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Where to Find Gloom Hands: Locations and Drops
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The Gloom Hands is an enemy you can encounter in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (TotK). Learn where to find the Gloom Hands and its locations, as well as the materials and items they drop!
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Where to Find Gloom Hands and Locations
Gloom Hands Interactive Map Locations
Gloom Hands General Locations
It is possible to find the Gloom Hands when exploring Akkala Citadel Ruins and Great Hyrule Forest Depths.
If you have a picture of the Gloom Hands, you can set it as a target for your Sensor+, through the Compendium, to detect when one is nearby.
How to Unlock the Sensor +
How to Beat the Gloom Hands
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Get On A Platform and Wait for Them to Disappear
The easiest way to defeat Gloom Hands is to climb up onto a platform where they cannot reach you, and simply wait for them to disappear. You can also achieve this by running around. They will then leave behind Dark Clumps when they disappear.
Keep Your Distance
Keep your distance from the Gloom Hands, for they will inflict Gloom on you, which reduces your maximum hearts, albeit temporarily. Hit them from afar with arrows instead of attempting to melee them.
Gloom Status Condition: How to Cure
Defeat Them All at the Same Time With Explosions
Gloom Hands can be killed, and the easiest way to achieve this is to fire explosives like Bomb Flower arrows. These will produce AoE damage, which stuns them and reduces their HP quickly.
Use Rocket Shields to Fly Up in the Air
You can fuse a Zonai Rocket to your shield and use it to launch yourself in the air and keep firing off explosive arrows to damage it.
Fighting Gloom Hands while on the ground gives you a major disadvantage as it'll just snatch you with its hands as soon as you get near it.
How to Get Rocket Shield: Stats and Effects
Cook Sundelion Dishes
Sunny dishes can help you recover hearts damaged by gloom, which Gloom Hands can inflict with its attacks. You can get these dishes by cooking with Sundelions.
Sundelion Locations and Where to Farm
Get Gloom Resistance
Eating dishes made with Dark Clump can get you the Gloom Resistance effect. This can prevent you from getting inflicted with gloom when battling Gloom Hands.
Additionally, you can also exchange your poes to get the complete Depths Set. Equipping this set can lessen the damages you can get from gloom attacks.
Dark Clump Locations and Where to Farm
Defeat Them All
Defeating one or two hands will only force the Gloom Hands to regenerate the missing parts, so it's best to attack them all as a group. You can use explosives like Bomb Flowers and Fire Fruits to inflict collective damage.
Bomb Flowers Locations and Where to Farm
Attack While It is Frozen
Another method of beating Gloom Hands is to defeat each one while frozen. You can use Ice Fruit, Ice Keese Eyeball, or Ice Like Stone to freeze Gloom Hands.
Keep in mind that they have to stay frozen when they die, or else they will keep respawning.
Run Away if Unprepared
If you do not want to fight Gloom Hands, you can simply run away from it and force it to despawn. Since this is a tough fight to beat, it is better to run away from it if you're unprepared, especially as it spawns Phantom Ganon after.
However, if you do want to fight it later, make sure to set a pin your map to track it easier in the future.
Gloom Hands Overview
Gloom Hands Basic Info
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| Compendium No. | 999 |
All Possible Drops
 Dark Clump
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Spawns Phantom Ganon on Death
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Phantom Ganon will spawn after defeating Gloom Hands. He serves as the second phase of the battle, so make sure you're prepared for that if you plan to fight Gloom Hands.
List of Similar Enemies
 Phantom Ganon |
Gloom Hands |
The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Related Guides
List of Enemies
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Anonymous about 2 years
Anonymous about 2 yearsIf you have the sensor + and a photo of phantom ganon it also will trigger gloom spawn locations if you have phantom ganon on the sensor +
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Where to Find Gloom Hands: Locations and Drops
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