Stalnox

Stalnox are giant minibosses in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom that stalk the land of Hyrule at night. They are the Stal equivalent of the Hinox and only appear during the hours of 10:00 pm and 5:00 am.

In this Tears of the Kingdom miniboss guide, we will teach you everything you need to know to take down one of these massive skeletal beasts.

Official Description: The remains of a Hinox, a giant monster with only one eye. This skeletal beast appears in the dark and can throw its own rib bones at enemies. Furthermore, even if it appears defeated, it will keep coming back for more as long as its eye is left intact.

Compendium Number: 178

Stalnox are quite common around both Hyrule’s surface, and the Depths. The best one to find, however, is lurking in the Akkala House of Bones. You can find this cavern in the right eye of Skull Lake in Akkala, and you will receive the Biggoron Sword as a reward for its defeat.

The exact coordinates of the Akkala House of Bones are -3249, 3443, 0431.If you’re looking for a Stalnox on the surface, there is also one lurking underneath a pile of rubble in the Zauz Island Well in the Lanayru Wetlands.

The exact coordinates of Zauz Island Well are 1466, -0139, -0015.

If you know you’re going to come face-to-face with a Stalnox, you should bring the following gear with you:

- A strong bow- Arrows- Keese eyes- A strong melee weapon- Gloom resistance if you are going up against a Stalnox in the Depths

The best way to take down a Stalnox is to keep your distance and hit its eye with an arrow. This will make the Stalnox fall to the ground, giving you the perfect opportunity to run in and start attacking it with your strongest melee weapon. Repeat this process a few times, and the Stalnox will fall.

Stalnox are relatively fast, so if you find yourself struggling to hit it in the eye, you can always fuse a Keese eyeball to your arrows to help you hone in on your target.

Sometimes when you hit a Stalnox in the eyeball, it will fall right out of its socket and roll along the ground. If that happens, focus all of your attacks on the eyeball itself rather than the Stalnox’s body.

While incapacitating the Stalnox by hitting it in the eye is the safest way to take one down, they are still vulnerable to melee attacks. If you have more of a guns-blazing sort of attack style, running in and slashing at the Stalnox’s ankles also does the trick.

Stalnox cycle through a range of different attacks during battle. Most of their moves are the same ones that Hinox use, like swiping at you with their hands and trying to sit on you. The Stalnox does have a unique move of its own, however.

Stalnox can rip their ribs off their bodies and throw them at you. This does make them more efficient at long-range combat, but you can dodge them relatively easily.

Stalnox drop the following items upon defeat:

- Stalnox Horn: +29 attack- Hinox Tooth