TotK Temple Bosses: All Five, HP, Strategy, Rematches

Each of the five temples in Tears of the Kingdom ends with a boss that you fight next to that temple’s sage, and the sage’s ability is the key to the fight. This page is the overview: which boss is in which temple, how their HP grows with the order you take them in, the essentials of each fight, and where four of them come back in the Depths. Each boss has its own page with the full strategy, screenshots and rematch details.

Which boss is in which temple?

The vows are the key items each sage gives.

How much HP does each temple boss have?

The 1st column is each boss’s base HP, which matches the game data. Reportedly every boss except Colgera and the Seized Construct gains HP for each temple boss you have already beaten, like the Blights in Breath of the Wild; the later columns and the Depths figures are reported values.

By the game data, Beam Emitters do only 20% damage to Mucktorok, Queen Gibdo and the Seized Construct, and arrows do only 60% to Mucktorok. Reportedly every hit on Colgera does exactly 100 damage. You are not meant to wear down the Seized Construct’s 20,000 with weapons; the fence does the work.

How do you beat Colgera?

Colgera’s weak spots are the three round segments on its body, each behind a shell of ice spikes. Skydive into one or shoot it to break the membrane, then hit the core. After a hit it dives into a teleport bubble and charges up from below; dodge with Tulin’s gust. Destroy all three segments twice to win; phase 2 adds tornadoes.

Full strategy and the three Depths arenas: how to beat Colgera.

How do you beat Marbled Gohma?

Break two of Marbled Gohma’s legs with Yunobo’s charge; when it collapses, climb on and hit the eye on top. At half health it clings to the ceiling: launch Yunobo up the curved walls, or knock it down with arrows fused to a Keese Eyeball or Aerocuda Eyeball. When its rocks cage you in, Recall one away and run out.

Full strategy and the three Depths arenas: how to beat Marbled Gohma.

How do you beat Mucktorok?

Mucktorok swims inside a shell of sludge. Hit it with water, from Sidon’s Water Wall or an arrow fused with Chuchu Jelly, and it shows its octopus-like true form; chase it down and hit it. Keep the Water Wall up against the sludge. In phase 2 there are more sludge puddles: wash the middle clear with water and stop it with eyeball-fused arrows when it runs.

Full strategy and the three Depths arenas: how to beat Mucktorok.

How do you beat Queen Gibdo?

You fight Queen Gibdo twice: first outside the entrance once the Lightning Temple has risen, then for real in the Room of Glorious Light on 7F. Riju’s lightning or fire and shock arrows turn her white, and only then does she take damage, so melee her while she is white. In the second part she wakes the Gibdo hives; destroy them with Riju’s lightning first.

Full strategy and the three Depths arenas: how to beat Queen Gibdo.

How do you beat the Seized Construct?

You fight from Mineru’s Construct. Stun it with one charged cannon shot or a well-timed shield block, then hit it three times (four in phase 2) to throw it into the electric fence. When it flies on fans, a charged cannon shot brings it down. The Seized Construct has no Depths rematch.

Full strategy: how to beat the Seized Construct.

Where are the temple boss rematches?

Once beaten in their temples, Colgera, Marbled Gohma, Mucktorok and Queen Gibdo each return three times in the Depths and come back after every Blood Moon. Every win drops materials: a Colgera Jaw, a Marbled Gohma Leg or a Queen Gibdo Wing, while Mucktorok drops 2 Octorok Eyeballs, 4 Octorok Tentacles and 5 to 7 Octo Balloons. Each arena also has a chest that opens once you win, holding a Huge Crystallized Charge; it can only be opened once. The rematches are harder: reportedly there are no platforms against Colgera, Marbled Gohma has no curved walls (so no ceiling phase), Mucktorok’s arena has normal gravity, and Queen Gibdo’s destroyed hives leave no pillar of light.

See also

More big fights: the final battle, the Gleeoks, all 34 Lynels and all 35 Flux Constructs.