Champion's Gravetender & Gravetender Greatwolf |
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| Gravetender: 2791 Greatwolf: 4193 |
60000 | Painted World of Ariandel |
| Drops | Valorheart Champion's Bones |
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| Weak |  Strike (Greatwolf) Fire (Greatwolf)All Status Effects |
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| Resistant |  Slash (Greatwolf) Frostbite (Greatwolf) |
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| Immune | None | |
Champion's Gravetender & Gravetender Greatwolf is a Boss in Dark Souls 3. It is part of the Ashes of Ariandel DLC. This Dark Souls 3 Champion's Gravetender & Gravetender Greatwolf Guide features locations, strategies and videos on how to defeat Champion's Gravetender & Gravetender Greatwolf easily, as well as tips, weaknesses, trivia and lore notes for the Gravetender & Greatwolf boss.
When encountered, the Champion's Greavetender is found with three wolves next to a tombstone. They are clad in armor and wield a sword and shield, with a moveset not dissimilar to regular enemies. After being brought down to a certain health threshold, they summon the Gravetender Greatwolf, a wolf significantly larger than the other three.
While not being too difficult of a boss fight, players may get overwhlemed trying to manage both bosses at the same time, so it is recommended to burn down the Champion's Gravetender as soon as possible. There are no NPC summons available for this fight. As long as the fight is not triggered, player phantoms can't enter the boss fight arena. This boss is optional and not required to progress DLC.
Bosses are unique and challenging Enemies that drop Boss Souls capable of being transformed into powerful Weapons, Spells, and Items for the player.
Champion's Gravetender & Gravetender Greatwolf Location
Where to find Champion's Gravetender & Gravetender Greatwolf in Dark Souls 3?
- Painted World of Ariandel: Cut the rope bridge that leads to the cathedral with Sister Friede and climb the bridge/ladder down to the bottom, similar to how you descend from the Catacombs of Carthus to Smouldering Lake. At one end of the frozen ground is an open area with flowers you can drop down to. Approach the ruins to trigger the boss fight.
Champion's Gravetender & Gravetender Greatwolf Drops
What do you get from defeating Champion's Gravetender & Gravetender Greatwolf in Dark Souls 3?
- Souls: NG (60,000) | NG+ (120,000) | NG++ (132,000) | NG+3 (135,000) | NG+4 (144,000) | NG+5 (147,000) | NG+6 (150,000) | NG+7 (153,000)
- Co-Op Souls: NG (30,000)
- Valorheart
- Champion's Bones: Key item to access the Undead Match at Hollow Arena
Champion's Gravetender Notes & Tips
What should you know about fighting Champion's Gravetender in Dark Souls 3?
- Attacks deals Standard Damage, Strike Damage, Thrust Damage and Magic Damage (2nd phase). May also cause Frostbite (2nd phase).
- Champion's Gravetender can use Valorheart's weapon arts.
- Parryable: Yes
- Weak to Lightning Damage and Bleed.
- Resistant to Frostbite and Poison/Toxic.
- Shield can be guard broken, what gives an opportunity to perform a critical strike. Also can be backstabbed.
- Champion can be easily be staggered.
- If the Greatwolf howls while the Gravetender is still alive, the Gravetender will get buffed, indicated by the Warcry's red aura.
Gravetender Greatwolf Notes & Tips
What should you know about fighting Gravetender Greatwolf in Dark Souls 3?
- Appears when Gravetender's health is lowered by about 55 percent.
- Attacks deal Standard Damage. May cause Frostbite (2nd phase).
- Parryable: No
- Weak to Lightning Damage, Fire Damage and Bleed.
- Resistant to Frostbite.
- Players can break his poise, which gives an opportunity to perform a critical strike dealing significant damage.
