Battle-Tested Guardian Usage Guide, Combos, and How to Unlock

This guide will show how to unlock Battle-Tested Guardian in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. Additionally, you can find this character's weapon information, builds, combo chart and actions, how to play as Battle-Tested Guardian in Age of Calamity, and more.

DLC Wave 1 Links
DLC Content	Royal Ancient Lab	Vicious Monsters
Flails	Master Cycle	Battle-Tested Guardian

How to Unlock Battle-Tested Guardian & Weapon Information

How to Unlock	Joins after completing The Battle-Tested Guardian
Weapon Used	Battle-Tested Ancient Part
Voice Actor (English)	-
Voice Actor (Japanese)	-

Complete 2 Quests to Qualify for the Trial

Before accessing the Battle-Tested Guardian's trial, you need to complete Applied Research: Clawsome Power and Top-Secret Request in the Royal Ancient Lab.

Completing the two quests unlocks EX Alert: Forgotten Temple challenge and The Battle-Tested Guardian quest.

See the section below to learn what materials are needed for the two quests.

The Ultimate Relic

How to Unlock
Complete the Quest: Applied Research: Clawsome Power
Reward
Qualify for Battle-Tested Guardian Trial Robbie's Curing Agent x1
Required Materials
Report: Monster Ecology ×15	Report: Battle Records ×15	Report: Relic Analysis ×5	Report: Vicious Monsters ×2
Completion Condition
Complete The Future of Hyrule

The Relic of Legend

How to Unlock
Complete the Quest: Top-Secret Request
Reward
Qualify for Battle-Tested Guardian Trial Robbie's Curing Agent x1
Required Materials
Report: Monster Ecology ×15	Report: Battle Records ×15	Report: Relic Analysis ×5	Report: Vicious Monsters ×2
Completion Condition
Complete The Future of Hyrule

Complete EX Alert: Forgotten Temple

In this challenge, you must battle and defeat the Battle-Tested Guardian. Pick your strongest character, and sure to use combat techniques such as Flurry Rush and Weak-Point Smash to defeat it!

Be sure to stock up on some apples as no healing items will appear in this challenge.

Completing this challenge unlocks the completion condition for The Battle-Tested Guardian quest.

EX Alert: Forgotten Temple Challenge Walkthrough

Complete The Battle-Tested Guardian

After defeating the Battle-Tested Guardian in EX Alert: Forgotten Temple, you can now unlock the last quest needed for the Battle-Tested Guardian to join your party as a playable character.

See the section below to learn what materials are needed for this quest.

The Battle-Tested Guardian

How to Unlock
Complete the Quests: The Ultimate Relic and The Relic of Legend
Reward
Ally with Battle-Tested Guardian Robbie's Curing Agent x5
Required Materials
Report: Relic Analysis ×3	Report: Vicious Monsters ×1
Completion Condition
Complete EX Alert: Forgotten Temple

Best Battle-Tested Guardian Builds

Weapon	Best seal
Battle-Tested Gear	Attack Speed
	Alternative seals
	Strong-Attack Damage
	Regular-Attack Damage
Explanation
Although the Battle-Tested Guardian's combos are great for clearing mobs, you need to add in Attack Speed seals to increase the chances of completing its combos without getting interrupted.

How to Play as Battle-Tested Guardian

Battle-Tested Guardian Combo Chart

Regular Attacks
→→→→→→
Strong Attack 1
Press and hold X to aim
Strong Attack 2
→ (Move the left thumbstick to aim)
Strong Attack 3
→→ (Press B to cancel attack)
Strong Attack 4
→→→
Strong Attack 5
→→→→ (Move the left thumbstick to aim. Press B to cancel attack)
Strong Attack 6
→→→→→
Strong Attack 7
→→→→→→
Midair Regular Attacks
→→
Midair Strong Attack 1
→ (Press X to use Finisher)
Midair Strong Attack 2
→→ (Press X to use Finisher)
Midair Strong Attack 3
→→→ (Press X to use Finisher)
Unique Action
Press and hold ZR to target an enemy. All strong attacks will automatically be aimed at the targeted enemy.

List of Battle-Tested Guardian's Weapons

Weapon	Base Atk	Hidden Seals
Battle-Tested Gear	80	Level 25: Chance to KO Weak Enemies: 10% Level 30: Damage to Locked-On Target: +11%
Battle-Tested Spring	55	Level 25: Strong-Attack Damage: +8% Level 30: Regular-Attack Damage: +7%
Battle-Tested Screw	34	Level 25: Ancient-Part Drop Rate: +15% Level 30: Regular-Attack Damage: +4%

Battle-Tested Guardian's Quests

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity Characters

How to Unlock All Playable Characters

Main Characters
Link				Impa				Zelda
Mipha			Daruk			Revali			Urbosa
Secret Characters
Hestu			Sidon			Yunobo			Riju
Teba			Master Kohga			King Rhoam			Great Fairies
Monk Maz Koshia			Terrako			Calamity Ganon			Battle-Tested Guardian
Best Character Tier List
Supporting Characters
Purah				Robbie				-
Villains
Astor				Sooga				-
English and Japanese Voice Actors and Cast