Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom – Combat Guide | Tips & Tricks

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Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom is a game about freedom, exploration, adventure, and creativity. Everything feeds back into these concepts, and it’s a damn good time messing around with them. Of course, if you want the freedom to explore during your creative adventures, you are going to have to crump some gribblies. 

Combat is a major part of Tears Of The Kingdom, and it’s also one of its most satisfying. There are so many ways you can interact with the world, that writing a comprehensive guide on everything you can do would fill several gargantuan tomes with shockingly dry content. This guide, therefore, is going to cover some of the interesting things you can do in Tears Of The Kingdom.

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If you want to survive in Tears Of The Kingdom, you are going to have to learn to defend yourself. Swinging your sword wildly won’t work against every enemy, and when there is a horde of enemies, death can come quickly. Heck, even in the early hours of the game, many enemies can take you down in a single strike.

Staying alive requires you to Block (ZL), Parry (A), and Dodge (B). All three of these techniques are important, although the big two are certainly blocking and dodging. Blocking allows you to take a hit on your shield. Providing the enemy doesn’t have some sort of elemental effect, you will take no damage. This is the easiest form of defence. 

Dodging takes a bit of practice as a mistimed dodge can lead to you taking a club to the dome. You can dodge to the side or directly back. In either case, your goal is to avoid whatever attack is coming your way. If you time