Lesser Red Wolf of Radagon | Elden Ring Wiki

How the **** are those ****ers harder than the boss they are based off of

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alright **** THIS ENEMY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Whoever designed this enemy needs to be publically hanged

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For my str melee build with no stamina, the one north of Caria Manor was one of the hardest enemies in Liurnia. I think only Alecto was harder.

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The one in consecrated snowfield is cancer. That's all I have to say.

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I can never get the timing of their magic **** right. Hits me 10/10 ^^

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Was baffled at a boss cheesing me for once, after ten frustrating fights, decided to bait the mf with carian phalanx. Easiest boss after that.

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Reminds me of ariandel gravetender stuff, very unpleasant to fight. From dog is still a from dog, even if you make it red and big

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"LESSER" Red Wolf of Radagon My ass! These stupid things almost make Revenants and Runebears seem fun to fight by comparison, extremely tanky, insane damage, insane mobility, constantly input reads to perfectly avoid every single ranged attack you throw at them, attacks CONSTANTLY so you're almost guaranteed to get stunlocked if you get hit by a single attack, and they spam extremely damaging lethal magic projectiles while leaping around like Fleas on crack.
what's not to hate?

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Dog of an enemy, and dogshit of a fight

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Without the red sword to facilitate its magic attacks it becomes a fight of waiting out its projectile spam and jumping around. There is no fight in the game that tests your patience like this things. Carry a beast repellent torch for the snowfield fight too.

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I confirmed that the lesser Red Wolf in the Consecrated Snowfields doesn't respawn. I got tired of getting folded by this douche trying to fight him honorably and took someone else here's advice to camp out on a rock and pepper him with serpent and rot arrows and let the status effects work their magic. I had to maneuver around the rock several times while waiting because it managed to climb via its jumping sword attack and somehow I lost it in the process. It just disappeared. I'm disappointed that I didn't even get to see this ******* die and somehow I didn't even get the runes from it's death. When I returned, it was nowhere to be found.

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Its bite hitbox should also be a cone so that it hits infront of it. But oftentimes you dodge behind it and still get halfway up its body.

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Normal ones are worse than the sword ones. Bite attacks so fast you have to dodge before you know what attack it is. I love the world of this game but fromsoft ****ed up the bossfights badly.

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People dislike this boss? I love this boss, cute and fun...

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Ginger dog

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8k souls?! Mother****er keep em..

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What's with FromSoftware and their love for making insanely annoying oversized enemies that spam projectiles and jump 30 meters away from you every 5 seconds. FFS make something challenging, really really challenging, but let me f ing fight it more often than for 2 seconds per 2 minutes of chasing it.

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Makes Runebears and Revenants fun to fight.

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garbage design boss, just cheesing the player. he has only one move that is bullshit though, is that 3 magic bolt immediately follow by a soul arrow. if you dodge the magic bolt then you're gonna eat the soul arrow, no other way. so you has to block the magic bolt and eat magic damage. just plain stupid.

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Don’t seem to respawn after you complete the game

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Man I LOVE cancerous enemy copypastes with no drops or good enough reward whatsoever, put three of them in an enclosed space in the dlc protecting a useless talisman pls I beg you fromsoft

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I cheesed the one in Consecrated Snowfield with Elden Stars and keeping distance with Torrent. The dog seems to chase the Elden Stars like a moth.

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ihatethemihatethemihatethemihatethemihatethemihatethem

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Probably the most annoying mob to fight as a STR main. Still would love to have one as a pet tho -

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The one in Consecrated Snowfield with its wolfpack is harder than Radagon + Elden Beast wtf. Apparently in the past killing the red flowing wolf did something but now it doesn't so you're stucking fighting a raging wolf on roids that jumps in and out of your vision in half a second and 2-shots you, while also dealing with like 6+ wolves zerging you. Impossible as a melee.

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A tip for the one in the Moonlight Altar: going up coming from Chelona's Rise you can run past it and go into those little structures and pickup the smithing stones without having to fight the wolf. There is a chance that the wolf will do one of their sweeping attacks or crazy maneuver behind the structures and fall to their death, you can try to bait this by jumping in and out of the structures or going to the ledge. Good luck.

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Bruh for only 8k runes I’m not putting up with that one in the consecrated snowfield, absolutely crazy how much stronger they are than the boss variant at the academy.

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The fact that I was up at the Land of Giants and came back here to grab some smithing stones, only to die to this stupid enemy tells me everything I need to know about Elden Ring. None of it ever makes sense as far as how the enemies scale. What's the damn point of this enemy over here, and they don't drop anything of value.

