Breath of the Wild amiibo Rewards: 30 Exclusive Items

An amiibo is a loot box you already own, and unlike most loot boxes its table is published. Zelda Wiki's drop tables for Breath of the Wild mark exactly thirty items with one footnote: this item can only be obtained through amiibo. No shop stocks them, no chest in Hyrule holds them, no quest pays them out.

That is the useful frame for the whole feature. Everything else a scan produces — the mushrooms, the arrows, the Knight's Broadswords — you can get by playing. The thirty are the reason to care which plastic figure you tap.

Turning the rune on

In the base game amiibo is a Rune on the Sheikah Slate, enabled from the options menu and unlocked once you have completed one Ancient Shrine on the Great Plateau. It cannot be used inside shrines, during the Eventide Island trial, or inside the Sword Monk's Shrine. Most figures can be scanned once per real-world day.

The Nintendo Switch 2 Edition layers a second daily use on top of that through Zelda Notes after five scans of a figure — that, and the rest of what the re-release changes, is in the Switch 2 Edition breakdown. Everything below is base-game behaviour and applies on both versions.

What a scan actually rolls

A scan is not one roll. It is three or four, and they resolve independently.

Every recognised figure except Wolf Link carries a chest table, so a chest turns up and the question is only which of its two tables gets read. Four fifths of the time it is the boring one.

There is a pity timer, and it is worth knowing precisely. If a single figure has produced four consecutive BigHit chests, the fifth scan of that figure is a guaranteed GreatHit — and the counter tracks that figure alone, so scanning other amiibo in between does not reset it.

Your save file changes the table

Each figure's chest table comes in three versions, and which one is read depends on how far you have got. This is the part that decides whether a scan is worth spending today.

Read the first row again. On the Great Plateau, the rare chest returns nothing for Link (Rider), Link (Archer), Zelda (Breath of the Wild), Bokoblin, Wolf Link, Young Link, both Ganondorfs, Smash Zelda, Zelda (The Wind Waker), Zelda and Loftwing, Link's Awakening Link, Tears of the Kingdom Link and all four Champions — seventeen figures in total. A scan burned there is a scan you cannot spend after the Paraglider, and the daily limit means it costs you a real day.

The four Champion figures are the sharpest example: their exclusive Divine Helm only exists in the Remain table, which needs a Divine Beast cleared. If you want one, do Vah Ruta or another Divine Beast first, then start scanning.

The 30 items only amiibo can give you

Grouped by the figure that drops them. Where two figures share an item, both are listed.

Count the distinct items and you get thirty: five three-piece armor sets (15), the Fierce Deity Mask, Armor and Boots (18), five weapons (23), the Bridle and Saddle (25), four Divine Helms (29) and Sheik's Mask (30).

One thing that is not on that list, despite what its footnote looks like at a glance: Ancient Arrows. The Guardian amiibo can drop them, but only after you have already obtained an Ancient Arrow somewhere else, so it is a shortcut rather than a source. The Calamity Ganon guide covers where they actually come from.

Six drop tables are shared by more than one figure

Compare the published tables item by item and weight by weight, and six of them turn out to be shared by more than one figure — eleven figures across six tables. That matters if you are deciding what to buy.

The Zelda and Loftwing row is the one worth pausing on: item for item and weight for weight, its published table is the same one an unrecognised, non-Zelda figure reads.

The five exclusive weapons, in numbers

All five sit in the rare-chest table, so the headline chance is 20% for the chest to be rare, multiplied by the item's weight inside it.

Those weights are the Remain figures. Four of the five appear only at Remain; the Sea-Breeze Boomerang is the exception, listed at the same 15% from Parasail onward. The per-scan column is just the two numbers multiplied, and it ignores the pity rule, which pulls the real rate up.

Two of those rows are more than novelty. The Fierce Deity Sword at 60 attack out-hits the whole common claymore line — Traveler's 10, Soldier's 20, Knight's 38, Royal 52 — though it does not top the two-handed chart outright: the Royal Guard's Claymore hits for 72 (on 15 durability) and a Savage Lynel Crusher for 78. The Twilight Bow carries 100 durability and fires Light Arrows. Both still break, and durability in this game is a hit counter, not a timer.

The one real advantage amiibo gear has: a weapon out of an amiibo chest is guaranteed to carry a Weapon Bonus, and that bonus always rolls the maximum value for its tier — even though the game colours the text white either way, so a maxed yellow-tier roll can look modest.

The armor sets and the bonus five of them share

Six armor sets come out of amiibo chests. Five of them pay the same set bonus, and it only turns on once every piece has been enhanced twice.

All five hero sets take the same shape of bill — a Star Fragment at every rung, paired with one gem at one star, three at two, five at three and ten at four, on each of three pieces. Only the gem changes. Add the rungs up across three pieces and maxing a hero set costs 57 of one gem and 12 Star Fragments, which is a Star Fragment bill big enough to plan farming nights around.

The Fierce Deity Set is the odd one out three times over. Its set bonus is Charge Atk. Stamina Up rather than Master Sword Beam Up; each individual piece also carries one level of Attack Up, so it does something for you before the set is complete; and its upgrades want Hinox parts, then Lynel Guts, plus a different dragon per piece — Dinraal for the Mask, Naydra for the Armor, Farosh for the Boots, which makes it the one amiibo set gated behind the dragon farming routes. Every one of the six sets can be enhanced by a Great Fairy and none of them can be dyed at the Kochi Dye Shop.

