My favorite weapon period has to be any spear with a rocket attached. So satisfying to see them shoot something down.

If you put a sword on a sword the sword breaks first. As an aside, if you dont want to mess up your weapons for mining, fuse a rock to your shield and just parry the ore youre mining. Breaks the ore in one go.

OKAY! ACTUAL ADVICE! Gerudo Weapons tend to give you a 2x multiplier to whatever material you attach to them. Save your very highest fuse damage materials for a Gerudo greatsword! THEN! When you're fighting Lynels, you can mount them and smack them on the back, In the previous game while you were mounted, you do your full damage of your weapon, BUT, it doesn't decay your weapon for some reason. I'm PRETTY sure the same lack of decay is the same in this game. SO! Find a Gerudo weapon, and make it into a specifically Lynel hunting weapon!

Tears of the kingdom really leans into the whole "screw you dad, i do what i want" vibe that Breath Of The Wild had, where someone could hurl themselves across a shrine's puzzle using nothing but Link's powerful thighs.

For the big floating platform mode of the constructs, I used Recall on the blocks it throws at you which is also effective. Especially cause the one I fought that did that so far was waaaay up high lol

I attached a Moblin Arm to another Moblin Arm for a double handed weapon with 56 damage. I call it my Lynel Smacker. I only use it once I mount it.

A talus stone heart fused onto a thick stick makes for an excellent rock hammer.

Has anyone else fused a hive to their weapons, or just me? May not be the strongest, but it doesn't just do initial damage, but also adds bees stinging your foes. Dope combo. I also made an opal wand. I died before seeing its proper use because the opal bolts flew anywhere but my target. 🤣👍🏻

For breaking rocks, I suggest fusing a Minecart to your weapon instead of a rock. It insta breaks ores, and you can just go to the great sky islands to get free unlimited minecarts.

First time I fought that Flux Construct, I had no idea what it left behind. I never thought to fuse it, so I left. Glad to know they respawn.

The most literal form of chaotic energy would mean the boomerang wouldn't return to the thrower but remain airborne indefinitely and perpetually follow Link on his journey for the remainder of the game.

Didn't realize you can use Ultrahand or Ascend on the block things. I keep forgetting how useful Ascend really is.

don’t forget about shields. there are cool and fun fuses early game that can carry you through: - fusing your shield with spiky things, like a spike ball, a spiky slab, or the spiky part of an armored enemy, will reflect damage back at the attacker. you can also slap the enemies with your shield by parrying - fusing stone platforms onto your shield allows you to be completely unfazed by flamethrowers, gleeocks’ and fire/ice likes’ fire and flame breaths - fusing a trampoline onto your shield allows you to bounce on it once, or immediately stun enemies as they strike you, only works on non boss enemies and non lynels - fusing bombs onto your shield allows you to either bounce off the explosion or blow the attacker up. you can do both by shield bouncing on a group of enemies, which you can then enter bullet time and rain artillery fire - fusing elemental fruits onto your shield also creates explosions but with elemental effects. you can fuse gems onto your shield to have more uses - fusing carts and minecarts lets you use it as a skateboard. fusing a sled allows you to slide on sand and snow faster. fusing a wing allows you to enter bullet time by jumping in place. fusing a rocket pushes you forward - fusing your shield onto a 2 handed weapon is also a good idea because you get a balance spread of attack and defense fusing active zonai devices like flamethrowers, ice and electricity throwers are not a good idea because they drain shield durability even when the enemies aren’t hitting you. fusing a canon or laser is also very imprecise as the shield moves and sways with link’s movements, so you have to stand completely still, which isn’t the brightest idea in combat. you’re also better off throwing puff shrooms, muddle buds and dazzle fruit as to not waste shield durability, and also fuse better items onto your shield

In Tarrey Town to the North-east there's a Goron who can remove matirals from fused weapons for 20 Rupees, you can already do this from your inventory but when you do the fused material is lost, talking to this Goron will let you keep that material. This is more of a mid/late game thing but it is a decent money maker if you get the weapons dropped by Wizrobes take them to be de-fused and then get a gem from it.

