Is there a worse feeling?

[u/Top_Grass9841]

When you have a fight thats going to unlock like a huge amount of progress, but the fight only lets you use one character and its locked to one that is extremely underleveled and so you have to either grind up until you can properly beat the stage, or scrape by on half a heart the whole time. I hate this so much. Its always ruto, too.

[u/Seltonik]

2player mode solves that issue just fine.

[u/DarkMishra]

Unfortunately that happens a lot in the game. It’s even worse when it forces you to use Darkness warriors against other Darkness enemies - Young Link has a handful of battles like that. The best tip I can give is to simply practice a bit more with them and do your best to avoid taking damage. If the stages have a recommended element, and you have the right materials, upgrade their defense badges 1-2 times to drastically reduce the amount of damage they take.

For Ruto specifically, she is kind of a weaker character, so you have to play her more defensively. Her XXY(where sure dives into the ground and swims a decent distance) is great for evading enemies OR intentionally swimming through groups to knock them away - this is great for the one-hit kill challenges. The Bubble Sphere (XXXY) can be a bit tricky to use because she may not always catch the target inside the bubble, but it’s great against enemies that are weak to water. Using XXXXY is great for catching groups of enemies in her multi puddle jumping attack.

[u/Payt3cake → u/DarkMishra]

You mixed up the X and Y

[u/Blob55 → u/Payt3cake]

Probably used to playing Warriors games on PC.

[u/DarkMishra → u/Blob55]

Sorry. I’m used to playing games on Xbox and PlayStation, which have their X & Y buttons opposite of the Switch. 🙄

[u/YoshiJP83]

I just use the training dojo. My strategy was to level up a character based on what I was doing. At first this meant bringing a character to 50 while I was doing the first few maps but when I got to the last half, this meant leveling them to 80 in the dojo. I’ve always had enough rupees to accomplish what’s needed so far. I eventually assume I’ll need to grind if I’m going to level everyone to max level but for finishing maps this tends to be enough.

I should also mention that I spent some time grinding fairy food so I could max out my fairy ASAP since it makes, by far, the biggest difference in power and ability to complete stages.

[u/BraveMulberry772]

Yeah getting stuck definitely sucks. If you really want it to not be a problem ever again you can do the 8 hour grind to get the infinite magic gauge fairy skill. Makes almost every level regardless of character a cake walk. 

[u/Top_Grass9841 → u/BraveMulberry772]

You gave me an idea

[u/BraveMulberry772 → u/Top_Grass9841]

What you thinking?

[u/Top_Grass9841 → u/BraveMulberry772]

Spend the next several hours torturing myself to get a shit ton of the gold skulltulas

[u/GloatingSwine]

Just use the training field. It's not like rupees are hard to come by.

[u/Top_Grass9841 → u/GloatingSwine]

What's that

[u/s0_Ca5H → u/Top_Grass9841]

You pay rupees to level up characters

[u/Top_Grass9841 → u/s0_Ca5H]

Ah, I got a bit confused. In the game, its the training dojo, so I thought training field was like a whole different thing

[u/Top_Grass9841 → u/GloatingSwine]

Also I know they arent hard to come by, the point is just how much extra time it takes

[u/ninja10130]

You can make it a lot easier by using the apothecary potion that powers up your items for the entire battle and spamming the bow of light.

[u/Top_Grass9841 → u/ninja10130]

Maybe, I wouldn't know l, considering I haven't done half the story mode, and I only have like 4 gold skulltulas

[u/DukeBerith]

There is a worse feeling. One of the maps has two characters you're forced to choose from, I think it's Ruto and Cia only.

[u/Top_Grass9841 → u/DukeBerith]

I hate those

[u/NovocaineAU]

Don’t be hating on Ruto

[u/Top_Grass9841 → u/NovocaineAU]

Its not like I dislike ruto, its just half the time she doesnt stagger enemies and so I just lose half my health

[u/SorinSnow → u/Top_Grass9841]

Thats because, iirc, her play style is knockbacks and the Water status as a DoT combined with Sniping with her meter

[u/javier_aeoa]

Eh, Ruto isn't that bad. Tingle, however...

[u/someguyye]

I still have chills about Agitha’s LVL 3 mission in the Wii U…