Evolution of Lynels in The Legend of Zelda Games (1986 - 2023)
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- Evolution of Lynels in The Legend of Zelda games, starting in 1986 with The Legend of Zelda until 2023 with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
[List of games in wich they appear]
1. The Legend of Zelda (1986)
2. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1991)
3. The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Seasons (2001)
4. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (2013)
5. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017)
6. Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer (2019)
7. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (2020)
8. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023)
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You can see so vividly the progression of difficulty. At first you could fight multiple at once with relative ease, then it became challenging to fight just one, and then one just spotting you became a death sentence.
And that's really just gameplay wise, cause we can see in BOTW memories that Link can near-effortlessly take on multiple Lynels.
No even in NES LOZ the player is fighting for their lives, might just be a skill issue with me and the older games, but I've always been oppressed by the lynels
Yeah you don't know what you're talking about
@@DJ-0 so are you going to try to tell me that the lynels in the first game are more difficult than the armored silver gloom lynels of tears of the kingdom?
@@minecrafter3448 to be fair if you know how to fight them lynels are easy
I never knew about lynels until botw, and honestly, that’s my preferred version
Well, I played ALTTP, but I never realized that the "lions" on Death Mountain were Lynels until after I played BotW^^
@@lysilia7523The first time I found a Lynel was on the Death Mountain in The Legend of Zelda. It was one of the first Zelda games I ever played, and so I didn't know how to beat them (I died 😭)
Btw, because I didn't know their names, I called them "Weird Unicorns" because idk, I was just a kid
They went from being just Lion Men on Horse bodies to actually the second scariest thing to see in the open.
Gloom?
Gloom.
Rather Lion Heads with a man Torso on a Horse Body
I saw the Lynels in the first game and thought, “Wow they were easy.”
And then breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom gave me PTSD.
From mere tough enemies to literal boss tier threats.
Silver and Gold Lynels feel boss enemy tier!
Also please tell me I am not the only one who thinks the Gloom hands remind me of Floor Masters in Wind Waker, those things are creepy asf
Keep in mind, a link between worlds had really strong lynels, if I remember correctly, with the max master sword they took 6-8 hits to kill, keep in mind it is strong enough to one shot late game enemies and even the first boss of the game
yeah they were pretty scary to wander into by just going into a side path next to the third dungeon pre master sword
they were so powerful that the only time the harder versions of lorule could be fought was before the last room of the hardest tower, even fully upgrade I rarely try to beat them just because they're too strong especially because they're always severals at a time.
It’s crazy how little the lynels appeared until after Link Between Worlds when they returned and Nintendo made sure to make them threatening and tough
And they dealt a lot of damage.
Nintendo was developing breath of the wild after its release so I would understand if they were preparing us for the sheer terrifying look of the lynels there
Hero of Hyrule is just built different, facing multiples lynels at once, defeating Ganon without the master sword, reuniting the triforce, defeating the thunderbird as well as dark link, and roaming around a larger hyrule comparable to botw due to sheer size, and he was only ten to twelve at the start of his adventure.
0:16 4 lynels at the same time. That NES Link was a badass.
The Hyrule he fought thru was basically the post apocalypse, dude was crazy
Well yeah but BOTW,AOC And TOTK lynels are on steroids compared to NES lynel
Those might as well be baby lynels compared to the modern ones
He's even more badass when you've seen official art works for the first game
He was 10
First time I saw one in BOTW I honestly thought it was a new creature. I wasn’t used to them looking like these massive lion centaurs, I got used to their dorky little sprites from the 2D games. 😅
Same tbh. Ive been a Zelda fan since well before BOTW and i was like "huh, they are in older games?"
First experience was in Breath of the wild. Haven't played the older games. Watching this video now and i'm thinking "hey, that pretty neat! They only had ONE attack"
My thoughts honestly xD I've been playing Zelda for ages and it was hard for me to make the connection. In the spanish version of Botw is named Centaleón
giga chads fused to horses
That was me with the Hinoxes. They look so different compared to the older games, which is for the best considering how goofy and unintimidating they looked
OG Link fought 4+ lynels at the same time. Now thats OP
Well to be fair, they were far easier to defeat than in BotW
Its like talking about WW floor masters And saying they are as easy to beat as gloom hands,i Would like to see you beat gloom hands And PG without using a bow.
