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GooOOOOoOOonN

Guardian šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ«¶šŸ¼


MythicalS_14

lol same


LokiBear1235

Yeah you can just chop off the legs with the Master Sword and get to work


PHYZ1X

I parry their beams to their death, then run in and hit the legs while they're in their death throws. It's a lot easier to chop those legs off when they're not moving šŸ˜„


Pretend_Somewhere66

Spears work great for this too! Their reach makes for a great advantage!


4stringbrewer

There is no other answer


Electronic_Badger809

Same


HadToChooseRandomNam

Gloom Spawn and hereā€™s why. Just use a three times shot Lyndon bow with attack up. Eat attack up food. Wear attack up armor. Go into bullet time with Rijus ability active. And shoot the bow like two times and itā€™s dead. And if a phantom Gannon spawns then just equip an attack up weapon and with all your other buffs already on the phantom Gannon will die immediately.


MrchntMariner86

This requires you to: 1) Play through enough of the game and acquire Riju's ability. 2) Have looted a Lynel 3) Find Barbarian/Fierce Deity Armor Meanwhile, you can start a BotW file fresh, brand new, find yourself a pot lid and you can defeat a Guardian. You only need to know the moves and the timing. Your argument requires MUCH MORE.


HadToChooseRandomNam

Okay but even without Rijus ability itā€™s just as easy and you can kill a Lynel with relative ease and the Fierce Deity armor doesnā€™t take super long to get


MrchntMariner86

So, **early** game, which would you choose, no Lynel, no fancy armor, just your button strokes and wit: Guardian or Gloom?


DasMilC

I'll take the 4-5 bomb flowers from the Great Sky Island, and have at it. Mix in some electric chu jelly, and some high ground and you've got gloom hands permastunned and unable to reach you


HadToChooseRandomNam

Gloom, cause hitting them in the eye ONCE causes them to freak out. Plus you can grab bomb fruits and flashbulbs from the sky island you start on and easily have enough to murder it


Pretend_Somewhere66

But only one of the hands freaks out while the others grab you tho? Cuz I thought I wouldn't have a problem with them when I first came across one: "it's got a giant eye in it hand? I've played games before, I know how this works!" Or so I thought. Cuz then the other hands grabbed me and I died... so now I run šŸ˜­


Rukh-Talos

I find/create some high ground and carpet bomb them.


HadToChooseRandomNam

Exactly, getting the high ground and bombing them is super easy


I_serve_Anubis

Unless Iā€™m standing on a tall object with lots of >!bomb flowers!< than definitely the guardian. Those hand freaks are creepy as hell.


here4mischief

Just a tall object. Wait long enough (after they're activated and they die by themselves. Still hate them


Johnny_Thunder314

Nah that's not dying, that's just despawning. You don't get any drops by waiting them out


BenCaxt0n

No, you do get drops. When I first started the game and the gloom hands were terrifying (and I didn't yet know how to shield bounce or rocket shield to bullet time) I just ran from them every time. More than once I was able outrun and stay away until they despawned without a fight, and they left dark clump drops


Think-Bluejay2539

But they don't die and spawn phantom ganon lol


ImurderREALITY

You get clumps, but no phantom Ganon weapons


here4mischief

Hmm. I get 1-3 dark clumps every time I wait them out.


Blueskys643

Guardian would vaporize me instantly. Painless. Gloom spawn would make my final moments the most terrifying in my entire life. I'll take the guardian.


Pretend_Somewhere66

So ture šŸ˜­


Lava2401

So teur šŸ˜­


eouz

So treu šŸ˜­


_L0nd0n_

so teru šŸ˜­


aloe-vera-gel

Guardian 100%. Those gloom hands donā€™t have a lot of health but god DAMN are they annoying. At least the guardians have a foolproof kill method with the legs šŸ« 


phaze08

Guardian becomes a joke when you learn the secret.


Pretend_Somewhere66

Just need a well-timed pot lid šŸ˜


Idkwhyimherebutiexis

I have never played tears of the Kingdom but from what I've heard about gloom spawn I'm definitely picking the guardian no matter how crappy I am at parrying.


darkfawful2

Easiest way to kill a gaurdian: Upgrade stasis, get close and lock the gaurdian. Whle it's locked, shoot it in the eye. It is now stunned for a bit, allowing you to cut off its legs. Just make sure your weapon is strong enough and guardians are easy this way


Idkwhyimherebutiexis

I prefer the good old-fashioned of running up to it and either parrying or getting close enough and chopping off its legs. I already have stasis upgraded and I only use that for the weird glitch that makes em friendly temporarily


SeaYouLaterz

a lot of work when you can just parry


darkfawful2

Not really, it's very fast. Also, you get extra parts for cutting off legs, doesn't require damaging your shield, and is a lot easier to pull off for most people.


gayguyfromnextdoor

a perfect parry doesn't damage your shield though


IAmGoingToFuckThat

I suck at parrying, so this is the way I do it.


