19 Most Iconic And Powerful Glitches In Zelda BOTW

We take a look back into the last 4 years of Breath of the Wild, and show the biggest and most iconic finds that have contributed to the game.
Breath of the Wild over the years has evolved immensely with people finding new techniques and glitches to constantly keep the game fresh for veterans and newcomers alike. So we take a deeper look into the origins and timeline of these important findings and talk about them all.
We take a look at a variety of glitches, from speedrun, combat, and entertainment, you'll see multiple kinds of iconic glitches. Veteran BOTW players Legendoflinkk, Orcastraw, Gaming Reinvented, Yuda, Kleric, and Swiffy22 pitch in to check the origins and accuracies of these discoveries.

[@RinHara5aki]

Hope you guys enjoyed this recap of the past 4 years! Let us know if you'd like to see more Breath of the Wild content like this or something else in the future!

[@wPorpeta]

Heck yes! More BotW = More Rin!

[@gameroo6577]

yes

[@superdude9691]

I actually was playing BOTW today and tried a couple times to do the fall damage cancel. Unfortunately, I was never able to fully cancel all the damage within the three times I tried. I was able to get to the point of taking only 1 1/2 points of damage, but never perfect. Btw. I was testing it off the tower in the region with the Lost Woods, the one with the skull on it.

[@wPorpeta]

@@superdude9691 it’s really easy, take a two handed weapon, hold R while you’re jumping, then at the last second throw it then unequip it

[@hyrulemasterchef9573]

Rin did you know there’s such thing as a x3 30 minute hot buttered apple? And a x3 30 min mighty milk?

[@lynx4082]

Love the thought of all the glitches being canon, like imagine being ganon waiting for Link to wake up only for him to launch towards you at mach speed and kill you in one shot

[@myarmsrgone]

Man's tryna end the world but link just go yeeEEeeEEee

[@aaah9486]

If it was animated in anime it would be so cool

[@drvissierl1404]

Hello Nero

[@redfoxgameing8]

Imagine if link being able to rapidly jump into space (moon jump) was cannon lol

[@nealenthenerd399]

“I don’t know where he went, he broke his shield at the wall and suddenly he just wasn’t there?!?!”

[@NeeRock]

I wish I could erase my memory of playing this game and play it all over again

[@theconfusionman7969]

lol same. I use glitches so much to the point where it makes the game less fun to play

[@OrganicNoob]

I had the game since 2018 and haven’t played through it yet. I think it’s time to start playing

[@siyasingh8472]

Ikr. I would give anything to experience this game for the first time again

[@vika0194]

Zelda 2

[@xcortes_]

@@OrganicNoob Do it and do not use guides or tips and tricks at least That's what I did and I hope you do

[@aidenmoore4320]

As a casual player, the wind bomb was so useful when scaling the Gerudo Highlands to get to the desert.

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

nooooooo you're not supposed to scale the highlands to get to the desert, we put in the canyon for that *HAHAHA WIND BOMBS GO BRRRRRRRRRRR*

[@amf909]

I don't do glitches ):

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

@@amf909 I mean, nobody says you're required to do glitches in order to have fun, do they? (If they do, they're wrong)

[@dogeo1719]

@@Nat_the_Chicken I want to do the wind bomb but I cant seem to get it right :/

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

@@dogeo1719 I haven't even tried it, so I don't have any tips for you or anything, but I bet you can get it if you keep trying! You have to decide whether you want it enough for that.

[@alexmanley-ryan8740]

Very important to note that despite these glitches this game is still one of the most solid experiences I have ever had with a videogame and I still play it very often

[@noahfrankel7966]

The glitches honestly make it better, I wouldn’t be playing if none of them were in it

[@m_riidi]

You have to really try to get these glitches, which is the best kind of glitches

[@Crystalfairyglammor]

Yh

[@thakingster]

It's the same with mario 64. The game was so much more fun with the shit ton of glitches 💪🏻

[@bee_boy4110]

I play it almost every day :)

[@patricioart4301]

Except a few, I feel most of these aren't glitches. The game is so rooted on its physics laws that most of them make perfect sense. Patching those so called glitches would go against its own rules.

