Best echoes in Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

If you’re struggling to find your groove in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, you may need to upgrade your arsenal of echoes. While you should build up your collection as you progress through the game, you may miss a few echoes.

Below, we list some of the best echoes in Echoes of Wisdom, along with where to find them.

Of the 127 echoes in Echoes of Wisdom, some are immensely helpful in the early hours. Prioritize getting the following six as soon as you’re able:

Make sure to grab these, as they will radically improve your ability to scale cliffs, cross gaps, and solve puzzles.

The humble trampoline, which you get in Suthorn Village soon after starting your adventure, will help you reach most cliffs that are just out of Zelda’s jumping range. While her jump will upgrade later on in the game with the right accessory, this helps get over some early-game humps near immediately and shouldn’t be counted out.

Obtained during the Jabul Waters portion of the game, this echo trivializes any vertical obstacle. They stack on top of each other easily — you don’t have to jump and place them, just stand and keep pressing Y aiming at the same spot and they’ll stack nicely. They also only cost one Tri energy to place, which means the stronger you get, the taller towers of water you can build. Yes.

While there are bombs later in the game, the Bombfish Echo (you also get in Jabul Waters) will carry you until you get proper bombs. Even when you get the bombs, the bombfish is still great, as it doesn’t cost any Swordfighter energy the way your item bombs do.

You get this echo in the Gerudo Desert portion of the game, and while you can skip it by accident, you need to have the Flying Tile Echo to make this game significantly easier. The flying tile will carry you across large horizontal gaps, so you won’t have to build janky bridges anymore.

You’ll find crows everywhere in Hyrule Field and these greedy little birds help with rupee farming and are just great to use as allies. The first time a crow hits an enemy, rupees will explode out of the enemy, making 5-10 rupees per enemy. They also only cost 1-2 Tri energy (depending on how far you are in the game), so you can have an army of crows to help distract and take down enemies.

Yes, even if you don’t necessarily need the bed anymore to make staircases and bridges, it’s still one of the more useful tools in the game. Sleeping in the bed allows Zelda to regain health. The comfier the bed, the faster she restores her health, so make sure to keep your eyes peeled for bed upgrades along your journey.

There’s also something hilarious about just taking a little nap in the corner during a boss fight to restore some HP.

These echoes are mostly found in later areas and have higher energy costs than the ones we list above. The above echoes are already some of the best echoes to use to transport yourself across Hyrule, but if you need some more muscle for late-game, these are the ones to grab:

We explain where to find them and our reasoning more below.

If you get annoyed by enemies that are flying or too far for your usual echoes to reach, boomerang boarblins are the way to go. Even better, this one is the stronger version, which you can find in the western Gerudo Desert, so they’ll make quick work of any flying enemies giving you grief.

The wizzrobe comes in three flavors, found in different areas: the Ice Wizzrobe in Hebra Mountains, the Fire Wizzrobe at the Eldin Volcano, and the Electric Wizzrobe in the Faron Wetlands. These guys are annoying to defeat, since they teleport around, so just imagine siccing them on your enemies. They hit hard and last for a while since they keep moving around. These are particularly useful against bosses that require you to do certain elemental damage, like the Gohma in the Faron Temple and the bosses in Lanayru Temple.

While these icy golem heads don’t deal very much damage, they do freeze enemies very quickly. If you’re getting swarmed by many enemies at once, this helps soothe the situation, putting a bunch of the enemies on hold so you can take them out one-by-one until they’re all dead. You can find freezards both in the Hebra Mountains and in the Lanayru Temple.

Yes, of course. It’s a no brainer that the Lynel Echo is the strongest one in the game. It can tank a ton of hits and dish out some pretty wild damage. That said, you’ll have to find the lynel by following the hoofprints in the Eternal Forest and then take it down before you can use this powerful echo, making it a true endgame beast.

For more, see our list of where to find all echoes. Beyond that, our complete Echoes of Wisdom main story walkthrough, interactive map, and locations for heart pieces and fairy bottles can point you in the right direction toward what to do next.