As quickly as you reveal the Lightning Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the sport introduces you to Queen Gibdo, the dungeon’s boss. You struggle this moth-like creature as soon as earlier than you enter the dungeon and once more when you full it, each occasions utilizing Riju’s lightning skill to render her weak. If you happen to select to play by means of the ultimate boss sequence with out having completed the primary Gerudo questline, nevertheless, the sport expects you to take down Queen Gibdo with out Riju’s lightning to help you. Though Queen Gibdo presents extra of a problem than a lot of the different dungeon bosses, she remains to be greater than beatable even on this state of affairs, which this information will make it easier to accomplish.
Preventing the Queen Gibdo
Major Weaknesses
Normally, Queen Gibdo will begin the struggle by skittering round whereas intermittently firing concentrated blasts of sand in your path, an assault much like the fundamental beams that the Gleeoks use. Thankfully, this assault doesn’t pose as a lot of a risk because the Gleeoks’ beams, permitting you to simply avoid it by working to the facet.
Just like the common Gibdo enemies, the Queen Gibdo stays fully impervious to wreck by default, and you may solely bypass this invincibility utilizing elemental assaults. Though the sport lists fireplace and electrical energy because the Gibdos’ main weaknesses, any elemental assault will do the job simply wonderful. Even the flashbang impact produced by Dazzlefruit will work, though it doesn’t trigger injury straight.
You should utilize melee weapons with elemental properties if you happen to’d like, however Queen Gibdo’s quick motion pace implies that it’s simpler to make use of arrows with elemental supplies connected as an alternative. Even with the boss’s huge measurement, although, you’ll nonetheless have to goal rigorously. Attempt to goal when she briefly stops in her tracks if in case you have bother hitting her as she strikes round.
Dealing Harm
When you land an elemental assault on Queen Gibdo, she turns into weak to common assaults for a restricted time. It’s not fairly time to go for an all-out assault, although, because the Queen Gibdo will now often slam down and generate huge sand tornadoes whereas she limps away from you. If you happen to had Riju with you, this is able to mark the time whenever you would use her lightning skill to immediately stun the boss and dish out as a lot injury as attainable earlier than she recovers. With out that technique to lean on although, you’ll have to land a number of assaults to stun her as an alternative.
You possibly can go for the melee method, though from my expertise, it’s a lot simpler to do that with one-handed weapons or spears relatively than the slower two-handed weapons. The Queen Gibdo will nonetheless go for the twister assault as you do that, nevertheless, so after you hit the boss just a few occasions, run away from her to keep away from the preliminary slam after which circle across the tornadoes to proceed your assault.
Gorgeous From Vary
Alternatively, you possibly can simply use arrows as an alternative, which I discovered to be by far the simpler method. Common arrows will ultimately stun her on their very own, however you’ll accomplish this sooner if you happen to equip your arrows with Bomb Flowers or different highly effective attachments. Simply keep in mind that the tornadoes will block your pictures, so transfer to the facet after they spawn earlier than you resume firing.
When you stun and wail on the boss for a bit, she is going to stand up and restore her invulnerability earlier than retaliating with a cost assault. Merely shifting out of the way in which will preserve you protected, however notice that when this occurs, she can be fully invulnerable to even elemental assaults till she stops charging. Keep away from attacking till then to save lots of up on sources.
Second Part
As soon as the Queen Gibdo’s well being is depleted midway, the 4 mushroom-like Gibdo nests will spawn hordes of grounded and flying Gibdos that may all transfer to swarm you. Moreover, the Queen Gibdo will keep up within the air whereas firing extra sand blasts at you. Whilst you can give attention to Queen Gibdo whereas avoiding the enemy hordes, doing it will possible make the struggle extra harmful except you will have excessive well being and protection. And in contrast to within the Lightning Temple struggle, the Gibdos right here will inflict gloom injury, which might grow to be problematic if you happen to don’t have meals that may heal it. Due to all this, you’ll wish to discover a solution to cease the Gibdos from spawning.
If you happen to did this struggle as a part of the Gerudo questline, the sport may have already taught you to make use of Riju’s lightning on the Gibdo nests’ glowing purple weak factors to destroy them. What the sport doesn’t inform you, nevertheless, is that Bomb Flowers work simply as properly if not higher, particularly since they don’t have a cooldown tied to them. Be sure that to fireplace Bomb Flower-infused arrows on the purple weak factors every time the nests confide in spawn extra Gibdos. In any other case, the nest will merely shrug off the explosion.
Upon destroying the nests, the sport presents one other complication. When combating Queen Gibdo exterior of the Lightning Temple, the nests don’t go away behind beams of sunshine when destroyed. These mild sources immediately killed Gibdos after they bumped into one, however with them gone, you’ll have to take out the remaining Gibdo hordes by yourself.
Focusing On the Gibdos
The entire methods that usually work in opposition to Gibdos will work right here too, with Bomb Flowers coming particularly in useful. Personally, I discovered Dazzlefruits to be the best gadgets to make use of on this scenario. Though they don’t straight hurt the Gibdos, their massive areas of impact can render swaths of them immobilized so you possibly can decide away at them with arrows.
As soon as all the Gibdos are handled, you continue to need to cope with Queen Gibdo correct, who will possible nonetheless stay airborne. Oftentimes, although, if you happen to attempt to fireplace an elemental arrow at her, she is going to shortly dart proper out of the way in which. I discovered that ready till she darted on her personal earlier than letting the arrow free labored as a rule. There additionally exists the off-chance that she is going to attempt to divebomb you, however I’ve not often gotten this to occur.
When you get her out of the sky, the struggle mainly performs out the identical as earlier than other than her skill to provide 5 tornadoes as an alternative of three. If you happen to preserve utilizing the above methods in opposition to Queen Gibdo whereas taking care to keep away from her assaults, then you should have conquered certainly one of Tears of the Kingdom’s trickiest story bosses with out using Riju’s sage skill.