10 Tears of the Kingdom Tips from a Speedrunner (No Spoilers)

tears of the kingdom is finally here and the weight was absolutely worth it I'm still in the middle of my casual playthrough and I'm loving every second of it since I've speedrun brother white for thousands of hours though I can't help myself but try and come up with some optimal ways to play and Conquer this new unknown Hyrule but before we get into the tips it's time to quickly make sure I can sustain this unhealthy lifestyle of studying a children's video game for like 15 hours a day so please let me introduce this video sponsor so I have played an unhealthy amount of gentian impact and that's why I'm excited to introduce you to its developers newest game welcome to honkai Star rail a new multi-platform space fantasy RPG from hoyobus in honkai you get introduced to a big ever expanding cast of beautiful design characters with compelling backstories and personalities you'll get to explore diverse space worlds in which you can find treasure chests solve puzzles or just soak in the 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areas areas that you've probably seen in the first 10 or so hours when descending onto the surface but keep that in mind you might see an item you haven't seen this is just the nature of these videos so if you really really don't want any spoilers it's probably still not a good video for you but basically the idea of this video is to show you tips that will help you to essentially get around easier and maybe find some early efficient speed Tech and I want to start with fusions to Shields I've seen a bunch of videos already that explain fusions to your Shield but I want to point out some specific ones that really stick out I think the first one is probably already relatively known fusing a bump to your Shield essentially allows you to do somewhat of a wind bump it's not quite the same but it gives you some great Heights and I'm assuming it's definitely going to be used quite a bit when you basically cheese shrines later on in speed runs and whatnot because you can technically do it within shrines and it's just very powerful keep in mind that bomb floors are relatively rare to come by and they're pretty valuable in terms of damage but it's definitely a pretty cool thing to do you can also use it on sloped surfaces to get some sort of forward momentum the next one is maybe a little bit less known because when I first tried to use it I didn't really get the benefit of it but you confuse a wing to your shield and not only does it look relatively cool but it basically has like a hidden benefit so when you Shield jump you Shield jump a little bit higher which is already useful so you can do like further Shield jumps to maybe Cross Bigger gaps but what makes this in my opinion one of the most powerful fusions is that you can bullet time out of a standing jump and this makes this very strong imagine you're fighting a high knocks you're fighting an enemy that has a weak spot being able to basically jump bullet time and then hit their weak spot quickly is incredibly powerful and something that I would recommend you to learn the timing isn't very hard to do but again it's certainly pretty powerful next up is basically a similar thing to the bomb if you don't have a lot of bombs in your inventory or you want to save them for combat Springs kind of acts as a similar device you can fuse them to your Shield to get a little bit of an extra height uh in your jump so if bomb flowers are something that you want to save for let's say combats then the Springs will help you um basically fulfill the same purpose now last but not least something that I think is really cool is that you can basically you can combine these fusions this is something I haven't really seen many people do you can prepare them so let's say you placed on a bump and you fuse it to your Shield but you don't actually use it yet this will basically be saved in your inventory then you take out the second shield and you fuse a rocket to it we haven't talked about Rockets yet mainly because this is probably the most known Fusion it was literally showcased in the trailer of the game fusing a rocket to your is basically our new version of revali scale and you straight up but I want to show you a different version of this which is taking the rocket fusing it to your Shield but not using it quite yet and instead starting basically a combo with a bomb jump then unequipped changing your Shields and then going like straight forwards this is something that I haven't really seen a lot of people do it's essentially a combo so you first fuse your bum to your Shield you kind of save it so you don't actually use it yet also if you use a rocket to your shield and then combine them and I'm assuming these combinations can go even crazier like I could have had another rocket fuse to my shield to go all over the place so these are basically our basic Shield Fusion combos to go fast in the game and I think they're really powerful so once you really get to exploring the world Moana maybe it can be a good idea to make use of these combinations now next up is what I like to call the auto build wind bomb auto business ability you get from exploring the early Game Underground areas there's a main quest that essentially leads you there and what ultimate is it allows you to save basically your favorite Contraptions and I have only saved one of them as my favorite you can actually have eight favorites basically whatever you build will be saved and if you press y you can make it a favorite and this