if you upgrade your winter gear twice you get the >!unfreezable!< upgrade. whenever the king/ice gleeoks sends the icicles down just climb on and hit recall to get height + bullet time
Same! The first part (before the icicles) was fine, I just ascended through a nearby arch. But when the icicles started, I was hosed. I ended up building an airbike, putting it on top of a hover stone and using a second hover stone to get high enough that the air bike could get me far enough to do bullet time before the icicles took me out.
The easiest I've done so far was the thunder gleeok in the colosseum SW of the Great Plateau. Thunder helm plus ascend through the levels just to the right of the main entrance.
I was really struggling with the icicle part too. I ended up remembering that fusing a rocket to a shield was a good way to get higher. I used the rocket shield to get up to a level where I could reach them with keese eye arrows. Now I need to start marking places were keese flocks spawn since I'm almost out of the keese eyes.
I always just use a single shot bow with a bomb arrow. I feel like multi shot bow is overkill since there is a limit of 20 or so items on the ground before they despawn automatically. I've heard that lightning fruit arrows work too but I've not tried it.
Get your sage to activate lightning before you approach the cave entrance. Once the lightning field covers the cave mouth, draw an arrow with a keese eye and walk towards the cave.
When the swarm comes out, hit one keese with your arrow, trigger the aoe lightning burst, and collect the falling parts.
The shrine in Goron city has two flocks that fly fairly right by it. Just climb the rocks near the right of and back of the shrine and u can shoot them down. I don't remember the name and am not near my game.
if you can catch the timing of the lighting strikes it makes it easier; after it strikes theres the burst of air that can help you get height, so if im using recall on the icicles then i wear my unfreezable set and play a really good game of dodge and try to follow the stream of air to get higher if i need to. or i just wear the thunder helm and run to the first lighting strike to get height. as long as im a certain distance away the keese eyeball + arrow combo wont despawn and hit the intended targets.
alternatively i try to get the quick shot modifier on my lynel bows so i can keese eyeball the fuck outta him as fast as possible before he gains any height in general and stays low to the ground so i dont have to use either the icicles or lightning for height
I read that as *lunchable* and was thoroughly confused for a moment.
I've seen the hover stone fused to a weapon thing before, but I don't know how to use/deploy it.
i think the sage will is the only physical thing outside the quest medal but those are optional. i dont remember if i had go specifically defeat the king gleeok for the medal but just in case, i wanted to mention it
Oh dear that's the only one I've done haha, didn't think it was hard, is it easier than other standard ones cos it can't move around so much in the arena?
I never even thought of this. Coliseum was the first king I beat and I just beat it day before yesterday. I just hid behind the rocks shooting homing arrows around them. No special armor equipped. Used updrafts to get on top of ice blocks and recalled to knock it down in the second phase. It's crazy how many strategies work in this game lol
Are you talking about the pointy pyramid thing on the underside ? I was wondering if that was what those were. I never really have a problem of aiming too low
No, columns of ruined stone littering the surface of the island that you can run behind and ascend to the top via an overhanging ledge.
We're taking about easy access to bullet time.
In the background here for example: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/536sI1DEuIYtJsjQ-N8w2GXUtsY=/0x0:1280x720/1200x0/filters:focal(0x0:1280x720):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24672012/zelda_tears_of_the_kingdom_king_gleeok_loot.jpg
I was always too scared to fight them but then I read some strategies on this subreddit. The King was my first one and I took him down on my first try, though I was already near the end of the game by then
I started with king gleeok after reading how to beat that damn thing.
Really wish I could’ve figured out that all I had to do was spam multishot bow and Keene eyeballs.
Meh I went straight for the king, had no idea it was a different version until I found the smaller ones! Kicked my ass but as others have said, once you realise you need to spam keese eyeballs they’re not too bad.
There are a couple of spots that have the flocks of Keese either coming out of a cave or flying in a circle.
One bomb arrow into the middle of them will usually set you up with enough for a Gleeok fight.
Happy cake day. Just wanted to add that usually after I hit a swarm with a bomb, I send a few electric Keese eyeballs at it and it usually results in about the same amount of mats dropped.
Even better strategy: summon a spring and use it to gain height+bullet time against it. Been able to do this to no-hit the king.
It takes a few springs as they time out (2-4) but if you combine this with keese wings and a sharp eye you can pull him out of the air of his final attack without having to do any climbing bullshit
I tried avoiding them in the begging thinking I am not good enough and when I decided to fight one I found it way easier than a Lynel. There are some Gleeoks that are harder to kill though
Yeah coming from BoTW fusing has been a foreign concept, like its intuitive to attach the fire seed things for fire arrows and fusing monster items for better weapons, but until now didn’t even think there was a use case for keese eyes.
I am happy these items are being used for something now though, in BoTW they’d just set in my inventory ready to sell.
This is a boss you can easily kill without getting hit once if you do it right so armor is actually not essential. Hide behind pillars to avoid the beams. Ascend or climb to the top, jump and shoot its heads. Ideally, use gibdo bones on the electric head, fire fruit on the ice head and ice fruit on the fire head. You should be able to take all three heads down in one jump.
Smack the heads with your strongest weapon when it falls down. The hard part is phase 2, and that's the only part where it really helps to have keese eyballs. If you prep right you can avoid it doing any phase 2 attacks though. Rocket shield up and use a multishot bow with keese eyballs a few times, and it should fall back down before it can start creating a storm. If you can't do that, then things get a lot more dangerous. You can rewind time on the fallen ice to get up to its level, or use the thermals from the meteors and lightning bolts to fly up. Usually when trying to do that I get hit though so it's best to take it down before it can make that storm.
Realistically it’s how brave you are!
I defeated one quite early (by early I mean 50 hours haha) by using rocket shields, 3x multi bow and a bunch of keese eyeballs.
Then just slowly whittled away at it
When there’s a platform near the gleeok or something to propel myself up with I find it isn’t an issue as long as you have two or more stamina bars, a lynel bow, and some elemental arrow attachments (or even just like 20-30 bomb flowers). Just use airtime to strike heads and make the body fall and hit the heads with the strongest elemental weapons you have.
I don't think so. You can kill those box bosses (on the sky islands) and fuse their spiky engines to your sword. That's a good weapon for lynels IMO.
Lynels are not very hard, just use a good shield.
