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Unlike in its predecessor, the bosses that you have to fight inThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomhave some variety to them. Instead of fighting different elemental aspects of the big bad himself, you’re fighting monstrous goons who create environmental disasters for the civilians of Hyrule who simply want to get on with their lives.
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The Mucktorok is one such boss and is responsible for the sludge that plagues Zora Domain. After traversing a tricky gauntlet of sky islands and dealing with low gravity as you solve puzzles in the Water Temple, this boss is a rather great way to take your frustrations out.
Mucktorok Overview
Mucktorok is an interesting boss - it’s a small alien-like Octorok with sludge-creation abilities. For the majority of the battle, it will assume theform of a sludge shark, which it uses to zoom around the battlefield and attack you.
When struck with awater attack, the Mucktorok will either be stunned for a bit or shed its shark form, allowing you to close in and strike it a few times.This is the only time you can damage it- when in sludge shark form, you cannot damage the boss.
The Mucktorok has two basic attacks. The first is aleaping dive, which summons concentric rings of sludge from the impact point. The second is alaser beam of sludgethat it will fire in a sweeping motion from left to right. Both of these attacks can beeasily leapt over, especially with the Water Temple’s lower gravity.
How To Beat Mucktorok
While any watery attacks will contribute to Mucktorok shedding its sludge shark form and becoming vulnerable for a short while, you’ll want touse the attack attached to Sidon’s water shieldpower. This will knock the sludge form off in one hit. Using arrows fused withSplash FruitorChuchu Jellywill take two hits.
The absolute best time to try hitting the boss with a water wave from Sidon’s power isas it’s using its sludge beam attack.
Once the sludge shark form is knocked off,rush to the bossand deal as much damage as you can with your strongest melee weapons. It cannot retaliate in this form at all, so don’t worry about taking hits.
After a short while, it will reassume the sludge shark form, and the cycle begins all over again.
When the boss reaches half health, a cutscene will play, and the fight enters asecond phase. In this phase, the boss will createlarge patches of sludge all over the battlefield. These can be very annoying, so clean them up with water waves when you have the chance.
In the second phase of the battle, Mucktorok will startdiving through its puddles of sludge after being knocked out of shark formand will do so either until it regains enough energy to reassume the shark form, or until it gets struck and stunned for a longer period of time.
The easiest way to knock the Mucktorok out of the air as it is diving around in its default form is tojump into the air and shoot an arrow at it from mid-air. The midair slowdown gives you plenty of time to knock it out of the air and then rush to it for a beatdown.
All in all, this fight is more annoying than difficult.Save your watery items for cleaning up sludgein the second phase and use Sidon’s ability to knock the shark form off it.
