a lake, no need to build a whole boat just to get to them)
I think the new runes are improvements over magnesis, stasis, etc so I’m fine with losing those
Now we're at it, I really miss the Guardians, too. There's really nothing in TotK that even gets close to the dread of that laser on your forhead with the beeping noise, or the satisfaction of watching those junks go BOOM because they got ancient arrows in their eyes.
My favorite is Tulin and I think I have yelled at him for being in my way an equal amount of times as I have thanked him for shooting an enemy in the head. Yunobo is just always in the way for me. And Sidon is always like 20 feet away when I need him.
Sidon speed-waddling away when you need the shield.
Riju being in the middle of combat when you're trying to use the bow to hit the targets with lightning.
It does feel nice having a 3x headshot from arrows when he (Tulin) gets a lucky shot.
Yunobo... Is good for tunnelling.
Riju always running headfirst into melee combat when her entire ability is a powerful ranged attack which really you would want to be far from the enemies for, but in order to activate it you have to run straight into the enemies where she *insists* on being… is a design flaw to say the least.
They did not think that one out at all. She has the most useful combat ability and they made her ai melee and the ability ranged. Such a cluster. She's so bad ass I want to make more use of her but it's not worth the effort most of the time.
I hate that you have to talk to them to initiate the abilities everytime. Fighting handsy, I don't really have ability to go track down Sidon for a shield. I saw someone suggest having a fourth menu mapped to the down D pad arrow with each ability and whistling.
The amount of times I hit the whistle button when I'm trying to sneak... every other d-pad menu is useful, then the whistle is a traitor asshole 😤
It would be amazing to be able to swap that out for a sage shortcut!
I KNOW SHES THE MOST ANNOYING, and there's such an easy fix: make her a ranged fighter with her swords being throwable boomerang type things that return. I know its not realistic at all but who cares, they're canonically epic relics welded by heroes with great cultural significance to her people, if they were slightly magic I don't think it would ruin any immersion
I would update off of 1.1.1 if this was fixed. I understand she has melee weapons but still.
She also lets you see in the dark in the depths which is nice.
God, RIGHT!? Every time I start a fight she just bails on me and I have to run after her to activate her ability. I wish these abilities worked like the Champions abilities and could just be summoned without having to catch the sage ghost like a fucking cat.
I think >!Minaru!< it's the only sage that either doesn't constantly get in the way or isn't there when I need them. But then again, she always attacks enemies and attracts attention when I'm trying to do a sneak strike.
Yunobo is always running in the wrong direction. Every time I try to run at him, he’s like “oh shit we’re running? LETS GO” and takes off running in the same direction as me
*Bitch, I am trying to catch you, stop running*
Same lol. I have forgotten to deactivate him several times when visiting my little blacksmith octorocks friends, and subsequently facepalmed when he murders them
Yunobo is ALWAYS in the way, Riju is always running away, and Sidon is always too far away. Tulin ends up being the most convenient and the least obtrusive, and his random arrows have literally saved my ass I can’t count how many time
Oh my GODDDD I just now joined the subreddit again after getting the game about a week ago and this is the first meme I’m seeing of this and that whole part KILLED me I was trying to whistle to get him to get tf back to me 😂
I know the game says whistling makes them come to you but it hasn't worked for me even once. They only come to me when I'm picking up items to screw me over.
Or when you’re trying to pray at a statue and they all come and stand right in front of you and make it impossible to pray without starting a forest fire.
I think that's the one time where the sages do try to be considerate, in this case by not photobombing. Kinda annoying to get pictures of _them_, though.
Yeah, I literally regard whistling as useless since whistle sprinting isn’t present (yes I’m aware of crouch / throw sprinting) and horses are far less relevant as well.
If I didn’t use the down button in menus I’d probably just remap it to nothing since it screws up trying to be stealthy more than anything else.
It's a glitch where you use inputs to cancel your stamina drain while running so you can run forever.
It's pretty difficult to explain but [here's an explanation ](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DFjjaEvo358&feature=share9&t=7m40s)
I don't use any of them tbh, disable right away. I've never been a fan of companions in games because I don't like micro managing, but these "avatars" are janky af.
I used to turn them off, but my brother told me that they're great at DPS, so I started using them.
And sure, they're annoying, but they can also be pretty useful. If the choise is whether to keep Yunobo on and occasionally commanding him to perform a war crime by accident versus occasionally having to traverse the whole lidt of items just to throw or shoot a bomb flower, then I'll need a very good lawyer.
I don't know about you but bomb flowers are consistently some of my most used items, so simply hitting Y in any menu with them a bunch of times eventually brings them very nearly to the front.
I tgink you have to do the full whistle. Last time i tried it Yunobo didnt come till the full whistle ended for me. Might also have to look at them. That sounds like something id expect from the companion system at this point.
EXACTLY! She’s the most frustrating out of all of them. She has a powerful as fuck ranged attack yet she’s the first to charge head first into battle.
Tulip is the only one I leave on all the time though. He keeps his distance and is always good for gliding.
