I personally really love the korok leaf because it acts like a zelda item you'd normally get in a dungeon or something. It feels awesome to get that kind of utility just out in the world randomly! I wish some other weapons had this level of experimentation and uniqueness applied to them, like a buffed boomerang or a breakable set of hookshot style weapons!
One thing to note about the Royal Claymore is the fantastic availability it has early-game - on my latest master mode run, I made a beeline for the tower by the military training camp, and it has a guaranteed royal claymore at the top of it no matter how much progress you've made. That means that I had a 52 attack very reliable weapon alongside my crappy 20-25 attack early game weapons, which makes things much easier.
@@ashutoshsamantaray2572 Durability. Shield guard doesn't really mean anything unless you're being attacked by a Lynel (especially if you perfect parry a lot), so any reasonably durable shield is pretty good. Pot lids are more durable than most of the other shields you can get on the plateau, and given how Lim's been accounting for availability, they'd probably rank higher than Royal Guard's Shields. (Durability transfer does change that a bit, but not much.)
Honestly, true. If something happens to my Korok Leaf, I am ABSOLUTELY dropping a Savage Lynel Sword when I find a replacement. Bottom of S tier, because of the diminishing returns for having multiple.
I LOVE the tri-boomerangs. Its like a royal broadsword, but much cooler looking and much more common, before I had the Master Sword I carried an inventory full of em
In my opinion the savage lynel sword would be at the top of s tier. 100 attack one hand compared to a 116 two hand is op, I mean you hit like twice as much as u do with the two handed weapon
@@vroomlucas yeah but he also put the royal guard claymore in S tier because of the durability transfer glitch. So I don’t see why none of the other weapons got this treatment.
i'm currently using a 96 savage lynel sword, hunting for the 100, which i've had on all my other files at some point, so i will get it, and then keep a few with durability transfer. i love using one handers, even if i've mainly filled up my inventory with 116 rgcs.
I would just like to add a few of my cents as primarily a combat player to this. For the most part I agree with the list, but the elemental greatswords should all be in A tier. The great frostblade allows for true freeze chaining, which is among the fastest methods to kill single enemies, and once it's started it's easy to not mess up. The great thunderblade just is really cool in combat with a bowspin and a bit of metal too. The lizal tri-boomerang should also be in A tier, since it's the best boomerang and really easy to get, and boomerangs are probably the coolest sub-class of weapon. The usage in combat is really cool and super useful. I also think the korok leaf actually deserves S tier. It's usefulness in the early game is supreme, with leaf bomb rolls/launches. It also is super useful for it's sailing and puzzle abilities, and it's a weapon I keep on me at all times. Other than that your list is really good.
To put it in perspective: -The highest possible base damage of the Great Frostblade is 48. -A 1.5x boost means 72 dmg. -And with true freeze chaining, that damage can be boosted 3 times over, meaning 216 dmg *PER HIT* (in actual gameplay it's actually 226, for some reason), which is enough to kill a Major Test of Strength Guardian (the freezable enemy with highest HP) in just 14 hits. The Battle Axe++ can deal a max of 202 to normal enemies and 262 to Guardians, so by this metric, the Great Frostblade could even go all the way up to S tier.
@@Limcube The main thing with it is that a true freeze chain never unfreezes the enemy, being the only known technique to do that. It hits with every 2-handed weapon rotation plus possible double hits. Because it's in a bowspin, it also doesn't run out of charge on the ice, meaning you can quickly kill any freezable enemy without them having a chance to attack. And yeah, blizzard rod then Max damage ancient spear would probably use less durability, the enemy still would unfreeze and it would take much more time than tfc
@@Limcube It would conserve durability but it would be faster to bow spin with frostblade because you almost instantly freeze and break the ice and this can be done quicker instead of freezing then switching to an ancient spear then switching back.
Dragonbone Moblin Club I'd bump up to A Tier. Bone attack with attack up and using sneak attacks is awesome, plus being able to easily collect a ton of them. Big fan of it, probably my favorite weapon.
@@soronir3526 Nice, that makes the ability a bit more useful! I'd still mostly only use it with Dragonbone variants though. (When I first read "Bone Atk. Up" I assumed it only applied to the literal bone arm weapons and was therefore a meme set bonus lol)
Agree. It is very easy to get one. Dragonbone Moblin Club + Phantom Ganon Set should be illegal. Most satisfying Master Mode moment for me is killing a golden moblin with 3 hits.
i think the thunderstorm rod is a broken resource often overlooked in freezable enemies in tandem with. You can send 3 shock balls at a frozen enemy that get multiplied by 3 because the enemy is wet (frozen) and does another 3x when it shatters on the fifth wave. Little cheezy, but gold enemies and test of strengths become innocuous. Not to mention the aoe of the blizzard rod and the shockwave of the wet enemies, often this kills a whole camp. Niche, but solid uses. Korok leaf also has a solid use as a bomb launcher. Definitely one of the most fun weapons. i like the videos great content.
Like your list! Personally I really like all the thunder type weapons because they can be really helpful in fights against any enemies capable of being shocked. In my opinion they are almost unfair since they give you the ability to continuously hit an enemy without giving an opportunity to hit back. Also, if you are low on weapons, you can steal enemy weapons easily.
One thing about the Thunder Spear that helps it in my eyes: a fully charged charge attack on a metal object or "wet" enemy will send out a shockwave with every hit. At 13 hits maximum, that is a LOT of area damage very quickly.
I mostly agree, but guardian sword ++ can get attack up to 60, combined with the ancient proficiency and attack up that’s 162 damage per hit. You can also use durabiliy transfer from the biggoron sword or spring hammer to get a durability of 110 or 99. And because it’s a single handed weapon you can attack fast and have a shield too.
The guardian weapons will always be underrated because most people don't care about them with their lack of knowledge on how overpowered they are. I'd also argue the bone weapons are underrated because while they aren't as effective will still do massive damage and could possibly deal more damage than any non-guardian or bone weapon iirc.
For real these weapons are amazing I keep guardian weapons ++ around for boss killing weapons with ancient armor+att up boost and I can shred through any bosses in under 30 seconds.
Dang, you are very enjoyable, I thought I was going to get bored but this was fun to watch and learn from. Also, I have a comment over the Ancient Sword and Ancient Bladesaw. I see your reasoning as to why they are C class weapons, but if you sell stuff from your inventory and farm ancient parts regularly, you shouldn't have a problem getting them. Another reason would be Ancient Proficiency, it increases the attack power on any ancient or guardian weapon by 80%. Overall, because I don't have a problem getting those two weapons, I'd put them both low on A tier.
I already know he's gonna put the Test of Strength shrines in S lol. But seriously though you can get great weapons and shields ALONGSIDE guardian materials so you can get even more great stuff from robbie!
I'd say the Island Shrine is an A tier for what it wants you too do, and thats to be humble. You make have the best armor, your master sword, or a bunch of full health meals. But you have to remember where you came from.
One thing I gotta comment on, the lizalfos arm... Its really a bit more valuable than the other bone weapons, because stal arms don't burn in death mountain, and if you throw the lizalfos arm, it acts like a boomerang, and especially if you go to death mountain earlier, rusty weapons are low and better for using with the octoroks
Rusty weapons rely on RNG to become a good weapon. Stal arms.. Can only be found in night. Getting them is a pain unless you have bad weapons/bows you can sacrifice. Incredibly weak. A ton of other weapons that are much more easy to get outclass it Also Stal enemies only spawn when I don't want them too
Savage Lynel Sword is S tier. It is far stronger than Master Sword with attack up and durability transfer+duplication. Royal Guard Spear is also A tier with durability transfer+duplication. Ice+Electric weapons are all A tier since you can chain stun enemies into oblivion.
I'm not sure hypothetical maximums are really all that relevant. Fully decked out Savage Lynel equipment has big numbers, but are pains in the ass to get, and by the time you get one, there's really nothing important worth using it on. Items that are great, but you don't have aren't helping you.