Sheik's Mask is the loose piece: 2 defense at base, then 4, 6, 9 and 16, and it grants Stealth Up. Its four rungs want 1, 2, 3 and 4 Silent Princesses paired with the same counts of Star Fragments — 10 of each to max one hat.

Master Sword Beam Up needs the Master Sword to be worth anything, and that has its own 13-heart entry fee.

The Divine Helms against the Ancient Helm

This is the reward most worth planning around, because it is not a cosmetic. Each Champion figure drops the Divine Helm shaped like their Divine Beast, and it slots straight into the Ancient set.

Same defense curve, same upgrade bill, same set bonus — and the Divine Helm adds a regional resistance and the numeric enemy-health readout on top. The Champion's Tunic is the other source of that readout, so a Divine Helm means the chest slot no longer has to carry it. That is worth weighing against the armor guide recommendation if you own one of the four figures.

The catch is the drop condition. The Divine Helm sits in the Remain rare-chest table at a listed 20%, but Zelda Wiki records an override: a rare chest from a Champion figure is guaranteed to contain that Champion's Divine Helm, as long as at least one Divine Beast is freed and you do not already have it. So the real work is getting a rare chest at all — which is where the four-scan pity rule earns its keep.

Wolf Link is a companion, not a chest

The Wolf Link amiibo produces no items in any table. It summons Wolf Link, who follows you, attacks enemies and animals on sight, and — with the Sheikah Sensor switched on — walks to the nearest tracked object.

Three rules govern him:

• His health is set outside this game. An unregistered amiibo gives a 3-heart Wolf Link. One registered through Twilight Princess HD's Cave of Shadows gives a Wolf Link with however many hearts he had left when he finished that dungeon.
• He cannot enter towns or dungeons, will not follow you into either, and scanning the amiibo inside one does nothing.
• Death costs you a day. Once defeated, he will not appear from a scan again until the next real-world day. He can be summoned indefinitely while he still has hearts, and he eats nearby healing items out of combat to top himself up.

A Remote Bomb caught on him deals three hearts of damage, which on a 3-heart Wolf Link is the whole animal.

Epona costs exactly one scan

Scan a Super Smash Bros. series Link or the Twilight Princess Link for the first time on that save file and you get Epona and nothing else — no items, no chest. The one condition Zelda Wiki attaches is location: used somewhere horses are disallowed, the rune summons items normally instead.

So take that first scan somewhere open. Every scan of the figure after that reads the ordinary drop table. Where Epona sits against the White Horse and the Giant Horse is in the horse guide.

A non-Zelda amiibo gives you raw meat

Any figure the game does not recognise as a Zelda character reads the default table, and the default table is thin: 3-4 common items from a herb-and-fruit list, a possible rare item that is Raw Meat 90% of the time, a common chest containing Raw Meat, 100%, and a rare chest entry of "None" at every stage of the game.

Your Splatoon and Animal Crossing shelf is a meat dispenser. It is not nothing — a stack of free ingredients is a stack of free ingredients, and the cooking guide turns Raw Meat into something worth eating — but because that table's rare-chest entry reads "None" at all three stages, an unrecognised figure never produces one.

Four rules that stop scans being wasted

These are the exclusion rules baked into the tables, and each one changes how you should spend a daily scan.

• Armor duplicates are suppressed. A piece you already own cannot spawn again until the full set is acquired. Collecting a three-piece set is therefore not a coin-flip lottery — it converges, and a set takes a minimum of three real-world days on one figure.
• The Bridle and Saddle are one-and-done. Once you have the Traveler's Bridle and Traveler's Saddle, the Rider amiibo cannot give them again.
• Ancient Arrows are gated behind ownership. The Guardian amiibo will not drop one until you have obtained an Ancient Arrow by another route.
• Shields from amiibo cannot roll Shield Guard Up. A bug applies the white-tier Shield Guard Up value to durability instead and labels it Durability Up, which gives amiibo shields two possible Durability Up values and no guard bonus at that tier.

Quick Action Checklist

• Clear one Great Plateau shrine and switch the rune on in the options menu, then leave it alone until you have the Paraglider.
• Do not spend scans on the Plateau. The Normal rare-chest table is "None" for most figures, including all four Champions.
• Clear one Divine Beast before scanning Mipha, Daruk, Revali or Urbosa — the Divine Helm does not exist in the table before that.
• Take the first scan of a Smash Link or Twilight Princess Link in open ground, so it pays out Epona rather than items.
• Track your BigHit streak per figure. Four plain chests in a row means the fifth scan is a guaranteed rare chest — spend that fifth scan on the figure you actually want something from.
• Budget three real-world days minimum per three-piece armor set, and remember duplicates are suppressed until the set is done.
• Enhance every piece of an amiibo set twice before expecting the set bonus. Five of the six pay Master Sword Beam Up; the Fierce Deity set pays Charge Atk. Stamina Up.
• If you own a Champion figure, plan the Ancient set around a Divine Helm instead of the Ancient Helm — identical defense and upgrade cost, plus a regional resistance and the enemy-health readout.
• Do not buy Zelda and Loftwing, Link's Awakening Link, Tears of the Kingdom Link or Young Link for Breath of the Wild rewards. Their tables are copies of generic ones and contain no exclusive item.
• Feed your unrecognised amiibo into the pot. Non-Zelda figures produce food and a chest of Raw Meat, and never a rare chest.