Brilliant Zelda BotW trick disarms Leunen and suddenly makes the baddies look stupid

Not only do the golden lions look menacing, they are also some of the toughest enemies in Zelda BotW.

In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild you can mess with the Leunen. They are much more difficult to fight than, for example, Ganon, especially in their golden master mode form. But if you want to make life a little easier for yourself or have problems with any other opponents, you can simply get rid of their weapons with a simple but ingenious trick. Then they look pretty stupid.

Zelda BotW: How to disarm Leunen and other enemies

How it works: In order to be able to disarm an opponent of your choice, you must first lure the villain into the Gerudo desert. Or at the gates of Gerudo town. There you have to talk to the guards and trigger the cutscene that denies you access. If the opponent is in sight, he is then without weapons.

For this you have to consider the following: If you have already disguised yourself as a Vaai with the appropriate clothes, the whole thing will not work. Then you can just enter the city. But you must be recognizable as Vooi to start the cutscene that disarms the enemies. They also have to be within sight for everything to work.

This is what it looks like:

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It’s really a huge satisfaction to see this dumbfounded Leunen like that. The creature seems to be really wondering where its huge weapons are all of a sudden. Splendid!

On the other hand, the trick also has disadvantages: Of course, the best part about defeating a lion is picking up their weapons afterwards. Leunen wield some of the best and most powerful weapons in the entire game. Just letting them disappear only makes sense if you already have your pockets full anyway.

On the other hand, if you’re really good, you don’t really need any weapons to defeat a heavily armed Leuen. Some can even do it naked, just with a bookshelf, or you can do it with weapons in insane record time:

While we’re still beating up Leunen in Zelda BotW, the sequel The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will finally be coming in half a year:

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We are extremely excited to see what awaits us in the next Zelda part. So far, for example, it is not even certain whether the Leunen will celebrate a comeback at all. An Iwarok could already be seen in the trailers, but not yet a Leune. It also remains questionable whether the opponent system will return with the coloring and a master mode.

How do you find the trick? Have you already disarmed one or the other opponent?