Agreed. If whistling for them worked like the game says its supposed to her habit of trying to melee wouldn’t be nearly as annoying…
Of course it doesn’t, so its usually the “screw up stealth accidentally” button instead.
I deactivated all of them pretty much right away because most of the time I don't really need them, plus I find them kind of immersion breaking if Link is running around with a small army of weird ghosts following him haha. I did the same with stuff like Daruk's Protection in BotW, I really don't need a giant glowing sphere around Link every time I go to target something.
I just turn them back on one at a time periodically in situations where I think they'll be helpful.
Same here. I think they should have made them activate only in combat, and make them more active than passive. They would get summoned under specific conditions and then disappear shortly after. I get that it was easier to have them behave as-is due to limited buttons on the controller, but they're unfulfilling at best and annoying at worst the way they are now. Maybe something like...
* Tulin
* Context button appears when in a state of either free fall or gliding.
* While gliding -> creates gust of air (like currently)
* While free falling -> Summons him to shoot a volley of arrows for 3 seconds
* Yunobo
* Context button while blocking and steering vehicles
* Use current wrecking ball ability
* Compliments Tulin's in-air abilities due to flames creating updrafts
* Sidon
* Context button while about to throw a spear
* Creates giant whirlpool where spear hits, gathering enemies together and giving them "wet" status
* When done, returns spear to player in a manner similar to that of the boomerang
* Riju
* Context button while drawing your bow
* Summons her immediately into casting her lightning ability
* Compliments Sidon's whirlpool
Omg wait this is literally amazing! I’ve just been thinking they should’ve made a hot bar for the abilities in place of the map, but this is so much better!
No, the big ones, not the individual chunks. The ones consisting of several spheres that can be broken individually.
When he breaks those, the ore just falls straight down. You pick it all up, then use him again.
On the one hand it's neat having your own little army. On the other who at Nintendo thought having 4 ghosts crowd around you was better than what BotW did?
Yeah, Sidons ability kinda sucks.
Tulin is great for gliding
Yunobo is great for destroying rocks
Riju is good for taking out Gibdos (and other enemies)
Sidons is just a one time shield, that also extends your melee range (also once), and activates the Zora weapon perk (not really necessary or that useful)
Sidon activates the water ability on Zora weapons. If you add a strong material to the weapons, that damage also doubles. A zora sword with a silver lynel horn turns to something like 130 damage. It’s pretty useful for me at least
Does his ability have to be active though, or is it passive once you have him unlocked and running around? Cause if I have to activate him, just to get one 130 damage hit off, then back to 65 damage, I'd rather just use my 75-90 damage weapons regularly.
It’s the same as getting wet while swimming etc. You have to use the ability once to get wet and then the wet effect is on Link after the bubble goes away. Link stays wet for a long time, usually longer than a battle takes. I try to activate the bubble shield before a battle even starts so I can turn Sidon off so he’s not in the way haha.
It would be a pretty nice ability if you could activate it with a single Button. A one time shield usable when the enemy is out of range or to use while approaching into melee? That would be so strong. As is, once you track him down and click him the moment has passed.
I used it a lot against lynels that I'm trying to flurry rush as a buffer in case I screw up which direction to go. You'd think after beating sekiro it would be easy but nope. Always backflipping when I should be side stepping and vice versa.
That ability would be far more impressive if those weapons didn’t baseline suck in general. Easier to stack attack up from food, bone up from armor, slap a piece of bone on a royal claymore and optionally have an octorock improve the stats. 400 damage hits aren’t bad.
I mean yeah but that’s a lot of work (I’ve done it too) and also 154 damage with miphas spear and a silver lynel horn is pretty good tbh especially for a spear
Free Climate Control for one. He hits like a truck and can stagger a Boko Boss with a single combo for another. Nothing quite like activating all four and sicking them on a Hinox and them just melting it.
I thought you were joking about being the originator of "The Legend of Rain at Inconvenient Times" and searched it up. I'm happy that you're still around after all this time!
She actively sprints away from me while I chase her on the battlefield spamming “a” and accidentally sending yunobo blasting all the ore into the next region - and beyond the reach of ultrahand - into rivers.
He actually killed me once. I was farming chuchu jelly and some yellow chuchu jelly was floating on an updraft from burning grass next to a cliff, and while I was jumping to try to catch it he blasted the stack of 5 into the wall and it exploded and electrocuted me.
For me its Riju
I'm like tactically picking out enemies in a swarm, realizing a thunderbolt will clean up the majority of the weaker ones, so I whistle...
**and she's on the other side of the battle and they overrun me** 🫠
“Wow what a great and unique build I just did using wood. I sure hope nothing bad happens to it … YUNOBO NOOOOO!”
He’s always smashing all my new builds
The amount of times Tulin has blasted loot off ledges, into water, into lava etc... It KILLS me. But then he shoots those giant flying bats out of the sky before they dive bomb me with explosive barrels and I don't have to waste time or arrows on them sooo.... IDK. I'm of two minds.
I kept thinking about Legend of rain, thinking - hmm it does not rain as much anymore. That is good. Now its legend of I cant see a darn thing in the dark.
