EVERY Enemy in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Ranked from Worst to Best 

Two things, 1: All Stal Enemies (except the Stalnox) can be instantly killed by throwing a Dazzlefruit. 2: Regardless of their ranking here, the Bokoblins are my favorite enemy in the Era of the Wild. They had so much character in BotW that I didn't think they could be improved, but TotK added something unnecessary; with the Bokoblin patrols led by a Boss Bokoblin, if you use an Ancient Arrow to take out the Boss Boko without being spotted by the rest, they will look around confused for a short time and then start crying out, mourning their fallen leader. NINTENDO DIDN'T NEED TO DO THIS! Now I just feel bad for the most common enemy!

My brother found Horroblins creepy, I personally found them hilarious.

I like to compare the three “generic” monster enemies to the pieces of the tri force. The Bokoblins are courage since they go straight in with reckless abandon, the Moblins are power, of course, and the lizalfos with their resourcefulness are wisdom.

I really miss Guardians. I get why they’re gone, between the story progression and the bugs that the new game systems would have introduced… but it would’ve been so cool seeing the new ways people could style on them with Zonai devices. I hope they add a lone Guardian somewhere in a future DLC. They’re just so fun.

Gibdos and redeads are separate enemies. Gibdos don't do the horrifying screams to paralyze Link. I am surprised we didn't get Darknaut as a miniboss enemy in this. It could have been like a mini version of fighting Ganon himself where you have to be good at parries or flurry rushes or even have some fast reaction to hit their weakness.

Something to note about the little Froxes is that they eat any brightblooms you've shot/thrown, so they can cause your vision to be decreased if you haven't gotten a nearby Lightroot yet.

I honestly love lynels because they feel more like bosses than most of the actual bosses with their tons of different attacks as well as them being a tutorial for parrying. Them getting even more attacks to learn in totk is something I love and I can't wait to play totk partially for this

9:34 I can't imagine finding Horriblins scary instead of adorable. They have that same great goofy energy Lizalfos do.

Gibdos were always one of the scariest monsters to me and falling into the desert rift only to be ganged up on by them was a nightmare. When I fought them in Gerudo town and I saw a few of them crawling towards towards me at top speeds, I genuinely screamed. They didn't scare me as badly as dead hands did back in OOT or Gloom Spawn in this game, but they did nearly make me jump off the couch in fear

Gloom Hands are the most scariest shit I've ever seen in my entire life, oh my. I accidentally encountered them for the first time when I was going to a shrine (I never heard about them nor see them), so it gave me a heartattack (I died by them).

Gloom Hands really are a step up from Guardians. Putting aside the stepped up fear, the fact that they can match your pace so you can't simply run from them, and that they just grab you and inject Gloom into you, I don't see people exploiting them like some have learnt to do with Guardians since BotW. You get used to fighting Gloom Hands (stick some bombs on your arrows, especially if you have multishot, and you've basically won), but we won't be seeing any videos treating them in the same silly ways we did the Guardians. I feel like if I started a new file on BotW I could have a decent chance against a Guardian by deflecting its beams and possibly attacking its legs. If I started again on TotK, I would just run from Gloom Hands until I got enough equipment to feel confident in beating them. I'd probably put them above Lynels myself, but to be fair I think that's because I've just gotten used to dealing with Lynels in BotW. My first Lynel in TotK was the Floating Colosseum and I beat all 5 first try (I was decently far into the game but still).

I remember an encounter with Gloom Hands that I had. One time, I was riding a deer for a sidequest, but all of a sudden the sky turned red so I thought, "Oh, this is a panic Blood Moon, right?" And as soon as that thought was finished I got grabbed from offscreen by one of those hands. Certainly got jumpscared there.

Finally, a TOTK enemy ranking that isn’t just the word “annoying” repeatedly throughout the first half and “fun” throughout the second!

