Ranking All 46 Yiga Schematics (Tears of the Kingdom) 

For the Smoke Rocket: Smoke cloud acts the same as puffshroom smoke. Enemies can't tell where Link is when they are in smoke, and cannot aim if they have projectile weapons. Additionally, while in smoke, enemies are *always* susceptible to sneak attacks.

One thing to note is that these aren’t only the yiga schematics because the “fanplane” is from the central mine. A bunch of the others are from mines too.

Dude the scaffolds are amazing. The cheaper one is the exact height for ascend and the more expensive one is perfect for climbing things, especially in rain

The cheaper scaffold can be used nicely with ascend, then jump to get bullet time, this is great in some boss fights in arenas where you often don't have other alternatives to get bullet time.

Part of the idea with the scaffolding is to use Ascend to get up quickly. The rainmaker combines well with electric damage for big area of effect. Adding a stabilizer may help some builds.

For the bolt boat, it acts like a miniature version of the elecrtical fish catcher thingy

There’s a video of using the cheap scaffold to absolutely destroy a gleeok. So. If you know what it’s for, A tier. As the other commenter mentioned, you use ascend to get up on it quickly, and from there you can bullet time.

2:35 this is meant to be attached to you horse's towing harness

The Hot Air Balloon doesn't even need the Flame Emitter. You can use any flame, from a Torch to a lit wood bundle, and the bowl-shape prevents items from falling out. I usually use the lit wood bundles, as all it will cost you then is a single flint or other firestarter, or a single swing from a fire weapon. You can even recollect the wood at max height, given that it seems to burn forever and doesn't settle into a campfire.

No, you don't understand the Instant Scaffolds, they are amazing (at least the vertical one). You can use Ascend to almost instantly get to high places and it's also very useful to shoot stuff mid-air (saved me in a couple Gleeok fights)

For the Scaffolds: Ascend. That's it. You can use Ascend to get to places you wouldn't normally be

Go out to the ocean, if you see a large flock of seagulls circling over the water you will find a school of porgy fish. The excavator is not for combat, but for mining. the spinning spikes on the front will break ore nodes and the large clusters you can find the the depths.

The lights are annoying when added to devices. They are rarely needed - such as a lit root or daytime - but just cost extra zonaite. You can add brightbloom if needed; or even your own light.

I feel a number of these were made to fill out some quota of Yiga devices. Like the low tier ones made me wonder when a player would ever need them.

The scaffolding: I think you're gonna want to rank it higher. Dude. Ascend. Actually it's a general strat to completely dominate Gleeok. It...could be an S tier. A at least. And I'm talking about the first one. That 2nd one is weird. I'll go more specific. Every major canyon that has a construct that gives you a schema, will also "provide the materials" to build it. Do it. It's always part of a puzzle to a chest for 20 charges - and teaches you about them. The scaffolding puzzle teaches you that it's designed to cover the distance to ascend high up - when you couldn't reach that far without a middle step. You could even ultrahand grab and lift the scaffolding, place it down, ascend up, then recall the scaffolding underneath to it's higher lifted position to cover extra distance. So, those are the uses. That and bullet time abuse.

Have you not unlocked the harness for the horse, it's designed to tow the wagon.

The bolt boat is actually pretty useful in my opinion. It can be used to kill octoroks, lizalfos, and even fish.

To increase the use of bolt boat, there should be more water encounters

The wagon goes on horses and its used to transport NPCs

5:14 I believe the purpose is that when you are making a build, sometimes you need the build in the air, and just using recall is hard. Scaffolding in real life is meant for building stuff, like buildings.

For the excavator: I believe that the spinning spikes on the front also mine ores, so you can use the excavator to save on durability

The instant scaffold is meant to be ascended through, ascend is in the name in some other languages

Wow, I only got a few Schematics, and they all sucked. Sad I missed out on some of these cool ones. Thanks for listing them all! 0:33 - Korok Fronds work as Korok Leaves from BOTW. Save on fans. 1:33 - Smoke blinds enemies, and is OP. But you should throw them or fire them on arrows. 2:35 - Attach it to a horse. But you should not be using horses in TOTK, so F-tier. 4:20 - A burning torch or firewood will save on Zonite and make for a more controlled lift. This is more economical than the Dirigible. B-tier. 5:18 - It's to be used with Ascend. 11:04 - Just use an ice fruit or frost emitter. You an even use ice to make more ice. F-Tier. 11:23 - We have Brightblooms. Use them. F-tier. 11:50 - This is x3.5 more expensive than the Hot Air Balloon but not much better, C-tier at most. 12:20 - Half this Monocycle's cost is wasted on 2 lamps. Just use Brightblooms and save Zonite. 13:30 - This seems very counterproductive and more likely to put Link in harm's way. 14:20 - Just throw Muddlebuds and Dazzlefruits from the inventory. This is wasteful. F-tier. 14:36 - Carry a hydrant over your head. Or use splash fruits -- which you no doubt have a surplus of. It saves you 15 Zonite. F-tier. 16:30 - The Hot Air Balloon back in D-tier is 3 Zonite cheaper and gets you a lot higher than 80. This is C-tier at most, but I respect it.

