Are you supposed to fight the Wandering Wight when you find him?

[Thomas Devlin]

I noticed right off the bat that one boss was not like the other, I beat the first boss on my first try, the second boss only took me two attempts, but the Wandering Wight beat the living hell out of me, it took me at least an hour to beat him. I thought maybe the first two guys were just warmups and the difficulty was about to start ramping up, but I've beaten three more bosses at this point and they're all only taken one attempt, even the one labeled as a yaoguai king. He drops a soul that you can't use until you meet a guy further down the trail, and I noticed that he would have been pretty easy to run past, so I'm starting to get the impression that he was actually just a freak of nature. Was I actually supposed to fight him then, or is he like the tree sentinel in elden ring?

[zero.calvin]

no, you are suppose to come back later, but many of us has beaten it as our 1st boss due to stubbornness...

[Xengre]

You can fight him immediately, but I recommend fighting the boss on the left of that route first from the shrine.

It is a dead end area so explore and loot over there but you should come across a fire based boss. Beat him for his transformation skill. This skill lets you transform into that form of the boss and use the fire weapon and dash attacks plus apply burn. The biggest benefit, however, is it is an entirely different temporary health pool that has no influence on your health so you can take however much damage in that form without penalty. Consider it quite a bit of free dmg on bosses before you turn back (it has a duration) to your original monkey form.

Immobilize can be used before that so that it has time to recharge for more uses in the fight, then transform some time after. The Immobilize skill cancels current attacks by the way so it doesn't only give you free chance at DPS but also gives additional free DPS time as they recover from a failed attack. Note there are some exceptions (not this boss necessarily but later ones) that immobilize will fail for oddly.

Others suggest coming back to fight him later and that is completely valid if you find him too hard. He is probably among the hardest bosses in chapter 1. Just make sure to finish him before fighting the flaming bear or the secret hidden boss (ring three bells) because I heard they can make him permanently vanish for the entire playthrough until NG+.

Personally, I don't think this boss is that comparable to the Tree Sentinel incident which was far more a power gap compared to Wandering Wright for start of game. Tree Sentinel was more of a clear sign to skip and explore then come back later where Wandering Wright is definitely very approachable at like level 6+, but again, it doesn't hurt to come back later via shrine teleport if you just want to make it easier.

Wandering Wright gives you a soul, too, and a pretty good one so far imo. It lets you transform into him and do a head slam which does a ton of dmg and is likely to stagger bosses to the ground (and if it doesn't follow up with a resolute strike/etc. most likely will).

[MxWu1337-bilibili]

My advise

Beat him

Reason
You can use him to familiarize yourself with the mechanics.

But it's not a must.

[m0n]

He's first boss "ego check". From software does the same.

You don't have to fight him but "gamer's pride" tell us we must

[IronBanana]

Originally posted by Thomas Devlin:

I noticed right off the bat that one boss was not like the other, I beat the first boss on my first try, the second boss only took me two attempts, but the Wandering Wight beat the living hell out of me, it took me at least an hour to beat him. I thought maybe the first two guys were just warmups and the difficulty was about to start ramping up, but I've beaten three more bosses at this point and they're all only taken one attempt, even the one labeled as a yaoguai king. He drops a soul that you can't use until you meet a guy further down the trail, and I noticed that he would have been pretty easy to run past, so I'm starting to get the impression that he was actually just a freak of nature. Was I actually supposed to fight him then, or is he like the tree sentinel in elden ring?

Yes, i do this ;3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13HpMj47apI&ab_channel=IronBanana

[palacentes]

you dont have to beat him. Just run past him really.
As for learning basics... the many bosses past him will teach you that and they will provide balanced damage numbers while doing it.

He is surprisingly easy tho, not because of his massive HP, or his huge damage and insane combos + delays, but because of how long his flinch or cry animation is. Try to transform into the fire character and just spam light attack. You might kill him. He must be hit by the light attack finisher to flinch or fall down and it will trigger such a long animation.... you will reach the next finisher and land another flinch.

Monkey can, in theory, do this himself. Start w running heavy for a flinch. Spam light attack, he wil eat the finisher before he can react because he was crying for so long. He cries or flinches again.... its just that monkey will run out of stamina before he can kill him, but the transformation wil not.

[MAXR]

Hey, I beat him first try when I got the transformation , but now I cant find his spirit , from what i've looked up online some people say beating him at this moment actually ruin your playthrough , didnt look into it too much bc I avoid spoils , anyone knows if this is bad or true so I can just restart a new save?

[thorin.hannahs]

Originally posted by MAXR:

Hey, I beat him first try when I got the transformation , but now I cant find his spirit , from what i've looked up online some people say beating him at this moment actually ruin your playthrough , didnt look into it too much bc I avoid spoils , anyone knows if this is bad or true so I can just restart a new save?

He should be available at the shrine after you meet a character a bit later in the level.

[Nicodemous52]

Originally posted by MxWu1337-bilibili:

My advise

Beat him

Reason
You can use him to familiarize yourself with the mechanics.

But it's not a must.

That's kind of what i did, I fought him several times, which did help me get use to the controls. But then I went and lvled a little and got close but still wasn't there, so I went and bet a few more bosses and came back, then he went down easy.

[CJones]

If you max out your stamina stat and get "composure" you can pretty much keep him stun-locked. The last hit of the light attack combo will always flinch him. You can re-spec as many times as you like with no downside, so don't be afraid to max out stamina just for this one fight.

And believe me, you want to beat him ASAP. He gives a massive increase to defense.

[Zogtar]

Originally posted by CJones:

If you max out your stamina stat and get "composure" you can pretty much keep him stun-locked. The last hit of the light attack combo will always flinch him. You can re-spec as many times as you like with no downside, so don't be afraid to max out stamina just for this one fight.

And believe me, you want to beat him ASAP. He gives a massive increase to defense.

Even if you do beat him ASAP, you don't unlock his spirit until you get past a certain point.

Coming back after you have your first transformation is a bit more reasonable.

[Glorious Comrade]

It is like the first boss in Dark Soul 1, You are supposed to run through the door. but most people just end up trying over and over until they kill him anyway.

[Mihau]

Im at level 23 and played for 14 hours and still didnt manage to kill and get past that boss... It is sooo boring to level up by killing those few characters before him over and over and over again... I think this kind of game is just not for me as i dont get the mechanics lol

I mean its the third of over 100 bosses and i play for 14 fûкîn hours already...

[Anatolius]

You can, but don't have to - though you should do it before you get to elder jinchi, iirc he disappears otherwise, leaving you without a powerful spirit

[Mihau]

Ok i have beaten him on level 27... Now i gave up for today on the frog boss.
Not easy this game. Im at level 31 now.