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In The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Phantom Ganon usually spawns as a brief overworld boss encounter after defeating a Gloom Spawn. But once you have beaten the main four regional questlines, you can do battle against a fully-fledged Phantom Ganon boss at Hyrule Castle, which essentially has you contending with five Phantom Ganons at the same time. Since you have the sage avatars at your disposal, you can let them distract at least four of the Phantom Ganons while you focus on just one.
If you ignore the fight in Hyrule Castle and go to face the final boss ahead of time, however, Phantom Ganon will show up right beforehand to fight you. You won’t have the sage avatars by your side this time around, but fortunately, the fight remains very doable even in this 1-v-5 scenario. Here are some tips and strategies on how to conquer this initially daunting challenge.
Much like many other enemies in Tears of the Kingdom, the Phantom Ganons can all wield three different weapons: a one-handed sword, a spear, and a two-handed club. Unlike other enemies, though, the Phantom Ganons can all switch between these weapons on the fly, although they can only all equip the same type of weapon at any given time. Naturally, the Phantom Ganons’ attacks differ depending on the weapon type, so here’s a rundown of all of them.
The clones’ attacks aren’t too tricky to deal with individually, but of course, the real challenge comes with watching out for these moves when all five clones are active at the same time. Fortunately, while the clones can attack in relatively quick succession, they never attack at the same time. So simply watching for one of the clones to make his move and then reacting accordingly is often enough to stay safe. In general, though, flurry rushes will prove more effective in this fight than parries will since they allow you to safely deal a significant amount of damage to a clone without having to worry about being interrupted by another clone.
However, if you’re using a heavy two-handed weapon, try to avoid doing the full flurry rush combo when two or more clones are still active. The fourth and final hit of the two-handed weapon’s flurry rush combo has a significant amount of recovery time, leaving Link potentially wide open to a cheap hit from one of the clones before the player can act again. Because of this, I prefer to land only three hits when triggering a flurry rush or use a different weapon type altogether.
Not much changes in the second phase of the Phantom Ganon fight, except that one of the clones will occasionally stand back and slowly spread gloom across the entire arena. You will need to find space between the other clones’ attacks to stop him from doing this, which you can accomplish with an arrow or two. Normally, when the gloom-spreading clone is hit with an arrow, the gloom will retract a bit before continuing its spread, forcing you to hit him with another arrow. On the other hand, a single headshot will cancel out this attack altogether, so you should ideally try to land one in this situation.
These strategies encompass more or less everything you need to know to best the Phantom Ganon dungeon boss in Tears of the Kingdom even without help from your allies. This should leave you more than ready to tackle Ganondorf himself.
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