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  • Don't get me wrong, I love ALL Zelda games, but there is something that's so much...scarier about the first few ones. Like this fight in the middle of nowhere!

  • good trick

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  • Great guide man, always wondered what the best techniques were

  • JUST SMACK HIM WITH YOUR HAMMER LOL

  • i played on my 3ds he was fairly easy

  • nice thx

  • I'm not even the best player & I beat Dark Link with the Megatron Hammer without damage. My recommendation!

  • Megaton Hammer = No damage

  • you can defeat dark link easily with a broken knife

  • this just happened.......

    *walks in and sees a house in front a tree*

    Me:WTF?!? its locked!

    *turns around and sees something by the ugly tree*

    Dark link:I WILL.....make you tea!

    me:O.o uhhh okay???

  • tbh it is allot more epic to fight this guy with just the master sword and shield it may be tougher but that is what makes it more challenging and epic wish he was in skyward sword

  • Excellent video. I knew there had 2b another way 2near him. I tried cornering him, hitting him b4 he strikes, during & after his strikes, but none of them were working.

    Din's Fire was my go 2move, but I 4got 2upgrade my magic bar =/

  • just dont Z-target him and he's a piece of cake

  • @malfurio Not with the Master Sword.

  • Watch out, we got a badass over here

  • I think it's possible to get him to back flip by walking forward at him. He back flips when you get too close. Hookshot seems to be quicker though.

  • i found the easiest way to do it is just spam he megaton hammer before he is fully able to attack you i killed him easily doing this

  • @kiyrukudaku So obviously, you didn't read the description.

  • One thing about this I found:

    Every time I crouch shield and stab, or just crouch shield, Dark Link backflips. This can actually be used to corner him near a wall/door, and slash him.

  • I dont understand this fight.... on 3DS I spammed my sword like an idiot, and once he died :)))

  • Dark LInk sounds like Yami Yugi. Or is it just me? xD

  • can you battle him again when you beat the game

  • Fuck you for making it look so damn easy! Asshole! Ugh! It took me multiple fairies to get through him. I'm tight!

  • Nice...but i am more of an old fashioned gamer lol, is there any possibility to defeat him without damage using the sword and shield only? great video btw

  • @Warxoth There are two ways to do it with only the Master Sword, and I think you should be able to find demonstrations of them on YT here, but they're no less cheap. The first uses jump attacks to make Dark Link leave himself open, and the second requires you to catch him with the tip of your sword during the third swing in the vertical three-slash combo.

  • @Warxoth You can lowguard and stab at his feet, I got him that way, got hit once coz he spawns behind you after you get hit ofcourse. And I used 14 hearts, not the quarter heart trick.

  • @Warxoth I killed him using sword and shield only, but not without damage. I actually had like a heart left and BARELY caught him on the last. I jump attacked, missed, and swung to the right RIGHT as he swung and killed him. It was pretty epic. But, anyway, I actually sword-fought him. And kicked his ass.

  • @garulia17 I did the same :) but NOT without taking damage, I think that´s impossible at this point lol

  • @Warxoth yyeeeeaaah...it was fun though!

  • I have the 3DS version, and when I first got here, I'm like "Cool, a door!", so I went there, door was locked. I then said "Screw this, I'm out." Then when I went to go back, I saw some freaky thingy, and I got close to it, I just thought "HOLY SHIT!!" That was freaky when I first played it D:

  • Pretty much the only thing to look forward to in the Water Temple is the absolute coolest and most legitimately challenging Zelda mini boss ever. That and the longshot you get for beating him.

  • @LegendOfAGamer

    >Dark Link

    >legitimately challenging

    ( ゚∀゚)アハハ八八ノヽノヽノヽノ \ / \/ \

  • @Desbreko lol xD

  • Shadow Link vs Normal Link! Normal Link shoots with claw Shadow Link rolls Normal Link hits him in the back Shadow Link: Nice trick, but remember i wont let myself fool twice! Normal Link shoots claw Shadow Link rolls Normal Link hits him in the back Shadow link: Gah! Okay, I wont let myself fool three times! Normal link shoots claw Shadow Link rolls Normal link hits him in the back... and it continues that way
  • He looks more like metal link than shadow link. LOL

  • Hookshot? Huh. The one thing I didn't try. Cool. Nicely done!

  • That scream when you deliver the final hit O__O

  • when i played through on n64, this was one of the easiest bosses for me, so i'm surprised everyone is having so much trouble. you use the broken biggoron sword. end of story

  • so i never understood this fully: does dark link have the same amount of health as you do, or is it proportional to your health at the time of the battle? or does he just have a fixed health?

  • @Donut117 He has the same amount of hearts as you have max (not current) and each hit with the Master Sword, Megaton Hammer, or Din's Fire will do one heart of damage to him.

