Breath of the Wild Amiibo

Unlocking Amiibo

Before amiibo can be used, you must first acquire the Paraglider and leave the Great Plateau. Once this is done, the option to enable amiibo will be available in the system menu.

After turning on amiibo in the system menu, a new 'Rune' will be in the rune menu, all the way to the right. Use this rune and target an open spot on the ground. This preps the game to receive an amiibo. Tap the amiibo figure to the controller as usual to activate the amiibo.

Amiibo can only be used once per real-life day. This seems to reset at midnight based off the time settings on the console.

All amiibo will work with Breath of the Wild, even ones that are not related to the Zelda series. However, non-Zelda amiibo will simply give random items and have no specific exclusives.

Many of the Zelda-series amiibo have a chance to give exclusive items in addition to their first-time use bonus. It is therefore worth it to use them daily until these exclusive items are collected, if desired.

Smash Brothers Link (Twilight Princess)

The first time (and ONLY the first time) this amiibo is used, Epona will appear. It is strongly recommended to ride her to a nearby stables and register her as quickly as possible. She has maximum stats in all categories. Be careful with her, as she CAN die, and you cannot use the amiibo to get her again. There are rumors of a way to get horses back after they have died, in-game, such as a sidequest perhaps, but details are unknown at this time.

After the first use, some minerals and a chest will appear instead on any subsequent use of this amiibo. The chest will have a rare chance to contain the hat, chest, or legs of Link's outfit in Twilight Princess.

Wolf Link

Wolf Link is an exception to all other amiibo. Activating the Wolf Link amiibo will summon Wolf Link as a companion. The following are points of information that relate only to Wolf Link:

• Wolf Link can be summoned as many times as you wish, unless he dies. Then he will be put on the same once-a-day timer as all other amiibo.
• Wolf Link can be healed if he has taken damage. Simply drop anything edible near him. If he is not at full health, he will seek out edible items on his own (including rare items), unless commanded to stay, or you pick them up before he eats them.
• Whether Wolf Link dies or not, he is healed to full health on the daily reset timer for all amiibo (unless he is actively summoned at the time.)
• Wolf Link is very aggressive. If he sees something that can be attacked, he will attack it. He will wake up sleeping enemies, including world bosses. If you do not want him to do so, command him to stay.
• Just because an enemy has noticed Wolf Link, does not mean he has noticed you. It is possible to get behind an enemy focusing on Wolf Link and Sneakstrike them from behind for critical damage. This is more difficult if the enemy has noticed you both, however, as an enemy that has noticed you both will tend to focus on you instead of Wolf Link.
• To command Wolf Link to stay, target him and press A. Do so again to tell him to follow you. If you tell him to stay, and then move far enough away that he teleports to you, he will revert to follow mode and must be told to stay again.
• You can also whistle (same way you call a horse) to interrupt Wolf Link's current action and have him return to you. Since you can only target him to tell him to stay when he is close, this is helpful.
• No other characters in the game will recognize Wolf Link's presence. There's no easter eggs or character conversations or anything like that. Only you and the enemies can see him or even know he's there.
• In fact, Wolf Link refuses to enter villages, shrines, or dungeons. He will also despawn if you get too far away from him without an opportunity for him to teleport closer (long paraglide voyages often trigger a despawn). Also, you will occasionally get unexplained "cannot be used here" errors, even in locations that are otherwise fine. Just move a little ways and try again. And finally, you have to resummon him every time you die or teleport or he despawns.
• However, he is quite happy to run beside you while you are on a horse, no worries.
• He will sometimes glitch on vertical walls, which can be visually amusing. Simply move far enough away from the wall, and he will either follow you, or if he's stuck, move further and he will teleport to you. Or despawn.
• There seems to be no way to make him manually despawn other than the methods mentioned above.
• When the Sensor or Sensor+ rune detects something nearby, and Wolf Link is not preoccupied attacking wildlife or enemies, and if you're close enough, and other unknown conditions are correct, Wolf Link will trot off in the direction of what is being sensed. If he gets too far away, he will turn around and sit, waiting for you to catch up. If you head in a different direction, he will follow you. This behavior is not 100% dependable as he is again easily distracted, but when it happens it's helpful.
• Wolf Link has a default health of 3 hearts, however, using the game Twilight Princess HD, his maximum health can be increased. To do so, collect as many heart pieces or heart containers as you can in Twilight Princess HD, and then use the amiibo to run the Cave of Shadows in that game, and the health remaining at the end of the trial will become the maximum health in Breath of the Wild. Note that the best method (for Breath of the Wild's sake) is to first collect the maximum of 20 hearts before ever doing the wolf trial, then do the 5-level trial, and use the Wolf Link amiibo to heal yourself right before you leave. It is unknown if completing the 15 and 30-level versions are necessary. However, all three results are recorded on the amiibo, and Breath of the Wild will use the highest result of the three.