Im actually surprised that. I thought there were lots of bows but now seeing them together they are not as much as a thought. Maybe in the sequel they can pump up those numbers

One big thing about the Duplex Bow is how common it is. Every bow above it is hard to get, whereas you get a Duplex Bow every single time a Yiga member randomly attacks you in the overworld. I'll usually end up with like four Duplex Bows in my inventory just because I'd might as well pick it up.

I was just wondering when this video would come. Also: the ancient bow can pierce trough shields when enemys are blocking and if you are in bullet time the ancient bow goes troigh ganons shield

2:05 you might’ve noticed that the Ancient Bow sends arrows way further than it should for its range of 50 compared to the average of 20. That’s because arrows fired by it aren’t even obeying the same gravity as everything else in the game. Whereas all other arrows fired (and presumably literally anything else) fall at a rate of 9.8, arrows fired from the Ancient Bow fall at a rate of 2.8. Neat, huh?

I agree 99% with this tierlist. You forgot, that the Twilight bow with Durability up has the highest Durability, even more than the ancient bow. The Royal Guards Bow (with durability Transfer obviously)is often used in Combat and maybe i would consider it higher than the Savage Lynel Bow. I agree with the Great Eagle Bow being the best Bow in the Game 100%

The S tier choices weren't controversial at all imo, personally I would've put Falcon above ancient but even from a combat perspective this is a good list.

These are absolutely amazing Lim! Extremely entertaining and well made 👌

Royal guards bow is my favorite! S Teir for sure! But I never thought about quick shot. That's awesome. But I like it for damage with durability transfer. Fun video!

Finally, someone who appreciates the swallow bow and gives it the respect it should be getting!

The duplex bow single shot strat against the Naboris feet was super useful casually too. I actually figured that out in my first casual playthrough. I was having a ton of trouble with the Naboris fight, and thought of using the duplex bow since I needed two shots per foot. I actually didn't expect it to work at all, but I went out of my way to go back to the Yiga hideout and get a duplex bow to try it out. Super shocked that it worked at all, and I really don't think I've ever done that part of the Naboris quest without the duplex bow since. Also I would have personally rated the Royal Bow a little higher, but that's just because of how solid it is for a casual bow. It's definitely not as cool to pick up as a Savage Lynel Bow, Ancient Bow, Royal Guard's Bow, or the Great Eagle Bow, but when your difficulty has scaled high enough, the Royal Bow is super common. In a casual file, I leave a lot of them behind, and I will definitely choose some bows over it, but I never turn my nose at a Royal Bow if I have the inventory for it. I probably would have put it at the bottom of S tier, below the Falcon Bow.

Great list again, I love to hear your thoughts! The Silver bow is weird, I know what you mean. Awhile back I catalogued all I could find on bows' hidden stats, and apparently the only modifier on the Silver Bow is -30% projectile gravity, kind of like the Ancient Bow, but that's -70%. Maybe there's something else because it does feel slow, I wish Zora weapons were as good as they look. Also, for those curious of the specific stats for the Royal Guard's Bow (this is what I've gathered): +50% range before trajectory drop-off 1.5× draw speed +70% projectile speed 0.8× reload speed So the recovery time after firing is slightly longer, but otherwise it's a nutty bow, I love using it!

Even in a video about ranking bows, you can't stop yourself from giving us little snippets of knowledge, like explaining how you can use the Bow of Light outside the Ganon fight. :D I really like it; it goes to show that you're aware other people watching this video might not know about any speedrunning techniques or other glitches, and makes them feel more involved.

