BOTW's Most Anime Combat Of 2022 Explained

[@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

[@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.

[@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!!!

[@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

[@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

[@JetGames7]

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

[@kzarnold3678]

Eh what that went over my head it's like he was speaking English but I couldn't register the words to the actions 🤨🤔😵‍💫

[@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...

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@chessycopter9619]

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

[@BeholdDog5341]

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

[@madDragon08]

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

[@Blate1]

This is beyond insane. I wish there was a multiplayer game like this. Imagine how satisfying it would be to decimate opponents not just by putting in more time and leveling up higher than them, but actually learning the physics of the game world and exploiting them to defeat your opponents in spectacular ways

[@meatballman_botw]

There's a multiplayer mod that's out for the public and another one that's better, coming later.

[@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 🤣🤣

[@kingradical-x]

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.

[@jhebadiasprunklefunk9243]

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

[@GoFigure]

This game can actually be a school subject/course.

[@longebane]

Teaching what? Patience and humility?

[@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!

[@CertifiedWaffler64]

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

[@alfredohumberto2222]

It's not link, it's the speedforce

[@yeyx_6439]

That is literally what you call A 200 IQ trick shot

[@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.

[@StewartMcGinnis]

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

[@literallyaguythatexists6274]

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

[@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

[@curiouscreation55]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@Spawn256]

insane how they keep finding out new mechanisms

[@humanboi917]

0:13 Looks like team guardians is BLASTING OFF AGAIN

[@evobsm2328]

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

[@zonk1580]

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

[@Michael-yb2jh]

Okay but the gameplay captured for this video demonstrates an understanding and mastery of the game that you just DO NOT SEE on big channels these days and it is really just nice to see someone competent playing a game on GameSpot

[@Seth_M-T]

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

[@snowkracker]

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

[@kingmanhusada824]

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

[@SparkJointstudios4624]

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

[@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.

[@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..

[@wisgarus]

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

[@jimmycheong7970]

This is actually insane

[@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!

[@Pieces_InTheGame]

SO, Imagine BOTW PvP…

[@taker601]

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

[@Terra_Volted]

Never would i thought that a glitch would require a basic understanding of astronomy

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

The actual trick is even more galaxy brain than you could ever be led to expect.

[@Shadenxox6]

The botw combat community is endless.

[@KatDiedAgain]

Link is definitely the final boss and no one can stop him

[@sethb3090]

When you see clips like this, remember that BOTW Link is supposed to be severely weakened after the Shrine of Resurrection. This is just a clip of pre-Calamity Link.

[@bareq99]

@@sethb3090 hyrule warriors Link can jump in the air for a while and juggle enemies 💀💀

[@kristianbidhendy8009]

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

[@alexsumo2159]

Link now has his zenitsu move

[@11thShadowDragon]

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

[@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 🤦‍♂️

[@beep3589]

I could probably get the hang of the individual techniques, but that nonsense?! Nah. Hats off to Breneko for having the patience.

[@christopherherr7561]

The most anime thing about this is the ridiculous amount of prep to make it work.

[@Mudskipper-z2b]

I can’t even hit a target in front of me, yet this man can hit the eye of a guardian from across the map by using the stars

[@draconianfire]

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

[@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

[@bendwiar1139]

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

[@Tycy2014]

Even the names sound like they are from a anime Bystander: did he just use "absolute thunderclap rush" Sounds like something killua would come up with.

[@nathanpfirman625]

The Zelda community has some of the most unique combat techniques in the game community.

[@johnnyjoestar9504]

Imagine being Zelda observing his journey and watching him become anime

[@Nolshae]

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

[@hiramsart]

You have to be some kind of physicist to come up with this elaborate glitch. How does one begin to test these theories?🤯

[@ThorAxeTheThunder]

At the beginning I was like: I hope I learn sth new and can redo this trick. At the end I was like: I maybe stay with wind bombing.

[@juliuscarlodegracia3478]

it scares me of how much you can do in this game for how many years now.

