Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
A different kind of challenge run: Minimalist 100%
**Part 26 - Boss Rush**
It is possible (and even rather easy) to defeat the Blights with Urbosa's Fury alone - zap them 3 times, hide somewhere until the ability has recharged, rinse and repeat until dead.
A very nasty surprise was that the illusory fights automatically unlock **everything** you were given during that fight, whether you use it or not. Every ingredient and weapon in the temporary inventory had their description unlocked, even the ones I didn't touch (food). There is no way to prevent this (at least without glitches) except for just not fighting the Blights in the first place, but then you won't be able to fight Maz Koshia ... and that in turn unlocks the last 0.09% needed to reach 100%
I "obtained" more items in this episode than in the *entire base game run combined* ... for +0% completion. Defeating the Blights and obtaining the "plus" versions of the Champion abilities simply doesn't increment the counter.
**Additional information:**
* I'm not sure whether I want to make the "extra arrows" from the Illusory fights count as "obtained" or not. The item descriptions got unlocked (if I now walk over to a regular arrow, it will no longer have the "???" label) but at the same time, the arrow count in the non-illusory inventory did NOT unlock (I still have only bomb arrows and shock arrows displayed) so it could go both ways. I decided to list the arrows as a separate category for this reason, so everyone can decide for themselves whether they would count arrows or not.
* I did not count the Flamebreaker chestpiece & trousers again, because I had already obtained them in the base game myself. The same goes for the Falcon Bow, Bomb Arrows, the Zora Armor and everything else I had already obtained.
* About Urbosa's Perfect Parry: I might be misremembering, but I can not think of a single NPC in the game and/or cutscenes ever using that technique apart from Urbosa and Link. The shrine monk in Kakariko teaches Link *the theory* of how to use it, but doesn't execute the move himself.
A different kind of challenge run: Minimalist 100%
**Part 26 - Boss Rush**
It is possible (and even rather easy) to defeat the Blights with Urbosa's Fury alone - zap them 3 times, hide somewhere until the ability has recharged, rinse and repeat until dead.
A very nasty surprise was that the illusory fights automatically unlock **everything** you were given during that fight, whether you use it or not. Every ingredient and weapon in the temporary inventory had their description unlocked, even the ones I didn't touch (food). There is no way to prevent this (at least without glitches) except for just not fighting the Blights in the first place, but then you won't be able to fight Maz Koshia ... and that in turn unlocks the last 0.09% needed to reach 100%
I "obtained" more items in this episode than in the *entire base game run combined* ... for +0% completion. Defeating the Blights and obtaining the "plus" versions of the Champion abilities simply doesn't increment the counter.
**Additional information:**
* I'm not sure whether I want to make the "extra arrows" from the Illusory fights count as "obtained" or not. The item descriptions got unlocked (if I now walk over to a regular arrow, it will no longer have the "???" label) but at the same time, the arrow count in the non-illusory inventory did NOT unlock (I still have only bomb arrows and shock arrows displayed) so it could go both ways. I decided to list the arrows as a separate category for this reason, so everyone can decide for themselves whether they would count arrows or not.
* I did not count the Flamebreaker chestpiece & trousers again, because I had already obtained them in the base game myself. The same goes for the Falcon Bow, Bomb Arrows, the Zora Armor and everything else I had already obtained.
* About Urbosa's Perfect Parry: I might be misremembering, but I can not think of a single NPC in the game and/or cutscenes ever using that technique apart from Urbosa and Link. The shrine monk in Kakariko teaches Link *the theory* of how to use it, but doesn't execute the move himself.
