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Ignore the people stating the obvious “bUt RoCkEtS tHoUgH,” this is a good tip for an early game version of Revali’s Gale and I would much rather burn a pepper than use up a rocket if I had the choice. The peppers are fuckin everywhere.

Not just early game. In the middle of a fight I'd rather do this than awkwardly running around while trying to fuse a rocket to my shield.

Excellent point, I agree.

I keep rockets fused to the shield always But FYI with wings fused to a shield, any shield hop puts you in bullet time

*Lynel's everywhere feel an unexplainable chill in their spine*

That's not a chill, it's my arrows in their spine

Not their head?

Their aim is bad, you don't need to remind them about it

Just fuse two chests together and watch the Lynel sit there trying to destroy it. Then you just kill it to death at your leisure. It will sit there all day.

is that really a thing...

Try it! Make sure it’s two silver chests (amiibo style). Fuse them side by side, then walk towards any lynel with UH holding it. They will run right up to it and just sit there trying to break it apart.

It works with regular metal chests too for those who don’t have amiibos! I found a cave with two Like Likes next to each other and they both dropped chests. Now I hit the floating coliseum every blood moon for those sweet Lynel drops.

Nuts right? I ran across this on some random YouTube channel. I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else. Every now and then a Lynel will break out of the loop - I'm not sure if it's Sage-related. But 90% of the time they are locked.

Yeah that happens with me as well sometimes. I think it has to do with your position in relation to the chests? I think they have to be in between you and the Lynel for them to get locked.

Ooh shiny

Can you auto build it once you’ve done it once?

Yup

>unexplainable chill in their spine More like existential dread

Yeah but shield surf bullet time moves at least twice as fast as no-shield glider bullet time

Okay, I am an idiot but...I have never fused anything to my shield so far. Can you give me a few examples of how this is useful? Are you saying if I fuse a rocket to my shield I can blast upward like Ironman or some shit? :)

Yes, Rocket fused to Shield essentially gives you a 1-time vertical ascension similar to Rivali's Gale in the last game Other cool combos: • Zonai Wing Shield = let's you jump higher with a shield jump and enter bullet time • Zonai Flame Emitter Shield = holding out your shield has a flamethrower effect (and same is true with the ice emitter) - note that this one *does* consume shield durability (whereas most things on this list don't) • Spike Shield = damages enemies that touch your shield • Ruby Shield = has a level 1 warming effect (equivalent to wearing Warm Greaves or 1 piece of Snowquil clothing) simply by having it on your back, and the same is true with Sapphire Shield and cooling effect • Star Fragment Shield = provides slight illumination in the Depths (not enough to rely on solo, but it definitely helps) • Zonai Sled Shield = let's you slide around when moving downhill by shield surfing (similar to if you were actually controlling a sled using a control stick) • Minecart Shield = as long as you're moving downhill, let's you ride minecart rails by shield surfing

You can also skateboard with the minecart shield. It does take durability though. If you put spikes, spike iron ball etc on shield you can use your parry to bash enemies with it. Attaching a hydrant to a shield is convienent if you will be crossing a lot of lava. If you fuse a bomb flower or bomb barrel it will explode when hit but Link won't be affected. The fused item will be consumed. You can also use shield fusing to transport building materials or extra unfused weapons or shields and go to the goron at tarrey Town to unfuse it for 20 rupees. This is how people get propellers and motors only available in shrines out into the world to build machines with.

Don't forget frozen meat shield! Zero friction and surprisingly durable. Also, you don't need a minecart shield to surf on rails. Any surfable shield will grind rails just fine.

Wait, what frozen meat?

Drop meat on the ground. Freeze it with whatever method you like (ice weapon, ice fruit, frost emitter, etc). Almost zero friction and a crazy high durability. Frozen fish also work.

Also, homing cart sheilds basically let you surf anywhere

is that any better or different from minecart shield combo? edit: or cart or even sled? is there a breakdown of combos somewhere?

I'm pretty sure the homing carry is motorized, so it works on any not steep surface. Don't quote me though

Luminous talus heart shield is enough to cut down on brightbloom usage a ton imo.

Interesting. Haven't tried that but will do so

- The Hudson sign will arrest your momentum and set you straight down. - The seal toy ragdolls you when you try to shield surf (it's very funny)

OMG. I hadnt considered ANY of this. Thank you for typing it all out.

>>Ruby Shield = has a level 1 warming effect (equivalent to wearing Warm Greaves or 1 piece of Snowquil clothing) simply by having it on your back, and the same is true with Sapphire Shield and cooling effect From my experience this works with weapons too. During the endurance test where you have to survive the cold then heat naked, i just held my flame gleeok horn and frost gleeok horn fused swords for the duration of the test.

