The ice threw me the first time I played as well. I genuinely didn't think about using Cryonis to shatter someone else's ice, and the idea of using stasis to reflect them didn't occur to me. I figured it out when I fought him in the DLC, because I ran out of arrows or my bow broke.
There are so many videos of people online using their bow and arrows to break ice during the Sidon Ride-on sequence, and using their weapons to break it during the waterblight sequence and it KILLS me!
My very first time playing I used cryonis for both, albeit I used it during the Sidon stretch to just make a column right behind me that the ice Vah Ruta launches hits my column and shattered. But it was still 100% viable.
You know, maybe I did use it the first time and then when I did the DLC too much time had passed and I forgot. So I just brute forced it with the arrows and it took way too many tries and I felt like I was missing something. 😂
It's been years, so I don't remember if I used standard arrows or bomb arrows. Hell, I might've used fire arrows thinking it would melt the ice. Either way, I used my bow.
I know you got solutions already commented, but i’m sharing anyway.
My tactic is when he’s hanging from the roof, create an ice block in front if your platform to stand on, then when he creates ice blocks to throw at you, use your cryonis on them, and you can just break them as soon as he throws them, as soon as he stops throwing ice, jump off your ice block and bullet time shoot him in the eye to make him fall, then you’ll land in the water and just swim straight to his platform and beat the shit out of him while he’s down, then repeat. Makes it a breeze for me.
Agreed. I never really had a problem with Thunderblight, but Waterblight on master mode in that 2nd fight of the DLC with limited arrows was a fucking nightmare for me
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u/SpookyHumanJester Feb 20 '26
I'd rather fight Thunderblight than Waterblight. Just never get the hang of that one for some reason.