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Bottom line this enemy is a serious pain and annoying to deal with. After a couple play throughs I still struggle. I ended up cheesing the one at the moonlight alter by engaging her initially on torrent and immediately running to a steep rock column to the left in the northeast section of the battle area. After a couple failed attempts I was able to parkour up the column with torrent high enough where she de-aggroed and eventually returned to her starting position. Snuck around her backside and poison misted my worries away. Not proud but not mad about it either.

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These suckers should drop at least 3-5 beast blood and some other useful materials for compensate for super annoying fight

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stoopit dog

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After 20 tries and losing half my hair, I beat the one in Nokron with Greatblade Phalanx.
Cast, dodge, cast, dodge, cast, dodge. Not fun at all. Fck this mob

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"Lesser" doesn't have to indicate weakness in combat. Thinking about the context given in the game and the fantasy setting, IMHO, I think those who live in the wild and/or aren't serving a master are referred to as "Lesser". It's almost like a title or denotation. A social class or ranking, even. The Red Wolf of Radagon in Raya Lucaria is serving Rennala, and RL. The Lesser Red Wolves are free, wandering, with no masters. The Lesser Red Wolf in Siofra River is in an open area, tucked away from the main area, peacefully romping around with at least 10 grey wolves. This adds up to me because the Lesser is much stronger, and if the Lesser Red wolves live in the wild, without a master, they would be tougher. Unlike their counterparts who are typically stowed away in a castle, not having to fend for themselves.

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should just be called red wolf honestly, nothing lesser about them.

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Sleek stars bullies these things and lets you cast any long windup skills, spells, or incantations while its busy trying to dodge

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are these not just lesser red wolves?

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I legit thought that the one at Chelonas Rise was a hidden boss, I killed all the dragons but this guy... When I finally killed him, I got 4k runes and my bro was laughing his ass off...

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even Runebears, even Revenants aren’t as insufferable as this goddamn red furry disgusting pathetic pansy-ass piece of crap.

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Rain of Arrows AOW with rot and poison arrows as I sat safely atop a rock. I'm not proud of myself.

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Rain of Arrows AOW with rot and poison arrows as I sat safely atop a rock. I'm not proud of myself.

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I absolutely hate these mutts, more trouble than a lot of bosses.

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They couldn't have just recycled the greatwolf from ds3 ashes of ariandel? This side stepping spell spamming piece of crap is so much more annoying

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If Latenna rode on one of these, she'd become Elden Lord.

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"Stronger resistances to ailments" but no stats on what those resistances are. Thx info.

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So, actually curious about this. You guys think there is a lore Explanation why only the snowfield one and the boss versions can do the sword attacks? It is specially weird to me because they still do sorceries. Glintblade sorceries at that.

it kinda feels it should be the other way around, the "wild" ones doing the sword things and not sorceries. I say wild ones because, minus the snowfield one, the other two had implied owners that could have taught them to do ****.

Does this imply all the Red wolves can do sorceries, and those 3 were taught swordmanship and to summon a sword? That also feels weird, the sword doesnt resemble any other type of magic in the game, its like, too Orange without actually being fire.


It is still awesome and im not gonna complain, dont get me wrong. I just Wonder if we know a lore Explanation to all of this

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I found the small moveset of the red wolf to be easy to learn. I always fight on foot. The sorceries can be strafed (for the three shots) or dodged. It is pretty straightforward timing to dodge towards it when it lunges at you, and then you can punish quite easily in the recovery time.

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why does the trivia section say these respawn?.

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I wish Latenna the Albinauric could ride this.

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Shield grease, greatshield, greatspear. These things become a cake walk. Just be patient and poke away. Bonus points if the greatspear is a Lance with blood affinity or mohgs spear

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You can cheese the one at Moonlight Altar by getting his attention and jumping off the cliff. He’ll jump down with you and won’t respawn.

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there's one that's not listed, eastward behind Caria manor and south of the royal grave ever gaol one's vibin with some other wolves, I don't remember if he drops anything though.

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Lol - "Lesser" - the one in the academy should of been called "lesser". All the other ones are harder, and killing these is just a waste of time. Especially the one in consecrates snowfields, at 3x the HP and hitting 2x as hard as the boss version, is a proper ****.

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The only thing keeping them from being my least favorite enemy is having a 1-hit kill. Winged Dames are still my most hated enemies.

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I just blast these jackasses with Rotten Breath and run away.

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lol, i died not even seeing the damn thing in the snow field. i fought it several times only to find out it doesnt drop anything. i dont mind the challenge... make it worth the time tho. this was a complete waste of time.

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The secret to beating these guys quickly and easily is finding the Albinauric woman

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I bet these grade A ****holes would curbstomp even Runebears.

