BotW Windcleaver: Attack, Durability and Locations

Windcleaver is a two-handed weapon in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The game describes it this way: “This sword is favored by high-ranking members of the Yiga. When wielded by a proficient fighter, its unique shape cleaves the very wind and creates a vacuum.” This page gives its numbers and maps every place the game puts one.

Where do you get Windcleaver?

The game’s world data places it in 11 spots, all carried by monsters. The most are near Yiga Clan Hideout (10), in the Gerudo tower region.

Zoom the map in to tell the points apart, and pick a kind or a monster in the list above it.

The same spots summed by nearest landmark, largest group first. “Show on map” moves the map above to one of them.

• Carried by a monster: beat the monster and it drops the weapon. Most often Yiga Blademaster (11). Monsters get stronger weapons as you defeat more of them, so the one you meet may carry a better one.

How good is Windcleaver?

It has attack 40 and durability 25. How durability runs down is in weapon durability; the strongest picks are in best weapons.

See also

• All weapons
• Best weapons
• Weapon durability
• Interactive map