BOTW Link can too. Just not when we can play as him (IE, when he’s at full strength).
Which only really further sells how strong this Link canonically is.
@@WillyLongLegs
Just use a Claymore fused with an Ice Gleeok Horn
@vortigaunt_gaming who tf you know killin gleeoks for fun
Lynels went from: “Oh no I’m getting attacked” to “IM GOING TO END YOU”
I honestly prefer the parry method to the Flurry Rush method for fighting BOTW/TOTK Lynels.
If you get the timing down, you can parry and quickly pull out your bow to do a faceshot for a quick stun, then mount them and get in a bunch of free hits with your weapon that cost no durability.
Incidentally, BOTW is a little easier to stun this way, as the stunbox is mostly just the head - in TOTK, the addition of the horns means that you have to specifically aim for the face. Also, I appreciate that the addition of the horns in TOTK means that Lynels actually have a new attack using them. It can still be parried, but it was a surprise the first time I saw it!
That new attack was made to destroy your sheild i swear
imagine if they still had sword beams. scary stuff.
In the most recent games, BOTW/TOTK, their fireballs are pretty close to it.
@@garlicbread8105 well they had that in Link to the Past so it’s pretty close
There's a special Lynel in TOTK Armed with a 2h mace with a giant hitbox, armor and Gloom. Plus Fireballs and Bow.
@@DT-yw4ob Where is it?
there's one like that in that depths coliseum with all the lynel varieties you fight one after another. that type is the 4th and final fight.
I enjoy seeing old classic enemies in the modern games, especially when they take them from zero to 11.
They went from being no stronger than a mobin to one of the strongest normal enemies
The Lynel is my favorite monster in the Zelda series.
Mine too
what's amazing is that this also shows how much of a badass link had become in BOTW the Lynels in that game were more intelligent as in they weren't portrayed as just mindless creatures they were powerful and effect fighters yet link killed them on a daily basis hell the first one he killed earned him the love of the zora princess Mipha when she told him how a Lynel was tormenting her race against her word's he went up to the top of the mountain and dealt with it swiftly and with easy
Certainly one of the glow-ups of all time.
When I was a kid I always felt the Lynel sprite was like this big dog with huge teeth that shot swords...
This is so weird. I've beaten almost every Zelda game (never had a Wii so I missed a few) and I just don't remember lynels in any of them at all. Just strange that there's an entire enemy type that's just not in my memory lol
To be fair, they look very different in the older games
@@DulyDullahan they really hadn’t appeared that often until after Link Between Worlds aswell compared to a lot of other enemies they’re first 3d appearance was Breath of the Wild
@@Doodle1678
The reason for that being that they're canonically exclusive to the Fallen Hero timeline, which relegated Lynels to appear only in select 2D games and the BoTW/ToTK saga
It's quite possible that Zelda fans could grow up playing (for example) OoT, MM, Minish Cap, Link's Awakening, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, and Skyward Sword and *never* see a Lynel until BoTW
@@InhabitantOfOddworld yeah that was their first 3D appearance weird it took them so long to appear in one
@@Doodle1678
Like I say, mainly because the other 3D titles aren't in the FH timeline. OoT is before the time split. MM and TP are in the Child timeline. Wind Waker is in the Adult timeline. Etc.
Lynels only appeared in Hyrule between OoT in the Fallen Hero timeline and ALttP, the next game in the timeline. I guess it suggests that BoTW and ToTK are the Fallen Hero timeline, especially since ToTK refers to the imprisoning war which only took place in the FH timeline
Lynels then: I take few hits to kill and fire sword beams
Lynels now: I could kill you in 5 seconds, with me bare hands!
Imagine what a Lynel would look like in the CDI games
Would be great to have more videos like that one on more zelda monsters
I had a nightmare about totk lynels trying to kill me irl. Freaking scary.
Lynels then:
Yeah can I get a cheeseburger- OH SHIT THAT'S LINK
Lynels now:
Ay Link come ova heya ya wanna piece a' me?
Link at the start of BotW/TotK: "Oh no, a lynel! I either have to prepare sufficiently to face it, or avoid it altogether."
Link at the end: "I need nine silver lynel horns to upgrade this armor set and you're about to be number seven."
@Dawson Glawe what happened to the other 6?
