Frozen Reindeer | Dark Souls 2 Wiki

That's a Kirin.

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If these things didn’t have such ridiculous poise (120???) would have been more bearable

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I hope Shadow of the Erdtree adds Maldron riding one of these

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Ring of stone + large club +8 (can be found in Frozen Eluem Loyce), use 2H R2 to pancake them in place. Now suddenly the area became fun!

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Is this the only non humanoid enemy that can be pancaked?

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why does the headbutt cause damage before the goddamn animation of it lifting its antlers even starts? i mean what the f**k

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This might be a hot take, but I found those ice hedgehogs that move like bonewheels to be vastly more infuriating than the reindeer.

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It's hunting season!

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Started a fatroll melee only build to challenge myself.

9 years ago

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One of the worse thing is that they deal lightning damage, which I think is the elemental type that less armor pieces have resistence to.

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Maybe they would not be so bad if they had melee or range only attacks.

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Another enemy with AoE attack?!

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They can follow you till the boss mist!

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Acording to another wiki, they are weak against Dark and Fire and resistant against Lightning. Anyone can confirm this?

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The headbutt is easily its worst move. If you're ever more than 5m away, it's almost guaranteed to do the headbutt and I swear its hitbox lingers for at least 12 frames. And if you want to actually stay close and attack them, they fly away and spawn two delayed lightnings, which always conveniently line up with the inevitable headbutt.

Rolling away can help with no-damaging the headbutt, but it can just instantly do another headbutt right afterwards...

That being said, they're actually not hard if you just pancake them with a big hammer. If that doesn't work with your build, good luck skeleton.

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It makes horse noises, so it is not a deer.

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One of them fell and died on the way to the boss! Praise the gravity!

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"Killing enough reindeer in each area will cause them to stop spawning entirely" How many do I need to kill?

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Do they spawn each certain time?

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No weakness?

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Should I try to kill them or run away? (as a solo melee player)

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They can fly!

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I noticed they do spawn in without the blizzard dying down when you are in between the second building and the boss arena. I literally had to fight 4 of them back to back and this is with a maxed out dragon tooth club. I suspect I would’ve fought a 5th if I hadn’t crossed the bridge to the boss arena.

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Definitely up there as worst enemies in the game along with flame salamanders.

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A wild ponyta on crack appears. *RUN*. ponyta on crack uses arena trap ability you cannot escape, ponyta uses Volt Tackle, Thunder, Mega Kick all at once, you've ran out of Max Estus. *YOU DIED*

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ive never done the frigid outskirts and i dont plan on it.

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They seriously drop 2800 souls lmao. I'm surprised they don't do toxic damage or explode into acid mist when they die. I'd say 'spawn two at a time & regenerate health,' but the boss fight at the end already has that covered.

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Worst enemies in the worst area. Couldn't be worse.

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I searched for zebra in the wiki and this page appears.

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3 REINDEERS AT ONCE GOD DAMNIT

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH F*** THIS GAME
***** ***** ***********************

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1. Summon at least two npcs
2. equip shield
3. go through the storm,
block it's initial charge attack and run past the bastard to the nearest outpost.
4.?
5. Profit.

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You known playing elden ring and having torrent. Image riding one of these f***ers! Easy mode never felt any easier.

There goes the worst areas in this game! There goes the worst enemies in the game! And yea the game would be hella easy. But damn would it feel some times satisfying. With the amount of annoying areas/enemies in those areas scholar of the 1st sin had.

Looking at you blue smelter demon area, sir alonne run back, regular smelter demon alonne knights revenge never felt better, shrine of amana meet electric speedy reindeer of stabbing hearts left and right, and granter of doom! Frigid outskirts reindeer fights might actually be fun becease you and your reindeer fight these guys who are enemy versions of your friendly reindeer.

Maybe then this enemy could be redeemed? If it was a torrent prototype for the player to use? To be honest i could dig that as an optinal choice. Like how vendrick's blessing is optinal to use.

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Everybody hates Chris.

And this f***ing horse.

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Basically a more fun version of Kirin from the MH series. If this thing was a boss and had gear from it's soul, I'd bonfire ascetic this in a heartbeat.

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How to dodge their ramming attack? Just level up ADP and press the dodge button, that's it! No secrets!
-The person who designed this enemy, probably

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The headbutt is UNDODEGABLE what the F4CK. How can you spawn a horde of enemies that have an UNDODGEABLE attack in a location where you can't even see SH!T? You can't just expect everyone to have max agility

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I usually do not rage in games at all. Even in souls games. But GOD DAMN

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I mean... What can I complain about regarding these bastards that hasn't already been said? Let's just say I hate these stupid things with a passion, up there with those hellspawn frost hedgehogs and those bullshit Giant Fire Salamanders in terms of awful enemies

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I killed like 7 or 8 of them before getting ganked by 2 more. What a horrible place to explore.

