Red Wolf of Radagon |
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| Location | Raya Lucaria Academy |
| Drops | 14,000 |
| HP | 2,204 |
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Hemorrhage
SlashRed Wolf of Radagon is a Great Enemy Boss in Elden Ring. This giant red wolf wields sorceries and guards the found in the Grand Library of Raya Lucaria Academy. This is an optional boss as players don't need to defeat it to advance in Elden Ring, though they do need to defeat it to advance further in Raya Lucaria Academy and to achieve a certain ending.
Lesser Red Wolf of Radagon is the normal enemy form of this boss. Red Wolf of the Champion is another variant of this boss.
Elden Ring Red Wolf of Radagon Boss
- This is an optional boss
- Closest Site of Grace: Schoolhouse Classroom
- Multiplayer is allowed for this boss
- You can summon Spirit Ashes for this boss
- NPC Summons: Sorceress Sellen can be summoned for this boss fight after completing most of her questline.
Elden Ring Red Wolf of Radagon Location
Head out the door south of the Schoolhouse Classroom Site of Grace and along the corridor past several Glintstone Sorcerers. Once you get into the next room, turn west and head up both flights of stairs, then head east down the hallway to the fog gate leading to Red Wolf of Radagon. [Map Link]
Red Wolf of Radagon Combat information
- Health: 2,204 HP
- Defense: 107
- Stance: 120
- Parryable: No
- Is vulnerable to a critical hit after being stance broken
- Damage:
Standard, 
Magic - Drops
14,000, Memory Stone
Negations (or Absorptions)
Strike
Pierce
Fire
Lightning
HolyThe negation numbers are the % of your damage that gets blocked. For example, if a negation is 60, 40% of that damage by that type will go through and 60% will be negated. Bigger number = less damage. A negation of 100 means no damage goes through, and a negation of -100 mean the enemy takes 2x damage from that source. 0 means damage goes pretty much as is.
Resistances
Poison: 324 / 422 / 712 / 1169
Scarlet Rot: 324 / 422 / 712 / 1169
Hemorrhage: 530 / 820 / 1277
Frostbite: 530 / 820 / 1277
The resistance numbers are the buildup amount to trigger it. For example, if a resistance is 100 you must deal 100 points of the given buildup to trigger it. Note that these go down over time, and increase each time the effect procs. The values after the "/"s indicate the increased resistances after each successive proc.
NG+ and Beyond (click to reveal)
| NG | NG+ | NG+2 | NG+3 | NG+4 | NG+5 | NG+6 | NG+7 | |
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| HP | 2,204 | 4,066 | 4,472 | 4,675 | 4,879 | 5,285 | 5,489 | 5,692 |
| Defense | 107 | 117 | 120 | 123 | 129 | 135 | 141 | 153 |
| Runes |
14,000 | 56,000 | 61,600 | 63,000 | 67,200 | 68,600 | 70,000 | 71,400 |
Resistances |
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| Poison |
324 / 422 / 712 / 1169 | 351 / 449 / 739 / 1196 | 356 / 454 / 744 / 1201 | 361 / 459 / 749 / 1206 | 366 / 464 / 754 / 1211 | 372 / 470 / 760 / 1217 | 377 / 475 / 765 / 1222 | 382 / 480 / 770 / 1227 |
| Scarlet Rot |
324 / 422 / 712 / 1169 | 351 / 449 / 739 / 1196 | 356 / 454 / 744 / 1201 | 361 / 459 / 749 / 1206 | 366 / 464 / 754 / 1211 | 372 / 470 / 760 / 1217 | 377 / 475 / 765 / 1222 | 382 / 480 / 770 / 1227 |
| Hemorrhage |
530 / 820 / 1277 | 575 / 865 / 1322 | 583 / 873 / 1330 | 592 / 882 / 1339 | 600 / 890 / 1347 | 609 / 899 / 1356 | 618 / 908 / 1365 | 626 / 916 / 1373 |
| Frostbite |
530 / 820 / 1277 | 575 / 865 / 1322 | 583 / 873 / 1330 | 592 / 882 / 1339 | 600 / 890 / 1347 | 609 / 899 / 1356 | 618 / 908 / 1365 | 626 / 916 / 1373 |
 Sleep |
324 / 422 / 712 / 1169 | 351 / 449 / 739 / 1196 | 356 / 454 / 744 / 1201 | 361 / 459 / 749 / 1206 | 366 / 464 / 754 / 1211 | 372 / 470 / 760 / 1217 | 377 / 475 / 765 / 1222 | 382 / 480 / 770 / 1227 |
 Madness |
Immune | |||||||
Elden Ring Red Wolf of Radagon Boss Guide
Red Wolf of Radagon Boss Video Guide
Red Wolf of Radagon Fight Strategy
The Best Tips for Red Wolf of Radagon:
- Use a spirit ash with high defense, like Spirit Jellyfish Ashes, to allow you to get in hits more reliably and whittle away its relatively low health