  • @Desbreko Really? I always thought he had a fixed health...

  • I beat him without getting hit but i used the megaton hammer/ biggorons sword combo

  • Corner him in the invisible corner of the room... then go HAM on his ass with the Megaton Hammer. Beat and repeat till he's dead.

  • Just letting you guys know. The hammer doesn't work for whatever reason for some. Blocks it every time and actually just starts attacking. Just saying video helps

  • @camschip the megaton hammer does work i just rebeat this on the 3ds and i can guarentee that it works...

  • @camschip that's my experience, too. are you playing it on n64? i'm playing it on wii. i don't remember if i was able to beat him with the megatron hammer back when i played it on n64. possibly a glitch?

  • everybody tries to fight him with the sword, just use the hammer! you'll hit him everytime, 20 sec. and he's down

  • why don't you just use the megaton hammer it takes way less time.

  • i just used the megaton hammer and din's fire

  • Nice strategy, never thought of that myself. I just always either used the Biggoron's Sword or Din's Fire.

    @lousvercetti Pretty easy actually, especially with just the Biggoron's sword.

  • u can get no damage too.. just use megaton hammer to attack dark link...

  • my strategy that worked quite well was hit him once, then get him with the megaton hammer before he can block the rest of the time

  • @jdude123454321 See, my strategy was similar, but the only difference was, that I HAD no strategy and just swung the hammer everywhere with my eyes closed.

    It worked rather well.

  • In th 3ds version i beat him inlike 6 hit with tge biggorons sword. I think he was tougher back in th day. I just wish i could face him again like the other bosses

  • @DJGamersinc I didn't get hit once, neither did I use the Biggoron Sword. But was the 3DS version easier than on the N64/GCN?

  • @riffman911 Yes. Go Sparta. THIS IS SPARTA.

  • I'm mad how he's just a mini boss

  • i cant hit him at all with the megaton hammer on the original game is this just my concole

  • still remember the first time i fought this boss (yeah, back when you had no internet spoiling every little thing in the game)

    i saw the cool water reflection and obviously went straight to the door, noticing that links water reflection disappeared. when i went back i was really shocked and impressed at the same time.

  • My method is to just go sparta, no Z (or L if you have the 3ds version) targeting. I just kept slashing and I didn't get hurt xD

  • This method is comical. It looks like you're tripping him up ;-)

  • dude i used that same trick on twilight princess for gamecube lmao thats fking sick :D ocarina is still the bst tho way better then all that other crap i say ocarina and twi are tied :D

  • I used the Biggoron's sword and killed him easily in 30 seconds. He rarely blocks your attacks. Din's fire can also be used.

  • I just finished Ocarina having not played it for ten years. I killed Dark Link with the Megaton Hammer which I really regret because it made it so easy and took all the fun out of the fight.

  • I never played Ocarina as a child, but I did know pretty much everything about the whole game. One thing I didn't know was where you fight Dark Link, so when I reached his room in the Water Temple in OoT 3D, I made an extremely constipated sounding groan. On the train. :P

  • what temple did you fight dark link again?

  • It took you 14 hits to defeat dark link.

    You also had 14 hearts for your HP

  • i used dins fire almost the battle the whole time i hit him with the sword 4 times

  • well done and all... bur why would ANYONE wanna have such a cheap battle against dark Link... he was my favorite boss( even though he was only a mini boss)

  • I just beat him with the master sword in about 2 minutes.

  • i used the megaton hammer worked in an instant

  • More like a water link, but you know.

  • Perhaps the only time in the game where I use the Biggoron sword. I prefer to use the Master sword for everything else.

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  • thanks man i used at least one of every strategy just to kill him except the 2nd strategy cause i don't have that sword yet ^.^

  • @1734Link You probably took too long and he got fully solid and started attacking on his own.

  • @Desbreko

    I recently noticed he got more solid as time goes on and more aggressive I thought that was just from hitting him a lot at first. I am having the hardest time beating him I've tried every type of sword attack and weapon I have and he either blocks or dodges it and may even counter. Yes he blocks the megaton hammer EVERY TIME lol. I can't even hit him once or at the beginning of the fight but I only have 3 hearts as my max hp. Is he tougher if you are more skilled at the game?

  • @satan915 If you've only got three hearts, you should have enough magic to just use Din's Fire.

  • @Desbreko

    I never got Dins fire (and I was stuck as adult link cause I never beat the forest temple so I couldn't get it anyways) but actually I managed to beat him using only the master sword without Z targeting by slashing away. It's easier to hit him that way and I got hurt but I guess I damaged him more. I only had to hit him like 3 -4 times since he only has the same amount of hearts as you.

