Pre-fuse rockets to several shields to avoid having to deal with that additional jank during the fight.

Pro tip: I recommend farming up plenty of eyeballs (they don’t particularly matter, although you may be able to do a bit of extra dmg with elemental effects, but any kind will suffice). The homing feature makes this significantly easier, especially when combined with Lynel bows. Can take down all three heads in about 3-4 shots without worrying about missing.

Yeah the rocket method is great. You can also use the lightscale trident w a silver lynel horn + Sidons ability w a charged attack to do crazy damage when they’re knocked down

It’s interesting that Gleeoks sorta take the Lynel’s place as the baddest enemy you can find and fight, but Lynels you can actually fight reliably without spending too many resources. If you just keep shooting them in the head and then mounting them while they’re stunned, you can deal lots of free damage to them since your weapon doesn’t lose durability when attacking it on its back. Gleeoks are just always resource intensive. You’re gonna need a bunch of arrows, but your melee will not be spared and those headshots are very hard to get without eyeball arrows. Plus they passively change the environment around them, so you need to get status protection just to be near them. Gleeoks are an investment to fight. But those rare resources that give you massive attack bonuses are certainly worth the effort when you find one, if you can beat them that is.

I recommend using a spring. You can set up a spring behind something that blocks the king gleock attacks and stun them. You can do this 2-3 times with one spring.

I’ve actually been able to take out two Gleeoks using this method! I usually just run for my life 😆 so thank you! 😁

Reminds me of when I discovered you can climb stone taluses, which both stops them from throwing boulders at you _and_ gets you into position to beat the ever-loving crap out of their weak spot. They went from my nightmares to "oh goody, I get some shiny rocks."

If you are short on resources to get up high into the air when fighting against a Frost or King Gleeok, you can use the falling ice they summon as platforms to ride up by casting Recall. It’s surprisingly efficient.

Whoa just learned the rocket shield thing and this is a game changer for me! I've been missing Revali's gale ability and this is a substitute. Also just beat my first gleeok thanks to you!

I just defeated the King Gleeok in the depths. It was the first Gleeok I defeated, and apparently I was underpowered. Each head took several hits from a spiked boko bow, and all the while I had to avoid attacks from all three heads *and* the wings, which kept knocking me down. And the rocket shield didn't go nearly high enough, so I had to ride currents to get high enough to shoot, all while dodging elemental attacks that I couldn't really see until they were too late. What a nightmare. It must have taken a dozen tries, and all I got for it was some stupid hat that I'll never use.

Thanks for the video, my advice is to fuse the rockets to different shields before the fight and just switch shields as the fight goes on saves lots of "clicks"

You missed one. There is a fourth King Gleeok in the "Gleeok Den" area of the depths. If memory serves me it was just east of the Rito Village depths area.

tbh ive just been using x3/ x5 lynel bows and keese eyes (any type can do) to take down the heads, and i found it rlly effective. Plus keese eyes are super easy to farms: some caves have a flock of keese flying out of them as you get close, so just bomb the flock and here you go, free keese eyeballs! (Plus they respawn every blood moon and tend to appear more often at night)

2:37 Counterpoint: I happen to find that phase to be the most fun part about fighting gleeoks. I find it quite satisfying to use the updrafts their attacks make (or recalling the icicles if it's ice), shooting it down from all the way up there, and letting gravity take away that last remaining bit of its health.

Accidentally found the king today. He's easy once you figure out you can stand behind the pillars, pop your head out real quick, and shoot him in his heads until he falls. Once he falls, take your best two-handed weapon and do a charged spin attack while hitting as many of his heads as you can at once. When he flies up into the sky and rains hell down on you, dodge all of his attacks until he stops, then target him with your best bow with keese wings attached and take out the last bit of his health. I found targeting him with a bow when he flies into the sky is easier than trying to fly up on the wind, as he makes it very difficult to fly up because he's dropping stuff on your head. I died twice fighting him trying to fly up to him, and then figured out using keese wings. I was able to beat him on my third attempt. I don't imagine his lesser counterparts are very hard compared to him. I actually haven't fought any of them yet lol.

