BOTW's Most Anime Combat Of 2022 Explained

User Breneko obliterates a Guardian in Breath of the Wild, but how did he pull it off? We go behind the scenes and explain how each trick was done step by step.
At this point you’re probably wondering, “How did they pull this off? And what the heck actually happened?”. You’d be surprised at just how much preparation, creativity, trial and error, and thought went into this simple 20 second Breath of the Wild clip that you would’ve never known without actually understanding what’s happening behind the scenes, so today I’m going to break down exactly what happened step by step, because this brilliance requires a lot more explaining than you might think, and maybe you’ll appreciate it all a lot more when you see all the pieces.
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User Breneko shared this clip on twitter on May 5th, 2022, and dropped many jaws. There’s a total of 7 major glitches used here, such as Trickshotting, Absolute Thunderclap Rushes, Slow Daruk Marking, Guardian Disabling, and Jelly Bouncing are just a few of the tricks used behind the scenes in this mind blowing clip. Even 5 years later, players in Breath of the Wild continue to create amazing ideas.
0:00 Intro
0:57 Jelly Bouncing Explanation
1:29 TCR, Mark and Chase Explanation
2:40 Slow Daruk Marking Explanation
3:40 Guardian Range Explanation
4:20 Guardian Disable Explanation
6:12 Part 1 Recap
6:28 Trickshot Setup Explanation
9:56 Part 2 Recap
10:44 Outro

[@RinHara5aki]

Thanks again to @bre_Neko for pulling this amazing clip off!

[@ThinhPhamNumber1]

Rin, I tried the jelly bounce with spin attack like your video but Link doesn’t back flip, only jumps higher to have bullet time. Do I need to stay at certain distance from the jelly or need some timing? Thanks.

[@jasminecolon8789]

I got the timing for daruk's perfect parry kinda simple now for me

[@requiem165]

Ikr

[@qbert8600]

Who's this?

[@jasminecolon8789]

@@ThinhPhamNumber1 u have to move backwards during the spin attack

[@pakaman9101]

Wow I felt like I was listening to a side character explaining the MC’s plans

[@VivioSaf]

We really came such a long way since "Extreme Speed is a move that increases the Pokemon Speed to Extreme"

[@somerandommemer188]

Speed wagon be like

[@crankthatification]

"it may look like a simple fear but , his manoeuvre was much more challenging that it seemed!" in 1.50x normal speed

[@JJJSmit9026]

11 minutes to explain only a few seconds of combat, now that is anime

[@mysterym6757]

Because that’s what happened

[@JetGames7]

my reaction at the start of the video: "HOW???" my reaction at the end of the video: "HOW?!?!?"

[@jameso2290]

The explanation of all this feels even more anime than the attack itself. Guardian: "Nani!? But how!? How did you coordinate such an attack!?" Link: *pushes up glasses* "It was quite simple, you see. Precisely 2 minutes ago, ten miles south of this location, I fired 3 arrows into the sky, 2 degrees left of Orion's Belt. I knew that you would be standing still precisely at this location, at this time of day, at this moment in our battle. All I had to do was wait for you to get cocky and try to fire your blast at me. My acrobatics were merely a distraction from the incoming aerial attack that I fired precisely 2 minutes ago. Once the shots hit their target, I knew you'd be too dazed to react in time, in which I took advantage of your lowered defenses and came in for the for a rushing strike." Guardian: "I was foolish to underestimate your cunning." (This whole conversation occurs in slow-mo, during the 0.2 seconds after the attack in which the guardian is launching in the air, upside down).

[@RinHara5aki]

😂

[@jstan5802]

Literally anime lol

[@GuilhermeFechner]

Ans though this conversation sounds like an over-exagerated version of an edgy anime, this is exactly what happened

[@goldenlotus3046]

Naaaah…..it’s gotta be like in anime……the moment the guardian is flying everything freezes and the guardian and link break the fourth wall popping up in the foreground of the frozen scene as chibi versions of themselves as they explain what happened….and then the scene resumes and the guardian blows up

[@mariothane8754]

In every single other situation, I’d call shenanigans, but THAT’S LITERALLY WHAT HAPPENED!!!