is the auto build wind bump it's basically is a plank fused to a rocket and it will cost me six zonite to build so if I have nothing and I'm stuck out in the open somewhere I can pay six zonite to build it now keep in mind if you have a plank around or a rocket you can save some zonite when doing so but it works if you have literally nothing and what you do is you basically place on the ground you hit it and you get ready to time a jump before the rocket kind of times out to preserve your forward momentum a little bit and now we've made it onto this rock relatively efficiently I could even continue right if I had a lot of zonite I could build another one of these now On Top of the Rock start with a little bit extra height and keep going and this is one relatively efficient way to get around Hyrule if you want to right it will cost you some zonite but it can be very advantageous and I'm assuming that in the future in speed runs this is something that we'll actually use there might even be a more efficient build but again very powerful and keep in mind if you land next to a plank like here and you take out your zonai device like the rocket in my case here and then you use the Ability it will basically scan for the areas around you right like this and now I can build it without even having paid like any Zone Knight so very powerful highly recommend the auto build wind bump next up will be our first I want to say Advanced trick this will require a little bit more attention because it's not super easy to do but it's not too hard to do either so what this is is basically a mid-air Wing activation um let's say you're flying out in the open somewhere and you don't have a lot of stamina yet or you are about to run out of stamina there's a pretty cool trick you can do first of all I'm going to order my inventory um this is not what I wanted to do I rest in peace rocket I'm going to order my inventory for Zona devices and put my cursor on the wing now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna let's go of holding four Wards until link is basically going back to neutral this is similar to a mid air wind bump input you wait until it's neutral and then you press d-pad up to pull up the wing again now I'm this is weird I'm gonna claw grip a little bit which means my thumb is pressing down up on the d-pad and my index finger is basically pressing the stick forward again and what I'm going to do now is press X to pull out the wing when I press X the menu itself will disappear and the wing will spawn and Link will Glide towards it so all that's left to do is time my B input to lend on it let me show you and there we go now we landed on our wing mid ear which means the wing is actually still carried forward by momentum but link is also on it so we can recover our stamina we can take this even further if we now switch to the ultra hand ability and for example place down a rocket we can actually take this rocket and attach it to the wing like this and then hit it and suddenly we can give our wing a little bit of a boost right and we can continue to do so technically this this allows us to Traverse the Overworld seamlessly whatever my wing is about to time out I can simply do the strategy again so let's say I'm jumping off the wing now I get ready to do the same thing again hopefully this Arrow Cuda won't hit me out of the air this is something that they're actually really good at um I wanna basically emphasize that you should be careful around those guys but once again I get ready to pull out the wing I make link go neutral in the air press up already spawn the wing and then press B to land on it and it's a very powerful trick I would really recommend you to get good at this if you want to again keep in mind I I think this is actually a little bit game breaking so if you want to have a full casual experience maybe sometimes you would miss landing on a specific Island and use a vehicle that the developers wanted you to use but it's a very very powerful Tech in my opinion and I recommend you to get good at it if you want to Traverse the world a little bit more seamlessly again I'm assuming in the future Tech will look very different but don't sleep on the mid-air Wing Landings now if you watched my weapon tier list for breath of the wild this next tip might not be a huge surprise to you I had ranked the blizzard Rod as the most powerful weapon in the game in breath of the wild and even though there is some pretty broken weapons in this game this one still Rings incredibly high if you have a magic scepter or magic rod and you fuse a sapphire to it you can essentially make a blizzard rod and what makes this contraption so powerful is basically its ability to cast an area of effect freeze almost instantaneously I'm basically going to alert this entire Camp so that it runs out to me even gonna wait for the boss for Goblin to get a little bit closer to show you the raw power that this basically is able to do you can use the throw button to cast the big area of effect freeze to basically make all of the enemies Clump together and then put freeze damage still has the capability of dealing essentially triple damage so what I need to do now is I'm gonna choose a powerful weapon in my case maybe this Hammer I don't want to show you all of my weapons here for reasons and then I'm gonna do a jump attack this will not only initially break the freeze but it will also do um a second hit right a second hit in my case from the plunge attack itself so you can see how I'm melting through these health bars like in my case here the boss