Link's Awakening: Enemies
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Armos Knights - Hit these guys with a few arrows, and they are destroyed.
Angler Fish - As long as you don’t touch these creatures, they are harmless.
Anti-Fairy - Destroy these evil enemies with some magic powder, and they are as good as gone.
Anti-Kirby - Indestructible creatures, simply avoid these creatures and your on your way.
Armos Statues - As soon as you come into physical contact with one of these enemies, they come to life. Slash them with your sword a few times, or hit them with arrows.
Baby Moldorm - Hit them with your sword a few times and they are destroyed.
Beamos - They shoot lasers at you. Watch out and don’t run into the laser and hurry to the nearest door you need to get to.
Beetle - These enemies are merely a distraction. They can be destroyed with most any weapon easily.
Bloober - Found underwater, destroy them by slashing them with your sword.
Bomber - These creatures are somewhat annoying, they fly through the air dropping bombs. If you feel like destroying them, shoot arrows at them.
Bombite - They count down, then they explode, if they are staying around you, slash them with your sword right before they explode so they explode at a distance from you.
0Boo - Light a torch to destroy this evil creature.
Bubble - These enemies are invincible.
Buzzblob - These are annoying enemies, few weapons will destroy this enemy. You may sprinkle powder on them and they will talk to you.
Cheep-Sheep - These enemies are found underwater. Slash with your sword.
Crows - These are annoying enemies when in larger numbers. Slash with your sword when they get close enough for you to hit them.
Cucco - Quite a few hits with one of your weapons will summon dangerous numbers of attacking cuccos.
Cueball - Once hit one time, he will change directions, hit him again and so on and so forth, and eventually he will be killed.
Floor Tiles - Some of the floor tiles may hurl themselves at you. Just hit these evil floor tiles with your sword.
Giant Goponga Flower - They are simply nothing more than a bigger version of the Goponga Flowers.
Ghini - Slash these guys with your sword preferably.
Gibdo-Mummy -like creatures. Hit them quite a few times with your sword, and they are destroyed.
Gohma - When its eye is open, shoot an arrow at the eye. Repeat this a few times.
Giant Bubble - Just evade these guys, seeing as they cannot be destroyed with any of your weapons.
Giant Buzzblob - Hit these creatures with your arrows or boomerang in order to destroy them.
Giant Ghini - Slash these dudes with your sword.
Goponga Flower - These are enemies that need to be destroyed either with bow -wow or with one of your more special weapons.
Dodongo Snakes - Place a bomb right in front of their mouths, and they will eat the bomb, the bomb will explode and hurt them, repeat this a number of times.
Giant Keese - Rare monsters, destroy these baddies with your sword preferably.
Golem - Be cautious to not be hit by his attacks, then hit him with your sword as many times as you can, repeat this.
Goomba - Looks like one of the Mario enemies. Use most any weapon to destroy these creatures.
Goriya - Mostly found in woods, these enemies are one of the easiest enemies you will encounter on Koholint. They often use arrows to attack their foes, simply dodge their projectiles and such, then slash a few times with your sword.
Grim Creeper - He has Giant Keese with him. Kill all six of the keese before they retreat! Then he will be in despair and run for it.
Hardhat Beetle - These are annoying enemies. The only way to get rid of these enemies is by using your shield to bounce them into a pit nearby.
Hinox - Strike him with your sword, do this repeatedly, and he will be dead.
Iron Mask - Either use the hook shot to take off the mask and then hit them with your sword, or hit them with your sword in the back.
Keese - These bats are easily destroyed with a strike or so with your sword.
King Moblin - Make sure to get out of the way when he tries to ram you, if you dodge him successfully, he will be knocked out, run up to him, and slash him with your sword a few times, repeat.
Lanmola - Watch for a dirt mound coming up from the sand in order to see where they are gonna go next, then jump to that place and slash their face with your sword.
Leever - These creatures can sink into the sand at will. They will pop up near you most of the time, simply slash them a time or so with your sword.
Like Like - No, they aren’t cakes. If they get you caught in their body, they often take your shield then spit you out. Use ranged weapons preferably.
Mace Knight - Slash this guy with your sword as soon as his weapon is retracted back to him.
