Lynels are the fiercest enemy in Breath of the Wild — fiercer even than most of Ganon's boss forms — and most people would be right to steer well clear of the muscular lads.
But if you have the right tools, Lynels are apparently a piece of cake. And those tools are easy to come by, because one is the Magnesis power, and the other is a large metal boulder.
Once you have the ingredients ready to go, you just... bonk. Right on the noggin. Over and over again. Look:
As the original poster, さとう菓子, said, this isn't a new technique. People have been bonking Lynels with metal stuff for ages. Here's someone doing it with a bookshelf in 2019:
And here's a video from someone in March 2017, just days after BOTW's release, doing the trick completely naked:
What sets apart this new video is the elegance. There's a great deal of visual comedy in the bonk-bonk-bonk, rather than a more sloppy (but just as effective) technique of wiggling the bookcase or rock around to cause damage. In fact, it's even better with an extra layer of audio:
In case you're interested in why metal rocks and bookcases are so effective against Lynels, it's not because they have an iron allergy: It's all to do with the base damage that metal items do to an enemy. According to PointCrow, the lad with the bookcase above, a bookcase does at least 100 damage, no matter how fast you hit with it, up to a maximum of 300 damage.
A basic Red Lynel has 2,000 health, the Blue Lynel has 3,000, White Lynels have 4,000, and the Silver Lynel has 6,000 HP. That's just 20 bookcases! Easy!
How many bookcases do you think it would take to destroy you? Let us know in the comments.
Comments (27)
This is giving me deja vu... I can't remember as to what though...
That is the greatest subtitle your website will ever produce.
It feels like they are petting the Lynel with the boulder
Loved the last Airbender reference. Hahaha
@MegaMari0 Was just about to comment the same thing, haha.
I'm proud of you, Katie.
That totally should've been done with The Scout's bonk and boink lines.
Link bonked the Lynel? Steady on
@RadioHedgeFund Have you seen the one about the tent flaps? She’s on fire today
Slow news day eh? However when there's a successful attempt at someone throwing the bookshelf in the Death Mountain volcano caldera, let me know. That challenge remains unbeaten
Link used Rock Throw: it's Super Effective!
I came to the comments for the subtitle, glad I wasn't the first to notice. Extremely well done 😁
5 years on and people are still finding crazy ways to beat Breath of the Wild, I love it
lmao! bonked to death XD
@MegaMari0 I was about to say that, too! Toph--er, I mean, Melon Lord--would be proud!
Ah, I haven't seen the bookshelf in a long time! Thank you for the smile.
"the boulder feels conflicted" was a good choice for this sub heading.
I would have gone with "I threw a rock at him!"
“ someone beat him with a bookshelf”
That’s pointcrow, show some respect
Headline overshadowed by ATLA tagline. 10/10, would fannishly comment again.
All hail Queen Toph.
A page right out of Chuck Rocks book.
Can we try paper and scissors now?
The cartoonish brutality of this is immensely satisfying!
Gosh, really? Link bonked a Lynel to death, hope the Lynel was fine with it .
If you guys humiuliate Lynels too much in BOTW then Nintendo will make them even more broken in the sequel
The Boulder's over his conflicted feelings, and now he's ready to bury you in a rockalanche!
"Death by bookshelf". Great !
I wonder how many other things you can beat Lynel's with...?
That's pretty hilarious in the video. It's quite cartoonish. I wouldn't want to use that technique much due to the nauseating camera effect, though.
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