Beowulf

Heres my video solution for this achievement.

It has voice over that covers the techniques needed for a Carnal playthrough, but is taken from my Legend playthrough where I was focusing on the Heroic skill pathway.

Very little strategy to this fight. The dragon only has a handful of attacks and are all easily avoidable, just keep hacking his legs and when you get his health bar down, grab him and do the button prompt string to finish the fight.

No matter how easy people try to sum this achievement up.. It was not easy for me lol. Took me a little over an hour to kill it, the easy part is the tactics of the fight, whats hard is that you pretty much have to dodge every hit, for example: If you get stomped on by the dragon and you don't make it out of the dragons range within a split second you are done for. Getting pounded from the air attack won't hurt you too bad unless your health is already low. Dodging the dragons rush and getting combos increase your health but stomps will take you right back to just about to die no matter how high of health you are at.

Even though it's a simple fight it can be difficult as there is only one strategy, Stick and Move. There is one safe spot in map though. if you look left from starting position there is a flaming cart. If you stand behind it the dragon can not touch you at all.

I was having trouble fighting the Dragon until I stayed in the center of the area the entire time.

When he comes at you with one of his slow, predictable moves, just dodge and counterattack (LT + LS + A, then X or Y). You'll be invincible for a few seconds after each dodge. Hack at his feet with X if you've ever got a couple extra seconds.

When dodging, it helped me to remember that the single-foot stomps are a little slower than they look.

The reason this works so well is because dodging fills some of your health back up. With this method, it's difficult to fail unless you're just not paying attention.

It takes a while to chop his health down, but there's a satisfying QTE at the end. As always on the QTE in this game, keep your thumb ready on the B button.