book hoblin was still staggered and I can just re-freeze them I'm so safe I'm not taking a single piece of damage while constantly controlling the entire camp and setting up triple damage nukes every time I break ice these enemies don't even get the chance of hitting me look at this guy he's still frozen I go over here Dead next guy he was trying to shoot me still frozen dead and this is the power of the sapphire Road don't sleep on it it's relatively easy to make yes you might want to sell a sapphire every once in a while but don't sleep on it it's still as powerful as ever so the next tip is actually a fairly casual one and it's something that I was a little bit annoyed at when the game taught you its mechanics and that's underground exploration I know I'm in a cave right now just because I don't want to show people anything of the underground I think it's a pretty cool occasion to check out when you first play I'm sure a lot of you have already experienced it but what the game teaches you about the underground is the use of something called bright Bloom seeds these bright Bloom seeds basically illuminate the area around you and there is a line from I think it's Joshua in the game that says something like truly skilled adventurous will fuse bright Bloom seeds to their arrows to illuminate the area I think that is an incredibly bad thing to teach I personally right now have around 200 arrows and through my playthrough that's pretty much what I have had for the most time for the most part usually around 200 arrows and people always ask glim why do you have so many arrows this is something that I'm assuming a lot of you already do but don't waste your arrows on bright Bloom seeds There is almost no Advantage at all compared to throwing them if you don't know yet how throwing works you basically press the throw button then you press d-pad up and you select an item that you want to throw in my case that's going to be the bright Bloom scenes you can even like throw them at some sort of Arc to get similar trajectories to arrows I am very mad honestly that the game teaches you a truly skilled adventurous will use arrows for them because honestly it's just a waste of your arrows don't use arrows for bright Bloom seeds it's a pretty short tip but it will save you a ton of arrows don't fall for the game's bait so the next two tips are basically going to be a little bit of a lesson to weapons and specifically how Fusion kind of changes The Meta a little bit I want to start by talking about Spears this is my first tip and how they basically have improved through this game but to start I want to explain something that has changed about the game so in breath of the wild there was something called double hits when you use a two-hand weapon and I basically spin towards the enemy with your back facing them you would get two hits every single rotation this was patched now only on the first rotation you still get two hits with some specific enemies being kind of an exception to this but two-hand weapons are not as powerful as they used to be but Spears are more powerful than ever I'm careful here to not show you some of the spears I own but you can reach insane damage numbers with these beers because what was holding Spears back before was essentially their fuse power or attack power sorry the attack power was much too low I think the highest ones that you could find would maybe be a super modified Royal Guard spear with really bad durability and 50 damage that would be pretty good for a little bit but would break within like 12 hits now you can use a very powerful base spear there's one that you might encounter in the main story and fuse a really powerful item to it again I'm not showing you all of the horns I have here but they can reach incredible damage values Spears in my opinion are now super powerful the DPS is still the same and let's head into the next tip which is going to be tip number seven which as fuse modifiers there is one fuse modifier specifically called water Warrior what this modifier does is it basically makes it so that when link is wet which you can do through several means the and don't quote this wrongly um your attack power doubles right so if you have a high base power spear let's say let's invent a spear okay your base Powers B has 20 damage and you've used a 30 damage horn on it that's a 50 damage spear now if you are wet this spear does 100 damage right now if you use attack up modifiers like a triple attack up Elixir your spear does 150 damage through specific combos I wouldn't be surprised if we can make a spear that hits 200 300 or maybe even something ridiculous like 500 by abusing fuse modifiers together with powerful horns and base weapons so keep in mind that you have modifiers on your Spears right and they have they can have two modifiers first of all I can have this blue one which could be the water Warrior one but they can also have this yellow one which could be an attack up one so let's say you have a water Warrior attack a base Spear and you fuse your most powerful horn to it you are in the rain and you um use an attack up Elixir suddenly your hits might do 200 like you can do this and you've just done a thousand damage right so don't sleep on these combinations and especially Spears uh my tips for weapon crafting in the game now the next tip is a tip for General exploration once you get to a point where you've ran around Hyrule for the most part but you get to the point where you want to clean up specific areas right you've gotten kind of a gist of the overworlds but you know