Fuse materials in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom can create some of the best items in the game when paired with different weapons. Stronger resources allow Link to mold tools with very high damage bonuses for different combat situations. Bosses and other tough enemies are best fought with the Fuse materials that have the most potential throughout your adventures in Hyrule.

Keep in mind that not every Fuse item should be paired with weapons in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Ingredient materials such as Chuchu Jelly are wasted on melee tools, but are best used as attachments for Link's many arrows. The two most important aspects of a Fuse material are how easy it is to find in the massive open-world, and the potential strength it can bring when infused into other items.

For the purposes of this list, each material will be rated out of 5 stars for how easy it is to find the item, and the potential strength of the resource for different fusions. A high score for both means that a Fuse material is easy to find and can make items incredibly strong.

20 Amber

The Beginner's Favorite Rock

One of the best early Fuse materials in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is Amber due to its great damage buff for items found at the start of the game. Most monsters at the beginning of your journey can defeat Link in one or two hits, which makes it hard to collect other resources for fusion. The +4 damage increase provided by Amber can easily be put on a Tree Branch or Stick to make fighting enemies far easier.

19 Light Dragon Materials

Majestic Resources

The Light Dragon is best known as the resting place of the Master Sword in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, but it provides its fair share of monster parts for Link's weapons. Light Dragon Scales, Spikes, and other resources give a +12 damage bonus to any weapons Link chooses to fuse the material into. It may be a bit difficult to land on the Dragon, but it is easier to find than other flying beasts in Hyrule.

18 Blue Moblin Horn

Worth the Challenge

Blue Moblins are very tough enemies Link can encounter early in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, but these creatures provide better Monster Parts as a result of their difficulty. A Blue Moblin Horn can be fused into a weapon to give it +13 damage. This resource is extremely straightforward, and should only be used to make weapons stronger instead of being put into elixirs.

17 Frox Fang

Deep in the Dark

A Frox Fang is very similar to a Blue Moblin Horn, since it comes from a dangerous creature Link will have to fight in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Providing a +14 damage bonus, this item is only found deep within caverns or giant chasms found in Hyrule. This makes it a strange resource to collect until you are more competent exploring the darker reaches of the enormous open-world.

16 Fire/Ice/Electric-Breath Lizalfos Horn

Elemental Mayhem

The Lizalfos Horns in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom are Monster Parts that come in many shapes and sizes. Fire-Breath, Ice-Breath, and Electric-Breath Lizalfos Horns give +15 damage to weapons if you can defeat the elemental enemies attached to them. The Gerudo Desert has an abundance of Lizalfos to defeat in order to gain these items, as well as the Eldin and Hebra Mountains.

15 Blue Boss Bokoblin Horn

Beat the Boss, Become the Boss

Behind every group of Bokoblin enemies in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a blue or red Bokoblin Boss that can drop a Horn when defeated. A Blue Boss Bokoblin Horn can be put onto a weapon to give it +16 damage as an excellent reward for taking down such a hostile leader. Make sure to only challenge a Blue Bokoblin Boss when you get Link some more Hearts, so you don't get killed in a single hit.

If you want to find out where to farm Boss Bokoblin drops early in the game, check out this video from YouTube creator SEA Frog Gaming to see where these enemies can be found in Hyrule!

14 Captain Construct Horns

Familiar Machines

Link begins their adventure fighting Soldier Construct and Captain Construct enemies in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. As you start to come across higher level versions of these foes, they drop items like the Captain Construct II Horn with III and IV variants. The buffs from these items are higher than most Fuse materials, with +15 damage coming from the Horn II even growing to a +25 bonus from the III or IV versions.

13 Dinraal Monster Parts

Dragon of Fire

One of the dragons that flies around Hyrule is named Dinraal, and hosts Fuse materials in the same way as the Light Dragon. Dinraal Spikes can give a weapon +16 damage, while Dinraal's Horn has the potential to buff your tools by +24 damage. Putting either of these parts onto an item in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom gives it a fire effect that is strong against Ice themed enemies in colder environments.

12 Black Bokoblin Horn

Toughest Bokoblin Yet

Black Bokoblins are a step above the standard enemies of the same type that you encounter in Hyrule. As you might expect, this means that Black Bokoblin Horns are much better Monster Parts to fuse with a +17 damage bonus in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. By the time you meet these enemies in the game, you will have far better ways to take them down to collect these items without any problems.

11 Gleeok Guts

Three Potential Paths

Multi-headed dragons called Gleeoks in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom are formidable foes tied to elemental damage types seen in the game. These mini-bosses found in the world drop incredible Fuse materials in the form of Gleeok Guts for a variety of uses. You can apply the item to a weapon for a +24 damage bonus, sell it for a high price, or mix it into an elixir for a potent effect for Link.