You are very good at English, dude. It's a hard and odd language to learn if it's not your native one. I have mad respect for how well you speak it, even while focusing when you are streaming your runs Gratz on the 60k, you deserve it 🤘🖤🤘

I personally love the duplex bows because if I use a regular bow and headshot an enemy and switch to do head shots with the duplex bow head shots immediately frozen again with another headshot and then you can just do that till it dies

The Golden and Phrenic Bows are something I always try to keep one of on hand because they are incredibly useful "utility" items, when you need to hit a tiny korok pot, get a specific dragon part, or nail a specific enemy from extreme range. Honestly though you're right that every bow has a niche where it's amazing, even the humble boko bow is pretty much the single best item on the Great Plateau

Trial of the Sword taught me how powerful supposedly mediocre bows like the Soldier's or Spiked Boko Bow can be when used well. Regarding the Silver Bow, when I look at data tables I cannot find any reduced draw speed or fire rate for this bow, nor have I noticed this in my casual playthroughs. Are you sure you perception wasn't altered by using a quick bow like the Great Eagle or Falcon right before using the Silver? Great video though!

I personally love the bows too just the very basic wooden ones are my favorite but other then that they all have a very unique and sleek design to them

Next are shields

Great tierlist apart from the Twilight Bow, which at least deserves a spot at the bottom of the S tier. It's the only bow that shoots arrows in a completely straight line, has the highest range in the game, and with the durabiltiy modifier, also has the highest durability in the game clocking at 140 (besting the ancinet bow at only 120) making it the ideal weapon for durability transfer. And of course, you haven't neglected to mention its tendency to use light arrows instead of consuming regular arrows which essentially grants it unlimited ammo. Thank you for still putting out amazing videos regularly for BOTW even after 5 years of its release, and congrats on 60k subscribers.

I LOVE the ancient bow. I always have 3 on me and 1 at home so I can duplicate. I also have 7 800 durability ancient shields.

I’ve never tried speed running, so I like the bows that zoom in. Especially for the look out bokoblins & korok nut jars, balloons in some situations. But can see how they are probably not as helpful for your speed run play throughs, after watching a few of them. Interesting to see you ratings & learn more about the different bows! As others have said, your English is so great! Especially keeping it up while commentating & playing at the same time. I learnt German in school, but never got anywhere near your level 😊

I agree almost 100%. S tier is perfect (even though I use the savage lynel bow more than the GEB, but I agree with your reasoning to put GEB 1st). A tier I would put the swallow bow at the bottom and move the royal bow above the forest dweller bow. B tier I would rank the basic lizal bow between the soldier's bow and the traveler's bow. Love what you do Limcube!

Falcon bow one of my favorites. It's so versatile and great durability.

Weird fact about the ancient bow. It actually has the same range as other longer range bows, like all the rito bows and the duplex bow (which all have a range of 40), but the arrows fired from the ancient bow are affected differently by gravity. Normal arrows in the game drop at a rate of 9.8 meters per second, but the ancient bow fires arrows that drop at a rate of 2.8 mps. I really don’t know why they didn’t just make the range longer.

Me doing memory storage glitch just to get the Bow of Light, man that was awesome. Shooting Guardians across the map with pin point accuracy is so fun and it looks absolutely badass. It also lights up dark rooms if you hold it lol

It's no coincidence that on my 100% save file, I have all of the bows from S tier, with the exception of the Falcon Bow, as I have a Durability Up Twilight Bow instead (in order to durability transfer, as it's the most durable bow in the entire game). I think it's also interesting that there isn't a "bad" bow in the game as opposed to weapons, which I'd say stems from the fact that elemental arrows can give you the advantage more than the bow at face value, as well as how you can kill any overworld Guardian even with the puny Boko Bow as long as you have an Ancient Arrow. Can't wait to see your shield tier list btw! :)

I’d like to make an argument for the Royal Bow being in the top of A-Tier The first point is its base power, range and durability are great, with 38 base damage, a range of 20 and durability of 60. The second point is that Royal Bows are relatively common. You can find them on Black Hinoxes and Blue and Red ones once you progress farther into the game. This means that Royal Bows can be farmed every Blood Moon, which makes Royal Bows an incredibly reliable bow to use for everything and not worry about it breaking.

The whole world should be subscribed to this man. Thanks for the awesome content

While bows are really good relative to other weapons, it would have been interesting to see a full tier list that ranks the bows without considering anything else (Basically stretching this list all the way out to F tier). It would allow for more distinction between bows that were ranked in the same tier in this format.

