Best weapons in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – early & late game options

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Much like Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a game of skill. You'll have to sharpen your mind to solve those puzzles and work on those reflexes to beat the tough enemies scattered around Hyrule. However, your equipment can help you, too.

In fact, there's only so far these skills will get you. Some equipment is absolutely essential when it comes to certain locations – especially elemental resistance in armour.

But what about weapons? There are so many to choose from – some more expensive and harder to get than others – that it's fair if you're stumped.

To help you out, we'll share our favourites. We'll recommend ones for those of you just starting out, and a few for the seasoned players.

As you're probably aware, in Tears of the Kingdom you can fuse materials to your weapons to improve stats. This can also give you those very practical elemental effects. Get used to doing this early on! For example, if you find an Opal and fuse it to your sword, it'll make your attacks water based.

As for the actual weapons, we'll list a few below.

You can find this pretty early on (jump down the well in Lookout Landing) and its stats aren't half bad for your starting quests.

A two-handed sword with an impressive strike and a decent flurry rush if you pull off a perfect dodge. Go to Lookout Landing, the main base to the south of Hyrule Castle, jump down the well and you should find it in a chest. It has an attack power of 14, and that's before you start fusing things to it.

Time for a long range weapon. While you can't fuse anything to a bow, you can fuse items to arrows. This is pretty useful. However, that doesn't mean you should forget about the quality of the bow itself.

Construct Bows are more durable