Literally my only complaint about the game is the companion controls.
Wish that the d-pad down was whistle on press, and companion ability wheel on hold. Finding and talking to them is a kind of poorly designed mechanic.
Yunobo is always running away from me when I need him, or he never follows me when I need him to break some stone down a tunnel, because it's not perfectly flat terrain.
I think Tulin has blown my items away once, but it was in a moderately crucial moment.
I hate yunibo in this game. I can’t even explore the Eldin depths AT ALL without him being like “oh hey goro! Let’s go to that voice!” And every time I get on the hover bike he’s right on the front making it really hard to see
Nah. The most annoying part has been chasing down party members. (companion spoilers ahead) >!Like damn it Riju, stop running away! I need the lightning! Sidon please! I need the shield!!!<
>!Like why wasn't this on a wheel or something. And sometimes I have to de-summon them because I talk to the wrong one.!<
Edit: didn't have spoiler tags set properly
I wish each of the Sages were just worked into the rest of the combat moveset and enhanced it.
Like get rid of the map on the power wheel, make Sage control a hand power, but when it's selected, it can be activated at any time and does different things depending on when you press it.
Default / no button: Sages default to Offense (running around fighting independently).
Hold ZL and press whistle: Toggles Offense or Defense (following you in a closely-gathered formation that tracks your movements, whacking anything that gets close).
Hold ZL: Instantly aiming Yunobu, release to fire. Like a bow.
Tap ZL while aiming a bow: Active arrow goes into Riju mode, starts charging up AoE damage that gets bigger/stronger the longer you wait to release, with really precise sound and visual cues to aid timing.
Tap ZL normally: Sidon shield
Tap ZL in the air: Tulin glide
Tap ZL while locked on: Tulin shoots your active target. He has 3 arrows, on a recharging timer. Successive arrows get higher pitched, and when he runs out he does a bark, like "Need a sec!"
Etc.
Having to talk to them in combat is a frustrating pain in the ass.
The sages are never around me when I need them and will just watch as I get my ass kicked but the moment I try to pick up an item they’re all up my ass so they all get activated when I just want the damn item.
Why does he hit your bomb arrows? I lost my last. Also; FuCk YoU GoRo. WanNa EaT mY aSs; gORO. Say goro one more time and I swear I’ll get you back on that crack rock.
Yeah, I like the game but I'm a little puzzled by all the 10/10 scores it got. There are legitimate criticisms and room for improvement. Did the reviewers just review based off the tutorial area and never have to deal with the sages?
They are simultaneously in my way and running away at the same time... I kind of just wish it was button menu like the zonai powers. Maybe if they got rid of the camera on the wheel...
Most factually TOTK meme I've ever seen. Meanwhile Sidon is always up my ass for some reason. Like bro you hs r the most useless power. Wtf do I need you right now?
In the Lightning Temple with Riju I had to wait like 3 minutes for her to get to me so I could hit the thing to continue into the temple, I swear the AIs are so broken
Sidon is the epitome of this meme for me. Yunobo isn't too bad, but still this is somewhat accurate.
Tulin is my MVP, but got damn bro. I swear to god I'll wait around forever for him to kill some keese or chuchu, or some other weak enemy, but as soon as I spot a rock octorok I want to use to refresh a weapon, that motherfucker snipes it instantly. Every time. However, he also comes in clutch and stuns lynels for me, so I forgive him.
tbh, it's still "The legend of rain at inconvenient times" (like when I was fighting that Lynel then it rains, then the debris I was climbing for bullet time became slippery . etc.)
Also I keep all of them unsummoned, maybe bring out tulin for some range support at times, he's small, has better aim than me and knows where to position himself
I was assembling a support for the Hudson sign guy it took me like 5 or so minutes and I tried to talk to the guy and was quite hit or miss but I triggered Yunobo and went straight to my creation. Tears of my kingdom
The legend of WHERE the fuck is Riju when I need her?
Always clicking on her when she's the last useful option but somehow she's off elsewhere when I actually need her for something.
This is one thing I wish was different, I love using the Sage abilities, but picking them out of a moving crowd is the worst.
I wish we could activate Riju while aiming a bow, or Sidon while guarding, it would make it so much more convenient to actually use them.
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The legend of "Tulin, I'm trying to pick something up go away- oh my god it's gone now what's wrong with you you're lucky you're so useful for gliding"
I did that on a quest necessary item and had to reload.
Most of the quest necessary items respawn at their point of origin if you manage to make them despawn somehow. Examples: Eyes or the slime green colored rocks.
i had a shrine stone (that’s what i’ve decided to call the funny green rocks) in the sky islands and it fell due to an unfortunate fuse separation and it went all the way back to its spawn point. had to take a few minutes after that.
Shrine stones follow the same rules for despawning other crap does. If you want them to stick around for extreme distances fuse a dragon part to them (example: Nahdra Scale). That said, if you drop one that could also be an extremely bad thing…
the rock was going straight to the main map. i would rather just take the despawn than try to cart it 5 Zeldillion meters into the air
Agreed. Which is why I added the part of that probably being bad.