He forgot to add how cute bokoblins are like u just put on majoras mash and they start sniffing u and sometimes you’ll even notice them trying to communicate with you it’s very adorable cause of how hard they’re trying to just simply talk to link

Lynels are the only enemy I go out of my way to fight. The almost dance-like combat is super engrossing, and the rewards are top notch. And they added an armored variety for those of us who got comfortable waltzing with the garden variety silver tier.

I wish Aerocuda’s were like the Aeralfos from Twilight Princess. They could have weapons like spears and swords, and even have armor variants. Maybe you could shoot them to bring them down, similar to Horriblins, but don’t die in one hit and instead fight on the ground before returning to the sky.

I remember going to gerudo town and being very happy that gibdos were back, then i went to arbiters' ground and through the sandstorm saw the silhouette of a gibdo flying and though that it was funny how aerocudas can carry gibdos too, only to realize in horror when it got close that these things can fly on their own

Octorocks are easy to handle and the rock ones are very useful for repairing and upgrading weapons. When you get your weapon repaired, recall it back into the octorock, kill it, and walk away with a brand new weapon and materials. For the water variants, just recall their attack back at them. Instant death, no weapon use.

I was hoping to see even more enemies but I'm do happy with what we got!

The little froxes will eat bright bloom seeds. It’s an interesting annoyance Nintendo programmed in which gives you more incentive to not just ignore them

My favorite enemies are the gloom hands. They genuinely scared me when I first encountered them.

The Gloom Hands literally made me jump. I saw one spawn out of no where right in front of me, and when I ran from it I was genuinely scared when I saw how fast it caught up. It was a fucking jump-scare and a half

As someone who first encountered Gibdos in the Depths because she continually put off going to the Gerudo Desert for some reason... Let me tell you, fighting monsters that 90% of your weapons do *nothing* against in a dimly-lit area where you can barely see, without having learned how to properly deal with them in the area that the game specifically sets up for you to learn how to fight them, is probably one of the most horrifying experiences I've ever had in Tears of the Kingdom, right behind my first encounter with Gloom Hands. It gave me a genuine "OH SHIT" experience once I realized I couldn't just smack them around like most enemies, and had to fumble around a freaking swarm of the things while trying to figure out how to kill them while, and I can't stress this enough, *in the dark*. Made them easily the most memorable enemy I'd ever encountered in either game -

I always considered Gloom hands to be phase 1, and not a separate entity from phantom ganon

I like the little forxes for a different reason. They are an in game way for the game to tell you qhy your brightbloom seeds dont stay trip to trip The little biggers eat rhem. Not only do they drop them but if you toss one near a group withoyt them noticing you theyll rush to it and eat it (grabted so do the big ones but more aggresiveky) and i think thats really neat

The gloom hands almost gave me a heart attack the first time they rushed at me, and I teleported away instantly :')

I love that the bokkoblin groups, if they see you and you try to hide behind an object, they will split up, launch at attack on one side, AND THEN sneak attack you on the other side, cutting off your escape. They actually made those lil pigs smart!

I'd swap lynels and the hands on the tier list. Just the fact that the hands are so much more terrifying and then on top of that once you do kill them you're not done fighting cuz theres phantom gannon after is just madness. Whereas the lynels are at least more honorable fighters. They wont attack you unless you approach them weapon drawn or get too close for comfort to them. Yes they can be scary, but not nearly as much as the hands imo

The gloom hands are on a different level from guardians. You can stand and fight a guardian, stay in one place too long, and the gloom hands will just drain you of life.

Fuck fighting the king gleeok's 2nd phase. Fuck fighting the king gleeok's 2ND PHASE. seriously, the amount of shit you have to dodge without eyeballs is hell

I have to say Gloom hands are by far my favorite enemy. They give me those terrifying wind waker Wall master vibes with how they reach up from the ground and grab onto Link. Though I do have to admit the Gibdos are really close seconds even if they're easy to take out once you know how to exploit their weakness.