[@peterdagata1610]

I saw somewhere online that Nintendo knew about many of these glitches before launch but had a policy that if the glitch was fun and not too game breaking that they would leave it in (like the flying machine for example)

[@swuq5396]

Yea and the perfect daruk parry is straight up just not a glitch just an obscure game mechanic

[@sunny-xc8hx]

Yeah, like the running thing, I’d say that’s an exploit not a glitch

[@Halloweenharen]

@@sunny-xc8hx Infinite running is absolutely a glitch

[@AnonymOus-ss9jj]

I'd say the stasis launch, perfect Daruk parry, and the shield-bomb combat thingy are the only not real glitches. The rest of them seemed pretty glitchy. I suppose one could say that most of the other's were just physics abuse, glitches don't necessarily need to involve memory overflows to be considered glitches. As long as it is completely out of the realm of what the developers intended in any way.

[@vanzzini]

Adding one more thing.... this doesn't mean the game is easily breakable..... just states even more that is a masterpiece

[@KlericYT]

Very nice history recap! You might even need to make another one of these years later with the momentum this game still has.

[@wPorpeta]

Maybe for BotW2! I bet that game will have a ton of glitches too haha btw hi Kleric! :-)

[@sullyt2812]

@Benjamin kristoferssen is right, also you're the best.

[@XEAZUR]

Hi kleric

[@hyrulemasterchef9573]

simply with the momentum master chef has

[@mrman8444]

Hey Kleric!

[@djlazer1]

Glitch timestamps: 1:10 Whistle Sprinting (Infinite Sprint) 1:39 Shield Clip/Skews 2:18 Stasis Launching 2:49 Shield-Block-Reset (Bullet-Time anywhere) 3:16 Fall Damage Cancel 3:42 Super Launch 4:22 Flying Machine 4:44 Menu Overload (Weapon Duping; Transfer Durability; Infinite Rupees) 5:16 Bow Spin (Infinite Ice and Thunder Chaining) 5:47 Daruk's Perfect Parry 6:27 Bullet Time Bounce 6:59 Shrine Apparatus Storage (Heart/Stamina Duping; Early Master Sword; Ignore Elements) 7:29 Dynamic Object Glitch (Infinite Ancient Parts) 7:58 Moon Jumping (Infinite Jump) 8:24 Wind Bombing 9:01 Cutscene Damage (Ganon & Windblight Insta-Kill) 9:25 Thunderclap Rush (Flurry Rush At Any Time) 9:48 Lizalfos/Hinox/Boomerang Curse 10:21 Memory Storage (New Save File, Early Bow Of Light, 80K Arrows...)

[@amf909]

Thank you

[@MysteryFlake]

Thanks

[@dagfinnlyngb6850]

Ty so much

[@dabmonstr7403]

Chad

[@chessycopter9619]

Not only was it fun to see all those glitches in a list like this, the editing for this video was also really good! Nice job!

[@xxBXTxx]

I was thinking the same thing👌

[@StopLegoLord]

@@xxBXTxx lol he never replied to me either, typical Chessy

[@nobody-gn1zi]

@@StopLegoLord Banjul I

[@korfelthewizard8697]

I'm now compelled to do every last one of these glitches.

[@CheddarCheeseRebirthed]

Did you do it?

[@korfelthewizard8697]

@@CheddarCheeseRebirthed I did memory storage.

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

@@korfelthewizard8697 That's certainly one of the most difficult ones. If you were dedicated enough to learn that, you can probably learn most of the speedrunning and combat glitches eventually.

[@noahfrankel7966]

@@korfelthewizard8697 WOW, that’s the only glitch I haven’t done on this list.

[@korfelthewizard8697]

@@noahfrankel7966 I've done most of the others. The only one I haven't done yet is stasis launching :V

[@GilgameshD20]

*NINTENDO WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*

[@s3eriousbl9ck26]

Honestly it almost seems they left these exploits. For instance, the shrine for apparatus storage is right next to the statue for the hearts and stamina. The combat glitches seem more like advanced combat tech. There's numerous cancels and once you master the inputs you can perform in battle like it's one button. It becomes no different from smash bros. Every Rune interacts with the game perfectly for you to exploit like getting to the final room in Trial of the Sword skip, Windbombs, Apparatus Storage(NG+, Hearts and Stamina, Mastercycle Zero skip). I came in when windbombs were discovered and I've said from day 1 they put some of the glitches in the game.