[@squalltheonly]

Jesus man. Here I was thinking that lighting a stick on fire to keep warm was the highest brain thing to do in this game.

[@justinbremer2281]

Ugh it took me way too long to learn to use Cryonis on the floating treasure chests

[@userunknown2447]

i stayed on the side of the great plateau for 2 irl days because i was scared of a non-moving guardian 😂

[@somethingaboutsomething1]

@@userunknown2447 ran fo my life

[@SapphireSolstice67]

@@justinbremer2281 What floating treasure chests do you mean?

[@johnsonter1358]

Just get a flame sword, it will keep y'all warm. Love all the the little tricks like cooking on a red moon.

[@lemonadogirl4082]

Guardian: "I'm gonna laser you to death!" Link: _"I am already four parallel universes ahead of you."_

[@Lunar54567s]

Fr lol

[@Shagaru_Bleed]

"NANI?!??!"

[@somethingsomething3595]

@@Shagaru_Bleed "Omae wa, mou, shindeiru"

[@maximeleninja4029]

@@somethingsomething3595 0:10 **Taco bell**

[@PauloYamacake]

I feel like there's even more thought put into this then the Super Mario 64 glitch. Good reference tho

[@ViniciusNegrao_]

to me the most impressive thing was hitting three arrows in his eye from accross the map. A single degree translates to literally missing him altogether

[@penguin_reader_yt9510]

This is a WILD vid

[@ViniciusNegrao_]

@@penguin_reader_yt9510 it took my BREATH away

[@ordinaryguy5332]

@@ViniciusNegrao_ Therefore, he can be called a LEGEND.

[@penguin_reader_yt9510]

@@ordinaryguy5332 Im sure ganon is QUIVER-ing in fear.

[@ordinaryguy5332]

@@penguin_reader_yt9510 Why shouldn't he. CALAMITY is upon him...

[@marcustulliuscicero4065]

The NASA level planning and precision for a ten second clip... Man. How did he even come up with it?

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

Nanomachines son!

[@catrinastars]

Lol the very definition of “worth it”moment.

[@captaincanaveral]

Plot Twist: They work at NASA

[@vrishnak92]

Plot twist to your plot twist: they were hired at NASA on the 22nd of May, 2022 at 10:07 am CST

[@Little_L]

The combat in botw seems so simple at face value, but has so many different glitches and techniques it's insane

[@_Night04]

Fr

[@Link-Link]

Hey nice to see u there

[@KParsa]

while I absolutely love the glitches and ppl who put hours in the game to find it, it'd be really nice if Nintendo actually puts such moves or even better in the sequel so everyone is able to pull em off rather than having to do complicated glitches.

[@pigeoon6353]

Yooo it’s Little_L my fav underrated botw KZbinr

[@popcat7287]

@@KParsa eh this is a bit over the top and too complicated combat isnt usually good

[@Confused850]

Imagine your Zelda watching over Link while simultaneously holding back Ganon and you see him punt a guardian across Hyrule.

[@thegreatgoobert5847]

I assume a lot relief that this will be easy and slight anger that he hasn't done this before is what zelda is feeling.

[@titan1umtitan]

@@thegreatgoobert5847 Ah yes, another Lubba enjoyer

[@nabi7701]

I'm pretty sure that's just Canon link strength

[@blackgemstone801]

@@nabi7701 Canon botw Link is like Master Chief in the books. Almost unstoppable

[@blackgemstone801]

I'm of the understanding that Link alone is the cause of the majority (or at least half) of the dead guardians you see in the overworld

[@widget3672]

It's stuff like this that makes games great. Glitches like these are alright, and when chaining 7 of them together like this works out to literally turning Link into an anime protagonist then it's downright necessary. I hope the sequel has more stuff like this.