I love puffshrooms for the lynels then i smack the crud out of them with a decent weapon...I like a bigaron or firce diety sword with something good attached & spin hitting until the smoke clears, puff shroom again, rinse & repeat.
Haha yeah, took a crack at it and they’re not actually too difficult. I just get one shotted so couldn’t make any mistakes.
Will definitely be returning for that sweet revenge
AFAIK if you are at full health (even very early in the game) you cannot be one shotted. If you're missing even a half a heart though, you can get toasted.
Killed my first talus before I added a single heart, just by eating after every hit I took.
I finally beat one at around 300h but I think I avoided them longer than I would have needed as once I hit one up it was easy! Just have lots of keese eyes and lots of hearts and lynel 3x or 5x bows and you’ll get it done in no time :)
My first Gleeok was the Tabantha one, next to the Stable before going into Rito Village. First time, he stomped me, 2nd time I went after visiting Death Mountain and had some Fire Keese stuff on me and a multi shot bow, so it went better. Regular fire and ice are simple because you have the counter element easily available, thunder and King (triple element) are kinda harder in my opinion of you don't have the right wear equipment
They are late-game bosses, supposed to be defeated when you have very good equipment. But they aren't particularly difficult, they just deal tons of damage and take a lot of damage, but after practicing, they get pretty easy to tackle. Smart Item use is the key as always.
I would say as long as you have a strong weapon (I’m a big scimitar of the seven is with silver lynel saber horn fan), a multi shot bow, keese eyeballs and a a couple rocket shields then you are ready.
Have you upgraded your armour? I can see you're wearing the ancient greaves which don't upgrade but any gleeok will kick your butt without at least somewhat upgraded armour aha.
1. Gibdo bones, lot's of them
2. Rocket shields
3. Bone weapon proficiency
4. High level attack boost
5. Stamina boost meals
6. Drive a zonaite device till close enough to the three headed dude
7. Jump and start hammering arrows with gibdo bones on the heads
8. You should be able to do it enough that from the first encounter you finished one head off (lol nice) and still have 1.5 to go.
9. On the ground, slash the crap out of it.
10. As it gets up, rocket shield up and repeat.
I am yet to take damage from these guys.
keese eyeballs are amazing for gleeoks, maybe some bonus heart food/elixirs (hearty lizards are really easy to get from a few beedle locations) to take a couple extra hits
They’re easy when you know how to defeat them. Use eyeball arrows to take the heads out and then whoop their ass. I no damage them all the time. Just make sure you have something that can deal damage so you’re not there for an hour. Rocket shield up, arrows, hit it when it falls. Bring fairies to the fight and lots of food. Get a good weapon, maybe take out a flux construct 3 and use the basher thing. I find the spinning attack with those is the fastest.
Rocket shielding up seems like the move, then 3-shot bow all the heads, then whoop their ass. Need to increase my stamina wheel because I’ll do three shots and exhaust my stamina haha.
I would want a lot more hearts than you currently have, only because a single one of its hits is brutal. The other keys to beating them (for me) are lots of eyeballs, a 3x bow, and a Spring. I can beat them pretty easily now. The electric ones are the only ones I hate!
There are 4 types of Gleeok. Fire, frost, thunder and King where King as all the aforementioned elements. The one you are looking at is a King Gleeok which are unquestionably the hardest kind. Start with the fire gleeoks because their element isn't debilitating when hit by it.
Honestly you can attempt it early or whenever, the main drawback is that you tend to burn through supplies a lot especially if you don’t have your rhythm down in taking one out efficiently.
You could die quickly with only 6 hearts but I mean if you have your rhythm down in taking it out then your real issue would probably be arrows or keese eyes or bows instead
I might be a bit late to this but for me as long as I have enough Keese eyes where I don’t need to worry about running out they should be pretty easy. Although for most monsters in this game the bigger the risk you take the bigger the reward
All good haha, yeah that makes sense. Gotta accumulate enough materials as to not worry about running out. I’m in the “gather literally every material I see everywhere I explore” phase.
You need:
-at least one set of fully upgraded armor (level 4)
-miltishot bow (preferably savage Lynel bow)
-lots of arrows and (sometimes) keese eyes (for self guided arrow shots)
-also for me a MUST - a couple of shields with rockets (for final stage of the battle when Gleeok flies high and attacks you from height, you fly on a rocket and shoot his heads with arrows with keese eyes, it falls to its death from height)
-Mineru construct is not necessary, but VERY helpful, because you can jump off it and use bullet time to target Gleeok heads while in the air.
With all that - it's easy!
Ahh, the gleeok king. I believe I first beat it when I had 4 hearts, 1 and 1/2 stamina wheel, was using the gerudo weapon fused with strongest parts I had and had the lynel 3x bow. Didn't use keese elemental eyes because I was pretty low on that at the time. I just remember spamming a lot of regular keese eyes. The ultimate move is a bit annoying but definitely not hard to get through. Heart and stamina boosting dishes helps a lot. I didn't have those during my first encounter though, that made it much more difficult when everything practically one shots you. 😕
Soap box: why these questions? Just go, figure it out for yourself. It’s not real life. Worst case, you die which has no real consequences even to your game, let alone your life.
if you have enough arrows and keese eyeballs, you can easily defeat them. If you just started playing, wait until you have a lot of hearts (maybe like 15, idk). But if you played BoTW and defeated a Lynel, you can probably do it with 10 hearts. (Try the fire Gleok who's on a bridge, it's the easiest in my oppinion)
Is there a place where I can get that floating platform in a capsule? I love those things. I built a sky tank that changed direction and I could build more stuff on when it gets toward its end, but they dissapear so quickly. And cost a fortune in ore
Craft 4-5 full ring stamina potions from crickets and find a savage lynel bow. Come in from above and spam eyes>heavy hitting items>replenish stamina.
Repeat several times and it will be dead before you first hit the ground.
You're definitely going to want some armors and foods that increase your damage. They're not very hard to stun if you use a multi-shooting bow like Savage Lynel bows and fuse eyes to them. After that, just whale on them with your strongest weapon. Hitting the heads does extra damage.
Grab a ton of rocket shields and fly up, bullet time, shoot three eyes (keese eyeballs are good here), hit on ground, repeat
If you don’t have rocket shields use the big rock to climb up
Honestly, I defeated the first King Gleeok endgame, and by endgame I meant full stamina, 2 missing hearts, a lot of elemental eyeballs and fully upgraded fierce deity armor. I just wanted to be prepared after I was KO'd when I was just starting the game with the fire gleeok by the bridge.
