Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Players Discovers You Can Wall-Jump After Nearly A Decade

Aug 02, 2026 - 01:08

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Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Players Discovers You Can Wall-Jump After Nearly A Decade

TLOZ Breath of the Wild Screenshot from gameplay

Published Aug 1, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will turn a decade old in 2027. That doesn't seem possible, but it did indeed launch on the Wii U and Nintendo Switch on March 3, 2017. The fact that it even launched on Wii U at all is surreal, but just like Twilight Princess before it, it had a dual-console-generational release.

Since that time, it's had a massive impact on the Zelda community, as well as the RPG sector as a whole. Countless developers have tried to replicate its formula with mixed success, and games that look closely like it are still referred to as "clones" by some. You could say it has a sterling reputation.

Part of that is because fans are discovering new secrets and ways to bend the game all the time. That includes this new tech on Reddit, which many players have never seen before.

Link looking on in awe as a mushroom and a piece of meat go flying out of a cooking pot in Zelda BOTW.

Amid hundreds of upvotes for a comment that simply states "I didn't know," there are users who had no idea. As one explains: "I feel like this is a cool trick that is almost never viable but will turn out to be some insane tech for a speedrun or something." "Gotta wait 20 years till someone finds this old tech for their obscure run that for some reason goes viral," another responds.

As one person puts it: "9 years later and I’m STILL learning new things about this game." Another points out that they want to try it in Tears of the Kingdom: "If this still exists in Tears of the Kingdom, anywhere you could build the supporting wall. Marginally less useful since you can just ascend, but that's TOTK movement in general"

Breath of the Wild prepares to build Link a house.

However, it's important to remember that most of the structures in Breath of the Wild don't allow you to wall-jump often. Most of the overworld isn't suited for it, and even the Divine Beasts aren't really conducive to using the wall jump for any discernible advantage.

As one fan points out, you won't get too many chances to use this technique: "Yeah wall kicks are great, it’s unfortunate there’s basically nowhere in the entire game that lets you use this. Even in most caves the walls are never close enough."

Still, it's a nice tool for the tool belt when it comes to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild replays. Folks are going to be revisiting this one for decades to come, so it's nice to have in your back pocket.