Breath of the Wild: Divine Beast Vah Ruta

Divine Beast Vah Ruta in Location in Loz: BotW.

Divine Beast Vah Ruta is a Dungeon found in Lanayru

To get into the Divine Beast, talk with Prince Sidon who is waiting for you at the reservoir where the Divine Beast is.
Equip the Zora Armor to begin your way into the Divine Beast.
Sidon will point out there are glowing pink orbs that Link will need to hit with Shock Arrows.
To get there, you will need to ride on Sidon and destroy the ice blocks that it will be hurling at you.
As you go around the area you will be dealing with an increasing number of ice blocks.
The spiked Ice Balls will come at Link from behind him. The Ice Blocks will come at Link from in front him.
Get into the waterfall from the Divine Beast and swim up with the Zora Armor.
Once up there, use your bow and arrow to fire a Shock Arrow into the Pink orbs at the top of each leg of the Divine Beast.
Hitting all 4 of the orbs will trigger the next step of the act of freeing the Divine Beast.

Cleansing the Divine Beast

Go on up the stairs and fire an arrow into the Malice Eye which holds the barrier at the top of the stairs.
Go across the room to deal with the Guardian Scout just armed with its eye blast.
Look to the left now. You can see a Malice Barrier at the far end of a pool and just below the surface, on the right, you can see the Malice Eye.
Hit the eye with an arrow to break the barrier.
Go to the left-hand side of the pool and use Magnesis to lift up a hidden chest in the water.
Inside this chest you can find a Ancient Spring
Use Cryonis to lift the gate in front of a terminal.
Go up to the terminal and interact with it to get the Divine Beast Map.
Go across the room, across the pool, to the metal crank.
Use Magnesis to wind the crank and bring the terminal in the water out of it.
Go out the door on the opposite side that you came in through.
Head up the ramp to the right and through the open door there on the second landing.
On this floor, you will immediately encounter a Guardian Scout with a Guardian Sword. Defeat it and then look to the small water wheel in front of you.
In this small water wheel you can see a Terminal on the inside. Just outside the small water wheel you can see the fountain moving it. Target this with Cryonis
Wait for the terminal to reach the lowest point of its rotation and then freeze the water coming out.
Done right, the terminal will have just emerged from the water and start glowing, allowing Link to access it.
Access the terminal and head back onto the main platform.
Break the ice and go to the small area between water wheels.
Ride the paddle up and over to the far side of the wheel itself.
As it comes to the water fountain, jump off it and glide over to the ledge just to the left of the water fountain.
Go to the left and open the chest there to claim the Silver Rupee.
Head back to the area between the two water wheels.
Access your map and have the water come through the top of Vah Ruta closest to its head.
This while start spinning the large water wheel.
Watch the paddles and wait for the paddle with the malice barrier on the bottom of a paddle.
Jump onto the paddle just below the malice barrier. Wait for the paddle to level out then destroy it with a quick arrow shot.
This will reveal a chest with 10 Fire Arrows.
Jump off the paddle at the far side.
Destroy the Guardian Scout there with a Guardian Spear.
Go over to the left and step on the pressure plate there. This will create a waterfall, allowing quick access to this upper area.
Across from you is a bridge leading to the middle of the large water wheel.
Glide over to the bridge and head to the middle of the large water wheel.
First, wait for the 2 sliding stone blocks to show up.
Freeze the top block as it is getting close to the top of the wheel arc.
Go and open the chest to claim the Ancient Core.
Quickly get away from the chest and start waiting again.
When you see the glowing sphere sitting against the center of this water wheel, freeze it as it is getting past the middle point on the top.
This will hold open the gate just in front of the terminal.
Rush into the terminal's chamber and activate it. Once again, quickly step outside the chamber.
Head to the waterfall you trigger before this and swim up it to its top.
Immediately after Link launches out of the waterfall, use the paraglider and go to the ledge with the chest on it.
In the chest you will find a Knight's Halberd.
Drop the ledge below the one you are on. Head into the open hallway going toward the head of the Divine Beast.
Get to the end of the hallway and then access your Map.
Lower the trunk so it is flat.
Glide out to near the end of the trunk. You can see some Malice and a Malice Eye. Just in front of the eye is a chest.
Destroy the malice eye. Inside the chest you will find an Ancient Shaft.
Once collected, tell the trunk to said most of the way up, 4th notch from its top.
Return Link to the hallway that he had just emerged from.
Lower the trunk back down.
Glide out to the very end of the Trunk and then balance Link on the end of the trunk as you tell it to raise up.
Once again, set the trunk to the 4th notch from the top.
Head across to the far side of the end of the trunk.
Drop when you can to the wall just behind the terminal on the underside of the trunk.
Wait for the trunk to stop moving and interact with the Terminal.
Jump from the trunk and go over to the left-hand side of Vah Ruta's Back where you can see a Malice Barrier.
Land on this side and look across to the other side.
You can see the Malice Eye for this barrier on the far side.
Use a long range bow for an easy shot or set the arc appropriately for any other.
This will reveal the chest that was blocked by the Malice.
Open it to find Ice Arrow x10.
Turn to the head of Vah Ruta and glide over to it.
There is a small opening that Link can drop through to land a walkway inside Vah Ruta's head.
On this walkway, look toward the Trunk to see a Malice Eye. Destroy it with an arrow.
You will see another metal crank you will need to interact with using Magnesis.
Wind it to open the roof of Vah Ruta's head.
Adjust the trunk to its 5th notch from the top.
This will get the water spout to put out the fire around the final terminal.
Drop down to the terminal and interact with it.
This will activate the central terminal.
Turn and head away from the head of Vah Ruta.
Just next to the first crank is the ramp down to the central terminal.
Go and interact with the Central Terminal to summon the boss of this dungeon, Waterblight Ganon.

Waterblight Ganon

Rush into the Waterblight Ganon and start attacking him with your melee weapon.
Be careful while close to the Waterblight. It can raise its spear and than stab it into the water, creating a blast to knock Link back.
Keep in close and attack. Be sure to shield when you see the Spear being raised.
This will continue until Link gets the Waterblight below 50% health.
This will bring the Waterblight into the second phase. The water level rises and 4 platforms rise up from the ground.
The Waterblight will summon up Ice Blocks to throw at Link.
Link can either use the Cryonis rune to destroy the incoming blocks or fire an arrow at it to break it.
It can summon up to 5 ice blocks to hurl at Link.
Link can also dive into the water behind the raised stones to avoid the incoming ice blocks.
It can also raise its spear and strike across most of the area.
It can also raise the spear and throw the spear at Link.
This spear attack attack is best dodged.
Try to hit the Waterblight in the head to stun it.
Once stunned, rush the Waterblight and attack it.
When reduced to 25% or less, the Waterblight will start to use the Guardian Laser attack.
These attacks can be reflected if you have practiced some. They can also be avoided by keeping nearby the stones.

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Breath of the Wild: Divine Beast Vah Ruta

Contents

NPCs

Summary

Location

Nearby Locations

Items

Walkthrough

Accessing the Divine Beast

Cleansing the Divine Beast

Waterblight Ganon

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