God of War Ragnarok Fit for a King Favor Walkthrough

Fit for a King is a Favor (Side Quest) for Kratos in God of War Ragnarok. This walkthrough will guide you through all objectives of the Fit for a King Side Quest. For an overview of all quests in the game see God of War Ragnarok All Favors.

Requirement: Access to All Realms
Reward: 15000 Kratos XP, 3750 Freya XP, Hilt of Skofnung, Berserker Armor Set, Gale Flame, Frozen Flame, Attachments of the Nine Realms, Asgard Amulet Enchantments, Grave Mistake

Objectives:

• Defeat the Berserker Souls
• Return to the grave where you discovered Skofnung
• Defeat King Hrolf

Starting Location: Fit for a King

Fit for a King is automatically started after interacting with your first Berserker Gravestone, which can be done after acquiring the Inert Hilt of Skofnung during Main Quest: The Word of Fate.

Defeat the Berserker Souls

You will need to locate the Berserker Gravestones in each Realm and use the Hilt on them to initiate a boss battle. These boss battles will be tough, so be prepared.

You need to find 9 Gravestones, containing a total of 12 Berserkers (some are multi-boss fights with more than one Berserker Soul). You can only complete this after the story because the one in Niflheim isn’t available during the story.

See God of War Ragnarok All Berserker Gravestone Locations.

Return to the grave where you discovered Skofnung

Now that you’ve defeated all of the Berserkers, return to the King’s Grave in Midgard.

Defeat King Hrolf

Recommended Gear: Onslaught Shield, Berserker Armour Set, 3x Niflheim Enchantments, 3x Muspelheim Enchantments, Emblem of the Nine Realms, Greater Regenerating Essence, Emblem of Elusion

Recommended Abilities: Njord’s Tempest, Ivaldi’s Anvil, Hades Retribution, Tame the Beast, Thrust of a Thousand Soldiers, Honour the Fallen, Hilt of Hofud, Spartan Wrath

Strategy: King Hrolf Kraki can be found at the Berserker Gravestone at King’s Grave after defeating all other Berserkers. King Hrolf will adopt the attack patterns of many of the previous Berserkers, as well as boasting a massive health bar, making him one of two hardest fights in the game.

Before you fight King Hrolf, it is recommended that you have the above listed recommended gear and abilities at max level. You can change some things up if you like, but in my testing I found this to be the best loadout for defeating him on No Mercy difficulty. This loadout will allow you to dodge further, deal more damage when your Permafrost/Immolation/Maelstrom bar is full, effectively deal with Hrolf’s shield strike ability, regenerate your relic and runic attacks at a faster rate, and deal massive damage while in Realm Shift and using your + ability.

King Hrolf will have a large array of attacks. At close range he’ll usually either swing his hammer at you multiple times before slamming it down multiple times, all of which are best dodged, or he’ll release a burst of energy in front of him, usually twice. This burst of energy can be parried if you time it well, but the best way to deal with them is to dodge backwards, then throw some charged Draupnir Spears at him while he is attacking. He will also charge into melee distance from across the arena with either a block break or unblockable attack, so be prepared for these at any moment.

When at range, he’ll use all elements, and do a variety of the double bolts, the unblockable quad bolt attack, slam the ground to release an elemental attack in a line towards you, all of which are best dodged. He will also jump into the air to release area-of-effect attacks for three different elements. When he does flame or lightning, many small danger zones will appear on the ground that you will want to dodge out of repeatedly until he stops them. When he does the frost variant, there will be only three danger zones, but they will be much larger and take longer to appear. In this latter case, you can dodge out of the way of a danger zone and throw a charged Draupnir Spear or two before dodging the next one. He can also launch a slow-moving, homing orb at you (either frost or flame) that will target you until it hits you or is destroyed. When he launches one of these, prioritize hitting it with your Axe or Spear to avoid heavy damage.

He will also jump into the air to charge up with Bifrost energy, which is unblockable and covers the whole arena. When he does this, make sure to hit him with a ranged attack with either the Spear or Axe, or by detonating spears inside of him. Hrolf will also do a shield strike attack, where he will slam his weapons together to deal damage across the entire arena. He can do this at range, which makes it very difficult to deal with if you don’t have the Onslaught Shield, hence the recommendation. With this, you can initiate a shield strike ( twice) from across the arena and you will charge at him to strike him. Even if he manages to complete the attack before you reach him, you will block it mid-charge, turning the attack from a very deadly attack at range to something you can mitigate completely.

At half health and near the end of his health bar, he will give himself a shield, so make sure to use the opposing element if it’s a flame/frost shield, or simply use the Draupnir Spear to clear the shield.

As for actually fighting King Hrolf, you won’t be able to get too many combos on him as he will be very aggressive at close range and will often immediately jump back to a long distance upon finishing a combo. You’ll be able to get a few hits in here and there normally, but the best way to deal damage is to utilize your runic attacks, companion attacks, Spartan Wrath and a combination of the Hilt of Hofud relic and your + attack. The Berserker Armour set will make it so many of these attacks will cooldown faster, allowing you to do them more often, while the Amulet Enchantments and Hilt of Hofud will make it so when your Permafrost/Immolation/Maelstrom bar is full, you can slow down time with the relic, then use + with your preferred weapon (I opt to use the Leviathan Axe for it), then unleash a combo on him during slowdown to deal heavy damage to him. When he is at range, you can abuse your Draupnir Spear, throwing charged spears to deal damage and fill him with spears that you can detonate for further damage, as well as potentially stun him.

Health crystals will drop throughout the fight, but these won’t heal a huge amount, so don’t rely on them. Greater Regenerating Essence is good in this regard, as it will provide passive healing over the fight. Once his health is depleted, finish him with .

This finishes Fit for a King Side Quest in God of War Ragnarok.

For all other quests refer to God of War Ragnarok Walkthrough.