- Use fast-castling spells like Glintstone Pebble and stay mobile
- Use Marionette Soldier Ashes to pepper it with arrows and make it dash over and over, giving you time to get in hits safely from range
- Use Barricade Shield to block its larger attacks without breaking your guard
Melee Users
Bait and Slash: Stay reactive and don't get greedy. Wait for attacks with long recovery times like Rearing Bite, Blade Plunge, and Glintstone Cometshard, nail the dodges, and get in only as many hits as you can afford before going back on the defensive. Experiment to figure out whether your weapon deals more damage with a few quick hits or one charged heavy attack. Don't bother attacking if there are Magic Glintblades active, or you're likely to take more damage than you inflict.
Turtle Up: All of the Red Wolf's melee attacks deal Physical damage, so if you're good at stamina management you can get a lot of mileage out of a shield with 100% Physical reduction. Try to keep your shield up as often as possible as long as you've got the stamina for it, since its Bite attacks can come out of nowhere and cover a surprising amount of distance. Check the combo chart to see when it's safe to get in a guard counter and try to build towards breaking its considerable stance.
Magic and Ranged Users
Baby in a Corner: The Red Wolf will usually dodge ranged attacks, so try to maneuver it into a corner to limit its range of motion. Take advantage of the windups for its attacks to get in hits, but be ready to dodge those attacks as soon as you're done casting.
Magical Melee: Ignore its ranged dodges entirely by using close-range spells rather than projectiles. Follow one of the melee strategies, but instead of attacking with physical weapons use spells like Carian Slicer or Catch Flame. Weapons that deal physical damage but scale on Intelligence and Faith, like Rosus' Axe or Winged Scythe, are even more effective due to the Red Wolf's high elemental resistance.
Red Wolf of Radagon Attacks & Counters
| Attack | Description | Counter |
| Bite | Steps forward and bites at the player | Roll forward, step back, or guard |
| Rearing Bite | Rears up on its hind legs, then plunges its head down and forward while biting | Roll forward and attack during its long recovery |
| Leaping Bite | Leaps forward and bites, then lands on the other side of the player and pivots 180° to face them | Roll forward as its head starts to descend |
| Golden Blade | Summons a magical golden sword and swings it in wide arcs | Roll in the direction the blade is swinging or guard. This deals Standard damage, so it can also be safely blocked with a shield with 100 Physical reduction. Some variations of this attack have very long windups, giving players plenty of time to back away |
| Blade Plunge | Summons its sword, leaps high into the air in a corkscrew motion, then slams the sword down on the ground | Roll forward as it begins to fall and get in a hit during the long recovery |
| Magic Glintblade |  Moves a short distance left or right, creating a magical orb as it goes. Shortly afterwards, this orb fires a single magical glintblade at you |
Keep moving to the side and the glintblade will miss you, so focus on dodging until it's gone |
| Glintblade Dash | Dashes to the left or right, leaving three Magic Glintblades as it goes |
As above, just keep moving until all the glintblades have fired and missed. It will keep attacking you after they're created, so focus on evading until you're no longer under double threat |
| Glintstone Cometshard | Jumps into the air and shoots a large magical projectile |
Run forward when you see it jump and you can run underneath the cometshard and attack after it lands, or else roll forward when it's at the apex of its jump |
: Attack can be spell parried
Red Wolf of Radagon Lore, Notes & Other Trivia
- Red Wolf of Radagon is heavily inspired by an unused concept for a boss fight concept from Dark Souls 3 related to Old Wolf of Farron
- Follows a trend of large wolf bosses in Souls games, Great Grey Wolf Sif and Gravetender Greatwolf
- Bug: If wolf lands on globe above him and try to jump back on the field of battle, it will die due to gravity fall.
