Water Temple

Reach the Boss Door Room Without Longshot

The longshot can be skipped by crossing the gap leading to the door. There are multiple methods, but these are the most useful.

Hoverslide method

Initiate a Superslide then equip the Hover Boots. When you start to hover, let go of R and hold down to grab the edge.

Superswim popup method

Discovered by CountLG

Contortion Hover method

Do four contortion hovers then backflip to cross the gap. Alternative hovering options include: sideflip hovers, slingshot hovers, hover boots hovers, angled backflip hovers.

Hammer Recoil Boost method

Get on the middle platform and face the boss door ledge. Turn around and get against the wall. Strike the wall with the Megaton Hammer and then pause. You are looking for the frame where the point on the back of the hammer is right next to Link's head. Now equip the hover boots and unpause. Simply run forward and grab the ledge.

Climbing the slope before the boss door

With Kokiri boots, sidehop right immediately after entering the room, then turn around and backwalk. If you were quick enough and kept Link facing cardinal directions, he won't hit any blade traps. A slower alternative that may appeal to beginners is simply running up the left side of the slope. Link can simply roll up the slope with Hover Boots on, but not with Kokiri boots.

Skip the Boss Key

2 bomb ground clip

This ground clip requires Link to take damage on the frame he automatically falls from a hover near the ground. This setup makes the ground clip lenient because the bombs are placed such that the first bomb's explosion detonates the second bomb, which then hits Link on the correct frame. This means that the backflip to hover is frame perfect, but the timing for dropping the second bomb doesn't matter at all.

1. Target the door
2. Get ISG with Navi text
3. Target and shield drop a bomb
4. Turn left, sidehop right, sidehop left, and shield drop a second bomb
5. Sidehop right, turn left, and backwalk into the boss door
6. On the bomb's big blue frame, backflip and hold shield to hover
7. Release shield and control stick until the second bomb hits Link
8. Backflip or backwalk into load zone

In steps 3 and 4, Link needs to drop both bombs to his side. This means pressing shield on the same frame as bomb or on either of the two following frames. Also, when turning in step 4, be careful not to hold shield while not targeting, as this will cause Link to crouch and lose ISG.

Early Key in the F1 Water Switch Room

In the room where you can lower the water level to the first floor, there is a bombable wall on the second floor that contains a key. Normally you would have to raise the water to the second floor to reach it, but it can be reached by side-jumping into the corner, then using a jump attack to land on the ledge.

Get the Boss Key without Longshot

In the room with the spikes blocking your passage to the Boss Key, you can get past them without the longshot.

Hover Boots Backwalk and Backflip Method

With a well timed backflip near the end of the hover you can land on top the spikes.

Bomb/chu Hover Method

Hover along the wall to get past the spikes.

Anti-Gravity Jumpslash from Out of Bounds Water Method

Discovered by Exodus

This requires the iron boots and the hookshot. Use the torch on the bottom floor to clip out of bounds then swim to under the platform that leads to the boss door. Swim off the edge and jumpslash to land on top of the spikes.

Open doors without being on solid ground

Discovered by Pokey

You can get into the doors on the second and third floor of the Water Temple without raising the water level. Perform a Hover Boost in the direction of one of the doors and right when the hover is about to end, you should be just in front of the door. If you look carefully in the video, you can see the A button very briefly reads "Open".

Return to the Top Floor Without Savewarping

Discovered by ZFG

If you want to return to the top without savewarping but the water level is too low, you can use the pool of water at the dungeon entrance to float back up. Just torch clip to get out of bounds, then swim to the water at the entrance.

Skip Song of Time Block After Longshot

Discovered by ZFG

Recoil off the door and equip hover boots, hold left until the door closes, Grab the Longshot and weirdshot under the chest to void out. Hold down and jumpslash to the floor below and hookshot back up to skip it.

Small Key RBA

Discovered by Kazooie

Beat Dodongo's Cavern without getting the bomb bag. Before you pull the Master Sword, go Bombchu Bowling and win the Big Bomb Bag. Now go back to Dodongo's Cavern as adult and obtain the Bomb Bag. This will put a Bomb Bag over your Bombchu slot.

Alternatively, you can also use DoT Skip to get around having to beat Dodongo's Cavern. You can then RBA Cojiro to modify your left side equipment with 2 bomb bags. Now simply open the bomb bag chest in Dodongo's Cavern as an adult to get the equipable bomb bag. Note: You must have a bomb bag in your inventory to get this equipable bomb bag; simply skipping the one in DC and going back to get it as an adult will not work.

Now go to the Water Temple with a Bottle on B and the Bomb Bag you now have on C-Right. Now if you empty or put an item in the B Bottle, you'll receive a number of Water Temple Small Keys equal to the hex value of your B Bottle. See Reverse Bottle Adventure for more information.