I saw it on twitter yesterday already but I'd really swap the Frost Spear with the Ancient Spear or even put it in S. That's my only big complaint about this list. The staff itself is good for multiple enemies sure, but if you charge your attack, the spear freezes and shatters one enemy multiple times before knocking them over (silver enemies are usually dead at this point, only gold moblins can take a full combo I think), hitting higher single target DPS than the Ancient Spear ever could with all buffs considered. Ancient Spear is still better for Guardian Types tho
I was going to mention the very op charged combo of the frostspear against stuff like golden Moblins but someone already did that. I would give a little bit more credit to the one-handed and two-handed dragonbone weapons though (sans spears sadly). If you get the Phantom Ganon armor as soon as you can, it gives stealth and the bone weapons atk increase of 80% if I recall correctly (screw that horrible radiant armor). Haven't played in a while, but I think the bone weapon atk up stacked with the normal atk up bonus just like the ancient armor atk up bonus does... so if you farm dragon horns for a bit that's easy to exploit... even beyond that, those are the 3rd tiers of incredibly common early game weapons so they advance and reach gold mods relatively fast. The one-handed dragon boko club can reach up to 50 atk, the two-handed dragon boko club can reach 60 and the dragonbone can reach 65... it is easy to farm those idiots with a thunder trap as soon as you see the gold modifiers and use those with the Phantom Ganon armor 80% atk bonus and the elixir's 50% (i think?) Atk bonus. Shitty durability is the issue so you will want a good weapon for durability transfer like the biggoron sword. All of this is outclassed when you eventually farm guardian weapons with gold atk mods and durability transfer into those and exploit the similar double ark bonus those can get, sure... but I found dragonbone weapons to be the litte version of that, and with the Phantom Ganon armor you can sneakstrike your enemies effortlessly for massive damage and minimal loss of durability... I think only Golden Moblins survived that no matter how buffed you are but you can exploit their dumb AI to chain sneakstrikes on those idiots. Again, this kinda pales compared to raiding Hyrule Castle early, getting 3 or 5 shot bows or the jumping attack shockwave on frozen enemies, but if you enjoy sneakstrikes (and those can be exploited very easily) the Phantom Ganon armor with dragonbone weapons lets you chain those like no tomorrow. Thunder weapons help a lot with positioning yourself behind the enemy for a sneakstrike, as briefly paralyzing them works wonders when tricking their kinda moronic AI. And that's it I think... I'm curious how would you rate bows in a video... particularly taking into account those "peculiarities" with multishot bows and special arrows; like how the multihit freezes and unfreezes an enemy doing miserable damage or how bomb arrows become duds.
I would definitely put all the elemental weapons in the good tier together. Learning to quick switch them made all the difference in my master mode playthrough. I prefer the flame blade to the great flame blade. A blizzard rod and a high power great thunderblade easily wipe entire camps, even silver and gold enemies. The Korok leaf is definitely a useful tool and has unlimited use as long as it doesn't hit anything when swung. I almost consider it an additional rune. Unless I'm doing something specific, I will always have one. Great tier list! Looking forward to a shield review!
EnjoyYourOcean here - Loved what you said about the Eight Fold Longblade, and I agreed with everything you said and how you ranked everything! Looking forward to more content! I like how you ranked the Tri-Fork boomerang because it carried me a lot in my first playthrough
Korok leaf underrated. It not only has the one niche you said, it also can be used to sail rafts and launch bombs which is really fun, and it is required for a shrine quest and some shrines casually. It should be at least one tier higher
You are 100% justified with having the sledgehammer in A. It's an absolutely solid weapon at the start of the game, very common to find, and has a good few unique quirks as a hammer that makes it worth keeping at least one (or one of its upgrades, as in stone smasher/boulder breaker) around. Also the smaller stone smasher is the called the cobble crusher.
One of the most annoying things about BotW's design is how bad spears are (they need higher durability to be useful, and slightly higher damage) compared to "Spin to Win." When I started playing, the test of strength trials caused me lots of trouble, and then I learned how to spin and it became way too easy :(
Yeah the combat isn’t very layered compared to another Zelda game like TP. Melee combat isn’t very fun anymore in BotW, and using bullet time with bows is broken and boring.
At least you can use spears for range so if your a combat pro and often use like insta flurry rush glitches you can use spears so you wont miss the gold/silver moblins/lizalfos and lynels. But doing a simple shield jump makes the game always make sure you rush towards the enemies for some reason. At least they have high DPS and the thunder spear can cause gigantic and huge area damage if you charge it and attack a metal object
I agree with the sledgehammer, I keep a sledgehammer, a korok leaf, a torch, a great fire blade and a blizzard rod in my inventory at all times just because they all offer amazing utility
I actually think that you should bump up the dragonbone boko club up to at least solid. This is because while its base durability is only 18 its base damage can be boosted all the way to 50 with the right modifier. Then after this by just wearing the radiant set with its 80% damage increase it would be boosted all the way to 90 damage. That would be the equivalent to the fully powered master sword with attack up 3 and if you combine bone attack up with attack up 3 you would get an insane damage number of 135. Also with the durability glitch you said was good to use you could negate the naturally poor durability with the biggoron sword.
With all that work of farming a weapon and getting the best possible modifier, then using durability transfer and I assume also duping it and consuming attack+++ food every time you want to use it along with an armor set most people don't even bother getting, I think he's justified in ranking it so low because at that point you could've just farmed for a high modifier savage lynel sword.
Good to see the love for the Spring Loaded Hammer! When you were taking about the Biggoron Sword my first thought was, "SLH has to be at least A-Tier, if not S- Tier." Actually a little surprised it was that low: it is the best option for Durability Transfer without an Amiibo. Between that and the Awakened Master Sword, I actually don't use Sledgehammers or Axes anymore, lol! The Sword of Evil's Bane is my Chief Foraging Tool.
This video made me subscribe to you! Seeing you knowledgeable in the game, hearing you speedrun, and also the thourhgouness of your video made me really like you
I like how the fact that LImcube plays Genshin slips out on these RUclips videos from time to time, he names his horse Fischl, plays Genshin music in the background sometimes, and calls the electric weapons "electro"
Never seen your content before (have been watching pointcrow and been playing for only 4ish months) but easily earned a subscription and a return viewer, love the content man!
I can't disrespect the soup ladle. I gotta give it S-tier. Due to the fact that in my run right now I equipped it on a dying ancient and didn't want to use up anything else. Throwing the ladle at it in turn killing it gave me my first ever battle axe ++. And since then battles have gotten significantly easier when farming ancient parts. Ladle is my MVP❤
Boomerangs are useful to spare some arrows doing the balloon koroks. Every combo of Ice + thunder weapons is awesome to players who lack combat skills.
I now have 155 hours into this game, and until BOTW 2 comes out I plan on playing it for possibly 155 more. It’s one of the most addicting, immersive games I’ve ever played. If I put my Switch down for 5-10 minutes, then see something about BOTW on RUclips, I always have the urge to get back on and start playing again. 😂
Even if you don't consider durability transfer glitch, I still feel like Royal Guard's Claymore deserves at least A tier for one specific use case: If you climb onto the back of a lynel and do the hilt attack on it, this doesn't consume any weapon durability. So, if you're going around killing lynels, you can grab yourself a 116 damage royal guard's claymore and keep it around only to use here. It will last forever and do a large chunk of a lynel's health. You can easily kill a gold lynel this way by just headshotting -> mounted attack over and over again, while only consuming a couple arrows because your claymore will never break.
I started this video to soothe the frayed psyche as I tackled a threading problem. Literally pushed the commit as the video ended. Surely this is a sign. 10/10. Would watch/code again.
I actually think the korok leaf is very good as you can also make the Bomb Cannon which is fun and also pretty useful as the Bombs are blowing off the enemies. Also u need the korok leaf for rafts.
One could argue that the early weapons like boko clubs and sticks to be in a tier above bad but below solid due to very early game at least casually and for challenge runs depending on what they are
I fully agree with this, and my standout there is the Traveler's Sword. It's noticeably better than a lot of other early game weapons, and occupies a significant niche, being the first, and for a long time, really the only grass cutting option you have. It's also why I rate Savage Lynel weapons so lowly. By the time you can get them, and especially by the time you're worrying about their added effects, what is actually left that you're going to use them on? That Savage Lynel Sword with 100+ power is a trophy at best, it's not helping you.