[@glowingcrowns1692]

I swear. I hope Nintendo don't patch all this stuff up.

[@jimbomclimbo7467]

@@glowingcrowns1692 nintendo are a bunch of fun haters so these are most definitely get patched out

[@lifalzos]

@@jimbomclimbo7467 Uhhh what? Nintendo literally said they WON'T patch these glitches because they know people like them. That's why they stopped releasing patches like 3 years ago....

[@TinPot73]

@@lifalzos thank GOD

[@dallan7736]

So much fun, I can hardly contain myself...

[@realnintendonoah]

My jaw dropped when I saw all the pieces come together at the end. My immediate reaction at the beginning was "dang this looks easy" it doesn't anymore

[@smashdriven1640]

This is actually nutty. Imagine doing that whole set up and then messing it up at the end.

[@MsTwirlyGirly1]

We saw the successful implementation of the sequence. Who knows how many hours of failures came before? Probably many! All those who are experts in BotW combat are players who don't give up, no matter how long it takes. Bravo!

[@kidd7445]

He probably did.

[@rubenlima7311]

This whole setup took him 3 weeks to get right (he said that in the comments of his video). It must have taken hundreds of attempts, if not thousands !

[@TricksterLawlet]

I'd end my life

[@3nertia]

Which he probably did ... 300 times before he got it right for the video :D

[@ronnieaarts3038]

Imagine what these pro's can do with BOTW2 time reversing mechanic. It's going to be insane.

[@TornaitSuperBird]

Only if there's as much glitchiness as this in BoTW2. Nintendo might go on a patching spree if the game is exploited so quickly.

[@FlamingZelda3]

@@TornaitSuperBird they usually only patch their games for 12-18 months after release. It's pretty standard for zelda games to have dozens of exploits years after coming out.

[@ZNotFound]

@@TornaitSuperBird Nintendo usually doesn't patch out glitches as long as it doesn't bother a normal play through. You could play the entirety of BOTW without experiencing any game breaking glitch even though the game is full of it, it takes time to set up.

[@CeRz]

​@@ZNotFound there's even an article somewhere saying this that they intentionally stopped patching the game just to keep the "fun glitches".

[@DogsRNice]

@@CeRz they did more than that for oot 3D They actually recreated some glitches that they thought players would enjoy So I wouldn't be surprised if some of these glitches weren't intentionally kept in totk which presumably runs on the same engine as botw

[@R0B1NG5]

There is something so much more impressive to me about creating a bunch of systems that allow the discovery of unintended but functional high level expressions of the characters ability, than simply just making a very difficult game which is complex and has intended combos and moves with a high degree of execution required.

[@chessycopter9619]

This is such a unique and well thought out clip. This guy is insane

[@Cranbearry_YouTube]

Rin: "At this point, you're probably wondering; how did they pull this off?" Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of; "WHAT THE FU-!"

[@jace_d]

Eh, same sentiment, less words lol

[@JDHD99]

*Link lowers his sword in a guard position as the Guardian charges its beam… slowly the sword glows brighter and brighter… Link now with his eyes closed, inhales deeply with the echoing whisper.* “Thunder Breathing… First Form, Thunder Clap and Flash!”

[@blackgemstone801]

Underrated comment

[@JDHD99]

@@blackgemstone801 Thank you friend.

[@K7TZ]

So in other words every anime moment takes hours of preparation behind the scenes

[@Celestial-yq6hz]

You gotta make it *look* flashy, and feel awesome 😆😅

[@peterskylocker9347]

I saw the clip a few days ago, but didn’t understand what happened, so I just chalked it up to a glitch guru. I had no idea that it required so much preparation or frame-perfect execution. My appreciation and admiration has shot through the roof thanks to this video. Pure artistry! Thanks for explaining what’s going on so clearly.