Champion's Gravetender Stats
| Playthrough | NG | NG + | NG ++ | NG +3 | NG +4 | NG +5 | NG +6 | NG +7 |
| Health | 2,791 | 2,794 | 3,074 | 3,213 | 3,353 | 3,632 | 3,772 | 3,912 |
Gravetender Greatwolf Stats
| Playthrough | NG | NG + | NG ++ | NG +3 | NG +4 | NG +5 | NG +6 | NG +7 |
| Health | 4,193 | 4,197 | 4,617 | 4,827 | 5,037 | 5,457 | 5,666 | 5,876 |
Dark Souls 3 Champion's Gravetender & Gravetender Greatwolf Boss Guide & Strategies
DS3 Champion's Gravetender & Gravetender Greatwolf Video Strategy
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DS3 Gravetender & Greatwolf Attacks
Champion's Gravetender Attacks
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| Valorheart Special Attack - Sword | Gravetender uses Valorheart weapon art - swift sword attack. Can be avoided with ease. |
| Rush Attack | If player is at medium distance, Gravetender starts to run, which may end with a swift and medium damage dealing attack. Can be avoided or blocked, but not broken. |
| Block | Gravetender uses his shield to block player's attack. |
| Valorheart Special Attack - Shield | If Gravetender is blocking, he can perform a roar attack with his shield. Doesn't deal much damage, but drains a lot of stamina. |
| Critical Strike | If player is stunned, Gravetender approaches and performs a critical strike. |
| Magic attack | After Greatwolf appears, Gravetender sometimes switches to a staff and casts either Homing Arrow or Snap Freeze. |
Champion's Greatwolf Attacks
| First phase | |
| Rush | Greatwolf rushes 1/2/3 times, dealing high psychical damage. Attack is telegraphed by white snow appearing around Greatwolf, though it can be avoided. Can be blocked. |
| Ground Head Rush Attack | Greatwolf lower his head, then swiftly rushes towards player causing massive physical damage. |
| Head sweep | Greatwolf sweeps his head 2/3 times, causing physical damage. |
| Swift rush + Frozen breath (second phase) | Greatwolf rushes through the arena 2 times, then stops and breathes in player's direction causes massive frost damage. |
How to fight and beat Champion's Gravetender & Gravetender Greatwolf
Strategy 1 (Melee)
This boss is an NPC sized character that wields Valorheart. In the first phase, he will be accompanied by a pack of small wolves. He can be taken on fairly straight up. Once the pesky wolves have been dispatched, his health bar gets depleted rather quickly. Be mindful of his weapon's guardbreaking and combo moveset, and try not to over rely on your shield. Dodge effectively, reading his patterns and attack when he presents an opening.
When he reaches half health, his partner, Gravetender Greatwolf will arrive, who is a much larger wolf with a deadly moveset. The wolf is fast and has a powerful forward rush that will launch you into the air with devastating damage, using the central pillar is helpful in staying clear of its attacks. It can also breathe frost that will affect you even if you are using the central pillar for cover. The key to handle the wolf is to stay to its side, avoiding its slash attacks, and recognizing when it is charging up its dash attack, giving you time to effectively dodge to the side of it. Try to take out the Champions Gravetender first and it will make the fight with his partner much easier.
To be taken in conjunction with everything else, below is a playbook of how to beat this fight with at least three Estus left, as it was field-proven by this contributor.
- Champion Gravetender summons his big Greatwolf at half health. Play the first phase as safe as you can, being very evasive, killing the wolves first. To get the wolves easy, bait the nearest wolf, which is sleeping to Gravetender's right shoulder. Next, go around the right of the whole batch of pillars and there will likely be another wolf. It is not 100% essential to use these vectors, but they help.
- Kill Gravetender second. Don't interrupt his combos, punish and go for openings only.
- If Gravetender is still alive when he calls his Greatwolf, separate them, but don't bring the wolf's health down, because he will buff into a red-eyed variant. Kill Gravetender by punishing his soul-spear magic combo and when he's open or recovering, and absolutely do not stay in the line of attack with the wolf.
- Kill the wolf. Basically, it's the Sif strategy of simple dodge rolling and hitting the legs from the sides and inside while in first stage, you can punish his frost by rolling inside the lines of spray, and hitting him. More than two hits for a punishment is dangerous.
- The giant wolf can do a dashing cyclone attack up to four times in rapid succession. In his first phase (before he buffs), he is likely to do it three times.
- If you have too much heat on you, use the pillars and such to buffer yourself, and conserve your stamina. Don't panic roll or spam panic swings, or you will get hit. None of the enemies heal, so use that to your advantage to keep your punishments as short as possible.
Strategy 2 (Melee, Bleed build, Solo)
Equipment: Carthus Rouge, Carthus Curved Sword +10 (or any non-large weapon that causes bleed damage) wielded in two hands, Medium armor set.