About the one hit obliterator, it's the only weapon in the game with unlimited durability alongside the bow of light. I know of course you'd probably only put it in c tier and not lower just because it does 1 hit damage when obtained through glitches and will still force you at a quarter of a heart. You almost can't even unequip it meaning you're glued with it without the house. With that considered, it's a good novelty item and could be considered the new meta for no hit, 1 hit damage only challenge runs.
The thunder spear is broken because it actually does way more damage than advertised due to its electrical properties, making it do about 32 (if I remember correctly) per hit. Electricity I’ve noticed is also a completely broken effect in this game, the thunder spear is always one my best weapons when I play this game.
Well, if you do too many hits in a row its electric effect will run out, and you'll have to either wait a second for it to recharge or just use it as a normal spear sans elemental damage.
Blizzard rod is a gift from the Goddess Hylia herself. I prefer elemental spears over great swords. Mainly because of attack speed. Quickly disabling enemies help me greatly in Master mode.
I think that the Guardian Swords were really underrated. When farming for guardian parts, my go-to combo is Guardian Sword++ and Guardian Axe++, which can easily be gotten by farming Major Tests of Strength. The reason it is the best is because GS++ is the easiest weapon to break guardian legs with. 6 swipes with the sword to break all of the legs, and then spin2win with the axe to finish it off. It is far harder to break the legs with a spear, and missing even once will give the guardian time to regenerate health. There’s no reason to waste durability of the axe on the legs since any ancient weapon will break the legs in one hit, so the sword is the best and easiest option. Other than that small detail, this was a great list and very entertaining video!
I'll have to disagree on the Thunder spear's placement on this list. If you use it in conjunction with either rain, or soaking the enemies with chu-jelly, you can effectively wipe out everything below silver rank in an enemy camp with just one full charge attack, with anything strong enough to survive the lag-tastic barrage being easy pickings afterwards. The spin-to-win on the thunder-great sword is arguably even more devastating with this tactic. The spear is easier to find than the greatsword though, with 3 of them held by lizalfos swimming around the tower near the Thundra plateau.
I saved this video as a reference but just getting back into Zelda, played back in 1986!!!, this is so much!! Dont they just have a rank? Seems like each weapon has a story behind it instead of, "this is the best weapon". I understand each has their place but man I like to just upgrade and move forward. But good video!!
I actually like the bone arms from stal mobs for most of early game, at least until I unlock my first Champion weapon (99.9% of the time it's Mipha's because I want Mipha's Grace asap)
I think the ancient blade saw is amazing! So is the ancient short sword. The thing about Robbie’s ancient weapons is that they do a 1.5 times damage bonus on guardians. Plus they have better durability than normal major test of strength weapons. When major test of strength weapons do 1.2 or 1.25 times damage on guardians (I don’t remember which.)
I am new to the game so i am still avoiding Lynels but I did kill 2 Talus but gave up on a 3rd one by Hyrule castle because of how much HP it had. I need more weapon stash and hearts. I can get enough hearts now but need to find Hestro the second time. Trying to limit how many times I look up information. That is trying to do as much as reasonably possible without getting answers from others. I have beat a Hinox (sp?) but only because I had the advantage of height. I passed one up that was on an platform island between bridges near the Great Plateau because I had no cover, and then its the same issue as for Talus. I still have so much to learn of course. Cant wait :3
To me, it’s so sad that the regional weapons don’t have like a power up based on the regional armors. Like imagine if the fully upgraded zora armor buffed the silver weapons to make them on par with the better ones. Same with de gerudo outfits upgrading the gerudo weapons. The goron stuff would be interesting to see what they could do with them but every region should have a specific trait the excel at and the respective armors should upgrade that trait to make it a viable choice. Imagine if the zora armor just outright made your silver weapons the highest durability and gave you increased attack speed so you can literally shred even with low base attack. To me it’s just sad that you kinda have to make some weapons viable through these glitches.
That's a really good idea! The Goron weapons actually already have a specific trait they excel at, mining/rock-breaking/Taluses (the Drillshaft is the only spear in the game that can break rock walls and destroy ore with a single hit). But maybe they could theme it around the champion abilities, so Gerudo weapons get higher attack damage and maybe some electrical thing, Goron weapons are better at disarming enemies or block attacks when spinning or something (or just a plain old Defense Up), Rito weapons knock the enemy high into the air, and Zora weapons give a small autoheal when you do a lot of damage in a short period of time. (That would be pretty broken!) They could also give Soldier's and Knight's weapons a situational durability damage modifier with the Soldier's armor set, and Royal Guard weapons with the DLC Royal Guard outfit... Sheikah weapons with the Stealth outfit... Forest Dweller's weapons with the Korok Mask... There could even be a Yiga Mask that gives you a boost with Yiga weapons! So many terrible pieces of gear could become so much more viable.
Honestly I just use bombs for cutting down trees because they are faster to switch between two bombs and bombs may hit another tree that’s around u so your hitting two trees with the bombs. Oh also Great frost blade is incredible when u true freeze chain. Great frost blade should be in A
I think the most annoying thing about doing trivial resource collection with bombs is how messy they are. Like, I used to always try to mine ores with bombs because I didn't want to waste durability on anything else, but when you do that the drops go FLYING everywhere and it's easy to lose valuable gems. These days I'll literally use a Royal Claymore to break ores (although the Master Sword is also surprisingly good for that, it seems to take less hits with that than with other slashers).
The item tier list is based on the casual and speedrun perspective of the challenges, main quest as link, that is made clear Yet each tool has an mechanical and physics differences, survival, advantage. The travelers to knight gear are for most hylain travelers, Zora has silver, RIju's people have gold as the main metal for weight. The volcano from the Goron region has rare metals that is used for a durable and mighty bronze colored metal. Each have similar or different center of gravity. Yet each has it's purpose and intended usage. Also the center of gravity is different for each tool.
if this video was uploaded 2-3 years ago it would have blown up because thats right around the time botw speedruns started popping up but still amazing video love the content!
One thing to note is that the lizalfos arm can be used as a boomerang and is very easy to get early game since stal enemies take 2 hits with melee to kill. It's really good for killing hinoxs early game or the hinox in some of the master trials (if you decide to do them legit)
I have a 98 damage Savage Lynel Sword and I’m never letting it break 😅. I use durability transfer because I love it so much. I wear Barbarian armor with it and it’s INSANE
That's cool! In my first file, I have a 100 damage Savage Lynel Sword and use the durability of the Biggorn Goron Sword. In my second one, I have the same sword with a 99 damage. I'm thinking if I try getting the max damage or just stay with it.
Dragonbone club is 50 damage with modifier. With bone armour and attack up it hits hard, and in the trial of sword it’s a life saver. Base damage 24, should be ranked higher than Bad tier.
So what’s crazy is that the Dragonbone Moblin Club has a BASE DAMAGE of 45. Completely wipes all other base monster weapons out of the water, with the exception of the Lizal Tri-Boomerang. 26:00
In terms of looks I really like the eightfold blade because it feels like the closest thing we get to a dagger. It also can deal surprisingly high damage of up to 27 if you get the best modifier. But it’s still just kind of underwhelming
@@Michael_00006 Idk, it look more like a short sword to me. Its used like one too. I'd imagine if daggers were a separate class of weapons they'd also be used a little differently too (stance and swing wise).
