TotK Infiltrating the Yiga Clan and Exam: All 5 Frog Statues

The Yiga Clan has three side adventures in Tears of the Kingdom. This page covers the first two, Infiltrating the Yiga Clan and The Yiga Clan Exam. The exam needs the full Yiga outfit, which is exactly what Infiltrating the Yiga Clan has you collect, so do them in order. The third, Master Kohga of the Yiga Clan, is on Master Kohga. Every side adventure is on all side adventures.

How do you start Infiltrating the Yiga Clan?

The Yiga Clan Hideout sits high in a canyon in the Gerudo Highlands (Show on map). At the door you meet Mimos, who wants to join because he heard he could learn a “cool move” here, the Earthwake technique. The quest log reads:

“It sounds like only Yiga Clan members can enter the Yiga Clan hideout. To join the clan, you need to visit the three branches and collect the clan attire.”

Where are the three Yiga outfit pieces?

Each branch holds one piece. Defeat the Yiga there, then talk to the person inside:

The Maritta Branch piece takes one more step: after the fight, use Ascend through the square hole in the ceiling. Details for each piece and the set bonus are on Yiga set.

With all three pieces on, go back to the hideout gate and you are let in, which completes the quest: “Now you can come and go from the Yiga Clan hideout as you please.”

What can you do in the Yiga Clan Hideout?

The hideout runs a training challenge where you defeat Yiga Footsoldiers within one minute. The first try is free, then 100 rupees a go; 3 defeated earns Yiga Fabric, 6 teaches the Earthwake technique, and 9 earns the Lightning Helm. See all minigames. A Yiga in the hideout also sells the Duplex Bow for 88 rupees.

Where is the Yiga Blademaster Station?

Behind a waterfall beside the new road through Gerudo Canyon (Show on map). A traveler who came to share recipes warns about it: “Especially around that new waterfall along the road with the suspicious entrance behind it.”

Wear the full Yiga outfit before you knock. In the outfit, the guard says “You’re Yiga Clan, huh? All right. Come in.” Without it, nobody answers.

How do you pass The Yiga Clan Exam?

Talk to the Yiga Blademaster inside and accept the test. In Gerudo Canyon there are five frog statues with Yiga Clan markings, and you must offer a mighty banana at each one. The blademaster hands you some bananas to start; if you already carry plenty, you get rupees instead: “I see that you are well-supplied with mighty bananas already. Good. It is wise to be so readily prepared for anything.”

Set The Yiga Clan Exam as your tracked quest and all five statues appear on the map. Stand at the offering dish in front of each statue and put a banana on it.

If one eludes you, a blademaster at the station has advice: “If you cannot find a frog statue, challenge yourself…to think things through from a different angle.” Several statues are in caves or under cliffs, where you cannot see them from above.

What is the reward for The Yiga Clan Exam?

With all five offerings made, return to the station. “You pass the blademaster exam!” and you may enter the inner room. Its chests hold a Ruby and a pristine Eightfold Longblade (not the decayed one), and Suariwak Shrine is there as well; the blademaster only says to “pay no heed to the strange glowing ruins you may find inside.” The shrine’s blessing chest is on Suariwak Shrine.

What chests are in the Yiga Clan Hideout and the station?

By the game’s placement data the Yiga Clan Hideout has 3 chests: a Sneaky Elixir, a decayed Eightfold Longblade and an Eightfold Blade. The Yiga Blademaster Station has 2, the Ruby and pristine Eightfold Longblade in the inner room you reach after passing the exam. Click Show on map to move the map to that chest.

Click “Show on map” to move the map above to that spot.

Related guides

• Yiga set: where each outfit piece is and its upgrades.
• Yiga Clan: fighting Yiga members and their hideouts.
• Eightfold Longblade, Mighty Bananas.