Red Wolf of Radagon Image Gallery
AnonymousBeat him on my second try with a dual dagger build. He’s only hard in pure melee if you hold forward and expect it to work. Let him cast his darts and then when he comes in punish, easy as that.
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Killed in 15/20 seconds with a double curved sword guy with magic buff on main hand. Probably lucky but its low health was quite key to melt it down fast
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Wow so much hate and ridiculous analysis of game mechanics. I’m sure precisely none of these people complaining this hard have taken the time to actually learn any bosses move sets in any souls game.
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Hey friends, please stop blame this boss. This wiki rocks, just read it carefully. Marionette Soldiers +3 easily win the fight with some help of my 1lvl Wretch wielding Harp Bow +4. I am actually surprised and forgot to count arrows. If you are melee and 50-60 lvl, just take an upgraded great shield like Golden Beast Crest or some nice Lion Claw infused Zweihander.
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Absolute agony to fight for pure melee. Endless stamina, retarded high shield damage, area denial, for some absolutly ****ed reason 120 stance.
Well, nah. 2000 hours into the game and I still hate this unoptimized boss the most. Makes Foreskin duo seem well thought out.
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I'd like to see someone from Fromsoft fight this boss, because a genuinely don't know when they intend for you to attack. The wolf jumps around like he's on bathsalts nonstop.
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Surprisingly easy fight with rock sling. Killed him in one try.
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No stake of marika. Seriously? I'm supposed to jog past 8 sorcerers with a glass cannon build every time I get killed? Screw it, this is just tedious, not fun. Not worth my time.
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After many playthroughs, I still find this guy more difficult than Rennala on almost every build. Rennala is the weakest shard wielder in my opinion, but still.
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Died a couple of times to unfortunate spell and melee spam, so I decided to bring a gun into a sword fight and use a summon. Oleg +5 pretty much solo skull****ed this dog. I feel a bit dirty and unsatisfied but it got the job done.
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Tried a bunch of ways and this one worked immediately: with a 100% phys shield, keep it up, get in close, and chip away. Used lone wolf ashes to distract.
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I don't really understand. My character is a mage and I'm sure she is not over leveled and this boss is "resistant to magic"... That was supposed to be a hard fight, right? I mean... In Dark Souls magic resistant bosses are a pain if you're a mage. How strange, this is the easiest boss I've faced so far (not saying this is bad xD).
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I spend more time running up to this ****ing boss to hit it than anything else
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Really fun fight, given how quick and clean his attacks are learning the timing on his combos so that you don't get rollcatched over and over allows you to be extremely aggressive while still feeling tense.
10/10 Sif but fun instead of sad
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The number of times I have gotten two-tapped by this boss because of homing magic daggers followed by a charging furry hitbox. If you don't get hit by one, you're getting hit by the other. Sprint, jump, dodge, block? doesn't matter. The only way you're avoiding that craptastic stackup completely is by luck.
That's my problem with this boss. Feels like a fight with interesting mechanics that get stacked infuriating, non-counterable ways. Couple that with hyper aggression and pathetic glass cannon health, and it feels like when I beat this PoS, it wasn't because I got gud. Rather I got good RNG that he didn't stack glintblades with comet azur into a charging headbutt.
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Got earrings and sht, long fur looks matted tho, poor good boi
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It's literally impossible to land my weapon art on this piece of sht. Prayerful Strike on Great Stars. What BS. Well I've landed it a few times but it shouldn't be that hard. And it kills my summons instantly too and I'm not about to go look for upgrade mats just to deal with a stupid dog.
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Wish we've got the flame sword incantation as well. Kinda like the lansseax glaive but fire. Oh and this bad boy can cast comet also.
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Everyone seems to be hating on this boss.. but I loved it. It was such a breath of fresh air to fight something different, unique, majestic and yet terrifying.
Yeah.. the sorcery spamming wizards are a joke.. but dang this boss was cool.