I really like this video of yours and I watch it over and over again because you think just like I do when it comes to weapons so excellent job on the video
Fantastic list, and I understand where you're coming from, a mostly, speed runners perspective, but as soon as you mentioned and started taking the durability transfer glitch and duping into account (which I thought you would ignore for obvious reasons), I have to question some of your choices. First, the Guardian Sword++, easy to farm from major tests of strength, it can drop with a max damage of 60, which combined with ancient proficiency, essentially gives it a new base damage output of 108, the highest in the game for single handed weapons, only the Savage Lynel Sword that can drop at 100 comes close. Now attack up lv3 vs everything and a further 30% damage vs. guardians, yeah.... also, slight cherry on top, doesn't attract lightning, so I think it should be at the very least, a good weapon, but I'd personally rank it great. Royal Guard Spear is the best general purpose spear in the game (only the Ancient Spear, even with ancient proficiency, is better vs. guardians), it can drop at 57 damage, very easy to get in the castle either by saving/loading at the fireplace spawn or shock trapping others.... then simply durability transfer/dupe, easily at least a good tier weapon, but again, personally I'd rate it great (but maybe a little bias since I enjoy using spears a lot). Last, the Iron Sledgehammer, I think it's a little bit overrated, sure it does 4x damage vs Talus', but that's only with a base damage of 12, so 48 damage total, when a Boulder Breaker with 60 base is doing 120 with its 2x vs Talus'. Yes, you can get attack up Sledgehammers up to 34 attack, which will then do a total 136 vs. Talus', but AFAIK, there's only one, non-respawn'able, chest, only on master mode that can drop it? (near the Bosh Kala Shrine). If someone can correct me on how to easily acquire 34 attack Iron Sledgehammers, please comment.
The guardian sword++ has an attack of 59,that can be further boosted up to 106 with ancient proficiency, and that can be boosted even further with attack up. It is B tier.
I'm very surprised about the placement of the giant boomerang. As niche as they are, this one is particularly satisfying to use. Especially when you have 5 of them circling around you shredding anything that comes close. Like you basically walk up to a lynel and it just dies.
fair, your opinion and i respect it but im a 2017 OG from BotW and i think savage lynel crusher is one of the best weapons in the game and belongs in S tier and the royal guards claymore has respectable damage but the durability is just plane trash, there for - savage lynel crusher > royal guards claymore
I think the Savage Lynel Sword should probably be S tier when taking durability into account. It can get up to 100 attack so it's the best one hander damage-wise.
Maybe I just didn’t remember it correctly. That was a long time ago, I threw it at something and it broke. I have another one too, but that one has like 39 something damage.
32:26 Actually, I've recently restarted another run of BotW, and the farmer's pitchfork has surprisingly high attack for a spear and a meme weapon Like, it's pretty widely available in the early game, and when I was finding them, they were out damaging or being equivalent to my one-handed swords, only they were spears
Oh boy I cant wait for a totk tier list of either weapons or monster horns, ngl knight weapons and zora really had a buff based on situational, they are controllable situations but still enough to raise an eyebrow
I would argue that the guardian sword ++ should be in the A tier. Unlike the ancient short sword, it can have modifiers that increase its damage to 60, just as much as the fully powered up master sword and the base ancient battle axe ++. As with all the ancient weapons, it can also be buffed with ancient proficiency. All of these factors, combined with the quickness of a one handed weapon make this an easy a tier for me. (It’s only flaw is it’s durability, but I just do a durability transfer from a powered up master sword).
As a quick summary for weapons for me: -Ancient battle axe++ is the best weapon in the game -frost elemental weapons are the best elemental weapons, specifically the spear -elemental spears are best because of the faster attack so you can switch to another weapon quicker -lynel weapons are obsolete -spring loaded hammer is great, really cool to use for durability transfer -spears as a whole aside from elementals are obsolete -korok leaf is almost completely useless -all rock breaking weapons are instantly set up a tier -royal guards weapons are terrible -all bokoblin, moblin, and lizalfo weapons are hot garbage other than the Lizal boomerangs -ancient battle axe is great even though it has low damage because it’s an early game weapon -The ancient battle axe+ is an annoyance -Zora weapons need a separate tier of garbage -mop needs a separate tier of perfect -rito weapons need to go in that custom tier of garbage from earlier -gerudo weapons are mediocre at best -electricity weapons are worthless -champion weapons are good, but don’t feel like weapons of champions and break too easily -master sword isn’t good until you upgrade it to max -all guardian and ancient weapons are instantly put up a tier for having ancient proficiency apply to them and having buffs against guardian enemies And that would be all
As a casual player: -All bows are A/S tier (long rage, stun enemies, deal tons of damage with elemental/ bomb arrows, can use ancient arrows, high durability) This wasn't really within the scope of the video, but is worth mentioning. -Spring loaded hammer is useless other than for durability transfer. -Ice weapons are all A/S - tier because of the shatter effect. If you have two identical really good weapons, it is always beneficial in terms of total damage output to drop one of them for an ice weapon (unless you are exclusively fighting boss enemies). They also cool you down in the desert. -Royal guard weapons are worse than Royal weapons, since their durability is dogsh*t. If you are doing a speedrun, then Royal guard's claymore is really good, and if you do durability transfer it is amazing, but for any casual player it is B/maybe A at best. -Stone smasher is better than Iron sledgehammer (more damage and durability, with all the same effects) -All boomerangs deserve 1 tier higher for throw damage boost. There were a few small things I disagreed with, but overall I think you made a pretty good ranking of the weapons!
i would watch this for bows and armor sets 👀
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I'm really about to sit through 47 minutes of a man ranking swords... and thoroughly enjoy it :)
i appreciate it :)
I just press the arrow key 500 times until it gets to the weapons I use xD
Swords in a video game mind you!
Whoa whoa…let’s not forget axes or everyone’s favorite, the lances!!
Limcube !! #weaponsofthewild
I personally really love the korok leaf because it acts like a zelda item you'd normally get in a dungeon or something. It feels awesome to get that kind of utility just out in the world randomly! I wish some other weapons had this level of experimentation and uniqueness applied to them, like a buffed boomerang or a breakable set of hookshot style weapons!
I agree, I usually keep one of those big yiga swords in a slot bc the wind attack is cool and unique.
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One thing to note about the Royal Claymore is the fantastic availability it has early-game - on my latest master mode run, I made a beeline for the tower by the military training camp, and it has a guaranteed royal claymore at the top of it no matter how much progress you've made. That means that I had a 52 attack very reliable weapon alongside my crappy 20-25 attack early game weapons, which makes things much easier.
Absolute gamer, if he does a shield one I want to see Pot Lid at S tier, anything else is too low
Yes
It’s also the best shield for speed running
That will unironically make at least Solid and probably Good. At least that's where I'd put it
@@Nat_the_Chicken y?
@@ashutoshsamantaray2572 Durability. Shield guard doesn't really mean anything unless you're being attacked by a Lynel (especially if you perfect parry a lot), so any reasonably durable shield is pretty good. Pot lids are more durable than most of the other shields you can get on the plateau, and given how Lim's been accounting for availability, they'd probably rank higher than Royal Guard's Shields. (Durability transfer does change that a bit, but not much.)
i DISAPPROVE! Korok Leaf is SS tier. :P lol nice detailed video Limcube
it has the best range purely because you can launch bombs to the distance easily heh xD
Honestly, true.
If something happens to my Korok Leaf, I am ABSOLUTELY dropping a Savage Lynel Sword when I find a replacement.
Bottom of S tier, because of the diminishing returns for having multiple.
Trying to do all shrines and korok puzzles using nothing but korok leaf and bombs is easily one of the most fun ways to play the game
I LOVE the tri-boomerangs. Its like a royal broadsword, but much cooler looking and much more common, before I had the Master Sword I carried an inventory full of em
Literally an s tier item, dunno what this Limcube’s on about
In my opinion the savage lynel sword would be at the top of s tier. 100 attack one hand compared to a 116 two hand is op, I mean you hit like twice as much as u do with the two handed weapon
True, but double the usage means it breaks twice as fast! I think you just gotta pick your battles, really
@@vroomlucas yeah but he also put the royal guard claymore in S tier because of the durability transfer glitch. So I don’t see why none of the other weapons got this treatment.
i'm currently using a 96 savage lynel sword, hunting for the 100, which i've had on all my other files at some point, so i will get it, and then keep a few with durability transfer. i love using one handers, even if i've mainly filled up my inventory with 116 rgcs.
can you use the durability transfer glitch to essentially repair a previously damaged item?
@@shanelawrence7438 yes, if you have a rare modified weapon it’s really nice.