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There is no need to put up with this red wolf's BS, there is a rock pillar on the path to chelonia's rise pointing towards where the red wolf spawns, there should be messages left there like "sniping spot" and "ranged battle required ahead" trigger the fight on torrent then use dash to get to that pillar as fast as you can, with double jump you'll get high enough up it for the wolf to not use the glintblade attack. At least it didn't use it earlier when I did this, wait until the wolf loses agro and walks back to where it spawns then you'll have plenty of time to try getting to the sweet spot at the top where you will be able to target lock the wolf for whatever ranged spell or incantation or manual aim with a bow but its glintblades will not be able to hit you. Its tricky getting there with torrent's double jump without over shooting the landing but the wolf won't agro if you don't attack it so there is no stress, pressure or time constraint to get to the right place.

Another thing that makes this all the sweeter, I used the black bow with lightning arrows, it quickly got wise and jumped out of my target lock's range, with manual aim it does that walking one way then the other thing but I have a full stock of the arrows I use most and can hit the head reliably two out of three shots knowing one will miss for the next two to hit, curiously after getting six or seven head shots it stopped with the walking back and forth and just stood in the same place while I got one head shot after another, it only started moving again when I had to wait for my stamina bar to refill. I don't know what cause it to just stand there while I shot at it or if its repeatable.

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Calling these things "lesser" is misleading it gives the impression they are lesser enemies than the boss versions. I took lesser to mean they didn't hit as hard or have a large health pool like the boss would have and I'd be surprised if I was the only one to get the wrong idea from that "lesser" in their description. I killed the red wolf boss at Raya Lucaria Academy on the first try and I've never died to a burial watchdog boss in any catacomb either.

Funnily enough though the lesser burial watchdogs I've been running into have been making me their b**ch and both of the mob red wolves killed me quickly, the one in Nokron by spamming glintblade phalanx or whatever it uses and constantly jumping out of my range and the one at consecrated snowfield in two hits before I even knew it was there. I didn't mention the revenants because lesser or boss they are obviously cancerous c**ts there was no misunderstanding there.

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Calling these things "lesser" is misleading it gives the impression they are lesser enemies than the boss versions. I took lesser to mean they didn't hit as hard or have a large health pool like the boss would have and I'd be surprised if I was the only one to get the wrong idea from that "lesser" in their description. I killed the red wolf boss at Raya Lucaria Academy on the first try and I've never died to a burial watchdog boss in any catacomb either.

Funnily enough though the lesser burial watchdogs I've been running into have been making me their b**ch and both of the mob red wolves killed me quickly, the one in Nokron by spamming glintblade phalanx or whatever it uses and constantly jumping out of my range and the one at consecrated snowfield in two hits before I even knew it was there. I didn't mention the revenants because lesser or boss they are obviously cancerous c**ts there was no misunderstanding there.

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When the guy killing gods gets killed by a stray dog, you know what that means, right? It’s god now. Dog God. We live in a reality where all noises are heard as squeaky toys. The leash laws really needed to be enforced. Not blaming anybody, but I’m looking at you Radagon.

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Hate these damn things, if you thought the direwolves were bad, they are nothing compared to these shitlords, genuinely would rather take on runebears/lobsters than these bastards, its hard just to get a single hit in without this ******* just pulling out some bs super fast attack that sends you flying and takes off a huge chunk of your health nearly instantly as a punishment for having the audacity to try and fight this Mozilla Firefox looking jerk, the most insulting part is that his drops are trash for such a painful enemy, like if you're gonna make such a horrible enemy atleast give the player a reason to try and defeat it other than simply doing it out of spite, Elden Ring sure loves its random stupidly overtuned mobs that are worth nothing and are 10 times worse than most bosses for some reason.

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Just like "lesser" Runebears, for some reason they are infinitely stronger, tankier, and more aggravating to fight than their boss versions, just a pure bs enemy that you should just avoid and not even bother fighting if you value your sanity and/or blood pressure.

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Arguably the worst enemy in the entire game

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Undoubtedly the poorest design mob in the entire game. Extremely fast, bad hitbox, extremely effective at all ranges, amazing stagger, huge health pool. They are harder than most bosses.

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Just beaten this bababoi (the one in liurna of the lakes) and wanted to share my knowladge, first rush in with torrent to the center structure, quick dismount and jump through the center window, he will be trapped there but still can hit you with homing blades and bites tho he will not dash nor scape by jumping.

Now once that he's been trapped you will notice an uneveness where thee can jump and take cover while sitll been able to lock on. I used roten breath and then poisoned him with serpent arrows, then i drank a tea, still he managed to get out so, if that happens to you do not panic, he has to get down first so when he jumps to you, go back to the structure just be sure that he is follwing you, otherwise you can be wrecked since his attacks can go through walls.

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For new players: If you see one of these things, immediately start moving in the opposite direction. It is absolutely not worth fighting them and they can easily outrun and knock out Torrent.

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Nothing lesser about the annoyance level of these things.

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The one in Nokron probably belonged to Radahn. As Radahn was cooperating with Nokron and Sellia after the Second Battle of Leyndell.

