Boomerang
Location
The blue boomerang can be found in two places. One is in Hyrule Castle, in a chest in the dungeons. The other is in a chest in the Chicken House in Kakariko Village.
The upgraded form of the boomerang can also be obtained in a couple of ways. One is to use the Waterfall of Wishing near the entrance to Zora's Domain. Throw the boomerang into the pond and a Fairy will come up and give Link the red boomerang. Another way to acquire it is the chest in the Doorless Hut in the Village of Outcasts. However, to get the red boomerang here, Link must not already have gotten the blue boomerang. Otherwise, the chest in the Doorless Hut will have 300 rupees.
Description
The boomerang is a multipurpose item in A Link to the Past speedrunning.
It can collect drops such as rupees, arrows, bombs, fairies, keys, etc. and pull them to Link. A strange glitch with recovery hearts can happen sometimes where if Link pulls them to him with the boomerang, two hearts may be recovered instead of just one. Also, small keys which require the Pegasus Boots to knock down (such as the torch keys in Desert Palace and Ganon's Tower) are unable to be collected with the boomerang.
In combat, the boomerang will stun most enemies for a few seconds. Some enemies can be defeated by it, such as Keese and Chasupa. Other enemies may be unaffected or experience a shorter stun effect than normal. Enemies who are defeated after having been stunned by the boomerang will not use their default Prize Pack. Instead they will always drop a single green rupee.
In boss fights, the boomerang is only useful against the Armos Knights. Each Knight will take 48 boomerang hits to defeat though.