I would just like to add a few of my cents as primarily a combat player to this. For the most part I agree with the list, but the elemental greatswords should all be in A tier. The great frostblade allows for true freeze chaining, which is among the fastest methods to kill single enemies, and once it's started it's easy to not mess up. The great thunderblade just is really cool in combat with a bowspin and a bit of metal too. The lizal tri-boomerang should also be in A tier, since it's the best boomerang and really easy to get, and boomerangs are probably the coolest sub-class of weapon. The usage in combat is really cool and super useful. I also think the korok leaf actually deserves S tier. It's usefulness in the early game is supreme, with leaf bomb rolls/launches. It also is super useful for it's sailing and puzzle abilities, and it's a weapon I keep on me at all times. Other than that your list is really good.
Wouldnt freezing with the rod and then shattering with the ancient spear not just increase damage and use less durabillity?
To put it in perspective:
-The highest possible base damage of the Great Frostblade is 48.
-A 1.5x boost means 72 dmg.
-And with true freeze chaining, that damage can be boosted 3 times over, meaning 216 dmg *PER HIT* (in actual gameplay it's actually 226, for some reason), which is enough to kill a Major Test of Strength Guardian (the freezable enemy with highest HP) in just 14 hits. The Battle Axe++ can deal a max of 202 to normal enemies and 262 to Guardians, so by this metric, the Great Frostblade could even go all the way up to S tier.
@@Limcube The main thing with it is that a true freeze chain never unfreezes the enemy, being the only known technique to do that. It hits with every 2-handed weapon rotation plus possible double hits. Because it's in a bowspin, it also doesn't run out of charge on the ice, meaning you can quickly kill any freezable enemy without them having a chance to attack. And yeah, blizzard rod then Max damage ancient spear would probably use less durability, the enemy still would unfreeze and it would take much more time than tfc
@@Limcube It would conserve durability but it would be faster to bow spin with frostblade because you almost instantly freeze and break the ice and this can be done quicker instead of freezing then switching to an ancient spear then switching back.
@@cheke_hs it does 10 more damage because enemies get elemental damage every time they get frozen, so every 2nd hit does 10 damage more
Dragonbone Moblin Club I'd bump up to A Tier. Bone attack with attack up and using sneak attacks is awesome, plus being able to easily collect a ton of them. Big fan of it, probably my favorite weapon.
Ah, a bone weapon connoisseur. Tell me, can you actually get the bone buff with Spiked weapons like he said? I didn't think you could.
@@Nat_the_Chicken Yeah, bone attack definitely affects it.
@@soronir3526 Nice, that makes the ability a bit more useful! I'd still mostly only use it with Dragonbone variants though. (When I first read "Bone Atk. Up" I assumed it only applied to the literal bone arm weapons and was therefore a meme set bonus lol)
Agree. It is very easy to get one.
Dragonbone Moblin Club + Phantom Ganon Set should be illegal. Most satisfying Master Mode moment for me is killing a golden moblin with 3 hits.
Can’t believe you didn’t include the best weapon in the game:
The metal box
its true
@@Limcube ikr
What about the metal book case
What about bombs?
Lies it’s the bookshelf bro thought it was metal box💀
i think the thunderstorm rod is a broken resource often overlooked in freezable enemies in tandem with. You can send 3 shock balls at a frozen enemy that get multiplied by 3 because the enemy is wet (frozen) and does another 3x when it shatters on the fifth wave. Little cheezy, but gold enemies and test of strengths become innocuous. Not to mention the aoe of the blizzard rod and the shockwave of the wet enemies, often this kills a whole camp. Niche, but solid uses. Korok leaf also has a solid use as a bomb launcher. Definitely one of the most fun weapons. i like the videos great content.
Like your list! Personally I really like all the thunder type weapons because they can be really helpful in fights against any enemies capable of being shocked. In my opinion they are almost unfair since they give you the ability to continuously hit an enemy without giving an opportunity to hit back. Also, if you are low on weapons, you can steal enemy weapons easily.
One thing about the Thunder Spear that helps it in my eyes: a fully charged charge attack on a metal object or "wet" enemy will send out a shockwave with every hit. At 13 hits maximum, that is a LOT of area damage very quickly.
I mostly agree, but guardian sword ++ can get attack up to 60, combined with the ancient proficiency and attack up that’s 162 damage per hit. You can also use durabiliy transfer from the biggoron sword or spring hammer to get a durability of 110 or 99. And because it’s a single handed weapon you can attack fast and have a shield too.
A little correction: a Spring-Loaded Hammer has the durability of 80, so you would transfer actually 79 to other weapons.
The guardian weapons will always be underrated because most people don't care about them with their lack of knowledge on how overpowered they are. I'd also argue the bone weapons are underrated because while they aren't as effective will still do massive damage and could possibly deal more damage than any non-guardian or bone weapon iirc.
For real these weapons are amazing I keep guardian weapons ++ around for boss killing weapons with ancient armor+att up boost and I can shred through any bosses in under 30 seconds.
Guardian sword++ is still in my inventory despite me just having hit 4000 HOURS!
Guardian weapons with full ancient armor is INSANE damage
Dang, you are very enjoyable, I thought I was going to get bored but this was fun to watch and learn from. Also, I have a comment over the Ancient Sword and Ancient Bladesaw. I see your reasoning as to why they are C class weapons, but if you sell stuff from your inventory and farm ancient parts regularly, you shouldn't have a problem getting them. Another reason would be Ancient Proficiency, it increases the attack power on any ancient or guardian weapon by 80%. Overall, because I don't have a problem getting those two weapons, I'd put them both low on A tier.
Thats super nice thank you !!!
We need a shrine tier list, I would be so interested to see where you put those motion control ones.
SHADOW REALM!
I already know he's gonna put the Test of Strength shrines in S lol.
But seriously though you can get great weapons and shields ALONGSIDE guardian materials so you can get even more great stuff from robbie!
@@shanelawrence7438 Put them in the silent realm.
THE MOTION CONTROL ONES GOING DOWN!
I'd say the Island Shrine is an A tier for what it wants you too do, and thats to be humble. You make have the best armor, your master sword, or a bunch of full health meals. But you have to remember where you came from.
One thing I gotta comment on, the lizalfos arm... Its really a bit more valuable than the other bone weapons, because stal arms don't burn in death mountain, and if you throw the lizalfos arm, it acts like a boomerang, and especially if you go to death mountain earlier, rusty weapons are low and better for using with the octoroks
Rusty weapons rely on RNG to become a good weapon. Stal arms.. Can only be found in night. Getting them is a pain unless you have bad weapons/bows you can sacrifice. Incredibly weak. A ton of other weapons that are much more easy to get outclass it
Also Stal enemies only spawn when I don't want them too
It still sucks
@@fiberoeatsfiber just do some savescumming to get the royal weapons
@@basedkid42 Wow, I forgot I really did make that reply
Savage Lynel Sword is S tier. It is far stronger than Master Sword with attack up and durability transfer+duplication.
Royal Guard Spear is also A tier with durability transfer+duplication.
Ice+Electric weapons are all A tier since you can chain stun enemies into oblivion.
Agreed, it’s a one handed weapon with 100 Atk as the highest modifier
I'm not sure hypothetical maximums are really all that relevant. Fully decked out Savage Lynel equipment has big numbers, but are pains in the ass to get, and by the time you get one, there's really nothing important worth using it on.
Items that are great, but you don't have aren't helping you.
I saw it on twitter yesterday already but I'd really swap the Frost Spear with the Ancient Spear or even put it in S. That's my only big complaint about this list.
The staff itself is good for multiple enemies sure, but if you charge your attack, the spear freezes and shatters one enemy multiple times before knocking them over (silver enemies are usually dead at this point, only gold moblins can take a full combo I think), hitting higher single target DPS than the Ancient Spear ever could with all buffs considered. Ancient Spear is still better for Guardian Types tho
I was going to mention the very op charged combo of the frostspear against stuff like golden Moblins but someone already did that.
I would give a little bit more credit to the one-handed and two-handed dragonbone weapons though (sans spears sadly). If you get the Phantom Ganon armor as soon as you can, it gives stealth and the bone weapons atk increase of 80% if I recall correctly (screw that horrible radiant armor). Haven't played in a while, but I think the bone weapon atk up stacked with the normal atk up bonus just like the ancient armor atk up bonus does... so if you farm dragon horns for a bit that's easy to exploit... even beyond that, those are the 3rd tiers of incredibly common early game weapons so they advance and reach gold mods relatively fast.