After entering the area with the fight, use Carthus Rouge on the sword and approach the high building. When Gravetender rises, go back a little, as he will walk slowly, which can be used to eliminate 3 nearby wolves (with them, the fight is much harder). When Gravetender is alone, re-use Carthus Rouge and attack him in the moments in which he can be harmed with ease, f.e. after his rush attack. When his health is lowered to about 1/2, he uses (not always thought) the "By my sword" gesture, and Greatwolf will appear on the battlefield (in the middle of the arena). Do not hesitate to eliminate wounded Gravetender and re-use Carthus Rouge. After doing so - lock on to Greawolf (let you avoid his rush attacks more easily) and stick to him. During activating second phase (red eye and "roar") you can still attack him - bleed damage will kill him easily.
Strategy 3 (Pyromancy, Solo)
Spell: Chaos Bed Vestige with Pyromancy Hand +10. In addition Chaos Battle Axe.
Rings: Boosting Fire Damage + Dusk Crown Ring
Set: Fire Keeper
Slowly approach the place with Gravetender and 3 wolves and back up a little, then cast CBV a few times to eliminate them (they are vulnerable to fire, so even non-direct hit will cause massive damage). Gravetender alone is an easy target, but his rush can deal a lot of damage (spells can't break this attack) and he can avoid them. If Greatwolf approaches, do not look on him and eliminate wounded Gravetender. Greatwolf is vulnerable to fire - so CBV can easily deal even 600-700 damage per hit, but be careful with his attacks, as most of them can be fatal. However, HP base (especially if you won 2 encounters with him and regular wolfs) is low, so few a CBVs will kill him without any problem.
Strategy 4 (Cheese using bow+Toxic Mist)
Equip Black Bow of Pharis and feather arrows (I tested it with Hawk Ring also) or greatbow. Stand next to the future fog gate, but DON'T enter the arena. Shoot the arrow to the first visible wolf. If it gets hit, fight starts. Then shoot Toxic Mist through the gate. You'll see HP of three wolves going down, then you should also poison a Gravetender. Simply repeat few times if needed. Then you can safely enter the arena and fight only a Greatwolf.
If you want to cheese Greatwolf then you can trigger the fight only by getting on the ledge near the branches leading to Livid Pyromancer Dunnel, which is placed above bosses' arena. However, it is quite hard to achieve as you need to cut through Birch Woman, climb up, cross the bridge, go through flies' room, then return by hitting the bridge, climbing down and cutting through enemies to reach the arena again.
As it requires lot of time and it's also harder than the fight itself it is more wise to just beat the Greatwolf in a normal way.
Gravetender & Greatwolf Lore Theories
It should be noted that the Champion's Gravetender was likely the Champion's page referenced in the description of Valorheart. He and the Gravetender Greatwolf are both referenced to have been extremely loyal to the Champion, so we can assume they are watching over the Champion's grave. Gravetender Greatwolf appears to have some history with the Farron Followers and The Abyss Watchers of Farron Keep. For more, an article about Wolf's Blood, The Abyss Watchers and Artorias.
Champion's Gravetender & Gravetender Greatwolf Trivia
- The Greatwolf which appears before the fight can be encountered twice - at the entrance to the area with a tower with Millwood Knights and near this tower. If you kill Greatwolf without winning those encounters, you lost the chance to obtain loot (Large Titanite Shard x3 for one victory). During these encounters, he uses the moveset from the boss battle and is supported by a pack of wolfs.
- In addition, if player wins those fights, Greatwolf's HP during the boss battle will be lowered by around 15%. This is a permanent effect.
- Gravetender, in order to call Greatwolf, may use the gesture "By my sword".
- Few of Greatwolf's abilities mirror Vordt of the Boreal Valley.
- Bug (Very rare): Greatwolf, instead of fighting, circles around player without attacking him.
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Here’s a fun fact, the icon next to the Gravetender’s healthbar is the same that appears in the Undead Match.
Deepest lore.
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instead of three wolves could have just made the gravetender stronger...
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Who cares the ost is one of the most goated tracks in all of Fromsoft and the wolf has a fun and engaging moveset.
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I feel proud to say that I used the most overcomplicated glitch to kill this boss, instead of killing it regular. Its definitely the worst boss in the game so it deserves special treatment.
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What a pushover after Sister Friede. She wiped my ass for hours straight and this guy I accidently wandered into his arena and first tried him and his dogs. Very easy to parry, the big wolf is harder than him.