Another tip: Fuse a wing to a shield. With that you jump just high enough with a shield surf that you can go into slow-mo aiming from flat ground.

When facing a fire Gleeok and it flew up super high then started raining down meteor/fireballs, I implemented my 'f*** you oktoroks/stop hitting yourself' method by reversing time on one of their projectiles. With the Gleeok, it flew back up and hit it, causing it to fall to the ground and take a huge amount of damage from its fall. Amazing and *resource free* if you're ever feeling stuck when it's high up!! I think the ice one has similar ice blocks it shoots down, don't remember about electric ones tho

An even easier method than having to pause and fuse a rocket to your shield is to just ascend through nearby terrain. Almost all Gleeok fights have some terrain nearby that you can ascend through, giving you the necessary height to start bullet time and hit all three heads. The only thing this doesn't account for is their final attack where they fly super high, at which point a rocket shield or similar tactic is called for, but with King Gleeok's I would simply rewind time on the ice chunks that fall down

Thanks for the tip. I guess with this method, the actual hard work is in farming the rockets, which means farming charges, which means farming zonaites. Best zonaite farming is underground, and I get very nervous in dark dank places without a sky above me (even if it is just a game), so this is gonna be, uh, fun.

In case you didn't know, you can find an octoroc and drop a weapon in front of it. Back up, and it will repair it and also put a modifier on it. Save before doing this if you didn't get the modifier you want. This also works with bows.

If you fly under the sky island when Gleeok goes super high you can avoid being hit by the raining elemental beams. Theres a little ledge where you can ascend back to the middle of the island and the damage progress wont be lost. It can save you in a pinch.

Thank you, I was trying to get the twilight set and the king gleeok was really getting in my way

In all honestly having died so many times to a gleeok I learned nearly every movement and timing by heart Like how I learned once stunned on the ground if You time it right when it’s getting up you can knockout 2 of its head and once there shooting there beams you can hit the head shooting first and alternate to the head that starts shooting second and Knock it out easily again and if it’s flying Keese eyes on a 3/5 savage Bow works

As others have mentioned, keese eyeballs trivialize all versions of Gleeok (imo). My first time seeing a King Gleeok, I just used a basic lynel bow and a dozen eyeballs, a half-decent fuse on my weapon and it dropped dead in 2 phases. The real benefit to a lynel bow and keese eyeballs is not having to aim, and getting 3 shots for free. Yes, I realize that means killing a lynel, but as you said, any bow will work.

Thank you for uploading this! After fighting the King Gleeok in the dephts and the one over Eventide Island, I quickly realised that I was doing something incredibly wrong. But this video helped a bunch! I got my Sage's Will and ended up wasting no fairies. The gleeoks couldn't even start their second phase, which I was especially struggling with, because this worked so well and it was quite easy to get the hang of it. It's so weird how difficult the gleeok fights are, especially considering how other mini bosses are relatively easy. I actually consider fighting a silver lynel easier and more fun than the gleeok fights

You can also use two of the horseshoe-shaped bits from the Right Arm Depot in the depths and attach them together - they don't do anything themselves, but it's still a 'construct', but the boss roars, for whatever reason, can't destroy it, so it get stun-locked into roaring. Still best to have a rocket shield in case the roars move it just far enough for the Gleeok to try and take to the skies.

If you position yourself between the two heads and use your spinning ability with a two handed weapon. You'll be able to hit both at the same time. For extra damage on them.

Eyeballs arrows on any strong bow takes the guess work out of aiming. Less rockets required. Just run away giving yourself a little room aim in the general direction of their faces and run right back at them when they are falling... They take decent fall damage btw.

Thank you for the awesome series of videos you've been releasing for ToTK they have been zuper helpful.

If you fuse a Gleeok’s weakness, like fuse ice/splash fruit to fight against fire gleeok, you can one shot each head. Again, it also depends on the bow you’re using.

