... Just Don't Throw DRAGONS At Them. (Rito Village Defense Analysis feat.  

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The rito are even shown to be willing to destroy their bridges during an attack because revali destroys one in age of calamity

I love how the solution to "How to beat the Rito?" is just to throw dragons at them, honestly good strategy for any enemy you want to beat.

One thing about the Gleoks is that they all have glowing heads when awake (be it fire, frost or electricity), so they would have a hard time sneaking up on anyone at night.

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If i was the rito flying squadron commander, i wouldn't split up to fight three dragons at the same time - I'd focus them down one by one in a barrage of arrows so tight and fast that those dragonettes would never open a single eye between the beginning and the end of the fight.

No matter how detailed these videos are, with so much stuff going against any race, add link and the defenses are beyond perfect.

These two videos were fascinating! What I gathered is we, the Yiga Clan, shouldn't have too much trouble with Zora's Domain, but Rito Village is... We may need to mass produce our ultimate weapon. I mean, of course both places are perfectly safe, nothing to worry about. The Yiga pose no threat. None at all! 👀 Glory to Master Kohga

Something I noticed about the lake and spire that Rito Village is built on. The lake it's self may be inspired by Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, I say this because the area looks like an ancient and collapse caldera, with the tall spire(and other spire jutting out from the lake) looking like eroding volcanic throats. With that said volcanic throats are particularly sturdy do to being not only igneous rock but also do to the mixture of pyroclastic ash that makes a sort of natural cement. All this to say, the structural integrity of the spire might not be that big of an issue and also I just wanted to point out the interesting idea that Tabatha was once geologically active at one point.

There is something that you missed both the only monsters who could attack them in the middle of the night glow So even at night It would be easy to see them

If the monsters somehow got close to the rito and the rito couldn't use their bows for some reason, they could use their claws.

Those paper cutouts in the battle scenario where hilarious, they really made my day :3

Something that I’d like to point out is that wizrobes have the ability to summon keese and chuchus corresponding to their elemental abilities. Granted, said elemental summons do glow in the dark so they would be pretty easy to spot. However if the wizrobes are smart, then they will use the keese as a distraction. Not to mention that they could also summon a bunch of chuchus on the village in order to flush out the rito so that the rest of the monsters can pick them off.

anytime ive accidentally fallen in the water and tried to climb up, I have always died

I'd say that IF and only IF lore-wise gleeoks could drown in deep water, (but gameplay-wise they don't since they don't want us cheesing the lake hylia gleeok) the rito could potentially fend off the gleeok attack by headshotting them 3 times into Totori Lake.

I think that the monsters will attack by: Step 1-swnding the wisrobs at night with ther invisibility Step 2- sending the gliooks to stop the rito from flying away and attacking from the sky Step 3-using the talos as catapults Step 4-sendig bokos at the village with the airakoda

3:20 I could see the Rito winning against three gleeoks if know how to fight them, and they knew the attack was coming. As the gleeoks are over the water, the Rito shoot the eyes stunning them, and when the gleeoks fall into the water they will drown.

You know it’s good when you need 3 flying tanks to take down your village

I’m interested in Gordon city, as the location seems abysmal but the fighters very effective- and basically everyone can fight

If you didn’t’t know lynels can teleport. This might let them teleport directly into the village or across the bridges even after they’ve been destroyed. Lynels also have a odd ability to shoot up and have there arrows land where ever they need (for some these arrows can go though ceilings).This probably wouldn’t do that much but if the scaling one was silver it could do a lot.

I thought the Rito had the WORST defense, until this video!