The lynels in totk are safe until the player decides other monsters are “too easy”
I feel like in totk the running slash attack is way harder to get a flurry rush on, not bcuz of the window being tight, but bcuz the lynels initiate the attack so late it wont even hit you if you stand still half the time. It did that in botw but i feel like it happens 90% of the time in totk
Yeah honestly with TOTK it feels like lynels are easier to just parry spam then flurry rush since they constantly use the charge move
@isaiahjoseph7352 i still just flurry rush cuz of the extra damage with royal weapons you can kill them in like 3 or 4 with a good weapon
@@leaffinite2001 same here but I've gotten pretty good at parying the rush
Imagine a field full of lynels in botw/totk...
that was once fully realized with a mod that turned every enemy into gold lynels
you can tell that it took a LOT of death
There's legit one in TotK which have gloom in order to get a certain mask
That is my dream as someone who's late in the game. I wish I could find one easily before, now I just go down to floating colliseum (sorry if I misspelled it) and Hyrule castle depths for the silver lynel supermarket.
Also how about that underground music in the depths , beneath the castle . The atmosphere is just one of fear , such a scary sounding music and aesthetic.
Remember the cutscene in BOTW when Zelda was patching up a small wound on Link's arm after he dispatched an army of enemies, which included multiple Lynels? Link is a beast. Too bad his skill level goes way down when I'm in control of him. Oh well.
i like to think they didnt evolve much in the timeline, and chronologically earlier links are just weirdly skilled
Ah yes, basic sword slash, the most skilled attack
@@minecrafter3448 its difficult to animate skilled swordsmanship with a small medium. Ocarina of Time Link is possibly the most powerful Link period (in hyrule historia's revelation at least,) but he had a basic sword slash, some minor gameplay abilities, and his shield
I’ve been playing the original since the 80s and have now just today learned that those are not centaurs; they’re Lynels
There are also armored Lynels in TOTK, those are fun...
If you wait, it will usually take Lynels a hot minute to take out their weapons in Botw/totk. They will almost never initiate the fight
I liked this because there is NO TALKING!! Thank-you. Some TH-cam really ha e the worst voices and the music of the games is perfect. Also... love the music for the TOTK lynel (i won't spoil where it is...)
Biggest glow up in the franchise
It sounds like they're belching in A Link Between Worlds.
Lynels are always said to be the most intelligent monsters out of everyone, they stare you down when they see you (some of them at least) unless you take out your weapon or get too close, and are very skilled in combat
Another thing I liked was how confused it looked upon seeing baby Sidon trying to face it, and instead focuses on you, a more worthy opponent
See kids, THIS is how you have a glow up
Lynels in 2d zelda: oh no pwease dont hurt me
Lynels in botw: mother fucker i wish you would.
Lynels in totk: oh no pwease dont hurt me.
I always thought the oracle lynels were just 4 legged cat people LOL
This video really said remember when lynels where weak?
Imagine what Chat the Original Link was, fighting multiple lynels on one screen
we went from "oh, im gonna stab ya. I'm a devilish little creature" to "I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds"
Remember when lynels were jokes ya I miss that
I mean, in the Original Zelda, Lynels still WERE pretty much the hardest non-boss enemy the game had to offer, besides maybe Darknuts. (Which makes me feel like TotK's failure to include them is a missed opportunity)
Hell, they were probably still the single enemy that dealt the highest amount of damage per hit.
The player in the video made it look easy, but coming across a room with more than 3 of them was something to be scared of.
Back then, Link's limited movement, and attack range made it pretty hard to successfully attack enemies while avoiding taking damage. It was easy to swing and miss, and it was east to bump into enemies by mistake.
They were never a joke lmao what are you on
@@KaizerHuter BRO TOTK brought back the Gleeok, Gohma (marbled I guess), and Like Like, if there's one thing ToTK got wrong, its not having the Darknuts. Maybe a Lynel + Darknut tag team room would be kinda epic
@@KaizerHuter Also yeah, you can like, really snuggle up to the enemies in BOTW/TOTK and the only thing you have to fear is if it starts throwing hands. if there isn't a weapon actively being swung, its basically just moving terrain
I think Lionel‘s evolved over time mostly because of the fact that they were little and population, and they required more strength if they wanted to continue going on meaning becoming the most menacing thing in breath of the wild
Reminds me of the demons on Doom, regular monster minions turned into a miniboss. Final boss of botw was a joke compared to a lynel tho
Wait… what i didn’t know that lynels… amazing
神トラのあの敵はライネルだったのか、昔からいたんだなぁ
lynels are technically the weaskest in totk because of the radiant armour and Molduga jaw set up
Dang TLOZ Link handled 5 Lynels in one screen like it weren’t nuthin.
