The Most OVERPOWERED Shield Fusions In Tears of the Kingdom!

[@BeastOrGod]

If you want to heal with Light Dragon parts, use them on your spear instead. Spears attack much faster.

[@myst1741]

Throwing it on the Hylian Shield makes it essentially infinite, useful when you don't wanna constantly think about keeping it repaired, farming more light dragon parts, or keeping forest dweller weapons handy. (Though better uses for the Hylian shield. 🤷‍♀)

[@christophersavignon4191]

Spike shards are common as dirt, no need to save them. The shield is as breakable as all the others, it just has higher durability equivalent to twenty or so royal shields.

[@herbderbler1585]

It always bugged me that lynel shields were the only ones that did damage in BotW. Some of those spiky lizal shields looked like they should be able to damage as well. Now TotK gives us ANY shield as a potential second weapon, including elemental effects and such. Glorious.

[@XtopherMartin]

The biggest help I found early is fusing a ruby, then later a sapphire to a shield to allow me in the basic cold and hot areas. Got the basic snow pants for level 2 protection from the cold. I still have my 2 def ruby shield. Another benefit to the ruby shield is that it melts ice.

[@herbderbler1585]

Only downside of ruby-fused equipment is that it also melts ice-fusions like icicle spears and ice block shields, so you gotta be careful what you equip.

[@Galaxy_Broker]

You can do the same thing with frost, or igneo talus hearts to your shields or weapons, plus the talus hearts gives your equipment higher durability

[@orangeapples]

Extra bonus is when fighting Gibdos they hit the shield and make themselves vulnerable.

[@XtopherMartin]

@@orangeapples I didn't think about that!

[@orangeapples]

@@XtopherMartin what’s less big brain is that one of the Gerudo warriors told me this and I forgot until the room with gibdos before the mural room. I THREW SO MANY FIRE FRUITS

[@C-ater]

A tip: When boosting yourself into the air using bombs/springs to bullet time, you will fall faster with your shield on your feet. You can avoid this by pressing b mid air before you go into bullet time to remove the shield and have bullet time last longer.

[@CrashFu]

Some other fun ones: Honey (ie beehive) on a shield gives enemies a faceful of bees when you block. Zonai Mirrors will let you stun and disarm enemies from a decent range (only works when standing in sunlight, though) And I'm pretty sure that rocks or hammer like monster parts even let you mine via shield bashes, in case you don't feel like swapping back and forth between a disposable mining weapon and a fighting weapon.

[@jamesturncliff5960]

You can also fuse frozen meat to your Shield. It does not melt in a goes a lot faster

[@Kaiserdudegaming]

came here to comment that, you beat me to the punch. I'm surprised the "icy meat is better than cart/minecart" hasn't become more widespread or more common knowledge by this point

[@kirby47897]

Note: only works with regular or prime meat (not poultry meats or gourmet regular meat)

[@HyperVegitoDBZ]

​@@Kaiserdudegamingit is.

[@shame2189]

​@@kirby47897icy fish and crabs as well! I like the crab because it actually looks kind of nice

[@kirby47897]

@@shame2189 Oh that’s interesting, thanks for telling me, I might try that.

[@flubberguts6982]

Another way to gain height is fusing a octo balloon on your shield its a 1 time use but does no damage to the shield you can also use it at anytime so it makes shrines way easier

[@leviyoung91]

Not mentioned about the Wing-shield fusion: The shield jump with this fusion let's you enter bullet-time with your bow for a short time. Great for hitting weak points and eyes!

[@therealshavenyak]

Frost emitter on the Hylian shield is so insanely OP. Almost nothing can touch you but lynels and main story bosses.

[@Reddotzebra]

Creating a smoke cloud with a puffshroom is also the easiest way to deal with Lynels. When they are stuck in the cloud, or if you are, they will just stand there, letting you shoot them in the face and stun them.

[@shadowkhan422]

I just use homng arrows (eye attachment) . The moment you have even dual shot bow , its a guaranteed stun. Mass farming bat eyes is way easier ( any cave at night spawns swarms which you can shoot with aoe for 6+ kills) and its faster stun too . And yeah , you can get puffshrooms an mass in the debth . Its just a lot more involved and they are more precious . Eyes dont add much damage to bows . In comparison , single puffshrom equals wiped out silver monster camp, if you are lucky

[@devarmont87]

Best way to stun a lynel is fusing two chests together. And auto building them, placing them between you and lynel... Attack away

[@leepurdy9069]

​@@devarmont87wait, what? How does this work?

[@weaselwolf]

​@@leepurdy9069he keeps using his roar to try and break your construct but it can't do it just keeps roaring.

