Bombling
A Bombling
First appearance	Twilight Princess (2006)
Found	Forest Temple Barnes' Bombs
Use	Mobile bombs that can hit faraway targets
Effective against	Diababa Deku Likes

Bomblings are both enemies and items from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. They are a species of small, spiderlike arthropods that can explode like Bombs. Similar to Bombchus and their living counterparts, Real Bombchus, they are able to crawl along walls and floors before detonation. They appear to have very primitive simple eyes.

Bomblings are usually found in natural areas such as the Forest Temple, where they, serving as makeshift Bombs, are needed to complete the dungeon and defeat Diababa. In the wild, they will attempt to attack Link unless stunned, whereby picking a Bombling up causes it to initiate a countdown to self-destruction unless thrown beforehand.

Bomblings as items Edit

Eventually, in Kakariko Village, Barnes, the bomb salesman, will develop these specialty bombs that can be purchased and used outside of the Forest Temple area. Link will receive a letter after he completes the Lakebed Temple, indicating that the owner has stocked up on Bomblings. Also, Chudley's Fine Goods and Fancy Trinkets Emporium sells them for a very high price, but after a donation to Malo Mart of 2000 Rupees, Chudley's Fine Goods and Fancy Trinkets Emporium is turned into Malver's Marvelous Market, Hyrule Castle Town's Malo Mart branch, where they sell Bomblings for a lower price.

When used, these bombs will run in a straight line until they make contact with another object, at which point they will explode. If they are near an enemy, they will follow it. Ten Bomblings can be held in each bag, which can be doubled to twenty if Link finds the Giant Bomb Bag. These bombs cannot be used underwater.

Although interesting and amusing weapons, they are somewhat limited in their usefulness, as a Bomb Arrow can usually fulfill any need for ranged explosions while being more plentiful (limited only by Link's stocks of Bombs and Arrows). Furthermore, they cannot be used as ignition for the cannons found in Snowpeak Ruins. Despite this, Bomblings can be useful in situations where a quick strike is necessary with little to no time to aim a shot, as they allow Link to defend against attacks and counterattack simultaneously.

See also Edit

• Bombchu