BLESS YOU! I just took down my 3rd King Gleeok, and using the rocket method, I was able to take him down SIGNIFICANTLY faster and with fewer resources this time. Thank you for this!

I've taken down all the Gleeok myself so I was curious how others did it. Myself I would prefer to just locate a pillar could take cover behind, climb and jump off to enter bullet time. On all single elemental ones it was easy enough to get into the sky to knock them out one last time. The king though was pretty challenging since it launches everything at you and found it much easier to cut my attackd short once it hit 25 percent so I'd be ready to keep it grounded. Adding the rocket shield method would a great backup in case it got up sooner than expected to keep it grounded.

Nice tip! For preparing rocket shields, there's a shrine at the north of the map (the most north one), where inside the shrine there're a couple of rocket dispensers, you can keep fusing all your shields one-by-one and keep coming back to the shrine for more free rockets! 😊

Climbing on the icebergs and using recall really helped me defeat them in the last part of the battle. I was so frustrated when they kept raining elements down on me but I could never get high enough to shoot them out the sky

I like to put down a single spring instead of using multiple rockets. You do have to put it in the right positioning - close enough that you can hit the heads easily, but far enough that he won't blow it away with his wind attack after getting up, but with a little practice it's a very easy method.

What I did to defeat the flame gleeok so easily is use a lynel bow with 5 shot on it and used ice keese eyes so it would be unable to do any of their attacks

If you use the right keese eyeball on the middle head w/ a lynel bow you can take all 3 out in 1-2 hits

Btw guys for the king in the top left, don’t waste on a Sinai device. Go to the sky temple and boost up on ships, they use tulips ability

I'm trying to take out the King Gleeok. Doing the rocket shield and arrows to the heads are not as hard but when it flies higher and starts shooting icicles and one-hit K.O lightnings is when I really begin to rage. There's wind currents you can use but the second I board one I get hit with a god-damned icicle and fall to the grown, right on time to get hit by lightning.

I 1 cycle the King ones. Set up by going in the depths and standing in gloom till 1 heart. Use Knight's Claymore fused with Silver Lynal Horn. Hoverbike right up jump off bullet time and gibdo bone the heads, Spin to win. If you want over kill you can use attack food and Bone weapon proficient Knight's Claymore fused with Midugla Jawbone. Both Silver Lynal or Bone Prof. has enough attack to not let them get up. Just a few mins ago I bagged a Lightning Gleeok before his health bar showed up.

Ultimate cheese strat 1. Place wood (away from gleook) 2. Ignite wood (flint or fire fruit) 3. Stun king gleook (shoot all three heads) 4. Hit gleook (get to fire before it gets up) 5. Use pine cone for updraft (you can throw it or use fuse with arrow) 6. Repeat steps 3-5

Thanks for saving me the trouble to kill this early game. I'll just avoid them until late game.

I used this method to take done King Gleeok in the depths. It was hard but I took him down. Now I can use that technique on the others.

The first time I fought that fire gleeok on the bridge I had almost killed it when it knocked me off into the water 🤣 I managed to climb up without it re-setting - had trouble finding a place to get back up onto the platform because of the over-hang, but finally climbed all the way up and killed it.

If you want to save your rockets for builds etc, what you can do instead is use the first stun round of the Gleeok to toss down a minimum of 3 wood piles & a Flint. Smack the flint with a metal weapon to create a campfire circle so large that it creates & sustains a perpetual updraft that you can use in place of rockets. As long as you or the enemy don't destroy the fires with your attacks, you have an easy updraft to bullet-time from for the duration of the fight.

Thank you for this tip/suggestion. I hadn't thought about the rocket/shield thing and this made it look far less terrifying. Usually I run and hide like a coward when I see these feckers XD

There's actually 4 king gleeoks. 3 in the sky and one under typhlo ruins in the depths

There is a king gleeok in the depths aswell

One important tip that makes it much easier to drop the heads is to use materials that work on the elemental weaknesses. So you can use ice fruit for the fire heads and fire fruit for the ice ones. This dropped them in one hit! For the electricity one there isn't an as effective material (that I know of). But I tested using splash fruit and it took it down in two hits - the same as it took using mild-powerful monster parts, just much easier to obtain.