[@wavys2543]

wow, sick. nice editing to help explain the behind-the-scenes stuff.

[@MessApathy]

the editing for this is truly amazing. I especially was able to appreciation how accurate and smoothly you kept the "Locked" indicator to its designated spot

[@hyrulemasterchef9573]

It was kind of a roller coaster. He went from flurry rushing a guardian to running to the temple of the time kinda didn’t let us know he was going into a different trick shot I thought flurry rushing the guardian required going to the temple of time

[@thebe_stone]

the fact that he was able to shoot the arrow so precisely that it hit the eye of the guardian is insane.

[@madDragon08]

7:24 I about fell over. Using stars as iron sights? Gotta love mathematics, and/or the multitude of trial and error.

[@marcospaulocavaliere576]

This was... unbelievable ! 3 arrows shot from miles away, precisely timed and right at the guardian's eye.... sounds like balck magic to me.

[@100Peterll]

What an insane move and even crazier setup, worth it though looks absolutely badass. Great explanation and editing as well, Rin really makes these complex tech explanations easy to understand👏

[@GoFigure]

This game can actually be a school subject/course.

[@longebane]

Teaching what? Patience and humility?

[@BeholdDog5341]

Imagine Ganon sitting comfortably in the tower and he hears a guardian ping off the walls

[@maugwei]

And at the same time the arrow was falling triangulated to the stars, he put BOTW on standby mode and loaded animal crossing and bought a red tulip from Tom nook, at the moment of transfer of the red tulip he switched back to BOTW and links momentum augmented by the tulip transaction called a L.M.A.T. was sufficient enough to emotionally trigger and near by electric lizalfos that then went rogue and put the slime jelly off screen behind link into Obliteration mode. Making the glitch possible before every other step in this video including first he also rebuilt the game in the unity engine and added seven hundred and eighty five new physics modes to the game! Gawd stop already!

[@sagehanson190]

what

[@PhuongNguyen-_-]

this is GOLD!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@thelastbrickbender2139]

@@sagehanson190 he was poking fun at how elaborate the set up for this move was But he forgot to mention how you have to camp at lake hyrule for exactly 3 nights to make sure this guardian would be in that exact spot to hit the pillar, it’s called the lake hyrule guardian reset or lhgr for short, it’s pretty well known actually

[@sahil_tayade]

@@thelastbrickbender2139 It's pretty well known 🤣🤣

[@19rayrayray90]

other player : navigate using map Breneko : navigate using stars

[@user-lx7gl7vz2d]

And people still think we didn't land on the moon.

[@StewartMcGinnis]

This is insane, and such a great presentation on the explanation too!

[@jhebadiasprunklefunk9243]

Jeez how many years did it take to get the timing perfect for this. Insane kudos to bre_neko, you won botw.

[@victorherrera1012]

When I saw this I was eager to try out that ATR that sent the Guardian flying, but I couldn't do it. So fast forward a few days and I was making a combat clip with a bunch of lizalfos and in one of the clips I thunderclap rushed to a Lizalfos even when there was a Lizalfos going in my rushes direction. What ended up happening was that the Lizalfos in the way of my rush was sent soaring.

[@MegaGaming11]

Talk about two birds with one stone. Imagine if Link could Shout on top of all this. His chases could then be done with a quick "Wuld!" and the enemies would be no more.

[@CertifiedWaffler64]

Alternative Title: How Link is strong enough to body a guardian

[@alfredohumberto2222]

It's not link, it's the speedforce

[@jake.klusewitz]

Wow. This is incredible, and made even moreso after the thorough explanation!

[@3nertia]

I couldn't have appreciated this without the explanation; thank you for the edification!

[@youtubesresidentfbiagent8735]

I thought I was a decent BOTW player... But dang, this makes me look like I started playing this game yesterday.

