With the Lost Ark June update on June 30 the latest Guardian Raid in Lost Ark became available: Kungelanium. Kungelanium is available for all characters starting at item level 1460.
Kungelanium Requirements
To be able to do Kungelanium, you need to meet these requirements:
- You need to defeat all Guardian Raids in Punika (Tier 5) to unlock the South Vern Tab with at least one character on your roster. If you’re already doing Deskaluda with any character, you’re good.
- Your character needs to have an item level (ilvl) of 1460 or above.
Should You Do Kungelanium?
In KR a lot of players stay at the 1415 Guardian Raid, even if they are 1460 or above. Here you can find our Lost Ark Deskaluda Guide in case you missed it.
Why is Kungelanium so unpopular? Kungelanium takes way more time than Deskaluda. You need to break his armor and he teleports at least two times. With a good counter on Deskaluda, Deskaluda isn’t porting at all and you get additional healing and a damage boost. This makes Deskaluda way faster.
Aren’t the Kungelanium rewards worth it? The difference between two Guardian Raids within one tier is always pretty small – usually it is just 1 Leapstone and a few stones. Since Deskaluda and Kungelanoum drop Relic quality accessories, the rewards are really close to each other.
Kungelanium Guide
This Kungelanium Guide is based on the video of Memorizer92. He is a KR veteran with a lot of experience in Lost Ark:
Battle Item
Using battle items will make the Guardian Raid easier and faster. This is what people do in KR:
- Player 1 uses flare for finding the guardian.
- Players 2 and 3 use a pheromone since this boss runs away twice.
- Player 4 uses a Corrosive Bomb once since Kungelanium needs its shell to be broken by using weak point destruction skills.
Your party will deal significantly less damage when his shell is not broken. Using a Corrosive bomb just for once is enough to break his shell. So basically, all members just have to use one item for each.
First Meet
When you meet Kungelanium for the first time, you can see him just chilling for some seconds. This is when you throw a Corrosive Bomb and spam the skills and you can stagger him if your party has enough stagger. If your party does not have enough stagger, he will fire a cannon that does AoE damage. It’s okay failing the stagger but you will have more chance to destroy his armor if he’s staggered.
Shooting Cannon
The boss shoots a cannon at one player. When it hits the ground it generates an orb that follows the player nearby. The person who is being followed should take the aggro away from where your party is, because the orb generates an icy floor that makes you slow if you are on that floor.
When you get hit by the orb, it freezes you for a moment and an aura appears on your character. If your party gets hit by this aura, it will freeze that party mate as well and he will get the same aura. So this is contagious and you should go far away from your party mate when you are hit by this orb.
Breathe
The boss stares at you for a moment and breaths in a cone in front of him. If you get hit by the breath, it will freeze you and generate the freezing aura as well.
Turnaround and Jump
Kungelanium jumps and turns around to a random player. This jump knocks you out if you are close to it.
Body Slam
Kungelanium slams his body on the front.
Shell Destruction
When your party breaks its shell, your party will be able to deal 100% of the damage from that point. After he stands up, he will become invincible and run away. This is when you throw the first pheromone if you want to save your time.
Bombardment
Kungelanium digs the ground and bombards the area. This pattern can be countered when the boss starts to dig. If you fail the counter, you just have to walk around dodging the bombardments.
Rush
Kungelanium rushes forward which knocks you down. This pattern can be countered.
Surrounding Icicle & Bombardment
The boss shoots a cannon which makes the surrounding of icicles, followed by tons of bombardments. After that, he shoots another cannon that does massive AoE damage in the area of the surroundings. Dodge the bombardments and destroy the icicle to escape from it.
Back Jump
Kungelanium jumps backward which knocks you out.
Jumping Forward Twice
Kungelanium jumps forward twice which knocks you out.
Freezing Intentionally
The guardian starts to roar dropping four bombardments on each side. The place where it got bombarded generates an ice hole which makes you frozen when you stand on it. For this gimmick, you have to intentionally stand on the hole and get frozen because the blizzard that strikes for a few seconds will kill the players who are not frozen. After the gimmick ends, then he becomes invincible when you have to use the second pheromone if you want to save your time. This game can be used several times after the very first one and only the very first one is the one when he tries to run away. From now on, you will see icicles falling from the sky regularly which will slow your movement speed.
Stomping Twice
The boss stands on his front legs and stomps the ground twice. Whenever it stomps, it will do massive airway damage on the ground that freezes you with a contagious aura. There is a safety zone for this pattern, stay diagonally making some distance from either side of the head, you have to stay in the exact spot.
Kungelanium Guardian Raid Tips
- Bring the essential battle items such as HP potions, Destruction Bombs, Frost Grenades and Flares.
- Learn how to place a marker on a nearby ice geyser whenever a Blizzard Blast is about to happen.
- Use Flares to easily spot where it moves, especially when moving to another phase.
- Use your Destruction Bombs and Weak Point skills to break its shell as soon as possible to maximize your party’s DPS output.
- In order to combat the Kungelanium’s heavy armor, we recommend including a Gunslinger or an Artillerist on your party who wants to specialize in armor reduction debuffs in order to make the fight more manageable.
Bring Skills with Weak Point and Stagger. Additionally, Destruction Bombs can be helpful.
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