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I recently decided to play all 3 souls games front to back, beating all bosses. It’s taken me a few months.
I’m almost done with my playthrough of 3 and I can confidently say the big wolf in this fight is the worst boss in the whole series. What a pathetic excuse for a boss.
Its so funny to see Gravetender get knocked down by profaned flame pyromancy good riddance to him and the wolves
Heres some advice if you keep getting ganked by the wolves just use wolnir's dark pyromancy while locked onto one of them it will do about half their health but thankfully since it has low FP requirements your chilling
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Fighting dog enemies in Dark Souls 3 is the most amount of fun you have possibly have while playing an app - Miyazaki, probably
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I beat this boss on my first try ever just now. It was really easy for my partizan pyromancer build.
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This “boss” isnt hard because its mechanically challenging and interesting, like friede or midir or gael. Its hard because its a gankfest full of the worst enemies from insists on trying to make work. Wolves are ****. Theyre not fun. Dog enemies never have and never will be fun. They put three of the shitheads in for phase one. They have just enough health to survive a light attack on most weapons, so you have to strong attack. They scatter and circle you so your camera simulates you falling over during a seizure. Then gravetender comes and beats your head in with his shield. So you kick his ass, hes worthless. Dont bother with any slow casting spells, you wont pull it off, ever. But you wreck his **** with melee. Two hand cus he always has his shield up. To pyros, use black flame on parting flame. It instantly guard breaks. You can riposte immediately but it just does no damage unless you wait a sec. Its really stupid. Try to fight him far from where the wolf spawns in phase two so you can finish him off. If you dont hell rush you or spam spells. Then theres this stupid ****ing dog. Forget cocaine bear, meth wolf, yo. I dont know how he got into walt’s stash but he eats the good **** in his own phase 2 and starts vomiting the glass cus his belly cant handle it. He charges around nonstop, its hard to tell when he does multiple charges, he wrecks half your health, doesnt stop moving. If this boss didnt instantly crush your healthbar with a single hit, it wouldnt be a challenge in the slightest. This is a dumb, frustrating gankfest that doesnt belong in the game nor does it deserve the beautiful arena. -10/10, put a real boss here please. And remove like all the wolves in the first area. Ganks and wolves are garbage and not fun. Use real enemies, and less of them. Or break them up better. I cant fight a million guys with javelins and shields or methed up wolves
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This “boss” isnt hard because its mechanically challenging and interesting, like friede or midir or gael. Its hard because its a gankfest full of the worst enemies from insists on trying to make work. Wolves are ****. Theyre not fun. Dog enemies never have and never will be fun. They put three of the shitheads in for phase one. They have just enough health to survive a light attack on most weapons, so you have to strong attack. They scatter and circle you so your camera simulates you falling over during a seizure. Then gravetender comes and beats your head in with his shield. So you kick his ass, hes worthless. Dont bother with any slow casting spells, you wont pull it off, ever. But you wreck his **** with melee. Two hand cus he always has his shield up. To pyros, use black flame on parting flame. It instantly guard breaks. You can riposte immediately but it just does no damage unless you wait a sec. Its really stupid. Try to fight him far from where the wolf spawns in phase two so you can finish him off. If you dont hell rush you or spam spells. Then theres this stupid ****ing dog. Forget cocaine bear, meth wolf, yo. I dont know how he got into walt’s stash but he eats the good **** in his own phase 2 and starts vomiting the glass cus his belly cant handle it. He charges around nonstop, its hard to tell when he does multiple charges, he wrecks half your health, doesnt stop moving. If this boss didnt instantly crush your healthbar with a single hit, it wouldnt be a challenge in the slightest. This is a dumb, frustrating gankfest that doesnt belong in the game nor does it deserve the beautiful arena. -10/10, put a real boss here please. And remove like all the wolves in the first area. Ganks and wolves are garbage and not fun. Use real enemies, and less of them. Or break them up better. I cant fight a million guys with javelins and shields or methed up wolves
If you fight them at ok level, they're not hard if a tad annoying. Now if you're underleveled, this becomes the most infuriating and cancerous experience I've ever had in any From game, including ER. Do yourself a favor and cheese the gravetender and the gank wolfs with arrows and poison mist, even then the meth Sif wannabe will make you cry
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Killed this pair on my first playthrough at the first try, just broke the boss with a Chaos infused lothric sword +10 using it with both hands (it died before the wolf even finished spawn...) and the wolf was a piece of cake you just roll in diagonal 2 times at most before attacking and the poor thing dies before even hitting you.... the crabs give me a harder time......