Yeah, I hadn't heard about the gloom hands before I encountered them. I don't think I have ever seen anything more viscerally terrifying than having seemingly normal gloom suddenly sprout hissing hands and start chasing me. And I hope I never see anything that terrifying again.

Gloom hands are the single best enemy when you first find them. They are terrifying. I think Captain Construct IVs can fuse weapons as well. Their head blades make for good Zonai weapons.

I mean Octoroks found on death mountain effectively mean that you have an invincible Hylian Shield. So…yeah I’m putting them way higher than #23.

the only enemy they forgot was the darknuts

If ya ever encountered gloom hands on the surface instead of below the earth, like the chasm or the labyrinth… then you would think different of them… cause when you’re just happily strolling around hyrule, farming shrines and getting that HP and STA up on a very sunny happy day. Then all of the sudden you see the atmosphere change to all red, the music changes to some ominous sound, and you look around and see hands with eyes on them coming at you at high speed trying to grab you and take your health… you see them differently everytime you encounter them

fun fact: according to a book in the depths, some Yiga Clan members can disguise themselves as trees this has come to me theorizing that Evermeans may be Yiga Clan scouts in disguise, replacing themselves with real trees before they “die” so a log is dropped in cliché ninja fashion

If you didn't know, Froxes also serve a purpose. They will eat lightblooms over time. As far as i know, they're the only way a planted lightbloom can be removed. Otherwise a planted lightbloom will stay in it's location forever (Though there's a limit of ~2-300 lightblooms that can be planted at once, and planting a new one will delete the oldest)

As someone who can annihilate lynels at ease, I have to say the gloom hands are way scarier to fight legitimately (anyone can spray bomb arrows into the middle of them). It’s way more challenging to try and flurry rush and normally fight the gloom hands compared to flurry rushing a lynel.

I also miss the guardians, wish they’d have kept at least 10 in remote areas

I feel like Gibdos had the strongest introduction in my first play-through. I spent my first 10-15 hours exploring, completely ignoring the main questline. Once I discovered The Depths, my first thought was "I wanna go back to the start of the game." Beneath Hyrule Castle I went, making a mad dash for the Imprisoning Chamber to satiate my curiosity. I was woefully underprepared - 10 hearts and no Gloom-healing food. I ran past most of the enemies, taking a moment to comprehend the fact that a White-Maned Gloom Lynel actually exists. The Gloom Hands sent me scurrying to higher ground the instant they appeared. I stumbled across my first Silver Bokoblin, and decided to try my luck. After a bit of a fight, I defeated it, and picked up his horn, which, at the time, boasted the highest Fuse Power I had seen. Just a short walk from that point, and I reach the hallway with the Zonai statues. Except now, skeletal enemies are rising from the ground in an unnatural manner, and are slowly shambling my way. I fused my Silver Bokoblin Horn to my strongest weapon (I think it was a Knight's Sword with an Attack Up buff) and unleashed a four-hit combo on a Gibdo. Said Gibdo ate all of the hits and my jaw hit the floor when I noticed the miniscule dent I put in its health bar. I was overtaken by an excited nervousness, fully expecting the Gibdos to be an uncommon sort of elite enemy - a damage sponge that FELT like it was meant to be there instead of just being thrown in for artificial difficulty. Gibdos were on track to be my favorite common enemy in the game. Then I ran into the part of the game that says "Alright, here's how you one-shot a Gibdo. And here's handfuls of them." Fighting Gibdos went from feeling like I was fighting Michael Myers to fighting normal, basic Zombies real quick. Still love what they did with the Gibdos though.

"Most underrated enemy has to go to the Captain Constructs!" *zooms in on a soldier construct*

I think the reason Gloom Hands are so much more terrifying than Guardians is because they are *faster than you* and therefore you can't outrun them

Rocktorocks give weapons an upgrade as well as repairing them. If you save before giving a rocktorock your weapon, you can keep reloading your save to get the best upgrade (like +10 damage) _easily_ (if it already has a white or blue tier upgrade that can also be given by rocktorocks)

Those Gloom Hands literally made me shat my Pants when i saw them first

Never thought I would see an enemy in Zelda that would top wind wakers Redeads for the scare factor. But somehow the gloom hands in TOTK did.