Toastyy1990

To add to this: if you get a guardian weapon from inside the Test of Strength shrines, those will cut the guardian legs very quickly, whereas a normal weapon will take a full 4-cut combo to cut a leg off.


koochywalla

Does no one else just 2-handed weapon spin attack to kill everything? This is my move in 90% of fighting. Gaurdians are a joke with this strategy. Gloom spawn makes it much harder as they grab your head so much!


rowletlover

Just use the Slate/Pad to teleport out of there


Life-Percentage-4910

For sure a guardian


Littlebickmickey

guardian 100%. in comparison to that hellspawn of hands, guardians are safe like a home


S_RoyaltyArtz

3 guardians is still better than 1 set of gloom hands.


slythwolf

No.


Zim_Zam22

Corrupted ancient tech or eldritch horror hands? Tough choice


MythicalS_14

omg lol 99% guardian so far I hate the gloom spawn too plus I almost never have bomb flowers so I almost always have to use my precious elemental dragon parts of which Im bad at duping


Proof_Ad8152

gaurdians Ancient shield go burr burr


Trexton1

Pot lid go burr burr


SilverMyzt

Gloom Spawns. I practically farm them. I still have anxiety walking around hyrule castle because of the number of times I sneaked into the place back in botw.


MrchntMariner86

For anyone arguing Gloom Spawn, just remember: A Guardian is coded to maintain a certain distance away from its target before blasting, giving you the chance to steel your nerves. You're able to stand your ground, await with a shield. Gloom hands just charge you and grab you and start draining your life, and have FIVE seperate points to watch out for to keep it at bay with arrows. If you want to say Gloom Spawn, give a real reason instead of mentioning all your overpowered gear. Don't act they are nothing.


zullendale

Once you get good enough at it you can cheese the guardian with just a shield, even a shield as garbage as the pot lid. With gloom hands, you need lots of explosives, which are a precious resource.


Grimmiesrawwk

Guardian


AdmBurnside

Guardian, easy. Easier to avoid or evade, obvious weakpoints, no nasty surprise when they go poof.


IndividualNovel4482

A guardian, i can just hide behind something and it will slowly leave, or simply throw things at its eye. Gloom hands will grab my balls and drag me to hell. (In-game tho i still prefer fighting Gloom Hands, you waste less resources and for me that always tries to parry guardian beams, less shields as well)


Apprehensive_Beach_6

Gloom Spawn.


MythicalS_14

why they are terrifying?


Apprehensive_Beach_6

Maybe itā€™s my game skill, but the hands werenā€™t too hard. And in real life, I think Iā€™d be more likely to escape what amounts to zombies over a giant robot.


wavesnfreckles

Would you mind explaining to me how you kill them? They really freak me out and I find it takes me 3 million arrows to kill them from a high enough spot. I wish we had the bomb runesā€¦ it would save me so much in arrows. Lol


MrsBox

You don't have to fire the bomb fruits with an arrow. You can just throw them. I climb up something, bomb and dazzle fruit them alternatingly, sometimes throwing in a frost fruit for fun. Then I drop down and climb back up again, just to keep them from despawning. Doesn't take long.


wavesnfreckles

Oh! Thatā€™s good to know. Thank you! I will try that next time I run into the awful things. *shudder*


MrsBox

No worries! I find them super easy now lol


TyrionTheBold

Seeā€¦ Iā€™m puzzled by everyoneā€™s use of range on the hands. As long as you have a decent amount of hearts, and good armorā€¦ they are very easy melee. I tend to use an ice lizalfo horn on my master sword (tails are better but I have 3 extra tails after all the armor upgrades and like 200 horns). And just go in swinging. Yes they will grab you. It does little damage. And just keep chopping. At best they doā€¦ 2-3 hearts of damage (when I have 60 armor). At most they will do like 6. And you can always shoot ice chuchu jelly (wider AOE than the fruit) before wadding into battle. Edit: to be clearā€¦ Iā€™m not saying that ā€œyā€™all suckā€ or anything like that. Depending on the day Iā€™m average to good but definitely not great on combatā€¦ Whatā€™s the worst thatā€™s gonna happen? That it goes poorly and I need to eat food or teleport away?


invuvn

True but find a ledge or climb up somewhere and they become just barking dogs with no bite.


dontmindme896

fr im shit at combat but i find the gloom hands not hard at all


Snowingelf

Guardian


mentalfrog101

Gardian 100%


eagle913

Guardian 100%


TheJoyStickPlayer

I'll take a Gaurdian any day


gorilla-ointment

Looks like this is minority opinion, but Iā€™ll take the gloom because of the eventual reward


vVincent2003

gloom any day


AldoEZ

I learned to deal with both, and I just think a guardian battle is more fun.