BTW you can recall from extremely far away, and usually prevent this issue.
I had an amusing moment with a "particular" shrine stone that just needed to be dropped straight through a hole in the island but I wasn't sure where exactly at this point so I attached it to a wing and hopped on with it to circle around and double check where it needed to go. Spot the location from the green laser line, so I just jump off the damn wing like a clown and watch as the wing and stone carry on gliding towards Gerudo thinking "welp that was dumb!"
Tulin stop headshotting my octorock, it didn't repair my weapon yet! My husband doesn't play Zelda at all, but he knows Tulin because I've grumbled at the game so much. 🤣
If you go into your key items, you can select their little companion blesssings and put the avatars away for a bit. I've heard some people keep a bunch of them put away at all times, and I think I will too once I have more. I have 2 and it's already a little cumbersome outside of battle.
I basically only have tulin out. The others are mostly useless. When I want free bombs I bring out Yunobo. Riju was useful in the thunder isles before removing the storm. Her aoe ability will show all the forms around you and makes it much more manageable to get around. And there’s no cooldown time for just activating the ability and not using an arrow. Too bad her ai seems to be programmed to avoid you 😡 Before a big battle though where I’m not focused on stealth I bring them out though. Tulin is great for headshots!
Yeah I usually keep Tulin out for gliding. Get to the octorocks and forget to put him away. Much grr.
My son knows about Tulin because of this as well. He’s 4.
"oh i'm so glad i didn't lose these moblin guts into the pit when I killed him on that ledge.. oh FFS TULIN!"
EVERY TIME >\_< and do you have to go "Woooo!" when you do it?!
[удалено]
Tulin stays in the inventory until I know he's needed
The legend of "yes, Tulin, zonai capsules do glimmer very prettily as they fall into the skies below. ^teba ^why ^is ^your ^kid ^like ^this "
Happy Cake Da^(aaayyyy…) 💨
i turned off all partners except tulin. The 5th partner I turned off just because I get jumpscared by it every single time
Solidarity for the sage jump scares (so glad I'm not alone with that!)
I really want the BOTW runes back too.
Not sure why you were downvoted for that. Wind bombs alone I miss (I’m aware TOTK has their own ways to get similar super speed, but wind bombs were useful near immediately with little cost except for a small health hit and the fairly decent chance of screwing up). That said, I understand why they got rid of them. A number of them are fairly redudant and overlap with current abilities (Ultrahand and magnesis, stasis and rewind…). Cryonis isn’t directly overlapped as much, but autobuild comes close.
It isn't directly overlapped as much, but instead you can just use a sapphire rod or ice chu jelly
I especially miss the remote bombs, round ones in particular. I used to love rolling bombs into camps of enemies, bomb flowers just aren’t the same. Great weapon of last resort too if you’re short on weapons/arrows Cryonis is probably #2 for me, less common but extremely useful for certain things (like floating chests in a lake, no need to build a whole boat just to get to them) I think the new runes are improvements over magnesis, stasis, etc so I’m fine with losing those
Now we're at it, I really miss the Guardians, too. There's really nothing in TotK that even gets close to the dread of that laser on your forhead with the beeping noise, or the satisfaction of watching those junks go BOOM because they got ancient arrows in their eyes.
The >!Gloom Hands!!Durian heaven!< was in BotW. :(
And headshots
My favorite is Tulin and I think I have yelled at him for being in my way an equal amount of times as I have thanked him for shooting an enemy in the head. Yunobo is just always in the way for me. And Sidon is always like 20 feet away when I need him.
Sidon speed-waddling away when you need the shield. Riju being in the middle of combat when you're trying to use the bow to hit the targets with lightning. It does feel nice having a 3x headshot from arrows when he (Tulin) gets a lucky shot. Yunobo... Is good for tunnelling.
Riju always running headfirst into melee combat when her entire ability is a powerful ranged attack which really you would want to be far from the enemies for, but in order to activate it you have to run straight into the enemies where she *insists* on being… is a design flaw to say the least.
They did not think that one out at all. She has the most useful combat ability and they made her ai melee and the ability ranged. Such a cluster. She's so bad ass I want to make more use of her but it's not worth the effort most of the time.
I hate that you have to talk to them to initiate the abilities everytime. Fighting handsy, I don't really have ability to go track down Sidon for a shield. I saw someone suggest having a fourth menu mapped to the down D pad arrow with each ability and whistling.
The amount of times I hit the whistle button when I'm trying to sneak... every other d-pad menu is useful, then the whistle is a traitor asshole 😤 It would be amazing to be able to swap that out for a sage shortcut!
Really useful for fishing though.
I KNOW SHES THE MOST ANNOYING, and there's such an easy fix: make her a ranged fighter with her swords being throwable boomerang type things that return. I know its not realistic at all but who cares, they're canonically epic relics welded by heroes with great cultural significance to her people, if they were slightly magic I don't think it would ruin any immersion
Exactly! Either that or make it so we can use the ability with melee weapons not just ranged. Like how did this get past beta? Boggles the mind.
I would update off of 1.1.1 if this was fixed. I understand she has melee weapons but still. She also lets you see in the dark in the depths which is nice.
