Glitchless

Play on Italian if you have a PAL Wii U or Spanish if you have an NTSC Wii U. If you have Japanese Wii U...I'm sorry but you'll have to use Japanese.

It is recommended to read this page of common yet subtle techniques as well as this page on common terms and abbreviations before getting started.

It is best to learn from both this written route and by watching a high level run of the game as not every single small detail is explained (otherwise this document would be dozens of pages long).

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Outset

  1. Sidehop off tower
  2. Roll to grandma's house, climb ladder, Hero's Clothes, Savewarp
  3. Climb Ladder, Aryll Cutscene, Telescope, zoom in on mailbox/Quill, flick up gamepad 2 seconds after textbox appears if using gyro for fast CS
  4. Cutscene, Sidehop off tower, roll to Orca's House
  5. Sword training, For Orca's text (and all other fast text) Hold B and Mash A
    • Hold back on analog stick right before third hit and hold forward right before fourth sword hits of first two techniques
    • Quickspins for spin attack
    • Quick Parry (Activate the Parry the first two frames you can activate it, next one should appear early)
  6. Sword, Savewarp
  7. Roll up to FoF (Forest of Fairies)
  8. Red rupee quickspin, sidehop to lure bokoblin (20 Rupees)
  9. Bokoblin fight (1 slash into sidehop jumpspin), get rupees in grass while bokoblins are dying (20+ Rupees)
  10. Cutscenes
  11. Roll to grandmas house, jumpslash over fence
  12. Climb ladder, backflip down, Hero's Shield, exit house
  13. Roll to tetra and talk, cutscenes
  14. Enter inside of ship, Hold ZL and mash A, talk to Niko, Ropes game, Spoils Bag, Savewarp

Forsaken Fortress

  1. Climb Ladder, Cutscenes
  2. Watch gossip stone cutscene
  3. 2 Red rupees (If fast enough do early light cycle) (60+ Rupees)
  4. Navigate up stairs, Window Jump, avoid Gossip Stone text
  5. Lure bokoblin to slash pot, take stick and quickspin bokoblin off of ledge to kill
  6. Window Grab or use stick to jumpslash into window, naviagte through rooms/corridors
  7. Double moblin room, roof moblin (don't get caught :P)
  8. Quick sidling(Spam the control stick direction you want to sidle), sword, green bokoblin fight (3 sword hits and sidehop jumpspin)
  9. Open door, cutscenes

Windfall

  1. Activate Cabana Deed Quest by talking to Ms. Marie (Teacher), then talking to Killer Bees (Ivan) to start the hide and seek minigame.
  2. Catch the Girl on the ledge then the kid on the tree. On the way to the kid behind the grave (by Tott), Save tingle. Then get the kid behind the grave and finally the kid behind the Bomb Shop.
  3. Talk to Ms. Marie after recieving the heart container for 50 rupees (110+ Rupees)
  4. Buy Sail (30+ Rupees)
  5. Back to King of Red Lions (KoRL), do barrel game for 80 rupees while sailing towards Dragon Roost Island (DRI) (110+ Rupees)
  6. Arrive at DRI, Wind Waker

Dragon Roost Island

  1. Navigate to Wind’s Requiem stone and learn Wind’s Requiem
  2. Rock Jump/Skip, Quill Cutscene, Inside
  3. Delivery Bag Cutscene, Delivery Bag
  4. Navigate up to Medli, Father’s Letter, down to Komali, Show Father’s Letter
  5. Navigate out to Pond area, Talk to Medli, Throw to opposite ledge, Bottle
  6. Get Water, Pour on bomb, Blow up rock to fill pond
  7. Throw Bombs into falling statues (optional jumpslash past second statue on right side, risky but it saves 2 seconds)
  8. Enter Dragon Roost Cavern (DRC)

