OneThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomplayer found a useful trick for making the game’s final boss easier thanks to a charged attack. Their discovery emerged online shortly after somedata-mining efforts yielded possible hints of futureTears of the KingdomDLC.
Warning! Late-game spoilers forTears of the Kingdomahead.As is the case with most mainline installments inThe Legend of Zeldafranchise,Tears of the Kingdomends with a quest to destroy Ganondorf. The game’s final fight has four stages and can be quite challenging for everyone but the most overprepared players. That’s especially true during the third phase when Demon King Ganondorf starts throwing his entire moveset at the player, including an attack that surrounds Link with fast-approaching clouds of deadly red mist.
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While the hazardous orbs can be dodged by sprinting through the openings between them, it turns out there’s a much more effective strategy for dealing with this section of the final boss fight inThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. As recently confirmed by Reddit user KirbyOfHyrule, Link can actually deflect the deadly red clouds with a well-timed charged attack. The player’s gameplay video demonstrating this technique reveals that sending back the orbs at Ganondorf does some decent damage to the boss, and is much easier to pull off than avoiding all five clouds. Given how often Ganon resorts to this attack during the third phase of the encounter, deflecting the orbs could potentially make the fight much shorter, as it’s essentially an opportunity to deal some free damage.
The timing of the charged attack required to parry the mist is fairly easy to get right, with the only catch being that the technique requiresgetting the Master Sword inTears of the Kingdom. Any other weapon will break after deflecting no more than one orb, with the Master Sword being immune to this fate because it’s unbreakable during the Ganondorf fight.
The series veterans might not be surprised with this trick, seeing how it’s a direct homage to a game of laser tennis that Link played with Ganondorf—and even some other opponents—plenty of times over the course of the franchise. Deflecting ranged energy attacks by hitting them with the Master Sword is a technique that the fandom commonly refers to as “dead man’s volley,” a name that originates from the 2007Nintendo DS exclusivePhantom Hourglass. But the method itself is much older, having originally debuted in the 1991 SNES classicA Link to the Past, the third installment inThe Legend of Zeldaseries.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomis available now on Switch.
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