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Lake Hylia

To enter Water Temple from Lake Hylia, see Water Temple § Entering Water Temple.

Clip into Lakeside Laboratory

Waterfall Clip

Fire Arrows without Beating the Water Temple

Heart Piece without Gold Scale in LSL

Obtaining the Ruto Letter Oddity

The Ruto Letter cannot be obtained by simply touching it. It can only be obtained while in the diving animation.

Reaching Zora's Domain

As a child, you can easily obtain the Golden Scale Early from the Fishing Pond. If running a route that avoids the scale, you can either use Navi Dive if Navi is available, or clip out of bounds from Lakeside Laboratory.

As an Adult, the entrance to Zora's Domain is permanently blocked off by a wall of ice, but the entrance to Zora's Domain still can be reached by clipping into Lakeside Laboratory once the water is raised.

With Megaflip

This is the fastest if coming from Water Temple

With Superslide Teleport

If the water is NOT raised, you can enter Zora's Domain with a Superslide Teleport you must have no strength upgrade to do this This method is the fastest if coming from hyrule field, or coming from the grass patches

──── Fishing Pond ────

Reach the Fishing Pond Early

Getting to the fishing pond is used in order to steal the rod in order to activate Reverse Bottle Adventure (RBA).

Hookshot / Scarecrow Method

  1. Get Scarecrow's song as child.
  2. Go adult and get hookshot.
  3. Play Scarecrow's song in front of Banooru.
  4. Go over to area in front of pond and play Scarecrow's song, then hookshot the Scarecrow.

Tektite Hover Method

Discovered by Bloobiebla
  1. Get ISG and get target parallel to the wall.
  2. Get inverted camera.
  3. Go in the corner and let the tektite hit you 4 times.
  4. Hold all the way Down and roll. Let go of Down when the roll is finished.
  5. Do 4 rolls without touching the control stick.
  6. Do two backflips (refer to video)
  7. If Link's left arm is over the line created by the top of the land and the wall, you're in the right position.
  8. Do 5 sidehop hovers.
  9. Megaflip onto the land.

This method of pond early is really hard to pull off. Link has to be in the perfect position or he won't make it.

Golden Scale as Child

Discovered by Bettlescars (?)

It is possible to get the Golden Scale without a 15 pound fish, and even to do it as Child Link. Go to the fishing pond and pay to play. Catch a fish that will tie or break the current record (it starts at 6 lbs). Now go swimming in the pond, so that you are in the deep water and actually swimming. Face the manager, hold Z and swim towards him. Without letting go of Z, talk to the manager and tell him to weigh your fish. If it ties or breaks the current record, you will get the Golden Scale. This is a bit faster than getting the Silver Scale as you are then right next to Ruto's Bottle, and do not have to scale Zora's River either.

Enter Water Temple

Noninitial setup

  1. Target Ledge
  2. Sidehop right, sideroll
  3. Sidehop left
  4. Turn Left
  5. Dryroll, Backflip and pull sword mid air
  6. 3 ess right
  7. 3 sidehops right
  8. Backwalk and continue to hold down
  9. 2 frame window for jumpslash, rotate joystick from down to left to up during jumpslash