King Gleeok locations, how to beat in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

You can also find out more about the following: King GleeokThere is a brand new boss at work Zelda: The Tears Of the KingdomYou can also find out more about the following: The Legend of Zelda series in general — it’s basically the Ultron of the three Gleeok bosses fought across Hyrule.

Even if the Gleeoks in their three basic versions were frightening, King Gleeoks are on a different level. It’s a challenge to get an audience.

Even if you think you have what it takes, or if you simply want to get the Sage’s Will it can protect, you’re going to want to go in prepared. You can read about all the preparations you’ll need if you plan to survive.


King Gleek locations

The four King GleeokYou can also find out more about the following: Zelda: The Tears Of the Kingdom. They are all triple threats of ice, thunder and fire.

King Gleeok is located in:

  • West Hebra Sky Archipelago (-4470, 2175, 1252)
  • Sky Island over Eventide Isle (4652, -3827 and 1065).
  • Sky Island in Gerudo Sky
  • Gleeok Den at the Great Hyrule Forest Depths (0141, 3127, 0622)

Here is what the Sky Island ones look like — with this being the one above Eventide Isle in particular:

A map image showing a Sky island

Sky Island, located on Eventide Isle.
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To get there, you’ll want to head to the Kumamayn Shrine, just east of the Rabella Wetlands Tower. If you haven’t done that shrine, it is part of the ‘The Necluda Sky Crystal’ shrine quest, and it’s a vital step on the way to defeating the King Gleeok for two reasons because of the loot, you get for doing so: the Zonaite Bow.

Link collecting a Zonaite Bow from a chest, with the text, “A Zonai bow that draws power from your Energy Cell. Power drains, and arrows can fly much further according to how long a shot is charged.”

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If you’ve done any of the other Gleeoks, you’ll know how tricky it can be to seal the deal when the boss flies up in the air for its ultimate attack. The King Gleeok goes even higher (relative to the platform, we’re already WaaaaayThe extra distance you can get from this bow is a real game changer.

It’s important to get the crystal into the shrine. That involves taking down a Flux Construct 3 — a super beefed-up version of the Flux Construct fought on the Great Sky Island where you start the game proper.

Link aiming an arrow at a Flux Construct III

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Once you’ve unlocked the shrine and bow, head over to the south-east tip of the Sky Island you’re on and look to the distance. Your destination should be just visible. That’s clearly way too far for conventional Sky Island-hopping, so we’re going to need to get creative.

This device was constructed from a pair of Carts, an Emitter Flame, one Balloon and two fans. You can see it in action below — be aware that unless you have maxed out your battery storage, you’re likely going to want to use some Large Zonai Charges.

Link using a Zonai contraption to fly through the skies towards an island

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Once you’re within striking distance, glide down to the platform.

Link gliding towards a sky island

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When you get to the airport, immediately place your Travel Medallion into Key Items. You can obtain these Travel Medallions from Robbie in Presenting The Travel Medallion. This will allow you to come and go as necessary, and save you the faff next time you fancy fighting it, or if you realize you’re underprepared.

Travel Medallion teleportation animation in action

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Prepare for the King Gleeok

The King Gleeok boss is the hardest you’ll ever face in Zelda Tears Of The KingdomPreparation is essential for both success and survival. Here’s a run-down of what you need.

Healing products

It is obvious that the King Gleeok will batter you within one quarter inch of your life, even if you have more hearts than we do. As a result, you’re going to want a lot of high-quality foods to get you through it.

Link losing all his hearts in a single attack from a King Gleeok

King Gleeok is a powerful enemy that can cause massive damage.
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Tears of the Kingdom refers to Meat Skewers. To make the Meat Skewer with the ‘Full Recovery’ bonus, simply cook 5 Raw Gourmet Meat.

Cooking a Meat Skewer, with the text, “A juicy, filling snack made by grilling small chunks of meat on a skewer.”

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“But wait,” we hear you say. “That’s a rare item!”

You’re entirely correct, but don’t worry; we got you. Head to the Orochium Shrine in the Tabantha Frontier and do a lap of the wooded areas, as far south as ‘Sign Guy’, looking for bears and moose. The quickest and easiest way to do this is on horseback; simply jump (the X button) off the horse to get airborne — a single headshot will net you two or three meat items of Raw Prime Meat quality or greater.

Link aiming an arrow at a moose in a snowy field

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If you cook 5 Raw Prime Meat at once, you get a skewer that restores 15 hearts, so that’s well worth doing, too.

Springs

Spring is a Zonai gadget that can be very powerful.

For the uninitiated, try our tip for beating Lynel in under a minute using just the bow and the spring, and you’ll come back with a new and fierce admiration for this tech.

The Spring should be available fairly early on in the game. If you haven’t found it yet, it can be obtained from the Device Dispenser located in North Necluda Sky Archipelago. This fight was fought with six Springs.

Link standing next to a Zonai Dispenser which rewards two Cannons and a Spring

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Weapons

We’ve already mentioned the Zonaite Bow, which is vital in the final step of the fight, but make sure you have a back-up, too — for two reasons. First, in case your weapon breaks. Second, King Gleeok could shock it out of your hands and hurl it from the platform.

This is not the kind of fight where if you drop a weapon you can go scrabbling — your weapons are like albatross chicks — once they fall away from you, they’re gone forever.

