Skyward Sword: Tentalus

Sources reviewed: 2026-11-10

If you searched for the squid boss, this is the one on the deck of the Sandship, not a sea enemy you spear from the boat on the way there.

The title on the boss list is Abyssal Leviathan. Tentacles pull the Sandship apart around the fight, and the battle stays on the deck. Damage that matters lands when the eye comes into reach. The reward pair is Nayru’s Flame, which turns the Goddess Longsword toward the Goddess White Sword, and a heart container.

The bow is the dungeon item people bring to this deck, earned in the ship before the leviathan. Scervo is a separate fight earlier in the same chapter and is not this squid. Skipper and the pirate stronghold are how you make the ship visible. Those steps live on the Sandship chapter. This page is only the leviathan, the eye, and the flame.

The Bow is the key tool for damaging the eye, but the sword still controls the surrounding tentacles. Clear the space around Link before aiming so that a tentacle does not interrupt the shot. Once Tentalus collapses, move in quickly and attack the eye before it rises again. The upper platform keeps this same eye-shot and sword-attack cycle while changing the tentacles that threaten your aim.

The fight changes the Sandship itself. Begin on the lower deck, cut the large tentacles with charged Skyward Strikes and aim the Bow at the exposed eye. When the deck becomes unusable, follow the route to the upper platform. The smaller tentacles there can be cut with normal sword swings before another eye shot opens the next attack window.

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