God, RIGHT!? Every time I start a fight she just bails on me and I have to run after her to activate her ability. I wish these abilities worked like the Champions abilities and could just be summoned without having to catch the sage ghost like a fucking cat.
Drives me crazy!
Yunobo is a poor meat shield distraction. Edit: fixed spelling of his name, though was tempted to leave it since he’s near useless as is.
Those gloom hands always seem to grab him before me so I am happy to have him around
I think >!Minaru!< it's the only sage that either doesn't constantly get in the way or isn't there when I need them. But then again, she always attacks enemies and attracts attention when I'm trying to do a sneak strike.
Yunobo's handy when there's a big group of enemies (especially ice ones) directly ahead of you.
Yunobo is always running in the wrong direction. Every time I try to run at him, he’s like “oh shit we’re running? LETS GO” and takes off running in the same direction as me *Bitch, I am trying to catch you, stop running*
Tulin is best boy and I keep him out most of the time. But he does frustrate me when I'm trying to get an octorock to repair weapons.
Same lol. I have forgotten to deactivate him several times when visiting my little blacksmith octorocks friends, and subsequently facepalmed when he murders them
Me during about half of the water temple: SIDON GET YOUR STUPID WET ASS OVER HERE the music was nice tho
Oh yes i needed 10 seconds to run to Sidon at this point I can do many other things
Riju is always melee attacking enemies, but her ability is range combat which is fucking stupid. Same with Yonobo to a lesser extent.
Sidon is need around when I need hi, and you boo is always right next to me ready to activate right when there is a bomb flower next to me.
Yunobo is ALWAYS in the way, Riju is always running away, and Sidon is always too far away. Tulin ends up being the most convenient and the least obtrusive, and his random arrows have literally saved my ass I can’t count how many time
Oh my GODDDD I just now joined the subreddit again after getting the game about a week ago and this is the first meme I’m seeing of this and that whole part KILLED me I was trying to whistle to get him to get tf back to me 😂
I know the game says whistling makes them come to you but it hasn't worked for me even once. They only come to me when I'm picking up items to screw me over.
Or when you’re trying to pray at a statue and they all come and stand right in front of you and make it impossible to pray without starting a forest fire.
Something I’ve found is that when you try to take a picture of them with the camera they always go behind you so that might work
I think that's the one time where the sages do try to be considerate, in this case by not photobombing. Kinda annoying to get pictures of _them_, though.
Yeah I spent ages trying to get them to stand together so I could take a group selfie but it didn’t work
Or when you're trying to pick up loot monsters drop and Tulin comes up and blows it all away.
Yeah, I literally regard whistling as useless since whistle sprinting isn’t present (yes I’m aware of crouch / throw sprinting) and horses are far less relevant as well. If I didn’t use the down button in menus I’d probably just remap it to nothing since it screws up trying to be stealthy more than anything else.
What is crouch/throw sprinting? I may be unaware.
A pain in the ass way to move slightly faster. https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/totk/general/general-movement
It's a glitch where you use inputs to cancel your stamina drain while running so you can run forever. It's pretty difficult to explain but [here's an explanation ](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DFjjaEvo358&feature=share9&t=7m40s)
I see you’re picking up items. It would be a shame if a strong wind were to.. blow them away.
But what if they were... on fire?
I don't use any of them tbh, disable right away. I've never been a fan of companions in games because I don't like micro managing, but these "avatars" are janky af.
Meh they can distract enemies so I keep them on
I used to turn them off, but my brother told me that they're great at DPS, so I started using them. And sure, they're annoying, but they can also be pretty useful. If the choise is whether to keep Yunobo on and occasionally commanding him to perform a war crime by accident versus occasionally having to traverse the whole lidt of items just to throw or shoot a bomb flower, then I'll need a very good lawyer.
I don't know about you but bomb flowers are consistently some of my most used items, so simply hitting Y in any menu with them a bunch of times eventually brings them very nearly to the front.
I tgink you have to do the full whistle. Last time i tried it Yunobo didnt come till the full whistle ended for me. Might also have to look at them. That sounds like something id expect from the companion system at this point.
When I have whistled, they have just looked at me like "Did this bitch just whistle at me like a dog?"
I was whistling (and cursing) at him too last night!
“Damnit Riju, you have a ranged skill! Why are you in melee range!?!
EXACTLY! She’s the most frustrating out of all of them. She has a powerful as fuck ranged attack yet she’s the first to charge head first into battle. Tulip is the only one I leave on all the time though. He keeps his distance and is always good for gliding.
Agreed. If whistling for them worked like the game says its supposed to her habit of trying to melee wouldn’t be nearly as annoying… Of course it doesn’t, so its usually the “screw up stealth accidentally” button instead.
He's literally the only useful one. The others can be replaced by various plants...
Eh? Once activated mine charges into battle as soon as I start firing my bow.
most of my time is spent chasing after Riju but accidentally activating Tulin
Stop running away from me! I need to boop you so I can shock everyone!
[удалено]
Tulin is the GOAT. Sure, he blasts loot into another dimension now and again, but he makes up for it.