[@L337M4573RK]

Definitely go with fusing frozen meat to a shield for optimal shield surfing (and rail grinding). Bomb and rocket shields work in a pinch, but bomb shields cannot negate fall damage from great heights. Fusing Talus hearts to shields provide lasting protection, damaging parries, heat/cold protection, parries that could burn/freeze attacking enemies, the ability to light fires and cooking pots with a quick shield parry, and so on (not good for shield surfing nor rail grinding). Haven't tried the healing shield yet, but it looks promising...

[@extraterrestrialgoose8738]

Healing shield would be really bad, since its only a quarter of a heart per hit. Putting it on your weapon is way better, preferably a spear since it hits quickly

[@L337M4573RK]

@@extraterrestrialgoose8738 And after having tried the healing shield during game play yesterday, I concur that the spear and/or short hand weapons are significantly better. It looked promising, but ultimately failed expectations during combat. This is why tests and experiments are important.

[@spikygamer987]

True, spears are better for healing due to multi hits and higher durability than other weapons. But funny thing is, I'm still fusing light dragon spike shard on my shield so I can heal AFTER battle, because bashing stuffs like crates and ore deposits still counts as a hit and still heals xD.

[@L337M4573RK]

True. It's not as efficient, but it gets the job done.

[@RustyNips]

Talus heart shield haven't thought of that finally a good use for them basically everything else in video is usless or there better alternatives like just throwing things instead

[@sunalfontenelle301]

wing on your shield allows you to go into bullet time

[@ramdomguy560]

The gibdo wing gives gibdo resistance to physical attacks, really improves shields

[@hunterwilkes8484]

Alot of people have known about that since day one

[@XtopherMartin]

@@hunterwilkes8484 a lot of people haven't though too. Congrats on that I guess.

[@lupin2232]

​@@ramdomguy560Thank you very much I did not know that. I appreciate that people care about others and take their time to inform others on the Internet! God bless ❤🙏

[@mkv2718]

fusing a shield to something like the Biggoron Sword is pretty good since you can just buy more of them from the bargainer statues once you find it, and it already has pretty high damage

[@jitterycafe6515]

Gemstone shields can actually parry to activate damage, however you cannot parry as an offense and instead parry an attack to make it activate like blocking. You can do the same thing with anything that activates upon blocking. Also, with light dragon parts, I highly suggest putting them on a weapon instead of a shield. The weapon will last longer than the shield because shields can lose durability by other means than hitting.

[@herbderbler1585]

Link wading through melee battles to heal himself with light dragon parts becomes just a little bit closer to his inevitable future as the Doomslayer.

[@Zeknif1]

If you activate shield surge and switch to paragliding with a cannon or one of the emitters fused to your shield, it will activate it and fire it in a downward direction.

[@backgroundnpc9631]

There's utility to the smokescreen beyond escape. Enemies caught in the smokescreen are susceptible to sneakstrikes.

[@OctagonalSquare]

The wing shield is awesome because you can get bullet time anywhere with it, but it’s multi use unlike bombs and springs

[@ryanpongracz8051]

Theres a really easy glitch, where uou stand on top of a shock emitter, hit to activate, quickly pause, play one memory, exot right away, and now your zonia devices will be powered on uour back. I use a fan, i van get around with tripple the glide distance.

[@MadStrike]

Wait that’s awesome 😳

[@Moby313]

I also use the glitch but never have used memories for it. All I do is shock myself but hit ZL right before getting shocked and I also fly around with an always active fan on my shield. Maybe the memory way to do it is another method or something.

[@luna_kits2345]

@@MadStrike Hi Mad Strike this out topic, please confirm if there's still no one performed zonai device glitch on top of big rocks - hold zonai devices you want then press Y+B then the number of the zonai you hold will be added to your inventory. I have done this on 1.1.0 though please mention me if this works to later versions.

[@jennifermorrison3998]

You can also use sleds on grassy environments because its just a friction reduction and isnt reliant on sand or snow.

[@darreldorigatti862]

Good video. To add, when using ruby or sapphire you gain cold and heat resistances. Honestly a very good starter island strat I've used. There's 1 ore behind a breakable wall in a cave that sparkles and drops the ruby you need). In gerudo desert...you kinda want 1 of each. Forest dweller stuff is completely broken in this game apparently. The don't consume "consumable" items. A puffshrooms in a forest dwellers shield sounds like one of the best things you can get.

[@arthurfleckkev2854]

This only works on the spear and sword and not the Shield also it has a short recharge

[@Wildicon19]

I fuse the Talus hearts to my shield, and the elemental ones are really useful! Thank you for this informative video!

[@bowiehunter]

Every time I think to myself that there's still so much I need to do in this game, I find out that I don't know how true that actually is.