[@AlmondGuyZ]

I'm in the great plateau

[@Somebrokenglass]

@@AlmondGuyZ NM or MM

[@AlmondGuyZ]

@@Somebrokenglass mm

[@awesomecat42]

My favorite BOTW glitch will always be the one where you can make Guardians clip through the ground with stasis, because it’s the first useful glitch I figured out by myself. (The non-useful one was stumbling upon NPCs stuck upside down in the ground)

[@annakrawczuk5221]

Great video! Tho a lot of ppl in the replies misunderstood that this is supposed to be a speedrunning history showcase, not a complaint on how glitchy the game is. But it's really good at that it's meant to be, really nicely edited, and super entertaining :D

[@RinHara5aki]

Thanks!

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: normal Stasis launching is NOT a glitch. It's an example of the game mechanics working as intended, despite the fact that players exploit it to move across the map faster. Edit: OK, he addressed that. I still don't think it belongs on the list, but mentioning it in the video as the first-ever launching technique is reasonable due to how much influence it's had in general.

[@Eddie2P]

ya i mean theres an arrow saying where the thing is going to launch...it has to have been intended

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

@@Eddie2P No that's not what either of us meant. The arrow shows you where the object will fly, but this type of Stasis launching is using the object to launch _yourself,_ that is to say, Link. What was "intended" to be done with the rune is impossible to say, and this could have been "intended" or not, but either way it's not what I would define as a "glitch" in the game's code, it's just a natural result of the mechanics as coded. As another example, Magnesis minecart flying machines were almost certainly unintended, but I wouldn't call that a glitch either. It's just taking advantage of the way Magnesis works (where you can only use it on something you're not directly standing on). Compare to something like a bullet time bounce, where you're specifically making the game drastically miscalculate your velocity; that's not a direct result of the bullet time mechanic, it's the result of a glitch in said mechanic.

[@penncakes07]

I've never used glitches with BOTW, but i realise recently, some of the characters "stand" horizontally haha!

[@DavidDoboni]

There's been so many BoTW videos in my feed recently that it's weird. We're all hungry for BoTW 2 at this point.

[@sylinmino]

I remember the naysayers when the game first released saying, "Just watch, people will forget about this game in a few months."

[@lionablaze8747]

this game was legendary on arrival, just like ocarina of time was.

[@9ineTrap]

We should all try and get this game famous again

[@timrenestoum9334]

Wdym, the game is literally a legend in the gaming community

[@patricioart4301]

It's fame isn't wearing off soon

[@Complete_Stranger7050]

Bro this game is already legendary i still play it lol

[@AP-pb6tc]

It is

[@pennymikk]

it never stopped being famous

[@PhantomJay909]

"Glitch Of The Wild" I love it

[@milk346]

Son of a glitch

[@GooberGalactic]

I'm on my first playthrough right now. So I can't wait to try some of these. I've already been using the sprint/ whistle glitch. But im now more interested in stacking explosive or elemental arrows on every boss I can find.

[@milktea3710]

i love this so much! botw’s glitches are so interesting and mysterious and its amazing how people try and find ways to keep breaking the game just because of the freedom it allows you. i agree with memory storage. i’m not the best player, and the two days of preparing to beat dark beast ganon was the most stressful i had been playing a game. nevertheless, i have never felt so relieved when i got the bow of light, and in awe of the fact the game was even able to handle it all LOL. great job rin!

[@RinHara5aki]

Thanks! :D

[@maryam.m]

I can't wait to see what glitch hunters do with Tears of the Kingdom 😁

[@AlphaC0re]

The speed running and combat community is so awesome

[@jackplaysroblox784]

Zelda: ok you've done 120 shrines, found 900 kooks now can you please save hyrule?! Link:

[@andylolol]

It's so funny that this is already outdated, with the discovery of the first person glitch. Great video though! Loved it.