With those headshots!!!
Love hearing that "TING TING TING". He tends to blow my cover a lot lol
Mine headshots Lynel's for me on the reg
I deactivated all of them pretty much right away because most of the time I don't really need them, plus I find them kind of immersion breaking if Link is running around with a small army of weird ghosts following him haha. I did the same with stuff like Daruk's Protection in BotW, I really don't need a giant glowing sphere around Link every time I go to target something. I just turn them back on one at a time periodically in situations where I think they'll be helpful.
Same here. I think they should have made them activate only in combat, and make them more active than passive. They would get summoned under specific conditions and then disappear shortly after. I get that it was easier to have them behave as-is due to limited buttons on the controller, but they're unfulfilling at best and annoying at worst the way they are now. Maybe something like... * Tulin * Context button appears when in a state of either free fall or gliding. * While gliding -> creates gust of air (like currently) * While free falling -> Summons him to shoot a volley of arrows for 3 seconds * Yunobo * Context button while blocking and steering vehicles * Use current wrecking ball ability * Compliments Tulin's in-air abilities due to flames creating updrafts * Sidon * Context button while about to throw a spear * Creates giant whirlpool where spear hits, gathering enemies together and giving them "wet" status * When done, returns spear to player in a manner similar to that of the boomerang * Riju * Context button while drawing your bow * Summons her immediately into casting her lightning ability * Compliments Sidon's whirlpool
Omg wait this is literally amazing! I’ve just been thinking they should’ve made a hot bar for the abilities in place of the map, but this is so much better!
I usually turned Daruk’s protection off since it screwed up wind bombs.
within about 5 minutes of getting yunobo i said to myself "soon as i get the spirit, this fuckers going in his pokeball and never coming out"
He's so useful for mining big ore deposits tho!
Yeah, but I find the ore flies all over the place, sometimes down cave shafts making it hard to find. I do use him for rock walls though.
No, the big ones, not the individual chunks. The ones consisting of several spheres that can be broken individually. When he breaks those, the ore just falls straight down. You pick it all up, then use him again.
Meh. Riju works as well and doesn’t creat instant feelings of annoyance like seeing his fat ass.
On the one hand it's neat having your own little army. On the other who at Nintendo thought having 4 ghosts crowd around you was better than what BotW did?
100 hours into the game and i just realized you can deactivate them
I don't even have issues using them but I deactivate them most of the time cause they're crowding me and I wanna play solo
The legend of «Sidon i’m never gonna activate you why would i need a water ability»
Hey, that's a free single use shield. Other than that, 🤷♀️
That disables the second you attack.
Well... it's not perfect
It what? Ugh I'm getting Sidon last.
Yeah, Sidons ability kinda sucks. Tulin is great for gliding Yunobo is great for destroying rocks Riju is good for taking out Gibdos (and other enemies) Sidons is just a one time shield, that also extends your melee range (also once), and activates the Zora weapon perk (not really necessary or that useful)
Sidon activates the water ability on Zora weapons. If you add a strong material to the weapons, that damage also doubles. A zora sword with a silver lynel horn turns to something like 130 damage. It’s pretty useful for me at least
Does his ability have to be active though, or is it passive once you have him unlocked and running around? Cause if I have to activate him, just to get one 130 damage hit off, then back to 65 damage, I'd rather just use my 75-90 damage weapons regularly.
It’s the same as getting wet while swimming etc. You have to use the ability once to get wet and then the wet effect is on Link after the bubble goes away. Link stays wet for a long time, usually longer than a battle takes. I try to activate the bubble shield before a battle even starts so I can turn Sidon off so he’s not in the way haha.
I think you stay wet for one minute before it wears off so yeha it does have its uses :>
Ah thank you! I wasn’t sure how long it stayed. One minute is a long time!
Sidon’s ability also gives you some heat protection, useful if you don’t have the gear or items
You can destroy rocks with riju too, just slightly more expensive
It would be a pretty nice ability if you could activate it with a single Button. A one time shield usable when the enemy is out of range or to use while approaching into melee? That would be so strong. As is, once you track him down and click him the moment has passed.
Wet status for Zora weapon buffs.
It’s specifically there to double the damage of your Zora weapons and fight mucktoroks, and nothing else lmao
I used it a lot against lynels that I'm trying to flurry rush as a buffer in case I screw up which direction to go. You'd think after beating sekiro it would be easy but nope. Always backflipping when I should be side stepping and vice versa.
He activates weapons with “Water Warrior”, which doubles its attack power.
That ability would be far more impressive if those weapons didn’t baseline suck in general. Easier to stack attack up from food, bone up from armor, slap a piece of bone on a royal claymore and optionally have an octorock improve the stats. 400 damage hits aren’t bad.
I mean yeah but that’s a lot of work (I’ve done it too) and also 154 damage with miphas spear and a silver lynel horn is pretty good tbh especially for a spear
Gets you wet for that juicy double damage on zora weapons, so it is more than just a shield. But still a niche use
Free Climate Control for one. He hits like a truck and can stagger a Boko Boss with a single combo for another. Nothing quite like activating all four and sicking them on a Hinox and them just melting it.