Mad Bomber - Strike this guy as soon as he emerges out of his hole.
Mad Thwomp - Ram them in the side with your Pegasus boots, then jump across the gap that is now there.
Master Stalfos - Once you hit him with your sword, he will become a pile of bones, then place a bomb next to his bones, and he will be damaged, repeat this a few times.
Mimic - These are mimics. Simply charge your sword while your back is turned to them, then get right up behind them, then release your charge sword, and these guys are gone.
Moblin - Pig -like enemies on Koholint. Simply slash and slash them with your sword, and they are destroyed.
Octorock - These enemies are often a pain. They spit rocks at you. Simply dodge the rocks, and then hit them a time or so, and they are destroyed.
Pincer - Live in holes around Koholint Island. Simply slash them in the face with your sword
Pairodd - Usually found in pairs. These dudes can teleport to certain places in the room, since their teleportation locations are pre -set, just make them teleport to the other teleportation spot, and then hit them with your sword.
Piranha Plant - These are rare to find in the game, slash these enemies with your sword.
Pokey - Found in desert areas, just strike each layer of their body with your sword.
Pols Voice - These are creatures that can be annoying. Use bombs or other objects to destroy them, they cannot be destroyed with your sword.
Raven - Basically the same as the crows.
Rolling Bones - Jump over this dudes rolling log and then hit the guy with your sword.
Rope - They are snake -like creatures. They can be defeated with a few swipes of the sword.
Sea Urchin - Either take out your shield and shove them out of your way, or destroy them with most any weapon.
Scissor Sand Crab - Simply hit these annoyances with your sword a few times, and they are gone.
Shell Beetle - Really the only advice I can give you to destroying this enemy is ram them, they will flip on their backs, then strike them with your sword.
Shrouded Stalfos - These stalfos wear a protective cloak. They carry a sword and a shield. Striking for their shield often makes a blow, do this a time or so and they are as good as gone.
Shy Guy - These are mimics. Simply charge your sword while your back is turned to them, then get right up behind them, then release your charge sword, and these guys gone.
Smasher - Dodge the ball it throws at you, and pick it up on your own, then hurl it at the creature, repeat this a number of times.
Soldier - Hit them with your sword.
Spiked Beetle - Use your shield to flip them over, then just strike them with your trusty sword.
Stalfos - Skeleton men of Koholint. You can destroy these enemies easily, but they can jump away from harm. Corner them, then slash till they are destroyed.
Star - One slash from your sword will have these guys destroyed, yes, its that easy.
Stone statues - One or so of them in this game fire fireballs at you. You can’t really do anything. But maybe shooting them with an arrow or so will make something appear.
Tektite - Koholint’s ancient spiders. They jump with ease highly. Make sure to destroy these enemies quickly. A few strikes of any weapon will destroy this enemy.
Thimp - Smaller version of the thwomp. Run past these guys with your Pegasus boots.
Three Of A Kind - Hit one of these guys with your sword, and it will stop cycling and stop on the phase it was on when you hit it, match the others to this same kind of phase, and something good is bound to happen.
Thwomp - Large stone, just run past them with your Pegasus boots, or perhaps get on top of them to use them as a stepping stone in a gap.
Traps - Usually one of these are on each side of a door or other place you need to get to. Simply jump over them to get past them.
Vire - The best way to destroy these guys is either with arrows or your hook shot.
Water tektite - This more highly evolved form of the tektite is mainly an enemy that slides around on the water. Use arrows or your boomerang to destroy these foes.
Winged Octorock - These are the same as octorocks, except they are able to jump far distances. Try and hit them, then run where they are about to land, then slash with your sword and they will be hit and destroyed.
Wizzrobe - These are one of the more annoying enemies in the game. Hit them with your sword before they can shoot their projectiles at you.
Zora - These guys will spit projectiles at you from the water. Simply dodge the projectiles, since as soon as you go to the next screen or room they will no longer be a bother.
Zol - All you need to do is hit them once or so with your sword. Some of them when hit change into two smaller Zol’s, then simply destroy the smaller ones with your sword.
Zombie - The best weapon to use to defeat these guys is your sword. But you can really use almost any weapon.