Hookshots,(ALttPA Link to the Past | LALink's Awakening | LADXLink's Awakening DX | OoTOcarina of Time | OoT3DOcarina of Time 3D | MMMajora's Mask | MM3DMajora's Mask 3D | TWWThe Wind Waker | TWWHDThe Wind Waker HD | ALBWA Link Between Worlds | SSBSuper Smash Bros. | HWHyrule Warriors | CoHCadence of Hyrule)[2][3][4][name references needed] also known as Hook Shots,(ALttPA Link to the Past | LALink's Awakening)[5][6] are recurring Items in The Legend of Zelda series. They are machines consisting of a chain and hook. When used, the chains extend and send the hook attached toward their targets. If the hooks latch onto certain Objects, Link is projected toward those Objects. Link can also use them to pull Enemies and Objects toward him.
In most of its appearances, the Hookshot is found inside Dungeons. Several Dungeons featuring the Hookshot are Water-themed or flooded, including the Swamp Palace in A Link to the Past and Catfish's Maw in Link's Awakening. The Hookshot is often guarded by the Dungeon's Sub-Boss, becomes necessary for navigating the remainder of the Dungeon, and is required to defeat the Dungeon's Boss.
The Hookshot's primary use is to grapple onto far away Objects to reach otherwise inaccessible areas. It can also be used as a replacement for the Boomerang, allowing Link to acquire or strike distant Objects like Rupees or Switches and attack Enemies. In most cases, being struck with the Hookshot will only stun an Enemy, but the attack can defeat weaker Enemies such as Keese. Other Enemies, such as Like Likes, will instead pull Link toward them when hit by the Hookshot, which can endanger Link and his other Items.
In 2D Zelda games, the Hookshot can aim in the four cardinal directions and latch onto specific solid Objects such as Blocks, Treasure Chests, certain stones, or Pots. It is often used to pull Link over pits and unsafe hazards. In the 3D games, the Hookshot can also be used to reach higher or lower elevations. Objects that can be grappled onto in these games are usually marked with a bulls-eye Target. In Ocarina of Time, the Hookshot is aimed with a laser-like dot. In Ocarina of Time 3D, this dot is surrounded by an extra red ring to indicate a viable Object, and the Hookshot can be aimed by moving the Nintendo 3DS.
A Link to the Past
Descriptions
A Link to the Past instruction booklet
Hook Shot
This device consists of a long chain with a hook on the end. You can fling the hook into a tree, pot or treasure chest and then pull yourself to the location of the hook by reeling in the chain. This will enable you to cross holes in the ground or other such obstacles. The Hook Shot can also be used as a weapon.
A Link to the Past & Four Swords instruction booklet
Hookshot
Use the chain attached to this hook to travel to distant points. It can also be used as a weapon.
The Hookshot allows Link to explore many areas, primarily in the Dark World. He can use it to grapple onto Pots, Skulls, and small Treasure Chests to pull him over gaps. In addition, the Hookshot can stun certain Enemies and instantly kill a few others. While firing the Hookshot, Link is briefly unable to move, but temporarily invincible. This is seemingly to prevent damage from Enemies or traps while grappling.
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Link's Awakening instruction booklet
Hook Shot
The business end of the Hook Shot can be thrust into pots, treasure chests or blocks. You can then reel in the chain and pull yourself to the hook. This grappling hook can also be used to attack enemies or pick up items that are out of reach.
The Hookshot is found in the fifth Dungeon of the game, Catfish's Maw, and behaves similarly to the Hookshot of A Link to the Past. In this game, it can be used to grab several bridges, extending them toward Link to use as platforms.
In order to acquire the Item, Link must defeat the Master StalfosSub-Boss, who has taken it from a Treasure Chest inside the Dungeon. The Master Stalfos runs away multiple times during the fight, and Link must track him down before he is defeated.
Slime Eel is the Boss of Catfish's Maw. It is a giant eel-like monster that attempts to prevent Link from waking the Wind Fish. Link can use the Hookshot to pull on its head, revealing its weak point.