In my opinion the duplex bow is very useful early in the game as it is a multi shot bow and because you can obtain it so easily in high numbers from the yiga. Having six or seven of these in your inventory already allows you to duplicate and maintain items you want to keep with the menu overload glitch. It was the first bow I actively went for in my master mode playthrough. When you beat Medoh first you can have infinite great eagle bows using the duplex bows and are basically set for a huge part of the game. After that it is basically useless tho as the great eagle bow is better in every way.

So fun fact about the Royal Guard bow, even if you aren't using durability transfer, for some reason the Durability Up+ modifier can give it more than double the normal amount, around 45 durability with 50 attack in terms of raw numbers outperforming just about everything except multi shot bows. Couple that with the faster rate of fire and improved range makes it quite fierce even in vanilla as one of the best single shot bows.

Hey limcube looking back at this video because I am new to the channel, this is a very helpful list even without speed runs it gives you a gesture towards what now you should be looking for and your content is amazing and I’m loving it I will probably download a twitch just to watch your streams sooner or later hope ur having a good day❤

hey, fyi, the phrenic bow, according to the wiki "They have a wooden construction, and thus they will burn if exposed to a source of Fire or a Scorching Climate."

I love Duplex bow, the range is amazing, I thinks this is the most easy to get 40 range bow. yiga clan always show up hundred times a day so it's easy to stock up, the two arrows are aiming the same spot is also great too. Usually I will save at least 1-2 duplex bows in my inventory

cant wait for the shield list!

I'd love to see a similar thing for armour sets!

I don't quite agree on a couple specifics, but on the larger picture, this seems close to how I'd rate things. You're right about the silver bow; it's infuriating. Also, I forgot I could dupe the great eagle bow even though I've been duping 5 shot savage lynel bows for months!

I actually completely agree with this tier list. I think range and fire rate are far superior stats to have then just damage and durability. The durability issue for any bow really is solved with the durability duping glitch and if you really want to do big damage then farm 5 shot savage lynel bows or Great Eagle bows or shoot ancient arrows. Honestly, I think I like the quick shot royal guard's bow the most just because it as Limcube said is an absolute machine gun. It has less damage than the 20 attacks up version of it but the firing speed allows you to gun down enemies so much faster and it feels so damn satisfying to use. It does use your arrows like a machine gun would though so either you do the arrow glitch or give Beedle all of your rupees.

When you said you will know in the comments, I actually haven’t used those bows in so long I also don’t remember the 3rd Lizalfos item tier. Oh, ok. Tier 3 is steel. Had to look it up.

Finally, I'm able to see this! Great job, well explained and nice details. :)

Loved the video! Could you do one for shields or armor sets? Love you content Lim!

I was playing in Master Mode awhile ago and I found a stick with the Critical Hit buff.

I played Botw for over 1000h... and I'm not a streamer or Let'sPlayer... I'm just obsessed... I use the ancient bow all the time.

When you were explaining about opions and keeping it repectful my respect for you went from 📈 to 📈📈

I would personally rate the Duplex higher. Its so useful in so many situations, not just that one dungeon. Even in a casual playthrough its a bow you'll always be using.

One thing about duplex bows is that they're super common especially after defeating the Yiga Clan. Also at least in my experience it's pretty easy to do menu overloading with duplex bows as well. Everyone says you should use 3 or 5 shot bows but I have no issues using duplex bows for it.

