Can I beat Breath of the Wild WITHOUT WEAPONS? 

Lynel, freshly resurrected from the blood moon, seeing a crate slowly moving towards it in the distance: *visibly shaking* oh god not again

It’s amazing seeing the difference between the cold, calculated strats of the All Shrines runs and hitting a Lynel to death with a metal crate in a challenge run.

"The way to defeat the enemy is provided by the enemy" - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Zelda watching Link fight his way to Ganon without any weapons for 20 hours in the end is just like 'TAKE. THIS GOD DAMN. BOW'

Ganon: You can't defeat me! Link: **Pulls out shield** Ganon: *Visibly Shaking*

Someone getting the bow tutorial when picking up the BOW OF LIGHT is absurdly funny to me

zelda’s watching in amazement as link parries each ganon’s attack with precision again and again, only to see him literally perform a miracle by walking on air and then t-bagging said ganon. at that point, she’s thinking “why couldn’t it have been anyone else”

stalnox: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me ant: haha bookshelf go slam

The beautiful thing about this game is that beating a Lynel to death with a metal box is totally an intended game mechanic.

Smallant: "Bombs also count as weapons, so they're not allowed." You had my interest. Now you have my attention.

Smallant: I don't think I can do this Taloh Naeg: you can't do this Smallant: and I took that personally

- This is a Cube - Dear God - There's more - NO Link to Lynels, probably.

Zelda: This is the most powerful bow in existence, use it to beat Ganon. Link: I don’t know how to use a bow.

The fact that Ant went savage Lynel hunting with nothing but a box and literally made one commit suicide from just the site of him holding a box, is some of the funniest shit I’ve ever seen in my life

I see it as this: Seeing as the Bow of Light is basically forced on you at the end, and all other weapons were optional, you did beat the game without weapons. Like in the no coins Odyssey run, where you had no choice but to get one coin, if the game forces you to do it, then it doesn't count as part of the challenge. So, not including the one time the game forced you to use a weapon, you successfully completed this challenge. Congrats!

I can't believe he was able to kill a Lynel with a box, and I can't even kill one normally

Imagine. Having the memory where there is just hundreds of dead creatures behind link, but instead of having the master sword he just has a cube.

This is literally the "why are you hitting yourself" speedrun.

Everyone gangsta till link with a cube rolls in

this took the saying "the strongest offense is defense" to a whole another level

He killed lynels with boxes more easily than I could with weapons

Imagine waiting 100 years for the saviour of humanity of Hyrule and they only use a couple of shields, iron boxes and of course, a book case.

I was wondering if this was supposed to be a pacifist run, then Smant started bludgeoning the locals with a magnetic box

I love the glitches, but watching creative use of the game's systems in place is so impressive. I love this game so much

this mans really used the companion cube to take down 7 lynels.

Imagine being ganon and being so close to beating link only to realize he had handicap on

19:26 this part made me imagine Link as a boss whose main mechanic is attacking with that cube, and the lynel can exploit this by launching the cube away to win the boss fight

27:20 Perfect comedic timing on the part of the game tbh, the box despawning just as you were grateful that it didn't was perfection.

Can we all appreciate the fact that this man took the time to turn 20+ hours of footage into 50 minutes for our viewing pleasure? A true Chad.

Basically, this is the run where Link gets a Companion Cube

0:43 "you and your horse are something else" horse: spasming backwards

savage lynel shields: exist Ant: i'll take your entire stock

Seeing you repeatedly backhand those Blights with a shield just makes me think this should be called the "Captain America Challenge"

Now we have an answer to Zelda's question about what Link's path would've been if he hadn't become a swordfighter. 😂

King Rhom Bosphoramus Hyrule: A barricade of books will not protect us Smallant: The most OP weapon

32:47 Sure was nice of that Lynel to wait for you to get him back in frame to finish his descent xD

“It’s over calamity ganon, I have the lynel shields”

Head-cannon: Zelda gives you the Light Bow because she had to sit through the whole boss rush with no weapons and said F*** that.

After this, I have nothing but absolute fear and respect for SmallAnt.

"I know you don't have a brain but I'm trying to teach you" Every teacher ever

The fact that you sound just as awake 20 hours later as you did starting the stream is something I'm truly jealous of.

When those shrine guys talk about "your resourcefulness", they have never meant it more than right now.

I keep coming back to his BOTW videos every month, they don’t get old

I love how this is simultaneously so brilliantly finessed and barbaric. Amazing use of game mechanics to fight enemies without weapons, but also just bashing enemies with metal cubes XD

Me: *Having troubles defeating lynels with good weapons and shields This guy: *C U B E*

I'll tell my kids this is rising of the shield hero..

this is the most creative way i've seen someone play BOTW

SmallAnt would absolutely love to play a bard in D&D and I wish I could witness that glorious roleplay.

Pointcrow: you need at least a bomb to do this challenge. Smallant1: Hold my beer.

Man, Link is sure a good shot considering he's never used a bow before

fun fact: if you use the motion aim option, you can swing metal stuff around with motion controls. it is a lot faster and does more damage

Can we appreciate that he spent AN HOUR beating windblight?

Smallant has made the achievement Return To Sender

Impa: you need 4 divine beasts, a master sword, lots of health and sta- Link: nah, just a metal crate, thanks.

