All Zelda Echoes of Wisdom amiibo and their rewards

Amiibo is back in Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. But unlike in previous Zelda titles, the extra offerings are a bit meh in comparison.

While you can use certain amiibo, you can only use select amiibo figures and don’t unlock the option to use amiibo right away at the beginning of the game. You’ll need to wait a while, and honestly, in our opinion, there’s no real reason to use them at all outside of a few cool bonuses.

Still, if you want to know how amiibo works, here’s everything you need to know.

How to use Amiibo in Zelda Echoes of Wisdom

Amiibo functionality unlocks in Echoes of Wisdom shortly after you escape the castle and enter the overworld for the first time. Once amiibos are unlocked, you can find the option to use one in the main menu.

Press the + button to open the main menu, then press R until you come across the system menu, which has a gear icon in the top bar. When the system menu opens, you’ll be instructed that the amiibo functionality has been unlocked.

Scroll down and select amiibo, and you’ll be instructed to place an amiibo figure on your Switch or Pro Controller. Not every amiibo works with the game, so you’ll need to use specific Zelda-themed amiibo to get the goodies hidden inside. There are 28 amiibo in total you can use, which includes all of the following figures:

At the start of the game, you are given items when you use certain amiibo that are useful for crafting items later down the line. But there are additional items when you get further into the game—spoiler warning for this next part.

Later on in the game, you unlock the ability to get certain outfits for Zelda that are only available through amiibo. How you get these outfits is completely random, and you can only use three amiibo a day, so the chance of finding one is pretty rare.

For example, the Black Cat outfit, which turns Zelda into a cat girl of all things, is only findable through amiibo very late in the game. There’s also a Red Tunic. Most of these outfits don’t do anything and are purely cosmetic, but finding them appears to be a lot harder than we first realized. And if playing through games like Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom taught me anything, it’s that finding your favorite outfit for the main character is just as important as any stats those clothes can give them.