Some notes from an early 2023 (glitch heavy) perspective: - Ancient Bow, Bow of Light, and Twilight Bow should all be noted that they are considered neither wood nor metal, so they don't attract lightning and don't burn in fire, which is a big point in their favor. You can have them equipped at literally all times and never worry about it. - In my opinion, the Bow of Light is now indisputably S tier due to IST being an incredibly easy glitch to perform. - Because the Boko Bow is so insanely available during the Great Plateau and other earlygame segments and bows being vital to speedrunning, I honestly might rank the Boko Bow _above_ the Spiked and Dragonbone variants. It's sheer availability and lack of competition during that portion of the game push it up by a _ton,_ because like stated in the video, the bow doesn't need to be strong or durable for what it's used for at that point of the game, it literally just needs to exist. By the time the upgraded versions commonly obtainable, so is just about every other bow that outclasses them. Also, Spiked weapons don't get the Bone Attack Up bonus, only the Dragonbone variants do, so the Spiked Boko Bow is even further outclassed. - WMC has gotten a lot of people to appreciate how good a rapidfire bow is, which the Duplex Bow has natively. Additionally, this means a corrupted Duplex Bow with the 10x multishot modifier will be the rapidfire version without the zoom function (not a big fan of the zoom either). This gives the Duplex Bow a really nice niche among those who use glitches as well as speedrunning. On the flipside, the Golden/Phrenic Bows can have the spreadfire effect even with the zoom function, but that's nowhere near as useful. - Again, because WMC took the BotW glitch community by storm when it was discovered, I think multishot bows and quickdraw bows deserve a few points in their favor. Naturally multishot bows will fire in a much narrower spread when given the 10 shot modifier as opposed to the ultrawide spread that other bows get (which does look really cool, but it's more of a novelty than it is useful for combat). Quickdraw bows have an advantage within WMC, because quick fire is the one modifier that will actively make a bow worse if applied with WMC. Therefore, a naturally fast-firing bow still has that advantage over other bows, even when corrupted. Both these combined means that the Great Eagle Bow is still the top dog, even more so now because the damage is so ridiculous that the minor differences in most bows' base damage output are essentially negligible, and you can fairly easily give your GEB 800+ durability and have 80k+ arrows of every type, making both those resources almost complete nonfactors and making the GEB competitive with even the BoL and its ungodly damage output. - Pretty much every "normal" bow (i.e. singleshot, 20 range, regular drawspeed, regular arrow speed, regular arrow gravity) ranks B tier for me. Like previously stated, the differences in base damage are barely a consideration when you're dealing a _minimum_ of 1240 damage per shot, so these bows pretty much all rank the same, as they have nothing to set them apart like absolute standouts such as the GEB and Ancient Bow or neat niches like the Duplex Bow. - The Silver Bow is nowhere near the worst. Its drawspeed is totally bog-standard. Its only change from a standard bow is its slightly reduced arrow gravity, but it's largely symbolic more than anything. The benefit is way too small to make that big a difference, but it is technically better than the others so it would rank top of B for me. - The Royal Guard's Bow is the best singleshot bow in the game, bar-none. It has great range, amazing drawspeed, INSANE arrow speed, and durability is not a consideration in glitch land. I keep one without a multishot modifier on-hand for delivering quick elemental effects (namely freezing) that multishots wouldn't be convenient for. - Savage Lynel Bow is ugly as hell and its sheer DPS is outclassed with WMC. That is all. It's still good and ik people like it but…ehhhh I do glitches for aesthetic purposes. - Because the Twilight Bow is droppable, it does end up being far more convenient for IST purposes, as you don't have to use bow mounts/desync/prompt entanglement to manipulate the TB in your inventory like you do with the BoL, so it earns a few points there. - I've said that the differences in base damage for most bows is negligible, but here the BoL is the exception. Because it's base attack is so high (literally double the RGB, the second highest, and 70 points stronger than the Twilight Bow), it's far and away the best in terms of burst damage. This means that the Twilight Bow is still essentially the "discount Bow of Light" even with WMC in play, especially with the infinite durability factored in. However, the impact is lessened on the Twilight Bow, because a 10x 220 Atk BoL is so insanely overkill that you can get along just fine with a 10x 150 Atk TB and still wreck house with it. - Another essentially symbolic difference is that the Twilight Bow's range is 8000, while the BoL is 500, so it is _technically_ better in that regard, even though the effect is even less notable than the Silver Bow's gravity, because by the time either light bow drops off, the arrows have long since lost their hitbox. However, if you fire them in rapid succession, you can see when the BoL drops off and the TB keeps going. So that's neat. - Your pronunciation of Swallow Bow is just fine :)

You should do a tier list for armour sets!

This was a great video!!! :) I really enjoyed your analysis of everything.