[@leveretmemer]

the first person glitch was actually shown at the end of the video

[@andylolol]

@@leveretmemer oh right I see, for like two seconds. I definitely think he was already done with the voiceovers, otherwise he would have included it :-)

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

@@andylolol It doesn't have as many applications yet. It's very difficult to pull off, very late-game (requires the master cycle), and very easy to accidentally cancel, and it doesn't actually affect your game at all except visually. It may be comparable to the tricks enabled by memory storage, but it's far from becoming an iconic glitch. Give it a few more months or years, and they might find out how to do it in other ways, or better yet, find more impressive applications of the underlying "super item smuggling" glitch.

[@andylolol]

@@Nat_the_Chicken yeah sure, but it's still a glitch haha

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

@@andylolol Well they did say that they couldn't list ALL the glitches, since there are hundreds. I guess that one just didn't make the cut, but probably _barely._

[@grgfrmnva3153]

Not sure what a "windbomb" is, but it looks a lot like a boomie zoomie

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

I'm mad it didn't get the label of ass blasting... wind bomb sounds lame by comparison. ASS BLASTER!

[@datdood0]

XD

[@momega7189]

No idea what a “boomie zoomie” is but it sound a lot like a bomb jump

[@averymusicalperson]

that's basically it

[@Blastbrn]

Love this game so much. Easily one of my top 3 most played games

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

Born in 86 here... And I would have to agree. Which is nuts since that's like 30 years of many many wonderful games and the fact that one of my most played games is a pretty new one by comparison, means it's just THAT DAMN GOOD!

[@wPorpeta]

Another great video! Glad Rinhara5aki is still making great content on GameSpot! Hope there’s more BotW content in the future!! :D

[@RedSox5630]

This actually helped me to figure a lot of glitches, Thanks!

[@geliscon]

Wind Bombs also known as Bomb Impact Launches also known as Boomie Zoomies

[@zeldaconnection9945]

WOW great Vid the most important Gliches/Tricks are in it. Great work! Thank you

[@jlco]

The robustness required in the physics programming for all this to be possible and controllable is impressive.

[@2012vannamejosh]

I did the memory storage glitch to get the bow of light. I died one time at the yiga clan hideout, but thankfully I used Eventide Island to save the run.

[@emanuelflores5676]

Same i died 4 times

[@Atomicrow]

I remember doing item duplication glitch the old way where you had to give 5 shot bows to electric arrow-using lizalfos in that one camp by zora's domain and having to constantly open and close my inventory until it was in the glitched state. Literally kept track of what items I wanted to duplicate and would go over there every blood moon. Now it's so easy and portable and I wouldn't have it any other way.

[@cyb3rl0v333]

The first glitch I’ve ever attempted with success was the moon jump one!

[@NX721]

If you're wondering what all four games are at 0:05 they are: BotW, Genshin Impact, Immortals: Fenyx Rising and Pokemon Legends: Arceus

[@Felix-lh7dk]

Thank you

[@skull0gd222]

BOTW: *Exists* Glitch Hunters: Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!

[@multanisorcerer3405]

already freaking love this. i understand it takes time. but please make a team of people that only focus on this. would love to see it from more games. and not only zelda games. hope these vids are gonna be a real docu lenght of 30 minutes or longer. awesome work Gamespot

[@umbreongaming9921]

I've only done Bow Spin, Moonjump and whistle sprint and I gotta say, they have helped me a lot in master mode. Also helps that I've played the normal mode through twice and know everything about the game world...

[@spinnespielt]

I actually never found any glitches/bugs while I played BOTW but watching these techniques is really fun!

[@blaze4281]

I've done thousands of glitches over the years its nice to see a recap of all these iconic glitches

[@JoshGTs]

Awesome! Glitches are a very interesting topic, I am subbing.