[@tylerpearson9754]

Solid breakdown, this really puts an epic clip into an even better light. Knowing the level of planning and precision here makes it even better

[@jordanlee3349]

Holy this is absolutely incredible. I remember collecting all 900 Koroks in 2018 and thought I was done with it. Amazing how far the player base and community has pushed the combat in this game

[@chloewinnaa1515]

Mad lad, was that even fun?

[@yeyx_6439]

That is literally what you call A 200 IQ trick shot

[@curiouscreation55]

I love when videos like these are covered! More combat videos please :)

[@luigibrostudios3390]

my god, I thought it was just a jelly bounce and a tcr with a well timed ancient arrow, not a complicated setup, trickshot, and perfectly timing the clip. Bravo on explaining it!

[@reeeil]

Does Neko have a YT channel? Where does he post these? I swear, I've been subscribing and liking all these combat god videos to hopefully help the algorithm make them go viral. 😆 These guys, the glitch hunters, and the speedrunners deserve the utmost respect for making this game even more interesting 5 years after its launch.

[@markymark1256]

The visuals in this video to explain the strategy are AMAZING. I actually kind of understand it a little.

[@josh335]

This game is so well made, there is really no end to the absolutely nuts stuff players will figure out and figure out how to do

[@aaronnorris2210]

Great break down. Thankyou for making it. If I created that combo I’d have the QR code tattooed on my body. Very impressive

[@Seth_M-T]

Absolutely mind-blowing. One of the best clips I've ever seen. It was perfectly explained too!

[@codekhalil6437]

These are wayyy too many steps for me to try. But I just appreciate watching. In fact, I appreciate how this game is STILL giving us these gems all these years later. IMHO, it's the games replayability which makes it the greatest game ever made.

[@literallyaguythatexists6274]

After 5 years Breath Of The Wild never ceases to amaze me

[@Arcenus237J]

Great clip and awesome video explaining it! BOTW is magical.

[@flitefulwantssubs402]

I respect the time and creativity that went into performing. Nice job, bre_neko!

[@Spawn256]

insane how they keep finding out new mechanisms

[@salt9485]

Nah bro he's just got a good gaming chair

[@thedofflin]

This was way more involved than I ever could've expected

[@CleverBryan1]

Gr8 video man. I was nerding out hard

[@evobsm2328]

The mechanics of this game are sooo impressive and what you can do with it all

[@jimmycheong7970]

This is actually insane

[@tigerofdoom]

Great explanation! I did not understand at all beforehand

[@11thShadowDragon]

This is insanely amazing. There's just SO MUCH to this title, and then compounded with the insane people in the community? Wild.

[@glowingcrowns1692]

I mean look how even after 20 years . People was still finding glitches and cheats on ocarina of time. Botw gonna be crazy.

[@02337755]

Links Power is now over 9000.

[@susk5090]

The fact that the ancient bow has enough range to shoot an arrow from the plateau all the way to the front of Hyrule castle (or wherever that is) I feel was heavily overlooked

[@kobedoesgaming3560]

The glitches simply don't end! ...and I love it

[@bareq99]

What's really cool about this is that the glitches here are actually fun and will most likely never effect your first playthrough of the games!! They actually make the game more fun! Ans to top that.. The devs have talked about the glitches and said they ain't removing them because they make the game fun!

[@snowkracker]

And here I could never even figure out how to do a proper bomb impact launch even after watching videos

[@Wuben.]

Nintendo has made the best combat style even tho 99.99% of it is unintentional

[@bareq99]

What's intentional is the engine The engine they created is probably tge best game engine created since Halo 3's!!

[@suzycerulean]

This is more impressive than any real life trick shot I have ever seen

[@richarcher499]

Calculating the parabola of three arrows in quick succession across miles of terrain in the dark is a superhuman accomplishment in and of itself, I'm floored

[@shrobbyy]

Honestly, Nintendo should turn glitches of the combat into an actual feature in BOTW 2

[@coranora9758]

Awesome! Keep up the great botw content! 😁

[@VedanthB9]

I am speechless. This was mind-blowing. What amazing precision!