Dragon Roost Cavern

  1. Pull Blocks, jumpslash over fence, take stick with fire from bokoblin, light torches, small key
  2. Open door, break wooden barrier, roll into cutscene
  3. Navigate around big room, roll into rock explosion cutscene
  4. Water Pot Cutscene skip (Keep camera close and move at last second before cutscene starts), climb ladder until third rung from top, wait for chu to jump, then continue
  5. Let bokoblin break wooden barrier, get sword, break next 2 wooden barriers (throw sword at second one)
  6. Small Key, quickspin bomb to blow up rock, Open locked door
  7. Take stick from bokoblin, burn wooden barrier, step on switch, outside
  8. Climb ladder (wait for lava cycle if necessary), Jump over first sidle gap and roll clip or jumpslash over second gap
  9. Blow up rock, Rat Room, Pull blocks, KoRL text, light stick on fire, throw at wooden barrier, small key
  10. Open Door, stab Kegoroc, small key, open door
  11. Stab pots, grab torch, light on fire, burn wooden barrier, light torches
  12. Blow up warp pot, roll across bridge, triple bokoblin room (kill first one, lure second and third ones together to kill both at once)
  13. Get water pot, walk around magtail, then throw
  14. Blow up warp pot, blow up other rock, Outside
  15. DRC Miniboss Fight, Grapple Hook, Savewarp
  16. Get 2 joy pendants from bokoblins, Enter Warp Pot, Sickass Skip
  17. Navigate through next room, jump across hanging platforms, place magtail on switch, Boss Key (BK)
  18. Savewarp, farm joy pendants until 20, take warp pot, get joy pendant in big pot on the right of the stairs to have 21 joy pendants, Enter Boss Room
  19. Gohma fight, enter Warp, Din’s Pearl

Swift Sail

  1. Set Wind South, then enter KoRL, set wind northwest, sail to Windfall and do barrel game on the way there for 80 more rupees (190+ rupees)
  2. Let it turn nighttime before entering the windfall quadrant, enter auction, pray to RNGesus for Swift Sail (Worst case scenario is generally 169 Rupees bid)(21+ Rupees)
  3. Leave Auction, give 21 joy pendants to Ms. Marie (41+ Rupees)

Forest Haven

  1. Sail from Windfall to Forest Haven
  2. Climb into forest haven with grapple hook
  3. Bonk on Tree, kill chus with quickspins, watch cutscene
  4. Navigate up Baba Buds, Bulb Skip, Obtain Leaf
  5. Savewarp, jump into KoRL, set wind northwest with swift sail
  6. Regular sail over to the small island in between

Forbidden Woods

  1. Get nut and kill blue flower
  2. Leaf pumping trick to skip Baba bud (Leaf pumping is NOT just pressing the leaf button)
  3. Get bomb and kill blue flower
  4. Leaf cancel ledge grab to moving platform without moving it
  5. Navigate past boko babas, kill the one on the right, take stick, take baba buds up to top, kill blue flower with 2 stick throws
  6. In next room move back and then leaf nut, kill blue flower, open door
  7. Grapple across without climbing up ledge, wait for moving branches, jump and use leaf after getting on the second one
  8. Get Nut kill blue flower, Blow leaves off warp pot
  9. Open door, jump and then jumpslash quickspin combo across gap to kill morths
  10. In next room, get bomb and blow up wooden barrier past tentacles, tentacle maze skip (method 3)
  11. Small Key, backtrack to locked door in warp pot room
  12. Leaf cancel ledge grab to moving platform without moving it (peahats can sometimes troll)
  13. Open door, ignore all enemies, navigate up baba buds to miniboss room
  14. Miniboss fight, Boomerang, savewarp
  15. Take warp pot, Boomerang Big Blue Flower (jump down before cutscene), open door
  16. Leaf across room with morths on pillars (hug the right wall)
  17. Open door, get magic on the left grass in flower sailing room, Flower sailing skip with leaf pumping
  18. Open door, Boomerang puzzle to access BK, BK, Savewarp
  19. Take warp pot, jump down one level, kill 2 blue flowers, open door, get in middle of morthulas then quickspin
  20. Open Door, get magic from chestnut in middle of room, Open boss door
  21. Kalle Demos fight (2 boomerang throws to open, jumpspin 2 times while inside for 1-cycle.)
  22. Warp out, Farore’s Pearl, savewarp