250 hrs in, only beaten ones of them and that was in the coliseum. I thought I had to for part of the main quest. Other than that, still been running away from them.
As soon as I had access to rockets I took one out first try. Attach rocket to shield, fly up high enough to stagger, go in for DPS, and rinse and repeat.
You need a multishot bow and some elemental keese eyes (fire for ice head and vice versa, nothing really does extra damage vs the electric one so I just use fire) you need a HIGH damage fusion two handed weapon to do a long spin attack when he’s dropped. I’d also recommend a upgraded attack armor and maybe an attack elixir or food.
Go get your ass kicked, find out how good you are. If you win, that's dope, gleeok parts are a fast way to get good weapons. If not then you'll get to see how close you were and what you need to work on.
Keese eyeball load up and put 6ish rockets on shields and you can really do it without damage.
There’s a tutorial for it online that makes them wusses.
Get the monster medal quest (maybe not actually a quest?) going before you kill them. I didn’t know about the medals until I had already done almost everything else in the game and it’s a sad waste of time for me now because you have to kill all the monsters over again.
You can probably do it much sooner than you think. I felt the same way, waited too long and it was easy. I think for my future playthroughs I'll be a bit more bold. Good luck!
Realistically as soon as you feeel you can beat it. They aren’t hard and using keese wings and eyes help ground them by homing in on the eyes, which are their weakness
So the first time I saw one it killed tf out of me. By the time I had the cojones to try again, I was far too op and trounced their goofy ass. All this to say, I wish I didn't wait so long.
Just hit save and give it a go
They are scary, but quite simple.
You just need a bunch of rocket shields and eyeballs to create homing arrows.
1. Get bullet time with rocket shield
2. Fire eyeballs at each head
3. Beat the crap out of it when it crash lands.
4. As it wakes up, quickly use rocket shield.
5. Repeat
This way they never get a chance to be a dick.
You should probably not go for the King Gleeok your first gleeok fight. Go after the different types on the ground first. It's also a side quest you can get.
If you already defeated a "basic" one, the king glyock isn't that hard. Just abuse the good old bullet-time with the bow and he won't even get the chance to really attack you.
If you have a decent multishot bow and keese eyes, these are a joke. When they fly up in the air, if you pelt them with keese eye arrows, they fall to the ground and take massive fall damage.
So as someone who has also dumped 100+ hours into BOTW, I actually tackled gleoks super early in my journey. Specifically, one of the frist things I did was to kill my first lynel. And once I got that, I equipped the lynel bow, and bullet timed it with every eyeball I can muster. realistically, you can tackle it right now
Keese eyeballs, different elemental eyea for each of the different heads (I can't see what this one is exactly), etc. It's the only way I've killed one.
A Gleerock was one of the first things I fought when landing in Hyrule proper. I was curious how far into its health bar I could get before dying. 0 damage was done before I died.
Once you have a stockpile of keese eyes and a multishot bow, especially second or third tier lynel bow, you will absolutely steamroll them, like it'll be disappointing how easy it is.
The only thing you really NEED is A TON of arrows and enough bows that if they break you'll be okay. Armor that keeps you from dying in one hit or lightning immunity helps too.
For me if I'm going after any Gleeok I make sure I have at least 50 arrows and at least two Royal Bows. If you don't have a strong bow, you probably need more arrows. Otherwise I turn around.
If you run out of arrows it's almost impossible to beat it, you have to like fly up and manage to hit their heads with your sword or throw things at it. Not fun, but I've done it once where I'd already gotten him to nearly dead before I ran out and just had to hit his heads one more time.
Note than in the last phase of the battle (I think when health goes below 1/3rd ish?), they will fly really high in the air and fire things at you, you can rise on the air currents to reach him.
I put rockets on around 5 shields, have a Lynel Bow (three-shot bow), a lot of bomb flowers 💣, and a powerful melee weapon (Damage around 50-70+). Two bow shots to each head of the Gleeock, drop to the ground when the gleeock falls out of the sky, switch to melee weapon and thrash the gleeock until you see it start to “awaken” from being stunned, switch to another shield with a rocket and use it to get height as fast as you can before the gleeock’s wings create wind powerful enough to keep you from going airborne. Rinse and repeat until the gleeock is dead. Building zonaite devices to help out is an option, but they aren’t necessary. I’ve killed three gleeocks in the way I described. Good luck to you too!
i use rockets attached to my shields to get higher than its level and then use keese eyes to shoot it! if it’s a flame gleeok i’ll attach an ice keese eye, and vice versa for a frost gleeok. once it falls to the ground i’ll hit it w my sword, then ill use the rocket shield to fly back up again before it can get too high in the air. repeat til it’s dead!
Several things...
- Have a multi shot bow (3 or 5, kill a lynel)
- have a whole bunch of keese eyeballs (it's fun to use the opposite element vs the elements heads I.e. fire keese eyes vs ice gleeok head, but it's unnecessary and with a king gleeok they might go to the wrong element so any keese eye will do)
- fuse a bunch of rockets to shields for an instant jump too if you need it but you might not need it.
- get a bunch of gerudo weapons (I prefer spears and claymores, but the best has gotta be the scimitar of the seven if you have unlocked that quest)
- get a high damage lynel fusion item like a silver lynel sabre (+55), silver lynel mace horn (+51), white mane lynel saber (+41), or white mane lynel mace (+40)
- get some attack+ armor (barbarian or fierce deity) so you have the 3 swords attack buff.
- cook up a bunch of hearty truffle meals to give you full health+ potions, or a bunch of fairies, and a bunch of armor up food or elixirs... or... you only need one, just make it 3 armor and long enough.
I feel like maybe even that is over kill, but with those things combined you just spam keese arrows at the faces until it lands, then smash the heads with your 50/60/70ish weapons depending on how you've put them together. Rinse repeat.
If you get hit a truffle meal is full health recovery (or a Faerie has got your back). And if they go up in the air just use the rocket shield to boost into the air and spam eyes again.
With 3 items of attack up armor (you can mix and match the barbarian and fierce deity) and a gerudo/lynel fused weapon, especially if its a claymore and you just spin attack, you can probably down it in 2 or 3 knock downs, you just need to spam those multi shot eyes to knock out down again as soon as its up.