Thank you, Ellen, for reminding me that, while I've embraced TOTK'S abilities through exploration, I have been playing its combat like I'm still in BOTW. I'm off to go beat a Flux Construct now, while mentally flaying myself for having decided that the best strategy against them was to run in circles like a headless, arrow-throwing chicken.

So far I’ve been using Sturdy Wooden and Soldier weapons the most due to their new attributes, Knights and Royal weapons seem hard to find/take advantage of their effects

Side note when you have Autobuild you can spawn any zonaite parts like the flame emitter by sticking say an apple to it with Ultrahand and then favouriting it so you can spawn it later.

You can also use fire against the Evermeans. It's chip damage but they panic when they're on fire.

Would love to see a video about weird and useful fusion effects that aren't just about damage. Shields have some good ones, some less known about. One faves are when you add a ruby to a shield: the area around you becomes very warm, letting link walk around in a blizzard all cozy with no other cold weather resistance at all. Link can even skinny dip in cold water (edit: not *most* cold but a lot of winter area water) with no ill effect. The trade off is they are hard to come by, so you *really* don't want the shield its on to break. Using two-handed weapons alongside them is best. Edit: Dragon parts do this as well, the scales I tried being only slightly less effective at swinging the temperature than a ruby.

One of my favorites is a mushroom on a two handed weapon. If you haven't seen a bokoblin fly fifty feet into the sea, you ain't living yet

Attaching a ruby to a sword has given me a much better (and cheaper) heat source than some of the cold weather clothes you can buy

For the flux constructs use recall on the last thrown block to get a shot back If you time it perfectly you can attach a timed bomb to get it dismantled twice

Omg! Just when I thought these games couldn't get any better,they put stuff like this in them!

The way that I have spent hours exploring the depths and never realized the weapons I’ve gotten from those spirits are undecayed omgggggg

Bokoblins need to get into a Skelly Union

Ah of course. What better way to assert dominance than sticking your enemies' body parts on your weapon?

I never thought about that last bonus point, brilliant! Thank you for this it was wonderful!

For the Flux Construct "Floating Plate Phase," just wait until it hurls some cubes at you and get on top of one. Then use the rewind ability, brings you right to the thing.

For quite a lot of powerful elemental fuses easily you can land on the back of a dragon and you can collect shards from the base of their larger crystals. For the flux construct "flat mode" if it's floating too high You can rewind the blocks it shoots at you to get on top as well

Flux construct tip: if its in flat ceiling mode and too high to ascend into, you can go to one of the blocks it shoots out and recall it back to the mothership with you on top.

1:47 I support the practice of peppering the word whirleygig into all of your scripts

That bonus tip, yeah I’ve noticed that too. It can also work against you too if ur not careful. For instance I fused a one handed sword like weapon to one of the Goron two handed weapons (the one that are good at breaking rocks) but it ended up turning it into a slashing weapon, completely terrible at mining. Lesson learned.

Any blunt horn is also great for breaking rocks and you can carry them in your inventory, zonai spear + zonai cannon is my favorite combo.

...okay, two weapon tips i had yet to discover. and one i REALLY need to try out. Beam emitter Boomerang. and thank you for the tip about fusing a two handed weapon onto a one handed weapon. now if they would only let us fuse two already fused weapons together for pure chaotic fun... and not to mention some insane attack buffs.

The last bonus tip is also great for amiibo weapons. They can’t be used as a primary weapon for fusing, but they can be used as a secondary weapon. I like fusing the swords like the White Goddess Sword onto Zora Spears. Those two match aesthetically, it improves the reach of spears, and I think this is my ideal way of using spears now. Some amiibo weapons look silly on them if they’re too big, like the Sword of the Six Sages (they changed it to dusk claymore now which I will not be calling it that) just looks silly on top of a spear

Ellen powering through Lukes’ vacation! 🎉

Great tips and a fun video! Thanks!

Great video and I loved your sense of humor.

I can't wait to see a follow-up video with 7 useful vehicles, like the 1 steering stick + 2 fans

Nice! Great to see one can go wild with the weapon fusions

Honestly, the combination of your livestream and this video got me to buy the game, and I'm enjoying it a lot so far.