Ocarina of Time
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Ocarina of Time instruction booklet
Hookshot
There is a hook at the end of an expandable chain that can grab onto certain objects. This is helpful when trying to get to hard-to-reach places. A red dot marks the distance you can travel. The Hookshot can also be used as a weapon (even underwater). When using, if you see a red dot, your target is in range. As the adventure progresses, you can extend the length of your chain.
An upgraded version of the Hookshot, the Longshot, can be found in the Water Temple. The Longshot has a much longer reach than the regular Hookshot.
The Hookshot is required to enter the Forest Temple. The Temple's entrance is too high to reach until Link aims the Hookshot at a nearby Tree. He uses the tool in similar ways, crossing gaps and avoiding traps, for the rest of the game.
The Hookshot can be aimed around the environment from a stationary point with a first-person perspective. While Targeting, however, Link can aim up and down while moving side to side.
It is useful for collecting Gold Skulltula Tokens and killing weaker Enemies. However, firing the Hookshot at Like Likes or ReDeads will instead pull him toward them.
While battling the sixth Boss, Morpha of the Water Temple, Link relies heavily on the Hookshot, using it to extract the creature's vulnerable nucleus.
The Hookshot is the only Item that can be used underwater (except in the Nintendo 3DS version, where the Iron Boots and Hover Boots were mapped to buttons.) Certain Enemies live underwater and can only be killed with the Hookshot. The Water Temple features this type of combat extensively.
Majora's Mask
Descriptionshide ▲
Majora's Mask instruction booklet
Hookshot
This item has an expanding and retracting chain with a hook on the end that can grab on to certain objects, pulling you to them as the chain retracts. When you aim, a red dot indicates the hook's range. It can also be used as a weapon or to grab items in hard-to-reach places.
The Hookshot is found in the Pirates' Fortress in Majora's Mask and acts as it did in the previous installment. It can only be used by Link in his human form. In addition to having a new golden design, the chain of the Hookshot is even longer than that of the Longshot from Ocarina of Time. Certain Enemies can be pulled toward Link using the Hookshot such as Blue Bubbles, which also temporarily lose their blue flames when pulled to him. This can be utilized in the battle against Wart by pulling its protective blobs away in a similar fashion to Arrghus. However, this will only get rid of the blobs one by one, while Items like Deku Nuts can knock off multiple blobs at once.
In addition to the functions established in previous 3D installments, this version of the Hookshot interacts with the Iron Boots. If Link fires the Hookshot while wearing the Boots, he becomes too heavy to be pulled toward his target. In this way, he can use the Hookshot to pull heavy stones toward him, such as the one imprisoning Makar.
A Link Between Worlds
The Hookshot can be rented for 50 Rupees or bought for 800 Rupees from Ravio's Shop in A Link Between Worlds. The Hookshot can be upgraded to the Nice Hookshot by Mother Maiamai, if Link has purchased the Hookshot from Ravio's Shop and has found at least 10 Lost Maiamais. The Nice Hookshot deals more damage and extends farther.
The Hookshot can be used to grapple onto Switches as well as Wooden Plaques, which Link can then quickly Merge with. Certain floodgate Switches in the Swamp Palace can only be grabbed with the Hookshot. These change the water level of the Dungeon.
Otherwise, it is similar to the Hookshot of A Link to the Past and is used to defeat the updated version of Arrghus.
The following section is not part of the Zelda canon and should not be taken as such.
In Hyrule Warriors, the Hookshot appears as an item obtained in the "The Shadow King" Scenario. The Hookshot is used to grapple onto ledges, indicated by a bulls eye target overhead and a glowing space when the Hookshot is selected. It can also be used to grapple onto enemies and quickly move toward them, sometimes also while performing an attack on certain enemies in some instances, such as on Aeralfos when it is in flight. The Hookshot can temporarily be upgraded by finding a item upgrade power-up in battles, which increases its strength for its duration. In this state it can also be used to pull and crash a tiny Moon onto enemies. Its duration can be increased by crafting WhipBadges. The Hookshot is also used to pull down and stun Argorok when its tail glows blue, as well as weaken a part of Ganon when his tail glows.
