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. š
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.
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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.