BotW Yiga Clan Hideout: Walkthrough, Chests and Master Kohga

The Yiga Clan Hideout is the Yiga’s base in the Gerudo Highlands, and the place you raid in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to take back the Thunder Helm. It is part of the main quest Divine Beast Vah Naboris, not a side quest: Riju will not face the Divine Beast without her heirloom. This page covers the hideout from the entrance puzzle to the boss. What comes before and after is on the Vah Naboris walkthrough, and the Yiga themselves on the Yiga Clan page.

How do you find the Yiga Clan Hideout?

1. Get into Gerudo Town. Men are not allowed in, so buy the Gerudo outfit from Vilia on the roof of the Kara Kara Bazaar inn first; the Gerudo set page has the details.
2. Talk to Riju in the palace. She asks for help with Vah Naboris, but first the Gerudo chief’s heirloom has to come back from the thieves who stole it.
3. Ask Captain Teake in the barracks. She knows the thieves are hiding out in Karusa Valley, though no soldier has scouted the hideout itself. The other soldiers in the barracks have more to say.
4. Head north of Gerudo Tower. The hideout sits in the cliffs of the Gerudo Highlands north of the tower. Activating Gerudo Tower first gives you a travel point close by.

When you arrive, the Adventure Log warns you: “You can sense many people waiting within—you would be at a disadvantage if a fight were to break out. Sneak into the hideout, and recover the Gerudo chief’s heirloom.”

How do you get through the banner room?

The first chamber is round, lit by torches, with steps and a cloth banner on every side. Each banner hides an alcove: some hold chests, some hold monsters, and one hides the real way in. Burn them with a torch from the room or with fire arrows lit at the braziers.

Two of the alcoves hold chests, a Sapphire and a Purple Rupee. The path behind the true banner leads up to the cells.

Who is in the cell, and why does she talk about bananas?

Just inside is a Gerudo soldier locked in a cell: Barta. She warns you that the thieves will call their friends if they spot you, then gives you the one tip you need: “All I ever see them do is patrol and eat bananas. I haven’t seen anything else that you could exploit as a weakness.”

She tells you she can take care of herself, and she does: your break-in draws the guards away, she escapes, and later thanks you back in Gerudo Town.

How do you sneak past the Yiga Blademasters?

The hideout has seven Yiga Blademasters, each with 600 HP here, and four archers with Duplex Bows. If a Blademaster sees you, he calls for help and the doors close, so it is much easier to stay hidden than to fight. Their weakness is the Mighty Banana: drop one where a Blademaster will see it, wait until he walks over to eat it, and slip past behind him.

1. First Blademaster. Pick up the bananas lying near the start and go down the stairs. Drop a bunch on his patrol route and pass while he eats.
2. Second room. Another Blademaster guards the way out. Hide behind the blocks and lure him with a banana; there are also bananas on wooden shelves high on the walls that you can shoot down. A Sapphire chest is in this room.
3. The big hall. Before you go in, take the ladder up to a side room stacked with bananas and a Topaz chest. The hall below has the rest of the Blademasters. Walkways overhead let you cross above them, there is a Silver Rupee chest on the central platform, and a Topaz chest sits above a doorway.
4. Secret room behind the banners. On the east wall hang three banners. Burn the middle one for a room with two chests, each holding a Gold Rupee.
5. The last room. It looks empty apart from a chest of bananas.

How do you open the way to Master Kohga?

The last room hides everything metal. Use Magnesis and three iron chests light up in the sand: two Topaz and one Ruby. Then look at the walls: one is a metal panel. Pull it away with Magnesis and it opens to the outside, straight into Master Kohga.

How do you beat Master Kohga?

Master Kohga has 300 HP. His shield blocks direct attacks most of the time, and neither he nor his boulders can be frozen with Stasis. The fight has three phases:

1. One boulder. He lifts a boulder over his head to throw at you. Hit him with an arrow or anything ranged while it is up, and it drops on his head. He is stunned for a moment; run in and attack.
2. Two circling boulders. He floats over the big pit in the middle and spins two boulders around himself. Shoot him when one of them is directly above him, so it falls on him and knocks him down in reach.
3. Spiked iron ball. He summons a huge spiked metal ball and moves it with a magnet power of his own. Grab it with your Magnesis, wrest it away from him and ram it into him. Repeat until he is down.

Beaten, he ends up falling into the pit, and a chest appears with the Thunder Helm. The Adventure Log then says: “You retrieved the chief’s heirloom from the thieves’ leader! It’s time to head back to Gerudo Town and return the heirloom to Riju!”

What are all the chests in the Yiga Clan Hideout?

Contents are from the game’s chest data.

What happens after the hideout?

Take the helm back to Riju in Gerudo Town. She then waits for you at the lookout post south of town; with the Thunder Helm she projects a lightning barrier that protects you from Naboris’s bolts while you ride a Sand Seal and hit its feet with Bomb Arrows. The rest of the quest is on the Vah Naboris walkthrough.

The Thunder Helm stays with Riju. You can earn it for yourself later in the side quest The Thunder Helm: solve the problems of everyone in Gerudo Town and Riju lends it to you. See the side quest list for those quests.