You will encounter the brutal Frosthorn Ice Clan Champion boss when completing the Malnok Fortress task in Diablo 4. If you don’t have enough healing potions, his weapon can kill you in one hit, and he will also reveal freezing pools that will immobilize you. Here are some tips, methods, and strategies to defeat Frosthorn Ice Clan Champion in Diablo 4 so you can finish the stronghold after three failed tries to do so with a partner.
How to Win the Diablo 4 Frosthorn Ice Clan Champion
Naturally, your build will vary depending on your class and the talents you have invested ability points in. So, there isn’t a set construct that will let you to defeat this specific foe. Perhaps you need to change your spec specifically for this boss. To beat the Frosthorn Ice Clan Champion, keep in mind the following tips that apply to all classes:
- Choose a boss-focused build instead of crowd control. Since I was playing with a Rogue build, I switched from Barrage to Penetrating shot, and it made all the difference.
- Make sure you have shoes that let you dodge and evade twice. If you don’t have them, trade an item with another player. All you have to do is bring up the interaction wheel (Up D-pad on your controller and E for PC players) and select the option to Trade with a player. Choose the items to trade and confirm the exchange.
- Add abilities that give you evade options or some type of movement speed and slows down enemies, because you will need it. For example, I used the Dash ability for Rogue.
- Choose ranged attacks because they are easier to drain the boss’ health while not using healing potions as often. Playing as a Barbarian requires perfect dodge timing and may need multiple attempts.
- Remember to Repair your gear after you die. You can do this at the nearest town – talk to the Blacksmith to make it happen.
- If you are playing as a Necromancer, make sure your build is not melee focused. Focus on Decompose in your Basic skills and add Enhanced Decompose > Initiates’ Decompose. This slows the enemy by 30%. In Decompose, you will get a corpse every 2.5 seconds. So when the boss smashes the ground, you can easily revive and keep the boss distracted.
- The big highlight of this build should be your Golem which you can unlock at level 25. Due to this, the boss will focus on Golem while you deal damage from a distance. Trust me, he will be of great help!
- Dodge the ice winds/frost pools that appear around him because they will freeze you up, giving a window for the Frosthorn Ice Clan Champion to approach you and land a big strike on you, effectively killing you and reducing your weapon’s durability.
- Keep a note of your attack distance because some abilities can be ineffective till a certain range. Test out the range beforehand on some enemies nearby.
- Level up your healing potions to 5 before you get into the fight. You can do so by increasing your renown and claiming your rewards from the menu.
Best Build Suggestion to Defeat Frosthorn Ice Clan Champion
In Diablo 4, the Frosthorn Ice Clan Champion may be defeated with a defensive build that focuses on a boss (versus mobs/crowd control), slowing down & poisoning the boss, and evade/dodging movement speed add-ons.
If this was helpful to you, make sure to check out Diablo IV guides for more advice on boss fights, location information, and the best builds.