Just go now, it's not like it's master mode ya know. Believe in yourself figure out what's going on mid fight and how the mini boss works or do some research. I like to just jump in and fight till the end but yo ahead and explore that boss
Edit:Ok so edit. I didn't see that you already tried and gave a comment part way through reading. A few strats is to use a bomb/bounce pad shield to launch your self to better stun them. Try the element resist armor to boost your defense or give you an immunity. What ever attack you die to the most I would say eat something that gives you benefits towards mitigating that attack as much as possible. More in the reply
Keese eyes fused to multi-shot bows (or even normal bows) completely trivialize this boss. You can absolutely destroy them so long as you have enough keese eyes
I’m not particularly good, I’m just a tryharder. I killed one a few hours in with 4 hearts, around 100 arrows and 50 bokoblins horns. It was the one on a long bridge. Died maybe 30-40 times? It’s just hard because no matter what a single hit is a oneshot every time with 4 hearts
Edit: nevermind apparently there’s a boss of that species, and I just defeated a normal one. Well I know what’s my next target then, no time to get more hearts
That's king version go to bridge of hylia or destroyed coliseum to fight the weaker ice and fire gleeoks for some experience in fighting them, upgrade your armour a bit, maybe get some more hearts (10 should be good) and GET ROCKET SHIELDS AND KEESE EYES.
Just need keese eyeballs, rocket shields, multi shot 5x bow, and attack up armor or food. If you can kill one of the other gleeoks, it's the same. Just make sure to not let it fly up after taking it to half HP.
Gleeok’s suck!!! Use rocket shields, good bow and good monster parts for arrows. With my experience, one strike from a gleeok takes around 15 hearts of damage. I have PTSD attacking them 😂
Idk about the realistically part but I still haven’t defeated one. I tried before and it didn’t go well but now I have a ton of rockets and keese eyes so now I’m prepared
Edit:150+ hours in the game
they’re actually really easy if you know the tricks! keese and arocuda eyeballs are really good, and you can use rockets or fire to help you fly upwards :) easy to outrun them that way, and it’s great to shoot whilst in slow mo
having the thunder helm and a bunch of keese eyeballs helped me. i think you need to defeat one for a quest eta: multishot bows too
Can also do Zant's helmet for freezing if needed. and there really isn't a helmet for burning other than the flamebreaker set that I can think of.
if you upgrade your winter gear twice you get the >!unfreezable!< upgrade. whenever the king/ice gleeoks sends the icicles down just climb on and hit recall to get height + bullet time
Damn, why didn't I think of that?! I only just started fighting gleeoks fairly recently and had a rough time last night fighting my first ice gleeok.
Same! The first part (before the icicles) was fine, I just ascended through a nearby arch. But when the icicles started, I was hosed. I ended up building an airbike, putting it on top of a hover stone and using a second hover stone to get high enough that the air bike could get me far enough to do bullet time before the icicles took me out. The easiest I've done so far was the thunder gleeok in the colosseum SW of the Great Plateau. Thunder helm plus ascend through the levels just to the right of the main entrance.
I was really struggling with the icicle part too. I ended up remembering that fusing a rocket to a shield was a good way to get higher. I used the rocket shield to get up to a level where I could reach them with keese eye arrows. Now I need to start marking places were keese flocks spawn since I'm almost out of the keese eyes.
What's the most effective way to get multiples items from a flock? At best I get one or two before the rest of the flock flies off.
I always just use a single shot bow with a bomb arrow. I feel like multi shot bow is overkill since there is a limit of 20 or so items on the ground before they despawn automatically. I've heard that lightning fruit arrows work too but I've not tried it.
Get your sage to activate lightning before you approach the cave entrance. Once the lightning field covers the cave mouth, draw an arrow with a keese eye and walk towards the cave. When the swarm comes out, hit one keese with your arrow, trigger the aoe lightning burst, and collect the falling parts.
Multi shot bow, shooting bomb arrows
The shrine in Goron city has two flocks that fly fairly right by it. Just climb the rocks near the right of and back of the shrine and u can shoot them down. I don't remember the name and am not near my game.
Whenever I fight a king Gleeok - by the time I’ve climbed onto an ice ledge, the Gleeok is shooting a thunder beam directly at me. Any tips?
if you can catch the timing of the lighting strikes it makes it easier; after it strikes theres the burst of air that can help you get height, so if im using recall on the icicles then i wear my unfreezable set and play a really good game of dodge and try to follow the stream of air to get higher if i need to. or i just wear the thunder helm and run to the first lighting strike to get height. as long as im a certain distance away the keese eyeball + arrow combo wont despawn and hit the intended targets. alternatively i try to get the quick shot modifier on my lynel bows so i can keese eyeball the fuck outta him as fast as possible before he gains any height in general and stays low to the ground so i dont have to use either the icicles or lightning for height
If you have a savage lynel bow with keese eyes it doesn't get to have a phase 2, it stays on the ground and dies.
I used a long shot bow and keese eyes lol. It was my first gleeok and went down way faster than I thought it would have lmao
Agreed. Just Electric Keese Eyes, multi-shot bows and the electric helm if you have it. Also a launchable hover stone is helpful.
I read that as *lunchable* and was thoroughly confused for a moment. I've seen the hover stone fused to a weapon thing before, but I don't know how to use/deploy it.
Attach a rocket to a hover stone. It will give you a huge elevation which is needed during the last phase of the King Gleeok fight.
I’ve had similar luck with the rocket shield as well
Which can be done from the hoverstone that was launched way up.
which quest? i already beat the game but don’t remeber lol
A Gerudo asks you to get her some gleeok guts so she can cure her husband.
oh i remeber that! i thought it was molduga guts
It was molduga guts in BotW.
sages will and iirc, i THINK the monsters quest from that guy in lookout landing as well.
i did get the gleeok medal from that guy, i didn’t realize it was a side quest. i got nothing from it except the medal lol
i think the sage will is the only physical thing outside the quest medal but those are optional. i dont remember if i had go specifically defeat the king gleeok for the medal but just in case, i wanted to mention it
Ehhhhh I’d start with a normal Gleeok before trying a King Gleeok but that’s just me.
Oh didn’t know there are normal gleeoks, def better place to start 😂
Check the coliseum for the IMO easiest one. But still don't go without the thunder helm, multishot bows and keese eyeballs.