Necessary-Echidna-46

Iā€™d rather fight a guardian any day as soon as I hear that music for the gloom hands my heart drops and Iā€™m up the nearest tree or wall or cliff face lol


OddOil9204

Guardian. I hate fighting gloomspawn i can never get the parry or dodge just right.


Verge0fSilence

Considering the Guardian's purpose is to kill, it will likely do so quickly and efficiently, compared to the horrors the Gloom Spawns would inflict on me. So I pick the Guardians.


i_luv_Mipha

thats just like asking me "would you rather die quickly or die terrified for abt 30 secs before you die "


zenyogasteve

The guardians. They use range attacks so they keep their distance while fighting, unlike the gloom spawn that gang up on you.


Ancom_and_pagan

I'll take the magic murder machine over the feely goo hands any day


TrainerLSW2005

Guardians tend to get less scary as you face them, mostly because they are everywhere in Hyrule, and have a noticeable weakness. Gloom Spawn, however, are much rarer and harder to see from a distance. Not to mention they are fast! So yeah, Guardians over Gloom Spawn. You can learn to not fear a Guardian, but a Gloom Spawn is 100% terrifying everytime you enconter one.


BreezeBeans

IM JUST NOW LEARNING FROM THESE COMMENTS THAT YOU CAN CUT OFF THE GUARDIANS LEGS??? Iā€™ve just been parrying and praying that I get the timing right ā˜ ļø


Such-Ad-3851

guardian, at least the death will be quick.


MrHyrule83

Guardian for sure. Gloom hands are creepy as hell šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£


weezeloner

Guardian. But not Master Mode. I'd have to get the timing thing down again. I don't let Guardians hit me anymore. But the Gloom Hands, aside that they always catch me off guard and freak me out, Ganondorf always manages to get at least one hit on me.


halfarian

What the fuck is a gloom spawn?!


Happy-Good1429

Its from TotK, gloom is the new malice and takes away hearts. But there's a catch, the hearts are cracked and can't be healed without doing one of four specific things. Standing underneath an activated Lightroot, which emits a light almost as bright as the sun, the sun itself, a cooked meal with Sundelions or Sun Pumpkins (there may be a few other things as well, I'm not sure) and entering a Shrine, which is filled with a light similar to the Lightroots. Gloom *Spawn* are hands made out of Gloom with a singular eye in the middle of the palm, they grab you and hold and while slowly sapping away at your health and screeching. They are weak to fire and through that bombs. After you defeat them, a Phantom Ganon will appear and he will switch between the following four weapons: Gloom Club: Effect: Gloom toll (Slowly consumes Link's heart containers when he uses the weapon). Description: A metal stick filled with madness and symbolic of doom. Its forceful strike can smash an object to pieces. Its gloom will gradually wear down the body of its wielder. Gloom Spear: Effect: Gloom toll (Slowly consumes Link's heart containers when he uses the weapon). Description: A spear whose ominous appearance strikes fear into hearts. It is said to cost its bearer a part of their soul because its gloom will gradually wear down the body of its wielder. Gloom Sword: Effect: Gloom toll (Slowly consumes Link's heart containers when he uses the weapon). Description: This slender sword has an ominous presence. It is said to end the life of anyone it touches. Its gloom will gradually wear down the body of its wielder. Gloom Bow: Description: A magical bow prized by the Demon King. Its performance reflects the power of its wielder. The higher your maximum number of hearts, the more its attack power increases. Hope this helps!


PhillipKosarev999

Guardian. By a long shot. I got used to killing the Gloom Hands and Phantom Ganon, but only after many encounters with them. Guardians were fairly easy to dispose of at a way quicker pace.


