Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
A different kind of challenge run: Minimalist 100%
Part 24 - Daruk's Song
I have no idea how Daruk was supposed to somehow float through the rings or clear some sections of his shrines without runes. I mean, in AoC they gave every character a Paraglider and their own Sheikah Slate, but IIRC it was because of that egg guradian thing somehow enhancing and cloning everything that Link owned so that everyone got their own Sheikah Slate, Paraglider, superhuman strength and slowmo-time-ability for free (a story-element added solely for gameplay balance, mind you).
In BotW however, the Champions definitely didn't have their own Sheikah Slates. In the last memory from the Champions' Ballad, Revali plucks the slate out of Zelda's hand to take a good look at it and remarks "So that is THE Sheikah Slate, eh?" proving that he had neither seen something like it before, nor that there were multiples (otherwise he would have called it "a" Sheikah Slate, not "the" Sheikah Slate). By that time the Champions had also already mastered their respective Divine Beast, so you definitely don't need a slate to pilot them either.
Maybe the devs didn't actually think this through and I'm just grossly overthinking all of this, but it simply bugs me that half of Daruk's Trials are only possible to do with runes (which he didn't have, so it should have been impossible for him) or involve fire (which Gorons are immune to, so those parts weren't obstacles for him in the first place.)
Additional information:
- If you wear the entire Flamebreaker armor and each piece is upgraded at least two times, you get an additional set bonus called "Fireproof". This makes you completely immune to fire (doesn't work against lava tho) which makes most of the shrines ridiculously easy. You can not achieve this effect by wearing the un-upgraded armor or by using Fireproof Elixirs.
- I don't actually know whether Kass' question about Link applying Fireproof Elixirs is a translation error, but it always makes me giggle to imagine that Link realized this very moment that he drank gallons of stuff that he was actually supposed to smear on himself... imagine drinking sunscreen for a year - in front of other people!- until someone finally points it out.
- Just like the Molduking, the Igneo Talus Giant does not count for Kilton's Monster Medals. However, there is another regular Igneo Talus in that part of Eldin, so people occasionally kill the Titan, mark the nomal Igneo Talus off as completed, and then wonder why Kilton insists that they have slain only 39 Taluses so far.
A different kind of challenge run: Minimalist 100%
Part 24 - Daruk's Song
I have no idea how Daruk was supposed to somehow float through the rings or clear some sections of his shrines without runes. I mean, in AoC they gave every character a Paraglider and their own Sheikah Slate, but IIRC it was because of that egg guradian thing somehow enhancing and cloning everything that Link owned so that everyone got their own Sheikah Slate, Paraglider, superhuman strength and slowmo-time-ability for free (a story-element added solely for gameplay balance, mind you).
In BotW however, the Champions definitely didn't have their own Sheikah Slates. In the last memory from the Champions' Ballad, Revali plucks the slate out of Zelda's hand to take a good look at it and remarks "So that is THE Sheikah Slate, eh?" proving that he had neither seen something like it before, nor that there were multiples (otherwise he would have called it "a" Sheikah Slate, not "the" Sheikah Slate). By that time the Champions had also already mastered their respective Divine Beast, so you definitely don't need a slate to pilot them either.
Maybe the devs didn't actually think this through and I'm just grossly overthinking all of this, but it simply bugs me that half of Daruk's Trials are only possible to do with runes (which he didn't have, so it should have been impossible for him) or involve fire (which Gorons are immune to, so those parts weren't obstacles for him in the first place.)
Additional information:
- If you wear the entire Flamebreaker armor and each piece is upgraded at least two times, you get an additional set bonus called "Fireproof". This makes you completely immune to fire (doesn't work against lava tho) which makes most of the shrines ridiculously easy. You can not achieve this effect by wearing the un-upgraded armor or by using Fireproof Elixirs.
- I don't actually know whether Kass' question about Link applying Fireproof Elixirs is a translation error, but it always makes me giggle to imagine that Link realized this very moment that he drank gallons of stuff that he was actually supposed to smear on himself... imagine drinking sunscreen for a year - in front of other people!- until someone finally points it out.
- Just like the Molduking, the Igneo Talus Giant does not count for Kilton's Monster Medals. However, there is another regular Igneo Talus in that part of Eldin, so people occasionally kill the Titan, mark the nomal Igneo Talus off as completed, and then wonder why Kilton insists that they have slain only 39 Taluses so far.
![[TotK] Prepping for the next Minimalist 100% Run](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pwGAHgtVuOg/mqdefault.jpg "[TotK] Prepping for the next Minimalist 100% Run
The full 100% requirements (datamined) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fBvQ17WHP3ASgtO8ode_rf1g4DfEHErMrHwwLppNTJM/edit#gid=2053006921
All credit for this spreadsheet goes to the original creator Phil and the co-authors Aeon, SuperSpazzy, KreaTV1 and Shozutko.
The spreadsheet with the documentation, rules, explanations etc. can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15CBosUfEnbcF0XjPCStMHMzohUPu1zK9hnLiSkraHMY/edit#gid=897908243
A location checklist can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12XaCeQCspe0OvKHhBXNb_BNHH6GUqYB_FzeyC7eK8E0/edit?pli=1#gid=1916393668")