In Adventure Mode, the Hookshot is also an Item Card that allows to unlock a new area of the map upon completion.
The following section is not part of the Zelda canon and should not be taken as such.
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The Hookshot appears as a key item that can assist Cadence, Link, Yves, and Zelda in reaching areas that would otherwise be out of reach to them, along with stunning and knocking back enemies.[7] It can later be upgraded to the Longshot.
フックショット (Fukkushotto)(ALttPA Link to the Past | LALink's Awakening | LANSLink's Awakening (Nintendo Switch) | OoTOcarina of Time | MMMajora's Mask)[10][11][12][13][14]
钩索 (Gōu suǒ)(ALttPA Link to the Past | LALink's Awakening | LADXLink's Awakening DX | LANSLink's Awakening (Nintendo Switch) | OoT3DOcarina of Time 3D | MMMajora's Mask | MM3DMajora's Mask 3D | TWWThe Wind Waker)[17][17][17][17][17][17][17]
Arpione(ALttPA Link to the Past | LALink's Awakening | LADXLink's Awakening DX | LANSLink's Awakening (Nintendo Switch) | OoTOcarina of Time | OoT3DOcarina of Time 3D | MMMajora's Mask | MM3DMajora's Mask 3D | TWWThe Wind Waker | HWLHyrule Warriors Legends | CoHCadence of Hyrule)[28][29][30][31][30][32][30][33][34][35]
↑"In addition to destroying walls with bombs, you can attack distant enemies with arrows, climb up walls with the Hookshot, and more." — Nintendo of America, Hyrule Warriors Direct 8.4.2014 , YouTube (video), published August 4, 2014, retrieved August 4, 2014.
↑Encyclopedia, Dark Horse Books, pg. 127(ALttPA Link to the Past | LALink's Awakening | OoTOcarina of Time | MMMajora's Mask | TWWThe Wind Waker | ALBWA Link Between Worlds)
↑Vous avez obtenu la carte d'objet « Grappin » ! — N/A (Hyrule Warriors Legends, Canadian French version)
↑Grappin Une chaîne montée sur ressort qui se déroule puis se rétracte. Visez une cible pour vous y tracter. — Inventory (Ocarina of Time 3D)
↑Vous obtenez le Grappin! Le Grappin se lance sur les parois. Il peut s'allonger ou se rétrécir. — N/A (The Wind Waker, European French version)
↑Vous avez obtenu une carte d'objet « Grappin » ! — N/A (Hyrule Warriors Legends, European French version)
↑Du hast den Enterhaken gefunden! Du kannst ihn sich festhaken lassen und dich dann an etwas heranziehen oder dich an ihm herunterlassen. — N/A (The Wind Waker, German version)
↑Du hast den Fanghaken erhalten! Krall dich an Gegnern oder Vorsprüngen fest. So hast du mehr Möglichkeiten, dich fortzubewegen! — N/A (Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition)
↑"Aiuta Link a trovare gli otto Strumenti delle Sirene, collezionando oggetti come i Calzari di Pegaso e l'Arpione, oltrepassando gli impegnativi labirinti e sconfiggendo gli spietati boss." — The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX | Game Boy Color | Giochi | Nintendo , www.nintendo.it, retrieved September 10, 2020.
↑¡Has conseguido la carta de objeto Gancho! — N/A (Hyrule Warriors Legends, Latin American Spanish version)
↑¡Has obtenido el Gancho! Se extiende, se clava y te lleva por los aires. — N/A (The Wind Waker, European Spanish version)
↑¡Has conseguido la carta de objeto Gancho! — N/A (Hyrule Warriors Legends, European Spanish version)
↑"This is the Hook Shot in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. Latch it onto something far away and ZIP, off you go! It's also great for stunning enemies if you hit them with it." — The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - Hook Shot | Facebook , Facebook, published August 15, 2019, retrieved August 15, 2019.