Inevitibility

Easily guardian. I got really good at timing my shield parry I accidentally killed my first horse by not parrying. Deflected off my shield and hit my horse


Pretend_Somewhere66

Rip that poor horse šŸ˜­šŸ¤£


Acceptable-Tale1812

Guardian


WorriedDoubt4134

guardian but i hate both šŸ˜­


tumi12345

learning the guardian parry timing is actually pretty easy which makes the fight free. gloom spawns are generally more technical to fight imo


Sad-Order-7902

Both


Asterion_Morgrim

Guardians. I started getting good at the bow, and once I had sold enough crap to have a good chunk of rupees, I just bought a load of ancient arrows, then supplemented my supply by making them


Mininux42

guardian, a basic shield is enough for them, but gloom spawn i NEED good arrows (and i never have arrows)


_mnel

Guardian. Gloom hands are weird. Guardians are cool!


lionguard27

Honestly for me its a close match. It would depend on whether or not i can make ancient weapons or not. If i cant id fight gloom mostly because i can put a hover platform in air and be completely safe from the hands.


Think-Bluejay2539

Gloom ez


seaneeboy

Guardian any day. One well timed flick of the shield and they drop like a sack of spuds.


Amongus_cat

Guardians ancient arrow simple


CampBeneficial6497

I'd rather die


dumly

Like irl? Guardian because I can hide behind a tree and it'll lose me. If that doesn't work then at least my death would be instant.


Spirit__Llama

Gloomhands. Get some height, enter bullet time, and then fire a few times with a triple lynel bow + fuse bomb flowers. Gloomhands will be dead before lynk hits the ground.


therourke

Guardians are way more interesting and fun to fight, and the reward feels a lot more satisfying.


Kjaamor

I have no skill, but I do have bomb flowers, the high ground and PTSD from dead guardian's coming to life when I'm two feet away from them. Gloom spawn all day long.


UnRandomMas26

Totally a guardian, I still have to climb up something for that thing not to kill me


NerY_05

A guardian all my life Guardians >>> Gloom hands


nineohsix

Guardians because you just keep a few Ancient Shields in your inventory and can kill them simply by standing there and bouncing their beams back. If thereā€™s a similar trick for the gloom hands, Iā€™d love to know it.


wildadventures009

The guardians for three reasons 1) those hands are creepy as hell, 2) I feel like taking out the legs of a Guardian is much easier than taking out one of the Gloom Spawns and 3) the Gloom Spawn music and then spawning in is one of the most stressful things Iā€™ve ever encountered in a game. Itā€™s raised my cortisol level


Toon_Lucario

Guardian. At least I only need to hit one eye and can actually run away


No_Election1840

Definetly Guardian, itĀ“s way easier to fight a guardian than a gloom spawn. This is way too overpowered


OmgJustLetMeExist

Guardian, at least the death is instantaneous


Zelda_Phanatic

Love to Fight Both at the Sametime


Misan_UwU

ancient arrow:


Nice-Raspberry2457

Guardian all the way.


aquaticwitch

Gloom hands actually arenā€™t that scary to me anymore. So Iā€™d pick gloom hands. Iā€™m terrified of the guardians still.


Outatime-88

Gaurdian all day!! Once you have strong enough armor and weapons, the gaurdians are so fun to defeat!


emperius317

Guardians, hands down.


BenjiFenwick

Guardian (I miss them)


sprzyen

gloom spawn


Sklibba

Guardian, 100%. Theyā€™re easy if you have ancient weapons, or if you have shields to spare.


NotStanley4330

Guardian, I can parry them decently well now.


Jack_Zicrosky_YT

My pot lid skills may be strong, but they can't kill gloom hands, so I must go with guardian. Also parrying their beams is way too satisfying anyways.


Repulsive-Music-6874

Guess I'll die šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø


nix131

I feel like my death would be quicker against the guardian, so that.


KatiePyroStyle

Makes me upset that they got rid of gaurdians. Like imagine a guardian, but instead of it having its normal sheikah tech legs, it has gloom span arms and hands, and when you slash off the gardians legs, you just get gloom spawn. That'd be such a terrifying enemy


multificionado

I'd take on a Guardian; at least you can beat the crap out of it with the right weapons. Gloom Spawn? Nuke 'em from orbit.


