Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This video was meant to be a direct answer for a redditor who wanted to know the least amount of Ancient Arrows needed to defeat Calamity Ganon. Here is the thread:
old.reddit.com/r/Breath_of_the_Wild/comments/ws9q8m/how_many_ancient_arrows_does_it_take_to_defeat
In case you don't want to click an offsite link, here is the explanation:
* Ganon has 8k HP total. After defeating all 4 Blights, that total drops to 4k HP.
* Ancient weapons naturally deal 50% more damage against Blights and Ganon (applies to only the bow, not the arrows)
* Ancient Arrows deal +20 damage points on top of the bow strenght
* Ancient Proficiency (the set bonus of the Ancient Armor) makes you deal 80% more damage with Ancient weapons. This bonus applies to both the arrows AND the bow, so if you use the Ancient Bow and Ancient Arrows, you get that boost twice.
* Food buffs stack with that, as "Ancient Proficiency" and regular "Attack Up" are treated as two different boosts. With triple Attack Up from food, you get another +50% damage boost.
* Headshots deal double damage.
The damage formula is:
((Bow strenght * Food Boost) +20) * Ancient Proficency for the arrow * Bonus against Ganon * another Ancient Proficiency for the bow * Headshot = damage per shot (the game always rounds down)
The actual math:
(44 * 1.5 +20) * 1.8 * 1.5 * 1.5 * 2 = 696.6 rounded down = 696 damage points per Ancient Arrow.
Since Ganon has 4k HP, this means you would need 4.000 / 696 = 5.7 rounded up = 6 arrows. After the fifth shot he has only 520 HP left, and since I've used Urbosa's Fury 3 times and it deals 150 damage points per charge, I accidentally killed him early since that amounts to 600 damage total. WITHOUT Urbosa's Fury, the sixth arrow would have killed him.
This video was meant to be a direct answer for a redditor who wanted to know the least amount of Ancient Arrows needed to defeat Calamity Ganon. Here is the thread:
old.reddit.com/r/Breath_of_the_Wild/comments/ws9q8m/how_many_ancient_arrows_does_it_take_to_defeat
In case you don't want to click an offsite link, here is the explanation:
* Ganon has 8k HP total. After defeating all 4 Blights, that total drops to 4k HP.
* Ancient weapons naturally deal 50% more damage against Blights and Ganon (applies to only the bow, not the arrows)
* Ancient Arrows deal +20 damage points on top of the bow strenght
* Ancient Proficiency (the set bonus of the Ancient Armor) makes you deal 80% more damage with Ancient weapons. This bonus applies to both the arrows AND the bow, so if you use the Ancient Bow and Ancient Arrows, you get that boost twice.
* Food buffs stack with that, as "Ancient Proficiency" and regular "Attack Up" are treated as two different boosts. With triple Attack Up from food, you get another +50% damage boost.
* Headshots deal double damage.
The damage formula is:
((Bow strenght * Food Boost) +20) * Ancient Proficency for the arrow * Bonus against Ganon * another Ancient Proficiency for the bow * Headshot = damage per shot (the game always rounds down)
The actual math:
(44 * 1.5 +20) * 1.8 * 1.5 * 1.5 * 2 = 696.6 rounded down = 696 damage points per Ancient Arrow.
Since Ganon has 4k HP, this means you would need 4.000 / 696 = 5.7 rounded up = 6 arrows. After the fifth shot he has only 520 HP left, and since I've used Urbosa's Fury 3 times and it deals 150 damage points per charge, I accidentally killed him early since that amounts to 600 damage total. WITHOUT Urbosa's Fury, the sixth arrow would have killed him.
