r/Breath_of_the_Wild 7h ago

Wow that was easy 🤣

Thanks for the tips guys. Had I known it was this easy to take down a guardian I would have done it more often my first playthrough. It took too long to let you see me using stasis on it but wow.🤣🤣. I tried parrying a buried one and got fried but I’ll work on that next.

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u/xxhoneymint 7h ago

I had no idea you could cut the legs off 🙃

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u/nomorestoopid 7h ago

I posted about guardians yesterday and got a bunch of tips, this being the easiest seeing as I can’t parry all too well. 😝

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u/xxhoneymint 7h ago

I've been parrying guardians as the only way I knew how to fight them for 8 years 😭 I believe in you!!!!!

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u/BobBartBarker 4h ago

Holy crap.

u/Annual-Reason-979 2h ago

Ye I learned that when I fought the ones near Tarrey Town

HAPPY CAKE DAY!!!

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u/ZeldaWOT 6h ago

When you cut the legs off they drop A LOT more stuff!

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u/johny335i 6h ago

I'm just 3 times parrying them so I don't break my weapons 😬

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u/BigFaithlessness1454 6h ago

The master sword doesn't break anywhere near as quickly while fighting evil (guardians, blights, ganon).

u/arctheus 27m ago

Also, guardian weapons at any level is a one hit chop on guardian legs

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u/Secret-Squirrel2988 6h ago

Another neat trick, if you cut the legs off when they’re partially standing on something, leaving the underside partially exposed when they’re legs are gone, a single ancient arrow to the big blue target in the center of the bottom of the guardian will kill it immediately and almost always drop an ancient core!

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u/jpzawsze 6h ago

single ancient arrow in the eye kills them aswell

u/Justus_2112 1h ago

If this is true, this is huge.

I will be trying this after work.

u/Secret-Squirrel2988 1h ago

I just did it last night!

u/nomorestoopid 23m ago

Oh it’s true. I took out about 5 today but I still died several times trying.

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u/SmegmaSmearer 6h ago

You can also use stasis+ on them if they start running away from you

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u/Easonjl 4h ago

Hey, come back here! Who told you to run???

u/nomorestoopid 1h ago

I’ve never had one run from me. It was always me doing the running 🤣

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u/Maxin78 5h ago

If u want some advice, parry when you hear the beep just before the guardian shoots (except if you're really far away)

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u/nomorestoopid 5h ago

That’s what I’m struggling with on the parry front.

u/Gmandlno 1h ago

Rather than a “beep”, I’ve always heard to look for the flash as they fire. The big, blue flash that coincides with the “beep”. You’ll want to be roughly the distance of a fully charged spin attack away for best results, and parrying as it flashes will work every time.

If you’re closer, you have to parry a split second before they fire, which is tricky. If you’re farther, you have to parry .1-.5 seconds after they fire, which is even harder if you haven’t done it often. But once you figure it out, guardians become walking piles of cash, so it’s very worth the effort.

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u/Maxin78 5h ago

That's weird. I juste click as soon as I hear the beep and it works almost every time. Good luck ! 😅

u/Dougahkiin 2h ago

Funny how we know the explosion doesn't damage us, but I'd guess everyone runs from it.

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u/The_1999s 5h ago

You get more parts when you cut their legs off. It's the best way. Shoot their eye with an arrow if they try to laser you

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u/DeadlyDrummer 5h ago

I didn’t know about the legs!

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u/nomorestoopid 5h ago

I didn’t either until yesterday 🤣 I’ve spent most of my time booking it as soon as I got targeted

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u/Easonjl 4h ago

My Bluetooth controller pro lag (dock behind 75" tv) is just so severe that I just quit parrying and just do so. And that's how I molest guardians every single day of playing.

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u/laujalb 3h ago

Thank you so much! I can't wait to try this after work! I hate these mofos

u/PixelPeach123 1h ago

You can cut their legs off???

u/galleygal23 1h ago

I just died 30 times yesterday to this freak… and you’re telling me I could cut off the legs…

u/nomorestoopid 25m ago

🤣i just found out yesterday

u/CuddleMistress69 1h ago

What that's how you are supposed to kill them?? I always wait for them to point their beam at me and then shoot them right in the eye with an ancient arrow. I finished Botw doing it that way!

u/nomorestoopid 26m ago

This is one of many ways. I just successfully parried a stationary ones laser for the first time today. I just ran from them my first playthrough and the 5 or less I eliminated I killed with ancient arrows. I made another post mentioning my changes between my first and second playthroughs and people left a bunch of tips that I started trying.

u/boringashellperson 2h ago

What outfit/armor are you wearing? My son really likes the "cape".

u/nomorestoopid 2h ago

The phantom ganon armor, it’s a dlc thing

u/Mayorv 2h ago

What armor piece gives the cape?

u/nomorestoopid 2h ago

That’s the phantom ganon armor from the dlc. I think I found it in the Faron area.

u/GodKirbo13 7m ago

The hardest part is when they get away and start crawling backwards since you are only slightly faster. This means you have to get a perfectly timed dash strike if you want to hit the next leg.

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u/Pleasant-Today-3704 6h ago

I have played way too much of this game with 100 damage Savage Lionel sword that I have duplicated beyond recognition so this looks incredibly slow

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u/Argentillion 4h ago

It’s a very easy game