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This boss just forces you to change your weapons because if they are too slow , he will just either hit you or jump away, **** this boss
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Does the game really expect us to kill 10 wizards and a huge pot and then face a boss that is faster than the speed of light?
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Can someone out there please help me understand why this wolf is where it is? It's just hanging out in a classroom? I just don't get it. It's an academy, not a kennel. Thoughts?
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Has anyone seen the lesser red wolf near chelona's rise? I've been there but I don't remember seeing one of these around that area.
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Fromsoft: "yeah, we need you to beat like 10 wizards before this boss fight"
Me, preparing to sprint through all of them whilst taking no damage: "Speed. I am speed"
This boss pissed me off until I figured out how to absolutely Razamanaz it: summoned Engvell, used the L2 on my Carian Knight sword. It takes about 5 business days to charge up, but does ballpark 1k damage. With my ashes distracting Wolfie, I killed him in about 3 shots.
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God I hate this thing. It's literally just a vigor check. It's move set is so aggressive and roll-catch heavy that it's hard to dodge reliably. It's a glass cannon boss there to punish you for trying to play the game without point-dumping vigor.
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Eleven hours in and this is worst boss I've done. The boss would be fine if it wasn't shoved in a room the size of a broom closet, no would like sif if he was on the Taurus demon bridge
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Could use a riposte rework
Standing right in front of him with a dagger and didnt riposte twice
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love how you can summon sellen but at the point you should kill this thing in secs
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My God the ****ing dogs. Wolves, big wolves, direwolves, live dogs, dead dogs, T-rex undead dogs, giant magic rocket-in-the-ass dogs with magical ****ing swords in their mouths, wolves that FALL FROM THE ****ING SKY...I'm starting to think that Miyazaki was either traumatized as a kid or he just hates us.
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Yo, there are 3 of these bosses in the world... And 3 lone wolves in the line wolf ashes... And 3 lone wolves who hunt with the tarnished in that one random sculpture...
[X-File Music]
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Half their attacks don't even hit me. The bite has its hurtbox for the entire body of the creature. Also it's not a wolf, it's a damn fox. If you had bad hitboxes, the least you can do is not lie into my face
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It would be really nice if the redwolf sword could be acquired as a part of a DLC. Just like the iron dragonslayer boss's armor in Dark Souls 3 Ringed City. Among other things! Get on it Developers! It's an awesome looking sword! Make sure it causes fire damage! And give it a cool skill!
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Radagon and red wolf of radagon is just ripoff artroias and sif
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Ironically the non-boss versions are harder to kill, at least in my experience.
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Ironically the non-boss versions are harder to kill, at least in my experience.
It's an interesting fight that keeps you on your toes. Gives me some real Sif vibes, which is a fun nostalgic trip. Unfortunately they re-use the boss and also include it as a non-boss enemy out in the field a few times. It starts to wear out its welcome pretty quick.
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He’s a reskin of the Gravetender Greatwolf, but with magic.
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For some reason, the riposte stab placement is very awkward, if you miss a single light attack from a dagger, he will recover instantly
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I would like this boss if the area was slightly bigger. The small room space is annoying.
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I think he got another attack where he shoots the big magic bolt out of his mouth
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This guy has a habit of detecting shield users and casting 3 daggers, then jumping straight over your head, letting the camera do a 180 and you get 3 daggers in the unguarded back. It was on this boss that I realized the main bosses of this game are Torrent and his deathwish control system, the camera and it's habit of getting you killed, and the targeting system. Oh the targeting system. Never picks the target I am looking at or want, it targets either nothing and gets me killed, targets the wrong enemy and swings my guard to get me killed or will target some enemy through 6 different walls and 2 different levels. And then get me killed.
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Used a mixed armor of physical and magic defense, boosted my magic defense before the boss, used a +6 claymore with Giant Hunt doing tons of damage to it.
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Is he really so strong against bleed? I fought him on NG+2 with Bloody Twinblades (130 bleed buildup) and bled him with each hit finishing the fight in combo.
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On a scale of 1 to obnoxious, fucc this guy! Seriously the most bs enemy in the entire game. Luckily in most cases he can be cheesed and deserves it with his bs.
