Genshin Impact: How to defeat He Never Dies

In Genshin Impact version 5.0, the new Local Legend boss “He Never Dies,” also known as Dragon Defier, challenges players with its high health and powerful attacks. This guide will help you tackle this formidable boss.

Local Legends are a form mini-bosses in Genshin Impact. These special miniboss enemies are scattered around the map in Fontaine, Liyue, and Natlan. These enemies are the enhanced in stats compared to their normal or elite form. One of these Local Legends is a mini capybara boss called He Never Dies. To defeat the enemy, you need to learn more about it. Here’s more!

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Understanding He Never Dies

• Location: East of the Ancestral Temple in Natlan
• Health Pool: 5.3 million HP
• Note: Players must fight alone and cannot complete this battle in Co-op mode
  

Attacks and Moveset

He Never Dies employs a few key attacks you need to know. These attacks are as follows:

• Head Attack
  • Description: Swings its head with a small AoE effect.
    • How to avoid: Dash backwards or move away when you see it wind up. However, it might take his first attack for you to recognize the wind up
• Dash Attack
  • Description: Charges forward and rams into the player
    • How to avoid: Run sideways as it starts to inch forward
• Ultimate Technique:
  • Description: Charges up a powerful move called “Giant Undying Collision”
    • How to avoid: Disrupt this attack with high interruption moves

Strategies to defeat He Never Dies

In order to defeat the Natlan’s local legend, you require some strategies. Although, it is one of the easiest local legends by veterans, but players are most likely to suffer for the first few attempts. The strategies to defeat the capybara boss are as follows:

1. Interrupt the Ultimate Technique
   • He Never Dies will start charging up his Ultimate Technique after a short animation. Use high interruption attacks to prevent him from completing this move. Claymore characters are particularly effective here.
2. Use Claymore Characters often
   • Claymore users can rapidly interrupt He Never Dies’ charging phase. Characters like Navia and Itto excel in this role. They can stop the boss’s charge with their strong and fast attacks.
3. Utilize Plunge Attack
   • Characters with plunge attacks, such as Xiao and Xianyun, can disrupt He Never Dies effectively. As such, you should save burst abilities to perform High Plunge Attacks to keep the boss from using his Ultimate Technique.
4. Employ Overloaded Reaction
   • Combining Claymore characters with Overloaded Reactions to keep He Never Dies from attacking. As such, this method can significantly lower his ability to deal damage and help manage his health pool.

Recommended Characters, Buffs, and Support skills

In order to defeat He Never Dies effectively, some characters are a better pick than others. These characters are as follows:

• Jean: Use her Elemental Skill to lift He Never Dies and deal significant damage with fall effects. Being prepared to dodge is ideal for a quick victory.
• Zhongli and Layla: Both of these characters provide powerful shields that can absorb attacks.
• Xinqiu: Offers damage reduction to help mitigate the boss’s hits.

Further more, you can utilize the following game mechanics to optimize for an effective victory:

• Food Buffs: Increase your damage output with food that boosts attack and defense.
• Healing: Characters like Kokomi or using the NRE (Menu 30) gadget can provide necessary healing during the fight.
• Lower Your World Level: Reducing the world level can make the fight easier by decreasing the boss’s health and damage. However, it will also lower the rewards in every aspect of world enemies.
• Flying: Staying airborne can help dodge the Ultimate Technique more easily. Combine this with ranged damage characters for a more effective strategy.

By using these strategies, you should be well-equipped to defeat He Never Dies and earn your rewards. Good luck, and may your battles in Teyvat be victorious!