  • The easiest way to beat Dark Link is with the Big Goron's Sword. Seriously. Dark Link can never defend from it.

  • Another way to defeat him is using an uncharged magic spin attack (done by moving the Control Stick quickly in a circling movement + pressing A), which he will dodge, and immediately afterwards throwing a Deku Nut. Dark Link will be unable to dodge the nut (as he will still be busy avoiding a hit from the Magic Spin attack) and will get stunned. This is the moment you can hit him with a random attack.

  • Conquer yourself!!!

  • Cool method if killing him! But I'm sorry, that kinda ruined 1 of the most epic fights ever :S

  • i can honestly say.

    i see all these people saying Navi is annoying-

    but her voice is so cute :)))

  • don't target dark link he copys your moves

  • use the hammer or biggoron sword

  • use the broken Biggoron's Sword and stab at him, he will die easly :D lol

  • Link vs Dark Link, Master Sword to Dark Sword. No hammers or magic or anything else. THAT is the way this battle should take place. The only way worthy of the Hero of Time

  • You, my friend, are the man. Took me three fairies and most of my remaining hearts to get past this guy.

  • Thumbs up if u needed 1 or 2 fairies to beat him

  • sword on sword is longer and harder.....but its more epic

  • It's more fun fighting him with just a sword.

  • If you have the biggoron sword, the one that doesn't break, you can kill him in five hits without using the hook shot and you can block with it without giving shadow the ability to use his shield as well. He also can't jump on you sword and give you damage with no saves.

  • loz cheater. i did this without dins fire or megatons hammer or what you just did. not saying your bad. but i did get hit.

  • @Desbreko how can you record your game cube so good?

  • This game is boss

  • Seeing you beat him this easily kinda pisses me off, since it took me about an hour of endless sword clangs before I could beat him. oh well, lol

  • @aTouchOfEpic but it's better to beat him ur way (the hard way) rather than find a glitch in the AI and exploit it. More rewarding too in my opinion.

  • Good method, but megaton hammer worked out very well for me. I tried fighting him and ended up running from him for a while, then I decided to get really mad and want to hammer his face in. Guess what. It's WORKED!!! XD

  • IMPORTANT NOTE:

    to successfully use the megaton hammer on dark link, DO NOT L-TARGET HIM. IN FACT, NEVER L-TARGET HIM. he mimics you, so it stands to reason that when you l-target him, he mimics that too. You're in for an easy fight if you avoid it.

  • first time i did this i used the hammer and took no damage

  • Holy fuck you defeated him no damage O_o

  • Noob. Can't you defeat him without your hookshot?

  • @MurphyRouden I bet you have not even done this fight. If so i want proof that you did it as easily as this

  • @Rollthebuddah Ok then. :)

  • @Rollthebuddah It IS easy, see my movie!

  • It must not work on the collector's edition for Gamecube.

  • When I did this on N64 I just blocked with the shield and then jump attacked him and he couldnt block it. Had to get the timing right I think (its been awhile)

  • Usually when I'm facing Shadow Link he usually starts to attack me if I damage him enough.

  • thumb up if you saw 500 rupees or i can't give credit

  • I really want to see a no damage fight of him while doing it like a man meaning using only the master sword. also no tricks just fight with no strategy and no damage.

  • nerds

  • u know what i do? SPAM DIN"S FIRE!!!!!

  • Easy peasy.

  • @ShyGuyXXL

    Lemon squeezey.

  • i can do this fight with no hits dark links a joke!!

  • i hack

  • How on earth can you have that mutch hearts at this time of the game?!

  • That didn't work on mine!! :(

  • is zelda master quest ocarina of time but only for people that are proffessionals at it

  • i like to make some stupid fighting againts him,

    make the battle more excitting

  • You know, the first time I did this I was absolutely amazed by the graphics... especially when the fog disappeared and it revealed a fairly small room...

  • this boss is a pain in the butt

  • @louisvercetti it should be the master boss of the water temple,instead of morpha.

  • 1:10

    ouch......

  • NOOB!!!!

  • i just died by this dude and forgot to save

  • zzzzz...

    *Dark Link screams*

    hm? oh its over?...

    BORING!!! good lord what kind of fight is that? you literaly did only one thing over and over again, if my video camra wasnt screwy i would make a way better video of this.

  • WOW! great idea!

  • WOW! When I clicked the link I was expecting you to use Din's Fire! There was NO way I saw this coming! Believe it or not, I actually beat him with just the Master Sword once. I wanted to see if I could defeat Dark Link without using anything but the Master Sword. I kept clashing with different slashes and rapidly tapping the B button. I didn't use thrusts though because of that crazy maneuver he'd do. This took forever, btw. The downside is I took some hits trying to do it, though.

