In Genshin Impact, the Lord of the Frosty Night is a sacred beast and elite boss added to the game with the release of update 6.1 (Moon II). This proud moon creature drops a Shining Horn, which is needed to ascend some characters. In this guide, you will learn where you can find this enemy, what team you should prepare to fight him, the fastest way to defeat him, and what achievements you will be able to unlock.
Where to find the Lord of Frosty Night in Genshin Impact
There are no additional requirements to unlock this boss, so essentially, you can get to it immediately after completing the Archon quest, Song of Dragon Freedom. However, we still advise you to first take on the Nod's End quest chain.
So, first of all, get to Nod's Land by moving to the opened teleport north of Ochkanatlan. Next, get to the entrance to the cave with the boss. Information about the exact location of the arena with him will appear after the release of the upcoming patch.
Respawn of the Lord of the Frosty Night
After you deal with this boss, he will recover almost instantly – you need to teleport to another area or simply step aside a little for the sacred beast to reappear. Remember also that to collect rewards from it you will have to spend 40 units of Primordial Resin.
Characteristics of the Lord of the Frosty Night
In the normal state, this enemy does not have any special resistance to one or another element, that is, his resistance to all elements is 10%. However, after emerging from the Veil of Darkness state, he changes his element type to the one that dealt him the most damage during this special mode, causing his resistance to this element to increase to 150%. Therefore, in theory, it doesn’t matter which characters you pit against the boss, but in practice everything is somewhat more complicated (read more in the section on selecting heroes).
If we talk about the combat parameters of this ancient creature, then it has quite high health and attack power indicators, which are equal to or significantly exceed the similar values of the Monstrous Baptist or Unut Setekh. For example, at level 90, his base HP is 816.2 thousand units (the baptist has 371 thousand), and his ATK is 15.2 thousand units (Setekh has 11.4 thousand). You can see all the characteristics of the enemy in the image above (2P, 3P and 4P show the parameters when playing in co-op).
Recommended Characters
Tips for Choosing Heroes
Given the boss's impressive health bar and high attack power, we advise you to pay as much attention to your squad's survivability as you do to its damage. If, for example, you see that your healer cannot cope with the incoming damage, then you can safely take a shield warrior into your pack. It will help protect allies from the enemy's most powerful area attacks.
We highly recommend that you take characters who can cause Lunar reactions, that is, a maternity hospital from Nod's Land. The fact is that in this case, the boss, after leaving the Veil of Darkness state, will not change the type of his element, but will immediately lose it, so his resistance to one or another element will not increase, which means that your damage dealers will continue to inflict maximum damage on him. The picture below will demonstrate all the optimal heroes for this battle.
However, you shouldn’t worry too much if you don’t have teams of Kraev nodes, because you can try to deceive the boss. For example, you can compose a squad in such a way that the elements of the damage dealers in it do not coincide with the elements of the supports. As a result, when the beast goes into the Veil of Darkness state, just start hitting it with support so that it changes its element to the element of your support character, and not the damage dealer.
Optimal commands
Taking into account the above information, we have prepared some of the most suitable units that will be the easiest for you to deal with the Lord of the Frosty Night. They are shown in the table below. You can find other assemblies of the best teams in our separate material.
| Main-DD | Sub-DD | Sub-DD/Support | Support |
|---|---|---|---|
Nefer |
Xing Qiu |
Aino |
Kirara |
Fleance |
Iansan (Ororon) |
Aino |
Sucrose (Lan Yan) |
Fleance |
Ineffa |
Ye Lan |
Sucrose (Kazuha) |
Fleance |
Ineffa |
Aino |
Shilonen (Kazuha) |
Nefer |
Lauma |
Aino |
Nahida (Kookie, Zhong Li) |
Nefer |
Lauma |
Ye Lan |
Bai Zhu |
Nefer |
Nahida |
Aino |
Zhong Li |
Nefer |
Ye Lan |
Aino |
Nahida |
Neela |
Lauma |
Aino (Xing Qiu) |
Bai Zhu |
Nevillet |
Lauma |
Ineffa (Shilonen, Kuki) |
Furina |
Attacks and movements of the Lord of the Frosty Night
Information will appear after the release of update 6.1…
How to defeat the Lord of the Frosty Night
Preparing for battle
Before the start of the battle, you can eat dishes that increase attack power, critical damage and critical hit chance. It would be a good idea to drink potions that increase certain elemental damage to strengthen your damage dealers. In this case, the following will be useful:
- Forest oil – increases Dendro damage by 25% for 5 minutes.
- Thunder oil – increases Electro damage by 25% for 5 minutes.
- Essence of Stillness – increases Geo damage by 25% for 5 minutes.
- Flame Oil – increases Pyro damage by 25% for 5 minutes.
- Frost Oil – increases Cryo damage by 25% for 5 minutes.
- Storm Oil – increases Anemo damage by 25% for 5 minutes.
- Whirlpool Oil – increases Hydro damage by 25% for 5 minutes.
The boss also mainly deals Cryo and Hydro damage, so we recommend that you take a Potion of Frost Shield and a Potion of Draining, which increases resistance to Cryo and Hydro damage respectively by 25% for 300 seconds.
Battle Strategy
Information will appear after the release of update 6.1…
Achievements for the Lord of the Frosty Night
During the battle with this boss, you can only get one trophy. Next, we'll tell you what you need to do to open it.
Stuck Constellation
To unlock this achievement, you need to defeat the Lord of the Frosty Night before the Elemental Absorption occurs, that is, you need to prevent him from leaving the Veil of Darkness state by quickly killing him at the beginning of the battle. For unlocking achievements you will receive 5 source stones.
Rewards for defeating the Lord of the Frosty Night
For destroying this monster you will receive friendship experience, pestilence, adventure points and various materials, which are mainly needed for the development of Cryo and Hydro heroes. The higher the enemy's level, the better the reward:
- Fragments of Shivad jade and Varunad lapis lazuli (level 20+)
- Fragments of Shivad jade and Varunad lapis lazuli (level 40+)
- Pieces of Shivad jade and Varunad lapis lazuli (level 60+)
- Precious jade of Shivad and lapis lazuli of Varunada (level 75+)
- Shining horn (level 30+) – necessary for the rise of Nefer.
Among other things, this sacred beast drops a variety of sets of artifacts, namely:
- Lucky (3 stars)
- Berserker (3-4 stars)
- Exile (3-4 stars)
- Ice Shaman (3-4 stars)
- Gladiator's End (4-5 stars)
- Wandering Ensemble (4-5 stars)
We hope that our guide to the Lord of the Frosty Night in Genshin Impact will help you find and destroy this boss, having learned in advance about the strategy for fighting him and preparing the optimal team for the battle.
