God Of War Valkyries Geirdriful

Geirdriful, God of State of war's Foothills Valkyrie, is exceptionally tough to defeat. To win, you demand to learn her myriad assault patterns and unleash Kratos' might when she's vulnerable, recovering or distracted. In this guide, we'll bear witness y'all how to read Geirdriful's attacks so you can answer and defeat her.

Exist prepared

Before you begin a Valkyrie fight, do three things:

Fill up your Runic assault meters. Begin every Valkyrie fight with back-to-back Runic attacks (L1 + R1 and L1 + R2). Equally Valkyries descend from their winged cocoons, they're vulnerable. Attack then, and you lot'll fleck away a big portion of her wellness without resistance. (If your meters aren't full, you can just stand around before the fight and expect for them to fill up.)
Fill your Spartan Rage meters. Spartan Rage does ii things. The obvious i is inflict massive amounts of damage. The less obvious one is restore your health as you attack. Y'all tin use it to finish off a Valkyrie or restore your depression health — or both! (If your meters aren't full, go find some enemies to kill. You tin warp right back to the Mystic Gateway outside of the loonshit.)
Bring a Resurrection Stone. If you lot die while you're property a Resurrection Stone, press Square and Atreus will bring him back to life. Any Resurrection Stone will do, and you can purchase them at Brok or Sindri's store. Just remember that you can just hold 1 at a time.

Geirdriful Odin's raven

Earlier jumping over the gap to enter the arena, turn around and await up. The Odin's raven is perched in a higher place the stairs.

Geirdriful attacks and strategies

The trick to defeating a Valkyrie is identifying and responding to her attacks. Then the fight becomes an if-then argument: If she does this, and then I do this. In this section, we'll show you Geirdriful'southward attacks (the "if" part) and how to reply (the "then" function).

General strategy

Geirdriful is difficult because she doesn't telegraph her moves like other Valkyries — or at the very least, they're much harder to identify. She's also fast, and she's able to attack y'all while y'all're evading.

Defeating Geirdriful is about blocking, switching between weapons and evading her attacks whenever possible. You tin learn her moves, prepare for the worst, have some corporeality of impairment from her unblockable attacks and even so win.

Air-based attacks

Geirdriful can attack from the air in a few ways, then whenever she hovers, have Atreus fire arrows at her. She may not fall immediately, but she'll eventually come back to the footing. The main signal here is to interrupt her devastating ground pound, which has a wide surface area of outcome radius.

Avert beingness under her when she'south airborne. When the camera can't encounter her, you'll have a difficult fourth dimension identifying her next attack, which is often unblockable. Whenever she takes to the air, continue your distance.

She often jumps up in the air and throws yellow magic discs (similar to Hildr). Cake them — except for the variant that you can't block. That'southward a one-throw exception, and you'll know information technology'due south coming if yous run across the cherry-red circle. If you don't encounter the red circle, information technology'due south safe to cake.

The grab and pound

She can transition from her hovering land into a take hold of set on, where she takes Kratos by the neck and pounds him into the footing. (The first GIF in the previous section illustrates this assail.) It hurts. Information technology's also unblockable. Again, keep your distance when she's flying.

Ranged attacks

Geirdriful has more one ranged assail:

She swings her scythe and sends an unblockable yellowish wave of energy toward Kratos. You'll know it'south coming because of the telltale crimson circle just earlier she attacks. Evade them.
She flaps her wings and flings smoky, black projectiles at Kratos. Block them.

Distance remains the key to managing Geirdriful'southward attacks. You lot'll have plenty of time to block and dodge if you're far abroad from her.

Footing-based attacks

Geirdriful has more than one basis-based attack, too:

She can close the gap from across the arena and twirl, attacking with her wings. Block.
She uses the standard Valkyrie wing assail, where she alternates between her wings, swiping at Kratos. Yous tin can block those. She may dash abroad from this and transition into her smoky ranged attack.

Block and dodge. Block and contrivance.

Collect Geirdriful'south boodle

Kratos Heart of Vanaheim Epic enchantment God of War — Geirdriful'southward best loot, the Heart of Vanaheim Ballsy enchantment

Defeat the Valkyrie, and you lot'll receive Geirdriful'southward Helmet, the Center of Vanaheim Epic enchantment, Asgardian steel and perfect Asgardian steel. Run into the prototype above for the details on the enchantment.