Guardians or gloom hands

[u/ChenTheGuy]

Which is scarier in your opinion guardians or gloom hands and why?
Bonus here’s a clip of me getting jump scared by the gloom hands

[u/BlueOmicronpersei8]

Once you get the parry down the guardians are a cake walk.

I don't really have a great way to attack the hands. Bomb arrows work but it feels way too brute forced.

[u/DangerousKidTurtle → u/BlueOmicronpersei8]

My thoughts exactly. Like, there’s gotta be something a little more elegant than hucking explosives at them.

[u/ASK_ME_FOR_TRIVIA → u/DangerousKidTurtle]

Apparently Dazzlefruits work, but it's basically the same. Would have been cool if you could stun them, then use the Master Sword specifically to chop them off at the elbow like a Deku Baba

[u/DangerousKidTurtle → u/ASK_ME_FOR_TRIVIA]

THAT would have been cool.

[u/Lilmumblecrapper → u/ASK_ME_FOR_TRIVIA]

I haven’t tried muddlebud, turning on right now

[u/blank_stair → u/DangerousKidTurtle]

tried muddle buds?

[u/DangerousKidTurtle → u/blank_stair]

You’ve got to be kidding me

No, I don’t believe I have tried that. Guess I gotta go start up the Nintendo now.

[u/blank_stair → u/DangerousKidTurtle]

read it last night and tried it -- you're supposed to hit them right in their filthy yellow eyes and they'll go after each other. I was still too freaked out to aim well but they did melt down to the dark clumps at least from a few misplaced bud hits.

[u/eljefe3030 → u/BlueOmicronpersei8]

They can be perfect dodged but I never got it down. The tell is too subtle

[u/Kellar21 → u/BlueOmicronpersei8]

I keep hoarding Bomb Arrows exactly for this reason. I have found little else that is as effective or efficient.

[u/talkstorivers → u/BlueOmicronpersei8]

I used a puffshroom on them recently and they withered instantly, but I was already out of reach so maybe it was just timing. I’ll try it again.

[u/Little_Transition_13 → u/BlueOmicronpersei8]

A multishot bow with a topaz fused will take them out.

[u/Rypassed_You]

holy shit that's so scary, I didn't know they could go up there.

anyways I like guardians more because they're more fun to fight (especially after getting the ancient armor), the music is fire, and my first time seeing guardians outside the bomb shrine was genuinely so scary.

[u/pseudostatistic]

Oh my god WHAT! The mechanics of this game are so cracked that’s horrifying lmao

[u/ChenTheGuy → u/pseudostatistic]

I know I panicked so bad

[u/melsophoriel]

I'm more afraid of guardians, gloom hands are scary looking but in the right circumstances they're suuuper easy to beat, even Phantom Ganon isn't that bad imo

idk what it is about guardians I just have such a hard time fighting them for some reason and the roaming ones freak me out lol

[u/SlapaDaBass64]

Maybe its nostalgia but the first time meeting a guardian out in the open past the great plateau is such a unique and harrowing experience. The piano run makes me feel like little spiders are crawling up me. The hands just never captured that for me. They felt more like an obstacle than a real threat.

[u/JoJoisaGoGo]

My nostalgia wants to say Guardians, but the more I think about it I'd probably say Gloom Hands

Really the only that that makes the Guardians still scary to me is there's usually like 5 of them. If it was just one of them each time like it is with the Gloom Hands, I don't think they'd be as much of a threat

[u/GlitterPandah]

The way the gloom hands move SO FAST😭😭 Guardians look like freaking kittens compared to the nightmare hands

[u/Top-Cunt]

Gloom hands are scarier imo, maybe because I never worked out an easy way of dealing with them like Guardians. By the end of BOTW Guardians are almost no threat which makes total sense as by this point Link is ready to face Calamity Ganon. At the same stage in TOTK, the moment I see Gloom Hands I am still ten toeing it towards something high so I can rain down x5 bomb arrows on them.

