TotK Lynel Farming: Best Lynels, the Floating Coliseum and Drops

Lynels are the toughest regular monsters in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and the best material source: their horns are among the strongest fuse materials, and their guts and hooves upgrade several armor sets. This page picks the Lynels worth farming, shows how to fight many in one trip, and adds up what each one drops. All 34 locations and the map: Lynel locations.

Which Lynels are best to farm?

Pick high colors close to a warp point. Colors below are starting colors (some upgrade as the game progresses). Distances come from the game’s placement data, as a straight line to the nearest shrine or Lightroot.

Twelve Lynels in the Depths stand right under a stable, most of them only 100–200 m from a Lightroot. You can only warp to a Lightroot you have touched; see Lightroots.

Early on, start with the red one under Outskirt Stable. It shares a Lightroot with the Floating Coliseum, so once you are comfortable, head on to the Coliseum.

How do you farm the Floating Coliseum?

The Floating Coliseum sits in the Depths right under the Coliseum Ruins, surrounded by water. Walk to the middle and you are shut in while Lynels come out one at a time: a Lynel, a Blue-Maned Lynel, a White-Maned Lynel, then two Silver Lynels.

Beat all five and the central chest opens, holding Majora’s Mask. The chest pays out only once; after every Blood Moon the five Lynels return and you can run the whole round again. How often it comes and what it resets: the Blood Moon guide.

Each round, the two Silver Lynels alone guarantee 2 Lynel Guts, 8 Lynel Hooves and two pairs of Silver Lynel horns.

How do you beat a Lynel quickly?

1. Shoot it in the head. A head shot staggers it briefly.
2. Mount it. Run in while it is staggered and climb on its back; every hit before it throws you off is free.
3. Repeat. When you are thrown off, back away and shoot the head again.

Other openings, such as Puffshrooms or sneaking onto its back, are on the Lynel page. Eat an attack-up meal first; see best recipes.

What does each Lynel drop, and what is it worth?

Drops and prices are game data; a hoof sells for 50 and guts for 200. Fused to a weapon, the horns add this much attack:

How fusing works: fuse guide. Each Silver Lynel drop has its own page: Silver Lynel Saber Horn, Silver Lynel Mace Horn, Lynel Hoof and Lynel Guts.

How much should you keep for armor?

Guts are the bottleneck: every Silver Lynel drops one, so a Coliseum round gives at least two. Per-piece amounts: Barbarian set and armor upgrade materials. Spare guts sell for more cooked into an elixir; see recipes to sell.

See also

For the first game, see BotW Lynel farming. Silver Lynel parts are also a late-game money maker: rupee farming.

The other five Depths coliseums, their enemies and rewards: coliseums.

How the Arrow x10 bundles Lynels drop compare with shop prices is in Arrow Farming.

Red and Blue-Maned Lynels carry the lower tiers, the Lynel Bow and Lynel Shield or the Mighty Lynel Bow and Mighty Lynel Shield. The Savage Lynel Bows and Royal weapons Lynels carry, and other high-attack weapons you can collect again and again: weapon farming.