So the coliseum lightning gleok was the first I tried and I tried so many ways to outsmart it but honestly the aggressive way is the easiest. I used the thunder helm to negotiate most damage and the rest was attack up armor + some random attack up 1 food I had in inventory. The easiest way was just running up the stairs and jump of to trigger bullet time and used my pile of demon king bows (from the boss fight that was like over 100 hours ago, man those bows are old, but useful in serious situations) to instantly kill each head, then wack it’s heads and run up again when it gets up. In the final phase I just stood still as the helm cancel the attack and can easily go skywards to make it splat against the ground. For the kings ones the next day i just took my best armor (helm, memory leather, zonai), cooked one mushroom rice ball for each fight and just went there. I like to mention as this is before any lynel as they still scares me. In a way this was even easier as you can hide behind pillars and climb up them for bullet time. Tho the chaos of the final was a bit much but it’s just to find a good lighting prompt. DO NOT GO ABOVE THE BLIZZARD, you will fall. Either the demon king bow is long range or I have amazing aim but it’s fairly easy to hit the genus hit boxes and the stamina only depletes after each shot so take the time to line it up and spot their head behind the attacks. Tho one time the blizzard was in the way so I had to use eyes. Also fire arrows deals more damage against frost heads and vise versa

Easier strategy - use a campfire and after each time you attack the heads when stun run back to campfire use updraft and rinse and repeat. Less zonai parts and need to fuse over and over.

Just fought and beat my first Gleeok, easy easy thanks for the great tips!

if you're looking for king gleeoks but dont have a lot of battery to get high in the sky theres one in the depths under thyplo ruins

Way late on this. But I'm pretty sure encountered a King Gleeok in the depths in a coliseum looking place. It had the gloom surrounding it beneath the Typhlo Ruins. I noped out of there pretty fast.

Great video now I can actually fight them in a strategic way instead of running up to them hitting it in the stomach once then fleeing out of terror lol

So here's my advice. After 13 attempts because i rushed it. 1:one don't be nervous you can do this at any point in the game. Unless patches take place or you detour too often while doing this glitch causes auto saves to make your main save disappear. 2. Stay a little left of the line 3. Fuse the rock in the pond onto the boulder and stand on that. It could be okay if your slipping a bit. 4. Fuse a claymore to another claymore this will be the first equipped weapon. I used a thick stick as my second. 5. When you get that done and start to load back to the hard save in the beginning (which you can keep using that hard save; you don't need to play the whole beginning each time) im not gunna lie spam the pickup button around you in a circle. 6. I don't know why doing it with two fused weapons might make it easier but since it large you'll hear it clank around. I heard it clank around three times before it glitched out of boundaries. 7. The thing again with you new menu in the beginning 8. And bam go watch his second master sword video with me if you haven't realized your game it auto updating right now yet!

For the King Gleeok in the depths, I just made a fire and tossed a pinecone on it. Launch up in the air, hammer him with bomb flowers. When he starts dropping the ice chunks on the ground just jump on top, use recall to go back up into the air and hammer him some more. Didn’t take too long and he didn’t get in that many hits either.

Protip: Get Elemental Keese eyeballs opposite of your gleeok (fire for ice, ice for fire, ???? for electric) and at least when I was fighting an ice gleeok I could use a lynel bow x5 with fire keese eyeballs and knock down the heads all in one go from one x5 fire multishot, even though they all home in on the same head. Came to this video to see what I'm doing wrong though.

