Gohma

Parasitic Armoured Arachnid: Gohma is the first boss in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

Speed strategy

For this method you will use Deku Sticks. These are the most powerful weapons available to you as young Link; they do twice as much damage as your Kokiri Sword. A jumping attack will double that damage figure again, yielding four times the damage of a standard Kokiri Sword swipe. However, a typical attack with a Deku Stick will also break the stick. At top speed you should only use one, however.

Wait until Gohma lands in front of you and either hurl a Deku Nut to the ground or shoot her in the eye with your Fairy Slingshot, to stun her. Pull out your Deku Stick and jump-attack her. The stick will break.

You can now continue to jump-attack with two more Deku Sticks, or you can use Power Crouch Stabs. Since the last attack you made was a jumping Deku Stick attack, your crouch stab has the power of a jumping Deku Stick attack. Two of them will see Gohma off fractionally faster than the Deku Stick way.

Elapsed time: around five seconds.