Where to Find and Battle Ruin Guards in Genshin Impact

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The best places to fight Ruin Guards are Stormterror’s Lair, Jueyun Karst, and just north of Lingju Pass, as well as on the south-east island of the Guyun Stone Forest, where a group of them can be found, offering a challenging fight for newcomers. To locate a large number of Ruin Guards, players can also explore the five islands in Enkanomiya, which include Evernight Temple, Dainichi Mikoshi, The Serpent’s Heart, The Narrows, and The Serpent Bowels, each containing a significant number of these mechanical enemies.

FAQs About Ruin Guards

General Information

1. Where can I find a lot of Ruin Guards? Ruin Guards are scattered around five islands in Enkanomiya: seven machines in Evernight Temple, five Ruin Guards in Dainichi Mikoshi, four in The Serpent’s Heart, five humanoid automatons in The Narrows, and two enemies in The Serpent Bowels.
2. Where do I fight the 4 Ruin Guards? To find four Ruin Guards easily, players can teleport to the domain of Guyun in the Guyun Stone Forest, where four Ruin Guards can be found on the neighboring island.
3. How do you beat Ruin Guard in 70 seconds? Use a bow character to shoot its weak point, then when it is staggered, shoot the weak point a second time before it recovers to make it vulnerable.

Tactics and Strategies

4. What are Ruin Guards weak against? The best strategy for defeating the Ruin Guard is to use an archer to target either the weak point on its head or in the center of its back, as two successive hits to these points will cause the machine to temporarily shut down.
5. What is the best element to defeat Ruin Guards? Use elemental burst, which can deal a lot of damage when combined with other attacks, such as combining Pyro with Electro, resulting in Overloaded, which deals large amounts of damage.
6. How do you beat Ruin Hunter without Archer? Use melee weapons only after the Ruin Hunter is disabled, and be sure to run away when you see the Ruin Hunter reactivating, as it can deal massive physical damage if you are in close range.
7. What is the Ruin Grader’s weak point? The Ruin Grader has three weak zones: its eye and one on each of its legs, which will occasionally glow yellow, meaning they are vulnerable and can be attacked.

Additional Tips and Strategies

8. Can you beat Ruin Guard without Archer? Yes, for a really easy way to stun the Ruin Guard without an archer, wait for when the Ruin Guard jumps towards you and temporarily lowers its head to ground level, then attack its face with melee to stun it.
9. What are Hunters weak against? Hunters have a weak spot on their back and sides, and can also be weak in the knees, making them vulnerable to attacks from these angles.
10. Can you paralyze a Ruin Hunter? Ruin Hunters can only be paralyzed by shooting a charged shot at its weak point when it is in flight mode.
11. Can you freeze a Ruin Guard? Yes, Ruin Guards can be frozen by luring them to water or wetting them with a Hydro character and then using Cryo to freeze them, allowing for significant damage to be dealt.
12. How many Ruin Golems are there? Three Ruin Golems are currently known, located in Sumeru’s Avidya Forest at Devantaka Mountain and two in the Great Red Sand at the Valley of Dahri and Desert of Hadramaveth, respectively.
13. Who created the Ruin Guards? Ruin Guards are said to be remnants from a lost ancient nation and are mechanical war machines created by the lost civilization of Khaenri’ah.
14. How do you activate the Ruin Guard in Starglow Cavern? To solve the puzzle and activate the Ruin Grader, players will need to activate four stone devices throughout the area, with the first device found immediately outside of the circle of runes.
15. How do you beat Anomalous Ruin Grader? To defeat the Anomalous Ruin Grader, charge all the spikes to 100%, and when all three spikes are fully charged, it will immediately trigger the death of the Ruin Grader.