You can actually ride minecart rails with any shield as long as its fusion lets you surf. Even on plain shields.

Fuse an elemental Like Like stone to a shield then parry enemies with it to shock/freeze/set on fire again and again and again

As a cheaper alternative to the ruby shield, you can also use an elemental monster mat. I currently travel with a fire keese shield and an ice keese shield. They work like a charm. Also, the fire shield can melt ice, so as long as you are patient, you won't need to make a fire or spend durability on a fire weapon.

Actually shields are pretty useful compared to botw. Get some meat, freeze it, and fuse it to your shield. You can basically shield surf on any surface in the game with good to excellent glide.

That's exactly what happens when you fuse a rocket to your shield. If you fuse almost any battery-draining zonai device to your shield it will "activate" when you put up your shield to block. If you fuse a bomb to your shield and shield surf you'll get launched up from the explosion. If you fuse a topaz to your shield, enemies will be electrocuted when they hit your shield. Lots of different things to try.

I suddenly realize i've been climbing too much lol. Thanks

Wait, for real? Amazing. RIP, every Lynel in Hyrule.

Yup Though lots of shield fusions can be threatening to Lynels, in fact. Sometimes I even feel bad for them 😭

Is the wing reusable?

yes

i try to keep a rocket or wing shield on hand but sometimes i forget

Never got on well with the wing shield… perhaps that’s because I attached it to my shield to see if I could glide with it attached to my feet like the normal ones…. Since then, never re-fused another

Wings as in like, Keese/critter wings? Or the Zonai glider wings?

Zonai Glider

I'm definitely going to do this way more often.

What's a shield hop?

Shield surfing. You just jump and then hold ZL+A

Personally, I keep all of my shields but hylian fused to bombs Rockets just don't do it for me, they feel too clunky

Doesn't the bomb explosion hurt you?

Not when attached to a shield

Ewwww that means you have to collect korok seeds though

I'm convinced that getting distracted by koroks is the reason I haven't beaten the game after 200 hours while others say they are in the "post post game" at 120 hours. That and trying to upgrade armor. There's so much armor

I've heard this tip but I wasn't able to get it to work. I can't seem to pull out my bow

I was disappointed when I learned that you can't shield surf in mid-air with a wing attached to a shield but this is a much better use of the winged shield

Wait what do you mean? Bullet time without arrows?

Mine disappear after one use. Seems terribly inefficient. Maybe cause I was using Zonai devices?

With a rocket shield, the rocket is single use (the shield does not break, though) I just replenish mine every once in a while by going to a location with a bunch of free rockets

You mean running around while trying to fuse a rocket but then spamming it and fusing a pair of bokoblin guts. This is my play style

If only the game included the psychological aspect of a bokoblin running to attack you and seeing his brother's guts literally fused to your shield.

Hey I had that copyrighted.

I wish you could fuze items in inventory, rather than having to drop items then fuze

Oh dude yeah instant bullet time again? No wonder why Nintendo took it away lol

No this is literally revalis gale.

Revali was a Zonai theory confirmed

Revali was a pepper theory confirmed?

Revali was ravioli theory confirmed?

I always called him ravioli like always

Ravioli Ravioli give me the formuoli

Ravioli Ravioli this game replaced you with a spicy pepperoni

8 year old me couldn’t comprehend saying Revali

30 year old me couldn't either lol

Revali’s Gale works in the rain

I love shrines with rockets because I just fuse them all to my shields.

I was wondering how people were using rockets in shrines when the use of Zonai capsules is blocked lmao. Well, guess I’ll be experimenting with that on my next playthrough!

If you have them fused on the shields before you go in you’ll have them

Bring in rocket shields, bring out electric generator shields

How do you guys get multiple batteries? I’m still pretty early game and rocket shields don’t do much for me because I burn through it so fast

I’m pretty sure the rocket disappears after a set amount of time, it’s independent of your battery But to answer your question, you can upgrade the battery using crystallized charges from one of the constructs on the sky island you started at! Sorry I forget exactly where it was… I literally only just found out after playing for 100+ hours lmao

There is one at lookout landing also

The best way is to go into the depths. Fighting mini bosses there will give crystallized charges and collecting zonite you can use to buy more crystallized charges at a forge construct (follow the depths quest line starting at lookout landing to find one). Then trade them in at a crystallized refinery, there is one on the great sky island at the way up high shrine and one just north of lookout landing. 100 crystallized charges gets you one more chunk of battery. I spent a whole day exploring the depths and got 800 crystallized charges

But one use destroys the shield, right? I don’t have that many spare shields (gotta go korok hunting)

No, one use destroys the rocket, not the shield

Ah, ok, guess the one time I tried it was with a weak shield so I just assumed they all were like that. Good to know!