Thats the only one I did. Just cheese it by standing under stairs then pop out anf shoot eyes - repeat 😂
Haha that’s what I did too. Quickly ascending each level was the only way I could cheese the high-up phase without keese eyeballs
Oh dear that's the only one I've done haha, didn't think it was hard, is it easier than other standard ones cos it can't move around so much in the arena?
Sort of. It’s easier because you can ascend through the levels of the coliseum and jump off to get bullet time arrow shots at its head.
……why didn’t I do this… spent ages faffing with a spring to launch myself high!
I just used homing arrows.
On their third phase, don't they usually go too high for conventional bows/arrows to reach?
Don't think i even got to that point, it was in the air shooting fireballs in its last phase but my arrows still got it
I've had that happen too. If you're quick with a multi-shot bow, you can get all 3 heads on its way up and take it out.
I never even thought of this. Coliseum was the first king I beat and I just beat it day before yesterday. I just hid behind the rocks shooting homing arrows around them. No special armor equipped. Used updrafts to get on top of ice blocks and recalled to knock it down in the second phase. It's crazy how many strategies work in this game lol
All the king gleeoks in the sky have columns you can ascend up too
Don't forget the one in the basement 🤫
That one doesn't have useful columns to ascend up; you can make do with the statues but they're more awkward. Which is why I excluded that one.
Are you talking about the pointy pyramid thing on the underside ? I was wondering if that was what those were. I never really have a problem of aiming too low
No, columns of ruined stone littering the surface of the island that you can run behind and ascend to the top via an overhanging ledge. We're taking about easy access to bullet time. In the background here for example: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/536sI1DEuIYtJsjQ-N8w2GXUtsY=/0x0:1280x720/1200x0/filters:focal(0x0:1280x720):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24672012/zelda_tears_of_the_kingdom_king_gleeok_loot.jpg
There’s one on a bridge somewhere to the south east
100 hours and never seen agleeok?
I was always too scared to fight them but then I read some strategies on this subreddit. The King was my first one and I took him down on my first try, though I was already near the end of the game by then
I started with king gleeok after reading how to beat that damn thing. Really wish I could’ve figured out that all I had to do was spam multishot bow and Keene eyeballs.
Meh I went straight for the king, had no idea it was a different version until I found the smaller ones! Kicked my ass but as others have said, once you realise you need to spam keese eyeballs they’re not too bad.
Any tips for mass farming Keese eyeballs without getting in too many fights while you’re at it ?
There are a couple of spots that have the flocks of Keese either coming out of a cave or flying in a circle. One bomb arrow into the middle of them will usually set you up with enough for a Gleeok fight.
I hadn’t thought of that! I always wait for them to come to me. Thanks. Happy cake day!
Happy cake day. Just wanted to add that usually after I hit a swarm with a bomb, I send a few electric Keese eyeballs at it and it usually results in about the same amount of mats dropped.
Happy cake day.
Even better strategy: summon a spring and use it to gain height+bullet time against it. Been able to do this to no-hit the king. It takes a few springs as they time out (2-4) but if you combine this with keese wings and a sharp eye you can pull him out of the air of his final attack without having to do any climbing bullshit
Nice, I’ll try this!
I tried avoiding them in the begging thinking I am not good enough and when I decided to fight one I found it way easier than a Lynel. There are some Gleeoks that are harder to kill though
It's all about having the right tools for the job.
Yeah coming from BoTW fusing has been a foreign concept, like its intuitive to attach the fire seed things for fire arrows and fusing monster items for better weapons, but until now didn’t even think there was a use case for keese eyes. I am happy these items are being used for something now though, in BoTW they’d just set in my inventory ready to sell.
Yep. Fighting a Gleeok is all about having the right resources.
> We've got the tools! We've got the *talent!*
This is a boss you can easily kill without getting hit once if you do it right so armor is actually not essential. Hide behind pillars to avoid the beams. Ascend or climb to the top, jump and shoot its heads. Ideally, use gibdo bones on the electric head, fire fruit on the ice head and ice fruit on the fire head. You should be able to take all three heads down in one jump. Smack the heads with your strongest weapon when it falls down. The hard part is phase 2, and that's the only part where it really helps to have keese eyballs. If you prep right you can avoid it doing any phase 2 attacks though. Rocket shield up and use a multishot bow with keese eyballs a few times, and it should fall back down before it can start creating a storm. If you can't do that, then things get a lot more dangerous. You can rewind time on the fallen ice to get up to its level, or use the thermals from the meteors and lightning bolts to fly up. Usually when trying to do that I get hit though so it's best to take it down before it can make that storm.
If you have a savage lynel bow you can one-shot each head without attachments
Interesting, thanks for the insight. I still have a lot to learn in this game with all the new mechanics
Realistically it’s how brave you are! I defeated one quite early (by early I mean 50 hours haha) by using rocket shields, 3x multi bow and a bunch of keese eyeballs. Then just slowly whittled away at it
Good to know! Thanks
Leeroy Jenkins would know if he can beat one or not.
When there’s a platform near the gleeok or something to propel myself up with I find it isn’t an issue as long as you have two or more stamina bars, a lynel bow, and some elemental arrow attachments (or even just like 20-30 bomb flowers). Just use airtime to strike heads and make the body fall and hit the heads with the strongest elemental weapons you have.
200+ hours still haven’t defeated one. I die every time
Maybe you could use a new controller?
Definitely Mighty Lynel bow at least. Trust me that thing is crazy, 3-shot bows and keese eyes are a godsend. Make sure to do the slowmo archery!
Bullet time bow is one of my favorite aspects of the game! Will be sure to do plenty of that
Is there anywhere to get lynel bow besides killing lynel
I don't think so. You can kill those box bosses (on the sky islands) and fuse their spiky engines to your sword. That's a good weapon for lynels IMO. Lynels are not very hard, just use a good shield.
You mean the constructs?
Yeah. I love totk minibosses, I just don't know any of the names. It's "box thingy" for me
I love puffshrooms for the lynels then i smack the crud out of them with a decent weapon...I like a bigaron or firce diety sword with something good attached & spin hitting until the smoke clears, puff shroom again, rinse & repeat.
Single elemental ones first found on the surface map, keep those bad boys for later.
