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 and most wear different helmets to most other Darknuts. The Mighty Darknut appears in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
How to defeat
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 you can attack it until it is defeated.
- 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:
- You are forced to fight two Mighty Darknuts on your third visit to Hyrule Castle.
- There are some in a secret room in Ganon's Castle. If, during the maze in which you fight Phantom Ganon, from the start you go back, left, forward, left, forward you will find a hidden room where there are several Mighty Darknuts.
- There are two in the room after Phantom Ganon, guarding the door to Puppet Ganon's battle room. They will not come back if they are defeated. One of these two wears a standard Darknut helmet.
It should be noted that Darknuts are only considered to be Mighty Darknuts if they have a cape. Though there are Darknuts with red armour and some with a Mighty Darknut styled helmet in the Savage Labyrinth, Ganon's Castle and on the road to Ganon's Castle, they are not genuinely Mighty Darknuts as they lack a cape.
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)