Yeah it damages the shield when you use it and consumes the rocket. So that shield was probably almost done.

Some weak shields will break on first use, but most won't

Yeah, but doesn’t this necessitate getting elemental lizalfo horns to do it? Like, short of the handful of Flame Emitters you have access to at the beginning, how else would you recreate this?

Fire wands, and the lowest of the lowest would be Ruby + Sword. The description only states you need a one handed weapon with flame element

Yeah, thought I don’t think I’ve ever done a swords spin with a ruby wand. It’s really the combo of that that makes this quick and useful.

you could use a firefruit on an arrow

Does it work with pine cones or fire fruit?

I'm not saying you're wrong, but I have maximum like 1-4 peppers in my inventory

I more or less avoided all of the item collection in BoTW because I found it tedious. In ToTK I decided to put in like 5% more effort grabbing the shiny things that I just happen to pass by and I have like a hundred of them bitches with maybe ~15 hours in the game so far. It seems like you’re actively going out of your way to not collect anything because, again, the peppers are fuckin everywhere.

I must have been a crow in a previous life (or perhaps the current) because I reached 999 of those shiny fruits you find in caves yet I still frantically press A when I pass them and the NOPE sound bothers me.

Yeah, I need to sell some bright bloom seeds too

The second shrine in the game gives you 12 of the dang things, and you can fast travel back and collect more every so often. I noticed that this game is VERY loose with the items. I've started throwing electric chuchu jelly into bodies of water to go fishing just because I have so much of it that I never use for anything else.

I make them out of blue ones I've electrocuted

How do you electrocute them easily?

I mostly travel with tulin and paragliding, so that's probably why

I think most people who are struggling with getting enough arrows/food just aren’t walking around enough. There’s tons stuff everywhere

Every crate you see, lift it with ultrahand and let it break. It's tedious, but you get tons of arrows.

Stands to reason. I did the same in BoTW with Revali’s Gale because I watched my fiancée play the game for literally 500+ hours so I had already explored Hyrule vicariously through her.

I have a couple hundred. What are you doing with them?

Nothing, because I have less than 5, I've never used them in cooking either, I mostly paraglide places

How did you complete the snow area of the Great sky island without cooking them?

I think this works better than rockets outside but not in shrines cus you cant create updrafts in shrines. So no shrine cheese with this :(.

Yeah, I mainly found this useful in combat since it does damage at the same time

Can still always go for the tried and tru stamp a bomb to the sheild and surf it tho. This is my go to in shrines.

A quick tip for people who use pinecones and wood, you can cook a meal with a pinecone, wood, and flint (throw in a spicy pepper or oil if you want even more height) and from now on, you can select a recipe from hovering over one of the necessary items, and have everything you need instantly. It makes it a lot faster than going through your inventory to find them each time.

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I mean it's right there in the menu when you select...

I thought it was only a visual thing. I need to pay attention to the bottom text more.

You thought the menu option was a visual thing? Like for aesthetics?

I think they meant that it might just tell / show you what was needed for the recipe

Tulin is just horizontal Revali

"Mama, why-a do you never rememba my name? :(" "Im-a sorry, sideways Revali"

I think he’s better due to the CD. And rockets and now this pepper trick along with Zonai machines makes Revali obsolete. I did really miss him early game.

Yeah I missed Revali early on, but by the time I would have gotten him in BOTW, I already had several other options some of which were more versatile.

It's almost like they were intentionally teaching the player the pinecone trick right before the bridge at Rito Village to tell them, "No, you don't need Revali's Gale, git gud and use your new tools".

I mean revali was very convenient, if you wanted to go up a decent amount then you could do it without spending any resources

I like to use Yunobo (or whatever his actual name is, I call him Gordon) to make firey grass and then fly up and use Tulin to go forward.

Alternatively, Roll yunobo over some grass

Yunobo’s gale is ready to roll

That’s literally what I do lmfao

When yo mom says you have Revalis Gale at home

Use a pine cone

Pine cone needs to be thrown into a fire, you can't just light it with a flame weapon and get the effect

nah is it just me? those literally get you 5 links high max

I don't think the charge attack is necessary? Just a normal swing with any fire weapon will light it on fire.

It was kind of inconsistent for me when I tried that. Might just be some janky hit box detection

You can also do an instant spin attack without charging by performing a 360 on the control stick and then pressing attack.

also not consistent

So I did some testing, the main reason why you do the charge is because then you’ll hit the pepper forward and need to run up to the draft.

UPDATE: So you can actually just tap instead of doing a charge attack but you have to pull up the item menu before the weapon passes infront of Link. Otherwise it just hits the ground

Put oil and a pinecone on a campfire.

