Breath of the Wild Guide: Divine Beast Vah Medoh

Our The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild guides will help you with every Divine Beast, which are basically this Zelda’s take on the classic dungeon. Here’s how to activate all the terminals in the Rito Divine Beast, Vah Medoh, and then take out the boss at the end.

For help with the other Divine Beasts, check out these guides:

Divine Beast Vah Ruta (Zora)
Divine Beast Vah Rudania (Goron)
Divine Beast Vah Naboris (Gerudo)

1 of 8 Map: Once you're inside the beast, immediately look behind you, towards Vah Medoh's tail. You'll find a chest and some more of that black ooze. Towards the right of the chest is the eye you'll have to shoot to make the corruption go away. Return to the entrance, taking care of the goop when you see it. When you get to the updraft, pull out your paraglider, and rise up to the platform that has metal blocks on it. From there you're a quick jump and one single guardian away from the map terminal. With the map you can tilt Vah Medoh's wings right or left, and that will be crucial to finding every terminal.

2 of 8 Terminal #1: From the map terminal, head towards the sliding platforms in the middle of the room. Jump onto the middle stone platform and then open your map and tilt the right wing downward, which will allow you to enter the right wing. Strike the orange crystal to open the portholes on the side of the wing, which will power the two mini turbines on the roof. Tilt the bird so that the right wing is now slanted upwards, and as the wing rises, use the Magnesis rune to hold the metal cube on turbine attached to the roof rail so that it doesn't slide away from the current of the wind. A large mallet will strike the button in the room as the wing tilts, opening the gate where you can activate the first terminal.

3 of 8 Terminal #2: From the first terminal head back to the central chamber and then glide across and down into the left wing, shooting the evil eye blocking the path as you go. Strike the orange crystal underneath the ramp in the first room to open the portholes, and then climb up the ramp and use the wind current to glide across the room towards the second terminal located in the alcove.

4 of 8 Terminal #3: Jump down from terminal two and head over to the orange crystal. Place a round bomb into the funnel nearby and then detonate it to clear away a rock in the next room. Head over to the open porthole and jump out, paragliding further down towards the tip of the wing and into the porthole connected to the next room, then activate terminal three. To exit this room, use a bomb to destroy the cracked wall in the corner, then use the Magnesis rune to throw the boulder into the push plate next to the porthole, which will open the gate leading into the first room.

5 of 8 Terminal #4: Head back to the porthole you jumped out of earlier, and paraglide down to the platform below on the right. When you land, turn around and look for the alcove across the gap underneath the tip of the left wing. Glide down here from where you are, and then activate the fourth terminal.

6 of 8 Terminal #5: Raise the left wing, and then glide back across to the central body of the beast. Circle around and proceed towards the underside of the right wing. Look across the gap to see a cable cart and an evil eye, which you should try to shoot down with an arrow. Once the eye has gone, tilt the wing so that the cable cart comes back to you, then get in and tilt the wing once more to slide back towards the tip of the right wing. Head upstairs to activate the fifth terminal, and then head onto the roof of the beast to take on the boss.

7 of 8 Windblight Ganon - Phase One: Windblight Ganon attacks almost exclusively at range, making this a fairly consumable-heavy encounter that will test your accuracy and your arrow capacity. In the first phase, the boss will attack with either a volley of four shots from his arm cannon, which you can avoid by taking cover behind the pillars of the arena, or with a close-medium range whirlwind attack that will chase you for a few seconds after it spawns. During this time, he will also repeatedly teleport around the stage, often to places high up where he can't be attacked by melee weapons. During this phase, you will want to try and land consecutive strikes on his single eye, which will cause him to fall to the floor and become vulnerable to a melee combo. If you're having trouble landing those precise shots, try using the nearby wind tunnels to sail up high, then slowing time with focus by aiming in midair. Repeat this process a couple of times until he swaps into phase two.

8 of 8 Windblight Ganon - Phase Two: During phase two, the boss will continue to use the same attack patterns, only now he has backup in the form of four smaller shards that float around the battlefield. This extra enemies will attempt to flank you periodically, making it difficult to hide behind the arena columns when they begin to barrage you with attacks. These shards can be shot down temporarily, but you're better off just trying to keep moving around the arena and outrunning their volley whenever possible to conserve your arrow count. The boss also has a new attack in the form of a charged-up beam, but this can be dodged by ducking behind cover whenever you see him winding up the attack with his arm cannon. Repeat the steps in the first phase by stunning and then attacking him with melee weapons, and you'll eventually defeat him for good.