Nicador in Honkai Star Rail: How to Defeat the Wild God, the Mad King

Nicador in "O silver chariot, rush to the dark lands" main quest. The mad king attacks both one hero and the entire team during the battle. In the second phase, he rushes to demonstrate all his power, backing up his deadly blows with a status that reduces the health of the squad .

In this guide, we will discuss how to defeat Nikador in HSR by exploiting the vulnerabilities of the Spear of Fury. In addition, we will introduce suitable units to kill the Wild God, the Mad King, while avoiding fatal damage.

Who to take in the squad for Nikador Spear of Fury in HSR

A weakened form of Nicador, which does not have particularly dangerous attacks, can be encountered during the chapter. "O desolate land, your former glory". The set of abilities and attacks on allies is practically no different from the usual skills of elite enemies, carrying out multiple attacks on the squad.

The boss form with two phases can be encountered in the second part of the quest. "Oh Kremnos, wash away the rust of blood", where the maddened titan will begin to fight at full strength. At this stage, Nicador will begin to demonstrate the full range of high-damage AoE attacks, new interaction mechanics and debuffs that the squad may encounter.

Based on the abilities that the Wild God has shown, it can be assumed that he will soon be encountered as the main enemy within the battle modes Illusion of the End and Hall of Oblivion (upgradeable).

The table shows and F2P squads that can handle the Wild God, Mad King in Elite and Boss form:

Character 1	Character 2	Character 3	Character 4
Jing Yuan Aglaia	Sunday	Pioneer	Hoho
Greater Hertha	Jasper	Zaryanka	Aventurine Linsha
jingliu	Sparkle	sang Welt	Fu Xuan Locha
Acheron	Kafka Serval	Jiaoqiu	Gallagher
Misha	Hanja	sang Serval	Lynx
qingque	Pioneer	Xueyi	Lynx

How to Beat Nicador in Honkai: Star Rail

To fight Nikador in the early and later stages, it is important to focus on damage dealers whose elements correspond to the enemy's vulnerabilities. As the main hypercarries, it is worth considering electrical и quantum. For ice damage dealers, it is necessary to equip a sub-DD with AoE attacks and the corresponding elements in the squad to quickly exhaust the vulnerability of emerging targets and eliminate them. This need will appear when meeting with an enhanced version of the Wild God. When the boss creates copies on the battlefield, the percentage of health restored decreases and a dangerous attack can be carried out.

At the same time, the composition of s should either be completely aimed at strengthening the main damage dealer, due to which the type of penetration of the vulnerability of such an ally will be completely unimportant, or provide for rotation using a normal attack to earn stacks of Glory. Change the heroes of Preservation or Abundance if necessary for more profitable ones, without relying on their element.

Let's look at the method of fighting the Wild God, the Mad King and his attacks in plot in detail:

•  Win or Submit — Appears the "Subdued" status on all allied targets, drains a percentage of their maximum health and locks it until the spear is destroyed. As the HP of such a target is depleted, it becomes possible to restore the health of the corresponding ally to the maximum value. Vulnerability of spears — electric, quantum и imaginary. If the main damage dealer has a different element, it is best to equip the sub DD based on these elements to quickly get rid of targets.

• It is better to die in battle than to return having received honors — Nikador's talent that grants all targets the "Glory" status. This buff allows you to increase the owner's damage and energy recovery speed. Use a skill or superpower to get this boost to more effectively drain the Wild God's stamina bar and HP.
• Guardian of the policy - Nicador gets the effect "Combat Armor", which reduces the effectiveness of damage by 10%. Attacks carried out on him remove 1 level of this status. In the case when all levels have been removed, the boss receives imaginary damage, and his turn is delayed. Each stack increases Nicador's damage and the probability of imposing the "Conclusion" status on an ally. Carry out as many attacks on the enemy as possible to avoid his deadly techniques.
• Eternal disaster — the main mechanic of the Wild God, thanks to which he receives and updates the levels of "Battle Armor" and "Titan Body", and also allows the squad to accumulate the "Glory" buff. The effects are applied in two phases: first, a mass attack with spears that fly at different targets and cause imaginary damage, then a wave pierces all allies and updates armor levels. Blocked by a shield from Preservation heroes, or you can redirect damage using the Fu Xuan skill.
• The fury that befell the infidels — a special attack of the boss, which will be performed if all the spears are not destroyed by Nicador's turn after the appearance of "Victory or Submission". Nicador will rise to the sky and perform a mass attack on all targets affected by the "Subdued" status. The attack ignores the target's defense and has a high chance of applying the "Conclusion" status, which will reduce the speed of the ally. To avoid this technique, try to destroy all the spears in one turn or equip the Save hero.

Achievements for killing the boss

As part of the ongoing battles in the story with the Wild God, you can get two achievements. Both achievements are closed as during the battle with the weakened version of the boss in the mission  "Oh Kremnos, wash away the rust of blood", when Nicador gains his true power.

The highest power

• Condition: Make all allies gain a maximum of 2 levels of Glory in a single battle with the enemy "Wild God, Mad King, Embodiment of Discord".
• Reward: 5 star jade.

After performing the Eternal Calamity attack and gaining the Glory status, use your allies' abilities (skill or ultimate) to gain two levels.

Death that ended the battle

• Condition: In a single battle with the enemy "Wild God, Mad King, Embodiment of Discord", destroy his Battle Armor and Titan Body.
• Reward: 5 star jade.

Deliver maximum DPS to the target to deplete both Nicador's Battle Armor and the Titan's Body itself. Use heroes with offensive skills to do this (example: Locha, Gallagher, Aventurine).

We hope this guide helped you understand how to defeat the Wild God, the Mad King, the Embodiment of Discord in Honkai: Star Rail and earn achievements. If you have any questions about the battle with Nicador, write to comments. Read other articles on HSR in the sections news.