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One player’s encounter with a Silver Lynel inThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomcame to an abrupt end after the menacing beast was suddenly one-shot by a Sage whom the fan “forgot about.” The footage of this unusual event made the rounds on social media shortly after anotherTears of the KingdomLynel got deleted with a pulse emitter.
Mid-game gameplay spoilers for Tears of the Kingdom ahead.Even though the newZeldagame introduced a handful of new mobs to its predecessor’s creature pool, Lynels remain some ofTears of the Kingdom’smost dangerous enemies outside of bosses. And as if the four Lynel variants fromBreath of the Wildweren’t challenging enough,Tears of the Kingdomalso ups the ante with the addition of an Armored Silver Lynel, which can only be found in the Depths.
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While this ironclad beast has a tendency to eat up plenty of Link’s hard-earned resources before going down, Reddit user DDoodles_ recently bore witness to an uncharacteristically short encounter with a Silver Lynel which ended within seconds, courtesy of Mineru one-shotting the giant monster as soon as the player destroyed its armor. Based on the brief gameplay footage of the event, it would appear that Mineru was equipped withTears of the Kingdom’sAncient Blade. Namely, the Silver Lynel disintegrated as soon as the hit connected, which is a one-of-a-kind combat effect unique to the Ancient Blade.
While this component can trivialize fights with any non-boss enemies in the game, using it is not a sustainable way to approach combat inTears of the Kingdom. As this newly surfaced gameplay footage illustrates, monsters dispatched with the Ancient Blade won’t leave behind any loot, which is the main incentive for engaging withTears of the Kingdom’senemies in the first place.
DDoodles_ said that they didn’t intend for Mineru to disintegrate the Armored Silver Lynel, explaining that they simply “forgot about” the Sage. The fact that they wasted weapon durability on breaking the beast’s armor is in line with that claim, as Mineru’s Ancient Blade would have been just as effective against a fully armored Lynel.
While Sages can certainly speed up the process of downing some of the game’s most resilient enemies even without sacrificing their loot, the most resource-efficient strategies for defeating large monsters don’t actually require Link to engage in direct combat. This was most recently illustrated by an inventiveTears of the Kingdomplayer who built a Lynel-farming machinewhich helped them clear out one of the most dangerous locations in the game.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomis available on Nintendo Switch.
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