Fang Boar

The Fang Boar (also known as Armored Tusk) is a semi-optional miniboss in Dark Souls. Although the player is not required to defeat him, he will attack and likely repeatedly kill the player unless removed.

The Fang Boar is a very large boar covered in steel plating and featuring enormous tusks. As such, he is invulnerable to all conventional means of attack available at that point in the game, and is extremely deadly.

Locations

 * One is found in the Undead Parish, near the portcullis.
 * Two other, much stronger versions of the Fang Boar are located in the path from Anor Londo to The Duke's Archives. These versions are armored around the tail too, so Backstabbing is impossible.

Strategy
To defeat the Fang Boar, the player has a few options.


 * 1) Take the Alluring Skulls on a corpse on the ledge above and toss one so that the boar moves under the ledge, then dive-attack him.
 * 2) The Alluring Skulls used above can also be thrown directly into a fire below the ledge, which will cause the boar to kill himself.
 * 3) Utilize an exploit to make the boar kill himself, by slowly walking off the stairs to the right until he charges, then rushing back on so that he enters the fire.
 * 4) The Boar encountered in the Undead Parish can be backstabbed, taking a large portion of its health.
 * 5) An alternative way to kill him is head up the staircase on the left to reach the walkway with the archers, then from there drop Firebombs on the boar.
 * 6) The boar cannot go past the pillars by the stairs, so they can be used in conjunction with a long reaching weapon to easily defeat the boar.