If when it goes down you use a swinging two handed charged attack you can do double damage by hitting two heads at once

This reminded me I had to test elemental weapons to see if they hit harder somehow based on their weakness

As much as I like the Zonai thing people make for the Gleeoks, I tried multiple times to make it work, but it always despawns or it was never in the right position, so what I did that wasn’t so taxing on my Zonai parts was use Great Eagle Bow and a LOT of Keese Eyeballs. As soon as you have the Gleeok heads in you line of sight and able to move, move as quick as you can to fuse the eyeballs to shoot at the heads. The bow made quick work because each shot lets out three arrows. Managed to beat it more easily than my contraption did and doesn’t require as much file reloading.

you forgot to mention that u need a whole pack of 24 duracell AA batteries

Another tip is the Arms of Seven because the sword does a 2x damage permanently when you fuse something to it I usually fuse a Silver Lynel mace horn because it would do 130 damage and instead of using the shield use the Hylian shield and if you have a lot of good shields attach a rocket to each shield because a gleeok will only be down for about 10-50 seconds I think. Edit: If you can’t kill Lynels but can kill other enemies like frost taluses use the hearts of those silver enemy’s will work too.

Now i'll try with the following device: at the bottom that device, that drives auromatically towards enemies and on top 3 construct-heads, one upright in the middle and 2 sideways at the first one's sides. On the flat tops of the sideways heads each 2 or more beam-emitters stacked I think, this one will be able to aim in horizontal direction and hight.

1. Bombs are better than gibdo bones, as would be any ice elemental object for a fire gleeok. Area of effect damage can take out 2 heads at once. 2. Fuse multiple rockets to shields BEFORE the battle so you don't have to stop attacking him when he is down.

I discovered a similar strategy but using a spring, I'd just set it up before the fight and bounce off it every time it stood up to get my head shots, rinse and repeat.

Is there a reward or purpose for killing these things besides using there drops as fusing mats for weapons? Seems like lynels are better to farm

I don’t know what’s wrong but I’ve been using everyone’s tips in the comments and I still can’t defeat the flame gleeok. I had a bunch of aerocuda eyeballs and I had good shields along with swords. I’m starting to feel like it’s too early for me to defeat the king gleeok and get the twilight cap.

X2,x3 bows and gerudo bows are your best friends for gleeoks.

Good video. This man literally The definition of when Micheal Keaton in Batman 89’ said “YOU WANNA GET NUTS. C’MON LET’S GET NUTS!!”

Very interesting, I don't know why I didn't think of this makes it far easier. Also there's some in the depths too, at least 1 king that I know of atm. And aren't certain elements extra effective against certain gleeok heads. Like water/ice against fire and vice versa. What would be strong against lightning if so? Typically been able to 1 shot fire and frost eyes with a fire or ice fruit with a mid strength bow. -certakn elemental eyes might be best to grind for certain gleeok fights if this is true

Thank you so much I have avoided them the entire game but now I want to go battle them. I’m trying to do everything in the game I’m like 250 hours in.

A tip. If the king gleeok gets off the ground and you can’t hit him before the final attack. Use gleeok wings with a Lynel bow. It will reach the gleeok even at its highest height.

I don't know if I'm ready for these jokers yet. I only have 7 hearts, and 2 stamina wheels atm, and It was all I could do to take down a Blue Lynel. I had to use the puffshroom tactic to do that which is kind of cheap, but it worked! I think I'd make my rocket shields in advance here...Maybe make at least 4 so I don't have to do it on the spot.

Hmmm you can just use Keese eyeballs or aero eyes with bows to hit the eyes and sword for king gleeok when it falls, no rockets. I just shoot the keese eyeballs and never let it fly above too high, just keep pressuring it with keese and aero eyes. (Usually when it left half to a third health it will try to fly way above your arrow reach, that is probably when you need rocket?) When it falls just whack the eye shit out of it so it does more dmg. I didn’t receive any dmg from king gleeok too. Got the one in the depths, in king gleeok den.

my first gleok was the king one... and it was in depths. it was really hard, but after a few tries i managed to lower its hp, then it flew really high and started its ulti, my eyeball arrows was not reaching it. it killed me quite a few times. so what i did was i dropped some springs, jumped on them and shot my eyeball arrows, which was barely enough. this method looks easy enough, will try with the otehr gleoks

if you have a really weak bow, you can consider using radiant set with the gibdo bones. Bone proficency does wonders...

