The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
GameCube
GameCube
It's Like Taking Candy from a Child
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Beaten Game Credit
Defeat all of Zant's forms without taking damage or using the Magic Armor
Beaten Game Credit
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Recent comments
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My additions would be: phase 2 use the boomerang instead of running to Zant to skip jumping phases, just don't boomerang his shooting phase, and strafe left and towards to get hit by minimal shots.
Phase 4 he always appears in the middle after being hit, so you can time a roll right when he appears to get through that phase faster.
Phase 6 I couldn't get the quick spin timing so I charged the first, avoided him briefly and charged a second, then ran around and prayed for RNG he wouldn't appear in front of me and charged the third.
Goodluck!
It was a fun challenge but I wouldn't recommend doing it that way because doing phase 6 with iron boots and not getting hit is pretty difficult. (It's harder than it looks and also maybe kinda rng based)
Idk how much easier this is without iron boots but this strat should work for the fight.
Also mortal draw is broken lol
Btw you need two mortal draws or great spins for each of the first five phases and 3 for the final phase.
I did hit the blizzeta phase with normal sword swings but since I didn't do enough damage to equal a mortal draw I still needed two so that means I technically did the entire fight with the intended number of mortal draws.
If you struggle with this just follow the strats and you should be fine I think.
But yeah my strat assumed you exclusively use mortal draw
Other tips are to use speedrunning strats to make other phases faster, such as mortal draw + 1 attack will push him out of each phase from 1-5, using gale boomerang in phase 2 when he starts hopping to push him faster in his cycles, grabbing him early in phase 3 by lining up your grappling hook at the start, and not standing behind him in phase 4. (I know that last one sounds like a no brainer, but I continually was knocking him off the second pillar in that phase after the first attack, and more often than not he would fall on me and deal damage, making me look like a chump and do my four kings runback to try again due to my impatience.)
In the last phase I found that a jab outranges most of his attacks, so I would jab to outrange him, time a roll away for when he teleports, then jab him again up to 3 times. After the 3rd time, he would do a spin attack, so I would follow up with my own to knock him out of it early. Hit him with a mortal draw to cut a 3rd of the fight down right there. Do again for the next cycle, but on the final cycle, just use a spin attack any time you hear him spawn. If you're lucky, he'll decide to try to spin at you early and you'll knock him out of it, giving you a quick victory.
Before entering: Brush up on your quick spin input. I like WadeB's method of 2 full 360s. Have max HP for the Great Spin.
Phases 1-5: Greatspin/Mortal slash + 1 normal slash. I use the spin on the blizzeta (5th) phase, as it makes hitting the ever shrinking and hopping zant easier.
Phase 1: L Target and strafe left or right while throwing a boomerang.
Phase 2: My personal least favourite, but I did not try the "do not use iron boots" method. I relied on my ears/reaction speed while staying in the centre, and then I took off my boots after blocking his projectiles to go hit him.
Phase 3: After getting the freebie hit on him, go ahead and take your iron boots off! It will make getting to zant after his cursed shell game way easier.
Phase 4: Surprised no one has mentioned this, but Zant seems to always respawn on the middle pillar after getting hit. Also, I dont know what anyone is talking about with getting hit with fall damage. It happened to me 1 time out of the 30 attempts it took for me to complete this cheev. after rolling into the pillar twice, STOP MOVING, TAKE YOUR ADDERALL. YOU WILL NOT GET HIT.
Phase 5: Zant will groan and grow to max size, and your camera will change perspective once he starts floating to your location to drop. Run all the way to one side, and use these cues to determine when you should start sprinting to the other side. This will then give you ample time to line up and throw your ball and chain.
Phase 6: ONLY ONLY ONLY use the quick/great spin. Every other advice to "run/roll around the ring" is just going to get you hit over and over again as he will randomly spawn on top of you and hit you. Instead, master the quick spin, and in the first two hits, he's just going to be chopping his arms at you. For the third, quickspin again and you will more likely than not collide with his spin. Once he slows to a stop, run up to him and quickspin once more. GG.
Here's a visual if you want it. I started the fight with 2 hearts and did not have great spin cuz I thought you got it after the fight lol. The last spin before the final mortal draw should've been slightly delayed but it still worked out, luckily.
https://www.twitch.tv/thepixeljunkie/clip/PiliableSquareSalamanderLitty-eWCzHRKab0D71TRJ
For the last phase, I refused to rely on the quick spin. I swear to god there's a chance of it just not working and after spending a few hours on this, was not taking the chance to do this yet again.
For the first 3 hits, I L-targeted and did the thrust which out-ranges him every time. You have to let go of L when he teleports tho and re-target when he appears.
After the 3rd hit, charged up a spin and let go after a slight delay. Mortal draw when he stops spinning.
From here, I did charged spin slashes back to back between mortal draws.
I do still like the fight overall. But I spent over 3 hours on this and hated every second lol so sick of damageless play perfect achievements.
This is probably not the best strategy. I just don't like quick spins man. Also, DO NOT try to roll around the arena. Tried that for a little over an hour which made this into 3+ hours. It could work but it's just not worth the time and relying on RNG is insufferable.
I don't think locking in to him is very viable. He's too fast and spawns too randomly to check all directions fast enough.
I recommend spin attacking instead. It covers all angles and puts Zant into his hittable phase so you can Mortal Draw.