Raising the Tower of the Gods

  1. Talk to KoRL, then jump in, Sail to Eastern Triangle Island (2 quadrants North)
  2. Place Pearl, Sail to Greatfish (5 quadrants West), Cutscene, Sail to Windfall (2 quadrants NE)
  3. Watch Password Cutscene and then enter pirate ship
  4. Talk to Niko, Rope Game, Bombs, Savewarp
  5. Talk to KoRL, Sail to Northern Triangle Island (1 quadrant South), Get magic, Place Pearl
  6. Take Cyclos to Outset (luck-based), or Sail to Outset (using cyclos honestly isn't necessary unless you're going for the record)
  7. In and out of Beedles Ship, Buy Bait Bag and Hyoi Pear (11+ Rupees)
  8. Sail around island to Whirlpool, destroy wall, enter Jabun’s Cavern
  9. Cutscene, Nayru’s Pearl, Sail to Southern Triangle Island, Place Pearl, Cutscene
  10. Sail into Tower of the Gods (TotG/ToG)

Tower of the Gods

  1. Cruise to pillar on the right, get on and jump to floor, F1 skip with method 2
  2. Open door, place statues on middle and right switches, roll into left one facing the platform to skip platform cycle
  3. Open Door, Navigate to first statue corridor on the right, get statue, navigate back
  4. Learn Command Melody (CM)
  5. Get magic in the pot to the left, open door to second statue corridor, Leaf across rooms, get statue
  6. Skip using the command melody (Cosmohop)
  7. Open Door, throw statue on switch, Leaf to platform, Open Door to miniboss fight
  8. ToG Miniboss Fight, Bow, Leave room
  9. Snipe bubbles, shoot eye, take statue back to main room, Enter third statue corridor, jump down to room with small key
  10. Leaf trick to small key, small key, void out back to scale room
  11. Skip Command Melody in next room.
  12. Navigate statue back into main room across scales, Pink Warp
  13. Early BK with method 3
  14. Defeat Armos' and go outside, jumpslash over blue lasers, get 30 arrows, Boss Door
  15. Gohdan fight, Heart Container, Pink Warp
  16. Ring Bell, Down to Hyrule 1

Hyrule 1

  1. Cutscenes, Into castle,
  2. Solve the block puzzle, Get the Master Sword
  3. Kill all the enemies, exit the castle
  4. Get in KoRL, up to surface

Forsaken Fortress 2

  1. Sail NW until you hit Cyclos; defeat Cyclos with three arrow shots, Learn Ballad of the Gales (BoG)
  2. BoG to Tingle Isle (TI), Sail NW to Forsaken Fortress 2(FF2)(try to avoid bomb barrels near battleships)
  3. Bomb wooden entrance (Taking damage from your bombs in the process)
  4. Phantom Ganon, Skull Hammer
  5. Maneuver up 2 sets of stairs, jumpslash on railing, precise leaf pump to ledge, climb the ladder to the searchlight, leaf to ladder under sidle gaps (make sure to have NW Wind)
  6. Climb ladder
  7. Make way to top of FF2(sidle past first gap, grapple or leaf past second, get magic and arrows in pots in between)
  8. Open door, cutscenes, Glitchless Helmaroc Skip or fight Helmaroc King
  9. Cutscene, down to Hyrule 2

Hyrule 2

  1. Cutscene, into castle, down to MS room, Cutscene, back up to KoRL, cutscene, surface

Pre-Earth Temple

  1. BoG to Mother and Child Isles, Cutscene, Fire and Ice arrows
  2. BoG to DRI, sail S to Fire Mountain (Sail Pumping is required from here on out to make the day/night cycle work for ghost ship)
  3. Shoot Ice arrow, climb fire mountain, leaf past sidle gap
  4. Power Bracelets, Savewarp
  5. BoG to Outset, sail East to Headstone Isle, Learn Earth Gods Lyric
  6. BoG to DRI, up to Medli (Get magic from left pots when outside on second level)
  7. Teach Medli Earth God’s Lyric, Cutscene
  8. BoG to Southern Fairy Isle, Sail E to Ice Ring Isle
  9. Shoot with Fire Arrow, set wind NW with swift sail, leaf trick to ice platforms
  10. Roll past wind, Iron Boots, Savewarp
  11. BoG to Outset, Sail East to Earth Temple (ET)
  12. Play song with Medli, Enter Earth Temple
  13. Earth Temple

