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 battle 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 means to render her susceptible. In the event you select to play via the ultimate boss sequence with out having completed the primary Gerudo questline, nonetheless, the sport expects you to take down Queen Gibdo with out Riju’s lightning to assist you. Though Queen Gibdo presents extra of a problem than many of the different dungeon bosses, she remains to be greater than beatable even on this situation, which this information will assist you accomplish.
Combating the Queen Gibdo
Major Weaknesses
Normally, Queen Gibdo will begin the battle by skittering round whereas intermittently firing concentrated blasts of sand in your path, an assault much like the fundamental beams that the Gleeoks use. Happily, 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 aspect.
Just like the common Gibdo enemies, the Queen Gibdo stays utterly impervious to wreck by default, and you’ll solely bypass this invincibility utilizing elemental assaults. Though the sport lists hearth and electrical energy because the Gibdos’ major 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 immediately.
You should utilize melee weapons with elemental properties in the event you’d like, however Queen Gibdo’s quick motion velocity signifies that it’s simpler to make use of arrows with elemental supplies hooked up as an alternative. Even with the boss’s large dimension, although, you’ll nonetheless must purpose rigorously. Try to purpose when she briefly stops in her tracks you probably have hassle hitting her as she strikes round.
Dealing Harm
When you land an elemental assault on Queen Gibdo, she turns into susceptible 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 sometimes slam down and generate large sand tornadoes whereas she limps away from you. In the event you had Riju with you, this may mark the time whenever you would use her lightning means to immediately stun the boss and dish out as a lot injury as doable 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 quite than the slower two-handed weapons. The Queen Gibdo will nonetheless go for the twister assault as you do that, nonetheless, 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.
Beautiful 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 quicker in the event you equip your arrows with Bomb Flowers or different highly effective attachments. Simply keep in mind that the tornadoes will block your photographs, so transfer to the aspect after they spawn earlier than you resume firing.
When you stun and wail on the boss for a bit, she’s going to rise up and restore her invulnerability earlier than retaliating with a cost assault. Merely transferring out of the way in which will maintain you protected, however observe that after this occurs, she shall be utterly invulnerable to even elemental assaults till she stops charging. Keep away from attacking till then to avoid wasting up on sources.
Second Section
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 deal with Queen Gibdo whereas avoiding the enemy hordes, doing this may doubtless make the battle extra harmful until you might have excessive well being and protection. And in contrast to within the Lightning Temple battle, the Gibdos right here will inflict gloom injury, which might turn out to be problematic in the event you don’t have meals that may heal it. Due to all this, you’ll wish to discover a method to cease the Gibdos from spawning.
In the event you did this battle 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, nonetheless, is that Bomb Flowers work simply as effectively if not higher, particularly since they don’t have a cooldown tied to them. Be sure to fireplace Bomb Flower-infused arrows on the purple weak factors every time the nests divulge heart’s contents to 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 towards Gibdos will work right here too, with Bomb Flowers coming particularly in useful. Personally, I discovered Dazzlefruits to be the simplest gadgets to make use of on this scenario. Though they don’t immediately hurt the Gibdos, their giant 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 must cope with Queen Gibdo correct, who will doubtless nonetheless stay airborne. Oftentimes, although, in the event you try to hearth an elemental arrow at her, she’s going to rapidly 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’s going to try to divebomb you, however I’ve hardly ever gotten this to occur.
When you get her out of the sky, the battle mainly performs out the identical as earlier than except for her means to provide 5 tornadoes as an alternative of three. In the event you maintain utilizing the above methods towards Queen Gibdo whereas taking care to keep away from her assaults, then you should have conquered one among Tears of the Kingdom’s trickiest story bosses with out using Riju’s sage means.