No Save & Quit

A memory card is not needed to run this route.

Playing on Japanese (NTSC-J) is optimal for this route because of the Ooccoo's Note Gorge Warp Cancel. However, having blue rupee text available in Arbiter's Grounds is necessary for Poe Gate Clip, so French (PAL) is recommended: no rupees are needed for Fyer on French, so it's easier to avoid accidentally getting blue rupee text earlier in the run because blue rupees themselves can be ignored. The routing for French (PAL), which is identical to routing for other PAL languages and NTSC-U, is available here.

It is helpful to watch a top run on the leaderboard for reference when learning, as this route document can only go into so much detail.

Ordon

Faron Province

  • South Faron Warp Portal
  • Faron Vessel
  • Kill First Two Bugs (Don't Need to Collect Tears After Killing)
  • Bug on Coro's House
  • Bugs In Coro's House
  • Kill Bugs Before Tunnel (Don't Need to Collect Tears After Killing)
  • Kill Bugs on Right Wall (Don't Need to Collect Tears After Killing)
  • Bugs In Main Tree Trunk
  • Ignore Burrowed Bugs
  • Early Master Sword
  • Skull Kid Chase
  • Skull Kid Fight
    🠋 Master Sword puzzle (LD UUU RR DDD LU)
  • Warp South Faron
  • Collect First Two Bug Tears
  • Collect Tears Before Tunnel
  • Collect Tears in Mist Area
  • Cross purple mist with lantern
  • Bugs Before North Faron (Kill Before They Burrow + Collect)
  • North Faron Warp Portal
  • Kill Last Two Bugs (Don't Need to Collect Tears After Killing)
  • Enter Forest Temple

Forest Temple

  • Kill one or both walltulas with deku baba nuts
    • Alternatively, try to climb past one or both walltulas (requires good RNG)
  • Light Torches + Go Outside
  • Back To Torch Room and Enter East Door
  • Blow Up Rocks With Bombling
  • Ooccoo from pot
  • Over Platforms and Outside
  • Small Key Chest
  • Save 2nd Monkey
  • Back to Torch Room + Enter West Door
  • Early Boomerang
  • Ook
  • Gale Boomerang
    • [Ooccoo / Boomerang]
  • Ooccoo Out

Getting to Eldin Vessel (Gorge Warp Cancel)

Failing Gorge Warp Cancel incurs a reroute - see Addenda at the end of this page.

  • Re-enter Forest Temple
  • Roll to Ooccoo
  • Leave Forest Temple
    • [Ooccoo's Note / Boomerang]
  • Collect Last Two Tears
  • Vessel completed
  • 1 frame Backflip for text skip
  • Faron Escape
  • Dash to Eldin
  • Postman Skip
  • Enter Eldin Province
  • Transform and kill Gorge Messengers
  • Gorge Warp Cancel with Ooccoo's Note
  • Gorge Skip (14R)
    • If you fail Gorge Skip and get the yellow text, it can be backed up with an RNG blue rupee, but that it impossible to do Poe Gate Clip later
  • Enter Kakariko (no Bulblin trigger on the ground)
  • Get Kakariko Warp Portal
  • Eldin Vessel

Eldin Twilight

Getting to Lanayru Vessel

Lanayru Twilight

Zora Armor

(NOTE: During wagon escort dashing through grass can give extra rupees)

  • Warp Castle Town
  • Postman Skip
  • Enter Telma's Bar (Starts Wagon Escort)
  • Bulblin 2 Skip
  • Wait for wagon to catch fire and use Boomerang
  • Open gate and wait for wagon to go through
  • Kill all three Boar Riders
  • Kill Kargarok (With Boomerang)
  • Dash to Gorge Skip area (If done right the Bulblins won't respawn, so you can leave the wagon behind)
  • Epona slide over the gorge
  • Dig under Kakariko Gate
  • LJA Over Midna Trigger
  • Follow Zora Queen to Graveyard
  • Zora Armor

Lakebed Temple

Midna's Desperate Hour

  • Transform Wolf
  • Dash to Castle Town (Zoom out to reduce lag)
  • Enter Telma's Bar through the door
  • Push box once and dash jump to window
  • Ropes in bar or rope skip
  • Poe
  • Enter Sewers
  • Burn first web as wolf with stick
  • Transform at second web and use Lantern
  • Dig into hole
  • Bulblin Archer
  • Exit Tower
  • Early Wind Cycle
  • Zelda Cutscene

Getting to Snowpeak Ruins

Snowpeak Ruins

Desert Province

Arbiter's Grounds

  • Human entrance
  • Pull chain
    • [Lantern / Boomerang] between clawshotting chain and pulling it to automatically put clawshot away
  • Small key
  • Torch room
    • [Boots / Boomerang] between lighting torch and door to automatically put lantern away
  • Poe door cutscene
  • Poe gate clip (285R+)
    • [Clawshot / Ball & Chain] between throwing the boomerang for the final time and the pot reaching Link
  • Boss key early (autoroll method) (Leave The Boss Key For Later)
  • Triple Stalfos Skip
  • Fight Death Sword
  • Spinner
    • [Clawshot / Spinner]
  • Spinner to leave room
  • Boss Key
  • Enter Stallord
  • Skip or fight Stallord
  • Exit Arbiter's Grounds

City In The Sky

Palace of Twilight

Hyrule Castle

Addenda

No Sword & Shield Skip

Since this category doesn't begin with a BiT save, Sword and Shield Skip is not strictly required to leave Ordon after meeting Zelda. To skip Sword and Shield Skip, finish Ordon as intended:

  • Meet Zelda
  • Return to Ordon Village
  • Listen to people by dock
  • Scare eagle guy
  • 🠋 Enter Pergie's house
    • Pressing B out of the scaring text prompt to jump down to the rock saves 10 frames.
  • Ordon Shield in Pergie's house
    • The Midna jump from the table up to the shield often fails
  • Ordon Sword in Rusl's house
  • Return to Ordon Spring
  • Ordon Spring warp portal
  • Enter Faron Twilight
  • Routes merge (⮤ return to route at merge point)

Getting to Eldin Vessel (No Gorge Warp Cancel)

  • Re-enter Forest Temple
  • Roll to Ooccoo
  • Leave Forest Temple
    • [Ooccoo's Note / Boomerang]
  • Collect Last Two Tears
  • Vessel completed
  • 1 frame Backflip for text skip
  • Faron Escape
  • Dash to Eldin
  • Postman Skip
  • Enter Eldin Province
  • Transform and kill Gorge Messengers
  • Warp South Faron (Forced Warp to Faron)
  • Faron Escape
  • Dash to Eldin
  • Postman Skip (Even If You Failed First Skip His Trigger Returns)
  • Enter Eldin Province
  • Gorge Skip (14R)
  • Enter Kakariko (no Bulblin trigger on the ground)
  • Get Kakariko Warp Portal
  • Eldin Vessel
  • Routes merge (⮤ return to route at merge point)
Last updated 03/28/2026 – anorakkis