Lord of the Smoldering Primal Flame in Genshin Impact: How to Find and Defeat

In Genshin Impact, the Vladyka of the Smoldering Primordial Flame is a statue of a deceased dragon infected with the Void and a weekly boss that was added to the game with the release of patch 5.3 and is available within the punishment dungeon “Writings on the Stone Stele”. It drops unique materials needed to ascend certain characters.

In this guide, we will detail how to find and defeat this crazy dragon, examining all of its attacks and moves in detail, as well as providing recommended commands and the best tactics for fighting it.

Where to find the Lord of the Smoldering Primal Flame in Genshin Impact

To gain access to the battle with this boss, you will first need to unlock a special dungeon by completing the Archon quest called “Burning Ode to Sunday”. After that, you will be able to challenge this Void Dragon at any time, but you can only collect the reward for defeating him once a week. We will add that in the quest, this enemy is somewhat weaker than in weekly battles.

Note: Starting with patch 4.2, you no longer need to complete the story conditions to open weekly bosses – it is enough to reach adventure rank 40. You can enter the battle with them through the adventurer's handbook.

The entrance to the dungeon is located in Natlan (we will show its exact location after the release of update 5.3). In order for the game to mark its location for you, simply select “Notes on the Stone Stele” in the “Dungeons of Punishment” section of the Adventurer's Handbook. After entering it, you will need to select the difficulty of the battle depending on the strength of your characters.

Before the battle, make sure you have 60 Primordial Resin (or 30 if it's one of the first three weekly boss fights of the week), otherwise you won't be able to get the reward later.

Stats of the Lord of the Smoldering Primordial Flame

In any state, the resistance to all types of damage of the Void Dragon, including physical, is only 10%, which, of course, significantly simplifies the creation of an optimal squad, allowing you to simply choose your most pumped up characters.

However, don't get too excited too soon, as the boss has incredibly high values ​​for his main attributes. For example, at level 90, his health bar is a whopping 3.5 million, which is more than three times higher than that of the Servant, and his attack power is 22.8 thousand points, which is not much lower than that of the Harlequin, who is considered an extremely dangerous opponent. Plus, he can make several very powerful area-of-effect attacks.

So this dragon is definitely not a weak enemy. You can see the full stats of this boss in the pictures above (2P, 3P and 4P show the stats when playing in co-op).

Recommended Characters

Tips for Choosing Heroes

Given the boss's huge health and attack power, we recommend that you pay as much attention to the survivability of your party as you do to its damage. If you see that your healer is not coping with the incoming damage, you can safely add a shielder to the pack. He will help protect against the enemy's powerful area attacks.

Note: We prioritize healers over shielders for the simple reason that some enemy attacks apply stacking Corrosion, which gradually reduces the active hero's health. It is impossible to protect yourself from this debuff with a shield.

Primary and secondary damage dealers can be Hydro, Pyro, Electro, Cryo, Dendro, Anemo and/or Geo. Choose the most pumped fighters capable of inflicting maximum elemental damage necessary to destroy the boss's shield.

Important: Elemental attacks with the Night Spirit characteristic destroy the enemy's barrier much faster, so we highly recommend that you use damage dealers from Natlan if you have them.

As for the supports, they can be of any element, since their main task will be to increase the elemental damage of the damage dealers, that is, they will still attack the enemy infrequently. This also applies to shielders and healers.

Optimal teams

Considering the above information, we have prepared several of the most suitable squads with which it will be easiest for you to deal with the Lord of the Smoldering Primordial Flame. They are shown in the table below.

Attacks and Movement of the Lord of the Smoldering Primal Flame

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How to Defeat the Lord of the Smoldering Primal Flame

Preparing for the Fight

Before 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:

• Whirlpool Oil – increases Hydro damage by 25% for 5 minutes.
• Forest Oil – increases Dendro damage by 25% for 5 minutes.
• Frost Oil – increases Cryo 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.

The boss also mainly deals (unknown) damage, so we recommend you take (unknown), which increases resistance to (unknown) by 25% for 300 seconds.

Battle Strategy

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Achievements for the Lord of the Smoldering Primal Flame

During the battle with this boss, you can only get one trophy. Below we will tell you what you need to do to open it.

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Rewards for defeating the Lord of the Smoldering Primal Flame

You can only get a reward from the Abyssal Dragon once a week. In addition to Mora, Friendship Points, and Adventure XP, you can get valuable materials required to ascend certain heroes. The higher the boss level, the better the reward. The full list of items is presented below:

• Agnidus Agate Shard (level 0+)
• Agnidus Agate Fragment (level 40+)
• Agnidus Agate Piece (level 60+)
• Agnidus Precious Agate (level 75+)
• Dream Solvent – ​​allows you to convert rare materials.
• Decayed Horn (Level 70+) – required for leveling up Mavuiki talents.
• Decayed Sun Flame (Level 70+) – required for leveling up Lan Yan talents.
• Decayed Scale Feather (Level 70+).
• Formed Borderlands One-Handed Sword (Level 0+)
• Formed Borderlands Two-Handed Sword (Level 0+)
• Formed Borderlands Spear (Level 0+)
• Formed Borderlands Bow (Level 0+)
• Formed Borderlands Catalyst (Level 0+)

In addition to everything else, this boss drops various artifact sets, and namely:

• Berserker (3-4 stars)
• Instructor (3-4 stars)
• Exile (3-4 stars)
• Gladiator's End (4-5 stars)
• Traveling Ensemble (4-5 stars)

We hope that our guide will help you find and defeat the Lord of the Decayed Primordial Flame in Genshin Impact, learning about all of his attacks and preparing a good team to fight the statue of the deceased dragon.