TotK Chuchus: All Four Kinds, HP, Jelly and Weak Points

The game calls the Chuchu “a low-level, gel-based monster” found all over Hyrule that springs at unsuspecting prey “from the ground or from trees”. There are four kinds, the normal Chuchu and the Fire, Ice and Electric Chuchus, and each comes in three sizes. This page gives their HP and drops from the game’s data, explains how to beat each kind, what every color of jelly is good for, and counts all 479 placed Chuchus by kind and region. The Breath of the Wild Chuchu page covers the earlier game, and the enemy overview the other monster families.

What kinds of Chuchu are there?

The HP is from the game’s parameter files, which list it for the small Chuchus. The game says each Chuchu’s strength “varies by size”, and its data has a separate medium and large version of every kind.

What are Fire, Ice and Electric Chuchus?

The three elemental kinds are, in the game’s words, “engulfed in” flames, freezing-cold air or electricity. Each “tends to explode if attacked from close range”, so the game advises spears, arrows and other ranged weapons, and its tip for Chuchus says to throw something at them from a safe distance.

What are a Chuchu’s weak points?

• The eyes. The damage files give every Chuchu two eye hit points that take double damage.
• Fire against Ice Chuchus. Catching fire deals 9,999 damage to an Ice Chuchu, so a Fire Fruit or Red Chuchu Jelly on an arrow kills it at once. A Fire Chuchu takes no damage from catching fire.
• Any element against a normal Chuchu. A small normal Chuchu takes 10 damage from catching fire, 10 from being frozen and 20 from a shock, each enough to beat its 10 HP. The element also decides which jelly it drops.
• Lightning. A lightning strike deals 999,999 damage to the normal, Fire and Ice Chuchu. The Electric Chuchu takes none.

Keep your distance from the elemental kinds: a close-range hit makes one explode right next to Link. Arrows, spears and thrown weapons are the safe choice.

How much jelly does each Chuchu drop?

Rates are from the game’s drop tables and are the same for every kind: a Chuchu drops Chuchu Jelly, a Fire Chuchu Red Chuchu Jelly, an Ice Chuchu White Chuchu Jelly and an Electric Chuchu Yellow Chuchu Jelly. A normal Chuchu that was heated up, cooled down or shocked before it died drops the matching color instead.

What is Chuchu Jelly good for?

• Fuse and throwing. The item descriptions say a struck jelly bursts: Red Chuchu Jelly “in a ball of flame”, White “in a cold mist”, Yellow “in a burst of electric current”. On an arrow that makes a fire, ice or shock arrow. White Chuchu Jelly thrown into water makes an ice panel, as in the Jochisiu Shrine. See the Fuse guide.
• Plain Chuchu Jelly as water. It splashes like water: it washes the sludge off a Skyview Tower door and cools an Igneo Talus so you can climb it (Stone Taluses). Its item description calls it unstable and says a bit of elemental stimulation changes its form, which is how it turns red, white or yellow.
• Armor upgrades. The Soldier’s set needs 5 Chuchu Jelly per piece at one star, the Snowquill set 3 Red Chuchu Jelly at one star and 5 at two, the Desert Voe set the same in White, and the Rubber set uses Yellow Chuchu Jelly from the start. See the upgrade materials table.
• Elixirs and selling. Jellies are monster parts: cooked with a critter they make an elixir whose effect the critter decides (best recipes). A shop pays 2 rupees for Chuchu Jelly and 4 for each colored jelly.

The side quest Photographing a Chuchu, from Sayge in Hateno Village, rewards Chuchu Fabric for the paraglider; see side quests.

Where do Chuchus live?

The game’s placement data has 479 Chuchus. Most are small: 350 small, 118 medium and 11 large.

A spawn counts toward the region of the nearest surface shrine; for the Depths, the shrine above it. The three in Hyrule Castle, a medium Fire, Ice and Electric Chuchu in the Library, are counted under Hyrule Field. With this many spawns a map would be a solid carpet of dots, so the table counts them instead.

• Fire Chuchus are an Eldin monster: 58 of the 70 are in Eldin, in its caves or in the Depths below it.
• Ice Chuchus gather in the cold: Hebra and Gerudo, with the Depths below them, hold 83 of the 117.
• Electric Chuchus are the most common kind, mostly in Gerudo, Necluda and the Depths under Hyrule Field.
• Normal Chuchus are the ones you meet first, 15 of them on the Great Sky Island.

For the rest of Hyrule’s monsters see the enemy overview, and for a fuller look at one family, Bokoblins.