Lookout platform

Lookout platform
Link and the King of Red Lions approach three lookout platforms in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD
First appearance	The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (2002)
Latest appearance	The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD (2013)
Greater location	Great Sea
Inhabitant(s)	Bokoblins Kargarocs Wizzrobes

Lookout platforms are wooden outposts found all over the Great Sea in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. They are used by enemies such as Bokoblins, Kargarocs and Wizzrobes. Some lookout platforms have cannons that shoot at Link and the King of Red Lions if they are nearby. Lookout platforms can be identified from a large skull sticking on the roof. A certain Special Chart named the Platform Chart specifically points out which islands the lookout platforms are close to, including how many are near the respective islands.

Besides enemies, lookout platforms have breakable pots. Every lookout platform has a Treasure Chest that appears when Link defeats every enemy and sometimes also the tower's cannons. The reward within the Treasure Chests are usually either a valuable Rupee or a Golden Feather. However, there is one with a Piece of Heart, and two have a specific Treasure Chart.

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, lookout platforms appear in the background of the Pirate Ship stage. As the ship passes by, the lookout platforms randomly shoot cannonballs at players when the ship passes by. The stage returns in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, in which it has an Omega form which takes place on a lookout platform. In the latter game, some of the lookout platform was converted into a platform floating on the Great Sea. Some of its features were removed, such as the mounted cannons and the small roof with a skull. The lookout platform no longer has a visible wooden pole sticking out of the sea, and the ladder was made a lot shorter.

List of lookout platforms

Coordinate	Nearby island	Number of platforms
A2	Star Island	One
A6	Seven-Star Isles	One
B5	Pawprint Isle	One
C1	Western Fairy Island	One
C2	Rock Spire Isle	Three
C5	Eastern Fairy Island	One
C6	Fire Mountain	One
C7	Star Belt Archipelago	One
D3	Cyclops Reef	One
D4	Six-Eye Reef	One
D7	Thorned Fairy Island	Two
E2	Islet of Steel	One
E3	Stone Watcher Island	One
E6	Bomb Island	One
F2	Five-Eye Reef	One
F4	Southern Fairy Island	Three
F7	Cliff Plateau Isles	One
G1	Horseshoe Island	Two
G4	Two-Eye Reef	One
G7	Five-Star Isles	One

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  The Pirate Ship's Omega form, which takes place on a lookout platform, in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U