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harder than a fking boss

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Okay, who's the crackhead developer that decided it would be cool if 4 of these guys could spawn at the same time?

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Those guys make Kirin a lovable pet..

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1 horse I can handle.
but spawning another horse cause I chased the horse I was fighting ran away is a problem
and then a third horse decided to join in cause "**** you, player. time to die"

I killed the double cats and I won't be back

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You know; these would've been better enemies if, rather than being coded to spawn directly in your face every snowstorm (potentially in pairs), they were instead just roaming wildlife. That would've been more natural and would've encouraged people to memorise their location when heading out from a building.

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I just completed this place because those two tigers were the only enemy in the whole ds that i didnt beat because of this area, never more, never....

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I've been trying to recover souls for 30 minutes but have no idea where they are... killed a dozen of these things, running around like an idiot to no avail. 15 or 20 seconds isn't enough time to look between encounters. This isn't fun and I won't look back on it as fun unlike some difficult boss fights. It's just bad gaming. Really bad. Also, this is literally the first time I've used a shield in all 3 Souls games.

There, I'm done crying now.

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One or even two of them I can handle, but three spawning on top of you is a bit much. It's clear this area wasn't designed to be enjoyed solo. Not sure why.

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Nothing like having your ass handed to you by f-ing Rainbow Brite

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i'm not having fun anymore i'm out

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ez to deal with if using santier's spear & stone ring every light attack will literally stun them in place where they will do like a spastic dance

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if you use stone ring, UGS 2H R2s work too. unfortunately for some reason its less reliable in co op

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Where's rajang when you need him

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Me with my 838 SL character on ng+ confirm that this thing is nightmare

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Imagine that these reindeer enemy's where having a alone knight riding them, and that there stepping of the reindeer, so that it could gank you with that reindeer everytime it smashed into you with it's charge attack. while also being accompanied everytime one spawns by one of those masked manikins.

I Would have nightmares for days.

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Bambi seeks revenge

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They also drop old radiant life gems

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Will they still spawn if you kill them all on champions convenant?

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Paindeer

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Fire smelter hammer +10 with 41 strength two hand R2 does pancake and almost Two shots. Wait for the get up or you'll have a very "pointless..." second swing. If you don't have a smelter hammer, do recommend farming.

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Anyone who decided to put those ****heads in the most confusing and big level of the game needs to be fired

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Their kind of cute

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This place is STOOPIT. Anyway. Follow the glare, hit the wall, hug it, keeping your right shoulder to it at all times. This way you will only have one flank to worry about. You'll get there eventually, after having killed three or four hell horses. Learn how to roll away the headbutt or block it... it's half the fight.

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Wiki got it wrong again. they dont give you souls...

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This made me quit the DLC. This game is garbage

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I've never seen these before what the hell.

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2?! ive dealt with 3 spawning on me, i hate them so much

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cancer

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Headbutt is the key for killing them.
I used Gyrm Shield +8 for the tactics below and Greatsword +10 (respectively magic and dark infused but i think it didn't matter).
----> When the storm starts and you expect one to appear soon, get prererably full stamina, guard yourself with a shield and listen to the direction it's coming from.
Then let it ram into the shield and get stunned for a sec. Immidiately use this time to R2 it once.
After this strong attack it may get stunned again or it jumps away. In any case, you need to avoid all its next attacks (and refrain from attacking too) and replenish the more stamina the better for the next time it does the headbutt.
Another headbutt, R2 and R1, reindeer dead.

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ah yes, a Monster Hunter Kirin in a Dark Souls game *claps*

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Honestly they could've made these things much more easy to deal with. They could've given any hint of a safe zone out of their Spawn range (you know, cast guidance miracle to see hidden messages outside the buildings in the blizzard) or a freckin map! It's not to bad to traverse this place when you know it's layout but I can't for the love of me, figure out where their Spawn points are. Oh, and remove the ability to always poisbreak me to the ground so I look like I'm getting r@ped by these like the horse demon from berserk.

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one of the coolest looking enemies in the game imo. too bad they're outright fking **** *****

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After trying out the pancake method to really disappointing effect I can say that using +5 raw santier's spear 2H light atk spam was BY FAR a much more effective n satisfying form of revenge on these ***** ********. Couple of phantoms, lil bit of caution, n it's cake.