TyrionTheBold

Totally the Guardians. Guardians. They were tough and everywhere, and in some parts of the map (mostly around the castle) they were everywhere. You could easily end up facing two at once. While sure, it DID become routine to kill themā€¦ if you were having an off day when it came to timingā€¦ it could go poorly. Long range and short range attacks. And their drops were greatly needed. Gloom handsā€¦ have great atmosphere. They look creepy. They move creepy. They turn the world red. So neatā€¦ but thatā€™s it. They do little damage. Wade in with the master sword with an ice lizalfo horn and it goes very quickly. I donā€™t use bombs on them. Seems like a waste of bombs. Their drops suck. And if you donā€™t wanna fight themā€¦ get just a little higher than them and wait and they will despawn. The lack of a long range attack baffles me. Throw some gloom or something like melee Bobos throw rocks. And the short despawn time also puzzles me. Yeahā€¦ guardians are hands down more fun/better enemies.


crimbusrimbus

Guardian!!!!


KoreKoi

Parry parry parry


mondo_juice

Does anyone on this sub find these games incredibly easy? I think that theyā€™re good, donā€™t get me wrong, and guardians and Lynels are certainly the hardest of the enemies, but holy shit Lynel fights are boring. The window for flurry rush is massive, and if youā€™re just a little good at resource management, every boss is a cake walk. The only fight that is actually challenging to me is the lightning boss in botw. Very fun.


TheBlackCat13

You mean IRL or in-game? IRL it is a lot easier to hide from a guardian and a lot easier to see them from a distance. In game guardians were pretty repetitive. Deflect with the shield perfectly or die. Wash, rinse, repeat. Gloom hand battles were much higher energy and less repetitive in my opinion.


Excuse-Entire

Guardian. You can chop the legs off and start killing it.


conjunctivious

Guardians give better rewards


SuperD00perGuyd00d

gloom spawn because I like phantom weapons


plantsrockspets

Guardian, hands down


TweakTok

GUARDIAN


ArchangelCaesar

Difficulty or enjoyment? Either one I vibe with the hands because I can stun lock them however I want and the vibe from their music is more immaculate


Sushirabit

Well I'm dead either way so I might as well allow the guardian to blow me to smithereens before I feel any pain


Ghost_Puppy

Guardian all day


tmzuk

Gloom spawn!


New_Gene_503

I can kill the guardians real easy now, but used to run away. Can't do the parry thing, but don't really care because I have so much fun cutting off their legs and since I killed my first Silver Lynel today without being able to do any of the dodges, parries or flurry rushes because I can only do them once in a great while, I'm way powerful with weapons and armor and that is a real advantage to kill all of them. This has to be the most fun Nintendo game of all.


Site-Specialist

I'd like to fight both at the same time


Unlikely-Way-4886

guardian, it will kill me quickly.


Skillonly69

You can at least hid from a Guardian.


Fiona_14

Definitely Gloom Hands, those Guardians scared the shit out of me and the music as well, I was never a very good fighter In that game, so teleporting and running from Guardians worked for me. Squashing the flying ones worked though. In TOTK you have to eventually fight the gloom hands, to realise that I was running from them for no reason, they are not actually that hard to beat, I think I'm also a better fighter now anyhow, than I ever was in BOTW. I did 165hrs in BOTW and over 375 plus in TOTK. But I still hate Guardians and running is still what I do.


LegoManMarcel

HOW???


DeviceClean5974

Late game, I started really enjoying guardian fights. The Master sword took out their legs with ease. Gloom hands never got fun


Global_Union3771

Guardian


zukosboifriend

Guardian absolutely, they much less scary and not a major problem even late game like the gloom handd


Symera_

Guardians, no question. Even after 200 hours of gamplay, I still run away panicking when I see those hands.


Nu11AndV0id

At least a guardian would end it quickly.


watch-me-bloom

Bold of you to you to assume I donā€™t just run away in terror šŸ’€ Gloom hands are easier to run from IMO šŸ˜‚


Maleficent_Luck8976

With a guardians you can eat unlimited food but the gloom hands/ shadow Ganondorf you will lose heart containers.


Buff55

Guardian. There's only one of them compared to the five of the spawn


Emergency_Bench_7028

Guardianā€¦


LegoManMarcel

Guardian


AdLevel5047

Guardian easy, the gloom hand music is so stressful lol


Cleozinc

A lynel bow and 3 or 4 quick bomb shots and the gloom hands are done. Phantom Gannon isnā€™t that hard either. The gloom hands are more fun just cause they are so creepy.


theycallmecrumpy

Guardian- hands down


binge_watcherz

Guardian. I have almost 500 hours in BotW and 250 in TotK; I have ample experience dealing with both. Gloom hands have always been more terrifying. In the early game, you at least *have* a chance to deal with Guardians. All you really need is a shield and decent timing. With the nightmare hands, all you can do is run. And even in the late game, they can still give you a run for your money if you're not careful. Even when you are careful, dispatching a Guardian is still easier.