How to find the Samurai Shogun X boss in Fortnite

The Samurai Shogun X boss in Fortnite is a dark demon warrior who roams the map collecting spirits. He is one of the two bosses on the island and it can be quite difficult to find him and collect his powerful medallion.

Here’s everything you need to know about finding and defeating the Samurai Shogun X boss Fortnite.

Samurai Shogun X boss location in Fortnite

To find the Samurai Shogun X boss Fortniteyou need to find the Samurai Kabuto or Helmet Shield on your minimap, which shows the boss’s current location. While fighting him, you should be able to lower his health, after which he will drop some of his loot and move to another location on the map with his health fully restored.

Therefore, it is technically never possible to kill the boss in the early game to get his medallion. However, if you wait until the floating islands come into play in later stages of the game, the Kabuto symbol will move to the floating island and turn red. Then you can go there with a wind spirit and finally defeat the boss.

How to defeat the Samurai Shogun X boss in Fortnite

The Samurai Shogun X has a huge health bar that you have to take a page out of Elden Ring here and learn his attack pattern to avoid them. By dodging, you can preserve your health and shields to stay healthy and be able to survive the long battle without being killed by the Demon Warrior or other enemy players looking for the reward.

Here’s a look at his moves and how you can avoid them Fortnite:

• Huge Katana Slice: Samurai Shogun This can be fatal if you can’t avoid this move on the floating island. You can slide down the slice to easily avoid the attack move.
• Three fire skulls: He fires three flaming skull projectiles that follow you for a short period of time, dealing damage on hit. The best way to avoid being hit is to avoid them at the very last moment by timing your jump away from them.
• Floor lava explosion: The Samurai briefly channels himself into the sky and blasts the ground, dealing damage to anyone caught in these explosive areas. Avoid these spots and keep shooting the boss.

The boss also uses the teleport to reposition himself during matches. So always be ready to aim and deal damage to him. In our experience, ranged weapons did the most damage to him compared to melee weapons.

After defeating the Samurai Shogun X boss, you will receive this Hiker medallionwhich gives you infinite stamina and invisibility while sprinting. Invisibility is especially helpful when combined with his mythos Golden Typhoon Bladeswhich helps you get closer to unsuspecting enemies and cut them into pieces to kill them easily without breaking a sweat. The boss also drops a Fire maskwhich allows you to shoot fiery skulls as projectiles at enemies, causing huge damage.