I use springs to launch myself high so I can bullet time. If the Gleeok is very high up in the air, you need to use Keese wings or Aerocuda Wings to hit them

Rocket shield turned this king gleeok fight from a nightmare into a cakewalk. Considering how crappy the second phase is I have no regrets. These bosses suck!

I pre-fused a few shields for this. For me it's easier to equip a different shield in battle than fuse another rocket.

I'm am genuinely surprised that no one is mentioning that you can one-shot most elemental enemies by hitting them with the opposing element, which also worked in BOTW. Fire Gleeok heads, for example, can be stunned in one shot if you use ice arrows and I'd imagine Ice Gleeoks are weak against fire (I've only fought a Fire Gleeok so far). I never did find a weakness for lightning enemies, though, so this wouldn't be any help against Lightning Gleeoks.

Thank you my friend, now I am officially unstoppable. GLEEOKS! HERE I COME!!

If you don’t have rockets, you can also use a aerocuda wings if you have good enough aim.

I didn’t need to jump up at all. I had a ton of eyeballs and used them as homing arrows and it worked perfectly.

This seems a lot easier than what i was doing. I was just hiding behind a rock and spamming keese eye arrows.

I stumbled upon one of these like 2 hours in and almost had a heart attack lol

you forgot about the underground gleok

there are actually four king gleeoks in hyrule but one is in the deptsh under typholo ruins and you can get in through the west side

Best way is to Use Keese eyes Aerocuda eyes or any keese eyes Maybe Ocktorok bones and u wanna use a Savage lynel bow With maybe a modifier such as attack up for 5 attack burst and then You might wanna Attack it With a two handed weapon when it stunned and then spin charge attack when it flys up jump of something But if u can’t Use mineru or a rocket then jump of mineru or use a rocket and you can do cool tricks If u use a keese eyeballl such as a 360 AS A FINISHER WHICH IS AWESOME since keese eyeball and aerocuda eyeballs Have a homing ability But doesn’t do much damage with a weak bow so I think you should use a Bow such as a savage lynel or Royal bow Maybe a modifier and you Need fiercely deity or barbarian set

I found a King Gleokk early, cause I spent all game grinding my battery and building cool zonai devices. It was pretty much 1 hit killing me over and over, and I spent over an hour building different kinds of walls of lasers and using the rocks to run around and hide from attacks. I beat it and didnt even know what the rewards were for. Now I know what the sages things are for.... But I dint have any game companions, lol.

There is actually another king gleeok in the depths in a place called the gleeok den, it's on the farther left side of the depths map

The rocket idea already worked wonders!

Super easy fight with the right bow and some eyes, until they just camp up in the sky and you have to find a way to get major air to hit them any more.

Ocktorok balloons are the poor man’s rocket by the way lol. You don’t go into the air as fast but can be used if you don’t have enough rockets. The timing is a bit harder though

the best contraption you can bring is just a control stick to perform jump shots at will

Oh, so basically Rocketvali's Gale. You know, I always hated the cooldown timers on those champion abilities, but with rockets galore, that's no problem.

I make a campfire closeish to the gleeok, throw a pinecone, fly high, shoot the heads, go down and hit till it’s about to get back up, and repeat. It’s been the easiest way for me to do it actually

This was really useful but in your King Gleeok section you managed to kill him before he could unleash any of his powerful attacks. It would have been helpful if you could have mentioned how to defeat those becuase they're really puzzling to defeat as he's out of rocket shield range on them. I gather from Eurogamer that when he's raining down ice bolts you can climb one of these and use Recall to get close to him. Other attacks create an updraft you can exploit with your paraglider. This is easily the most frustrating mini-boss I've encountered and all I want is the Sages' Will! It's a very tough bar indeed to cross and I'm really really frustrated by it.

Really cool tip kill thunder gleok in colo while having lightning helm equiped, your welc9me

Someone please answer this with a response cuz I'm really asking and please let me know whether or not you got this message: where do i get the royal bow in tears of the kingdom? Cuz they don't show up with amiibo drops like they do in breath of the wild.