The Saas Ko’sah Shrine is one of the most commonly visited shrines in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as it is the resident shrine of Hyrule Castle. Here’s how to complete it!
Location
The Saas Ko’sah Shrine is located within the Hyrule Castle docks on the South-West side of the Castle. It is most easily accessible by magnesising one of the metal bookcases in the Library of the Castle.
Once you reach it, use any source of flames to light the large torch at the top of the docks – this will trigger the Shrine to awaken from the ground.
Walkthrough of Saas Ko’sah Shrine
The Major Tests of Strength are usually quite difficult so I’ll teach you two methods, the normal way and the easy way.
The Normal Way to defeat a Major Test of Strength
Normally, I recommend preparing some Attack-Up food or clothing as well as upgrading your armour so you don’t take as much damage from the Guardian.
Furthermore, make sure you have several powerful weapons for use in the battle as chances are, a few of them will break. The upside to your weapons breaking, however, is that you’ll receive three brilliant Guardian weapons after defeating the Scout. Regardless of having space in your inventory, I fully recommend picking these up.
As for combat, Flurry Rushes and parries definitely come in handy and shock arrows will help. When the scout spins round really quickly and shoots a continuous laser, and updraft will be created. Use the updraft and hover above the scout, then use any weapon by pressing Y above it and smash your weapon to the ground!
Finally, when it starts shooting powerful Guardian Lasers at the end, stand still and look at the scout until it begins to fire, then run to the left or right to dodge the numerous lasers. Whilst its gaining the lasers, use arrows or melee weapons to deal as much damage as possible. I also recommend using Stasis+ and Cryonis on the Water to block it.
The Easy Way to defeat a Major Test of Strength
The Easy Way that I know to defeat these Annoying Tests of Strength is to set an electric trap for the Guardian Scout to fall into! All you need to set up this trap is either a Thunderblade or a Great Thunderblade and some metal kindling if you will. The metal kindling can be any metal melee weapon, bow or shield.
To set this trap, you need to keep the charge on your Thunderblade active, even if you aren’t holding it. To do this, take out the weapon and use it – perform a strike in the air. Halfway through your air-attack, open your weapon’s menu and drop the Thunderblade. From here, you need to place you metal kindling next to the Thunderblade in order to make a charge. You can do this by dropping the metal with the Thunderblade or by Magnesissing something metal to the blade.
Perform this trick just after you enter the main room of the shrine and then walk over to the scout. Lure it to your very own shocking trap and watch the hilarity as the Guardian Scout is stuck in peril and can’t move!
Extra Tips
You can deal extra damage to the Guardian by attacking as usual, but a critical hit of any kind will push it out of the trap. Therefore, use a two-handed weapon only one swing at a time, a one-handed weapon only three swings at a time and a spear/halberd only five strikes at a time.
This trick can be used to gain loads of great gear as shown in our Gathering Equipment & Weaponry in Breath of the Wild Guide.
You can also use this trick with Flameblades to create an endless source of fire. The blade will then light anything wooden nearby on fire. You can combine the trick with a Thunderblade and a Flameblade to deal double damage to the Guardian!
Full Video Walkthrough
I hope you enjoyed this article and I hope it helped! Feel free to check out our other cache of Shrine Walkthroughs to find whichever one you’re looking for!
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