Elden Ring: Red Wolf of the Champion (Gelmir Hero's Grave) Boss Fight

As you probably know, bosses in Elden Ring are divided into three tiers. From lowest to highest: Field Bosses, Greater Enemy Bosses and finally Demigods and Legends.

Red Wolf of the Champion is in the lowest tier, Field Bosses, and is the end boss of the Gelmir Hero’s Grave dungeon in Mount Gelmir. Like most lesser bosses in the game, this one is optional in the sense that you do not need to defeat it in order to advance the main story.

Ironically, getting through the dungeon with those stupid meat-grinding chariots was a lot more challenging than fighting this boss ;-)

When going melee against a red wolf, I find the best approach is to be very aggressive and charge straight for it. If you try to keep distance and constantly get away from it, it will use a lot of charge and magical attacks itself, which is just going to wear you down after a while. These wolves are actually quite squishy, so if you manage to land some hits yourself, they die fairly quickly.

And now for the usual boring details about my character. I play as a mostly Dexterity build. My melee weapon is the Guardian’s Swordspear with Keen affinity and Chilling Mist Ash of War. My shield is the Great Turtle Shell, which I mostly wear for the stamina recovery. I was level 116 when this video was recorded. I think that’s too high for this boss as it died quickly and felt easier than the previous red wolves I have faced. I’m always looking for the sweet spot where it’s not mind-numbing easy mode, but also not so difficult that I will be stuck on the same boss for hours ;-)