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Did anyone ever notice that the Gravetender is wearing a Darkwraith mask? I wonder what's up with that. Like, does that mean anything? It seems like a very peculiar choice of headwear, especially with this fight and the aesthetics and lore here being an obvious parallel to Artorias, who was the arch nemesis of the Darkwraiths. There's even a greatwolf. Something to investigate maybe?
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Holy MOLY this “boss” isn’t even hard, it’s just complete bull.
In the first phase you gotta fight the three wolves. Very easy, barely an inconvenience, but ANNOYING. They add nothing at all to the fight other than just drag it out further. Doesn’t really help that they screw up the lock so bad either, the camera struggles so hard it’s actually insane.
Moving on to the gravetender, he’s not terrible as an NPC fight but he seems to have an absurd amount of poise and keeps the shield up pretty much constantly. He’s pretty predictable in his moves tho, so the first part of the fight is aight.
Alas, when the second phase starts it gets REAL. Sometimes he doesn’t even raise his sword to signify, you just hear the wolf howl. The wolf makes this fight so bad it’s actually ridiculous. He zooms around the arena, has the TINIEST hitboxes known to man and also lowers arena visibility considerably. During this the gravetender also starts using magic, so you’ll wanna dispose of him fast if possible.
The wolf being super hard to hit paired with his high damage was already bad enough, but lo and behold, after his health reaches a certain threshold he enters second phase.
Yeah. The wolf, who acts as this fight’s second phase has a second phase of his own. He becomes more aggressive, even faster, and starts dealing frostbite damage.
Dear Lord. To add insult to injury the gravetender had the worst drip ever. Naked from the waist down in that weather? Almost respectable.
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beat this on first try on first playthrough, those icy crabs are the real bosses of this area.praise exile great sword
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for all who say this boss is the worst duo, don't play Elden ring. Elden Ring: boss you have seen 20 times before. oh let's make it 2. DS3: one boss who is a decent npc with a cool move set and a copy paste wolf. elden ring has godrick. this has gael. ds3 better.
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At least it is the best NPC boss. it is also an awesome compared to NPC Halflight. not player though. :) and better than red wolf of Chadagon
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It’s honestly an okay fight, the dog just has annoying hitboxes.
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Thank God it’s an optional boss with forgettable loot.
You like PVP? You like PVP with a meth-head camera? You like PVP with a meth-head camera and a lock-on system with a mind of its own? You like PVP with a meth-head camera and a lock-on system with a mind of its own and those charging reindeer from DSII? Only instead of a reindeer its this big deranged wolf whose whole raison d’etre is to bolt out of a blindspot and hit like a truck? You like that? You do? Well, I got good news…
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the targeting system in this fight is totally broken. I can have the gravetender dead center of my screen 6 feet away and try to target him, and the game will 180 me to look at the wolf on the other side of the arena. Multi enemy boss fights just dont work well in souls games
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you just need to softlock the gravetenders game with hacks so he cant progress, making the dog fight very easy, thank me later
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They should just have ditched the dude entirely and done more with the wolf, and then the fight would have been very decent.
Still, compared to shitty fights from previous dark souls games, it's really not that bad.
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i was one hit away from first trying it so now its the worst boss in the game
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lightning storm works surprisingly well in this fight, normally the npc will just doge roll any spell you throw at him, but because of the lingering hitbox he will fail to roll it every time, also it kills the small wolves with its huge aoe, without even aiming at them, highly recommend.
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Wait what ppl had difficulty with this boss? Just use toxic mist bruh. One cast and the wolf is poisoned. Ez af boss
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Ok ok everybody's tilted about this boss, but would you really rather fight another red wolf of radagon over this, the greatwolf is actually fun to fight compared to that spell spamming side stepping piece of absolute trash
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ok am I the only one who thought this boss was super easy? You can even fight the wolf in a different part (not boss but the exact same enemy) at the start of the DLC
I always wanted to fight sif and artorias when they are together,but now I regret...