Wow did not even think to use ultrahand to pull the block off the flux constructs thanks so much for this great video.

There's a coliseum underground with no less than a dozen ghosts around it, a weapon in every hand~

omg i haven't laughed so hard at the commentary in ages - instant subscribe from me

8:11 ascend! That makes so much sense, i just jumped on the blocks it spat out and rewinded them.

If you attach a ruby you can make fire weapons, and if you attach a ruby to a shield, the shield makes explosions that hurts enemies!

So Link now has the power of super glue?

don't neglect your bokoblin horns attach'em to your arrows for some bonus damage!

Can't wait to see this in the hat for the Xmas Challenge!

This channel is great advertising for TotK, seriously, if I weren't perpetually broke id be doing all this stuff while watching your videos about it

Thanks!

It took me far to long to realise that the platform mode of the Fluxis can also be solved via Recall. And it launches you nicely into the air if you prefer bow attacks.

Great advice! Definitely going to make some of these.

Thanks again

I appreciate the video avoiding spoilers.

Great vid

Sad that you mentioned them, but didn’t point to their best use… any bone arm fused to itself is the best weapon for sneak attacks… until you find some yiga. This allows you to sneak attack four or more enemies WAY out of your league, take their horns, and instantly become mid-game ready.

Thanks for the Tipp with the cubes. 👍

I love fusing a two handed weapon to a bokoblin arm. You get all the damage of the claymore for all of the one-handed weapon type.

5:00 from my experience, when using things like this, don’t let the battery totally run out before stopping & letting it recharge. The durability seems to last longer if you do that.

I have gotten a lot of mileage out of Luke's bomb barrel shield idea. Does no damage to you and works as a great desperation move in battles, and you can also shield-surf onto it for a large boost upwards. Always keep some bomb barrel shields in your inventory. Also attack some to sticks or spears to make throwing bombs. As a note, bomb barrels seem to respawn on reloading an area, so just go to the Hyrule Field Skyview Tower and you can find several barrels and a spiky ball.

This video was so good that I subscribed, which is very rare. And so good that I commented, which never happens.

I havent really found a good way to find good enough weapons that matters yet, but one thing I do have is a shield with a ruby fused to it, that is great for fighting off the cold when you only have a pair of pants to help.

Love this video. Narrators voice is awesome

6:52 I didn't realize that Ultrahand worked on the Flux constructs... I've just been shooting them until they fall apart. Also, when it's in its platform stage I usually just use rewind on one of the attack blocks it uses to get up there instead of ascend, since it's kind enough to send it your way anyways. Surprised that you didn't mention using any Flame-Breath or Ice-Breath Lizalfos horns to get an elemental weapon or using a Talus heart for more damage out of a hammer weapon.

8:13 I never thoughts of this, I have been waiting for it to shoot blocks at me but using the time rewind ability to reverse the blocks back up after I climb on them haha works well when Construct 3 is too high at least

You can attach zonai canons to your weapons so you can attach it to a shield for a somewhat historically timed gun or use it on a one-handed weapon to be like a pistol. A very explosive, firey pistol

I will always reccimend a spear spear just for the absolute reach, spear plus flame emiter for more precision flamethrowing, and the ever useful flat stone on weapon for an ax

Thanks

When fighting a flux construct in its flying phase what I do is reverse time on the blocks it throws at you and climb on one. It elevates you back up to it.

8:47 I found a shrine where everytime you go back in it respawns the spiked ball, you can go back out and in again and basically put it on everything you have

If you want your flame emitter to be at its best trigger it and hold it with ultra hand and point it at your enemies it doesn’t decrease any durability from shields of weapons that way. Striking devices doesn’t decrease durability.

I don't own a Switch and have never played a Zelda game, yet I watch these😇

An ice spear is broken. You can just throw an ice fruit or chuchu jelly to create a square ice piece to fuse onto a spear. You can use it to freeze water from on top of the ice blocks it makes to cross any body of water without using stamina. Just need to be careful because the ice tip will melt and break off, but if you’re just using it for crossing water then you should have fresh ice to fuse back on.

