They have deadly aim with their elemental arrows, and will even fire into the sky if you try to take cover behind objects, raining pain from above. It adds up to some pretty hefty damage, and the best part? It doesn’t use up any durability on your weapons!Īs a last tip: DO NOT TRY TO FIGHT LYNELS AT LONG RANGE WITH YOUR BOW. Sidehops are also how you trigger perfect dodges from the scarier club-weilding lynels who like to smash from overhead more often than not (their clubs are some of the absolute highest attack weapons in the game, along with their beastly bows and savage shields!)Īlso: Mounting! Whenever you get a stun off by accurately shooting a lynel in the face(Tip, you’ll have a great opportunity after they finish shooting fireballs at you), you can run towards it and press A to mount! Sadly, it’s not like taming a horse(how awesome would that be?) but you’ll get the opportunity to mash your melee attack button for up to five hits while he tries to buck you off. A well timed sidehop to the left of right will trigger a perfect dodge here. Other tips for combat: Sidehops! Backflip practice is super rewarding, but so is the sidehop! All lynels have an attack where they sheathe their weapon and rush you with their arms on the ground. If you’re not sure if you see a white or silver lynel in the distance, use your camera rune! They have different torso/horse coloring, with purple stripes. I think Silver Lynels only have a chance to show up later in the game, perhaps triggered by collected hearts? The Lynel at Colosseum Ruins is Silver for me, not Red for instance. Thanks for pointing out several locations I hadn’t found yet! There’s a spot or two also worth mentioning, a blue lynel(some have reported it as silver, maybe it upgrades!) is on the peninsula just northeast of Mount Lanayru, and a red one where you have a star marked on that map, just east of the Lanayru Road – East Gate.Īs a quick correction, there are FOUR lynel types.
Here’s a video showing how to kill them: TAGS zelda botw guides, zelda breath of the wild crafting You can also instant-kill a Lynel with an ancient arrow, but they do not drop any parts or weapons this way and you lose a very valuable weapon for nothing. This is a tough to master technique, but isn’t every Lynel fight like that?. You charge your attack than and do the heavy charged combo attack while spinning around him. There is also a trick to glide into the Lynel and start aiming your bow, slowing time in the meantime, and hitting him with the arrows into the head. They do an overhead attack with their two-hander and have very few swinging attacks that trigger backflip/flurry attack opportunities They are the only ones I have a very tough time with. Recommendation: Skip Lynels that have two handed clubs.
You will probably go through a lot of weapons when fighting silver mane ones, while red can be killed with one or two weapons. Avoid all their other attacks and prepare for their weapon swings that you can backflip out of and do a counter attack. If you time it just right you will get a time slowdown and a chance to do a flurry attack.
You need to backflip right at the moment Lynel does his weapon attack. You will have to master the art of Backflip. At 50% and 10% health they do a roar fire AOE so watch out for that. They charge without their weapons (hold your shield up to not get damage, or just move out of the way). They charge you and swing a weapon (backflip dodge this). They have an AOE fire attack you will recognize because of it doing a roar first (run away from it). How to fight Lynel?Īll Lynels have similar attacks. Check out our guide Gold Lynel Locations in Master Mode if you don’t know where to find them. They spawn only after certain conditions are met, and they’re really rare. Before you decide to kill a golden lynel you have to know that your task is not easy at all. You can find them only in new hard difficulty mode named Master Mode. Gold Lynels are introduced in the first Zelda BotW DLC – The Master Trials. ▼Article Continues Below▼ Gold Lynel Locations