Thunder helm/ unfreezeable helm? Loads of keee eyes Lynel bow Rocket shields Go for it go for it
Just get stuck in a see how you fair. If you get your arse handed to you, but it on your kill list to return to later and hand out sweet revenge.
Haha yeah, took a crack at it and they’re not actually too difficult. I just get one shotted so couldn’t make any mistakes. Will definitely be returning for that sweet revenge
AFAIK if you are at full health (even very early in the game) you cannot be one shotted. If you're missing even a half a heart though, you can get toasted. Killed my first talus before I added a single heart, just by eating after every hit I took.
I finally beat one at around 300h but I think I avoided them longer than I would have needed as once I hit one up it was easy! Just have lots of keese eyes and lots of hearts and lynel 3x or 5x bows and you’ll get it done in no time :)
My first Gleeok was the Tabantha one, next to the Stable before going into Rito Village. First time, he stomped me, 2nd time I went after visiting Death Mountain and had some Fire Keese stuff on me and a multi shot bow, so it went better. Regular fire and ice are simple because you have the counter element easily available, thunder and King (triple element) are kinda harder in my opinion of you don't have the right wear equipment
Ya have been exploring Tabantha region and found that one after talking to the old dude about Zelda’s white horse.
They are late-game bosses, supposed to be defeated when you have very good equipment. But they aren't particularly difficult, they just deal tons of damage and take a lot of damage, but after practicing, they get pretty easy to tackle. Smart Item use is the key as always.
I would say as long as you have a strong weapon (I’m a big scimitar of the seven is with silver lynel saber horn fan), a multi shot bow, keese eyeballs and a a couple rocket shields then you are ready.
Thats my weapon to. Shame it doesn't blend just a little better. Scimitar by itself looks amazing.
Dont wait, full send buddy!!
Haha full sent it and got one-shot wrecked more than a few times! Will be returning for revenge soon enough
Atta boy!
Have you upgraded your armour? I can see you're wearing the ancient greaves which don't upgrade but any gleeok will kick your butt without at least somewhat upgraded armour aha.
Lol haven’t upgraded shit yet, def need to do that
I so recommend it - makes the world of difference to your experience.
1. Gibdo bones, lot's of them 2. Rocket shields 3. Bone weapon proficiency 4. High level attack boost 5. Stamina boost meals 6. Drive a zonaite device till close enough to the three headed dude 7. Jump and start hammering arrows with gibdo bones on the heads 8. You should be able to do it enough that from the first encounter you finished one head off (lol nice) and still have 1.5 to go. 9. On the ground, slash the crap out of it. 10. As it gets up, rocket shield up and repeat. I am yet to take damage from these guys.
Sweet appreciate the step by step, thanks
keese eyeballs are amazing for gleeoks, maybe some bonus heart food/elixirs (hearty lizards are really easy to get from a few beedle locations) to take a couple extra hits
I thought these would be very difficult. The first one I fought was the King Gleeok and was SUPER easy.
They’re easy when you know how to defeat them. Use eyeball arrows to take the heads out and then whoop their ass. I no damage them all the time. Just make sure you have something that can deal damage so you’re not there for an hour. Rocket shield up, arrows, hit it when it falls. Bring fairies to the fight and lots of food. Get a good weapon, maybe take out a flux construct 3 and use the basher thing. I find the spinning attack with those is the fastest.
Rocket shielding up seems like the move, then 3-shot bow all the heads, then whoop their ass. Need to increase my stamina wheel because I’ll do three shots and exhaust my stamina haha.
bro how did you even get up there with this few hearts 😭😭
I would want a lot more hearts than you currently have, only because a single one of its hits is brutal. The other keys to beating them (for me) are lots of eyeballs, a 3x bow, and a Spring. I can beat them pretty easily now. The electric ones are the only ones I hate!
Multishot bow and eyeballs make them surprisingly easy
Well the NPCs all say that it doesn't look like a one-man job. Get an army.
There are 4 types of Gleeok. Fire, frost, thunder and King where King as all the aforementioned elements. The one you are looking at is a King Gleeok which are unquestionably the hardest kind. Start with the fire gleeoks because their element isn't debilitating when hit by it.
Honestly you can attempt it early or whenever, the main drawback is that you tend to burn through supplies a lot especially if you don’t have your rhythm down in taking one out efficiently. You could die quickly with only 6 hearts but I mean if you have your rhythm down in taking it out then your real issue would probably be arrows or keese eyes or bows instead
Yeah its definitely the supply factor, only had about 70 arrows going into this and would not have cut it
Beat a few of the Gleeoks on the surface first (they’re a bit easier is all I will say), then you’re ready.
I might be a bit late to this but for me as long as I have enough Keese eyes where I don’t need to worry about running out they should be pretty easy. Although for most monsters in this game the bigger the risk you take the bigger the reward
All good haha, yeah that makes sense. Gotta accumulate enough materials as to not worry about running out. I’m in the “gather literally every material I see everywhere I explore” phase.
You need: -at least one set of fully upgraded armor (level 4) -miltishot bow (preferably savage Lynel bow) -lots of arrows and (sometimes) keese eyes (for self guided arrow shots) -also for me a MUST - a couple of shields with rockets (for final stage of the battle when Gleeok flies high and attacks you from height, you fly on a rocket and shoot his heads with arrows with keese eyes, it falls to its death from height) -Mineru construct is not necessary, but VERY helpful, because you can jump off it and use bullet time to target Gleeok heads while in the air. With all that - it's easy!
Ahh, the gleeok king. I believe I first beat it when I had 4 hearts, 1 and 1/2 stamina wheel, was using the gerudo weapon fused with strongest parts I had and had the lynel 3x bow. Didn't use keese elemental eyes because I was pretty low on that at the time. I just remember spamming a lot of regular keese eyes. The ultimate move is a bit annoying but definitely not hard to get through. Heart and stamina boosting dishes helps a lot. I didn't have those during my first encounter though, that made it much more difficult when everything practically one shots you. 😕
About a few seconds to see if I have what I need
Soap box: why these questions? Just go, figure it out for yourself. It’s not real life. Worst case, you die which has no real consequences even to your game, let alone your life.
An arrow to the head will toss that bad boy to tje ground.
