Smog is a mini-boss you can face during one of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdoms side quests, with an important reward offered for those who beat it. This enemy wants to play a game through a three-phase boss fight. You will have to recognize the rules of this creature to manipulate the battlefield and beat the living thunder cloud at its own game.
You can encounter Smog when you explore the East Temple dungeon, a room full of puzzles. Clearing this dungeon is part of the “let’s play a game” Side quest offered by the character Sago, who is found west of the Crossflows Plaza in the Zora area. Sago is standing right outside the temple, which makes him relatively easy to find from your horse in Echoes of wisdom.
How to Defeat Smog (Phase 1)
Contain the living lightning
The first phase of Smog’s boss fight starts with the lightning cloud in the center of a maze-like arena full of boulders and green blocks. Smog can only move linearlyMeaning that its movement is only horizontal or vertical at any given time. Every time smog bumps into an object, it must change its movement to another direction instead, like it Can not move past obstacles in its path.
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This is Smog’s greatest weakness because it allows you to Manipulate the movement patterns of the host. The “echoes” Dungeon mechanic in Echoes of wisdom Allows you to create an additional boulder in the boss arena. Using the echo of a boulder, you can Put an additional obstacle in Smog’s path And Force it to move somewhere else.
As you can see in the above video by YouTube creator Game is liferOne of the best places to contain smog is near the entrance of the host arena, which you can easily block off by moving boulders in the corners between green blocks.
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smog move list |
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Lightning orb |
Smog will occasionally shoot an orb of lightning like a projectile at you. |
The projectile doesn’t track your location, so simply walk behind any obstacle in the arena so it takes the hit from the orb instead. |
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Thunderous aura |
Although not strictly an attack, Smog has an aura of electricity surrounding him at all times, preventing you from getting too close without taking damage. |
Stay far away from smog when you try and organize its movement patterns. |
Smog is only weak to arrowsSo your best strategy is to Force it into a place where it cannot escape And then Attack it from afar. This can be done in a variety of ways, such as summoning the echo of a moblin with a ranged attack. If you have collected enough crystals in Echoes of wisdomYour swordfighter form can deal a lot of damage with arrows to smog quickly.
How to Defeat Smog (Phase 2 and 3)
divide and conquer
Dealing some damage to Smog in phase 1 will cause it to return to the center of the boss arena and Split into three different lightning clouds. The smaller clouds still shoot a lightning orb, creating a barrage of projectiles from everywhere in the arena. Each piece of smog will drift to different places in the arena, so you may have to run to a wall or corner to stay safe at first.
This time, your goal is to Manipulate the roots of each smog ball so that they run into each other. Every time a smaller piece of smog hits one another, they combine to become a little bigger, almost returning to the original size of the host. You can’t damage smog until it’s put back together, so you have to manage the little clouds together until smog is reformed.
Once Smog is back to its original form, simply repeat the process from Phase 1 to damage it again. Once you connect all the mini clouds from phase 2 and injuring smog again, it will return to the center of the arena and Break apart into five pieces. Just like before, you have to manage the pieces together again to create smog and damage it for the last time.
Each of the five lightning clouds Smog splits into during Phase 3 also shoots lightning orbs, creating a minefield of an arena to navigate. Be careful of the original lightning orb, which can push back boulders you place or move. Eventually, you should be able to force Smog’s pieces back into one body and use your swordfighter form to finally destroy the boss.
Rewards for beating smog
Get a powerful new number
Defeating Smog clears the dungeon of the Eastern Temple, awarding you with lots of rupees to spend on powerful items from Echoes of wisdoms many vendors. However, you get a lot of other rewards for beating this boss, including:
- Heart piece
- Ancient charm
Similar to core containers in Zelda: Tears of the KingdomYou need four heart pieces to form a full heart. Getting a full heart increases your maximum health, allowing you to take more hits from dangerous bosses in other dungeons. While you don’t need to defeat Smog to progress the main story, getting a heart piece from his defeat will help you survive challenging encounters later in the game.
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The Ancient Charm is rewarded for completing these “let’s play a game” Side search, which finishes when you Talk to Sago after defeating Smog. This number is an accessory Which reduces the damage Zelda takes, greatly improving her defenses. You can go into your inventory to attach this item, but keep in mind that you’ll need to unlock more accessory slots to have more than the ancient charm active.
Of the sixteen total accessories in the game, the ancient charm may be one of the most reliable. That should be more than enough reason to beat Smog in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom In addition to the heart piece and rupees you get from taking it down.
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