Learn how to get all of the Tunics in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on the Nintendo Switch 2. Includes information about receiving these for free, where to buy replacements, and what they’re useful for.
Link’s tunics play an important role in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Without them, it would be incredibly difficult or outright impossible to reach and get through certain areas.
How to equip Tunics
Enter the Menu with the + button, then switch to the Equipment category. On the bottom right, you can select which tunic you wish to equip. Only Adult Link has the option to change tunics.
In this menu, you can use the Right Stick to rotate Link in the preview to get a better look of all the tunic’s details.
Kokiri Tunic
The Kokiri Tunic is the default tunic for Child Link. It’s also the only tunic he’s capable of wearing as the others are made for adults. This is a grass-woven tunic featuring a braided leather belt and beads on the belt and hat.
Hero’s Clothes
After pulling out the Master Sword and becoming an adult, Link gets the Hero’s Clothes. These are very similar to the Kokiri Tunic, but the leather vest bears the image of an owl. This is no doubt a reference to Kaepora Gaebora.
Goron Tunic
The Goron Tunic feature a square wave pattern on the sleeves and bottom with fiery edges. The leather vest bears eyes similar to a dragon’s.
The Goron Tunic allows you to survive areas that are dangerously hot. Such areas include Death Mountain Crater and the Fire Temple.
Without the Goron Tunic in these areas, you’ll catch fire as your health drains away. It also prevents you from being lit on fire. If a Dodongo were to breathe fire on you while it’s equipped, its attack only deals half the damage as the lingering fire damage never takes effect.
It also halves the rate at of damage taken while walking on shallow lava. This does not reduce damage taken from falling into deep lava.
You can acquire the Goron Tunic by talking to Link the Goron in Goron City as an adult. If you stop him with a bomb and agree to help him, he’ll give you the Goron Tunic.
Zora Tunic
The Zora Tunic is made out of fish scales, while the leather vest visualize waves of water. Link also gets a purple belt with this tunic.
The Zora Tunic allows you to breathe underwater. Without it, your health will slowly drain as you suffocate. This makes completing the Water Temple much easier as you’d otherwise have to constantly replenish your health underwater.
You can get a Zora Tunic from King Zora after thawing him from the red ice. You’ll need Blue Fire from the Ice Cavern to melt it, but it’s well worth the effort.
Tunics found in Shops are pointless
As Child Link, you’ve likely been to both the Goron and Zora shops that sell their respective tunics at 600 rupees. Even if you fully upgraded your wallet and have the money, they won’t sell it to you as it won’t fit.
They’re merely there to show what you can get later, but you only get them for free from Link the Goron and King Zora.
The reason they’re there at all is that in the original version of Ocarina of Time, Like Likes were capable of eating your shields and tunics.
If you were too slow to defeat them, you would lose them and need to buy new ones. In the remake, they only eat shields and you’ll always get it back after defeating them.