I didn't know the bones attack up buff also applies on boko bows. I thought this only applied for boko/moblin/lezal arms

yooo let's get an armor tier list !!

Do shields next, I also want to see the pot lid in S tier

I really like all the three shot bows

Now cook 1 apple, 1 butter, 3 hearty durians

great video! though i'd put the steel lizal bow lower than the zoom bows. the firing rate is as slow and clunky as the lizalfos that carry them. and the rest of it's stats are very underwhelming except for durability which doesn't matter bc of durability transfer

Bow of light with inventory transfer now should definitely be an S tier, because of how easy this glitch is, like you can get bow of light to any of your saves in under an hour

Durability transfer the ancient bow to the royal guard bow and it is almost the best in the game

great vid! just picked up botw and loving the content

Ancient bow actually has 40 range but the gravity on the arrows when you shoot are low so it shoots straight probably well over 50 Range. The Silver Bow is the same with a range of 20 but the gravity on the arrow is low as well just not as low as the Ancient be Bow so it shoots straight from like 25-30 range. The Royal Guards Bow is the only bow with a range of 30. Not "flaming" you just helping with the info. After Croton made his video I made it my business to collect all the special bows 🤷🏾‍♂️

Could you do a video going over how new routes are found? I kinda wanted to get into route finding, but have no idea where to start

10x damage to towers? No wonder it felt like so much more!

as someone who has "Collectors Anxiety" for those who get the reference, I think the Phrenic bow because if you are using either of them late game it's purely for aesthetic purposes and the Phrenic bow is much more compatible with outfits and weapons(most of them, the Golden bow looks great with any Gerudo outfit, but the Royal bow replaces any other "golden" outfits to be made) thanks for looking at my aesthetic rant, remember that everyone is entitled to their own opinion and the Golden bow is better, statistically -A person who can't equip outfits that don't match for the life of me

I love how he says “Lizalbo”

Lizal Bow, Strengthened Lizal Bow, and Steel Lizal Bow Great vid.. looking forward to more

The only thing I contest is placing Royal Guards Bow above the Ancient Bow. You crazy son.

Definitely agree about the falcon bow and the mighty lynel bow lol I stay using the royal guard bow with quick shot though of course with ancient bow durability transfer 😂

The lower powered bows do have alot of useful aspects. Freezing a horse without killing it and like you said BTB's. Sometimes doing a kill shot is not wanted. I haven't been able to durability transfer bows, keep messing up somewhere. Would love to be able to use Royal Guard's Bow. I think your ranking is spot on. Great job.

I absolutely LOVE these rankings vids :D

One of my favourite hobbies is going to a bokoblin base and bombing everything to shreds with a 5-shot Savage Lynel Bow and bomb arrows. It's really satisfying to see everything being nuked because i am a berserker that kills everything i see.

Spending my lunch breaks watching Limcube. Just vibing😎

I love u lim

Another great list, and unlike your melee weapon list, since you put an even greater emphasis on this being a speedrun tier list, I can't argue. I can only say from a casual runners perspective, I would move the Falcon Bow down to A tier, Twilight Bow up to S tier (because it has the highest possible durability for transfer and all-around great utility). The Bow of Light, however, I would place in its own broken tier above even S tier for how obviously overpowered it is, regardless of how difficult it is to obtain via glitching (although you can simply save edit/mod it into your game if you have the means).

Agree with most of your ratings, including (oddly enough) the Great Eagle Bow. I freely admit I will die on the hill of Unga-Bunga 5-Shot Savage Bow for Damage (and duping) and Ancient Bow for Durability Transfer, but while GE is not best at anything, it is Top-Tier at Everything: Damage, Range, Firing Speed, Durability, Replacability, and Glitchability. Plus it is still my go-to Damage bow in Storms when I am impatient. Only on Death Mountain is Great Eagle a bad choice. Though I may like the Champion the least, I tip my cap to Revali's Ability and Weapon. My biggest disagreement (and even that isn't much) is the Royal Guard Bow, but that's entirely subjective on my part. I am sure the set-up you mentioned is awesome, and I am sure I would be good with it, but I would still put it below the Ancient Bow.