[@hypereschelon5760]

At 0:41 are the fuse arrow selection screens cut out of video or is there a way to pre-fuse arrows so you don’t have to select each shot?

[@leepurdy9069]

I was coming to ask the same thing. How he was doing that. I'm guessing it was an edit, but I didn't really see where it was though.

[@upsidedownonion]

i think it wouldve been cooler if dragon parts healed a whole heart if you parried or flurry rushed with it.

[@AzureRook]

Mirror shields act like unlimited dazzle fruit shields during sunny weather

[@elopez1882]

You can fuse boulders to a shield to make a hammer if you want to preserve your weapons

[@keatonfox1874]

Good content, but clickbait thumbnail. :(

[@jamesking4736]

Fun fact: if you fuse a elemental like like stone to your shield when you parry really close yo a enemie it does a elemental AoE your welcome

[@iancomtois9832]

This video helped me figure out the mechanics of fusing a gem to your shield. I guess I was just too good at parrying, so it never activated? Also note that fusing a Ruby to your shield warms Link up a bit, which is good for exploring in the snow if you want to wear a different kind of outfit, just like wielding a fire-element weapon or a lit torch -- so you can wield other weapons instead and stay safe from the cold. Sapphires cool Link down instead, which is excellent for traversing the desert and Gerudo Canyon.

[@sillygoober_95]

0:42 did he edit the fuse menu out or is it something in game?

[@MadStrike]

I edited it out to make the viewing experience better

[@barelyt0ne636]

Frozen meat shield is the 🐐

[@MadStrike]

I can’t believe I forgot that one 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@dumorte]

Attach a shield to a boomerang for the captain america experience.

[@MadStrike]

Honestly that sounds insane

[@MeatSim9]

Another surfing option, you can fuse slabs of ice to your shield, but they WILL melt in hot environments.

[@etonpinto3571]

Wheres the part on infinite health?

[@aj.9h9p9d]

He clickbaited for more views. If you fuse a light dragon scale to your shield and successfully parry an enemy attack, you get a 1/4 of a heart recovery. It isnt infinite since the durability of the shield wouldnt last long enough to even fully recover all your hearts. Its a shame since id follow him for the content if i wasnt afraid thay all his videos would be clickbait. Its essentially just tips and tricks he got from watching other player channels, so id rather follow a non clickbait youtuber :(

[@bishopskul3534]

You can actually fuse shields to every weapon type and parry with it

[@squishy7024]

Frozen meat on a shield is the best for sliding or skating.

[@tatsumiplays2625]

Another one you forgot for transportation is refusing a frozen meat or fish to your shield what the sled does on snow but it can work anywhere and everywhere unlike using ice cube it doesn't melt which also useful for frictionless vehicles

[@jouldalk]

fusing zonai weapons to your shield (flame/ice emitters, ...) will destroy your shield in no time. Is it the same with elemental stones? (never tried it yet)

[@Moby313]

Nah the gems don't make the shield be destroyed quickly like the zonai devices

[@TheLastZonai]

Yep....better use Ultrahand after activated the zonai device (shock/fire/ice emmiter , cannon, ...), so it doesnt waste your durability and it has better conttrol (you can rotate, up, down, push or pull)

[@antilopezmexicanos]

Silver Lynel Mace horn is very OP, you can kill weaker enemies when parrying and even break break armor.

[@totallyrealname8849]

Fusing your shield with frozen meat is tied with a minecart with the slickest shield fusion.

[@laithharrington4461]

Yeah but the minecart shield sounds terrible

[@bradencosier80]

Now I want to do a playthrough where my only form of on command healing is Light Dragon parts.

[@alter3go411]

attach the canon to a spear and press R1 to use aim and use it as a gun

[@mattymattffs]

Talus hearts are by far the best. Igneo to keep you warm. Ice for hot. Also frozen meats are the best for shield surfing

[@mkennedy150]

Great video, very informative.

[@lamortechebussaallatuaport6390]

You can parry even with a one-handed weapon. However, the shield can break if you take a big hit without parrying.

[@shadowsa2b]

I had a Wing on a shield for a while...i was hoping it would enhance gliding but it did not

[@iancomtois9832]

Sadly, Homing Carts (as opposed to normal Cart devices or mine carts) SEEM to activate when you fuse them to a shield and block or shield surf, but they don't actually provide any benefits besides...draining your battery a bit.

[@geraldofrancisco5206]

Wow... Blessed with knowledge

[@hunterthejokethegamerandst5567]

I actually didn’t know that about the wing. I’ll have to try that sometime

[@jethiliusavalar6449]

Oh man. I can't look at the hylian shield without thinking of Ganondorf now. Just fought him last night and he decimated my hylian shield

[@bishopskul3534]

Yeah that part of the fight sucks in general

[@shadowkhan422]

I just unintentionally cheezed him lol . He did that "come here" thing with the hand , I got mad and just used my 5 shot bow with gibdo bones (rocket shield for bullet time) . Didnt even see his attacks .