Idk if Ive ever watched someone dominate a Golden Lynel in BOTW like this before lol truly impressive
Oh man, the first time I faced a lynel in BOTW I was completely shell shocked. Now I am farming them to get better bows haha. Cheers!
So, Lynels didn’t make their full 3d debut until Breath of the Wild??? That’s crazy!
Lynels went from respectable challenges to peoples nightmares.
Ive never beaten one, but Ive murked Ganondorf/Ganon in botw about a dozen times.
BotW and TotK got the enemy balance majorly jacked up if you ask me...
If you beated ganon multiple time, you definitely have the ability to kill an lynel
Lynels aren't THAT difficult...
@Travis Mattson
For you maybe. I don't parry or flurry rush well at all.
True, somehow Ganon is much easier….
(P.S. You should really practice those skills, just do it with the first Lynel,once you did it, is not that tough)
They're total nightmares in Link Between Worlds.
I didn’t know these guys existed until i saw this video
I hope the sequel to tears of the kingdom has more scary enemies
I hope they make a new system before the sequel lol. The switch was pretty light on power to begin with, and TTOK is the -limit- of what it can handle lol.
I'm not the kind of person to care about graphics or frame rates too much, but there's been a few times in ttok where you could count the frames lol, that's a bit too much. I'm happy with 30fps, the graphics are fine, but oooh boy it can just barely handle it lol.
Ooh and the draw distance, the draw distance and pop-in are very noticable. Again it doesn't bother me, but it's hovering right around that line where fine becomes 'ehhhh'. Like I said, this is it, this is the very limit of the switch lol.
I don't want 3000fps with 8k ultra ray tracing whatever, but I also don't want single digit fps just walking around lol. If I'm blowing a hundred things up of course it's gonna chug, but just running around Hyrule shouldn't have an inconsistent frame rate
@@damiencouturee6240 I’m not gonna argue that the switch handles totk perfectly (bcuz it doesn’t, for all the reasons u said) but i just wanna say that I’ve never experienced frame drops while just walking around. The only times I’ve experienced frame drops is if I’m doing something demanding from the hardware and even then I can quite literally count the separate occasions it’s happened on one hand and I’ve been playing since a day after launch.
I really would like another "dark" zelda game.
I'm not an edgy person, but I do like the scarier vibes of things like dead hand, the shadow temple, the twilight realm, termina, etc.
The dungeons in ocarina of time, majoras mask, and twilight princess were much more unnerving.
The games still had its light hearted fun stuff, but the scary atmosphere is kinda nestolgic in a weird way.
@@vivil2533 I can agree with that. I was thinking that to myself last night while playing TOTK and was doing the mission where you have to chase around for Master Kohga of the Yiga Clan. And I thought to myself how dumb and goofy the Yiga Clan was for a ninja cult dedicated to the worship/resurrection of Ganon...I wish they would have made them more of a serious, darker threat instead of some comic-relief clowns.
@@damiencouturee6240 if the switch was a person TOTK would be the equivalent of waterboarding it. It CAN run it, it can survive it, it can still do it, but GOD it makes it suffer immensely
Biggest glow up in history
So they went from normal mobs to mini bosses! What an upgrade.
Lynels had an insane glow up in BotW
So hard to kill until you learn how to deal with them. In breath of the wild at the end if you wanted to farm them for their equipment or parts, the northern part of the map had a series of lynels to kill one after another after another. Like 3 or 4 of them by this rocky/hilly area.
Missed opportunity to include the armored Lynel from The Depths
1986 Lynels-Pixelated Centaurs with Horns
Link to the Past/Link Between Worlds Lynels-Fire Breathing Lion Centaurs
Oracle of Age/Season Lynels-Dual Wielding Lion Demons
Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom Lynels-Lion Centaurs that Link (the players) decide to hunt like animals.
I didn't realize the enemies in the OG Zelda were lynels lol
They are the best thing in the game. I want a keyring of the savage lynel bow sooooo bad!!
Imo it would be funny if they made one specific Lyenl that could
Talk and have a personality similar to dr girlfriend or shoreleave from the venture bros
Who's really sarcastic, witty and surly.