[@chocotriscuit4917]

if you use the < and > keys while paused, u can go frame-by-frame. and if u inch 1 frame forward a bunch at 8:38, you can see half the reason link was put in the shrine of resurrection

[@2ninja4U2see97]

I recently learned how to windbomb (can't really launch well but I've perfected the mid-air ones) and I've been using it quite often

[@sounddd]

hey guys thanks for doing these, sparked my interest and love and im gonna finish BOTW now xD

[@elizabethfrazee8812]

Flying machine reminds me of the same thing you could do in Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts to get to places in game way early! Man. That brought back memories

[@bloodrayne2645]

I wanna see legendoflink on this channel he contributed so much in botw glitches

[@PowerNapMan]

Awesome video, guys. Superb writing and editing! 0:06 - what’s that last game? :)

[@matthewphu4637]

On the bottom right? That’s Pokémon legends Arceus which has yet to be released

[@PowerNapMan]

@@matthewphu4637 Thanks a lot! :)

[@YonatanCS]

@@matthewphu4637 How about the upper right ?

[@matthewphu4637]

@@YonatanCS I think it’s that immortals fenyx rising game

[@Raikuthedragon]

A few days ago, I watched some peoples doing bomb impact launch glitches... now I'm here having fun with it all day long. Im learning thunderclap rush, I'm getting the hang of it pretty quick.

[@Ful-OGold]

I need that bow of light !

[@FourthRulerEntity]

That new game plus glitch at the end sounds like alot of fun to play in

[@megan8447]

Dont be decieved. It's hours of pain. Days of it. But youll be happy when you get yer bow of light

[@pilartaarmo7469]

If Link can talk to us he’d cuss tf outta glitch hunters🤣🤣🤣 when his body split bruhhh I died💀💀💀💀💀

[@Hi-Revy]

Oh man I need to do another play through haha. This is great

[@annakrawczuk5221]

You can learn to do windbombs consistently in a few hours/ days, with no previous glitch knowledge. They are AWESOME and feel hecking great. Limcube has a great tutorial on them

[@GinjaNinja77]

Y'all are trying to f*ck up my immersion, yo.

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

Lol that's your own fault for coming here. Want a more natural experience? Avoid spoilers... As a matter of fact... Avoid the net completely when the game is about to come out... And if you want to keep your soul... Never get into the internet period lolz.

[@kaibloxcraftbc9943]

You forgot about the stasis glitch where if a stalker Guardian does not see you, you can stasis it and make it sinkthrough the floor

[@okami7882]

0:09 This is chaotic, I've never seen something so beautiful

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

Accidental replay value. Gotta love it!

[@jbwejman]

excellent work, rythm, bravo

[@valeriewarden6677]

The only glitch I've used uses the Thunderblade. Swing it, pause mid swing, drop it, then I used the blade to cheat Vah Naboris because I couldn't find out how to do it the right way.

[@cammannotcanman3997]

Same

[@tjeerdtrekkie1030]

The most Iconic thing is that almost all of those speedrun glitches were found within the first month of release

[@gamer.i0397]

pls make more vids about glitches luved this one!!

[@enochskindasus6yago619]

the most powerful ones in my opinion is moon jump (skip shrines, towers, dungeons, lava...) Also menu overloading cause i can legit duplicate weapons and get infinite gems which i can sell for infinite rupees. and also the NEW early master sword one is pretty good. Love this series, hope you continue

[@huckleberrie101]

I learned that if you use stasis on a decayed guardian with legs in Hyrule castle town ruins it falls into the ground

[@tonycrawl5300]

The great editing of the year

[@Shadenxox6]

0:10 what is that glitch?

[@RinHara5aki]

Super menu overload!

[@Shadenxox6]

@@RinHara5aki how did u make the crusher repeatedly strike the lynel?

[@cheke_hs]

@@RinHara5aki Do you have a link (no pun intended) for that glitch? It’s baffling how they put it in the preview of this video but not actually showcased at all...

[@RatijasT]

@@cheke_hs it's just an extreme case of a regular menu overloading. there is a video on youtube explaining and exploring it.

[@cheke_hs]

@@RatijasT I’ve seen plenty of menu overload videos and can do it myself, but not what’s seen at the beginning of the video.

[@michaelmcnally1556]

This ad prior to this Zelda BOTW game film is awesome!

