How to Beat Shrine Guardian in Queen’s Domain

The Shrine Guardian is the very first proper boss fight you will face in Queen’s Domain. Unlike regular enemies where combat consists of a simple back and forth, you have to learn and watch out for the Shrine Guardian’s combat patterns. Here’s everything you need to know to beat the Shrine Guardian boss in Queen’s Domain.

How to Find Shrine Guardian in Queen’s Domain

The Shrine Guardian can be fought after you find and unlock the Shrine with the Endu Shrine Gate key. To find the key, you must enter a small dungeon ahead of the Endu Shrine where you will face several enemies and Skeleton ambushes.

Once you get the Endu Shrine Key, return to the Shrine near the coast and open the gate. Try to explore and stock up on healing items before entering this boss fight. The boss doesn’t deal too much damage and a couple healing items will give you enough of a safety net to safely learn its moveset.

How to Defeat Shrine Guardian in Queen’s Domain

The Shrine Guardian can seem impossible at first since you don’t have many mobility or damage tools this early in the game. However, once you understand his pattern and gimmick the fight becomes laughably easy. The Shrine Guardian has 260 HP, 18 attack power, and gives 450 EXP. It has no resistances, and is weak to Impact attacks with Blunt weapons.

The Shrine Guardian has multiple swinging attacks and a very dangerous charge attack where he rushes you before vertically swinging down his weapon. However, he doesn’t perform combos and you just have to avoid each individual swing one by one.

To dodge these attacks you just have to strafe towards the right and most of his attacks will never hit you. Whether he does the horizontal slashes or the vertical charge attack, strafing to the right puts you in a safe position.

Once you get its HP down below 50% it will start incorporating a swing from its left side which will hit you if you simply strafe towards the right. This means you’ll have to start paying attention to whether you strafe left or right depending on the Shrine Guardian’s swing wind-up animation. Besides this, you still just have to strafe to avoid most attacks.

The Shrine Guardian is weak to blunt damage so bring the Club weapon from a chest near the Endu Shrine Key to make the fight easier. Focus on taking it slow and landing heavy charge attacks rather than spamming weak light attacks as they are more likely to stagger the Shrine Guardian.

Shrine Guardian Boss Rewards

Defeating the Shrine Guardian gives you a respectable 450 EXP and a Silver Ducky. The Silver Ducky unlocks the shop when you return to a save point. More importantly, it lets you grab the Holy Sword Endu which unlocks dashes.

Dashes open up the map quite a bit and allow for a ton of mobility in combat and exploration. You can dash in any of the 4 directions using either alt-attack with Endu equipped or by using the dedicated dash button with any weapon equipped. The weapon also has an evolved form once mastered.

That’s all you need to know about beating the Shrine Guardian in Queen’s Domain. With your new blade Endu, you’re ready to face stronger enemies.