The one-handed dragon boko club can reach up to 50 atk, the two-handed dragon boko club can reach 60 and the dragonbone can reach 65... it is easy to farm those idiots with a thunder trap as soon as you see the gold modifiers and use those with the Phantom Ganon armor 80% atk bonus and the elixir's 50% (i think?) Atk bonus. Shitty durability is the issue so you will want a good weapon for durability transfer like the biggoron sword. All of this is outclassed when you eventually farm guardian weapons with gold atk mods and durability transfer into those and exploit the similar double ark bonus those can get, sure... but I found dragonbone weapons to be the litte version of that, and with the Phantom Ganon armor you can sneakstrike your enemies effortlessly for massive damage and minimal loss of durability... I think only Golden Moblins survived that no matter how buffed you are but you can exploit their dumb AI to chain sneakstrikes on those idiots.
Again, this kinda pales compared to raiding Hyrule Castle early, getting 3 or 5 shot bows or the jumping attack shockwave on frozen enemies, but if you enjoy sneakstrikes (and those can be exploited very easily) the Phantom Ganon armor with dragonbone weapons lets you chain those like no tomorrow. Thunder weapons help a lot with positioning yourself behind the enemy for a sneakstrike, as briefly paralyzing them works wonders when tricking their kinda moronic AI.
And that's it I think... I'm curious how would you rate bows in a video... particularly taking into account those "peculiarities" with multishot bows and special arrows; like how the multihit freezes and unfreezes an enemy doing miserable damage or how bomb arrows become duds.
I would definitely put all the elemental weapons in the good tier together. Learning to quick switch them made all the difference in my master mode playthrough. I prefer the flame blade to the great flame blade. A blizzard rod and a high power great thunderblade easily wipe entire camps, even silver and gold enemies.
The Korok leaf is definitely a useful tool and has unlimited use as long as it doesn't hit anything when swung. I almost consider it an additional rune. Unless I'm doing something specific, I will always have one.
Great tier list! Looking forward to a shield review!
EnjoyYourOcean here - Loved what you said about the Eight Fold Longblade, and I agreed with everything you said and how you ranked everything! Looking forward to more content! I like how you ranked the Tri-Fork boomerang because it carried me a lot in my first playthrough
Me: getting ready for school, sees limcube post. Immediately stops getting ready for school and watches
Same here
Please do a shield and bow version, too. Thanks!
Korok leaf underrated. It not only has the one niche you said, it also can be used to sail rafts and launch bombs which is really fun, and it is required for a shrine quest and some shrines casually. It should be at least one tier higher
Also sledgehammer top tier imo it's so useful and easy to find
fair points i agree with mostly
Really great video. I'd like to see a glitchless (no durability transfer) ranking of weapons, but you did address it in the video too.
You are 100% justified with having the sledgehammer in A. It's an absolutely solid weapon at the start of the game, very common to find, and has a good few unique quirks as a hammer that makes it worth keeping at least one (or one of its upgrades, as in stone smasher/boulder breaker) around.
Also the smaller stone smasher is the called the cobble crusher.
Can't wait for all totk weapons* ranked!
*including fused weapons
The One-Hit Obliterator makes a flock of normal Keese more dangerous than a Lynel.
One thing that I’m surprised is never mentioned is that most of those highly ranked weapons draw in lightning during a thunderstorm
One of the most annoying things about BotW's design is how bad spears are (they need higher durability to be useful, and slightly higher damage) compared to "Spin to Win." When I started playing, the test of strength trials caused me lots of trouble, and then I learned how to spin and it became way too easy :(
Yeah the combat isn’t very layered compared to another Zelda game like TP. Melee combat isn’t very fun anymore in BotW, and using bullet time with bows is broken and boring.
At least you can use spears for range so if your a combat pro and often use like insta flurry rush glitches you can use spears so you wont miss the gold/silver moblins/lizalfos and lynels. But doing a simple shield jump makes the game always make sure you rush towards the enemies for some reason.
At least they have high DPS and the thunder spear can cause gigantic and huge area damage if you charge it and attack a metal object
Well now they're kinda op in totk since fused objects add the same amount of damage for every type of weapon
oh yeah youre definitely making a tier list of every combination in tears of the kingdom
Lim being inspired by wolfey is the kind of crossover even Marvel can’t compete with
I agree with the sledgehammer, I keep a sledgehammer, a korok leaf, a torch, a great fire blade and a blizzard rod in my inventory at all times just because they all offer amazing utility
I actually think that you should bump up the dragonbone boko club up to at least solid. This is because while its base durability is only 18 its base damage can be boosted all the way to 50 with the right modifier. Then after this by just wearing the radiant set with its 80% damage increase it would be boosted all the way to 90 damage. That would be the equivalent to the fully powered master sword with attack up 3 and if you combine bone attack up with attack up 3 you would get an insane damage number of 135. Also with the durability glitch you said was good to use you could negate the naturally poor durability with the biggoron sword.
With all that work of farming a weapon and getting the best possible modifier, then using durability transfer and I assume also duping it and consuming attack+++ food every time you want to use it along with an armor set most people don't even bother getting, I think he's justified in ranking it so low because at that point you could've just farmed for a high modifier savage lynel sword.
Good to see the love for the Spring Loaded Hammer! When you were taking about the Biggoron Sword my first thought was, "SLH has to be at least A-Tier, if not S- Tier." Actually a little surprised it was that low: it is the best option for Durability Transfer without an Amiibo. Between that and the Awakened Master Sword, I actually don't use Sledgehammers or Axes anymore, lol! The Sword of Evil's Bane is my Chief Foraging Tool.
This video made me subscribe to you! Seeing you knowledgeable in the game, hearing you speedrun, and also the thourhgouness of your video made me really like you
I like how the fact that LImcube plays Genshin slips out on these RUclips videos from time to time, he names his horse Fischl, plays Genshin music in the background sometimes, and calls the electric weapons "electro"
Never seen your content before (have been watching pointcrow and been playing for only 4ish months) but easily earned a subscription and a return viewer, love the content man!
Learning to launch bombs with a Korok leaf definitely elevated my appreciation of it.
I can't disrespect the soup ladle. I gotta give it S-tier. Due to the fact that in my run right now I equipped it on a dying ancient and didn't want to use up anything else. Throwing the ladle at it in turn killing it gave me my first ever battle axe ++. And since then battles have gotten significantly easier when farming ancient parts. Ladle is my MVP❤
Can't wait for the Totk tier lists!
Gonna be rlly hard bc of the fuse :/
Boomerangs are useful to spare some arrows doing the balloon koroks. Every combo of Ice + thunder weapons is awesome to players who lack combat skills.
I now have 155 hours into this game, and until BOTW 2 comes out I plan on playing it for possibly 155 more. It’s one of the most addicting, immersive games I’ve ever played. If I put my Switch down for 5-10 minutes, then see something about BOTW on RUclips, I always have the urge to get back on and start playing again. 😂
About the ancient sword and bladesaw... You don't actually have to invest in those, as inventory overloading can duplicate these!
Even if you don't consider durability transfer glitch, I still feel like Royal Guard's Claymore deserves at least A tier for one specific use case:
If you climb onto the back of a lynel and do the hilt attack on it, this doesn't consume any weapon durability. So, if you're going around killing lynels, you can grab yourself a 116 damage royal guard's claymore and keep it around only to use here. It will last forever and do a large chunk of a lynel's health. You can easily kill a gold lynel this way by just headshotting -> mounted attack over and over again, while only consuming a couple arrows because your claymore will never break.
I started this video to soothe the frayed psyche as I tackled a threading problem. Literally pushed the commit as the video ended.
Surely this is a sign. 10/10. Would watch/code again.
you forgot that the drillshaft can poke ores on talus' backs from the ground and deals quad damage in doing so
I actually think the korok leaf is very good as you can also make the Bomb Cannon which is fun and also pretty useful as the Bombs are blowing off the enemies.