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Definitely an intense sprint of a bossfight once the big wolf comes out, only took about 5 bed vestiges to defeat and still took 5-6 tries, thankful for the those pillars to circle around and slow the fight down or it would be way harder
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Did a few tries of this boss before realizing there is a bonfire at the bottom near the boss and you dont have slash the bridge to drop down the roots from the chapel every time, could have saved some time and tediousness there for sure…
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Excellent boss, who doesn't love fighting a guy with a crappy gravetending shift who overslept and had to rush out the door in rags and forgot to put on bottomwear and shoes and fights with his grandma's antique dinky sword and bronze dinner-plate with Low-budget Sif as his battle-buddy
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First time in the game where I went “oh this is just unfair lmao”
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This isn't Artorias and Sif. This is more like Royal Ray Authority plus an NPC. Even the moveset of the Greatwolf is similar to the giant "rat" in that boss fight.
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Beat them solo 1st try, but I'm over-leveled. I used Demon's Greataxe +5 (the wolf is weak to fire), Yhorm's Greatshield +5, and the Undead Legion set. The Gravetender was easy compared to some other npc's. I had him down 2/3's before the wolf even had a chance to appear. The wolf is annoying, but use a pillar to block his physical attacks until you're ready. Eliminating the Gravetender early is what made it easy. Even with me being over-leveled, they would've been a pain to deal with together for an extended time. Way easier for me than Friede or the Dancer.
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next time someone says these games are hard but fair I can just point to this fight to win that argument
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idk how to describe it but this ahit feels like a touhou boss
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First try did it... kill the hoomman and then Stick to the Walls of the grave once dogo did his turbo stuff give Him some hugs
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Worst boss in the game here. It somehow manages to beat greatwood for that title
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i beat him at SL30 with this setup:
+3 heavy flamberge, offhand blessed +3 caestus, and a crystal +3 mailbreaker in second slot on right hand (does a lot of crit damage, more than fire infused Dagger).
armor: outrider set (good physical and frost resist)
rings: prisoner's chain, knightslayer ring, sun princess, steel protection
I also used a charcoal pine resin once the gravetender died since the greatwolf is weak to fire.
after two 2H R1 with the flamberge, his guard will break and you can crit him by swapping to the mailbreaker immediately for 400+ damage (flamberge only does 300 dmg or so on the riposte). then you can rollcatch him when he gets up. he's also fairly vulnerable to bleed, so whether he's guarding or not, he's in trouble. don't try to trade damage with him though unless you're sure he's going to stagger out of his attack. use the pillars to avoid the big wolf if you still need to finish him off when the wolf comes out.
after 5 or so 2H R1 hits you can stagger and crit the big wolf. try to stay close to him when he's not dashing around, especially during phase two because you can walk to his side during his frost breath attack and whale on him. you can also hit him a few times safely while he phase transitions and he's just howling his head off. roll through his bite attacks to his side and swing on him. remember that before his second dash in that whirlwind dash chain, he repositions first, so don't try to roll right away. conserve your stamina when you can!
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What a lame boss. Goes from trivial to downright impossible in the later phase (unless you are a tank).
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Vitality is literally the only stat that matters against this boss.
Could have used an actually fun phase 2
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I do not understand why are people so tilted about this boss in the comments. Yes it's not the best ever experience but unless youre running an absolute glass cannon it shouldnt present any issues.
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Im playing offline so I literally get nothing from beating this cheesy ass wannabe boss
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Anyone defetaed greatwolf in the second encounter. I have finished dark souls 3 without leveling vitality once. This dlc seems to require a tank build, so now I have started to level vitality.
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Why didn't they make a good boss? Instead we get big fat wolf and an npc
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it goes fine until the wolf comes in and then it becomes a total cluster****
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hit boxes on the wolf are absolutely horrendous, i have to be practically inside it to guarantee a hit
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The greatwolf gets absolutely destroyed by the frayed blade's heavy weapon art
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this boss is not a duo boss for me anyone
cuz i wipe out the gravetender with ease before the wolf can join the fight
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The OST: 10/10
The atmosphere: 10/10
The actual fight: 3/10
The symptoms are there. This boss has caught a case of Deacons Syndrome.
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after elden ring i can say this, this is not a bad duo boss anymore
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I couldn't see a reference to it by skimming the page so I'll ask here: anyone know why there's some sort of circular symbol next to his health bar in the fight and what it's meant to signify?