I love how innovative this run is.

"Can I beat breath of the wild without breathing"

Smallant: Uploads at the middle of the night Me: Aw shuckle here we go again 2:18 "At the end of the month I'll be going to New York" Laughs in Covid

So the end of the no weapons run was truly the friends we made along the way...

"Absolutely nothing wrong, nothing at all." *Proceeds to use Terraria Cloud in a Bottle 7 times*

"Through the fire and the flames we parry on" - Dragonforce feat. Smallant

Gordon Ramsay %: Cook EVERY food including the different types of meat etc. (elixirs are optional)

After nearly three years I just now realized that calamity Ganon is every blight combined

Finally! The "the legend of the shield hero" adaptation we needed

Box combat is the most amazing thing I have ever seen. This needs to be in a Manga or Movie or something

i love how he has like a billion hearts, yet one shot takes him down to a quarter of one

Next time: "Can I beat Breath of the Wild without breathing in the wild?"

Here's the blight order explained in 3 words or less Windblight: Easy Waterblight: Easy Fireblight: Easy Thunderblight: Fucking Nightmare Fuel

I once paired a guardian laser with a pot lid and since then when me and my friends played BOTW I was called “Shield God”

dude genuinely you're so entertaining to watch, i love watching these silly challenge runs because not only are they absurd-- but you do them so fucking creatively and smart?? godspeed, my man. i don't often watch speedrunners and people that do challenges in games but i 1000% stick around for your personality and content

I admire your use of technicalities. Also, let’s take a moment to appreciate how brilliant of a game this is considering that you can beat the game in this way. The amount of flexibility this game allows is astounding.

I always thought on my first play through that you would get the blights weapons after you killed them and when I was struggling to beat my first one (thunderblight) I thought “wow the wait will be so worth it!” But no... Scimitar of the seven...

The fact this is even possible just by using the in-game mechanics is so cool. It's almost like the BOTW devs knew people would be trying challenges like this. The ability to grab only the shield out of a pile of loot is genius! Such a cool video, and amazing job Ant! Loving your content.

The fabled legendary item, wielded by legendary heroes themselves to slay the malice that is Ganon... Box Iron!

Smallant: "That's called boxing" Me: No, that is BEAT boxing

I like how he carelessly kills some of the strongest enemies with a big box

9:38 so that’s how you were supposed to do it. I attached Octorock Balloons to it, used Stasis on it in midair, then shot it to launch it over the wall

39:48 Ant: It’s over Ganikin, I have the high ground! Waterblight: You underestimate my power!

me: can't even normally kill a lynel ant: *CUBE*

When I tried to transfer the durability of the hylian shield into my other shields for the first time with menu overloading, I did it backwards and ended up giving the hylian shield crappy durability

When he was using the sheild to carry fire, I was waiting for him to set a wooden shield on fire and use that.

Imagine Ganon, living the life, but then a day later getting beaten by a person with a shield who already died.

The new season of rising of the shield hero looks great. Can't wait for the next episode!

Cant even beat a Lynel or Ganon normally, but ant out here absolutely clapping them 👏🏻

This is one of the best videos of Smallant. Super entertaining from start to finish.

I'm afraid to say that it's impossible to do this in the master mode, and then, a week later he just do it

All this time, we thought he was completing the challenge without using any weapons, but really he was just completing the challenge with his suicidal horse. [edit] The challenge was actually for the horse to kill Link without using any weapons.

"Yeah, this cube scares you, doesn't it? You're afraid of what you don't understand!" Hahaha, amazing.

Imagine if in breath of the wild there was a way to fix your shields and weapons that would have been so cool

No matter how you play BotW, one thing is true for all of us: We are fiercely protective of our horses.

Like how he started the boss rush barely able to use his shield and by the end he was a parry god

22:42 jesus christ that was hilarious 🤣🤣 Caught me COMPLETELY off guard and i bust a gut laughing 🤣🤣

It’s crazy how much creativity this game allows

Honestly though, I love how Fireblight literally took over an hour.

I once encountered one of those flying guardians. At first, I used Magnesis to move a metal box to protect me from the lasers, but then I hid behind a wall and spent at least 10 minutes whittling its health down to 0 with only the box. Worth it.

7:52 horse r a really good and usefull feathure in Zelda botw, nearly Like Rain! 8:35 here we can see another example of How usefull horses can be in Zelda botw

Just so you know, a lv3 Shock Resistance buff ALREADY blocks all damage from electricity, EXCEPT for lightning from the sky. The only additional purpose of the set bonus is to block lightning like the Thunder Helm.

The impressive thing about SmallAnt is that when he's speedrunning, he can still fnd some extra brainpower to be entertaining. It's not like you're expecting to be laughing pretty often, or pretty much at any point, but it's just really enjoyable. Who would've known that when he's not trying to focus and pull of difficult acrobatic maneuvers and skips, it'd be even more fun to watch? Side note, it seems like these last few years there have been a lot more (quantitatively, I mean) entertaining speedrunners than previously. It's going from a hardcore gaming niche, where you see some impressive shit, to something that is legitimately purely fun to watch, with that added bonus.

20:23 Actually one of the sickest dodges I've ever seen in this game

How long was PointCrow watching every stream, I noticed his presence at Akkala Citidel

Smallant created a new strat of combat called "Cubefighting"