Mighty Darknut
Description
A Mighty Darknut is a stronger, more heavily armored version of the original Darknut. They have a different appearance than the original, with shining red armor and a long red cape with a black tunic underneath. Their head is also differently shaped from the original Darknut: they have red patterns going down their face and chest. The Mighty Darknut appears in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
How to defeat
1 at a time: The mighty Darknut is much stronger than the original like it says above, but is still simple to defeat in combat. There are a few ways to kill it,
- Using the parry(A) command twice on its back to destroy both the cape and the armor and slashing with the sword(or any other blunt weapon) until it explodes.
- Using the parry(A) command on the Mighty Darknut's helmet then using the Boomerang to daze it, followed by running behind and knocking its cape and armor off.
- Shooting Fire or Ice Arrows at its back until it explodes.
- Shooting a Fire Arrow at it to burn its cape.
- As with most enemies, Mighty Darknuts can be destroyed in one hit from a Light Arrow.
- When facing multiple Mighty Darknuts, it is possible for one to hit another, damaging it if it has been stripped of its armor.
Locations
Mighty Darknuts are rarely found on islands throughout The Wind Waker but the places that they do appear are:
- Outside Ganon's Tower on the path from Hyrule Castle.
- During the third visit to Hyrule Castle.
- In a secret room in Ganon's Castle.
- In the Savage Labyrinth on floor 50, and in few caverns on islands across the sea. The ones with capes are unique however, and do not appear in anywhere other than Hyrule Castle and Ganon's Castle.
Twilight Princess
Although the Darknuts were very few in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, some believe that the one final Darknut fought before entering the battle with Ganondorf was indeed a Mighty Darknut. Some reasons for this thought is because it had different patterns than the other two fought earlier. Also, his armor was blue unlike all other Darknuts in the game except for one fought in the Cave of Ordeals. Another reason is that Ganondorf would be unlikely to put only one regular Darknut as the final defense when two guarded another room in the castle.
Another Darknut in Twilight Princess believed to be a Mighty Darknut is the first one fought in the Temple of Time. Unlike the other Darknuts in Twilight Princess, this one has a different style helm, a round shield, a double-edged sword and unique gold and red markings.
All things said are not certain, just a guess of what might be true. (See also: Darknut)