ARENA Champion is too tough for me! Please help 😞

[LordWallDeMart]

I prepared for everything (2 lvl 20 thralls with void forge armors and legendary weapons)... all 3 main rooms before the arena were ok (not easy but doable) and went till the Arena Champion twice. But twice, she killed my thralls (2 of them, 1 each time).




That was too frustrating. Please help me with what I should bring or tactics to lure and fight. All the hard work behind leveling the thralls went in vain.😭😭

[Morbid Gamer]

Perfected Heavy crafted with Shieldwright, Bulk Armor Plating, Momentum with Master Weapon Fitting, Gruel, Strength Potion, Heal Arrows, Heal Pot for Thralls (Manual).

Cimmerian Berserker = Minimum Thrall.

[robert-ii]

You could always leave your thralls behind and spec for specialized combat... In this case you'll want full vitality and full agility.
The key to fighting Arena Champ is this: Dont get hit.
Use a good short sword, and use the light attacks only, this will stagger her and you will use very little stamina swinging it.
Be always ready to dodge any attacks...your steel thews perk should keep you from getting 1-shotted anyway.
If you are solo, you will probly not have time to debuff her, its too risky as she will be coming at you if she isnt staggered.
takes around 5-10 minutes like this.
I would suggest light armor for this method (because youre not going to be taking damage anyway)

"Best way to block kick is dont be there"
-Mr Myogi-

[m142]

don't send thrall's, atack arena champ and roll back , in best scenario you wouldn't get hit even once.
recommend weapon are 2h hammer , penetration & dmg , targeting , stagger.

[DarkFire]

The thing is with the Arena Champion is that she hits very hard but doesn't have huge amounts of armour or hit points. Unfortunately thralls don't understand when or how to retreat so they'll keep attacking and will likely die because the arena champion will do much more damage to them than they will do to her.

The trick with the arena champion is not to be hit at all - if you get hit you will take massive damage no matter what armour you're wearing. She telegraphs her strong attacks fairly well so they can usually be avoided by rolling or dodging out of the way. I'd suggest light or at most medium armour with a weapon (or weapons) that have a fast attack speed. Short sword or daggers that have bleed and / or poison are all good options. I would strongly avoid using big, slow weapons because they will leave you open to being hit.

You could use a couple of thralls as a distraction / meat shield I suppose but you would have to accept that they are almost certainly going to die.

[Xevyr]

Originally posted by DarkFire:

The thing is with the Arena Champion is that she hits very hard but doesn't have huge amounts of armour

Ummm :) She has the most armor out of literally ANYTHING in the game... 18760 armor.. which is 97.4% damage reduction..

Her health isn't too much though (2625), since it got cut in half with age of war (used to be 5250 in AoS)
Which is why high armor penetration weapons (blade of seven winds if you have it) can absolutely wreck her or damage over time effects like bleed and poison, because they ignore armor.

However with the AoW changes she can also be staggered endlessly like people said so that's also an option.

Keep in mind that atm NPCs are... weird... to say the least (unless you're using my combat fix mod) so with the constant "target-lock" -like tracking, she's a tiny bit more annoying than in the past if you're used to fighting him and are trying to dodge some of her hits.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by Xevyr:

However with the AoW changes she can also be staggered endlessly like people said so that's also an option.

Can confirm this is possible but could be tricky if solo. I went in there 2 days ago with another player and we basically stun-locked the champ for most of the fight, we only took a couple hits. I was using a mace which gets decent armour penetration, and punch daggers which can cause bleed so I feel like that helped a bit, too.

[Athos42]

Before they nerfed Dafari cannibals, me and Thugra managed to kill her. Well... the Arena Champion killed me in the same second Thugra killed her, so I guess we are even here. I guess that he is too weak now to do it again.

Best might be using a poison dagger or shortsword and an agility build. Just don't get hit, the champion hits like a T-Rex.

[Solomon Hawk]

Cripple and poison. Evasion.
Or hit hard, hit fast with heavy armor penetration and knock down, keep hitting then get away.
Toe to Toe is practically suicide.

[Ellorien]

In the past, the only thralls able to survive that fight were the lvl 20 named ones with >9K HP (barely survive, I must add).
She is obviously nerfed but her Champion Armor is one of the best and I assume she still hits like a truck. Give your thralls venom-infused weapons (I recommend a war axe for added bleed) because she has a weakness to poison. The recipe is found in the Library.
Use your thralls as a distraction only. You are the one who is expected to do the actual killing.

[Kemalist(mdx³)]

It was easy years ago and is still a meme fight now.
She has very little hp and you can stunlock her, poke with spear or daggers.
Your thrall will finish her easy.
Killed her over 1k times and died only when i got to greedy, each fight is 20 seconds, take one thrall, full authority and stunlock her.

[hibbidy_jibbidy]

i find one handed axe (venem infused war axe) you can keep her prone. with heavy attack...epect more deaths lol,
good luck

[BigBombz]

You can bypass her completely, there is a tunnel opening on the left wall just before the doors leading to the room where she is, the tunnel is a shortcut that allows you to bypass her room.
If you want to learn Champions armor recipe, you can also bypass her by hugging the right wall after entering her room to get to the side tunnel where the recipe is without pulling her aggro.
She's kind of pointless to fight with, she only drops couple of armor scraps, not really worth losing your thralls and equipment over that.

[KemonoKhal]

Dodge, dive, duck, ..dodge! the five D's of dodgeball. her attack patterns are fairly easy to learn

[DarkFire]

Originally posted by Xevyr:

Originally posted by DarkFire:

The thing is with the Arena Champion is that she hits very hard but doesn't have huge amounts of armour

Ummm :) She has the most armor out of literally ANYTHING in the game... 18760 armor.. which is 97.4% damage reduction..

Her health isn't too much though (2625), since it got cut in half with age of war (used to be 5250 in AoS)
Which is why high armor penetration weapons (blade of seven winds if you have it) can absolutely wreck her or damage over time effects like bleed and poison, because they ignore armor.

However with the AoW changes she can also be staggered endlessly like people said so that's also an option.

Keep in mind that atm NPCs are... weird... to say the least (unless you're using my combat fix mod) so with the constant "target-lock" -like tracking, she's a tiny bit more annoying than in the past if you're used to fighting him and are trying to dodge some of her hits.

Yeah not sure what I was thinking of there. Lots of armour, not all that much HP. Definitely agree that the BoSW is the weapon of choice. To be fair I haven't fought her since the start of chapter 3 so the NPC attacks changing direction mid-swing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ may well make her more of a challenge than she was before.

[HikariLight]

I have seen someone solo Arena Champion with only a bow and poison arrows.
No armor.
Totally possible to kill her, just got to dodge a lot and run away after she gets too close.