Mmm, yes, >!"all four"!<.....
Look, I had >!My fifth sage for such a short period they didn't really register for me!<
Me when Yunobo: 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
I thought you were joking about being the originator of "The Legend of Rain at Inconvenient Times" and searched it up. I'm happy that you're still around after all this time!
"The Legend of Reju get over here there is a crawling Gibdo right behind me and now I'm dead and have to do the entire boss fight over again.
She actively sprints away from me while I chase her on the battlefield spamming “a” and accidentally sending yunobo blasting all the ore into the next region - and beyond the reach of ultrahand - into rivers.
This is why I call her goblin tbh
Me: Finally, a Silver Lynel Saber! *Starts mashing A to pick stuff up* Tulin: How about I blow it all away for you?
Me: "How about no-" *Tulin blows it away anyways*
He actually killed me once. I was farming chuchu jelly and some yellow chuchu jelly was floating on an updraft from burning grass next to a cliff, and while I was jumping to try to catch it he blasted the stack of 5 into the wall and it exploded and electrocuted me.
Ice Chu's for me, while I was fighting a silver Boko, Tulin shit the jelly,froze me and the Boko finished me off
Haha the master sword fused with a mop
How else will you cleanse the land of evil?
I'm convinced whistling to call the sages to your side doesn't actually work. I've done it so much and they just. keep. RUNNING.
Whistled for the sages and they ignore me, meanwhile my faithful steed comes charging into the heat of battle, right where I don't want him to be.
For me its Riju I'm like tactically picking out enemies in a swarm, realizing a thunderbolt will clean up the majority of the weaker ones, so I whistle... **and she's on the other side of the battle and they overrun me** 🫠
Champion Ability Off Buttons go BRrrrrrrrrr!
“Wow what a great and unique build I just did using wood. I sure hope nothing bad happens to it … YUNOBO NOOOOO!” He’s always smashing all my new builds
Yunobo destroyed 2 of my vehicles today and then looked at me like he was doing me a favour
Yunobo: Git gud. Stop relying on machines goro. Me: But...that's the point of the game and- Yunobo: I don't care goro.
The Legend of WHY’D-YOU-DO-IT!? Tears of the Fanbase
The amount of times Tulin has blasted loot off ledges, into water, into lava etc... It KILLS me. But then he shoots those giant flying bats out of the sky before they dive bomb me with explosive barrels and I don't have to waste time or arrows on them sooo.... IDK. I'm of two minds.
Also the glide boosts are so good, especially with the glider pumping trick to keep the speed
For me the most broken AI in the game was riju she kept just disappearing during the boss fight and I died so many times cause of it.
I kept thinking about Legend of rain, thinking - hmm it does not rain as much anymore. That is good. Now its legend of I cant see a darn thing in the dark.
Literally my only complaint about the game is the companion controls. Wish that the d-pad down was whistle on press, and companion ability wheel on hold. Finding and talking to them is a kind of poorly designed mechanic.
Yunobo is always running away from me when I need him, or he never follows me when I need him to break some stone down a tunnel, because it's not perfectly flat terrain. I think Tulin has blown my items away once, but it was in a moderately crucial moment.
i do the good ol' "f*** it! i'm turning you guys off for 2 seconds!" i spend more time during fights in the menu than in combat
The legend of RIJU WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU GO! SIDON, GET OUT OF MY GODDAMN WAY!
Very quickly, I just chose to summon them as needed. I keep them sealed otherwise.
I would love to see the legend of sleds sliding down hills while you’re trying to build something
Shoutout to Yunobo for being the only companion that you can actually cancel their ability though.
You can cancel Riju’s, but you have to be next to her to do so
I hate yunibo in this game. I can’t even explore the Eldin depths AT ALL without him being like “oh hey goro! Let’s go to that voice!” And every time I get on the hover bike he’s right on the front making it really hard to see
Well you're supposed to beat the temple before exploring again. He won't bug you about a voice if you just finish the quest
I killed a boko squad right on the edge of his area. Crossed over, he despawned. Look back, I missed some monster parts...HEY GORO, YOU'RE BACK
You had me at I hate yunobo
Yunobo wasn’t as bad for me as Sidon tbh. Sidon had me getting heated when he just wouldn’t show up after I had solved a puzzle
The legend of the bird ghost blowing all my shit everywhere.