EnjoyYourOcean here, love the video. Also, glad to see my Forest Dweller Bow where it is

Wow, I really like the way you talk about botw. I turned this video on for my coffee and Waffel, now I wanna hear it all and dry the durability change and so on 😂. Hope see you soon on twitch 👍

i want to see a video of your thinking behind armor sets. I get that speedrunners probably dont care about them as much, so i'd be interested in seeing how you rank them amongst (📮) one another.

will there be a speed run category where they allow the bow of light fresh file it would be cool to see how much it can change the time

I never actually thought the falcon bow was good, so guess I'll stop dropping them now, also I never really understood how range works on the bow and which had the best, so this video really helped

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As someone whos been playing the game since December 2017 (put about 1000 hours in the game), I can agree

This was really well made, thank you! I have a sad feeling I was one of those people that were a little negative last time, sorry for that. But yeah I honestly agree with this list like, entirely.

Thanks! Great reference! You definitely illustrated why I need to take my great eagle bow off the wall and use it. I just don't want to break it even though it can be replaced, but that's sentiment and not practicality talking. I need to find and watch a speed run that kills a golden lynel with just a rock...wow. I still struggle to kill non goldens with my best set up. Just the difference between a great player and me, lol. 😀😀😀 p.s. the amiibo cards make it really easy to get all the rewards for a lot less money than buying the amiibo figurines...that's how I keep at least one twilight bow in my arsenal...and I do love them for dragon part farming especially. The amiibo cards are about $24 for a complete set and you can use multiple sets which I didn't expect. I found that out after accidentally buying 2 sets thinking I had wasted my money but thought what the heck, I will just try it and both sets work on the same day. It's still a pay wall, but $24 -is a lot more affordable than hundreds of dollars for the figurines.

Actually in my opinion, the boko bows are B tier since when you're OP and that you farmed a lot, you one-shot basically bokos that can be frozen, with just one arrow, which is very annoying if you want to perform BTBs (and so freeze the boko and not kill him). Since boko bows are so easy to obtain, I think it deserves B tier (and yes, I have one in my inventory all the time). Edit : Oops... just saw the end of the video so... yeah.

Great video! Totally agree about the falcon bow. I love it.

Can't wait for the Shield tier list next.

Royal bow is one of my favourite bows in the game but that's just as a casual player. I'd Probably put it low s tier.

Now that the BOL is able to be transferred with IST in less than 2 hours. I think it’s a lot better

Boom, been waiting for this

Also the ancient bow pierces through shields which makes it even better

Mine would look pretty much alike except that the great eagel bow and savage lynel bow would switch, great video!

Thanks a lot Lim ! Hope you're having good time in your new basement ? I was waiting for your next video and I'm fully understand your classement. Because you're asking, could you how us quickly what's happenning on your 999 quest on YT? It would be great, even for a quick one, just to feel your mind set. All the best !!

As a veteran, royal bow is underated

Ok you did the royal bow dirty here. Really high durability, high damage and metal. Its the best single shot bow for a casual play through besides the ancient. It’s top of A at least in my opinion.

Ngl, i love the silver bow, cause it has a lot of durability for the early game, so it ends up being a very useful cheap bow early.

Right now there's a easier way to get the light bow, maybe not that easy but easier than Before

Fun fact: When you shoot a tower enemy in the head, it gives you a 10000 multiplier

I have always wondered how attatching bones to a boko bow makes it stronger. You aren't even shooting the bones, they're just there...

It’s just comes down to priorities, what things do you consider essential for your needs.

Surprised you failed to mention that the Twilight Bow (at least with durability up modifier) has higher durability than the Ancient Bow, making it a better target for transferring its durability onto other bows. Not sure if I would bump it up a tier for that reason, but it is something to bring up.

Anytime im feeling defeated/goalless in my casual run, i go around and kill every lyonel, so my slots r almost always stacked with lyonel stuff, which means i had no idea how poorly they stacked up against other bows so. Thank you for this information truly. Also, it majes having the normal lyonel bow feel worse than a boko bow. I Detest the normal lyonel bow