Best Fuse Materials and Weapon Combinations

Silver Lynel Materials and Rare Ores can provide various effects to your weapons and shields in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (TotK), making them the best Fuse Materials to use in the game. Read on to see all the best Fuse Materials and Weapon Combinations you can try in Tears of the Kingdom.

Best Melee Weapon Fuse Materials

List of Best Fuse Materials for Melee Weapons

Fuse Material	How to Get
Silver Lynel Saber Horn Fuse Attack Power: 55	Description: This piercing horn is sharpened to a point for maximum poking. Attach it to a weapon to vastly increase its attack power. Cook it with a critter to make an elixir. How to Get: Defeat Silver Lynels
Silver Lynel Mace Horn Fuse Attack Power: 51	Description: This wickedly barbed Silver Lynel horn is as hard as a diamond. Attach it to a weapon to vastly increase its attack power. It’s also a precious elixir ingredient. How to Get: Defeat Silver Lynel

Silver Lynel Horns are the Best Fuse Materials

Silver Lynels provide the strongest Fuse Materials in the game. You can get these horns from defeating one single Silver Lynel.

If you haven't encountered or cannot defeat a Silver Lynel yet, you can use other monster horns instead. All monster horns provide great amount of Fuse Attack Power, so make sure to always fuse any monster horns you have if you want extra attack boost.
Best Weapons and Shields

Silver Lynel Saber Horn Boosts Lightscale Trident's Power to 154

Lightscale Trident Information
Lightscale Trident Base Power: 22	Description: A spear of peerless grace cherished by the Zora Champion Mipha. Although Mipha specialized in healing abilities, her spearmanship was in a class all its own. How to Get: Complete Sidon of the Zora → Talk to Dento

Lightscale Trident can double your attack power when wet. Without any fuse materials, you can get a base power of 44 with the only condition of being wet. If fused with Silver Lynel Saber Horn, the total base power rises up to 77, doubled to 154 when wet.
How to Get the Champions' Weapons

Best Shield Fuse Materials

List of Best Fuse Materials for Shields

Fuse Material	How to Get
Wing	How to Get: ・ From Zonai Dispensers ・ Great Sky Island Overworld ・ Hyrule Depths Overworld
Muddle Bud	How to Get: ・ Near large trees in the Depths
Puffshroom	How to Get: ・ Near large trees in the Depths
Bomb Flower	How to Get: ・ Near large trees in the Depths ・ Hyrule Caves
Ruby	How to Get: ・ Break mineral deposits. ・ Defeat Stone Talus ・ Randomly from Dondons
Sapphire	How to Get: ・ Break mineral deposits. ・ Defeat Stone Talus ・ Randomly from Dondons
Topaz	How to Get: ・ Break mineral deposits. ・ Defeat Stone Talus ・ Randomly from Dondons
Gleeok Thunder Horn	How to Get: ・ Defeat Thunder Gleeok
Gleeok Frost Horn	How to Get: ・ Defeat Frost Gleeok
Gleeok Flame Horn	How to Get: ・ Defeat Flame Gleeok

Wing Shield Triggers Slow Motion Effect

Using Wing Shield can help you shoot arrows carefully as it activates the slow motion effect. To do this, first fuse your shield with a Zonai Wing. After that, Shield Surf with your Wing Shield and Press ZR quickly before landing to trigger the slow motion effect.

Attach Gems to Use Their Effects

Using gems as fuse materials can add their respective effects to your shield. Any enemies that hits you while shielded will trigger its effects and you won't get any damage from from the blast.

The effect from gems can be used multiple times, which is very useful when inflicting the effects on multiple enemies.

Muddle Buds Confuses Enemies

Muddle buds are useful when fused to shields, especially to a large group of enemies as they'll start fighting each other once they come in contact to the cloud released by a Muddle bud when an enemy hits it.

Puffshrooms as Smokescreens

Enemies hitting your shield with a Puffshroom fused to it will create a smokescreen. Enemies in the smokescreen won't see you and this w ill give you an opportunity to launch a sneakstrike on them or run away.

Shields with Bomb Flowers Won't Damage You

The explosion from Bomb Flowers won't damage you if it explodes while fused to your shield. This is great for damaging a large group of enemies. Once the bomb flower explodes, you need to fuse another one to your shield.

Gleeok Parts Will Also Add Elemental Effects

You can also attach Gleeok Horns to add elemental effects to your shield. However, unlike with gems, you will need to parry to active their effects.