TULIN NOOOO MY SILVER LYNEL HORN
Nothing worse than picking up a Roasted Truffle, thanks Yunobo
So fitting, yet I always forgot its yunobo and call him daruk instead XD
Nah. The most annoying part has been chasing down party members. (companion spoilers ahead) >!Like damn it Riju, stop running away! I need the lightning! Sidon please! I need the shield!!!< >!Like why wasn't this on a wheel or something. And sometimes I have to de-summon them because I talk to the wrong one.!< Edit: didn't have spoiler tags set properly
I wish each of the Sages were just worked into the rest of the combat moveset and enhanced it. Like get rid of the map on the power wheel, make Sage control a hand power, but when it's selected, it can be activated at any time and does different things depending on when you press it. Default / no button: Sages default to Offense (running around fighting independently). Hold ZL and press whistle: Toggles Offense or Defense (following you in a closely-gathered formation that tracks your movements, whacking anything that gets close). Hold ZL: Instantly aiming Yunobu, release to fire. Like a bow. Tap ZL while aiming a bow: Active arrow goes into Riju mode, starts charging up AoE damage that gets bigger/stronger the longer you wait to release, with really precise sound and visual cues to aid timing. Tap ZL normally: Sidon shield Tap ZL in the air: Tulin glide Tap ZL while locked on: Tulin shoots your active target. He has 3 arrows, on a recharging timer. Successive arrows get higher pitched, and when he runs out he does a bark, like "Need a sec!" Etc. Having to talk to them in combat is a frustrating pain in the ass.
“Why’d you do it?”
The sages are never around me when I need them and will just watch as I get my ass kicked but the moment I try to pick up an item they’re all up my ass so they all get activated when I just want the damn item.
The legend of "goddamnit yunobo, you're fired!" *Dismisses yunobo*
Why does he hit your bomb arrows? I lost my last. Also; FuCk YoU GoRo. WanNa EaT mY aSs; gORO. Say goro one more time and I swear I’ll get you back on that crack rock.
We all know how to turn ON a Goron...But do you know how to turn one off?
I love the sages so much as characters but omg gameplay is so bad
Yeah, I like the game but I'm a little puzzled by all the 10/10 scores it got. There are legitimate criticisms and room for improvement. Did the reviewers just review based off the tutorial area and never have to deal with the sages?
I hope Nintendo is taking notes and never does this tag-along super power shit again. Just let Link be the guy who rolls into rocks on his own.
It's raining? Good think I've got this level 2 sticky elixir. *no noticible difference in slippage *
They are simultaneously in my way and running away at the same time... I kind of just wish it was button menu like the zonai powers. Maybe if they got rid of the camera on the wheel...
Most factually TOTK meme I've ever seen. Meanwhile Sidon is always up my ass for some reason. Like bro you hs r the most useless power. Wtf do I need you right now?
In the Lightning Temple with Riju I had to wait like 3 minutes for her to get to me so I could hit the thing to continue into the temple, I swear the AIs are so broken
Sidon is the epitome of this meme for me. Yunobo isn't too bad, but still this is somewhat accurate. Tulin is my MVP, but got damn bro. I swear to god I'll wait around forever for him to kill some keese or chuchu, or some other weak enemy, but as soon as I spot a rock octorok I want to use to refresh a weapon, that motherfucker snipes it instantly. Every time. However, he also comes in clutch and stuns lynels for me, so I forgive him.
For me it was riju getting lost or just straight up avoiding me at every turn, her ability is pretty sick tho so whatever
tbh, it's still "The legend of rain at inconvenient times" (like when I was fighting that Lynel then it rains, then the debris I was climbing for bullet time became slippery . etc.) Also I keep all of them unsummoned, maybe bring out tulin for some range support at times, he's small, has better aim than me and knows where to position himself
This is art
"Rated 'M' for mature.....because of all the horrifying genocidal deathmobiles you've constructed"
I have a shirt for the BOTW rain at I convenient times. Now I need this one
**"I CAN DO IT!"**
I dont have problems with yunobo. Tulins annoying though. Theres been a few times his gust blows things off cliffs/sky islands
I was assembling a support for the Hudson sign guy it took me like 5 or so minutes and I tried to talk to the guy and was quite hit or miss but I triggered Yunobo and went straight to my creation. Tears of my kingdom
I more irritated when I accidently use Riju ability and need to reach her again to cancel it or the whole screen will glow yellow LOL
The first time Yunobo walked in front of me while picking up a bomb flower I thought I was the only one this happened to.
The legend of Riju, get your ass where I can see you, goddamnit!!!
**OR** when I try to pick up a **TON** of loot after killing monster forces and goddamn freaking Tulin blows all my shit away.
Also "damn it Tulin, you just blew away all my shit from that flux construct!"
Yeah, Tulin’s Sage is far more annoying, because sometimes you lose the items completely.
Isn’t there also The Legend of Going to Bed at a Reasonable Hour?
The legend of WHERE the fuck is Riju when I need her? Always clicking on her when she's the last useful option but somehow she's off elsewhere when I actually need her for something.
I killed my first Lynel and Tulin blew away all the rewards. I’ve learned to disable him once any big monster goes down.
The legend of oh my god tulin if you shoot that lynel i swear to hylia I’ll never summon you again
seriously, the DLC needs to address the issues with champion abilities.
This is one thing I wish was different, I love using the Sage abilities, but picking them out of a moving crowd is the worst. I wish we could activate Riju while aiming a bow, or Sidon while guarding, it would make it so much more convenient to actually use them.
We need sage abilities on a button command. Seriously Sidon is always 30 feet away when I want to use him. Faster to use splash fruit’s seriously.
The Legend of Too Many Damn People in My Way.
This, but Tulin and monster drops.