Palace of Winds

Palace of Winds features many big skips, however it is still one of the more demanding dungeons execution-wise. The first two screens can be quite frustrating due to Peahat RNG, and the Wizzrobe Fight is considered one of the more difficult strats.

The boss fight isn't very RNG-heavy, but can still lose you a lot of time if Gyorg gives you bad attack patterns.

Dungeon Map 

Wizzrobe Fight

There are 2 main strategies for the Wizzrobe fight, one uses the Sword+Bombs and the other uses the Lantern+Bombs. Both are equally as fast, so use what you find easier.

• Sword and Bombs 

• Lantern and Bombs 

Cloud Jump Shortcuts

You can skip jumping up all the clouds by jumping up towards the top of the screen from different heights.

For most Cloud Jumps, jumping off the 3rd cloud will get you to the loading zone (left image). For the Cloud Jump before the Ball & Chain Soldiers fight, jumping off the 2nd cloud is enough (right image). For the last set of clouds, it is better to just jump up all of them, since the shortcut is inconsistent and doesn't save nearly enough time to be worth it, however it is possible to do it from the 4th cloud.

Gyorg Pair Strategy

You do not have to mimic Red Gyorg's eyes to hit all of them, it is possible to hit him with most formations. The _- _ and _ -_ formations seem to work best.

The eye patterns on both the Red and Blue Gyorgs are random, the strat for the Blue Gyorg is to charge a spin attack in the middle. Wait for the eyes to open and then try and release as near to the eye as possible. Either the spin hits twice and kills the eye or it hits only once, if it is still alive then wait another cycle and slash it twice to advance the cycle

It is ideal to do a whole phase of Red Gyorg's with the same pair of clones. Once the eyes are vulnerable, the boss will take damage each time 3 eyes are hit in quick succession, the aim is to slash at least 6 eyes at a time to maximise damage. The boss can take at most 12 hits of damage (12x 3-eyes, or 6x 6-eyes) per cycle before hitting its damage cap for the cycle, it will appear to take more however it does not count any of it, use this time to dodge projectiles to prepare for the next cycle.
Red Gyorg has the following health across its 4 phases:

1. 8

2. 24 (2 cycles of 12)

3. 24 (2 cycles of 12)

4. 12

The only aspect of RNG in the fight are the eye positions and then the path the Blue Gyorg flies in, all the projectile shots are fired at the same timings based off the current cycle and they are always aimed at link's current position.
This allows you to perform the first 2 cycles in an almost perfectly scripted fight.
Only from 3rd phase does RNG begin to have a significant impact, as the Blue Gyorg can either fly across the top or the bottom of the Red Gyorg, try your best to keep your clones alive during its flyby.

If you lose your clones just before the 2nd cycle, it is possible to hit the some of the formations without using any clones. The eye formations must have the two adjacent eyes open (see images below). Other eye formations where there are no adjacent eyes open cannot be done cloneless.

To do this, you need to stand in roughly these positions and slash your sword once:

A spin attack can also hit all the eyes if the sword is faced upwards towards the eyes. This is useful for the final phase when you just have 1 cycle left to end the fight, you can spin to hit the eyes faster than creating clones.

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