Earth Temple

  1. Open door to first room, Skip using Command Melody if at least 3/4 full magic meter, otherwise throw Medli and use CM
  2. Open door with Medli, throw her into the light, go around killing red and green chus.
  3. Walk around Medli to shine light on dark chus, kill with skull hammer jumpslash (get magic in skulls if needed).
  4. Fly with Medli to skull hammer peg, hit with skull hammer in midair
  5. Through door, throw Medli to where light will shine
  6. Climb ladder and pull block 4 times (mash sidehop during 4th pull animation)
  7. Play CM and shine light on chest, small key
  8. Go out of room and back in, Call medli, then go back out OR call Medli and avoid floormasters with precise movement, (saves 5 seconds) roll across to the locked door and open
  9. Turn around and pick up Medli, Skip Placing Purple Chus (either Method 1 or Method 3 is recommended, Method 3 being the fastest)
  10. Open Door, fly off ledge with Medli towards Floormaster, mash B and jumpslash quickspin floormaster
  11. Push block to open up light source, place Medli in light source, walk slowly away from Medli so she shines the light on the breakable wall
  12. Pull block to open door, leave Medli behind
  13. Open Door, kill moblins with jumpslash quickspins, kill poes by knocking away lantern with skull hammer and letting them take control of you, then bomb yourself to kill them.
  14. Open Door, trick to get small key without fighting redeads
  15. Unlock door to Mirror Shield room
  16. Miniboss skip or ET Miniboss (if you run out of magic you can grapple the stalfoes), Mirror Shield
  17. Roll back to block-pulling room, grab Medli, go to statue room
  18. Shine light on statue with Medli to access lower area (with correct positioning you and Medli can both use the left side light to hit both eyes)
  19. Play Song with Medli to get past Song Stone
  20. Shine light on left elephant and right elephant in next room 150.Go into left room, fly across Floormaster gap with Medli, pull huge mirror (or use leafing trick to skip pulling statue), hit switch with Skull hammer
  21. Fly back across, call Medli
  22. Enter right room and roll across for small key
  23. Backtrack to middle room, sidehop on broken pillar and fly with Medli to the ledge, press A to cancel right before the ledge to grab it and make Medli land on it, open locked door
  24. Skip CM for shining light on elephant or roll across room if you broke the statue before, get magic in skull if needed
  25. In next room get magic from falling coffin, break song stone with Medli, sidehop down with Medli to mirror room
  26. Take medli and enter mirror room, Glitchless mirror room strat
  27. Shoot bubbles with arrows before they become alive, kill darknut and obtain boss key
  28. Backtrack to boss door (climb the vines and leaf to boss door), refill magic, Jalhalla fight, Enter Warp
  29. BoG to Windfall, Sail north to Gale Isle
  30. Learn the Wind God’s Aria (WGA)
  31. BoG to FH, (get magic in grass before grapple spot) teach makar WGA
  32. BoG to Windfall, sail to Gale Isle, Break stone by playing WGA, Wind Temple

Wind Temple

  1. Through first room, Throw makar and get on spring, CM makar to switch
  2. Leaf to makar, pick up and navigate through rooms until he gets captured (plant right side tree and top tree in that room)
  3. Sidehop tiwce and shoot the warp pot on right with fire arrow
  4. Early Makar to Song Stone Room
  5. Move giant floor, play song and break song stone, triple darknut fight, boss key
  6. Call Makar, enter main room, roll back to the room where the floormasters captured Makar
  7. Re-enter the main room, leave Makar there, backtrack to second room, enter warp pot
  8. Open up the fan cage (get magic, you need it), jump down during cutscene and enter room behind Link, bomb boost to small key
  9. Roll to miniboss room, play the command melody, jump down as Makar, plant trees to turn on the fan
  10. Open locked door, Miniboss fight (jumpslash quickspin both wizzrobbes if possible, otherwise spam arrows at them), Hookshot
  11. Hit the skull hammer peg to open door, go back to main room
  12. Take wind up and across room, open door to room with a dozen armos, small key
  13. Jump down-left, take makar back across to the room where he originally got caught, play CM to get Makar up and get up with hookshot
  14. Plant trees in next room and kill bubbles (you only need to plant 2 trees on the right side)
  15. Place makar on right switch and step on left switch
  16. Jump all the way down and unlock basement door
  17. Hookshot up and step on upper switch with iron boots (sidehop off before cutscene)
  18. Leaf across the fans to ledge on other side
  19. In next room, sidehop past blades and gap with iron boots, sidle past song stone
  20. Get magic from pots + fairy if you need it
  21. Molgera Fight get Heart Container, Wind Temple