Fantastic work you two!! The production value, the analysis, this was TOP TIER CONTENT

I always thought the Rito home mountain structure was an old monument that's been weathered with time

Interestingly, I think season would also be crucial for the monster attack. As we see in Tears of the Kingdom, Rito village can run into food and supply issues, as the bridge being down and the harsh cold freezing over everything made it necessary for almost all the adult Rito to focus on gathering food. The Rito were not able to do this completely un-harassed (Tulin running into monsters and getting his bow stolen like a noob), and in-game dialogues suggests that even without the monsters organizing into a single army, the Rito could not hold out indefinitely if the weather conditions did not improve. Of course, winter would also pose the issue of the monsters being able to resupply as well, so a prolonged traditional siege would still not be the best option. While leaving the Rito completely alone would not be the best choice (since their aerial support would need to be dealt with or at least hindered in a wider campaign), an outright blitz attack on the village itself would be suicide without bringing in the big hydra guns (or Divine Beast Medoh). Instead of a prolonged castle style siege or storm/assault, I'd suggest a scorched earth approach for the surrounding areas, and maintain scattered forces in enough numbers to hinder the Rito from easily using the surrounding areas to forage for food. Travel only under the cover of darkness in winter, destroy as much of the surrounding forest, tundra, etc. as possible to force the Rito to have to go out of Tabantha region for reliable resupply. The only areas to be spared would be caves for the monster raiders to use, which the Rito would not risk entering into in this scenario as their greatest advantage, flight, would be entirely negated. They could use bomb arrows to collapse these caves, but those caves would also be the only sources of local food too if the monsters succeeded in this scenario. The Rito would then have to prioritize between keeping warriors to fight off raids/invasions and logistics support of Rito village. Rito village might not be in danger of being assaulted with this approach, but it would still be threatened.

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2:10 I mean, the enemy could pull an Alexander and bring engineers with them to straight up build a solid bridge to get to them. It would take a few months, but it would work.

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Nice to have an analysis about my favorite race! Out of all the settlements in hyrule, the Rito village gives me the most peace

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There’s plenty of caves around, keese eyeballs on the arrows to drop the gleeoks even at night shouldn’t be hard to come by. If they can make fire and bomb arrows, they can make eye-arrows.

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12:10 fun fact! the way I learned that from learning the etymology of the word. Siege literally means "to sit." in reference to what the defenders were doing.

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I love the video! I think the analysis of strategy is always nice to see and you did it very well. It would be cool to see a Zelda strategy game where you have to plan your attack and defense of the major settlements as well!

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9:04 If Vah Medoh landing on that perch didn't break the rock... you're going to have a tough time doing that in the timespan of an attack.

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Very enjoyable video Draken! I really like how the later half of a video took a storytelling approach to how a conflict between the Rito and the monsters would play out. Additionally, I like how you and Bread provided multiple scenarios for the conflict. It gave me a lot more to think about, and made the whole situation a lot more nuanced. As a 3D artist, it was also a pleasant surprise to see you incorporate 3D models into your storytelling scenarios. Those were a lot of models you had to pose. I imagine it must have taken quite a lot of time and effort to get that all done! Can’t wait to see more from you in the future! (Also, side note, I really the design of your dragon avatar. Very wholesome, lots of personality. :) )

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The Rito: are the most resiliant species in Hyrule, even to the point where they may as well have been the sole survivors of the Great Calamity. Their village also has the strongest defenses. Also the Rito: could have been driven to extinction PERMANENTLY by the demon dragon just as easily as any of the other four species if Link failed to act while he still could.

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4:40 it would also be REALLY easy to flank from behind, if the monsters are on the path. The rito could just fly over the cavern with supplies etc.. and the monsters would have to walk all the way back to combat the rito. Throughout history fighting on to sides has been proved to not be good for the enemy surrounded, so the monsters are pretty much screwed if the travel on the road.

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18:23 LMAO THATS HILARIOUS

I understand for the purpous of the video you don't count link but realistically it wouldn't take too long before they have to deal with the equivalent of two armys

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If the rito wanted to deal with the gleeoks, why don’t they lure them over the massive lake at rito village and stun them, making them drop from the sky into the water where they’d drown

You make a lot of videos about the Rito. They must be your favorite race, eh? I mean they are pretty awesome!

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the victory or downfall of rito village absolutely come down to the tactics of the gleeoks, if the rito strike first, they probably win regardless, if gleeoks strike first, their is no way their isn't significant damage inflicted at the least, the best that the rito would want for would be the gleeoks to come one at a time in the day, some houses would probably get sniped in the battles but i think they come out on top, if the gleeoks came in at the the same time, i don't think most of the village would survive, they are simply too destructive to prevent major damage even if the rito win.