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Dragonslayer's Greataxe, tank hits and use your L2.. got him on the first try, his hp was less than 10% when the dog even appeared. Honestly easiest boss in the game.
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Fun fact: this is the worst f*cking boss in all of souls games
Third fight with the Gravetender, this time as a pure Sorcerer, 60 Int using Court Sorcerer's Staff +10. This was actually easier this time around, with me needing three spells for the fight: Soul Greatsword, Great Soul Dregs, and Crystal Soul Spear.
Soul Greatsword is actually rather good against the small wolves at the start, they're able to catch the wolves at a good enough range, and even if they try to circle you as long as you're locked on Soul Greatsword will hit them. Great Soul Dregs meanwhile is what you spam against the Gravetender himself, as even when he tries to roll through it the amazing homing abilities of the projectile will hit him (a far cry from my Pyromancer where Chaos Bed Vestiges just whiffs past him). You can keep spamming this against him even when the wolf shows up, takes him down quick. Finally, Crystal Soul Spear is what you need for the big wolf in order to finish him off fast for big damage, since you'll want the projectile to hit quickly which Great Soul Dregs can't do. Took me 5 attempts, but it worked far easier than my Pyromancer was able to.
So I was struggling with this boss as a Pyromancer, which was vexing considering my earlier Dex Thief playthrough (my first) managed to defeat them in only two tries. The difficulty lay in the fact that the Champion can just decide to nullify your skills by rolling through them, making it a waste of FP. and making it hard to kill him when his Wolf arrives.
I only hit upon the solution in sheer desperation: Sacred Flame. As long as you can time your first hit correctly and it connects (you'll have to begin casting when he's a bit far and rushing towards you, any closer and he'll interrupt you), you can basically stunlock the Champion through repeated Sacred Flame spam until he dies, and the best thing is that the Wolf can't do damage to you during the Sacred Flame animation, allowing you to kill the Champion with ease. From there it's only a matter of using Chaos Bed Vestige on the Wolf to kill him.
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Throw dung pies at the wolf to toxify it. It is very weak to poison/toxic.
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Second encounter of the Greatwolf outside of the boss arena : run behind the tower near, all the small wolves will fall to their death, the Greatwolf cannot reach you and you can just shoot him with arrows and tell him to screw himself with his gank squad
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I beat him at first try !!!! I don't even think i will win, just going to see the cutscene (wich wasn't). And i'm far far from a hardcore gamer WHAHAHAHAHA WOUHOUUUUU. Sorry for the useless post but hey i'm happy
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Gravetender was so annoying dodging my ghsa i decidedto Soul Stream him to death. He died before even summoning the wolf. When the wolf came he decided to not attack me, it’s supposed to be a rare bug, how did it happen?
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That's odd, I somehow got 81,000 souls on NG... Could it be the wolf? I kicked its arse two times before the bossfight at the millwood knight infested place.
- Anonymous
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Let's look at the grave tender for a sec...
No pants, chain armor, ugly mask, small shield...
Is he tending to the grave of ds1 pvp?
- Anonymous
Some of y’all are complaining that they are just rip off Sif and Artorias. That’s kinda the point, once you beat Dark Souls most iconic duo you get refined PvP.
- Anonymous
Chaos great club at 30 strength 30 intelligence and 30 faith makes this fight a little to easy. Poor wolf got slapped hard and the grave boy tries blocking so ends up very punished.
- Anonymous
One of the Worst bosses i have ever faced in my whole Life. Two glorified NPC's with nothing more than damage. Disgusting
- Anonymous
Judging by Gravetender's fashion choice, he's more than likely a min-maxer
- Anonymous
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trust me! black knight sword will wreck the champion's grave tender and the wolf so I recommend using this weapon when fighting them (used in ng+2 so in ng the black knight sword is still really good)
- Anonymous
Dragonslayer Greataxe makes quick work of both the champion and the wolf
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The camera on this fight is the worst in Dark Souls I've ever experienced. At first I thought it was just me but clearly many comments here express similar sentiments. It just randomly locks you off actors in the game for no real reason other than obviously being "bugged". It actually needs a patch because it's ****ing heinous.
- Anonymous
I think the Abysswalker and the great grey wolf want word with these two double gangers
I think it’s pretty cool how the Greatwolf stalks you in the first half of the dlc
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