specific goals that you still want to accomplish like reach in a specific Shrine reaching a specific location don't shy away from teleporting to a tower I have tried multiple times to make it work that I like I want to run to a certain location I want to get to a stable and get my horse look at this warp right this is going to take around 20 seconds I'm gonna warp to a tower and then the second I get to the Tower I can immediately activate it skip the cutscenes get shocked to the sky and I can even like combine this with the trick we've shown earlier right I just run here skip the cutscene boom I'm flying up and now if I wanted to let's say there was a cousin on the great Plateau that I wanted to still explore I could combine this with the mid-air Wing trick right um the ski in the game that makes skydiving even more efficient you may or may not have found that yet but again now we can combine it with the wing trick from earlier so let's say I want to get to the Temple of Time actually right and instead of climbing up the great Plateau I just chose the tower so what I'll do now is I'll once again sort by a zonai device get ready to do my trick neutralistic um press up spawn the wing boom and we're on our way basically don't try once you're in the stage where you want to like clean up the Overworld and you don't want to really explore anymore I also really like all the skydiving music just randomly Ends don't shy away from just teleporting to a tower they're powerful for a reason they give you super good easy Vantage Point later in the game you might even get other locations that are high in the sky that you can use to teleport to and get wherever you want quickly so if you're reading this cleanup process and you are not trying to explore every inch of a specific map anymore don't shy away from using your Tower to teleport you into the sky and maybe combine it with the wing trick to reach your locations quickly my next tip is going to be to use Ascent for exploration what does this mean again spoiler warning I'm not showing a big thing here but I'm at the Gerudo Canyon and I'm going to show a specific cave to teach this concept right here there's a huge Cliff we could either build multiple Contraptions or climb for a long time to get up there but there's also a cave down here so what does this mean let's head into the cave I think in my case here the enemies inside the cave might be respawned I will try to just avoid them hopefully they leave me alone because I just want to teach you this concept real quick I'm gonna basically run to the end of the cave and look at the map right now you can see that link is slowly but surely moving under the big mountain side I'm gonna make sure to get as deep into the cables I possibly can and then use a right here it's not it doesn't really seem to be possible but here it is and what's going to happen is that I essentially just saved a bunch and I mean a bunch of climbing by basically making it under the mountain and you can see this cutscene it takes quite long and suddenly I'm all the way up here look how high I am in in comparison now and I'm sure there's multiple multiple other ways of basically using this to your advantage to gain a lot more height the game even if you pay a lot of attention has hidden multiple little Cliff sites around the world to use the center Advantage but don't sleep on the fact that you can do it within caves maybe there's even areas where you can use it in the underground and I can't wait to see how speed runs are going to be using Ascend to their advantage for really clever and cool routing choices so don't sleep on the scent in general I feel like sometimes people forget that they even have the Rune but even use it for exploration more than just solving puzzles and that makes us arrive at our last tip and I know this is a Cheesy one and am I using this tip to re age 10 tips yes um take your time guys I know right now everything is super exciting there's 700 YouTube videos out there early speedruns and you maybe experience the fear of missing out try to keep that to a minimum and this might be this might sound easier than it actually is but keep in mind breath of the wild speed runs where exciting and relevant six years into the game's release like window right take your time you only get this casual experience a single time I have personally not even beaten 50 not even beaten 30 of this game and I will take another two weeks before I even do any speed runs or join the speedrunning discords I want to enjoy this experience I get mind blown every single day playing this game this is shaping up to be my favorite game ever so as much as I preached speedrunning being a fun hobby which it is don't get me wrong and it will be really exciting to look into all of these routes I personally and excited to be running all shrines in the future on my twitch Channel twitch.tv social them cube a little bit of a plug at the end um but take your time I will certainly do so I will take multiple weeks probably still to finish my casual playthrough wrap up everything that I want to do and please do the same you only get your casual experience once if you really want to Speed Run I'm not stopping you but um I just wanted to give you this tip on the road but thank you so much for watching there will be commentated speed runs and challenge runs on this channel following shortly um probably in June mostly I hope you enjoy your casual experience of the game and your early speedrun experience I see you in the next one

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