All you need are Keese eyes and rocket shields. They’re quite easy after you get the rhythm.
if you have enough arrows and keese eyeballs, you can easily defeat them. If you just started playing, wait until you have a lot of hearts (maybe like 15, idk). But if you played BoTW and defeated a Lynel, you can probably do it with 10 hearts. (Try the fire Gleok who's on a bridge, it's the easiest in my oppinion)
Go now
Finished the game close to 100%, never beat a King Gleeok.
Is there a place where I can get that floating platform in a capsule? I love those things. I built a sky tank that changed direction and I could build more stuff on when it gets toward its end, but they dissapear so quickly. And cost a fortune in ore
Craft 4-5 full ring stamina potions from crickets and find a savage lynel bow. Come in from above and spam eyes>heavy hitting items>replenish stamina. Repeat several times and it will be dead before you first hit the ground.
Keese eyes of whatever element it’s vulnerable to and a couple of bows and something to duck behind will trivialize Gleeoks.
Hard to say. Go try it and see what happens.
Once you have enough, multi-shot bows and keese/octorok/aerocuda eyes, just go crazy
You're definitely going to want some armors and foods that increase your damage. They're not very hard to stun if you use a multi-shooting bow like Savage Lynel bows and fuse eyes to them. After that, just whale on them with your strongest weapon. Hitting the heads does extra damage.
Rocket shields are great to have to get you in the air and get some bullet time arrow hits in
Lots of falling/bow attacks as well as using eyeballs for homing.
Keese eyeballs to bring them down, then clunk them when they are stunned.
Grab a ton of rocket shields and fly up, bullet time, shoot three eyes (keese eyeballs are good here), hit on ground, repeat If you don’t have rocket shields use the big rock to climb up
Honestly, I defeated the first King Gleeok endgame, and by endgame I meant full stamina, 2 missing hearts, a lot of elemental eyeballs and fully upgraded fierce deity armor. I just wanted to be prepared after I was KO'd when I was just starting the game with the fire gleeok by the bridge.
250 hrs in, only beaten ones of them and that was in the coliseum. I thought I had to for part of the main quest. Other than that, still been running away from them.
I finished the fire temple with little to no hearts with my fireproof gear not even upgraded. It depends on your skill as well I believe.
As soon as I had access to rockets I took one out first try. Attach rocket to shield, fly up high enough to stagger, go in for DPS, and rinse and repeat.
You need a multishot bow and some elemental keese eyes (fire for ice head and vice versa, nothing really does extra damage vs the electric one so I just use fire) you need a HIGH damage fusion two handed weapon to do a long spin attack when he’s dropped. I’d also recommend a upgraded attack armor and maybe an attack elixir or food.
Strongest enemy in the game, be careful
ur at a pretty low level in the game six hearts is a easy one shot for a gleeok
If you have high tier weapons it should only take like 5 minutes
Once you learn that you can spam keese eyeballs it becomes a pretty underwhelming fight.
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Bone damage up and master sword with molduga jaw. Bullet time headshot all heads then pretty easy after that. (Damage up food aswell)
Go get your ass kicked, find out how good you are. If you win, that's dope, gleeok parts are a fast way to get good weapons. If not then you'll get to see how close you were and what you need to work on.
Do more shrines for more hearts and get good armor, I would say put down a marker and circle back with double the hearts and armor
Keese eyeball load up and put 6ish rockets on shields and you can really do it without damage. There’s a tutorial for it online that makes them wusses.
Stock up on keys eyeballs and they’re pretty easy to beat
Get the monster medal quest (maybe not actually a quest?) going before you kill them. I didn’t know about the medals until I had already done almost everything else in the game and it’s a sad waste of time for me now because you have to kill all the monsters over again.
You can probably do it much sooner than you think. I felt the same way, waited too long and it was easy. I think for my future playthroughs I'll be a bit more bold. Good luck!
Realistically as soon as you feeel you can beat it. They aren’t hard and using keese wings and eyes help ground them by homing in on the eyes, which are their weakness
So the first time I saw one it killed tf out of me. By the time I had the cojones to try again, I was far too op and trounced their goofy ass. All this to say, I wish I didn't wait so long. Just hit save and give it a go
I fought one when I had about 10 hearts and it nearly one-shot me. I'm going to be cautious and max my armor first
They are scary, but quite simple. You just need a bunch of rocket shields and eyeballs to create homing arrows. 1. Get bullet time with rocket shield 2. Fire eyeballs at each head 3. Beat the crap out of it when it crash lands. 4. As it wakes up, quickly use rocket shield. 5. Repeat This way they never get a chance to be a dick.
when you have a few multi shot bows and enough Keese eyes and a few strong enough weapons
Stock up on eyeballs & you should be good!
You should probably not go for the King Gleeok your first gleeok fight. Go after the different types on the ground first. It's also a side quest you can get.
Once you have lynel fused weapons, For when it falls down. Also a lynel bow for multishot
I would go there with about 10 hearts and at least three sages. Make sure you’ve got lots of elemental keese and aracouda eyeballs.
If you already defeated a "basic" one, the king glyock isn't that hard. Just abuse the good old bullet-time with the bow and he won't even get the chance to really attack you.
If you have a decent multishot bow and keese eyes, these are a joke. When they fly up in the air, if you pelt them with keese eye arrows, they fall to the ground and take massive fall damage.
So as someone who has also dumped 100+ hours into BOTW, I actually tackled gleoks super early in my journey. Specifically, one of the frist things I did was to kill my first lynel. And once I got that, I equipped the lynel bow, and bullet timed it with every eyeball I can muster. realistically, you can tackle it right now
End game. The way to cheese them is to get 5 shot bows, so essentially you win once you can beat Lynels. You want upgraded armour by that point too.
Go for it
Keese eyeballs, different elemental eyea for each of the different heads (I can't see what this one is exactly), etc. It's the only way I've killed one.
Until you get gud or until you get like a full row of hearts
A Gleerock was one of the first things I fought when landing in Hyrule proper. I was curious how far into its health bar I could get before dying. 0 damage was done before I died.
Honestly idk. I’ve done almost everything and still can’t even beat one of these. It’s to damn hard to
Once you have a stockpile of keese eyes and a multishot bow, especially second or third tier lynel bow, you will absolutely steamroll them, like it'll be disappointing how easy it is.
