Damage calculator
Pick an enemy and a weapon to see how much each hit takes off and how many hits it takes to defeat the enemy. Pick a mail to see how much damage Link takes when the enemy touches him. The numbers are the GBA's. When the SNES game does something else, its result shows under them.
Hits to defeat
| Hit points | 4 |
|---|---|
| Hit points per hit | 2 |
| Hits to defeat | 2 hits |
| On the SNES | |
| Damage to Link | ½ heart |
How the game counts it
Every enemy has hit points, and every weapon takes a set number off them with each hit. That number depends on the weapon and on the enemy: the Fighter's Sword takes 2 off a green soldier, and each better sword takes twice as much as the one before. The enemy is defeated when its hit points run out, so the hits to defeat are its hit points divided by that number, rounded up. Some weapons do something else instead: they stun, burn, or freeze the enemy, turn it into a slime or a fairy, or defeat it in one hit whatever its hit points.
Link's hearts are counted in eighths, and each enemy hits for a set amount. The Blue Mail and the Red Mail cut that amount for most enemies, often to a half and then a quarter, but a few hit just as hard whatever Link wears.
The GBA keeps the SNES hit points and the damage to Link for every enemy, but it changed what some weapons do to 17 of them. The biggest change is Mothula: on the SNES the Golden Sword does nothing to it, and on the GBA it takes 16 off with each hit.
101Leafy researched the game for these numbers. The dash attack, the Magic Hammer, and the Magical Boomerang are not in the calculator yet.