Fuse Guide

Best Bow Fuse Materials

List of Best Fuse Materials for Bows

Fuse Material	How to Get
Keese Eyeball	How to Get: ・ Defeat Keese
Gibdo Bone	How to Get: ・ Defeat Gibdo
Bomb Flower	How to Get: ・ Trade using Poes ・ From Caves ・ From Depths
Cannon	How to Get: ・ From Zonai Dispensers ・ From Sky Islands Overworld ・ From Depths Overworld

Use Keese Eyeball to Track Enemies

Attaching a Keese Eyeball when shooting arrows will help you track moving enemies. This is a very helpful method to take down enemies that are difficult to hit like Master Kohga. You can also save your arrows this way as it can help you strike down enemies without missing.

How to Beat Master Kohga

Best Transportation Fuse Materials

List of the Best Transportation Fuse Materials

Fuse Material	How to Get
Bomb Flower	How to Get: ・ Trade using Poes ・ From Caves ・ From Depths
Spring	How to Get: ・ From Zonai Dispensers ・ From Sky Islands Overworld ・ From Depths Overworld
Rocket	How to Get: ・ From Zonai Dispensers ・ From Sky Islands Overworld ・ From Depths Overworld
Cannon	How to Get: ・ From Zonai Dispensers ・ From Sky Islands Overworld ・ From Depths Overworld

Make Big Jumps with Bomb-Flower Shields

You can use Bomb-Flower Shields to jump higher and easily reach elevated areas. Simply fuse a Bomb Flower to any of your shield to make a Bomb-Flower Shield. After that, Shield Surf to activate the shield's effect.

You Can Also Jump Higher with Spring Shields

You can also use Spring Shield to jump higher. To make one, simply fuse a Zonai Spring to any of your shields. However, like Bomb-Flowers, you can only use it once.

Make Rocket Shields

Using Rocket Shields can also help you reach higher areas. To make one, simply fuse a Zonai Rocket to any of your shields. Unlike the shield fusions mentioned above, Rocket Shields can give you higher coverage when reaching heights.

Use Cannon Shields to Break Rocks

Using Cannon Shields can help you break roadblocks from a distant. To make one, fuse a Zonai Cannon to any of your shield and press ZL to activate.

Best Light Source Fuse Materials

List of the Best Light Source Fuse Materials

Fuse Material	How to Get
Brightbloom Seed	How to Get: ・ From Caves ・ From Depths Overworld
Giant Brightbloom Seed	How to Get: ・ From Caves ・ From Depths Overworld
Star Fragment	How to Get: ・ Use Skyview Towers at night.

Use Brightbloom Seeds to Light Up Dark Areas

You can attach a Brightbloom Seed to your arrow to illuminate dark areas from a distance, immediately activating on landing. You can also use Giant Brightbloom Seeds for better coverage.

Fuse Star Fragments

You can also fuse a Star Fragment to your weapons or shields to make a light source. This will let you light up a small area around Link when exploring dark areas.

Other Recommended Fuse Materials

List of Other Recommended Fuse Materials

Fuse Material	Fuse Effect
Flame Emitter	Fuse Effect: ・ Allows you to emit fire. ・ Helps you make bonfires. ・ Can burn thorns. How to Get: ・ From Zonai Dispensers ・ From Sky Islands Overworld ・ From Depths Overworld
Ruby	Fuse Effect: ・ Makes fireballs on swings. ・ Helps you make bonfires. ・ Can burn thorns. How to Get: ・ Break mineral deposits. ・ Defeat Stone Talus ・ Randomly from Dondons
Opal	Fuse Effect: ・ Makes waterballs on swings. ・ Removes mud. How to Get: ・ Break mineral deposits. ・ Defeat Stone Talus ・ Randomly from Dondons
Sapphire	Fuse Effect: ・ Freezes enemies on contact. ・ Creates ice blocks on water. How to Get: ・ Break mineral deposits. ・ Defeat Stone Talus ・ Randomly from Dondons
Shard of Light Dragon's Spike	Fuse Effect: ・ Helps you recover hearts when fighting. . How to Get: ・ Break mineral deposits. ・ Defeat Stone Talus ・ Randomly from Dondons

Use Flame Emitters to Make Fire

Using Flame Emittters as fuse materials can help you generate fire instantly. When using a Flame-Emitter Shield, you can emit fire from the shield's direction. Flame-Emitter Club, on the other hand, will only generate fire on swings.

Use Shard of Light Dragon Materials to Regenerate Hearts

Striking enemies with weapons fused with Light Dragon Materials can help you recover missing health. This is a good way to make offensive moves without needing to consume dishes or elixirs to recover missing health.

How to Find the Light Dragon

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