Along with your two bows, you’re going to want to prepare around Four-weapons arsenal. The first two should be the strongest weapon you can make using the element of your choice — fire or ice. Flame won out because there were more Gleeok Flame Horns.

Fusing together a Gleeok Flame Horn with a Gerudo Spear+

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Attach it to a pristine Gerudo Spear from the Depths and you’re looking at a 72 power weapon with Durability Up +.

An inventory screens showing a 72 power Flame-Gleeok Spear

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This weapon will still break around one-third of the way through the battle, so bring another weapon with the same type.

Your third weapon should be the mirror — if you bring two fires, make sure you have a strong ice-type weapon. This is because each Gleeok’s head has a weakness to its opposite element. If during the battle you find yourself on the wrong side of the King, you don’t have time to run around it to get the use out of your best weapon; you need to adapt and swap to the weapon that works for those next few seconds.

Arrows

Finally, and we can’t believe we did this, we got to the final stage of the boss and ran out of arrows. You should have at least 30 arrows, ideally up to 50, before you enter this fight.


How to defeat King Gleeok

Right, we’ve done all the prep; it’s time to go. Sleep until night (this is important for the second phase of the fight, which we’ll explain as we go) and then teleport using the Travel Medallion back to King Gleeok’s Sky Island.

(As mentioned above, we are going to look at a battle at a specific location — the King Gleeok on the island about Eventide Isle — but the strategy here will apply across all encounters.)

Phase One

First, you should hide behind any of the large rock pillars or similar objects. We did this during the Sky Island over Eventide Island encounter. Teleporting into the South-most portion of the Island, we jumped, ran and glided towards the right. Here’s a link to it:

Link hiding behind a pillar in the King Gleeok fight

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The trick for the first two-thirds of the battle is to keep that pillar in the way until you’re ready to go. It’s indestructible; you are not.

Jump on the spring and pound it with your feet to gain airborne. There are two springs, but we only need one at this time.

Link setting up two Springs in the King Gleeok fight

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After we’ve gotten airborne, you need to take out each Gleeok head one by one. The Gleeoks have more health, so you should expect to hit them twice. Fire Fruit, Ice Fruit and White Jelly should all be used to hit the Frost Head. Gibdo Bones can also be used on the Thunder Head. Once you’ve done enough damage to each head, it will recoil in the air and plummet to terra firma.

Link aiming an arrow at King Gleeok

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To avoid falling damage, open the paraglider just before you drop. Equip your best weapon for the head you’re next to and absolutely go to town on it.

King Gleeok suffering damage to its ice elemental head

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After a short time, it’ll get up quickly and chase you off. You can retreat into your Spring and be ready to start again.

A collapsed Link in the King Gleeok fight

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Nevertheless, it is important to note that your device can be destroyed by this boss.

It’s hard to do Phase 2.

After you’ve taken off about two-thirds its health, it will fly away. This monster flies extremely high and attacks you with each of its three heads. Fights at night can make a big difference.

You will notice tiny light beams falling from the skies as you are running around the field. The light blue color represents an ice sphere that can freeze you. Light yellow represents a bolt of lightning.

An airborne King Gleeok against a blue sky

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You can get the best view of the lightning by panning the camera downwards. This is difficult to see in daylight.

Link dodging blue streaks from the sky

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Lightning that strikes the ground will cause an updraft. You need to ride these as high as you can while dodging icicles, lighting and fire — extremely difficult in the absolute chaos that the battlefield becomes.

Link dodging giant icicles

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Easy way to Phase 2.

Or, you can skip all that by pledging your allegiance to the Spring — the one true Zonai device.

Two springs will automatically stack when you take them out of the bag. The springs will stack themselves. Attach them quickly with Ultrahand, then climb up on top. We’re going up!

It is at this point that the Zonai Bow really comes into its own.

Fighting King Gleeok in the air

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Then, watch the heads fall to their deaths.

Fighting King Gleeok in the air

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If the impact at terminal velocity doesn’t terminate it, the final crack from your strongest melee weapon will.

A defeated King Gleeok

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Drops / Rewards for King Gleeok

That was an intense fight. Congratulations if you’ve made it this far — you’ve earned both what the King drops, and what it protects.

You can first grab the treasure it leaves behind: that’s what we did.The five Gleeok wing, the Gleeok Guts (as well as one Gleeok Horn each) and the Gleeok flame horn, Gleeok frost horn and Gleeok storm horn are all required.. They are extremely powerful so grab them.

Look dropped from King Gleeok

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The guts make a “powerful” elixir, the wing has an impressive +24 fuse power You can also find out more about the following: Your thrown weapons/arrows will fly farther. But the horns are also able to offer more. Plus 30 fuse attack powerThey are among the strongest elemental items available in the game.

But wait there’s more. Assuming you fought one of the King Gleeok’s found on a Sky Island (there are three in total to defeat), you can now open the chest for an ultra-rare item — the Sage’s Will.

Finding a Sage’s Will with the text, “The remnants of a former Sage’s resolve. If you gather four of them and offer them to a Goddess Statue, you can deepen your connection with the Sages.”

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If you’re lucky, you might even get to enjoy an amazing sunrise.

Now it’s time to hunt down the other three King Gleeoks… good luck!

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