Also u need the korok leaf for rafts.
But who needs rafts when you have windbombs
korok leafs are how I passed mastertrials in mastermode. Literally just push all the bakoblins and moblins into water lmfao
That’s 2 uses, so I’d say it’s b tier tops
One could argue that the early weapons like boko clubs and sticks to be in a tier above bad but below solid due to very early game at least casually and for challenge runs depending on what they are
I fully agree with this, and my standout there is the Traveler's Sword. It's noticeably better than a lot of other early game weapons, and occupies a significant niche, being the first, and for a long time, really the only grass cutting option you have.
It's also why I rate Savage Lynel weapons so lowly. By the time you can get them, and especially by the time you're worrying about their added effects, what is actually left that you're going to use them on? That Savage Lynel Sword with 100+ power is a trophy at best, it's not helping you.
About the one hit obliterator, it's the only weapon in the game with unlimited durability alongside the bow of light. I know of course you'd probably only put it in c tier and not lower just because it does 1 hit damage when obtained through glitches and will still force you at a quarter of a heart. You almost can't even unequip it meaning you're glued with it without the house. With that considered, it's a good novelty item and could be considered the new meta for no hit, 1 hit damage only challenge runs.
The thunder spear is broken because it actually does way more damage than advertised due to its electrical properties, making it do about 32 (if I remember correctly) per hit. Electricity I’ve noticed is also a completely broken effect in this game, the thunder spear is always one my best weapons when I play this game.
Well, if you do too many hits in a row its electric effect will run out, and you'll have to either wait a second for it to recharge or just use it as a normal spear sans elemental damage.
Blizzard rod is a gift from the Goddess Hylia herself.
I prefer elemental spears over great swords. Mainly because of attack speed.
Quickly disabling enemies help me greatly in Master mode.
I think that the Guardian Swords were really underrated. When farming for guardian parts, my go-to combo is Guardian Sword++ and Guardian Axe++, which can easily be gotten by farming Major Tests of Strength. The reason it is the best is because GS++ is the easiest weapon to break guardian legs with. 6 swipes with the sword to break all of the legs, and then spin2win with the axe to finish it off. It is far harder to break the legs with a spear, and missing even once will give the guardian time to regenerate health. There’s no reason to waste durability of the axe on the legs since any ancient weapon will break the legs in one hit, so the sword is the best and easiest option.
Other than that small detail, this was a great list and very entertaining video!
I'll have to disagree on the Thunder spear's placement on this list. If you use it in conjunction with either rain, or soaking the enemies with chu-jelly, you can effectively wipe out everything below silver rank in an enemy camp with just one full charge attack, with anything strong enough to survive the lag-tastic barrage being easy pickings afterwards. The spin-to-win on the thunder-great sword is arguably even more devastating with this tactic. The spear is easier to find than the greatsword though, with 3 of them held by lizalfos swimming around the tower near the Thundra plateau.
That's right
Watching this after playing ToTK I really miss the weapon designs in BoTW.
especially after using so many silver boko horn weapons, like why did they make it look like that
I saved this video as a reference but just getting back into Zelda, played back in 1986!!!, this is so much!! Dont they just have a rank? Seems like each weapon has a story behind it instead of, "this is the best weapon". I understand each has their place but man I like to just upgrade and move forward. But good video!!
When the iron hammer has the max attack modifier it hits harder than the champion stone crusher. 34x4 is 136 hammer. 60x2 is 120 champion weapon
I like my spears and nobody can convince me otherwise. They are so fast and keep the enemies just far enough away for someone who sucks like me
I actually like the bone arms from stal mobs for most of early game, at least until I unlock my first Champion weapon (99.9% of the time it's Mipha's because I want Mipha's Grace asap)
I think the ancient blade saw is amazing! So is the ancient short sword. The thing about Robbie’s ancient weapons is that they do a 1.5 times damage bonus on guardians. Plus they have better durability than normal major test of strength weapons. When major test of strength weapons do 1.2 or 1.25 times damage on guardians (I don’t remember which.)
This list has been absolutely flipped upside down in totk
I am new to the game so i am still avoiding Lynels but I did kill 2 Talus but gave up on a 3rd one by Hyrule castle because of how much HP it had. I need more weapon stash and hearts. I can get enough hearts now but need to find Hestro the second time. Trying to limit how many times I look up information. That is trying to do as much as reasonably possible without getting answers from others.
I have beat a Hinox (sp?) but only because I had the advantage of height. I passed one up that was on an platform island between bridges near the Great Plateau because I had no cover, and then its the same issue as for Talus.
I still have so much to learn of course. Cant wait :3
To me, it’s so sad that the regional weapons don’t have like a power up based on the regional armors. Like imagine if the fully upgraded zora armor buffed the silver weapons to make them on par with the better ones. Same with de gerudo outfits upgrading the gerudo weapons. The goron stuff would be interesting to see what they could do with them but every region should have a specific trait the excel at and the respective armors should upgrade that trait to make it a viable choice. Imagine if the zora armor just outright made your silver weapons the highest durability and gave you increased attack speed so you can literally shred even with low base attack. To me it’s just sad that you kinda have to make some weapons viable through these glitches.
That's a really good idea! The Goron weapons actually already have a specific trait they excel at, mining/rock-breaking/Taluses (the Drillshaft is the only spear in the game that can break rock walls and destroy ore with a single hit). But maybe they could theme it around the champion abilities, so Gerudo weapons get higher attack damage and maybe some electrical thing, Goron weapons are better at disarming enemies or block attacks when spinning or something (or just a plain old Defense Up), Rito weapons knock the enemy high into the air, and Zora weapons give a small autoheal when you do a lot of damage in a short period of time. (That would be pretty broken!) They could also give Soldier's and Knight's weapons a situational durability damage modifier with the Soldier's armor set, and Royal Guard weapons with the DLC Royal Guard outfit... Sheikah weapons with the Stealth outfit... Forest Dweller's weapons with the Korok Mask... There could even be a Yiga Mask that gives you a boost with Yiga weapons! So many terrible pieces of gear could become so much more viable.
Honestly I just use bombs for cutting down trees because they are faster to switch between two bombs and bombs may hit another tree that’s around u so your hitting two trees with the bombs. Oh also Great frost blade is incredible when u true freeze chain. Great frost blade should be in A
I think the most annoying thing about doing trivial resource collection with bombs is how messy they are. Like, I used to always try to mine ores with bombs because I didn't want to waste durability on anything else, but when you do that the drops go FLYING everywhere and it's easy to lose valuable gems. These days I'll literally use a Royal Claymore to break ores (although the Master Sword is also surprisingly good for that, it seems to take less hits with that than with other slashers).
The item tier list is based on the casual and speedrun perspective of the challenges, main quest as link, that is made clear
Yet each tool has an mechanical and physics differences, survival, advantage.
The travelers to knight gear are for most hylain travelers, Zora has silver, RIju's people have gold as the main metal for weight.
The volcano from the Goron region has rare metals that is used for a durable and mighty bronze colored metal.
Each have similar or different center of gravity.
Yet each has it's purpose and intended usage.
Also the center of gravity is different for each tool.
if this video was uploaded 2-3 years ago it would have blown up because thats right around the time botw speedruns started popping up but still amazing video love the content!
One thing to note is that the lizalfos arm can be used as a boomerang and is very easy to get early game since stal enemies take 2 hits with melee to kill. It's really good for killing hinoxs early game or the hinox in some of the master trials (if you decide to do them legit)
I have a 98 damage Savage Lynel Sword and I’m never letting it break 😅. I use durability transfer because I love it so much. I wear Barbarian armor with it and it’s INSANE
That's cool!
In my first file, I have a 100 damage Savage Lynel Sword and use the durability of the Biggorn Goron Sword. In my second one, I have the same sword with a 99 damage. I'm thinking if I try getting the max damage or just stay with it.
This video made me realize just how many different weapons are in the game
Lim: 'Do you want more BotW tierlists?'
Us: 'Yes'
Lim: 'Which one do you prefer? Bows, Armors, Shrines, Speedrun categories...'
