The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD Guide Dungeon 7: City in the Sky

Task 5: Battle the Aeralfos

Chamber 13: Basement Fan and Battle Chamber (B3)

Chamber 13 is a small circular room. The pottery around the perimeter provides the regular items: Hearts, arrows, and a blue Rupee (5). Of more interest is the bulb handle above a roaring fan. Clawshot to the handle, and equip your Iron Boots to shut the fan off. Then lower yourself down through the now-still fan blades.

Aeralfos

Step 1: The Aeralfos is an airborne creature with great speed and nasty attack patterns. However, he is incredibly susceptible to the following strategy. First, ZL target the creature. When he’s flying like this, wait.

Step 2: As soon as he changes his pose, flapping his wings quickly and shielding himself, he’s preparing for a nasty swooping charge!

Watch out! Some of the perimeter floor is unsafe, so stay in the middle and constantly ZL target for best results.

Step 3: As soon as you see him change pose, launch a Clawshot straight at the shield. You pull the Aeralfos down and expose his belly. Quickly unsheathe your sword and really bash and slash the foe, getting at least four good strikes on him. He flies up to the ceiling, and Step 1 begins again.

After four or five collections of slashing, the Aeralfos flies off! He soon comes back and tries a huge airborne charge. Circle your camera around the room to constantly check each of the openings on the upper walls of the room. When you see him re-enter the room immediately ZL target him and use your Clawshot to pull him down to the ground. If you get the Aeralfos on the ground and he’s blocking, either use your Back Slice or Shield Bash (followed by the Helm Splitter) techniques to break his guard. If you don’t have either of those, just keep swinging away; you have a chance of getting a few hits in even when he has his shield up. Keep this up until he falls.

Missing Links

1. Pot Luck

After (or during) the combat, there’s a load of pottery to smash around the arena sides. However, there’s some on the holes in the walls too, and the best way to bring these items—usually yellow (10) or blue (5) Rupees or Hearts—is to aim with the Gale Boomerang.

Treasure Chest: Once you’ve destroyed all pottery look west, as a gate has opened. Clawshot up to the medallion, and run to the chest. Inside is what you’ve been waiting for: a second Clawshot, which doubles your shooting prowess!

The Double Clawshot is possibly the finest pair of items ever seen in the land of Hyrule!

Treasure Chest #8:

Double Clawshot

You got another Clawshot! Now you’re holding a pair! They’re Double Clawshots!

The Double Clawshot allows you to hang from a medallion or other vertical grating or vine and raise or lower yourself with up and down. However, in addition, you can aim (either manually or with ZL targeting) to a second medallion, grating, or vine, and propel yourself around rooms without touching the ground. You can do the same (except for raising or lowering) from horizontal vines, gratings, and medallions. This is an excellent new toy; equip it now!

Remember that you can be hanging from a medallion and raising (Up on the Left Analog Stick) or lowering (Down on the Left Analog Stick) yourself while you’re manually looking at the next Clawshot target!
Also note that you can hang from any Clawshot-friendly surface and use the second Clawshot as a weapon (to rid yourself of Chus or Keese, for example).
Be sure to look for new ways of solving puzzles using both Clawshots. You can’t separate them now.

Use your Double Clawshot and fire it at one of the ceiling medallions, then face west and shoot at the vine in the fan hole. Propel yourself up and out, then return to the tower.