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this wikipedia page is wrong, these***** enemies dont spawn fixed, they spawn every single snowstorm....

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Worst enemy from any game I ever played.

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Same dude as the comment before this. Btw pretty cool to see people playing ds2 still (I know people will always play these sort of games even if they are old, but it's still fun to see)

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It's pretty easy to go thought that area without meeting the ice raindeers, just try to time running to the buildings just sa the snow storm stops or some seconds before and you should for the most part be fine, except for the long walk the second time. But try to listen and constantly be aware of your surrounding and you should be fine, except if it's two raindeers at the same time, then your pretty screwed. Feels like that the could have been better if the added more buildings and things in the way to use to control them around the things like stone poles sticking out and them doing less damage

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Two handed R2’s with the smelter hammer made the horses sit the ***** down. Block the charge, R2, then R2 again when they start getting up and you will easily banish them to the icy hell in which they came from.

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But what happens if you are with the covenant of champions are you just screwed?

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The best option i found out to deal with them is to summon both npc's at the beginning of the area and sacrifice them to the unholy reindeer gods. It might take a while till you figure out the aggro management. If the sacrificial summons are still alive once you arrive the boss fog wall you can just send them back with the black separation crystal. Beware, those horses will chase you once your summons are gone so you should be in a hurry to get through that boss fog gate. This method worked for me in challenge runs like Pyromancy only where i have limited casts which i need for the boss (or miracle only where i need about 20 lightning spear casts to kill 1 of those reindeers).

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For a strength build wear the Northwarder set, equip Havel's Greatshield+5, Greatsword +10, Thunder Quartz Ring and Chloranthy. Stop the reindeer with a greatshield, then roll to its bodyside, slash with sword and roll away. Then give up, exit the game and have a nice day.

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I like these things in concept, but I don't think anyone should ever feel like they need to exhaust so many enemy spawns to such a degree as this just to get a decent path to the boss fight. And it's still a long nearly blind walk regardless.. yet it is a gorgeous design for a very atmospheric enemy.

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I totally agree with every point the comments raise. But these reindeers are Dark Souls way of being Skyrim a bit: "You never should have come here."

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Easy way to deal with them is spam affinity and turtle behind a great shield

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Certainly a fckd enemy but idk if i would go so far as to delete my game? Theres really nothing i need in this area. I can come back to screw around later if im bored.

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How many times do i need to kill them to despawn them completly? Do i need to rest on bonfire on each kill or continuously kill one area without going in bonfire?

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Worst enemy in soul series, random respawn, difficulty to stop your attack, all combined in one of the worst area of the game, this only makes me believe that this "genre" game has to die soon.

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I don't complain about fighting one. I don't complain about them respawning. I f***** complain about the snow storm that don't let me see where Im going, then I end up respawning a f****ing second idiot reindeer, in the storm.

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Their charge is broken. The window for dodging it is almost non existent and the hitbox is huge.

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As soon as I died to these balls of cancer I knew to come here. These things are ridiculous.

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Damn Kirin...

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These are without a doubt the absolute worst most broken *****ing cancerous piece of***** enemy I have ever encountered in the ENTIRE souls series. I *****ing hate them so much. ***** these things eternally.

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Probably the worst enemies in the DLC. I thought the Ice Sanics were terrible but this was just absolute butt fuckery.

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I admit they are quite nasty but there is a simple way to deal with them. Bring a weapon capable of "pancaking" such as great hammers and the Stone Ring. Roll and evade their first charge and chain 2 hand R2. Press each time they start to get up. They won't have the chance to move.
However, dodging is hard to time but hopefully you'll get the feel for it.

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Engage cowboy music

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If you're a patient, determined person like me, this is how I do it. I go back and forth between the first two buildings until they no longer spawn, then repeat between the 2nd and 3rd, then between the third and the bridge to the boss door. It takes many runs, but eventually it will be a clear run to the boss door. You'll also collect pet bones and other useful drops in the process.

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I want to see the lore explanation of how a demon reindeer has lightning attacks. Were it not for those this would be a fairer fight.

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Pancaked them with Large Club + Stone Ring(necessary) while in CoC, take 4-5 hits(some died from 4, some from 5, dunno how) - most convenient solo fight strategy i imagine
Fighting more than one at once will spell your doom 99.9% of the time.
Impossible to outrun.

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Made me delete the game. Worst mobs in the series.

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Merry Christmas *****. Rudolph says hello.

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