Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago
If you retract the clawshot on the same frame you'd grab on, it'll retract but Argorok and the camera will act as if you grabbed on.
Don't press the clawshot button.
When in this weird grabbed/not grabbed state, it's possible to aim the clawshot at Argorok again, but you'll be unable to grab on even if you shoot right at the crystal.
I'm pretty sure this is frame perfect, as each time i got it on video I retracted the clawshot 17 frames after shooting it, but the clips from Zachlink and Jacquaid that have input display retract at different timings. This is probably just because of them being positioned differently relative to Argorok than I was in my testing.
Other clips of this happening:
Temchee in 2015 on Gamecube: youtube.com/watch?v=jGh8hFiqZyY
SkuruWolf in 2020 on HD: clips.twitch.tv/CrepuscularHorribleHerdDAESuppy
Jacquaid in 2020 on HD: twitch.tv/jacquaid/clip/BumblingBlueCodStoneLightning
Zachlink in 2020 on Gamecube: clips.twitch.tv/CarelessAbrasiveSnoodPanicVis
If you retract the clawshot on the same frame you'd grab on, it'll retract but Argorok and the camera will act as if you grabbed on.
Don't press the clawshot button.
When in this weird grabbed/not grabbed state, it's possible to aim the clawshot at Argorok again, but you'll be unable to grab on even if you shoot right at the crystal.
I'm pretty sure this is frame perfect, as each time i got it on video I retracted the clawshot 17 frames after shooting it, but the clips from Zachlink and Jacquaid that have input display retract at different timings. This is probably just because of them being positioned differently relative to Argorok than I was in my testing.
Other clips of this happening:
Temchee in 2015 on Gamecube: youtube.com/watch?v=jGh8hFiqZyY
SkuruWolf in 2020 on HD: clips.twitch.tv/CrepuscularHorribleHerdDAESuppy
Jacquaid in 2020 on HD: twitch.tv/jacquaid/clip/BumblingBlueCodStoneLightning
Zachlink in 2020 on Gamecube: clips.twitch.tv/CarelessAbrasiveSnoodPanicVis
![Twilight Princess: Argorok 2 cycle with rare chu jelly [Wii]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LBPru7Av3vw/mqdefault.jpg "Twilight Princess: Argorok 2 cycle with rare chu jelly [Wii]
Using the double damage from Fairys tears or rare chu jelly, its possible to skip the third cycle of Argoroks second phase.
Used svas method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL2Nvn9sepA
This is very slightly different on Wii since to drink the jelly or tears you need to have the bottle on B, and so then need to equip clawshot back to B either with the d-pad equips or pause menu, before clawshotting. Drinking the jelly/tears doesnt make link put away the clawshots however, so you dont have to go through the animation of pulling out clawshot, which would waste a handful of frames making the 2-cycle much harder.
In this clip I timed flipping clawshots back to B with the d-pad, and pressed B immediately after to clawshot. This can be very quick, so I want to say ideally Wii would only lose 1 frame to gamecube, but in reality itd be a few frames to timing the equip, then a couple more to clawshotting. This makes the 2-cycle marginally more difficult on Wii than gamecube (not that Ive ever done it on gamecube).
I had the most success pause buffering to when Argorok just begins to shoot the flame.
Originally discovered by dragonbane0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASY_ooj1OxM
Dragonbanes improved method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGz2UgerQr4
Mainly made this video so if anyone else tries to learn it on Wii they dont have to mirror a gamecube video and get confused with which pillar to go to etc.")
