Hookshot vs Clawshots

[NintendoCN]

Which is better? Which is more useful? Which is easier to use? Please give a reason for your answer.

For me the clawshot is more useful, since you can shot from place to place and can lower yourself to check for solid platforms.

 

[DekuNut]

True, but you can only shoot from place to place with the double clawshot. It's kinda cheap to argue 2:1

 

[Spiritual Mask Salesman]

Clawshots, the double ones... I'm hoping that's what you meant. I'd suggest making clawshot plural.

 

[Jeffers]

I think they're more or less even; on one hand the Clawshots allow you to raise and lower yourself and can be used in tandem with each other, but the Hookshot is able to latch onto a much larger variety of things and tends to have a longer range.

 

[TheHerbivoreWaffle]

Clawshot (s), easily. You can hang from targets, move up and down on targets (TP only), and you get two of them. Seems like a no-brainer to me.

 

[Link Floyd]

You have more freedom with the clawshots

 

[Jirohnagi]

You have more freedom with the clawshots

You literally don't, you have to aim at specifically made targets, Hookshot could latch onto anything wooden.

 

[Spiritual Mask Salesman]

I think they're more or less even; on one hand the Clawshots allow you to raise and lower yourself and can be used in tandem with each other, but the Hookshot is able to latch onto a much larger variety of things and tends to have a longer range.

Well only the TP clawshots did that, SS's clawshots were a step back, more traditional really.

You literally don't, you have to aim at specifically made targets, Hookshot could latch onto anything wooden.

More freedom to manuever, but at the same time limtations to what you can latch onto.

 

[Jirohnagi]

More freedom to manuever, but at the same time limtations to what you can latch onto.

That's dependant on which game you play that features them SS or TP, the TP ones had a bit more depth to them cuz you could go up or down, but then you didn't have much freedom to maneuver anyway, you were reliant on Peahats for lateral movement and on special targets for anything else. Ditto in SS but you lost the up and down movement and it became nothing more than a dual hookshot.

I still think out of the hookshots we've seen the Switchshot and the WW Hookshots were the best, the switchshot because it was indeed a hookshot but it allowed you to latch onto items and swap with them making for some damn good puzzles at the time and the WW Hookshot is in my eyes the OOT hookshot given some spit and polish with a good helping of elbow work thrown in, It didn't ignore all of the mechanics of weight distribution as the others seemed to, if you wore iron boots it'd pull things to you instead of the reverse.

 

[Dio]

Hookshots are best. They can latch onto any wooden surface rather than specific targets and mesh which the claw shots require.

 

[Jirohnagi]

Hookshots are best. They can latch onto any wooden surface rather than specific targets and mesh which the claw shots require.

Not to mention with iron boots they literally act in reverse

Got a tree to remove PULL IT DOWN WITH IRON BOOT/HOOKSHOT