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Cook food and elixirs that give a Defense Up buff to raise your defense in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (TotK). Read on to learn how to increase your defense, its effects, and more!
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One way to permanently raise your defense is to wear armor with high base defense stat. The Champion's Leathers (Champion's Tunic) is a recommended body armor to use due to its high defense and can be obtained early on inside Hyrule Castle.
How to Get the Champion's Leathers Early
Another way to permanently increase your defense is to upgrade your armor at the Great Fairy Fountain. Doing so permanently increases the base Defense stat of the armor piece that you have upgraded.
You can also cook food and create elixirs that grant the Defense Up to temporarily raise your Defense.
Note that only cooked food and elixirs with the "Tough" prefix on their names give the Defense Up buff, so be sure to check your recipe carefully before creating them in the cooking pot!
Recipe | Ingredients |
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Tough Meat Skewer | ・Ironshroom x5 |
Tough Elixir | ・Rugged Rhino Beetle x1 ・Any monster part x1 |
Defense Up reduces the number of hearts when you take damage from enemies or environmental factors such as falling from great height. This buff comes in handy in the early game as you start with three hearts and low stat armor.
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