I think a good sign of how powerful the spire really is, is that it can hold up the weight of divine beast vah medoh roosting on it, something that likely weighs thousands of tons

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12:00 i hear macadamia mayhem and this makes me happy. Also golem king at 26:00

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I saw the wood bridges leading up to the village and immediately thought of letting monster forces march along them and then bombing the first and last ones as they monsters make their way along, dropping many of them into the water below and stranding the others on the plateaus. Anything that isn't a lizalfos or maybe chuchu will just die from falling in the water. You'd likely want to be picking off a lot of them along the way if you don't think they'll retreat. As for the night time gleeok attack, those things produce light. While not enough for me to think that the Rito can pull off a complete reversal, but enough that I think that any night time scouts would spot them coming and be able to set the alarms to get people moving before the onslaught.

It's all fun and games until the monster army hears 'The Only Thing They Fear is You' growing louder as Link approaches.

It’s worth mentioning that in age of calamity, the only ones actually able to beat the Rito defenses are party members. Not nearly enough regular soldiers, if any at all, can make it. The rito even bomb their bridge as a defensive maneuver.

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9:24 held a Devine beast up just fine so it’s probably fairly durable stone. Plus the Rito are likely the best mobility wise and likely could change locations to their shooting range in the mountains if needed. There are very few flying monsters that would be an actual threat here. the fact they use bomb arrows and specialize in archery makes them basically able to make improvised bomb runs on the spot. So they can use hit and run tactics very easily not to mention they do make swords, spears, and shields so chances are they have some skill at fighting on foot. So they’re actually fairly capable of protecting themselves. Chances are most monsters wouldn’t be able to get close to Rito village because if tulin can make head shots on a regular basis as a child imagine what a trained adult can do. They would get to the first bridge and then promptly have said bridge broken before getting stuck on the village or plummeting down a good few stories and either die, or be stuck down there. And even if they sent something like a gleeock I’d bet they have ancient arrows specifically for dealing with them somewhere if not bomb flowers lots of bomb flowers will work

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Awesome video

I always thought the Rito had the best homebase, nice to see you go in depth about it!

what the monsters could do is use planks from boko camps to float on the lake being pulled by the lizalfos, use them to bring horriblins to the base of the rito village pillar and, because horriblins are great climbers, they could climb up into the village and wreak havoc there.

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I have an idea: remember the hidden chasm located underneath the village? the ritos can use it as some kind of emergency bunker (considering master kohga already got his butt kicked out of the nine realms) where they dive into the depth and somehow seal the opening. Once their last line of defense (link) has arrived, they can easily fly out of the chasm and rebuild the village or join the fight if needed.

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29:28 After the battle story I legit applauded. My whole life has been altered by hearing such a enthralling tale

How ironic that when the Rito are defeated, their island becomes a dragon's roost.

I personally think that, even if the rito have terreble vision at night they still could see the lights of the gleeok heads. And with some luck they could hit them and the gleeoks would fall in the water ending their lives directly. (Thank you both for the cool video btw)

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32:20 this bit implies that Bread just has the following information just off the top of his head

My theory on kite shield is that they’re only used to make bombastic landings to use in tandem with the swords, like link can use by shield surfing. Or in other words, not like the usual use of the shield (protection).

If a besieging army manages to get, say, 3 lynels surrounding the village, there is a possibility that Rito villiage's supplie line may at least become thinned. Lynels can shoot strait up, and can most likely shoot down any Rito with one hit, especially with electric or ice arrows. So, theoretically, if the lynels were able to fire fast enough, they could shoot down any supply missions the Rito sent out possibly cutting off supply.

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The Rito: live in the flimsiest village. Also the Rito: have the strongest defenses.

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Nice video!!! Only one appointment: if Rito Village were attacked by gleeoks at night, ritos would be safe as long as they make the gleeoks fall into the water by shooting their eyes. It would be difficult because of the bad vision, but it wouldn't be necessary to consider the 8000hp points.

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**The Aerocuda bomb-flower bombardedment of the Rito village**

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33:29 you might even call it... dragon roost island

Gleeoks in fight can be dropped to the ground; dropping one into big lake could be very good

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