[@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!

[@lizardeyedgamer9910]

Really pulled a LOOKS LIKE TEAM GANNON’S BLASTING OFF AGAIN

[@VedanthB9]

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

[@mapepe3788]

I wonder how many attempts it took to find that angle and what motivated him to countinue trying..

[@QueenofSilence101]

Man, if I had the patience to learn how to do all these glitches... I don't even know what I'd do, honestly.

[@nathanpfirman625]

Bro just said “The stars have aligned for this “battle” “

[@thingamajig17]

The setup is much more impressive than the actual trick

[@caffeinatedarsonist]

Link: Omae wa mou Shindeiru Guardian: NANI!?

[@thetafritz9868]

He planned that guardian’s defeat 100 steps ahead

[@justaman3817]

Who is high rn? These techniques are a lot of work. I respect the amount of time people put into these epic moves.

[@Sirax123]

If it weren't for the break down, this would be valid for Penn & Teller's Fool us.

[@bub8752]

Rumor has it they're watching youtubers break BOTW 1 and fixing every last glitch for 2

[@Snags5050]

Guardian: "Yes, stay right there, I'll blast you with my laser!" Link: "... You are already dead." Guardian: "Nani?!"

[@hafluq2979]

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

[@lionsayshey]

This clip brings to life an ability I wish Link had which is dashing a short distance to a specific location... Pretty much how Fox or Falco can in Super Smah... I wish there were more cool mechanics like that

[@randallrogers4270]

Babe wake up, new Watch For Rolling Rocks in 0.5x A-Presses just dropped

[@kullundee]

good comment

[@kecaeygaming5942]

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

[@whomidity3953]

Whats actually happening is that Link id a very cool samurai and hes just showing off to Paya

[@lelandholmquist2467]

This just tells me that this link can run 80 feet in under a second in bullet time which means he is moving at like mach speed without any magical equipment. He is a god among men.

[@HarmonicWave]

I can't even imagine how someone could figure out how to do all this in the first place, but then to repeat it for a cool video... WowWow.

[@randomthoughtinstantiator]

Link: Ganon: “Awesome! Do something else! I’ll reset the enemies…” Zelda: *Sigh* “Boys… I’m never getting rescued.”

[@solsticezzzz]

all of this is so complex, and im just watching this while barely knowing how to flurry rush or parry guardians

[@palimdragonmaster3k]

This is one of those rare videos where the results are jaw dropping, but the BTS makes your brain wrinkle

[@TheRealAnsontp]

This is akin to the explanation of how to get the star in Watch for Rolling Rocks in 0.5 A presses- but looks wayyyy cooler-

[@randomslomo1875]

I spent a minute looking at comments to see if this was a prank video. Lol. I should never underestimate BotW when it comes to complex glitches

[@muffinstan]

0:01 we're blasting off agaaaaaaaain!

[@Wildicon19]

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

[@justinzvarghese]

I feel like a freshman walking into a graduate level class and just nodding for 50 minutes while my brain hurts.

[@30secondsofcringyjokes]

Ganon and Zelda watching this from Hyrule Castle. Ganon: HOLY SHIET. Did you see that? Zelda: That's my Link. He's coming after you next. Ganon: Nah... There are still 4 Koroks left.

[@ApolloSpeakss]

If only we didn’t need glitches to have this kind of awesome combat

[@maxinea.sakaki4151]

Link:*Teleports behind you* Link: Nothing personal guardian

[@noahsan92]

basically all of BotW is "it's gonna be as complex as you wanna make it." first time i played was when i was 10 so i missed basically everything but now i've 100% it sm

[@saacattaac007]

What I do like about this level of combat is that it’s all spectacularly impractical. The only thing used in this that’s actually useful in standard botw combat is the TCR. It’s all just people purposely making the game more difficult with ridiculously precise setups just for a cool clip. It’s not people finding ways to make the combat easier, it’s people making it cooler