Sandgate Pass

"Tiger Vanguard"“虎先锋”

Secret area

Defeated

What it inflicts: No status effect
Phases: 1 phase
Equipment: One set

Recommended gear

With what you can have when you first come across it.

Editor's pick Red Tides as your transformation: Burn is his weak point. Rock Solid turns his own technique against him, and the Copper Pill makes it free right after a sip.

Weapon attack: 50
Armor defense: 88
Resistance: Shock: +4

Base values, before upgrades, from the registry.

Weapon
Wind Bear Staff Crafting: Flame Ebongold × 1, Yaoguai Core × 4, Stone Spirit × 8, 8,100 Will
Otherwise: Twin Serpents Staff
Headgear
Galeguard Beast Mask If you do this first: Stone VanguardCrafting: Yarn × 4, Silk × 2, 1,800 Will
Otherwise: Bronze Monkey Mask
Chest
Galeguard Beastmaw Armor If you do this first: Stone VanguardCrafting: Yarn × 5, Silk × 2, 2,000 Will
Otherwise: Ebongold Silk Robe
Arms
Galeguard Bracers If you do this first: Stone VanguardCrafting: Yarn × 1, Silk × 1, 1,000 Will
Otherwise: Ebongold Armguard
Legs
Galeguard Greaves If you do this first: Stone VanguardCrafting: Yarn × 2, Silk × 1, 1,200 Will
Otherwise: Ebongold Gaiters
Spirit
Wandering Wight Optional boss: Wandering Wight
Otherwise: Earth Wolf
Transformation
Red Tides Optional boss: Guangzhi
Spells
- Immobilize
- Rock Solid If you do this first: Tiger Vanguard
- A Pluck of Many If you do this first: Windseal Gate (Headless Monk)
Curios
- Agate Jar
- Cat Eye Beads Optional boss: Wandering Wight
Gourd
Medicine Gourd Optional: rescuing Shen Monkey (Marsh of White Mist)
Soaks
- Copper Pill If you do this first: Tiger Vanguard

The fight

A single phase. He mixes claws and saber from the start and also uses Rock Solid to counter you; he has less health than the temple's tiger.

One set: the Sandgate Pass shrine is right before the arena.

Spells, transformation and soaks are set at a Keeper's Shrine, never mid-fight: what you bring into a fight stays until the end. One spell per category: Cloud Step and Rock Solid exclude each other, pick one before the fight.

What it inflicts

No status effect reported: physical blows; he is the one who fears Burn.

Attacks to watch

A rush followed by a 2- or 4-hit claw combo ending with the saber: dodge sideways on each hit.
Aerial leap, faster than the temple tiger's: dodge on the way down.
His stone form: your hits bounce off and a heavy attack makes you stagger; stop attacking and immediately dodge his two-hit counter.

What works

Red Tides: he fears fire and Burn. Red Tides
Immobilize as an opener and to cut off his big saber arc. Immobilize
Rock Solid to deflect his blows and open a window. Rock Solid

Strategy

Light attacks and sideways dodges; save the heavy attack for his openings.
A Pluck of Many to open the fight. A Pluck of Many

Access

Sandgate Pass, Kingdom of Sahali: the arena is right next to the arrival shrine. You must beat the Yellow-Robed Squire to get in, and this "Tiger Vanguard" to move on to Fuban. Optional.

What it gives

to obtainTiger Tally
to obtainYarn × 2
to obtainSilk × 2

Will: 1,014

The Tiger Tally briefly raises Attack when your light attack combo lands.

Updates

No published update changes this boss.

In NG+

In NG+, you keep your gear, spells, transformations and spirits, and bosses are tougher. Key items don't carry over: the Vanguards' keys, the Loong Scales and quest items must be taken again.

Page checked on October 16, 2026.