The Super Spring sounds great, as in my playthrough I use something similar with just springs, and it is occasionally an issue where the spring doesn't stay where I want it.

The bolt boat has an interesting trait to it: It can travel on both water and land as well due to the sled on the bottom. Makes it useful in seashore areas like around Lurelin village. Although you might be better off building ot yourself and getting rid of the unnecessary parts

I agree with most of these, but I think the scaffolding is pretty powerful against gleeoks as it both blocks their beams, but if you assend and jump, you can get instant bullet time.

"boblokin" not again henke :(

Didn’t ascend up the scaffold… Also chasm is said like kazm

For any of the rocket and hoverstone builds you position them so that they will overshoot the target and then use recall to get them into position, makes them a lot more useable

You can use the cheaper scaffold with accend, and if you put it sidesays its like a work-bench you can use for building bigger builds with ultrahand

Smoke allows you to sneak strike ennemies and make them go "where tf am I". The wagon. You’re supposed to use it with a horse. Not a zonai vehicle.

The Bolt Boat is pretty good for farming fish, thanks to the electricity insta-killing all nearby fish. Also, you can drive right up to the dead fishes and pick them up which is helpful. (I might be a little biased, cuz I love running into octoroks with the bolt boat)

for the fishing trawler, there is a huge school of porgy's in the necluda sea, which can be locatad by the birds circling above it

Kinda funny to think that the highest ranked schematic gets beaten by a pine cone thrown to a fire

Considering these are mainly used by the yiga, it actually makes a lot of sense. The smoke rockets and canons make sense if you (the yiga I guess) are getting attacked by the hylian guards or gerudo.

Nice list! But scaffold is there to use it for ascend, not climb. ^^

Instant scaffold is pretty great(the T shaped one). You just ascend and jump from it going into bullet time. Repeat this multiple times to easily kill many bosses like gleoks

I think you skipped one. It was a unicycle with a shock emitter in the front. I forgot what it is called.

The comments have already done a good job pointing out all of the many things that this video missed, but I just find it so ridiculously funny that he doesn't mention the excavator's actual purpose, which is to "excavate" zoanite ore deposits in the depths, at which it is very efficient

can you also rank the gloomdredger and that sled thingy you find in the yiga clan hideout/the kakariko mine? I know they're not schematics, but they're still yiga built.

2:40 use a horse 9:40 nintendo missed an opportunity to call it a beamos

The fact that you get the beam cycle where you got the master cycle is pretty cheeky

I love the super spring! it really helps me with the depths

for the charged charger: If you have the thunder helm it can also be used as a support while using metal weapons.

The tall scaffold is super useful for getting bullet time during a large fight. Disco pose up to the top, jump off, bullet time. Repeat. No climbing required.

i am SHOCKED and BEWILDERED by the charged charger… like the enemies were. I mean… it’s genius! I never would have thought of electrifying the hydrant! I gotta find this right away, is there a location you can get it? Finally, hydrants have a purpose!

what if you attached a construct head to the instant cannon (and then put the cannons on either side of it)

5:07 in the Instant Scaffold you can use ascend to get to the top, it's barely tall enough, but it's a lot. Still, I don't see it higher than B or more useful than the triple spring to get to high places

Great video. Getting the charged charger now!

Automated Ally is pretty rad. It only takes a moment to build, and you then can add extras if you want. Also, I don’t know why, but monsters can’t seem to stop Zonai devices (besides the ones that can despawn them).

the instant scaffold that costs 12 zonaite you can ascend up into it and it can be really useful for flame gleeoks when they are doing the giant fireball you can ascend up through it and not take damage from the fireball

Did you forgot ascend, thats what the scaffolding is used with

Why is it the default profile pictures that are the most entertaining, this video is so good!

you're supposed to use ascend on the scaffolds

The wagon is great when pulled by a horse wearing the towing harness. Also, I think 80% of this build's cost is due the wheels. If you select the Yiga Schematic near those building material stations across the map, Autobuild will grab those wagon wheels instead of recreating them out of Zonaite, thus reducing the cost to only 3 Zonaite.