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The Marionette Soldier ashes work pretty well for the fight in Raya Lucaria if you are a ranged or magic user. It can't dodge the shots of the two summons and the player all at the same time. Stay back, fire at it, and don't try to attack it when you draw aggro away from the summons, just focus on dodging until they distract it again. Your soldiers are a bit squishy so try to take it down quickly.
The run up to this boss can be really intimidating if this is your first FS game, but you can literally hold the run button and book it past all the wizards. The one at the end might clip you with a single shard right before the boss door but you'll still be FAR better off than if you wasted your blue sippies taking all of these bozos out.
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On my 4th attempt he jumped up on the suspended globe/ball thing and did the glitched movement jitter. Then he fell off and it killed him. He was at about 60% life or so. No idea how it happened or if its something I caused.
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Every one of these copy and paste BS 'Red Wolf' bosses is just that. BS. Make it impossibly fast melee or spell spam. OR, not both.
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Scarlet rot is relatively affective on him. I remember using the rot breath prot on him and beating him pretty fast
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The one by Moonlight Altar is a real pain. Can't spell from distance because he's not really there, spins around quickly and spams spells so you can't cast back. Fortunately he's not very perceptive and you can get by him sneaking. Your runes got a From special though...
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Is this the only enemy in the game that has a negative resistance? I don't think I've ever seen negative integers for enemy absorption on another enemy
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Easy boss, but also very B.S. as he constantly likes to jump out of your range.
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Ashes can't be used for this boss. I tried a few times thinking it was bugged but I straight up cannot summon my spirits.
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I do not like that this pupper has to be canonically smarter than my character to use those sorceries.
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When he does his 2 sword swipes (not the spinning attacks), he input reads after the 2nd swipe and will do an overhead slam if you attack, easily exploited
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Is it just me or is the one in the snowfield much harder than the rest?
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The use of commas in the resistance section is confusing. I know in some countries, commas are used as decimal points, but on just about every other page here the period is used, so does this enemy really require hundreds of thousands of buildup for bleed, poison, etc? Or is it meant as a decimal separator?
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dual wield keen uchigatana +8 with 26 Dex. Sliced through him like a mother****ing butter.
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I Had a lot of difficulty with this fight, specially at the beggining. Every jolly coop I would die. Bit once I got the grip of it, it became a lot easier.
Just pay attention, his attacks are well telegraphed, and not so hard to dodge.
I advise you to use the poison buff
And don't get greedy.
When he summon the sword, wait a bit until you start to dodge to conserve your stamina.
I beat him under level 35 or something
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i was fighting the one at liurnia and all of a sudden he teleports to the second floor, fell and just die
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Just found out you can summon Sellen for this boss if you do her questline first (put her primal glintstone in the puppet and talk to her)
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the one at moonlight altar is harder than 90% of the bosses, spams magic like there is no tomorrow and its "generic" lol
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"A less powerful variant, the Lesser Red Wolf of Radagon can be found in..." that less powerful is twice as hard than a boss one. As you cannot summon. That boss version didn't even get my attention, killed in a few sec and forgot. This one I cannot reach with daggers even to hit, he lunges in and jumps away.
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Its health was just low enough to be a fun fight when I did it (Level 56). I had some fun with Carian Retaliation (actually did good damage), but eventually had to beat it the normal, dual-dagger way since I had to go to bed soon. The trek up to it did spoil the fight a bit though. At least you can pretty much run past every enemy except the very fist one (which you can still back stab). Its moveset is actually quite predictable. It always does the bites in a two-one set. It almost always does the third hit of the sword combo if you stick close to it. It also doesn't hit hard at all; my 17 Vigor self can survive any two hits of its attacks that are not the lunge.
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believe me the sorcerers are not worth it, just run the whole way without stopping - if you do it smart enough they wont hit you once
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no matter the outcome, the fight is always shorter than the way up to him
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This fight is stupid you don't have enough time to figure out if he will use a bite or the sword. If you try to look at his movement to figure what his next attack you already wasted to much time to dodge the bite attack and if you just roll instantly you will get hit by the sword swing, this fight is basically a coin flip if you're next to him.
Lvl 40, melted him in about 10 seconds with bleed infused Bandit's Curved Swords. Opaline Bubble Tear tanked the first hit, so I swang through the first attack to get a feel for how much damage I would do and how he reacts to my offense, and he was dead before I even realized what was going on.
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