Be sure to read our Tears of the Kingdom preorder guide as we quickly approach its launch. Here's hoping the upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom adds even more memorable boss fights to the list.

These are the best Zelda bosses of all time, presented in no particular order. It would be almost impossible to rank them all, so we've selected just over a dozen of our absolute favorites. The series has been going on for more than 35 years so it's chock full of inventive, harrowing, and brilliantly designed bosses. Part of the joy of a new Zelda game is discovering all the ways that Nintendo has reimagined Zelda enemies and how to deal with them using your new array of equipment.

And since the Zelda series is steeped in lore with consistent monster types, we've seen lots of different interpretations of similar creatures, or even super-sized versions of standard enemy types. The best Zelda bosses cleverly utilize the unique qualities of the equipment found in their corresponding dungeon, putting your skills to the test or forcing you to think about the new mechanics in a creative new way. For as long as Link has been adventuring his way through the land of Hyrule, there have been harrowing boss battles to match.

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