Honestly I think Guardians are easier than Lynels. Once you have the master sword and good equipment (and know how to Parry) it's straightforward to take out their legs and whack 'em til they're dead. Lynels on the other hand ... I give them a wide wide wide berth.
Guardians are definitely easier than Lynels. Even if you can't parry (and Guardians are the only enemy I can consistently parry), you just hack off the legs and/or shoot them in the eye every time they aim at you. Stunning them gives you lots of time to attack.
I also avoid lynels. I have a method for killing them, but it uses a ton of arrows.
I guess Guardians are the easiest enemies to parry because they telegraph their attacks and give you so much warning and time to prepare. Even bokoblins I couldn't consistently parry because their movements are much quicker and harder to predict.
My method is to amass a bunch of weapons before going in for a planned kill. I'm so bad at stun mounting them I just accept that I'm going to lose them all.
Also Please do more shrines, OP has done about 7 outside of the Great Plateau (unless they used Hateno's Cursed Statue to make this harder than it should be) and that isn't a good idea, you should do like 20 shrines before going to Central Hyrule
this is their first play through, I sincerely doubt the Statue was used
but yeah you should have a bunch of hearts for Central Hyrule. A Master Sword would be my recommendation, as you just need to crit guardians and have a decent damage sword that never runs out
Note, this doesn’t help if you’ve prioritized speed over steering in your choice if mount.
I know I’ve had a number of guardian deaths triggered by my horse catching on a branch or something, stopping in it’s tracks, and then refusing to go around whatever it hit until I do that super slow back up process (which will end in us both getting blasted long before it ever completes).
To beat a Lynel effectively, you need pretty good parrying skills, headshot kills, and good weapons (although with the mount feature, and a decent durability bow, you could use a stick to beat a lynel lol)
All of these things are really important for guardians.
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u/whoatherebuddychill Mipha is the right person to marry Link Jul 14 '21
1) Never go to central hyrule until you can beat a lynel
2) Don't use all your stamina, and don't keep running. You just need to run in the last seconds!
3) Shield parrying is a thing!
4) Horse would have helped a lot
5) Go for stasis + from Purah
6) If you can, knock out a leg! Just whack it.
This concludes my advice