8:13 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Thank you, ive been stumped every time one of those does that. Lol

Something else about zonai weapons. They also get their attack boosts from regular construct parts.

Still haven't seen one of those giant zonite backed rock monsters. But when I saw it here I thought "That's totally shadow of the colossus". Then you said it and my next action was subscribing

My fav is a lazer zonai thingy on my shield :D

on the floaty guys in the depths 1) When you first get near one enough to spawn it, it sets it's inventory and replenishes every blood moon. In order for it to be different, you have to take the weapon... so if you don't want a traveler's sword, chuck it. 2) That guy will always have whatever weapon type he first spawns with. Two-handed great weapon, one handed weapon, or spear. Keep that in mind. 3) In order for a weapon to spawn in the hands one of those dudes, you must have used and broken the weapon (decayed counts) already.

Fusing a zonai canon to any spear and using the R/Throw command gives you a shoulder canon. Easily one of the greatest things ever.

With zonal devices like the flame and beam emitters it's actually better to just activate them and carry them around with ultrahand, that way they never break

A weapon that I think gets over looked is the one handed Yiga sword. It has a sneak attack power up. With puffshrooms and a decent fuse item I was one hitting Silver level mobs if I could get a sneak attack. I made sure I had one ready once I noticed and made mob parties a breeze.

i doubt it would be possible for obvious reasons but what if you could fuse 2 master swords together, also i can't help but wonder what fusing a tail with a skele arm would look like

For mining clubs I like using the massive spiked balls from the big camps, on top of a sturdy thick stick it just looks so cool

Zora weapons are sweet. Sidons sage ability wets the weapons. Add a horn and you're doing serious damage. If you don't have this age ability you can always wet the weapon in a lake or river.

On the platform version of flux construct you can wait for it to send down cubes. Then grab a cube with ultrahand and instantly use recall, then climb on top of the cube and let it take you up to the rest of the construct. There is a ton of creative ways to solve problems in this game

Link is doomguy confirmed. Thats the only reason i can think for why Link is systematically destroying moblins

Lizalfos are my new favorite enemies in TotK, because they are the best source for elemental weapon fuses. They’re everywhere, and both the tails and horns of the elemental versions add that element on top of their fuse damage

It also helps to know how durability is affected by fusing. All weapons aside for rusty and stal arm types get a +25 to its durability by fusing something to it. However keep in mind that whatever you fuse to it has durability too & will break after so many hits, and that both the base and fused weapon take durability damage with each hit! However, items used just for fusing do not break! Meaning that sometimes it's best to use a fuse type item for fusion instead of a weapon, so that you'll have a strong weapon for all of it's durability vs the fused weapon breaking after a while leaving you with a weaker unfused weapon. Still, if you don't have very strong fusion options but come across a strong weapon, it may still be best to fuse the two strong weapons together for the best attack.

Don’t forget talus hearts! Those things are amazing!

In BotW I felt like some kind of tactical genius. I feel so dumb in TotK since I'm terrible with the weapon combos.

Keep up the great work

Annoying Boney Basterds.. now my favourite term for Skeletons in any game

Bows/arrows aren't mentioned, but any eyeball fused to an arrow creates a homing projectile that's pretty good at getting headshots if angled properly.

when the constructs turn into the floating platform you ascend up to, instead of pulling the weak block out, just stand on it and attack it. it can't hurt you up there, and then after a bit of damage it will collapse, leaving you free to attack the weak block again. So esstentially two rounds of safe damage instead of just one! I also didn't think to ascend up into it when I found my first one and was wondering what the hell I was supposed to do to the floating platform!

Not a weapon but I love mirror shields. Situational as to when they’re usable, but when it’s day, you can blind your enemies and make them drop their weapons.

The gerudo weapons are comically good, doubling attack damage after you fuse. Allowing 60+ weapons very early on.

Just saying.... As a pond skipper friend: really do enjoy your videos 😊

Always keep a double boklin arm in your inventory for sneak attack. The extremely high damage combined with the sneak attack modifier one-shot most things.

Such a useful video!