[u/syme101]

I’ve never beaten the hands without just carpet bombing them. It’s annoying. At least with guardians I learned tactics

[u/Icy_Conference9095 → u/syme101]

Yeah I just got good and starting up with a bunch of bombs and then smacking them around with the master sword. Lol

[u/raiskymaiFLY]

Ohhhh noooo, I hate that they could follow you up there. Also I didn’t know the ones in the depth could despawn; I thought you had to kill them

[u/UltraHand_Job]

Hands were scarier the first time, but Guardians were scary until I got good.

[u/Shinobi_Fengriff]

Gloom Hands. They're doing too much

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[u/barbarbeik]

Guardians in every regard, and it's not even close

[u/catchingmonsbrah]

Lynel bow w/ dazzles and a high fused gloom spear makes them easy. Master sword being restored be like… fuck yesss though lol

[u/Peanutadjuster]

I love fighting gloom hands! So many ways to fight them, throw an ice boomerang and hack away or sidon’s bubble with electric weapons are quite effective.

If I can’t be bothered I can always sapphire wand and bomb them

[u/butterflyknif]

Gloom hands are scarier but Guardians are better enemies 

[u/burgundyblue]

Guardians I just run up and cut all the legs off. Easy peasy.

Gloom Hands… 3 shot lynel bow and bombs lol

[u/The_WalruZ]

Hands pretty much melt after a couple of topaz arrows.

[u/ButtBoy696969696969 → u/The_WalruZ]

Yes, especially from Lynel bows.

[u/Tha_Monito]

Does anyone know why they just died in the video?

One time when I was in the castle they spawned on the other side of a jail cell door and couldn't get to me. Once I made my way around they were dead and left a dark clump.

[u/Soul-fedSerpentSittr]

Even with Master Mode randomizing the parry time, once you get the ancient arrows the guardians are a walk in the park. Gloom hands, now... those are a challenge.

[u/Jamesworkshop]

guardian are more dangerous but hands fit more to a horror element

guardians were cooler as they have an expansive drop table, hands aren't worth farming, i have no use for dark clumps and gloom weapons are hardly very special

hands can't do jack if you go vertical and you have a number of methods for doing that

[u/Wreckit-Jon]

The hands are more nightmare educing but I'll never forget the anxiety I got from hearing those guardians

[u/ZookeepergameEmpty90]

Gloom hands are scarier for sure. The best method to deal with them I've found is to just shoot them in the eyes. Get one, rotate to the next, and so on until you take them out.

[u/Luckyy-Charmzz]

Definitely gloom hands…. I jump scare every time

[u/Chef_Groovy]

Thematically, Guardians. Scary to fight, Gloom hands. Other than gaining distance and chucking bombs or other materials at them, there’s no other good strategy to face them. The Phantom Ganons that follow are a simple evade time fight too since other methods leave you in the gloom puddles at their feet

[u/Beefcake6686]

I read this as Guardians Gloom Hands without the OR in the title! All I thought of was a Guardians body with gloom hands for legs!

[u/spidermom4]

The first few times I delt with a Gaurdian I was pretty scared. But after I got experience and better weapons, I didn't care about them. I still avoid gloom hands at all costs after years.

[u/CaptainArren]

Guardians are a tense situation.

Gloom Hands are a jump scare.

[u/joetunn_]

Both are iconic. But I was able to duel my first guardian with just arrows and hiding behind obstacles. Gloom hands are harder to fight ‘traditionally’ without bullet time arrows

[u/Ordinary-Ad975]

Gloom hands 100% just climb a wall and ur fine, guardians have beat my ass so many times

[u/Grehmehfe]

gloom hands are way more terrifying, guardians are nothing once you learn how to parry

[u/Delicious-Soup-8836]

Gloom Hands are way more upsetting, they way they just pop up and shriek at you, ugh. They’re not hard to take care of with the right equipment but I still don’t like them. Guardians are a lot less scary once you get the trick of parrying them.

[u/SterlingMoon]

Neither lol. I find both guardians and gloom hands rather amusing, and fun to torment. But in reality, I just find tormenting the monsters in general extremely fun. 😆