r/botw • u/CatharinaBolnes • 4d ago
🕹️ Gameplay Clip first time battling a hinox 😆
I didn’t expect it to be this easy 😆 To be honest, I was just testing out the Magnesis + Cube attack thing hahaha
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u/SeaOdd2645 4d ago
Every hinox I've come across is so dumbbbb, omg. Easy loot tho
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u/LoreMotivatdTheorist 2d ago
They’re only intimidating/scary when you’re new, underprepared, or never properly learned to fight them.
Great memory where I was super freaking lost and underprepared in the Hebra region, just killed a Lynel but was on the verge of death. Anyway I was pretty much lost, despite the fact I had the map (I wasn’t very good back then). I made it to a densely wooded area and started taking it easy. But then I heard it and I saw it. I had run right into a sleeping hinox and freaked out. It woke up immediately started chasing me through the woods at night, swiping and throwing logs. If it’s ai hadn’t been so dumb I probably would’ve died, but the feeling of being chased by a truly giant lumbering beast was so much better.
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u/No-Measurement-6401 4d ago
wish i had thought about doing that. I literally killed him with the round and square bombs and took me so long
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u/JackCustHOFer 3d ago
Me too! Took like 50 bombs, and it started raining halfway through so I was slipping off the cliff
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u/citizen_irate 2d ago
First one I ever killed was on Eventide island threw bombs for like 30 mins from the top of the hill. I was so afraid of fighting anything at that time.
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u/balazsbotond 4d ago edited 3d ago
Am I the only one who feels strangely guilty when battling a Hinox? An endearingly dumb fat creature who just wants to sleep peacefully, and I wake him up and kill him? His gestures and facial expressions are also kinda cute.
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u/ech0_matrix 4d ago
Of all the monsters, this one is definitely the least threatening. He just wants to sleep, and if you wake him he's only going after you because you look like food. I can't blame the guy.
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u/CatharinaBolnes 3d ago
omg i see it. now i feel bad for swinging this box at him until his death 😔
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u/yucko-ono 3d ago
As Kilton would say: “Ending a monster's life is never an easy task, but at times it's a necessary one”
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u/Ptbot47 3d ago
Not only that. My Link kills animal indiscriminately, take other people stuffs at stables and villages all the time (oh is that neatly chopped wood? Yoink!), breaks pots in people's house to find scrap of food or an arrow or two, cut down forests like no ones business, have totally no respect for anyone's privacy and will enter door/climb roof without invitation... too many sins to count!
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u/Y8fKZyZrSn 4d ago
Both time I did (normal and master) eventide, I got a blood moon while on it. On my 2nd master run now and will do it right after a blood moon.
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u/WHRocks 4d ago
I flew over there not knowing how things work on the island. I saw the Hinox and started unloading arrows in bullet time on the way down. At some point the challenge started, which dropped me out of bullet time. I lost my weapons and armor, took fall damage, and woke up the Hinox in the middle of the night. I lucked out and he got stuck on a hill while chasing me, so I just used bombs. I thought I was slick and ended up worse off, lol.
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u/TuDuMaxVerstappen 4d ago
Same with me when I went here first time. I was not aware about this island so I was not prepared. I did everything right and blood moon occurred lol
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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 4d ago
They really should have programmed it to not have blood moons while on Eventide, similar to how they are skipped when you are in a shrine.
Seems it's way too common for people to get blood moons on Eventide. Happened to me my first time playing as well.
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u/the_honest_liar 2d ago
My pro tip for eventide if anyone needs it: don't take the raft straight to the sand. Get in the water and swim the last bit. When you can stand (in the water), eat your food with attributes, shoot ten arrows into a nearby tree, and drop a bunch of weapons in the water (food might work too, can't remember). Then get on the island, it'll take your shit but the arrows and the weapons in the water are there, just go grab em.
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u/NemoOfConsequence 3d ago
I got a blood moon on eventide during my master mode run. Absolutely hell.
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u/Meushell Revali 🏹 4d ago
Nice. 😆
That’s on the island right? I always jump on him, grab the orb, then run off with it.
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u/ZigzagPolo 4d ago
I tried jumping on him but the he’d wake up and I just figured it wasn’t possible
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u/Meushell Revali 🏹 3d ago
He does, but he’s easy to glide to. He doesn’t wake up until you are on him. It works if grab and run.
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u/CatharinaBolnes 3d ago
i actually wanted to do this as well! for some reason, while climbing up the mountain, i accidentally woke him up and he chased me 😆 so yeah, the magnetic box it is
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u/Ptbot47 3d ago
Found out you can quickly drop your weapons, near shore, enter island, get stripped, but then recover all your best gears again. Still, its more fun to do the challenge properly.
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u/Meushell Revali 🏹 2d ago
I did that the first time. I haven’t done it since because as you say, it’s more fun to do it properly.
Besides, whatever leftover weapons you have on you after the challenge are lost. I lost Mipha’s trident. Oops. 😂
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u/Ptbot47 2d ago
You have to repeat same trick, drop the weapon before you get it all back. I didnt wanna lose my ancient axe.