[@Banus-]

wow that ending explanation was really cool. It just all fell together like dominos.

[@draconianfire]

... Just insane. I want to try this now.

[@minihoyas]

botw combat experts are insanely devoted

[@lil_savage446]

How in the world do people have so much patience doing this stuff. I once did a duplication glitch to sell the object for money and it took me around 2 hours, but I was annoyed after I finished because it wasnt even that good. The amount of time and errors that could have happened in this clip could have led to nearly days of work and I would have given up after the first half hour

[@Dossa8]

Instead of relying on glitches to make the combat look good. I rather have the developers update the core combat mechanics to actually be enjoyable. Don't get me wrong, I admire their work and devotion to make all of this happen. But doing all of that is way too much trouble for what it's worth.

[@justkermitgettingchocked2409]

I feel like I'm taking a BOTW theory class with all these techniques explanations.

[@faded_taco1816]

This is why games with physics engines are the best of all time.

[@NFITC1]

These BTS videos sometimes make me MORE impressed at the level of planning and execution these short clips require. That would have had to take significant time just to PLAN let alone master each individual glitch and pull them off frame-perfectly.

[@hafluq2979]

Wow I never knew this game was so emergent. I'd definitely like to see more videos like this.

[@Nolshae]

dude this whole thing took 11 minutes to explain and it was concise too this is insane

[@kristianbidhendy8009]

At this point I’m wondering if anyone considered naming this Thunderclap and Flash

[@alexsumo2159]

Link now has his zenitsu move

[@Pieces_InTheGame]

SO, Imagine BOTW PvP…

[@taker601]

There's a multiplayer mod coming soon... PvP might become a reality :0

[@rianjams]

the sheer number of things that have to go right for this to work is mind boggling

[@bendwiar1139]

The thing that gets me the most, is the arrow set up like How tf. its incredible 😍

[@Shadenxox6]

The botw combat community is endless.

[@1blackone]

As a huge aside: THIS is how Batman works and how he takes on gods, with meticulous preparation and ridiculous skill.

[@CJWII]

He takes on gods using bad writing and plot armor. Mf snuck up on superman 🤦‍♂️

[@kecaeygaming5942]

Ok, that's another level of dedication! Impressive!

[@TowelGard]

The cross map arrow is like a magician throwing a card from across the room and teleporting to catch it to make it look like they pulled it from behind your ear.

[@sora6303]

Dude I didn’t even know there were stars visible, this game just keeps surprising me

[@99agility34]

fr though

[@88Opportunist]

Whilst it's still incredibly cool to see all the systems at work it's always a little sad when you realize you won't be able to play the game doing this to every enemy

[@meatballman_botw]

Not with that attitude you won't!

[@aws0m3e15]

I think i'll just stick with the normal attacks from now, this is to complicated but, this is a really cool clip and also a good video, 10/10

[@Wildicon19]

This is totally insane how these gamers dream up this incredible battle maneuvers! Thanks Max for the amazing tutorial as always!

[@99agility34]

i was so happy when i made a montage on my channel utilizing a jelly bounce just to be pushed aside by this master piece. Amazing

[@wisgarus]

This plan is so elaborate, the guardian must be honored to be the one it's performed on.

[@RevrenD23]

You could explain this to me in six month periods, from 5 years old to 18 years old with an additional 3 years following and I still wouldn't understand how this happened..

[@kingmanhusada824]

Botw Developer : I have no idea how's this work...

[@richardrider651]

Hats off this was an amazing clip an amazing breakdown. After seeing this I'm an officially retired from playing video games I am a casual player.

[@SparkJointstudios4624]

"Thunderclap Rush" literally sounds like a special attack in Jump Force

[@zonk1580]

You could make an entire college course just out of botw combat tricks

[@sorryamari5853]

nah bro used the stars, hes wildin