Lynels were one of the toughest monsters for me to fight because my regular strategy of fighting enemies didn't work against it coz it could counter nearly every attack I had,for this I actually had to get good at dodging and parrying or else I was gonna die

The Evermeans actually got the jump on me. I wasn’t aware of their existence, so I was crossing a bridge, and thought I saw movement in the nearby trees. I double take, and blow it off as the game playing tricks on me. Then the tree fuckin stands up and rushes at me!

I just recently beaten this game 100%. 300 hours and did everything I could ever do that's somewhat trackable. So, now I wait for DLC/master mode to do it all over again, maybe not to the extent I did for this run. I can finally turn on my ps5 again and resume my octopath 2 run. The Totk rot was real and it actually consumed me.

The 'Captain' Construct that you zoom in on as you introduce them is not a Captain. That's a Soldier IV.

The Octorocks were so bad he forgot about the forest varient.

I genuinely thought Aerocuda's would have stronger variants like Bokoblins or Moblins And upon finding out pebblits just blow up when picking them up and putting them down I just kept doing it because of the comedic effect of flipping a rock over and having it exploding

5:00 don't sleep on basic chu chus, you can their jelly with elemental attacks to change it to that element. Basically can get extra of any elemental chuchu jelly

I love that stal-lizalfos still try to spit at you, but are then confused because nothing happened.

I was genuinely shocked at how easily aerocudas go down the first time I killed one. I was like “no way they’re one shot kills”

12:53 Probably the best description for the most terrifying enemy in the game!

you said froxs were cool for dropping zonite simaler thing with the lyenls weapons enemies and others. if your counting drops aerocuda and keese should be way higher, there drops are really solid. eyes arent just auto aim, they let you hit things from farther away. i found them really useful when farming king gleeoks.

You actually showed Soldier Construct IVs for a bunch of the Captain Constructs, theyre the ones with the big wheel on their head. Captain Constructs always have a long, narrow head and the IVs have a forked horn.

It never occurred to me that some people would’ve found the Horriblins to be scary. I always thought they were pretty goofy looking, personally.

Out of all the standard mobs, moblins are one of the ones i have the most trouble with, simply because I'm too impatient to dodge their slow attacks, and I get greedy trying to knock them over first.

Bro ngl the clip at 7:39 of you fighting a silver Moblin with a QUARTER HEART had me S T R E S S E D lmao

I haven’t fought a Lynel yet but the gloom hands give me so much anxiety 😅

Seeing the horroblins for the first time was both "Whoa!" And "oh..." Seeing them dangle from the ceiling, terrifying! Big doofy noses: LOL.

In latin-american spanish, "Pebblits" are just called "Minutalus". Almost like "Mini-Talus"

about 132 hours in this game and I didn’t know moblins could throw bokoblins

When the gibdos started crawling at me I was genuinely terrified it’s so unsettling

I don't think Evermeans should be that high. Discovering their existence and name is great, but after that: they're quite tedious to take down, often come bunched together, and don't drop anything unique. I started ignoring them very quickly.

Once I started farming Lynel parts the game got infinitely easier for me. There’s an easy way to win those fights if you’re afraid to take them on. When you approach a lynel, You just need to find a ledge or somewhere you can jump off of multiple times so you can spam bullet time to get a perfect head shot, then use your strongest weapon on them when you mount them (weapons for some reason don’t get damaged when you mount attack a lynel)

"Their multishot bows let me dupe dragon parts" Man I'm glad I was smart enough to keep auto patching turned off on my switch.

i wonder what boss lazalfos and boss moblins would be?