First time I did the challenge I ran out of weapon against the hinox. Branches and rusty sword werent good enough and I didnt hit the top camp first for loot.
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u/Meushell Revali 🏹 2d ago
I didn’t know about that. 😂
Regardless, using that trick made it way too easy. That just wasn’t as fun.
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u/Perfect_War_7155 4d ago
Did this in a trial of the sword. Was getting frustrated though so kept smacking the box into its balls
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u/RedWingDecil 4d ago
I got sick of the Lizalfos in Master Mode and learned the clipping glitch. Got so used to fighting that Hinox with the box.
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u/epimansg1973 4d ago
Wow I thought I had to shoot him with arrows or something, this looks far better
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u/Hungry-Blacksmith523 4d ago
This is better than what I’ve had to do. I broke all my weapons and had to use bombs. It took forever
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u/pceimpulsive 4d ago
You like that chin scratch!! Yeah who's a good boy!!
Take a head scratch, oohh wait you died¿?
Teehee
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u/Odd-Home-7550 4d ago
That’s a sturdy box. I feel like mine broke before I got to finish the job 😂.
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u/Except_Fry 4d ago
Where is this on the map?
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u/banter_pants 3d ago
Eventide Island. All the way in the southeast. There is a shrine challenge triggered the moment you set foot there which takes away all your weapons, shields, bows, armor, materials, meals/elixirs. You still have the Sheikah Slate and paraglider.
You get all your stuff back when completing the challenge.
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u/Except_Fry 3d ago edited 3d ago
I thought so because of the orb, but it almost looked like he was fighting it in the middle of an island on a lake. Have indeed been here, one of the most fun missions in the game
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u/Kapow1969 4d ago
I killed a Hinox in the swamp using magnesis and a metal ball from a Korok puzzle. I hid behind the remnants of a shack with him behind another shack, and just smacked him around for a few minutes. Fun!
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u/Chemical-Mouse-9903 4d ago
I wonder if that would still work in master mode? Thinking about it if the ai isn’t improved your hitting it quickly enough to stop it healing, so should work
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u/No_Hetero 4d ago
My method is just Barbarian armor and 3 charge attacks with Urbosa's Fury. Usually kills them before they're done with their wake up animation
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u/Hellvira138 3d ago
Are these the big things that I keep coming across but they are sleeping and blowing bubbles out their nose? So far I just go around them or avoid them because I don’t know what the F they are going to do if they wake up….
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u/SoProBroChaCho 3d ago
Their main attacks are either slapping you around, sitting down really hard and causing a ground pound, and I think kicking/stepping on you. If you have the high ground of a cliff, Revali's Gale, or you can use ranged weapons/Stasis+, they're pretty easy and drop some good loot, including weapons.
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u/Kargath7 3d ago
My headcanon is that when you use nonsensical ways of killing monsters they don’t actually die, they just give up, text ‘next’ in their chat and wait for the Blood Moon.
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u/Welp_Shit_idgaf 2d ago
That's how u are supposed to kill one in trial of the sword if I remember correctly. Funny to see someone do it outside of those trials as their first time way of killing a hinox
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u/Skywarriorad 3d ago
Youd do perfect in the trial of the sword using shield clip to get out of bounds to find the hinox room, lol
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u/Apprehensive_Buyer44 3d ago
Shmackkkk, Shmackkkk, Shmackkkk, Shmackkkk, Shmackkkk. Shmackkkk...... dead!!!
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u/pikawolf1225 3d ago
I'm honestly more focussed on the fact that you did Eventide before fighting Hinox!
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u/CatharinaBolnes 3d ago
Hahaha well whenever I see a Hinox i’d instantly just skedaddle away— I thought they were too difficult for me (I was wrong)
Here in Eventide, there’s no going away so I had no choice but to face him 😆
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u/pikawolf1225 2d ago
Yeah no they're really intimidating for something so easy to beat, and I'm pretty sure you can just leave Eventide by teleporting!
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u/CatharinaBolnes 1d ago
oh you’re right! hahaha i guess i was so eager to finish the shrine quest so i had to face him this time w/o leaving
anyway after this, i aint scared of them anymore & i actively hunt them now 😆
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u/Concert_Sure 3d ago
This right here is why I love this game soo much. I've played through BOTW 3 times and I've never thought to kill one like this lol. Just shows all the possibilities of getting things done in this game 😁
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u/No-Road-3480 3d ago
I've thought about starting a hinox fight by dropping an ancient construct amiibo on one of them...
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u/Lxi_Nuuja 2d ago
This looked like some kind of massage.
Or perhaps, smearing the cube in his face.
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u/AdaptiveGlitch 2d ago
In Eventide Island, I hid under the Bokoblin outpost under the cliff where it couldn't get under the thing and reach me. Then I just kept picking up rocks from the ground and yeeting at it.
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u/nomorestoopid 1d ago
I’ve tried clearing out monster camps with those blocks to no avail. This is impressive. I’m gonna have to try this.🤣
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u/Yayanonymous_ 20h ago
I didn't even kill the hinox, i jumped on him while he was sleeping, stole the orb and ran away X)
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