[@fkmui03]

_Bug of The Wild_

[@Fillthrill]

More of this please!

[@funnyxusername]

You guys should really do a video on how to leave the Great Plateau without getting the Shiekah slate...

[@the_swagg]

I love how these glitches are so popular and Nintendo does nothing to fix them I am grateful though, because they are very helpful

[@rocknflip66]

I’m on my master mode play and these glitches are going to be used. cutscene divine beast skip glitch is so OP!

[@krapiak]

Well done!

[@prestonchen8707]

I tried to do every glitch... it did not end well

[@ultimateroyale5774]

What’s funny is I discovered Daruk’s perfect parry about a week ago without even knowing the glitch existed

[@NoName-hh9md]

Been playing for 3 days now and I'm tempted to do the duplication glitch only for shields cause the shield sliding mechanic is fun af but breaks too quickly.

[@brisingrislindri7267]

And now, the 20th most powerful glitch has been discovered and reach it’s full potential

[@tickeroo]

Great rundown all in one place

[@RoyVanNistelrooij]

"You might also know it for another reason: Glitches." Nah fam, while all games have glitches, when I think of this game I don't think glitches because after 500 hours of "normal" gameplay I have only clipped through a wall twice, and had an enemy freeze (not the elemental freeze). Yeah if you go around trying to break the game on purpose you can do that in any game. But if you are just having fun and playing the game you will hardly encounter glitches. This is Nintendo, not Bethesda lol

[@poptato6426]

It sounds like a documentary of BOTW glitches

[@DarkMirria1]

Always use whistle running, it is the easiest to do and helps manage stamina early. - There’s a weird glitch in Wii U BotW that always happens once on a new playthrough when you first play the game on a persons account. The ground in Gerudo Desert just not existing and Link walking on what appears to be air and you can see under the world. It’s happened to me twice, once on two different accounts on the system. It’s not really a useful glitch but it’s a strange thing that happened.

[@hyrulemasterchef9573]

Good video work! I see why they hired you 😎

[@greyb.8046]

"That really popular open world game everyone compares everything to." No shit- everyone is copying its style, including FromSoft with their new Elden Ring!

[@jkkrieger24]

I found the moon jump glitch by accident and then I looked it up on KZbin and I know that I was not the one who Discovered it but it was cool that I found it without knowing it exist

[@ketochiesesoyyo]

A bit late to the party but these videos are fantastic

[@lightnings4610]

I think Daruk’s perfect protection was an intended gimmick

[@woomylover2006]

I like how the Developers probably though they got rid of most of the glitches then the community went “Ha ha lol memory storage”

[@KorinkCool]

This is great series

[@atruepanda1782]

I love how this game is both really well made and very exploitable

[@basedCRM]

I'm curious what will end up happening with BOTW2. This multi-year series of glitch discoveries is sort of like an excellent beta testing in prod, for the next project. I wonder if they will end up correcting these, or which glitches they will allow to continue in botw2.

[@Conpauleonina]

BOTW the game that keeps on giving!

[@ulleguefamily14]

awsome glitch at 0:09

[@mattbettcher7439]

I had no idea about most of these and now I wanna try them!!!!

[@bobbauer7928]

i new about 4 of them before i watched this video

[@Kaldrin]

BOTW2: Comes out Speedrunners: *Rush to test if the glitches still work*

[@chainclaw07]

I'd like to prefice that people wouldn't have hunted for glitches if the game wasn't any good...

[@Anonymous-ts4pj]

I was wandering around and I think the rotation glitch happened for just a little bit because one of the NPC's at a stable was sideways... The funny part was that he was selling "shrooms"

[@SteezusChrist69420]

little did they know that a wild blss glitch appeared in a cave somewhere nearby

[@wellhello7711]

There's so many things in this game mannnn

[@kidneystones3578]

What was that very first glitch called? I got a variation of it on accident while duping bows but idk what it's called so I can't look it up.

[@sethirvine5426]

Dose this glitch work if you've beaten all the shrines and are just trying to get the last 2 hearts? Cause it's all seems to work fine but when I load the save, I haven't got the hearts I sold, so when I by then back I have the same amount I started with.