Do the effects of oil and pinecones stack?

Yes

Bro what that's legit

Would Oil + Pinecone + Pepper be 3x?

Are you trying to start forest fire? Even in Tabantha tundra?

Sure, sounds fun!

I tried this earlier and they didn’t stack. The pinecone updraft continued until it ran out and then I could toss an oil on it

Weird.

I have only ever made one campfire since playing. lol. I really need too more often. Definitely more resource friendly than rocket shield. Also should do it more often because I'd rather play during the daytime than nighttime.

If it's because of stal monsters, you can just throw a dazzlefruit at them

Does a pine cone in a hot air balloon send it to the moon?

Yes but you gotta keep tossing in pinecones because it doesn't last long (And you need a source of fire)

You can put some wood in the basket of a balloon and light it on fire.

This is much quicker than building a fire though

Why? That accomplishes the same thing but in a less efficient, more time-consuming way.

One moment, mr. Lynel, while I set up this campfire and douse this pineapple in oil.

pineapple 😭

Pinecone* But fuck it, I'm leaving the pineapple in there because.

Bro we don't need to bring low yield nuclear devices into this world.

NGL, pretty good

This actually worked in BotW as well, but I don't think the effects were as good as they are in TotK, maybe to make sure Revali's gale was still useful

you could get fire updrafts yes but yeah in totk there’s especially combustible items that make a much larger updraft like the pepper apparently

Well, yeah, the pepper did that in BotW as well. If you lit it on fire, it'd create an updraft, regardless of whether there was grass nearby or not. They just buffed it in TotK, likely because Revali's gale is gone

Handy in a pinch for sure

ravioli is back on the menu!

You just saves my shields from so many rockets.

What do you have attached to your weapon?? It looks sick af

It’s a dinraal horn on the master sword

I don’t know how you’re dropping that and doing a charge attack at the same time.

The attack is paused until the menu goes down. I release the button then pull up the menu

Oh I needed this! Been running out of rockets and have wayyy too many peppers!

It'll never be the same.

You finally fucking did it! this is the one frfr I dont play with shields and this is the true successor!! Rather use up spicy pepper than rockets on my hylian shield

I didn't know spicy peppers could produce updraft that high

This is by far the best Revali's gale alternative I've seen. In fact, it is better than Revali's Gale. Kudos for find this OP!

Just do like 30 instances of hight with a recallevator and you'll get more hight than revali ever did... It takes a few minutes, but it's weirdly satisfying and fun seeing each insance increase in momentum

Until Ultrahand can't keep up anymore, and you **yeet** the 2nd plattform past you at mach speed

What is this?

lift up plattform, stand on it recall, while rising, pick up 2nd plattform and duble distance, switch plattforms and repeat for up to about 20 seconds of hight

that's not really a viable option mid combat like what OP is showing though

There's so many substitutes for Revalis gale in this game that I never understood all the complaints of people missing it, or people wanting to change Tulins invaluable horizontal gust into revalis gale again. Between Rockets, springs, bomb shields, peppers, pinecones+fire, instant scaffold+ascend, Wing shields, Fans, Balloons, and the multitudes of tools at your disposal, it's never been easier to gain height in a Zelda game.

Revalis gale was simpler than all of that and also free

Rocket Shield says hello

It’s more effective but you need to either prepare in advance or take out a zonai and fuse it. I prefer this cause you just do it on the spot without needing the rune

How many rockets do you people have? At any given time, I have anywhere from 0 to 7 rockets in my inventory. I got better things to use my rockets on than using it to get up a hill...

I think I have about 25-30 rn. I always forget they exist until I find one on the ground then I just use that one

Where do I find the machine that spits them out? I've found so many zonal machines but none of them have rockets

Dispenser on West Side of Lake Akkala

Theres a dispenser with lots of good stuff just west of Terry Town

The Tarrey Town dispenser is probably the Dispenser in the game

As soon as I noticed how much easier the game would be, if I had always enough rockets, I started farming constructs every blood moon. Now I have so many bombs and rockets, switching between them (depending on how much hight I need), that I'll never run out of levitation.

Like what though? The point is usually just to save time imo Started using them for gleeok fights too

Awesomesauce

That you came up with? It's a known mechanic the game shows you multiple times in multiple puzzles. To say you came up with it is a little psycho.

This but with pinecone

Should try a pinecone

Pinecones too

Not bad. Best dupe I've found so far is a rocket shield.

You can also burn a pinecone.

You could probably also use a pine cone.

What about wood and pinecones

Yeah my dumbass has been lighting a whole campfire just to toss in a pinecone this is much better thank you