When you roam Teyvat continent in Genshin Impact, you may encounter some bosses because of quests, or other special bosses in some areas are randomly triggered, and the number of these bosses will increase as the number of regions in the game increases. But the good news is that you will get corresponding rewards for defeating them!

Genshin Impact recently launched version 5.5 on March 26, which not only brought many new characters that can be drawn in the banner through Genshin Impact Genesis Crystals, but also new events, artifact sets, and a sub-region belonging to Natlan-a new boss Lava Dragon Statue will appear in this area! Next, we will introduce you to how to defeat this boss.

Introduction To Lava Dragon Statue

This boss was launched with version 5.5 and is one of the normal bosses in Natlan region. As its name suggests, it combines the flame characteristics of Natlan’s volcanic desert while integrating the elements of dragons and statues. It is very deterrent just from the appearance. But in fact, from the perspective of combat mechanics, if you can master its state changes and attack patterns, you can defeat it smoothly, and the loot is also very good!

How To Find This Boss?

The boss is located in the underground opening near the entrance of Atocpan area in Natlan. You can find the way forward by going southwest of Stadium of the Sacred Flame or northwest of People of the Springs. Here are the specific routes and operations we provide for you:

• Open the map and click on Lava Dragon Statue boss icon to see its underground location, and add a mark at the entrance to start navigation.
• From the teleport point, follow the main road to Atocpan until you see your mark or the opening on the map.
• Move to the right side of the road to enter the green area, find the opening leading to the underground and jump in - don’t forget to use Plunge Attack to offset the fall damage.
• Continue along the only open road, and then you will find the way to the underground teleport point and Lava Dragon Statue boss.

How To Defeat Lava Dragon Statue?

Considering it’s just a regular boss, as long as your character is above average and you try to keep as much distance between you and the boss as possible during the fight, you can dodge its attacks while dealing damage to it.

Boss Attacks

Lava Dragon Statue’s main attack is to pounce on you with its entire body in various ways, which is easy to avoid, doesn’t do much damage if you get hit, and can be quickly healed to get you back to top form if you have a healing character in your party. The boss also has two ranged attacks, but they’re also easy to dodge.

What makes this boss really dangerous is that when it’s in its base state, it has a RES of 70% against all elemental and physical damage. Generally speaking, when fighting bosses in Genshin Impact, you need to avoid using the same element as the other party, but Lava Dragon Statue is special in that it requires you to use a lot of Pyro characters to defeat it instead.

Fury Meter

While you can still defeat this boss without filling up its fury meter, filling it up will stun the boss and lower its resistance, allowing you to deal more damage to it with each attack. The fury meter is normally recharged each time you deal fire damage or apply fire.

After the first charge is completed, the boss will enter Molten Dragon state, where a new fury meter will appear and you can continue to recharge it, but you need to avoid dealing Cryo or Hydro damage, which will cause the fury meter to downward. During this stage, the boss’s resistance will be reduced, making it easier to defeat it.

After filling the fury meter twice, Lava Dragon Statue will fall to the ground and remain motionless in over-burn state. It will be more vulnerable to additional damage at this time, and you must kill it before it wakes up, otherwise it will recover 70% of its resistance, forcing you to repeat the previous steps again.

Which Characters Can Provide Effective Help?

To ensure you can quickly recharge your fury meter during battle, it is recommended that you prioritize the following Genshin characters in your team:

• Bennett
• Xiangling
• Hu Tao
• Amber
• Kinich
• Nahida
• Emilie
• Any Pyro/Dendro Combo

Some of these characters have generally low attack ICD, and some can apply multiple Pyro units per attack, which can speed up the fury meter recharge progress.

What Loot Can Be Obtained?

In addition to the regular rewards, killing this boss will also drop about 3 Sparkless Statue Cores, which can be used to Ascend Varesa, a new character in version 5.5. If you want to upgrade this character to the maximum level, you need to Ascend 6 times, consuming a total of 46 Sparkless Statue Cores, which means you need to defeat this boss at least 16 times at the highest world level! Considering Varesa is an excellent character, it should be worth the effort.

We hope the strategies we provide can help you, and we may will bring more strategies for fighting against the new bosses in version 5.5 in the future. Please continue to pay attention to us!

Honestly, it’s become a common practice for Genshin Impact to have all sorts of “rumors” leaked before a new patch or version goes live. Official livestreams are always mysterious or vague, but these seemingly unreliable messages make the update clearer, and they’re proven to be.

Whether these messages are really leaked or just a way for the game officials to create hype for the new version, you can benefit from these messages as a player, because they will give you a full preview of all aspects of the new version, so you can prepare in advance.