Triforce Quest

  1. BoG to Outset, Savage Labyrinth, Triforce Shard (500 rupees)
  2. Sail Northwest to Diamond Steppe, Get Ghost Ship Chart
  3. Savewarp, sail North to Golden Ship, shoot down to get Triforce Chart
  4. BoG to Tingle Isle, Decipher Chart, BoG to FH, Sail East to cliff plateau isles, salvage triforce shard (108 Rupees)
  5. Sail North to Birds Rock Peak, Use Hyoi Pear to raise bars (you can snipe all the switches with the bow except the highest one but save an arrow for stonewatcher), triforce chart, get magic in left middle pot
  6. Sail West to Ghost Ship, Leaf pump across to skip fight, Get all rupees in all pots, Triforce Shard
  7. Sail West to Cabana, show Cabana Deed to butler door
  8. If you don’t have 500 rupees get some rupees in pots with grapple hook
  9. Skull Hammer through walls to get to triforce shard
  10. Savewarp, BoG to Tingle Isle, Decipher Chart, BoG to Greatfish, Sail to Islet of Steel (don’t get killed), get triforce chart and all rupees in pots
  11. Sail East to Stonewatcher, Get shard in the ocean and then go inside, get rupees in the pillar left of when entering (Hammer it)
  12. Go through all 4 rooms (use arrow spam technique or jumpslash quickspin on wizzrobes) use Fire arrow on top of door when entering each door.
  13. Kill darknuts with ice arrow + skull hammer (or if no magic, quickspin twice, stab, sidehop jumpspin), get rupees from pots (unless you have 398), Triforce shard, Savewarp
  14. BoG to DRI, Sail NE to Overlook, use hookshot to get in
  15. Get rupees from pillars if you still need 398
  16. Go through 4 rooms, on stalfos use bombs + boomerang + skull hammer, use fire arrow on top of each door before entering each door to skip small cs
  17. Use ice arrow + skull hammer (or two quickspins, stab, sidehop jumpsin if no magic) on darknuts
  18. Get rupees from pots if you still need 398, triforce shard, Savewarp
  19. BoG to tingle Isle, Decipher last chart, BoG to Greatfish, salvage final triforce shard
  20. BoG to TotG, Cutscene

Hyrule 3

  1. Go to Master Sword room, fight darknuts with ice arrow + skull hammer
  2. Break the Barrier, use hookshot to get across broken bridge
  3. Fight the trial bosses.Start with the WT Trial. If you have enough magic, dont refill. If you don't refill magic and then leaf behind the spikes then jumpslash over them.
  4. Go to DRC trial, shoot ice arrow on right side lava geyser, grab magic from pot on right, jump and leaf to platform created by ice arrow, leaf pump over grapple beam to the end.
  5. Go to FW trial, blow the spinning thing and refill magic while it is moving, blow platform as far as possible and then leaf across platforms to the end
  6. Go to ET trial, refill magic on left side coffin in the second section, (you can skip the Stalfos fight if you are fast enough by getting to the staircase before it rises)
  7. Go up stairs with miniblins, get magic if needed (pot directly to right has arrows and magic), enter right room a nd watch useless cutscene and jump down into hole, pulling leaf as soon as you can.
  8. Phantom Ganon Maze (Back, left, forward, left, right, forward) and beat Phantom Ganon for Light Arrows
  9. Shoot Phantom Ganon with Light Arrow, break wall with his sword
  10. Shoot all mobs in final staircase with Light Arrows and get max magic and arrows.
  11. Enter Puppet Ganon
  12. Climb red rope (Hold zr and mash a, if you jumpslash off, you were going too fast, if you fall backwards, use leaf to get back on. If you slow your rhythm as you get higher up you can climb for longer), get health if needed.
  13. Enter and defeat Ganondorf don't die. You can grab Zelda hearts by grappling Zelda if you need but doing so will bring eternal shame upon you and your descendants for the rest of eternity :)
Last updated 01/10/2022 – mralberto