I love the bolt boat for farming fish

The raiding plane can also lift itself up with the updrafts it creates

wouldnt the excavator be able to mine the big breakable rock walls? i mean its name would suggest that would be its usage

Looks like the yiga are at hard work building these schematics

It's very interesting to me that this is how I'm re introduced to your content after losing interest. Very nice to be back, let's stay a while this time lol

The excavator is meant for mining (excavation), which it is quite good at, and you don’t use any durability on your weapons for it.

Fun fact: You’re supposed to attach the wagon to a horse towing cable.

Pretty sure chasms are pronounced as "casm", idk if its correct but still may be worth looking that up.

The wagon is really useful for transporting cucco’s if you attach it to a horse.

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The wagon is built for attaching to horses with a tow.

To use the fishing trawler go to lurelin sea and look for a bunch of birds flying aroud in a pile above the water this means there is a school of fish directly below that you can use the machine on

I think the hovercraft was more designed to be used on sand and snow. So on grass it’s b tier, but if you’re in the desert or snowy mountains I’d say it’s S tier, especially since sand and snow hinder movement speed

WAIT A MINUTE! The Fanplan, Bolt Boat, Launch Pad, Instant Scaffold (the 12 Zonaite one), Hovercraft, Bridge, Dirigible, Rocket Platform, Automated Ally, Instant Canon, Hot Air Balloon, and Beam Cycle are Schema Stones you get from the Steward constructs (and 1 from Josha). The Yiga have nothing to do with them! Meaning your math in the title is off because there are 34 Yiga Schematics, and 12 Schema Stones!

Dazzle fruit also one-shot Stal enemies so the scatter trap clears them very easily. But you can also just throw one without spending any zonaite

I want to say that with the Fishing Trawler, you can put in a bit of food like a hearty radish and it will attract a certain type of fish

you're meant to ascend trough the scaffold so that you can go on high places

this video earned a bookmark

The Bolt boat is VERY useful for fishing, since it kills fish instantly. Edit: I didn't realise there was already a fishing boat.

The smoke can blind enemys so you can do MASSIVE damage behind them.

Tip for fising trawler go to sea and look for birds circling around a single spot

For the wagon, you could just put a horse on it but tbh it is still not too good as you could just use ultrahand like you said

What about the two builds you can buy at the yiga hideout? I know they're not schematics but they're yiga builds.

The wagon's primary purpose is to be attached to a horse harness to safely carry items so they don't un-fuse when hitting the ground. This seemed pretty obvious to me.

The wagon is meant to be used for horse cargo, not only for vehicles.

Not to be critical but you need to make better use of the ascend ability.. like the scaffold.. which is simply a raised platform commonly used for working on tall objects... ascend to the top to get out of harms way fast and efficiently. Chasm... ch makes the k sound.. I do like this video and agree with most of what u said.. just a couple pet peeves I noticed . Otherwise nice work great video 🙂

The hot air balloon doesn’t require a flame emitter. You can use a campfire, a torch, or a big campfire if you want more lift with no battery.

for hot air baloon you don't need energy cells if you attach bundle of wood on it and set fire on bundle.

Henke: excavator good for combat. Mines:Am I a joke to you?

The wagon schematic is useful for the wagon wheels

Bolt boat it's great to hunt for stealth trout! And the carriage it's for a horse not zonai construct, and can be useful for some side quests!

The fan plane isn’t a Yiga schematic? You get it from a construct in the Great Abandoned mine?

The song for b tier is so familiar. But I can't remember the name

pretty cool video, I didn't know there were actual useful yiga schematics! I just assumed they were all useless

The excavator is meant to be used to mine those large rock walls.

5:20 The I-shaped one is for ascend - this makes it actually fairly useful, if costly.

for the hot air balloon, you can just use burning wood as fire to use no extra zonai parts or battery!

I would honestly say the Bomb Bouquet and Scatter Trap also belong in S tier. Both of them are very cheap in terms of Zonaite, and let you have reliable access to two of the most useful (but rare) combat items in the game; bomb flowers and muddlebuds. Bonus points for bombs being just generally useful in exploration. The only real downsides are that you lose access to arrow fuses with them, and you as the player can overall make more cost effective autobuilds using only 2 of each resource (though that also applies to most Schematics, and is rather unfair to dock points on).

I personally use shock emitters for fishing, so the bolt boat could be useful, but honestly it electrocutes you so it’s not really that great. The concept is good tho: with a collection system, you can make a fish farmer. I did so. Remember to look for the seagulls circling over spots, you’ll find about 30 fish there

What about scematic stones by the construct tho?

The excavator can be used for mining the large areas of breakable rock

you can ultrahand the triple cannon while active and aim with it

10:38 SPLATOON?! oh my god that is absolutely a reference.

I've only found like...16 of these? I've got every lightroot, but I suppose the Yiga Hideouts are much more hidden....

Bro really didn't know what a scaffold is