Us: 'Yes'
Why is the great Frostblade and the great thunderblade in B tier you can combo them to get massive damage by swapping them back-and-forth.
Dragonbone club is 50 damage with modifier. With bone armour and attack up it hits hard, and in the trial of sword it’s a life saver. Base damage 24, should be ranked higher than Bad tier.
So what’s crazy is that the Dragonbone Moblin Club has a BASE DAMAGE of 45. Completely wipes all other base monster weapons out of the water, with the exception of the Lizal Tri-Boomerang. 26:00
In terms of looks I really like the eightfold blade because it feels like the closest thing we get to a dagger. It also can deal surprisingly high damage of up to 27 if you get the best modifier. But it’s still just kind of underwhelming
Never knew i wanted daggers in this game until this comment
The feathered edge is a dagger though?
@@Michael_00006 Idk, it look more like a short sword to me. Its used like one too. I'd imagine if daggers were a separate class of weapons they'd also be used a little differently too (stance and swing wise).
I really like this video of yours and I watch it over and over again because you think just like I do when it comes to weapons so excellent job on the video
Im really happy you commentated that, thank you
Fantastic list, and I understand where you're coming from, a mostly, speed runners perspective, but as soon as you mentioned and started taking the durability transfer glitch and duping into account (which I thought you would ignore for obvious reasons), I have to question some of your choices.
First, the Guardian Sword++, easy to farm from major tests of strength, it can drop with a max damage of 60, which combined with ancient proficiency, essentially gives it a new base damage output of 108, the highest in the game for single handed weapons, only the Savage Lynel Sword that can drop at 100 comes close. Now attack up lv3 vs everything and a further 30% damage vs. guardians, yeah.... also, slight cherry on top, doesn't attract lightning, so I think it should be at the very least, a good weapon, but I'd personally rank it great.
Royal Guard Spear is the best general purpose spear in the game (only the Ancient Spear, even with ancient proficiency, is better vs. guardians), it can drop at 57 damage, very easy to get in the castle either by saving/loading at the fireplace spawn or shock trapping others.... then simply durability transfer/dupe, easily at least a good tier weapon, but again, personally I'd rate it great (but maybe a little bias since I enjoy using spears a lot).
Last, the Iron Sledgehammer, I think it's a little bit overrated, sure it does 4x damage vs Talus', but that's only with a base damage of 12, so 48 damage total, when a Boulder Breaker with 60 base is doing 120 with its 2x vs Talus'. Yes, you can get attack up Sledgehammers up to 34 attack, which will then do a total 136 vs. Talus', but AFAIK, there's only one, non-respawn'able, chest, only on master mode that can drop it? (near the Bosh Kala Shrine). If someone can correct me on how to easily acquire 34 attack Iron Sledgehammers, please comment.
The guardian sword++ has an attack of 59,that can be further boosted up to 106 with ancient proficiency, and that can be boosted even further with attack up. It is B tier.
I'm very surprised about the placement of the giant boomerang. As niche as they are, this one is particularly satisfying to use.
Especially when you have 5 of them circling around you shredding anything that comes close. Like you basically walk up to a lynel and it just dies.
fair, your opinion and i respect it but im a 2017 OG from BotW and i think savage lynel crusher is one of the best weapons in the game and belongs in S tier and the royal guards claymore has respectable damage but the durability is just plane trash, there for - savage lynel crusher > royal guards claymore
I think the Savage Lynel Sword should probably be S tier when taking durability into account. It can get up to 100 attack so it's the best one hander damage-wise.
I imagine the scene in which limcube gets offered tons of swords, speers, axes, etc. and he be like "gimme the stick!"
i would love to see shield and bow teir lists
also i love your videos limcube wish you got more publicity.
2:17 "You can freezely safe enemies"
lol
The title said my name 😂 im a veteran since 2017 (not 2015 but my dad was 2015 veteran - wii u zelda botw).
I once got a Royal Broadsword with about 90 something damage from an amiibo or pure dumb luck. With the Barbarian Armor, it does a lot of damage.
90 damage? As far as I know, this sword has the maximum damage of 60, unless I'm wrong... 🤔.
It had an attack up modifier of like 20 something, it broke I think.
@@sanctussilas Oh, I see. The base valor of the sword is 36 and the maximum is 60; so that means the higgest modifier you can get is +24.
Maybe I just didn’t remember it correctly.
That was a long time ago, I threw it at something and it broke.
I have another one too, but that one has like 39 something damage.
@@sanctussilas Good for you :)
"Only weapons, no bows"
Bows: *sad ranged weapon noises*
32:26
Actually, I've recently restarted another run of BotW, and the farmer's pitchfork has surprisingly high attack for a spear and a meme weapon
Like, it's pretty widely available in the early game, and when I was finding them, they were out damaging or being equivalent to my one-handed swords, only they were spears
thanks, this was awesome! hope to see an armors video one day
Point Crow Will Fry You And Avenge The DRILLSHAFT.
Oh boy I cant wait for a totk tier list of either weapons or monster horns, ngl knight weapons and zora really had a buff based on situational, they are controllable situations but still enough to raise an eyebrow
I would argue that the guardian sword ++ should be in the A tier. Unlike the ancient short sword, it can have modifiers that increase its damage to 60, just as much as the fully powered up master sword and the base ancient battle axe ++. As with all the ancient weapons, it can also be buffed with ancient proficiency. All of these factors, combined with the quickness of a one handed weapon make this an easy a tier for me. (It’s only flaw is it’s durability, but I just do a durability transfer from a powered up master sword).
Great vid btw :))
Didn't even realize I've been sitting here for 45 minutes until the video ended
Ancient Bladesaw's teeth keeps on rotating (with sounds effects) when in display at your house.
Now that's an easy S-tier weapon.
i didn't look at the timestamp until i was 10 minutes in and holy COW!!! this was a serious undertaking and you didn't even include bows or shields!
As a quick summary for weapons for me:
-Ancient battle axe++ is the best weapon in the game
-frost elemental weapons are the best elemental weapons, specifically the spear
-elemental spears are best because of the faster attack so you can switch to another weapon quicker
-lynel weapons are obsolete
-spring loaded hammer is great, really cool to use for durability transfer
-spears as a whole aside from elementals are obsolete
-korok leaf is almost completely useless
-all rock breaking weapons are instantly set up a tier
-royal guards weapons are terrible
-all bokoblin, moblin, and lizalfo weapons are hot garbage other than the Lizal boomerangs
-ancient battle axe is great even though it has low damage because it’s an early game weapon
-The ancient battle axe+ is an annoyance
-Zora weapons need a separate tier of garbage
-mop needs a separate tier of perfect
-rito weapons need to go in that custom tier of garbage from earlier
-gerudo weapons are mediocre at best
-electricity weapons are worthless
-champion weapons are good, but don’t feel like weapons of champions and break too easily
-master sword isn’t good until you upgrade it to max
-all guardian and ancient weapons are instantly put up a tier for having ancient proficiency apply to them and having buffs against guardian enemies
And that would be all
Take a shot for every time he sucks air in this video😂😂
Id personally rank savage lynel sword as S myself since I cant imagine life without them but hey, its not my list
As a casual player:
-All bows are A/S tier (long rage, stun enemies, deal tons of damage with elemental/ bomb arrows, can use ancient arrows, high durability) This wasn't really within the scope of the video, but is worth mentioning.
-Spring loaded hammer is useless other than for durability transfer.
-Ice weapons are all A/S - tier because of the shatter effect. If you have two identical really good weapons, it is always beneficial in terms of total damage output to drop one of them for an ice weapon (unless you are exclusively fighting boss enemies). They also cool you down in the desert.
-Royal guard weapons are worse than Royal weapons, since their durability is dogsh*t. If you are doing a speedrun, then Royal guard's claymore is really good, and if you do durability transfer it is amazing, but for any casual player it is B/maybe A at best.
-Stone smasher is better than Iron sledgehammer (more damage and durability, with all the same effects)
-All boomerangs deserve 1 tier higher for throw damage boost.
There were a few small things I disagreed with, but overall I think you made a pretty good ranking of the weapons!