God of War Achievements: Guide for "Chooser of the Slain" Achievement, All Valkyries Encounters

God of War

✓ All 9 Valkyries
✓ Unlocks 1 Achievement:
45:57 ✓ Chooser of the Slain: Defeat the Nine Valkyries

This guide will cover the full encounters with all Valkyries in God of War. There are 9 Valkyries, one of which is the Queen of Valkyries, Sigrun, which is the final encounter. The queen will spawn once you defeat all other 8 and place their heads in the Council of the Valkyries. Defeating her will earn you the "Chooser of the Slain" achievement/trophy.

This might be the toughest challenge in God of War. For each Valkyrie, you might need to redo your build and skill set. They are not easy and best to do them at the very end when your character is level 7 and above. Remember that all Valkyries are basically training for the Valkyrie Queen. Do not even try to approach her if you are not level 8 or above. Some notes about each encounter:

Valkyrie Kara:
1. Best pick as the first encounter.
2. Lots of range attacks from Valkyrie. Dodges are required too often.
3. If minions get close, take them out but priority is always with Valkyrie herself.
Valkyrie Gunnr:
1. Use runic attacks with powerful stuns
2. Lots of melee attacks from Valkyrie. Blocks are required too often.
Valkyrie Geirdriful:
1. Rather hard one with both melee and range attacks.
2. Use Runic attacks with powerful stuns.
3. She will try to grab you by diving. Side jumps can prevent that.
Valkyrie Olrun:
1. She is too jumpy so you need to stun her most of the time.
2. Since she is in Alfheim, this will be an endgame encounter.
Valkyrie Göndul:
1. Rather hard one as you have to complete the Muspelheim challenges to get to her.
2. Since she is in Muspelheim, this will be an endgame encounter.
3. She will trigger sky-fire attacks. The most important thing here is to do a side-jump in the same direction she does. So after the attack, if she jumps to the left, you do the same, and so on.
4. She will slam the ground in front of you and the only dodge is the back-jump. Nothing else works.
Valkyrie Hildr:
1. Rather easy one but since you are on a time limit, you have to be fast. So all runic attacks with the highest damage.
2. If you finish her off before time runs out, you get your timer reset and you have time to go back to finish the mystic run. That said, I suggest doing one run just for the Valkyrie.
3. Since she is in Niflheim, this will be an endgame encounter.
4. If you die in your mystic run after defeating Valkyrie, defeating her still counts toward the achievement.
Valkyrie Rota:
1. She will do a lot of sky-dive attacks. Learn to dodge them. She might do 3 at the most in a row.
2. Since she is in Helheim, this will be an endgame encounter.
Valkyrie Eir:
1. Use only Axe for this fight as she jumps to the air a lot to perform a fatal attack. If she succeeds in performing one, you will lose a lot of health. So you have to throw your axe to stop her.
2. She will block your normal attacks a lot. You can break her guard with a runic attack.
Valkyrie Queen Sigrun:
1. Get your level up to 8 or 9.
2. All the stuff mentioned above as the queen will do ALL attacks from the former Valkyries.

In God of War, you can freely roam the map after the endgame, so all the Valkyries encounters are back-trackable. While you progress through the story, you can approach the Valkyries and try to free them from their physical form. However, that would be much easier after the endgame as you will have upgraded weapons and armor. In the video, I am showing the location of all Valkyries, the fight you have to put up leading to freeing up the Valkyries, and the lore of Valkyries.

No commentary is provided on the video. Though, I have provided hints on the screen for you.

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Timecodes
00:00 - Intro
00:37 - Valkyrie Kara
04:06 - Valkyrie Gunnr
08:46 - Valkyrie Geirdriful
13:12 - Valkyrie Olrun
17:03 - Valkyrie Göndul
20:50 - Valkyrie Hildr
23:58 - Valkyrie Rota
28:50 - Valkyrie Eir
33:14 - Valkyries Lore
40:05 - Valkyrie Queen Sigrun

Enjoy and happy hunting!

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