The fact that botw hw and totk took so much of the video is hilarious
I find it interesting that in botw, they do short range attacks instead of long range, like they've been doing in every 2d game
I like to tease them by challenging and running away from them when im weak but when i get stronger i become very very wild and fight them with all of my might until one of us dies
Fun fact, aside from BOTW and TOTK, Lynels only appear in games set in the Downfall Timeline
Would that make them downfall? Or is it all shite now
@@swavebeatz
BOTW and TOTK all have aspects from all 3 timelines. For example, it is the first time that the Rito and the Zora coexist in a single world. The Rito are explicitly stated to be an evolution of the Zora in the past.
The theory that makes the most sense to me is that there was a timeline convergence which acts as a soft reboot of the franchise. And no, I don’t think it was Hyrule Warriors.
Lynels, in my opinion, are the only enemy to get more difficult with each new game
Armored silver lynel would have been a better final showcase, however you're way better at taking them down than I am.
Did you notice? All the Lynels are from the fallen timeline. 🤔
This can't be real; they're a new enemy that was first introduced in Breath of the Wild & brought back for Tears of the Kingdom, Lynels haven't appeared in any other titles before then
lol
“Get up on the lynel’s back!”
I’m so glad Zelda Breath of the Wild is one the best game and good graphics came around in all Zelda games now I am even more happier Tears of kingdom is also Super good game I hope we see more Zelda games like this in the future
NES link is the strongest Link im the series
Taking on several Lynels and killing them in a few hits
Likely the lynels just got stronger. There’s a whole quest about the most terrifying enemy in the game in botw, so unless everyone else got weaker alongside link, the lynels just got stronger
once you figure out the strategy in beating lynels, i find them extremely easy to beat in totk and botw.
Lil fish homie was about to square up eith a lyanel 😭
Zelda 1 link: fights 4 lynels easily
Hero of the wilds: 👁️ 👄 👁️
Since Legend of Zelda from NES, Lynels are tough as nails. 🙃
Can we talk about how original Link could solo like 10 Lynels in one go. I’m TotK I’m sweating when I see just 1!
What is that green heart rectangle thing by the ultra hand symbol ????
Whoa really? I thought Lynels were new monsters to the series in BotW. Turns out I've alrdy fought them in Link Between Worlds
Link Between Worlds Lynel: BWWUH
Honestly never noticed that the BotW ones will BWWUH too if you hit them.
I miss darknuts. I hope they bring them back for a third sequel.
Let me tell you what. In breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom, lynels always kick my butt especially when I lower their health bars
Clearly somebody doesn't know about the mounting method (BotW and TotK).
Shoot them in the face once, mount them with your highest damage weapon, and enjoy your free hits that DON'T CONSUME WEAPON DURABILITY. Parry every attack and shoot them during the brief stun that does, then mount up. When they do the fire breath or AOE, same as before shoot and mount. Really turns them from a terrifying enemy to a great source of expensive materials and strong weapons!
The main thing I dislike about them in BoTW is how tanky they are. Golden Lyonels feel like a day job to take down. I'm ok with them being harder to parry or deal more damage but jesus christ it takes forever to whitle down their health
Doesn’t matter how they evolved. They have always been terrifying. 😜😜😜😜😜
The Wilds era Lynels are definitely the best
Lynels are adorable lol
Not going to lie but I played most of the games in this video and yet I thought Lynels were a new enemy in BoTW.
big zelda fan... :
ahhhh...... so those were lynels on death mt in ALttP 😬😅
I always thought the ones from Zelda 1 were Horse Heads!
all of the Lynels came from the Downfall timeline as I saw.
Now the the big question lynels vs rajang
It seems that they were buffed since the first game
Too much overpowered in latest games. It's always a pain getting those horns LOL
Well that escalated quickly
Lynels might out class by Gleeoks but it a A+ v A++ grade monsters
I'll just say it breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom lynels are probably the hardest one's
Tbh, no. They’re actually the easiest if you’ve got any skill because of how manoeuvrable link is in botw and totk.
@@flamenami that’s a lot of skill though
@@flamenami they got more than fire breath
nah the hardest lynels are from crypt of the necrodancer
@@Creature_of_the_Land as someone who hunts down all silvers after a blood moon, it really doesn’t