Wild God, Mad King, Embodiment of Discord in HSR: How to Defeat Nicador

Wild god, mad the king, the embodiment of discord in Honkai: Star Rail (HSR)— boss, titan Nikador, with whom the Pathfinder repeatedly engages in battle in the story of Amphoreus. In battle, the titan uses summoning skills, weakens allies and has the mechanics of Combat Armor. To find out how to defeat Nikador, what teams to choose, what tactics to use and how to get many achievements for fighting him, refer to our guide.

Where to find the Wild God in XSR

You will first encounter a weak version of the boss in the story mission “O desolate land, remember the past glory”. A strengthened enemy will appear in the quest “O Kremnos, wash away the rust of blood 2”.

Most likely, later it will be possible to fight the boss in various battle modes such as the Virtual Universe, the Hall of Oblivion and the Illusion of the End.

Wild God Stats

The boss itself consists of two creatures: “Wild God, Mad King, Embodiment of Discord” and “The Giver, Leader of the Legions, Spear of Fury”. Also, summoned creatures “Victory or Submission” may appear in the battle. Below we will take a closer look at the characteristics of each of them.

Wild Godhas quantum, electric, and ice vulnerabilities and 20% resistance to other damage types. Other stats are listed in the table below.

The Spear of Fury cannot be attacked, targeted, or debuffed.

“Win or Submit” have electrical, quantum, and imaginary vulnerabilities, as well as 100% control resistance.

Recommended characters

The Wild God is an extremely strong enemy, easily capable of one-shotting your entire squad, especially in the second phase. In this regard, we recommend taking the most pumped healers or shielders into your team. It is good if they are able to deal at least a little damage and have attacking skills (Aventurine, Locha). It is also desirable for support characters to have high resistance to effects and be able to remove debuffs from other heroes in order to avoid the Conclusion imposed by the boss.

The ideal supports will be those who are able not only to strengthen allies, but also to advance their actions (Spark, Robin, Sunday, Pathfinder on the Path of Memory).

As for damage dealers, it is worth giving preference to Destruction, Erudition or Oblivion characters, capable of inflicting large area damage. Ideally, if they have an electric or quantum type of damage. Otherwise, you will have to take a support DD with these elements into the team.

Best Teams

In the table below, we have shown several teams that will prove themselves most effective in the battle with this boss.

The phases of the battle and attacks of the Wild God

The battle takes place in 2 phases.

First phase

All boss attacks deal imaginary damage.

Wild God

Thunder Spear of the Firmament

Deals minor damage to one target.

Splitting the River of Souls

Normal attack on one target.

The eternal fire of that war

Attacks all allies.

A spear piercing the sky

Consistently deals damage to random targets.

Guardian of the Polis

Has a certain number of Combat Armor stacks, the presence of which reduces the damage received by the boss. When receiving an attack from an ally, loses 1 stack. If their number is 0, Combat Armor is destroyed, the boss's action is delayed, he himself receives huge damage, as well as additional damage from attacks. Squad members restore energy. At the end of the boss's turn, the Combat Armor value is restored.

Eternal Calamity

Attacks all targets and grants them the Glory status, and gains stacks of Titan Body. If Titan Body drops to 0, the boss's action is delayed, he takes a huge amount of damage, and restores the energy of all allies. If the status value does not drop to 0, the boss deals increased damage with his next attack and has a high probability of imposing Conclusion on heroes.

It is better to die in battle than to return, having accepted honors

Using the above skill imposes the “Glory” status on heroes. The maximum number of Glory levels is 2. You can gain levels using skills or the ult. The more Glory levels, the higher the ally's damage and energy recovery speed. In addition, when attacking a boss, an ally with Glory removes the corresponding number of Titan Body levels from the enemy. The status is removed after the boss attacks.

Spear of Fury

Woe to the vanquished

Creates creatures corresponding to the party members “Win or Submit”, puts party members into the “Subdued” state. This state reduces the ally's restored HP. When defeating the phantom, the hero's HP is restored.

“Win or Submit”

Phantoms cannot act and take increased damage from the corresponding ally. After the death of the phantom, the HP of the Spear of Fury is reduced by 13.5% of its maximum health.

Second Phase

Wild God

Spine that Split the Sky

Deals minor damage to one target and adjacent allies.

Dropping survivors into dead waters

Attacks one ally.

Smoke of High Graves

Attacks all allies.

Order to Incinerate Day and Night

Consistently deals damage to random targets.

Kingdoms and their troops turned to ashes

Deals massive damage to the entire squad.

Spear of Fury

Glory of Shameful Death

Applies the “Fear Granted by Discord” status to all heroes. The status is removed along with the “Subdued” state.

Weapon of the Legion Defeated by Fear

Absorbs existing “Victory or Submission” phantoms and empowers the Wild God, while removing crowd control and vulnerability penetration effects from him, and also grants him Defense of Fortitude.

Fury Overtakes the Infidels

Commands the Wild God to deal massive damage to the entire squad, ignoring allies' defense and depending on their maximum HP. If an ally has the “Subdued” status, they are likely to receive Conclusion.

How to Defeat the Wild God

Next, we will tell you about the most useful tactics that make the battle with Nikador easier.

Destroy the Phantoms

When the boss creates “Victory or Submission” creatures, try to direct all damage to them. This mechanic is similar to the soul trap in the “Something to Die” Meme, except that in the battle with Nicador, your characters remain able to fight. Moreover, if a hero attacks the corresponding phantom, it deals increased damage. Try to use group attacks and/or push the main damage dealer to get rid of all summoned creatures faster.

Remove stacks of Combat Armor and Titan Body

These two mechanics are similar to each other, and in both cases, your goal is to lower their levels to 0 as quickly as possible. Try to save all your heroes' ultimates for when they appear, and then immediately use them.

Accumulate Glory stacks

Glory levels are displayed above your character icons and are accumulated through skills and ultimates. So you can use your supports/healers/shielders' E's and ultimates first to get 2 levels each, then use their normal attacks to quickly reduce your Titan Body levels.

Achievements for the Wild God

All achievements obtained in the battle with the boss belong to the “Thirst for Battle” set and give 5 Star Jades.

The highest glory

Make sure all allies have 2 levels of Glory.

After the boss uses the skill “Eternal Calamity”, use the skills/ultimates of each party member to get stacks of Glory. Heroes initially get one charge, so it is enough to perform one action for each ally to get the achievement.

Death that ended the battle

Destroy both the Battle Armor and the Titan Body in a single fight with the boss.

To earn this achievement more easily, add supports to your squad that can deal damage with multiple skills (Gallagher, Locha) or can promote other heroes (Sunday). This will allow you to deal more blows in a short time and reduce the boss's statuses to zero faster.

Shattered Battlefield

Make it so that the boss cannot absorb the phantoms with the skill “Instrument of the Fear-Breaken Legion”.

To get this achievement, you need to destroy all the “Victory or Submission” creatures in the second phase before Nicador absorbs them. You can take several strong damage dealers to your squad to defeat all summoned creatures faster.

Conqueror

Defeat all phantoms with one character after the boss uses the skill “Woe to the Vanquished”.

It is easiest to earn this achievement with powerful area damage dealers – for example, Acheron. Prepare her ult before the phantoms appear, use the strengthening skills of the supports and defeat the summoned creatures with one blow. If the damage of one hero is not enough, use support damage dealers beforehand and slightly reduce the HP of the phantoms.