Companion Glitches

Stored Hop Glitch

Discovered by azer67

By calling a statue in Tower of the Gods and picking it up on a specific frame of it's hop cycle (the first frame), you will be able to grab the statue but with the hop stored: this means letting go of the statue by pressing B, taking out the leaf or getting damaged will cause the statue to hop out of Link's hand instead of just dropping down.

This is most useful in order to skip the scales room in Tower of the Gods without the use of a Tingle Balloon.

This glitch also works with Medli and Makar, and causes them to start flying out of Link's hand instead of hopping, but there is no use for that so far.

Medli Drop Trick

If you frame perfectly press B to drop Medli on the first frame after entering a new room, Medli's saved room number id doesn't update to that new room. This means that if you were to leave the room and come back, she will not be in that room anymore and instead will wait for you in the last entrance she took before the drop trick was done.

This glitch only happens with Medli of all companions.

Sliding Medli

Discovered by azer67

Medli doesn't have an animation for sliding off slippery slopes. By using the command melody and putting Medli on such a slope (for exemple, on an elephant statue), Medli will slide off and continue sliding on the ground, keeping the sliding speed. The camera will stay locked.

Floating Medli

Discovered by LegendOfLinkk

Pull out the wind waker. Floormasters are not frozen when you have the wind waker out. Wait for the floormaster to grab Medli but then make sure the floormaster gets hit by a ray of light to drop her, then go out of the wind waker. Medli will be stuck in the air, like she has no gravity. You can hit here with a bomb to send her flying. Calling her with the Command Melody will end the glitch.

Hovering Glitch with Medli and Floormaster

A glitch can occur where Link keeps on flying forward when Medli gets caught by a Floormaster mid-flight. This requires the floormaster to grab medli in a specific way that is hard to replicate.

Invisible Medli/Makar Softlock

Discovered by LegendOfLinkk

Pull out the Wind Waker before Medli gets caught by the floormaster, and wait for the floormaster to catch her. Play the Command Melody. Medli will get caught and you will be controlling an invisible Medli who can't move. You can't go back to controlling Link or pause the game, thus this is a softlock

This glitch can also happens with Makar.

Makar Teleport

Discovered by adefgames

If Makar is anywhere in the Wind Temple but the first room, and you reload the dungeon either by leaving and re-entering or by savewarping, then there will be an invisible Makar that you can lift in the first room. Lifting Makar there will teleport him back to you, and because he has to go through many rooms to come he will store a lot of speed. By then placing down Makar you can use that speed to teleport accross rooms.

This also works with invisible pots that you can lift after quickspinning the ice that traps them.

Makar Damage Interrupt

Discovered by gymnast86

Pick up Makar right as he gets damaged. A good audio cue for this if pause buffering is inputting the A press on the frame after the bomb audibly explodes. He will continue to get damaged repeatedly while you are holding him. If you throw or let go of him, he will be thrown or slide at hyper speed.

This is a useful glitch to get accross the second room of Wind Temple without playing the Command Melody.

Last updated 01/27/2025 – azer67