Enemy Locations

Where to find each enemy

Every enemy of the Switch 2 version with the places it usually appears and the items that handle it best. Enemies can also turn up elsewhere. Once you have beaten one, its statue in the Hall of Fallen Foes shows these details in the game as well.

Enemies

• Anubis – Spirit Temple. Useful: Din's Fire, Fire Arrow.
• Armos – Dodongo's Cavern, Spirit Temple. Useful: Bomb, Megaton Hammer.
• Baby Dodongo – Dodongo's Cavern. Useful: Bomb.
• Bari – Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly. Useful: Deku Nut, Boomerang.
• Beamos – Dodongo's Cavern, Shadow Temple. Useful: Bomb, Megaton Hammer, Mirror Shield.
• Big Poe – Hyrule Field. Useful: Fairy Bow.
• Biri – Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly. Useful: Deku Nut, Boomerang.
• Blue Bubble – Forest Temple. Useful: Hylian Shield.
• Blue Tektite – Hyrule Field, Zora's River. Useful: Megaton Hammer.
• Business Scrub – Lost Woods. Useful: Megaton Hammer, Deku Shield, Hylian Shield.
• Deku Baba – Inside the Deku Tree, Kokiri Forest, Market, Forest Temple. Useful: Megaton Hammer.
• Deku Scrub – Inside the Deku Tree. Useful: Deku Shield.
• Dodongo – Dodongo's Cavern. Useful: Bomb.
• False Door (Fire Temple) – Fire Temple. Useful: Bomb, Megaton Hammer.
• False Door (Spirit Temple) – Spirit Temple. Useful: Bomb, Megaton Hammer.
• Fire Keese – Dodongo's Cavern, Fire Temple. Useful: Fairy Slingshot, Fairy Bow.
• Flat the Younger – Graveyard.
• Floormaster – Forest Temple, Shadow Temple. Useful: Light Arrow.
• Flying Pot – Shadow Temple, Spirit Temple.
• Flying Tile – Fire Temple.
• Freezard – Ice Cavern. Useful: Bomb, Megaton Hammer, Din's Fire, Fire Arrow.
• Gibdo – Bottom of the Well, Shadow Temple. Useful: Light Arrow.
• Gohma Larva – Inside the Deku Tree. Useful: Deku Nut, Deku Shield.
• Gold Skulltula – All over Hyrule – see the Gold Skulltula markers on the map.
• Great Moblin – Sacred Forest Meadow.
• Green Bubble – Forest Temple, Spirit Temple. Useful: Hylian Shield.
• Green Bubble (large) – Bottom of the Well.
• Guay – Hyrule Field, Desert Colossus. Useful: Fairy Slingshot, Fairy Bow.
• Ice Keese – Ice Cavern. Useful: Fairy Bow.
• Keese – Dodongo's Cavern, Graveyard. Useful: Fairy Slingshot, Fairy Bow.
• Leever (Green) – Haunted Wasteland, Desert Colossus. Useful: Din's Fire.
• Leever (Purple) – Haunted Wasteland, Desert Colossus. Useful: Din's Fire.
• Like Like – Fire Temple, Water Temple.
• Mad Scrub – Sacred Forest Meadow, Hyrule Field, Kokiri Forest. Useful: Megaton Hammer, Deku Shield, Hylian Shield.
• Moblin – Sacred Forest Meadow.
• Octorok – Zora's River, Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly, Lake Hylia, Kokiri Forest, Forest Temple. Useful: Deku Shield, Hylian Shield.
• Peahat – Hyrule Field. Useful: Din's Fire.
• Peahat Larva – Hyrule Field.
• Poe (Graveyard) – Graveyard.
• Poe (Hyrule Field) – Hyrule Field. Useful: Fairy Bow.
• Red Bubble – Death Mountain Crater, Fire Temple. Useful: Hylian Shield.
• Red Tektite – Death Mountain Trail. Useful: Megaton Hammer.
• ReDead – Market, Graveyard. Useful: Light Arrow.
• Shabom – Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly. Useful: Boomerang.
• Sharp the Elder – Graveyard.
• Shell Blade – Water Temple. Useful: Din's Fire.
• Skull Kid – Lost Woods.
• Skulltula – Inside the Deku Tree, Forest Temple, Hyrule Field, Kokiri Forest. Useful: Bomb, Megaton Hammer, Din's Fire.
• Skullwalltula – Inside the Deku Tree, Death Mountain Trail, Dodongo's Cavern, Forest Temple. Useful: Fairy Slingshot, Megaton Hammer.
• Spike – Water Temple. Useful: Hylian Shield.
• Stalchild – Hyrule Field.
• Stinger – Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly, Water Temple.
• Tailpasaran – Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly. Useful: Boomerang.
• Torch Slug – Fire Temple, Spirit Temple. Useful: Megaton Hammer.
• Wallmaster – Forest Temple, Bottom of the Well. Useful: Light Arrow.
• White Bubble – Spirit Temple. Useful: Hylian Shield.

Mini-bosses

• Amy, Fourth Born – Forest Temple. Useful: Fairy Bow.
• Beth, Third Born – Forest Temple. Useful: Fairy Bow.
• Big Octo – Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly. Useful: Boomerang.
• Dark Link – Water Temple.
• Dead Hand – Bottom of the Well, Shadow Temple. Useful: Bomb, Din's Fire.
• Dinolfos – Gerudo Training Ground, Spirit Temple.
• Flare Dancer – Fire Temple. Useful: Bomb, Hookshot, Megaton Hammer.
• Gerudo Thief – Gerudo's Fortress.
• Iron Knuckle – Spirit Temple. Useful: Bombchu.
• Iron Knuckle (Ganon's Castle) – Ganon's Castle. Useful: Bombchu.
• Iron Knuckle (Nabooru) – Spirit Temple. Useful: Bombchu.
• Jo, Second Born – Forest Temple. Useful: Fairy Bow.
• Lizalfos – Dodongo's Cavern, Spirit Temple. Useful: Deku Shield, Hylian Shield.
• Meg, Firstborn – Forest Temple. Useful: Fairy Bow.
• Stalfos – Shadow Temple, Spirit Temple. Useful: Light Arrow.
• Stalfos (Forest Temple) – Forest Temple.
• White Wolfos – Ice Cavern. Useful: Din's Fire, Fire Arrow.
• Wolfos – Sacred Forest Meadow, Forest Temple. Useful: Din's Fire, Fire Arrow.

Bosses

• Gohma – Inside the Deku Tree. Useful: Deku Nut, Fairy Slingshot.
• King Dodongo – Dodongo's Cavern. Useful: Bomb.
• Barinade – Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly. Useful: Boomerang.
• Phantom Ganon – Forest Temple. Useful: Fairy Bow, Master Sword.
• Volvagia – Fire Temple. Useful: Megaton Hammer, Ice Arrow.
• Morpha – Water Temple. Useful: Hookshot, Din's Fire.
• Bongo Bongo – Shadow Temple. Useful: Lenses of Truth, Ice Arrow, Hover Boots.
• Twinrova – Spirit Temple. Useful: Mirror Shield.
• Ganondorf – Ganon's Castle. Useful: Empty Bottle, Light Arrow, Master Sword.
• Ganon – Ganon's Castle. Useful: Light Arrow, Master Sword.