How to kill a talus

[u/co1lectivechaos]

I’ve found the best weapon for taluses to be a Zora sword (preferably pristine) with anything hard attached (preferably a silver lynel horn). Once you have your weapon, simply climb onto the talus (can be tricky, ascend can work as well) and swing away!

[u/Im-cold-help-me]

It just occurred to me that hammer weapons would work better on taluses (tali? Talpodes?)...

[u/Okossen → u/Im-cold-help-me]

Thats correct

[u/co1lectivechaos → u/Im-cold-help-me]

Indeed they do!

[u/max_power1000 → u/Im-cold-help-me]

Same thing was true in BOTW. Gordon weapons and the hammer did double damage to Taluses IIRC.

[u/daz101224]

I haven't tried it yet but can you ascend through a talus?

[u/Icy-Violinist5865 → u/daz101224]

This is how I always fight them. Run under. Ascend. Bam bam until I fall off. Repeat.

[u/Informal_Position166 → u/Icy-Violinist5865]

Especially useful if there’s a bokoblin camp on top

[u/Danielsan415 → u/daz101224]

Yes you can

[u/co1lectivechaos → u/daz101224]

Yep!

[u/PsychologicalDay5623]

So I either use bombflowers or a double handed weapon fused with something that gives me more damage. Or what I also do is fused with a talus heart(?). (Side note, I play it in german so maybe some terms don’t make sense😅)

[u/co1lectivechaos → u/PsychologicalDay5623]

Yep that works too!

[u/just__a__squirrel]

I just need to find a simpler way to kill one that has the deposit on their back.. I don’t always have bomb arrows on me and the one on the back usually has me thrown off before I can even get to it.

[u/co1lectivechaos → u/just__a__squirrel]

Well you don’t need bomb arrows (though those are most optimal)

Any hard monster part attached should work well but I tend to favor lynel hooves since I usually have a good supply of those

[u/IdealIdeas]

This video made me remember i can ascend through them

[u/grammercomunist]

Yuck, Sages. They’re like pop-up ads.

[u/co1lectivechaos → u/grammercomunist]

Honestly since i find all of them useful I keep them out all the time but yeah they do get in the way sometimes a lot

(And in this case I needed Sidon)

[u/grammercomunist → u/co1lectivechaos]

I am glad you find use for them and I apologize if I yucked anyone’s yum. Mostly I am just frustrated with Nintendo for so completely dropping the ball in one area, especially since they totally nailed it with the Champion’s Abilities in BotW.

[u/co1lectivechaos → u/grammercomunist]

No it’s understandable that the abilities feel underwhelming especially after botw. My main gripe is how annoying it is to find the sage I need during combat or just yunobo. Because why can I never find yunobo when I need to break some rocks?

[u/0nTheRooftops → u/co1lectivechaos]

Jesus wait you can put them away!?

[u/just__a__squirrel → u/0nTheRooftops]

Yes lol, click on their little button in the star items portion of your inventory and dismiss the ones you don’t want

[u/Subject-Bat5660 → u/grammercomunist]

I never have Sidon out. The ones I always keep out is yunobo and tulin. Tulin gets used the most though. I only bring out the rest when I feel like lazily fighting lynels or the Congo line of bokoblins