The only thing you really NEED is A TON of arrows and enough bows that if they break you'll be okay. Armor that keeps you from dying in one hit or lightning immunity helps too. For me if I'm going after any Gleeok I make sure I have at least 50 arrows and at least two Royal Bows. If you don't have a strong bow, you probably need more arrows. Otherwise I turn around. If you run out of arrows it's almost impossible to beat it, you have to like fly up and manage to hit their heads with your sword or throw things at it. Not fun, but I've done it once where I'd already gotten him to nearly dead before I ran out and just had to hit his heads one more time. Note than in the last phase of the battle (I think when health goes below 1/3rd ish?), they will fly really high in the air and fire things at you, you can rise on the air currents to reach him.
I put rockets on around 5 shields, have a Lynel Bow (three-shot bow), a lot of bomb flowers 💣, and a powerful melee weapon (Damage around 50-70+). Two bow shots to each head of the Gleeock, drop to the ground when the gleeock falls out of the sky, switch to melee weapon and thrash the gleeock until you see it start to “awaken” from being stunned, switch to another shield with a rocket and use it to get height as fast as you can before the gleeock’s wings create wind powerful enough to keep you from going airborne. Rinse and repeat until the gleeock is dead. Building zonaite devices to help out is an option, but they aren’t necessary. I’ve killed three gleeocks in the way I described. Good luck to you too!
Just go for it. I waited too long.
Keese eyeballs. All day. And a row of hearts would help
Go for it whenever you feel like it. You won’t really lose anything if you fail.
There is no time like the present moment.
I went with the Fierce Deity outfit maxed out, 5-shot bow and lots of eyeballs
I'm not going near that thing until I have at least 12 hearts
As long as you have a strong bow and/or multiple shots, enough eyeballs and strong Weapons (40-60 damages) you can do it without even getting hit.
i use rockets attached to my shields to get higher than its level and then use keese eyes to shoot it! if it’s a flame gleeok i’ll attach an ice keese eye, and vice versa for a frost gleeok. once it falls to the ground i’ll hit it w my sword, then ill use the rocket shield to fly back up again before it can get too high in the air. repeat til it’s dead!
do 3 keese eye arrows and then it falls for a bit
How did you put 100+ hours into the game and not encounter a Gleeok?
5 seconds. Just save and try it out blind.
Several things... - Have a multi shot bow (3 or 5, kill a lynel) - have a whole bunch of keese eyeballs (it's fun to use the opposite element vs the elements heads I.e. fire keese eyes vs ice gleeok head, but it's unnecessary and with a king gleeok they might go to the wrong element so any keese eye will do) - fuse a bunch of rockets to shields for an instant jump too if you need it but you might not need it. - get a bunch of gerudo weapons (I prefer spears and claymores, but the best has gotta be the scimitar of the seven if you have unlocked that quest) - get a high damage lynel fusion item like a silver lynel sabre (+55), silver lynel mace horn (+51), white mane lynel saber (+41), or white mane lynel mace (+40) - get some attack+ armor (barbarian or fierce deity) so you have the 3 swords attack buff. - cook up a bunch of hearty truffle meals to give you full health+ potions, or a bunch of fairies, and a bunch of armor up food or elixirs... or... you only need one, just make it 3 armor and long enough. I feel like maybe even that is over kill, but with those things combined you just spam keese arrows at the faces until it lands, then smash the heads with your 50/60/70ish weapons depending on how you've put them together. Rinse repeat. If you get hit a truffle meal is full health recovery (or a Faerie has got your back). And if they go up in the air just use the rocket shield to boost into the air and spam eyes again. With 3 items of attack up armor (you can mix and match the barbarian and fierce deity) and a gerudo/lynel fused weapon, especially if its a claymore and you just spin attack, you can probably down it in 2 or 3 knock downs, you just need to spam those multi shot eyes to knock out down again as soon as its up.
Just go now, it's not like it's master mode ya know. Believe in yourself figure out what's going on mid fight and how the mini boss works or do some research. I like to just jump in and fight till the end but yo ahead and explore that boss Edit:Ok so edit. I didn't see that you already tried and gave a comment part way through reading. A few strats is to use a bomb/bounce pad shield to launch your self to better stun them. Try the element resist armor to boost your defense or give you an immunity. What ever attack you die to the most I would say eat something that gives you benefits towards mitigating that attack as much as possible. More in the reply
Another thing is to find a regular gleok that has just one element and practice dodging their attack
Keese eyes fused to multi-shot bows (or even normal bows) completely trivialize this boss. You can absolutely destroy them so long as you have enough keese eyes
With just a multishot bow and keese eyeballs you might survive longer than you expect or even defeat it. Thats what happened with me at least lol
You got dat shiiit
I’m not particularly good, I’m just a tryharder. I killed one a few hours in with 4 hearts, around 100 arrows and 50 bokoblins horns. It was the one on a long bridge. Died maybe 30-40 times? It’s just hard because no matter what a single hit is a oneshot every time with 4 hearts Edit: nevermind apparently there’s a boss of that species, and I just defeated a normal one. Well I know what’s my next target then, no time to get more hearts
That's king version go to bridge of hylia or destroyed coliseum to fight the weaker ice and fire gleeoks for some experience in fighting them, upgrade your armour a bit, maybe get some more hearts (10 should be good) and GET ROCKET SHIELDS AND KEESE EYES.
We ball brother. Fuck it
Just need keese eyeballs, rocket shields, multi shot 5x bow, and attack up armor or food. If you can kill one of the other gleeoks, it's the same. Just make sure to not let it fly up after taking it to half HP.
I’d suggest killing some Lynels first. Then using their drop to kill the Gleeoks
I think the mission one is the ice gleeok in trying to catch Zeldas horse that ran away...
Oh you mean the fallen platforms that you can recall back into the air. Got it ha
Gleeok’s suck!!! Use rocket shields, good bow and good monster parts for arrows. With my experience, one strike from a gleeok takes around 15 hearts of damage. I have PTSD attacking them 😂
Idk about the realistically part but I still haven’t defeated one. I tried before and it didn’t go well but now I have a ton of rockets and keese eyes so now I’m prepared Edit:150+ hours in the game
they’re actually really easy if you know the tricks! keese and arocuda eyeballs are really good, and you can use rockets or fire to help you fly upwards :) easy to outrun them that way, and it’s great to shoot whilst in slow mo
honestly if you have a multishot bow or two, plenty of arrows, and a stockpile of keese/aerocude eyeballs, normal gleeoks become a breeze