[@christophersavignon4191]

He "decimated" your shield? What you're saying there is that he reduced your shield by a tenth, which doesn't make sense. Did you mean "devastated", maybe?

[@christianmitchell1450]

Bro youve got a twin out in the world

[@TuMadre8000]

wing on a shield gives you bullet time on demand

[@octapusxft]

I just cannot manage to jump this high with the wing shield

[@MadStrike]

It takes a little practice

[@Sirperfluous]

You Need to shield surf

[@harry.m9504]

you can also attach forzen meat for maximum slipperiness

[@courtneyyanov4175]

Wait didn’t he say dragon fart😂

[@chrisbook7938]

I literally always have a cart or sled on a shield, skateboarding good

[@magnus4437]

I've been wondering for a long time now why haven't I seen any videos that have a sapphire rod that isn't about magic rods they are extremely powerful they're basically a hand held aoe effect that radiates light they're easy to find in gerudo highlands

[@themrmoki]

Fusing frozen Meat or Prime Meat is possibly better than the sled and cart.

[@Zeeboklown]

OMG. I've been using the skateboard shield since day 1, and just now find out about the trick??

[@jaspergames3271]

I guess Link is like a dragon

[@JamesGowan]

I have a few extra star fragments ‘cause I’m on 1.1.1 😃!

[@keatonfox1874]

Same hahaha

[@JollyJon25]

Me three

[@miguelmendoza3403]

And what would happen if you fused a bright seed?

[@schlanvlcoredude9438]

Icy meat actually seems to work better than carts

[@sergioontiveros4984]

Does attacking with the parry cause durability damage?

[@SpaceRider15]

4:08 what if you fused a lynel shield, then would it have a respectable damage increase?

[@MadStrike]

Good question 🤔

[@myst1741]

Don't forest Frozen Meat for essentially frictionless shield surfing =D Better than a cart/minecart outside of actual rails.

[@osamuelvisa]

I really want to now how to spin like that when you´re surfing???

[@shadowkhan422]

If im not mistaken , you just press a melee button .

[@treyhebert426]

You can drift by using target while shield surfing

[@Brotatochip583]

these shields are cool and all but none of them can compare or even come close to the Hudson shield💀

[@truthbetold6496]

I just finish the game took me 120h and i feel i still have so much more to see and do, the only sad part there is no new games place all i farmed and upgraded will be lost.

[@vincentreedy7945]

This is the greatest Zelda game ever made and any game made hereafter without this engine will be disappointing - Echoes of Wisdom. It's an ok game but TOTK is next level

[@jewlbunny]

That was not something I knew about a winged shield. I know it can help you go move more easily if you're sky diving.

[@shadowkhan422]

It also allous you to bullet time anywhere . You just shield jump and enter bow mode when you start falling .

[@werd616]

I like to fuse a Knight's shield to a Knight's shield

[@Luffy20081]

Looks like Link is a fan of Tony Hawk. 😅

[@timothystrunk7323]

Prime meat that's frozen is the best for shield surfing

[@timothystrunk7323]

If you fuse a wing to your shield you can also enter bullet time

[@timothystrunk7323]

Fuse a rock to your shield and perry to break rock armored enemies also

[@yeahdawg5894]

I mean yeah its cool, but I hate wasting durability

[@HighmageDerin]

Fusing puff shrooms and metal buds to your shield is a waste. Not when you can bring up weapon throw open the inventory window select it and just slam it to the ground like your ninja. Better use that time consuming process it takes to fuse on one of the better options. Like elemental fusions or zoni devices.

[@judaiyuki5597]

i amde a friggen rod trio for weather protection but i could have just did it with shields this whole time

[@buglamps1290]

Followed because of the southern accent

[@SundayTopper]

Or, hear me out, put steak on your shield.

[@Sonic132]

Stars are so rare though.

[@shadowkhan422]

I dont even find them that usefull . They give you critical cook in a meal but there are better options.Cook on blood moon and you dont need them as example since its a guaranteed crit every single time, Dragon horn does same thing only you get 30 min duration meals etc . On a weapon , the damage is bad . What else can you use them for?

[@Conkeythedonkey]

Ya but Sheila surfing uses durability

[@theadmiral4625]

...since Stone Talus Hearts are too weak as weapon fuses, I fuse them to shields. I can use the shield to mine ores with parry.......

[@MadStrike]

Good idea!

[@zionicnight5306]

why heal let fairies do that

[@therealjohnmarston]

Yahaha!

[@cabron1984]

a bunch of useless information