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One of the worst designed enemies in the game. Poke -> gallop for 30 seconds, pole -> gallop for 30 seconds. Fight takes like 10 minutes. If you get hit once, it's game over because he hits for about 800 damage, knocks you down, and hits you for 1200 critical damage when you're down. Also, you get big fat F@#% You and **** all for killing him. Waste of time. Skip all of these guys.

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The one in caria manor is an absolute cheese machine. Pissed me off so bad I quit after 4 attempts. Came back and used my runebearer tactics. Poisoning , wait... He is impossible, really. He sets up with 3 homing missile attack wile jumping you at the same time. Even if you dodge the magic, then him u will still get it as he uses the same tactic again. The crystal dudes before him are bad enough, then to have this cheese **** 1 shot u.....F that.

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I found a cheese for the wolf in the Consecrated Snowfield. Trigger the wolf, get on torrent, and jump to the top level of the Albinauric's Rise. The wolf will fall and kill itself.

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the "less powerful variant"

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You can cheese the wolf at the moonlight altar by running directly to the middle gazebo then jumping through the window. Stand back towards the edge and cast night maiden's mist and eternal darkstrategy. After banging my head against a wall trying to kill him, I did not get hit a single time with this strat.

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When they are stance broken, the critical spot is very clear but for the life of me I can't get it to work. Has anyone actually managed to crit these guys??

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why do these guys even exist, and why are they so much more annoying to fight than the boss version in Raya Lucaria

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Makes zero sense how these guys exist. They should have just copypasta the great wolves in DS3 Ariandel DLC if they were gonna reuse assets for these guys.

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Rot (or poison) make short(ish) work of these guys. Direct melee with the later game ones is absurdly frustrating.

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Moonlight alter...corned it in a gazebo with spiked palisade shield +18 (cold). Shield crash on repeat...cheese is served.

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Bad boy :(

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Moonlight Altar one needs nerfing. They are supposed to be glass cannons, but that one has way too many HP for that.

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They have a pretty basic attack pattern and your best chance to whack them is right after they lunge at you. That being said, chipping them down this way is annoying and since they're so agile, it's really the only good way I've found to kill them; problem is, it takes too long and it's boring as hell.

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just poison the motherf**. the most annoying enemy i encountered .

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Another way to cheese the one at Moonlight Alter is to run to one of gazebos (middle one worked for me) and sit in a corner farthest from the wolf. He CAN hit through wall, but becomes confused, walls and statue give some protection from glintblades, and you can hit him with some AoE,

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Ok FromSoftware, enough with big wolf bs. DS1 Sif was cool, but after that every other giant wolf is garbage. That rat boss in DS2 - garbage, boss wolf in DS3 painted world - garbage and this - this is also garbage.

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"These variants are unable to summon a magic sword, unlike their Boss variants."
I don't know what this exactly means but the Consencrated Snowfield variant uses the orange sword the boss variant has. He also uses Glintblade and the Comet attack.

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I think there is an error in the above text, as it states that the lesser wolves don't summon the sword. The one in Consecrated Snowfield definitely summons the sword! Also... **** that wolf!

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don't bother fighting these punks, they ain't dropping sh*t other than a bit of runes.

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the one north of Chelona's Rise jumped to its death when i ran behind the middle building towards from the right hand side.

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Wtf is this guy doing underground

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I m at snowfield and he s just not there T_T

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Between this mf, the "lesser" runebears and the royal revenants, I'm not sure which is the most bull**** enemy in this game.

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This is the umpteenth bullshit enemy in a game specifically made to screw you up

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crap hitbox, they charge at you and the fur on their sides or back legs hits you for full damage

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This is the most annoying enemy in the game . Seriously usually giving a enemy extra moves makes them harder but unfortunately red wolf of radagon is way easier(or balanced) than this prick . Seriously in melee he has no weakness his attack are n't too hard to avoid but attacking him seems to be almost impossible . Worst thing is these guys do n't even drop anything not even ****ing bones the runes they drop is abysmal

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This is the enemy I hate the most in this game, they never react to your attacks and I've never seen them getting staggered or stance broken at all. They just keep attacking relentlessly, **** dogs in souls games and especially these magic pricks

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If you circle around the tree so his right side is against it then throw a dagger at him he will kill himself jumping off the tree when he dodges the dagger!

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Poison or better yet rot his *** then keep your distance by rolling, running, or rock climbing. works pretty well.

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I mean, my way for these kinds of bosses isn't very conventional, but it IS cathartic (especially after having your cheeks clapped by them multiple times).
1. Lure him out then run off a little to lose aggro.
2. Apply Mimic Veil, sneaky sneak up behind him.
3. Poison Mist Incantation.
4. Winner winner Radagon wolf dinner.

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