  • for some reason none of these are working for me, is it cause im playing it on gamecube on the master quest disc or that? cause im not actually playing master quest and everytime i use the hammer he blocks he dosent block dins fire and the hookshot hes not rolling hes just diving backward

  • never mind i was being stupid lol

  • @666satanicliam666 I haven't tested this on the Master Quest disc at all, but I wouldn't think it would matter. Did you make sure to clash swords with him before using the Hookshot? If you don't do that, he won't let you get close.

    The hammer isn't a surefire way to hit him. He'll block it a lot, but it's still more likely to get through than the Master Sword is normally.

  • @666satanicliam666 Well I managed to do it, so you should be able to it too. I have been stuck in the desert temple for 1 year now. :P

  • @666satanicliam666 use biggoron sword it makes it ten times easier

  • Do you use Project 64?'Cause I do.

  • The broken Biggoron's sword is pretty effective here.

  • Beast! I remember the first time I did this. I sucked so badly at it that I had to go get the bigger magic bar and then spam Din's Fire over and over until he died! xD

  • An easier way to kill him is to just keep attacking with the megaton hammer.

    he can't attack or dodge because the boss wasn't programmed to be able to mimic c button items.

  • That's cheap. Cheap like Hibachi safespot.

  • Honestly, i never noticed that Dark Link got more solid/darker as the battle progressed until I read your description. This is actually considered a glitch (dont bitch) because this technique involves no skill. (what im trying to say is that it is EXTREMELY easy once you know how to do this.)

  • @utter77771 A glitch is an error in the game's programming and has nothing to do with skill. The crouch stab using your last inflicted damage value instead of normal sword damage, for example, is a glitch. This is just manipulating the AI.

  • @Desbreko if i do a biggorons sword full powered spin attack and then use my master sword and do R+B do i inflict so much damage?

  • just keep hitting him with the megaton hammer he cant dodge it

  • I'll try to follow that. I always did the biggoron method but I want to beat him with the master sword. Is it me or does he dodge EVERY spin move and din's fire attack. He did that yesterday and I was pissed especially since I took him so lightly

  • @McCloudster0015 He'll always "dodge" spin attacks no matter what, even if they go right through him. With Din's Fire, you just have to be close enough that he can't get out of range in time.

  • @Desbreko thats not true i hit him a good 4-5 times with spin attack when fighting him

    on another note i beat dark link using skill =] no hammer, dins fire, big goron sword, or wild attacking. Just me with a sword

  • @Desbreko I never really found out how to get a larger rupee container. Do I have to buy it at a market or do I earn it in a side quest?

  • Wonder what kind of fight this would be if he was facing 100 Dark Links at once.

  • Hey, wasn't he supposed to stop mirroring you after some time?

  • screw paralyzing crap, I fought him sword and shield alone. REAL BATTLE >:3

  • How many normal strikes does it take to kill him?

  • @UAMTL360 As many as you have heart containers.

  • @Desbreko Thats cool, 3 hearts = 3 hits

  • For the record, the broken Medigoron sword also goes right through its defenses. It's pretty weak, but can't be countered by Dark Link.

  • Hey everyone I know a glitch with Dark Link...

    Here's the steps.

    1) Hit him with a Deku Nut and paralyze him.

    2 Stab him and allow him to get on top of your sword.

    3) Wait until the Deku Nut effect wears off.

    If done correctly, you should see him stealth his sword. Now he he will not swing his sword anymore, which will make the fight easier.

  • @megabbaut  there is a better idea

    throw lots of deku nuts and paralyze him and do a charge spin attack when he is paralyzed throw more deku nuts and when your ready charge your spin attack quickly

  • @Koops345 I tried that, but the spin attack won't do any damage to dark link..

  • I've beaten him with nothing but Master Sword to Dark Sword combat....this is just cheap

  • boring,cheap,and the fact that a true gamer would battle only master sword. ahh the modern games of today are way 2 easy

  • Brilliant. Simply brilliant. =)

  • well that was fucking boring.

  • ohhhh. now i know where hes from :3 i was always wondering y everyone said if u could have one boss come back, which would it be and everyone said dark link, so ya now i know he comes from oot.

  • @UnderwaterManaphy Dark Link is originally from Zelda II.

  • in the discribtion, you said you used only the Master Sword. You used the Master Sword and the Hookshot.

  • @phantom1305 learn2read

  • @Desbreko Almost like telling person learn to breathe- they are doing it aready.

  • @phantom1305 If you actually did, you'd have realized I never said I used ONLY the Master Sword.

  • @phantom1305 youtube has this power about clicking the description to see more details about it :3

  • This is the most well-researched OoT Dark Link guide I've heard of. I like that there's a good way to beat him with the Master Sword. If he becomes fully solid, does the method showing in the video no longer work at all, or do you have to just be really fast?