The latest version of Genshin Impact that’s closest to you should be version 5.5, which will be released on March 26, and according to the rumors related to it, you’ll find that compared to the previous updates, 5.5 will be a grand celebration, bringing more new content than you can imagine! Next, we’ll introduce them to you one by one.

Wish Banner And Related New Characters

This should be the most attractive part of each update of Genshin Impact. After all, the various characters with different appearances can be said to be the charm of Genshin Impact. Usually, characters that come with new versions require you to consume Genshin Impact Genesis Crystals in the exclusive banner to extract them. In version 5.5, the new banner is called Wish Banner, and different new characters will be released in different stages of 5.5, namely:

Phase One:

• Varesa - Electro Catalyst
• Xianyun - Anemo Catalyst
• Iansan - Electro Polearm

Phase Two:

• Venti - Anemo Bow
• Xilonen - Geo Sword

Leaked Four-Star Characters:

• Gaming - Pyro Claymore
• Faruzan - Cryo Catalyst
• Beidou - Electro Claymore
• Yanfei - Pyro Catalyst

Among them, as the most important five-star character of this update, Varesa’s ability package includes long combos and personal damage buffs, and her five-star signature weapon Vivid Notions is said to provide temporary attack and critical damage boosts for dash attacks. In addition to combat assistance, Varesa can also bring you new Tribal Chronicle quests to participate in.

In addition, Iansan, another new character in the first phase of Wish Banner, is also worth your attention. Although her star rating is only four stars, her abilities include providing attack buffs and healing capabilities to teammates, which makes her expected to become a top Natlan support character for a long time to come.

New Events To Participate In

After obtaining new characters, how can you make them reflect their role as soon as possible? That is to let them fight in all the new events in version 5.5! These events are expected to include:

• Tournament of Glory and Bloom
• Quirky Quaking Arena
• Rhythm Ball Meztli
• Unlimited Fighting Championship
• Overflowing Favor

The flagship event is Tournament of Glory and Bloom, in which you need to complete various combat trials and puzzle mini-games to earn rewards, including Primogems and a free four-star character Ororon from Natlan. Another event worth paying attention to is Overflowing Favor, which is an Artifact Overflow event.

New Natlan Sub-Region

Natlan and the characters from it have gained a lot of popularity in previous versions, so Genshin Impact is seizing this opportunity to launch a new Natlan sub-region in version 5.5, Great Volcano of Tollan, and will also introduce Collective of Plenty tribe.

Here, you will be able to obtain a series of new lizard companions and playable characters - they have new Natlan phlogiston abilities, can traverse this new area, and help you interact with new puzzle mechanics throughout the area. Even more exciting, it is expected that 3 local legends bosses will appear in Great Volcano of Tollan, and defeating them should provide you with more rewards.

New Artifact Sets

Artifact sets play an important role in your combat in Genshin Impact, so version 5.5 will bring you two new sets: Long Night’s Oath and Finale of the Deep Galleries. Among them, the attack damage buff brought by Long Night’s Oath will make it a great fit for characters such as Varesa, Gaming, Xiao, and Xianyun. Finale of the Deep Galleries provides a two-piece bonus of frost damage, and a four-piece bonus of normal attack and elemental skill damage.

See More: Is The Number Of Characters In Genshin Impact Evenly Distributed Per Region?

More Primogems Available

Primogems are one of the important currencies in Genshin Impact, which can be used to draw characters in the banner. In order to ensure that you can get some free Primogems every time a new version is released, the game will provide them to you through various means, such as events, early quests and exploration incentives. It is expected that version 5.5 will bring a total of 12,875 Primogems, which can be drawn in 80 times in the banner!

Other Updates And Bug Fixes

In addition to the above additions, version 5.5 will also fix some in-game bugs like other Genshin Impact updates in the past, and will also provide quality of life updates, including the following:

• Click the boss icon on the map to go there faster.
• The mini-game Myriad of Melodies will bring the new Natlan OST and rewards.
• Artifacts created by consuming Sanctifying Elixir will be guaranteed to provide you with the selected minor affix enhancement at the highest level, and add relevant text.
• Enhanced artifacts will be recyclable.
• The rest of Fontaine’s artifact sets will be added to the strongbox system.
• Treasure Compass item detection upgrade.
• Updates to the in-game mail system.
• Ability to exit the game desktop directly.
• Addition of new parental control features for US players under 13 years old.

These contents are so exciting and worth looking forward to, and even more fortunately, March 26th is coming soon! Don’t forget to prepare your device to download the update package!