Id still like to see the floor masters and darknuts, or one of the similar enemies like iron knuckles. I guess the gloom spawns are kind of like floor masters, but not quite the same. Maybe a gloom spawn from the celing would scratch that floor master itch, but still wouldn't be the same unless they had the shadow and droping mechanic.

Question: did any of you struggle during the gibdo invasion of Gerudo Town? In my first run a couple of Gibdo managed to reach Riju during the chaos, but we still won. I had set up the army forces in advance though (iirc I split the regular army forces between the north and west gates and put the defensive barrier and cannon on the last gate). I'm also wondering if it is possible to win without the Gerudo forces or if the game prevents you from attempting the invasion without backup.

Nobody ever seems to mention that you don't even need to throw Pebblits - just pick them up, put them back down again, and they wiggle around a bit then explode. Easy and quick.

"Drink some milk you fuckin bozos" sent me, I wasn't expecting it lmfao. Great video!

Loving the TOTK content keep it coming

the most dangerous thing bout chuchus is accidentally hitting the electric chi jelly they dropped while fighting the actual enemies and then getting rent by a Silver Bokoblin

The gloom spawns could give anyone nightmares

“I was a little too busy shitting myself because this random fucking tree came to life and tried to kill me” Same 😭

My first interaction with an Evermean was golden, I creeped up close to a sleeping Bokoblin and as I was getting into Sneakstrike range my eyes bulged as this random tree uprooted out of the ground like "Oh no you don't!". Didn't help I only had hammers just getting off tutorial island.

You forgot….The Molduga’s….Lynel fights are without question, still the most difficult and very momentous demanding style of battle in ALL TOTK. But those sand whales, lurking below our feet as we traverse the gerudo desert, very unsettling and ominous!

gibdo's may be spooky (also the ones that unleash paralyzing screams are redeads! only in a few games, gibdo's turn into redeads when burning off the bandages), but the gloom hands caught me so off guard that i panicked when i got grabbed XD though i love how you can kinda cheese fighting them by having the high ground and firing bomb arrows at them.

I enjoyed seeing the movesets for previous enemies updated

Fun fact, after you complete the Master Kohga questline in totk, the yiga clan will start showing up at random to ambush you, just like in botw! They still set banana traps and stuff, but they still spawn at random

“Lynels are hard” 1 durability Royal Guards claymore with molduga jaw, bone proficiency, and attack up 3: no Jokes aside fighting lynels is awesome

Animals, Sidequests, Shrines, Caves, KOROKS, the ranking will never end!!!! 😆😆😆

Little froxes can take more than 1 hit if you use a really weak weapon.

i swear to god i can just be walking around anywhere, not even close to any gloom, and then those damn gloom hands come out of nowhere

5:14: ChuChu: If I'm dying, I'm taking you with me!!! (Elemental explosion)

I approve of rabbidluigi getting that totk content money.

You missed a hard mini boss called gleeocks!They're really hard to beat.

Lynels also have the coolest appearance in Totk and its previous game, their mane hair design looks awsome.

Just so y’all know, the footage that he showed set in Gerudo desert when he first said captain construct, that was a soldier IV construct, not a captain

11:39 these guys pick up bokos and “windmill” then around before throwing them at you, true masters of their craft

i would love to see an evolution of the boss bokoblin in an DLC, so that the bokoblins didn't just stand around while he throws rocks. otherwise he is an s tier enemy

I’m so happy that the Yiga Footsoldiers don’t spawn as often as they do in BOTW

My dude dropped a Dokapon reference, and with the remake it's well respected.

Every single person who's played this game before seeing the hands online has ether freaked out, died, or screamed in terror and posted it on the internet

Fun fact about the Aerocudas, they make for very good scouts for enemy encampments as they can spot link even when he's wearing Majoras mask.

The new design for gibdo’s are awesome

“There’s the rock octarocks that you can use to repair weapons.” Me: “the wat…”